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In 1984, British producer Ken Hill produced a melodrama musical of The Phantom of the Opera in England. This was not a big threat to Holder, Kopit and Yeston, since their musical was intended to play on Broadway. The real threat emerged through an announcement in Variety, where an article was published concerning plans for a musical production of The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The rights to the novel were in the public domain in Great Britain. Holder only held the rights for two years in the United States and Europe before the property became public domain there as well. Yeston had completed much of the score to Phantom, and Yeston, Kopit and Holder were in the process of raising money for a Broadway production when the Lloyd Webber plans were announced.
After The Phantom of the Opera became a smash hit in London in 1986, Lloyd Webber announced a Broadway production, and Yeston's Broadway investors backed out. Yeston, Kopit and Holder reluctantly shelved their plans for Phantom and went their separate ways for a time. When Kopit saw the Lloyd Webber version of The Phantom of the Opera in New York, he realized that the approach he and Yeston had taken was fundamentally different and that it could still work on the musical stage. A few years later, he rewrote his script outline into a teleplay for a 4-hour 2-part miniseries and sold it to NBC, with Yeston's blessing. It was filmed at the Opera Garnier, and the only music used was opera music. It starred Charles Dance, Teri Polo and Burt Lancaster and premiered on television in 1990. Kopit said, "I told Maury to hold on. There were Phantom musicals sprouting up all over the place by that time. Maybe someone would see the miniseries, think it would make a good musical and we'd be ready."
The Yeston/Kopit musical was finally produced by Theater Under the Stars in 1991, and Phantom has since received over 1,000 productions around the world. Yeston refers to the musical as "the greatest hit never to be produced on Broadway." Yeston's Phantom is more operetta-like in style than Lloyd Webber's, seeking to reflect the 1890s period, and seeks to project a French atmosphere to reflect its Parisian setting.
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The Big 12 preseason media poll came out Thursday afternoon and not surprisingly, West Virginia was picked to finish near the bottom of the conference standings in eighth place ahead of just Iowa State and Kansas.
Compare that to last year when West Virginia was pegged to finish second behind Oklahoma – with some even predicting a first-place finish for the Mountaineers in their inaugural season in the Big 12.
"Going into it last year we were picked high, the expectations were high, and it was kind of a setup job based on winning the Orange Bowl the way that we did," West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen told a Houston radio station earlier this week.
Well, there are no setup jobs for West Virginia this year.
For the first time in 11 years, the Mountaineers will be starting a football season looking up instead of looking down. Way back in 2002, when most of the guys on this year's football team were still in grade school, WVU was predicted to finish sixth in the eight-team Big East Conference during Rich Rodriguez's second year sitting in the big chair.
However, Coach Rod's Mountaineers surprised everyone that season with a pair of year-end road victories at Virginia Tech and Pitt to secure a 6-1 Big East record and a second-place finish behind an outstanding Miami team that fell in double overtime to Ohio State in the national championship game – some believe in the same mysterious way challengers always seem to lose political elections in Russia. But that's a story for another time.
Rich Rod's first WVU team in 2001 was also pegged for a sixth-place finish but actually ended up one spot worse in seventh place with a 1-6 conference mark. If not for our old friends up in Piscataway, the Mountaineers would have pulled off a Munson in the Big East, which, thinking back on it now, would have really been some kind of achievement considering that Temple was still in the league a mere three years shy of getting the boot in 2004.
In 2000, in what turned out to be Hall of Fame coach Don Nehlen's last season working the WVU sidelines, the Mountaineers were also picked sixth but finished one spot better, tied with Boston College for fifth place with a 3-4 league record. Two coulda-shoulda-woulda losses to Syracuse and Pitt were balanced out by a couple of woodshed beatings by Miami and Virginia Tech that year. If memory serves me correctly, West Virginia was never in the Miami game but the Tech contest was a winnable affair in Blacksburg until the Mountaineers collapsed in a span of about five minutes early in the second half on three long scoring plays by Andre Davis.
At any rate, there have been other instances in recent years when West Virginia performed much better than the Fourth Estate thought it would.
In 1993, West Virginia, despite returning most of its two-deep roster including a pair of highly capable quarterbacks in Jake Kelchner and Darren Studstill, was picked fourth in the Big East behind Miami, Syracuse and BC, I believe.
However, West Virginia ran the table that season, winning back-to-back games against Top 15-ranked Miami and Boston College to get into the national championship conversation before getting squeezed out of the big game by Florida State. Back then it was the Bowl Coalition Poll that zapped the good guys instead of those silly BCS rankings that we've become so familiar with today.
Twelve years later, in 2005, West Virginia was predicted to finish third in the Big East, which then included Louisville, South Florida and Cincinnati instead of Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College, and WVU once again ran the table with blowout victories down the stretch against Connecticut, Cincinnati, Pitt and USF on the way to a Sugar Bowl meeting against Georgia.
In both instances, the Mountaineers achieved far more than what was expected of them.
Speaking from past experiences, preseason predictions are a lot like most opinion polls – see what the blue bloods and the alpha males are doing and then put everyone else behind them (that seems to work well for recruiting rankings as well). And if a hot, up-and-coming team has its quarterback returning then place them up amongst the blue bloods … which leads me to Don Nehlen's annual complaint about the polls that he used to make years ago. Each time a reporter would ask him about a preseason poll or a prediction he would answer this way, and I am paraphrasing, "Take the same 15 teams, mix them around, and then add five more to that and that's your top 20."
Yep, that sounds about right.
So don't get too worked up about where West Virginia is starting this season – just as the West Virginia coaches didn't get too worked up about where the Mountaineers were starting last year. Remember, Kansas State was predicted to finish sixth and we all know how good the Wildcats were last year.
What counts most is where West Virginia ends up in December, not July.
Who knows? Perhaps Dana Holgorsen's 2013 Mountaineers can add another surprise to West Virginia's list of surprise seasons.
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It was so nice to see so many participants again and to see them make so many new friends during the last B'nai B'rith 3rd Young Jewish Adult Forum in Brussels from the 13th to the 15th of November 2009.
The eyes of the arriving participants were already shining when we distributed the famous Belgian chocolates and the beautiful Menorah Pin that we were pleased to see everybody wear during the whole event.
We just let them rest a little after their flight and train adventures and took them out in the wind again to take them to the Great Synagogue of Brussels for Shabbat service. We wanted to make sure they had a flavour of our wonderful Belgian weather.
It was not only the Belgian weather we wanted them to discover but also our amazing Kosher Caterer "Food Art Europe" that served Shabbat dinner as well as all the other meals and that were applauded with a standing ovation at the end of the Forum.
When stomachs were replete, we had the pleasure to listen to the fabulous presentation of Chief Rabbi Michael Melchior who captivated the whole audience with his interesting views and humour. Everybody was then in the mood to end the evening with two ice-breaking activities that helped to get to know one another.
After a good night's rest some had the courage to wake up to attend Saturday morning service and eat some tasty cakes during the Kiddush that was hosted by the synagogue.
After lunch the group was split into three workshops all based on the three pillars of B'nai B'rith – "Benevolence, Harmony and Brotherly Love".
Erika Van Gelder and Sylvia Bruter centralised their workshop on Benevolence explaining how, contrary to what everybody thinks, help to the needy is not only a fact in Central and Eastern Europe but also, due to the world economic crisis, in Western Europe.
Dr. Gozlan and Professor Doron Kiesel emphasised the importance of organisations both on a psychological basis and on a social basis.
And last but not least, Dr. Nathan Abrams, gave a very humoristic and open view on the need of harmony on the physical and psychological aspect in one's life.
The conclusion was given in a very moving and personal way by Joseph H. Domberger as he himself is one of the pillars of B'nai B'rith worldwide. He finished his presentation by reading the famous and beautiful poem by Rudyard Kipling "If".
The audience remained in the stream of these beautiful words which were followed by a touching song in Yiddish that Rachel Rose Reid started to sing joined by all. She then told a moving love story bringing tears to the eyes of most of the girls.
Havdala was recited by John Reeves as Elena and Kirill held the Havdala candle.
People were welcomed by Edwige Ouaknine's magical voice accompanied by André Reinitz and a surprise was organised by Aline and the organising Committee to bid farewell to Noëmie who is leaving us to lead a new life. Other members of the organising committee were also thanked for their work and participation at the Forum.
We just gave the participants a short time to rest and change before coming up to the 27th floor where the Saturday night Disco party took place.
A lot of John Travolta's suddenly appeared as the D.j. launched the famous "YMCA" song.
Our three Greek participants taught everyone how to dance the Sirtaki, and Nicolai Stern, originally from Russia, taught how to dance like the famous Bolshoi dancers. We then also discovered a lot of very talented belly dancers amid our participants as well as traditional Hassidic dancers.
Although everybody was very tired, they were up and ready to go and discover Brussels, once again in beautiful, rainy and windy weather. A solemn moment in reverential silence took place at the Memorial of the Deportees from Belgium.
We then drove to the famous Atomium built for the International 1958 Fair in Brussels, where Eric finally managed to get the whole group together for pictures.
The centre of Brussels was then visited walking through the Grand Place and of course the not missing symbol of Brussels: Manneke Pis. The 15th of November is the King's day so the group was lucky to be welcomed in front of the Royal Palace by many and different soldiers.
Wind brought everybody back to the hotel where lunch was served. We then had the pleasure to present Eva Vadasz with the prize she was awarded for the Essay Competition. Then a vote of thanks was made for Aline, Nathalie and Eric.
Sadly enough the group then had to part, because the participants were going back to their country that day.
The Forum would never have been such a success without the warm participation of those present. We again want to thank everyone who, in the background, contributed as well as our generous donors and sponsors.
Report by Aline Brandon, Nathalie Gamain, Noëmie Rubinsztejn and Eric Engelmayer
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For Ibrahim Abdullahi, who has been in the business of sandcrete block making using vibrating block making machine to produce vibrated blocks, for about three years now, the business is quite rewarding, adding that because more construction activities are springing up on daily, the business promises to be better with the break of every dawn. "The business is good and nice. In fact, in terms of patronage, the business is highly patronized. In most cases, the demand is more than we supply to those who want our blocks.
"The reason for the high patronage is that construction activities have continued to be on the increase. This is so because everybody now wants to live in his or her personal house, no matter how small and where the house is located. This has made the demand for blocks to continually be on the increase. We are not able to meet the demand of our numerous customers because everybody is working at the same time. As a result of shortage of man power on our part, we cannot meet up with their requests.
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"Also, those of us in this business who are still at the small scale level cannot afford more than one delivery truck to deliver blocks to our customers. And, in a situation where about three or more people want to be supplied blocks at the same time, you discover that there is no way we can meet up. Sometimes, we appeal to some of our customers to bear with us by supplying them late. But, the situation becomes generally helpless if the only truck breaks down, meaning that we cannot supply blocks to anybody for the period the vehicle will be off the road", Ibrahim said.
Describing the business as seasonal, Ibrahim, who disclosed that his mother owns the business tagged Oluwaponmile Entreprise, said the business enjoys more boom during the dry season than the rainy season. According to him, construction activities are always at their peak during the dry season than during the rainy season, pointing out, however, that money is the major determining factor in construction activities. He stressed that for those who have the money, they can embark on housing projects any time of the year, whether during rainy or dry season, which means good business for sandcrete block producers.
"There is more boom in the business during the dry season than during the rainy season. This is because construction activities are more during the dry. In the same vein, because the rains disrupt construction activities, the demand for blocks is usually very low. There are, however, exceptional cases where some rich people commence housing projects during rainy season, which means good business for us", he said.
But, as viable as the business is, Ibrahim said there are constraints. According to him, one of such constraints is the wrongful supply of un-specified sand which is the major raw material for sandcrete blocks making. He said there is nothing as disastrous to the business as wrong application of sand for blocks making, as all blocks made from the sand will end up being broken to pieces.
Ibrahim, who noted that new comers into the business are usually the ones making the mistake of using wrong sand to produce blocks because of their inexperience, said such new comers into the business do not often last in the business. "They cannot last in the business because, if they produce blocks of low quality, they cannot attract patronage, and when there is no patronage, you will be frustrated, and once you are frustrated, you have no other option than to quit the business. "But, for those of us who have been in the business, from experience, we know the right sand from the wrong one when we see them. At the stage of supply, it is better to tell the supplier to return the wrong sand than to use it to produce blocks out of ignorance which will amount to total waste at the end of the exercise", he said.
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For those aspiring to go into the business, Ibrahim says they need to have a piece of land as factory site, one vibrating block making machine, another machine for mixing of sand, pallets for carrying blocks for drying, five workers, two will be mixers, the other two carriers and one baker. They should, in addition, have a borehole, as water is indispensable in the business. On the average, they require about N150,000 as take off capital, which includes the cost of all items except land.


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It is worrying that, though your writers may know how internet search engines work, they fail to clarify what the results mean - or do not mean. You say "Type 'dog sex' into Google and you get 13 million hits" (4 June, p 42). Today you get nearly 7 million. But all this tells us is that many pages contain both the word "dog" and the word "sex". You cannot draw the conclusion that all 7 million pages are about having (or wanting, as your article implies) sexual intercourse with dogs.
Many sites, including those dealing with breeding and canine gender, will include these keywords. Also, virtually every sex site will use as many sex-related keywords as possible, and many outlandish or apparently unrelated words, to catch the highly individual pervert, so you cannot even say how many are lying about their content.
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The Art of Fine Furniture: A Look into the Past
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Studio furniture maker Jamie Schell will share some of the past designs and techniques that have inspired some of the pieces in the Art of Fine Furniture exhibit. He will also explore the history of handcrafted furniture and design changes through the ages.


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In 1839 a Scotsman named Thomas Chirnside arrived in Australia with nothing but "..the Bible given to him by his mother, a few hundred pounds from his father, great faith and boundless optimism."* Together with his brother Andrew, he went on to build a hugely successful pastoral empire. In 1852, Thomas bought land in Point Cook and commenced construction of the elegant bluestone Point Cook Homestead.
Soon after the Homestead's completion in 1857, the brothers began work on the famous Mansion at Werribee Park, which became the home of Andrew and his wife Mary. Thomas, who remained a bachelor, often resided at the Point Cook Homestead, and in his absence, other members of the family used it as a holiday home. The brothers had a deep interest in bloodstock and imported racehorses from Scotland and England and bred a number of Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Derby winners at the Point Cook Homestead stables.
The Chirnside family owned the Homestead for almost 70 years until 1920, when it was sold to private owners. Over the next 50 years its ownership changed hands several times, and the property eventually became abandoned and derelict in the 1970's. In 1978, after extensive lobbying by local farmer Norm Lawler to save the property, the State Government compulsorily acquired the Homestead. Mr Lawler was asked to oversee its restoration, so moved with his wife Peg onto the allegedly haunted property and spent the next 16 years restoring, and in some cases, rebuilding the Homestead. The Lawler's, known to many as "Mr & Mrs Point Cook" remained there until their retirement in 1994.
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Florida Gulf Coast University sails into the 2009-10 academic year with another image in its lineup.
FGCU's new "wordmark," less than a trademark but still an official symbol, joins the formal round-winged eagle institutional logo and the caricature eagle's head sports logo.
FGCU officials call the wordmark — still in the university's original environmentally themed green and blue — the school's "informal identity symbol" emphasizing FGCU's forward movement on a wave.
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Put the kids to bed early this October because, according to Andrew Lincoln, Season 4 of "The Walking Dead" isn't for children.
"We're really earning our rating this season," Lincoln told Entertainment Weekly for their special four-cover issue. "There are families that watch it together, but just so it's on the record, guys — it's a grown-up show this season."
Some of the gore is likely contributed to by the mass number of walkers that will be seen this season. Season 4 had 9,000, according to Huffington Post.
"I can tell you that in the mid-season finale that we just finished shooting there were upwards of 800 walkers for just that episode," Greg Nicotero, the show's executive producer and makeup artist, said. "I haven't done the tally yet for this season, but being out in the world it's a little trickier to avoid zombies. When you're in the prison, you have a safe haven. The zombies aren't so much of an everyday occurrence, whereas in this season we're out in the world at some point so they're there."
"By minute two or three of our season premiere, I think the vast majority of our questions have been answered, and five or six more have been presented, so you're very much going to be invested, well-informed, and ready for the ride that we're going to take you on," Robert Kirkman, "The Walking Dead" comic book creator and show executive producer and writer, told EW.
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Hollywood, CA, United States (4E) – In a recent interview published by Entertainment Weekly, the surviving cast of the hit show share how they envision their characters to meet their end—
Lauren Cohan, sees her character Maggie jumping of a cliff, while holding hands with her on-screen love interest, Glenn.
Chad Coleman, who plays Tyreese, wants to leave the show by doing something brave and heroic.
Michael Cudlitz, says of his character Abraham: "I would hope that his death would be befitting of his life and Abraham did everything hard."
One half of the post apocalyptic It couple, Glenn, played by Steven Yeun thinks it's hard to top the way he was offed in the comic. "What a way to take out a character, and a character that's been there for so long, by just snatching him away from the viewers and the readers."
One of the toughest characters on the show, Michonne, played by Danai Gurira believes her death should be something that stays true to the way the show built her character on the show.
Melissa McBride, who plays Carol says she'd like to leave the show without any last words, believing her character to have already made clear what she stands for and what she has to say throughout her run.
Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick simply says: "I don't care how it goes, but maybe a kid should take me out."
And finally, everyone's favorite zombie archer, Daryl, played by Norman Reedus says…"You would just see him walk down a road like Mad Max and I'd get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller, and then a little dog would run on the road with me and just start following me off into the sunset, and you'd never know what happened to him. I would wanna go out like that"


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Connector is proud to announce our newest Sony Mobile Ireland campaign which features a collaboration with Picture This Dublin: We ask you to welcome the #XperiaChallenge Photo Competition
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Mass Kah, a messenger at the privately-owned Foroyaa newspaper was on November 14, 2013, arrested by police over allegations of denigrating and insulting Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh.
The MFWA's sources in the country reported Kah was having a discussion with a friend in front of his home in Serekunda when two supporters of President Jammeh confronted him about his comments and reported him to the police.
In the said discussion, Kah reportedly said Halifa Sallah, who is the leader of the opposition People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism, was "the only man who wears trousers in The Gambia". According to MFWA's sources the statement was understood as meaning Sallah was more capable of leading the country than President Jammeh.
He was arrested and detained without any charge at Serekunda police station where he was subjected to fierce interrogations and insults by police officers before being transferred to Kotu police station, about 13 kilometers southwest of the capital, Banjul.
He is currently in the custody of the National Intelligence Agency in Banjul and has been denied access to family and friends during the past 6 days he has been in detention.
Meanwhile the Managing Editor of the Foroyaa newspaper, Sam Sarr, has said all attempts to meet with the officer in charge of Kah's case to secure bail for him has proven futile. He said if securing bail failed, his newspaper will resort to taking legal action against the State.
The MFWA condemns the continuous detention of Kah and demands his immediate release. We call on the Gambian authorities to respect Section 19 of the country's constitution which states that a person shall not be detained for more than 72 hours without either being granted bail or charged for court.


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She's brassy, bossy, the perfect little guidette, and now Jersey Shore's Snooki is hanging out with the ladies of Mob Wives. This is a reality pairing we can really get behind!
On Wednesday Snooki and co-star JWOWW posed for a photo with Mob Wives stars Drita Davanzo and Carla Facciolo while in the middle of a radio show tour.
"Don't f**k with us," Snooki tweeted, clearly adapting to the profanity-laden vocabulary that is favored by the Mob Wives.
Snooks posed for the photo in the middle of an ongoing pregnancy scandal. Earlier that day, Star magazine reported that the petite star was pregnant with boyfriend Jionni LaValle's baby.
"No [I'm not pregnant]" Snooki told radio hosts Opie & Anthony during the radio tour. ""And obviously they're calling me fat, so I hate [them]."
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To facilitate access to the country's justice system. APLFT will organize a training seminar on standardized legal practices and equip its seven legal aid clinics in Abéché, Mondou, Bongor, Ati, Kelo, and Sahr.
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To increase accountability of security forces to civilian authority and civil society. LTDH will organize a training session on human rights, good governance, and accountability for 40 participants in the town of Mongo in central Chad. LTDH will also maintain its national headquarters in N'djamena as well as its regional chapters.
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T o build space for alternative views on the airwaves in Chad. RTN will broadcast civic education programming, including discussions with civil society organizations, on transparency in resource management, the democratic process in Chad, and the role of Chadian citizens in this process. RTN will also organize a seven-day training workshop for 30 correspondents on investigative journalism, interviewing techniques, writing, and editing.
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To build capacity in the prevention and management of intercommunal conflicts in Chad. SFCG will organize a three-day media workshop for journalists, producers, and community radio teams. SFCG will also organize a three-day workshop for representatives of civil society, traditional leaders, and key actors within the gendarmerie and the police to discuss various techniques in conflict analysis
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Slated for that day are the Boquete Blues Band B3 with Andy Egert (Switzerland), Carlos Ubarte and his quintet (Panama), Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws (U.S.) and María Rivas and Libertango (Venezuela). On Saturday there will also be a jam session at the restaurant Amigos with the American trombonist Randy Oxford.
The following day, also beginning at noon, the festival returns to the Valle Escondido amphitheater with a musical cocktail that includes Spicy Latin Jazzband (Panama), Bob Corritore and Taildragger (U.S.), the Boquete Blues Band B3 and the Grand Band of Rigoberto Coba (Chiriquí). Also, the Randy Oxford blues band will be coming to the event for the first time from Seattle, in the U.S., bringing all of "Randy's wild extravagance and his trombone playing backed up by a congo percussion section," as described in the Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival Foundation's newsletter. Taildragger will also share for the first time "his lascivious voice in the Howling Wolf style" with the audience in Boquete, as will Bob Corritore, "one of the best blues harmonica player in the business."
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Just give money to the poor
This week I've been talking with VSO staff in Mozambique about cash transfers, which reminded me to pull out the book 'Just Give Money To The Poor' by Joseph Hanlon and others. The book is radical in its simplicity – it recommends cash transfers such as old-age pensions, or small grants to HIV and… Read more »
Living below the poverty line
Magnus Slingsby, VSO's federation support officer, is showing his solidarity this week with the world's poorest, by living on £1 a day for five days. In this week's blog, Magnus tells us why he and thousands of others around the world are living below the poverty line.
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Youth raising their voices with Members of Parliament
Climate change affects all members of society in Bangladesh and VSO works with youth clubs in Bangladesh to find ways to combat the effects climate change.
In January we organised an open sharing event which involved four youth club members from Khagrachari presenting case studies to Members of Parliament from All… Read more »
Jubilee Debt Campaign highlights crippling debt in Jamaica
With a GDP of US$7,547 per capita, Jamaica is firmly in the middle income country category according to the World Bank (see previous blog post). Jamaica may not, on the face of it, seem a country in need of VSO programme assistance, with many coupling the island's image with tourism and… Read more »
Zambia: a middle income country?
The World Bank announced in a recent annual assessment of poor countries, that Zambia among others, had crossed the threshold to become a middle income country (MIC) because its average gross national income (GNI) surpassed $1,005.
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Before you get all excited about your fabulous output from the alternator you need to consider the following...
The engine needs 35 watts to run or 3 Amps
The headlight, if it's an H4 bulb, is 55w or 4.6 Amps
The instrument lights (on when you have the lights on) are 3.4w each and there may be 4 of them = 13.6w or 1.13 Amps
The tail light is 5w or 0.42 Amps
the brake light is 21W or 1.75 Amps
The indicators (only on for a short while obviously) are 21w each with a 5w instrument panel light = 47w or 4 Amps
You've just fitted heated grips that are 36W or 3 Amps (less than a pair of moulded ones and nowhere near as warm - I've had both types)
So, if your engine is running and you have your lights on whilst braking and indicating you're using 176.6w or 14.72 Amps - your generator is roughly 187w if it's the same as mine, an 600E 2003.
If your heated grips are on then you will be running a deficit until you knock off your indicators and brake lights.
I'm fitting a front CREE LED lamp that draws 10w or 0.83 Amps so I don't have to run with my headlight on when traversing Europe, Asia, Alaska and Canada next year. Then I can run my 40w heated waistcoat as well as my 50w heated grips. I have already cut down my energy usage by fitting a 35w HiD headlight unit which is 3 times brighter than the H4 and uses 20w less on dip and 25w less on main beam.
I have not bought them yet. Where do you get these molded ones you speak of? I am picturing something that has the heat element closer to the surface of the grip and is integrated into it? As for the wattage, I'll replace tail lite and turn signals with LED to save as much power as possible. Also, where do you get the LED HID headlight? I bought the bike with a Lithium Ion battery, should I add the relay after the fuse? Thanks!
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Paul recorded six points with three goals and three assists to propel UNH to a weekend sweep of Providence College that secured the Hockey East regular-season title for the Wildcats. Paul opened the weekend with a career-high three assists in the team's 7-4 road victory (Feb. 28), then recorded her first career hat trick - including a pair of third-period tallies that rallied UNH from a 3-1 deficit to force overtime - with three goals in Sunday's 4-3 overtime victory. Her weekend highlights also included her 50th career point, which came on the last of her three assists on Saturday.
For the season, Paul has 12 goals and 22 assists for 34 points to rank third on the team in all three statistics. She ranks 22nd in the nation in assists (0.71 per game) as well as 29th in points (1.10 per game). Paul has a point in seven consecutive games with a total of 16 points on seven goals and nine assists.
Paul has 19 goals and 34 assists for 53 points in 62 career games. Last year she earned Hockey East All-Rookie Team honors as a member of the Northeastern University women's hockey team.
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5140 by far better, ruggedized so lasts longer, and a VGA camera (better than CIF on the 3200).
Guess a 5140 would be more expensive though.
Guess a 5140 would be more expensive though.
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Source: TwitterHere are Scott Steiner's latest comments from Twitter:
Ever since england they have made someone come out with garrett to make sure he wasnt booed.
First they made jeff hardy do it then last nite it was AJ Rvd Anderson that bcuz
over in England when hogan n garrett were in the ring and he said garrett was the future of wrestling.
Hogan n garrett got booed so bad they had to do multiple takes bcuz the booing was so bad!!!
But they fixed it in post-production to look like they were cheering when it aired but it still drew a bad rating
Listen dumbasses just bcuz u fixed it in post it still fn happen snap out of yur fantansy world n realize
Nobody gives a f*** about a guy who cant talk,wrestle and is the son of an asshole
b---hoff n hogan have no respect for the business or the ppl in Tna to do this bulls--t
Check out the graphic for the ppv,it has eric n garrett in fore front n everybody else that ppl care about
In the background thats bulls--t but they put everybody else in the match bcuz they know if they just
Put eric n garrett in a match ppl will s--t all over it..U want to drive b---hoff crazy bring signs to ppv
Saying 609 or chant 609 when he is in the ring,FYI make signs at building bcuz they take all signs that they dont like
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(Aug. 20, 2010)--The 2010 UTSA Fall Convocation ceremony is set for 10-11:30 a.m., Monday, Aug. 23 in the Convocation Center on the Main Campus. As part of the theme "Sustainable Living," Doug Fine, author of the Freshman Common Reading, "Farewell, My Subaru," will deliver the keynote address and meet students, faculty and staff.
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Fine will show pictures of the Funky Butte Ranch and talk about his life since finishing his latest book. "Farewell, My Subaru" has been translated into Chinese, Korean and other languages and garnered Fine his first appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show." The book debuted on the Boston Globe bestseller list in September 2009. Fine now travels around the world speaking about his sustainability realizations and is a regular contributor of adventure and investigative features to National Public Radio.
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Literary critic and academic Dr Jerome Terpase Dooga of the Department of English, University of Jos in this interview with Sunday Trust opens up on Nigerian literature, social media and criticism. Excerpts:
Considering that your paper presented at the last Association of Nigeria Authors' convention in Uyo focused on literature and the social media, would you say that social media serves a positive or negative role in literature?
Right now, I would say it is having more of a negative influence although it has the potential to have a huge positive influence on literature. The negative influence is not only due to social media but social media only inherited something that began before it. It began before the advent of the personal computer and other devices that made text creation very easy. Because of that, everyone who had access to a device to create text became instantly a writer as it were. So the tenets of writing literature, which include the rigours and care to use the medium well, which medium is language, whether you are writing online or writing traditionally, language is the medium and people, traditionally, who are writers, who pay particular attention to how language is deployed, with social media, people [now] shoot from the hip. They do not take time to reflect on what they are saying, they do not take time to look at their grammar, their punctuation and even the other things that make literature literature. What they are producing is presenting very poor examples to young readers, poor examples to people who would learn to use English through literature because literature is a means by which people learn how to speak and write good English. Social media is compounding the problem which exists in other media; it's compounding the problem which we see in many newspapers, which we hear often on the radio.
And yet we have a new generation of writers bouncing off the internet and publishing books. What do you make of this development?
First of all, let me say that the internet as a medium, and social network especially, has the potential to propagate writing beyond the confines of traditional means. Social media have the ability to make thousands or millions of people aware that you have produced something. So as far as publicity and awareness are concerned, social media are a very viable tools for literature, especially for young writers, who otherwise will have difficulty publicising their works through the traditional publishers and so on. Also the idea of literature, if you went back to olden times, was for performance and presentations before aristocrats where the writers and artistes received instant feedback and as time went by, that became very difficult. But with social media, the writer and his audience can be in touch and be able to receive, perhaps not instant feedback, but regular feedback [from readers] to see just how they are feeling about what they are reading.
So how would you assess the quality of literature of this generation?
That is where I have my challenges and doubts and worries. True, we have budding talents in the sense that we have young people coming up who have stories to tell. All generations have had stories to tell. In pre-literate times, these stories are framed as oral tales and eventually lost agency. They were no longer associated with individuals, but individuals began these tales, framed them in the way they became part of the lore of oral literature. Now that we have the kind of literature that exists, the problem is that our young writers in Cyberia especially are focusing on the content and forgetting the means of packaging the content, forgetting the form. Recall during the ANA Prizes, the report by the judges said many people submitted what they described as 'Trivial Literature' and they explained that they were full of typos, grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors so that as you wanted to access the content, the story itself, your senses were assaulted by all of these things and therefore you could not concentrate on the story. It's like a woman cooking meat that is full of salt or over-peppered, generally badly cooked. The fact that there is meat inside would not make you continue eating by saying, Ok, let me forget about the seasoning and concentrate on the meat. It is the same thing with writing.
Unfortunately, young writers in Cyberia are not aware of this, partly because they are poorly schooled or never schooled in the art of writing in the first place. They are opportunists who have access to the keyboard and just start creating text, without knowing that text creation goes through a process before becoming literature.
But don't you feel that the leaning towards online publication is as a result of the obvious dearth of publishing houses?
In a way, yes. Nigeria has suffered greatly over the past 10-20 years in terms of scarcity of reputable, affordable print publishing. Where publishers exist, and they are very few, they are unaffordable because of the cost of print paper. So, yes, the leaning towards electronic publishing is because of this problem. However, electronic publishing is in itself not an uploading of poorly created text. In Europe, it is also becoming the norm. Major publishing houses such as Blackwell, Longman, Penguin, Oxford, Cambridge, all of these publishing houses have very elaborate online publishing suites, but it goes through the same process so that when it is considered publishable, it is the electronic version that is released. Our own writers and publishers must follow that line, they shouldn't feel that because you can just click and have it available to the readers, when you dream and your dream doesn't follow a logical pattern, you just scribble and click to publish.
Generally, you are saying social media has more of a negative impact on literature?
Yes, especially in terms of text production. In terms of publicity we are yet to fully harness the potential of social networks. It's a potential money spinner. We are also yet to fully get the dividends from drawing our readership so that we are in constant discourse with them. This is something writers will learn over time. Right now you see writers attacking their audience because they made comments on their writings that appear uncomplimentary. But the more comments people make, complimentary or otherwise, the larger your profile as a writer. Because if you do not create tension, create conflict there can't be a resolution and therefore that is not good literature. So if you write a story with everybody holding the same opinion, then it becomes trivial literature. So even in respect to interacting with the readership and getting feedback in other to improve our writing, which may form the basis of our future writing, our writers are yet to get there.
But using the internet and social media as a platform of our publishing, we are taking short cuts and they will boomerang. They will come back to haunt us, so what is the point of it?
But inevitably, these things are already here, the internet, the internet generation of writers, so how do we harness it and make it work for us?
I am aware that in other parts of the world there are publishing organisations that have proper structures set up where you have copy editors, reviewers, proofreaders and subject matter specialists in different fields. I am not sure whether publishing houses in Nigeria are set up as properly as that. If they are not, then this is the time for units to be set up, for individuals to consider channelling their works when they want to publish. People like myself are just individuals who are very busy, I edit books but at the moment I may not put myself up for large scale works but I am sure it is possible to have avenues where young writers can have their works cooled down from their own pen and reflectively examined. It is a shame where somebody has a wonderful story and yet it is not received wonderfully because it was poorly produced, poorly written.
We seem to have a lot of writers in this country. Where are all the stories coming from?
Nigeria is a cesspool of contradictions. Nigeria is a breeding ground for endless stories. We are only touching the tip of the iceberg with respect to stories we can weave about our experiences as a people, our contemporaneous realities and our reflection of our histories; whether recent history or distant history. And that is what literature is about, like Chinua Achebe said, literature is knowing where the rain began to beat us so we know where we begin to dry. There is so much that we can confront and in fact, although writers are writing, many are confining themselves to very few areas they can talk about; subjects of love, of disappointment, witchcraft, all those narrow subjects. There are many areas we can confront and writers are the only ones with the courage to confront these issues. Historians don't have as much courage as writers have. The actual histories of a people are contained in their literature. There should be writers who should, beyond a few poetic lines, investigate and tell us why our country is in the kind of crisis that we are in, the kind of insecurity that we experience. We have been living as diverse peoples for years and didn't have this kind of problem, so where is it coming from? We need to confront subject matters like this. Alpha Emeka's work, The Carnival, although fictional, almost played out in one part of this country. A story that said some military people needed to take power and in order to do that they needed to destabilize civilian lives and use that as an excuse and so they brought in arms, paid people to kill people and make it look as if it's a particular group of people that was behind it. And when I saw these things happening, and because I had read it in a book years before, I wonder if it is the particular people [being blamed] who are behind it.
In relation to this, Achebe wrote his book Man of the People in which he predicted a military coup and not long after, the coup happened and we've had several instances like this. Are you saying writers are soothsayers of sorts?
The writer, because of his reflective solitude, possesses sanity that is otherwise missing in the community where he resides; therefore he is able to see things others miss although it is glaring. In that sense, yes, he is a kind of soothsayer.
So what does it take, since there are a multitude of people claiming to be writers, for one to qualify as a writer?
Writing like other kinds of endeavours must be graded in terms of type and quality. In type, some people are just interested in generally entertaining people. It is not wrong to do so. Some are interested in addressing deep issues and don't have commercial gains as their main concern because when you write on complex issues not many people are willing to buy. The generality of readership prefer to buy things that amuse and entertain them. So if you just want to make money, then you write on a very light-hearted matter. Writers have their different dispositions and their dispositions will frame the kind of writings they focus on. So, yes you qualify as a writer provided that you use the language you have chosen to write in, effectively and skilfully. Nonsensical writing is not nonsensical by virtue of its content because you can write on filth, see Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born is all about filth. It's supposed to be symbolic but it's disgusting but we appreciate that work not so much in terms of its content, which is nonsensical, but in terms of its form, which is excellent.
One sector that is crucial to the writing profession is criticism and we seem to be having a dearth of that. And you are a critic. So what is the problem?
I will tell you why. There are basically two reasons, maybe there may be more. I remember when I began to do critical writing. In those days, if a writer published a book, they would send it for critical review and the review would not be to patronise the writer, to sing praises about the book and if you got a reward for writing the critical appraisal it was not on account of the slant of the writing. All of these seem to be changing. Many people pay for complimentary reviews and many newspapers, including reputable newspapers, accept to do so, to sing praises and avoid critical issues in the book. Because more people are interested in making a living than in making an honest name, that has reduced the number of reviewers. More important and in all honesty, fewer and fewer people are taking criticism seriously even in our institutions of learning. Fewer people are taking this as something they want to engage in. See how many books of all genres have been produced in 2012 alone. How much of it has been heard of and why has it not been heard? Because people have not been talking about it. And why are people not talking about it? Because they are shy , they don't want to say something critical and become the enemy of the author. The criticism shouldn't be looked at as an attack on the author but as a tribute, even if you say the person wrote nonsense. So for these reasons, people who are critical observers are in the decline.
So the few that are left, to what extent do we trust them?
Let me tell you what someone said about Soyinka during the second term of Obasanjo. When Soyinka made a comment opposing the third term bid, Obasanjo and his apologists said that Soyinka should shut up, that he was only someone who wrote plays for people's entertainment and is therefore not someone with the pedigree to comment on our political life. What I am trying to say is, if people don't like what you say, they will try to discredit you and trivialise what you say. But like Soyinka, although these comments were widely circulated in national newspapers, his track record was what validated his credibility. In the same vein, the few critics left, how you know to trust them is to consider their pattern and see if they have been consistent in their approach to issues and criticisms, then you know how to place them.