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Burien Arts' Vision 20/20 Art Sale Fundraiser is set for Saturday, Nov. 17, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and sales starting at 7:30 p.m.
There will be over 350 pieces of art priced at just $40 each, and this year the event will be held at Keller Williams Real Estate office, located at 455 SW 152nd Street (map below).
"I can't believe how fast a year goes!" reads an announcement. "It is time once again for the Burien Arts Vision 20/20 Show and Sale! It is our 5th Year! If you have attended any of the previous 20/20 Shows you know that it is a chance to see great art, hear good music, have a mellow glass of wine and purchase some very affordable art – all in support of a Burien community institution – Burien Arts."
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When it comes to placing blame on mortgage lenders, regulators, or consumers for 2008's crippling housing crisis, it's fair to say each played a role.
Yes, banks issued millions of mortgage loans that homebuyers couldn't afford, targeted minorities for subprime loans, and made the entire lending experience a muddled, confusing mess. And yes, federal regulations made it possible for them to do so. But, as some consumer critics argue, it wasn't as if borrowers were nailed down to a chair and forced to sign the dotted line.
In the end, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come out on the side of the consumer. On Wednesday, the agency issued a new set of regulations that will put the onus on lenders to decide whether homebuyers are worthy of a loan.
They're calling it the "Ability-to-Pay" rule.
"When consumers sit down at the closing table, they shouldn't be set up to fail with mortgages they can't afford," CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in a statement. "Our Ability-to-Repay rule protects borrowers from the kinds of risky lending practices that resulted in so many families losing their homes. This common-sense rule ensures responsible borrowers get responsible loans."
Here's what the new rule entails:
The end of quick sale loans. In the past, lenders could get away with offering quickie low- or no-doc loans (they required few financial documents, if any, from the borrower and then could sell off the risky loans to investors). With the new rule, lenders must do a proper financial background. That means sizing up borrowers' employment status; income and assets; current debt obligations; credit history; monthly payments on the mortgage; monthly payments on any other mortgages on the same property; and monthly payments for mortgage-related obligations.
Risky borrowers will have a harder time securing a loan. The lender must prove the borrower has "sufficient assets" to pay back the loan eventually. According to the CFPB, that's determined by calculating debt-to-income ratio (total monthly debt divided by monthly income).
No more "teaser rates" to suck borrowers in. Lenders love to roll out juicy low introductory rates on mortgages to lure borrowers in, but under the new rule, they must calculate a borrower's ability to repay his loan based on the true mortgage rate -- including both the principal and the interest over the long-term life of the loan.
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Recently I took a weekend trip to Sea Ranch, California, a coastal town 2.5 hours drive north of San Francisco. What was interesting (besides the great view and interesting architecture) was for three days there I had no cellular coverage on my mobile phone, but I was able to get access to the internet using Wi Fi in various locations. Being the classic connected and mobile consumer, my trip would have been much less enjoyable without some form of wireless connectivity 🙂
Cisco IBSG Retail Director Edward Westenberg recently published a paper on the impact of consumer mobility and what retailers should do to respond to the trend.
Peggy Casey, Cisco retail industry manager sat down with Edward to discuss his latest research and four areas of mobility that retailers should address:
- Mobile Marketing – Connecting with customers
- Shopper Services – Mobile buying experience anytime anywhere
- Mobile Payments – Reduce checkout time, anywhere
- Mobile Store Operations – Improve employee productivity and better serve customers
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- Define your own brand relevance, don't copy others
- Understand how and when your customers are using mobility
- Involve all business functions inside your company
- Solicit Feedback from your customers
- Keep things Fresh and Updated
You can read the details in his new paper. "Reshaping Retail with Mobility – How To Benefit from Changing Consumer Behaviors"
Another research that is related to this is Stuart Taylor of Director, Service Provider Practice, Cisco IBSG and his survey of U.S. mobile users. In this study titled "What Do Consumers Want from Wi-Fi?" Stuart Taylor, Andy Young, and Andy Noronha analyzed results of 1078 US consumers to understand their mobile habits. Some of the results of the survey are very applicable to retailers who are working on their Wi Fi strategy. You can read his blog A New Type of Mobility here
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Fresh from the triumph of We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates continues her exploration of family love and possibilities of human redemption with this compelling story of how one young woman suffers profoundly in the pursuit of love, but manages to emerge safe and whole. Set in several towns on the Chatauqua River in upstate New York, Man Crazy tells the story of Ingrid Boone, who at age eight is taken into hiding by her beautiful young mother, Chloe. Sought by the men who have taunted Chloe, the authorities, and Ingrid's loving but volatile father still haunted by memories of Vietnam, Ingrid and her mother fight to survive both together and apart. "Man crazy" is the label assigned to teenage Ingrid, whose desperate need to find a substitute for her father's affection makes her easy prey for the charismatic leader of a violent cult. Eventually, the police surround the cult compound and a tense standoff erupts in bullets and flames. Ingrid escapes to rebuild her life, and Oates' depiction of this severely damaged young woman's slow but miraculous process of healing stands as one of the most brilliant portraits she has ever created. Oates' gift for haunting imagery reaches new heights in this emotionally resonant work.
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ROCHESTER — Police arrested a Wakefield Street man, charging him with Driving While Intoxicated, after a two-vehicle collision.
Police and Frisbie Memorial Hospital EMS repsonded at about 6:20 p.m. Wednesday evening to Wakefield Street to find a Ford truck struck a GMC truck.
According to police, the driver of the Ford, Michael Connors, 48, of 98A Wakefiels Street, was traveling north when his truck struck the rear of the GMC while it was stopped in traffic. The GMC truck was driven by Allan Robertson, 64, of 1324 Parker Mountain Road in Strafford.
Connors was arrested, charged with DWI and Possession of a Controlled Drug, Wednesday evening.
The GMC sustain minor damage but the Ford sustained moderate damage. Both of the occupants in the GMC were wearing seatbelts and uninjured. The Ford F150's airbags deployed, Connors was not wearing his seatbelt and he was not injured. Wakefield Street remained open throughout the investigation and the Ford F150 was towed from the scene.
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The mantle was one of the interior layers of planets and stars. In planets, it was found between the crust and the outer core.
Terra 10 was a Class M planet and its mantle was entirely crystalline, including a rich abundance of dilithium. (TAS: "The Terratin Incident")
While the USS Enterprise-D was attempting to help the planet of Penthara IV by drilling into the surface with phasers, the drilling destabilized the stable tectonic plates and the mantle began collapsing around the bore sites, causing several volcanic outbreaks and severe earthquakes. (TNG: "A Matter of Time")
The New Atlantis Project on Earth was working to accelerate the build-up on the underside of the mantle without increasing the stress on the tectonic plates. (TNG: "Family")
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The planet Sikaris had a mantle of tetrahedral quartz twenty kilometers thick. The crystalline structure of the planet's mantle served as an amplifier for the Sikarians' spatial trajector technology. (VOY: "Prime Factors")
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Mining relics, including smelter stacks, are still to be found at the sites of the former Dobbyn and Mount Cuthbert copper mines. There was a time when Kajabbi was an important centre. The nearby mines at Dobbyn and Mount Cuthbert attracted copper miners to the area and, as a railhead in the 1920s, it was a location where the cattle owners from the state's far north west brought their herds for shipment to the coast.
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Helen M. Voss, 99, of Alexandria Manor, Nazareth, passed away Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012.
Born in Rochester, N.Y., she was a daughter of the late Carl and Augusta Kriz Melich.
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She will be lovingly remembered by her sons: Barry Geyer and his wife, Patricia, of Nazareth; Robert Geyer and his wife, Margaret, of Las Vegas, Nev.; and Steve Geyer and his wife, Barbara, of Harrison, Idaho; a daughter, Bette, wife of Robert Gamer, of Franklin Lakes, N.J.; 12 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a sister, Marie Schneider of Rochester, N.Y.; and nieces and nephews.
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If my Sensei tells me to do a certain kata a certain way, that is how I will do it. If he later tells me to change it back, I will do so. If he tells me to perform the kata backwards, that is what I will do.
My Sensei is my Sensei. I learn from the kata, but they are not my Sensei. Kata are tools, not memorials. A kata cannot take the place of a skilled Sensei.
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Finally, there has been an indictment in the case against the man accused in the brutal February 2012 slaying of Marco McMillian, the charismatic and successful 34-year-old fundraising executive who was running for mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi.McMillian was gay.
The circuit clerk's office says Lawrence Reed was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Quitman County. No date has been set for Reed's appearance in court. ... Reed has been charged with murder and has been held without bond since his arrest.
A previous grand jury did not return an indictment for first degree murder against Reed. A judge ordered a new grand jury to hear the case on January 31.
McMillian's nude and battered body was found on February 27 2012 near a Mississippi River levee. Murder charges were filed against 23-year-old Lawrence Reed on February 28. Reed fled to Memphis and was extradited to Mississippi in mid-March, according to the court.
Police investigators and several of the suspects' friends have said the suspect is claiming a disgusting "gay panic" defense. More recently: Friends of the suspect now say that Reed claims McMillian tried to "rape" him.
McMillian's family initially insisted that his sexuality was a not factor in his death. The family later claimed that McMillian was beaten, tortured and burned. The Coahama County coroner has previously disputed the family's claims, notes the Clarion-Ledger, the New York Times and the AP. "Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith has said that McMillian was not dragged by a car, he was dragged out of a vehicle by someone and his body left near a Mississippi River levee. He has said McMillian's body had a couple of small burns that happened after his death."
Reed's trial was moved to neighboring Quitman County in October 2013. Quitman County has similar demographics to Clarksdale's Coahama County. Both are largely rural and poor with majority Black populations.
Marco McMillian was born in Clarksdale and most recently served as International Executive Director of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. Previously he was a development executive at Alabama A&M and Jacskon State. Clarksdale announced his intention to run for mayor only several weeks before his tragic death. McMillian was considered the early favorite—and if elected would have made history as the first openly gay man elected to public office in Mississippi.
Hundreds of people attended Marco McMillian's funeral in March 2013. In the age-old tradition of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the Black church ... not one person mentioned that McMillian was gay or that he had already made history in Mississippi politics.
Jarvis Deberry at the New Orleans Times-Picayune asked readers, "Does the Black Community Care Less When Its Gay Members are Killed?" in early March. The article picked up on my reporting at EBONY on the Marco McMillian, Robert Champion and James C. Anderson murders.
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A vivid orange stairwell and a canted glass facade are among the modifications that US studio Fougeron Architecture has made to a century-old house in San Francisco.
Encompassing 2,500 square feet (232 square metres), the Cut Out House is situated in Noe Valley, an affluent neighbourhood of the city.
The project entailed the complete remodel of a Victorian home built over a century ago and left untouched since the 1920s.
The dwelling occupies a slender parcel that measures 65 by 25 feet (20 by eight metres) and is attached to its next-door neighbours.
"In this exceptionally narrow lot, solar orientation and natural light diffusion were paramount for making sure the home felt warm and open," said Fougeron Architecture, a San Francisco studio that was founded in 1985 by architect Anne Fougeron.
While the street-facing elevation was preserved, the architects re-imagined the back facade. A two-storey wall tilts outward at nine degrees, which maximises the floor area within. A portion of the third floor also angles outward, but in the opposite direction.
The canted facade consists of glass panes set within a custom, field-glazed steel frame.
The interior of the three-storey dwelling was completely reconfigured. The team "reversed the original flow" by moving the main public area to the ground level, where it connects to a rear garden.
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Yup - I got burned - big-time like a bunch of others.
Who's fault? Mine. Reason? Broke one of my Cardinal Rules For Trading, wasn't positioned to be able to pull out that same day if I had to. Ouch. Also being another down day on the market didn't help matters much either.
I think what did this IPO in was the fact that they decided at the last minute to dilute the shares being initially offered by increasing another 32% or so to be available. Had they dropped the price to their low range of $10.50 it might have helped offset the additional shares offered - but either way it's done now and they (and me) blew it. Too bad because the company itself is well inside the 'black' if you look at the numbers and where they are projected to be. I don't feel the slide was related to the company itself - it was the way they offered it. The market wouldn't support it.
Sooo...any comments on where it's headed now? Or not? Anybody seeing plummeting further down or will it hold it's own where it currently is. I don't give any hopes of getting back up to it's original price of $12.50 - not any time soon if it's considered now to be over-valued.
Oh well, another lesson learned once again - guess I'll get ready to put my stop order at it's closing price for Friday Monday morning at the open before it slides down into the $9. to low $10. range!
Also...there are rumors...but why the delay in it's offering to the public after the opening bell sounded on Friday? Do all IPO's delay their start like this?
Later gang!


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Throughout the election week, SNA-K collected both solicited feedback (via our large network of partner organizations, outreach workers, and their observations as well as feedback they received from the community) and unsolicited feedback through our office line and SMS platform.
All feedback (quotes from the general public, observable impact, and feedback from partners) is tracked in relation to specific messages and actions taken. SNA-K keeps this information in a database, which will be fully analyzed in the months after the election process is completed.
In this report, we have included a snapshot of the types of solicited and unsolicited feedback SNA-K received from partners and subscribers during the March 4th elections week.
During and following the elections, SNA-K sent messages and helped flag security concerns in Dandora to the NSC. Dandora was one of the areas that experienced the most tensions and incidents in the days leading up to and following the elections. On election day, youths supporting a particular political party overwhelmed police in Phase 4 to prevent voting. This was brought under control by backup security, and SNA-K sent a message.
|Feedback from residents included comments that, the message "helped to calm down the situation" and "was sent at the right time," because, according to partners "they think the whole world was watching Dandora. Everyone knew what was happening."
|Following a second message, our Dandora co-ordinator summarized feedback from eight outreach workers in the area. They said: "the message helped to maintain calm, reminds us of our community, makes us be united, shows someone thinks about Dandora, reminds us to be peaceful all the times, and thanks for reacting and responding to our concerns."
Burnt Forest & Kariobangi North
Our area Co-ordinator for both Burnt Forest and Kariobangi North reported similar feedback from both places.
|In one case, a community partner said: "The message had a real impact. People stopped and were looking at their phones. They were gathered in groups and talking about politics."
He noted that the community was congratulating SNA-K members on their work and that the messages had a particularly big impact in Kariobangi North where they helped to break up negative groupings.
|He noted that based on the feedback he received, people were saying that, "the IEBC has their own ways of doing this – and they may not trust them but getting a peace message from us will give them a reaffirmation of the situation."
Many community members requested additional messages.
The highlights of the messaging feedback from Korogocho are as follows:
|– "The messages make people think otherwise if they wanted to do something wrong."
– "Updated people with the information which made people to be calm."
– "The messages helped keep people calm."
On March 11th, Eldoret partners wrote to SNA-K, saying:
|"We are grateful for the good messages we have been receiving from SNA-K. Continue with the good job," and "Viva SNAK for coming up with such a unique way of preaching peace through mobile technology. Keep up!"
SNA-K also received quotes from community members:
|"We are grateful cos the messages are totally free of charge, not as we thought when being subscribed to the system."
This quote shows the importance of building trust and credibility when it comes to SMS and technology-based services. Another person noted:
|"I went to the interior and Kapsoya, and they are complaining not to be receiving messages. Kindly do some outreach there."
This shows that a demand was created for SNA-K messaging in additional areas.
On March 6th, an SNA-K subscriber called the SNA-K office line, saying:
|"Rumours circulated in the morning almost brought commotion, that the election kit had been spoilt, and people would vote the second time. People were worried. Rumours spread so fast, but when asked how they got info those spreading rumours disappeared and calm returned. We are getting messages from SNA-K and forwarding to all in our phonebooks. I am proud of what Sisi ni Amani is doing. We need to celebrate you after elections. There is a big effect, and the stickers are all over so we are asking people to not bring propaganda here because this is amani zone."
This message shows the importance of messaging that is directed towards the spread of rumours and how people interact with information that they receive during emotionally tense periods.
Narok County
Narok County was a main focal point for SNA-K, with the area experiencing tensions throughout the voting process. In particular, reports from Ololulunga of high tension came in from polling day, and through the tallying process. In response to the pre-election messages sent with voter education information, the SNA-K office line received calls from Ololulunga subscribers, saying:
|"We are generally peaceful and hope to vote peacefully tomorrow. Continue sending these messages. Ni poa sana."
On March 5th, after chaos at a polling station over tallying, an SNA-K subscriber called Samuel, called and said:
|"There has been calm in Ololulunga and I would like to thank you for informing the police who came to the area so quickly and for the message you sent that helped to maintain calm. I can now go home happy after my tallying center has finished its job peacefully Thank you Sisi Ni Amani."
SNA-K's Coordinator for Mulot, Sogoo, and Sagamian, Pastor Wilson Mosonik, received phone calls and thank you messages from the areas he was co-ordinating.
|On March 5th, a man named Joel from Rongena, called Mosonik to thank him for the messages saying that the area has historically always had problems during elections, and that this time, the messages brought peace and have been a topic of discussion. Further, during the tallying where tensions were rising, he would show people the message about maintaining calm and he said it really helped. He wanted to say thank you.
This feedback shows the potential for messages on peoples' phones to become a tool that they can use in their own peace efforts.
|Community members from Sogoo and Sagamian told Mosonik that the messages were helpful and that they recognized that SNA-K has really worked hard and that they appreciated the messages. They said that the messages helped bring peace in the areas and that if anyone was about to bring up a dispute they would be shown the messages from SNA-K.
.Again this shows the need to further understand how messages can become a tool for the people who receive them to talk more openly and with more credibility about peace.
In Transmara, also in Narok County, a subscriber called the office line on March 9th to say:
|"Thanks so much for your wonderful messages. At least you gave us something to look up to and helped us maintain peace…Kudos." Further, we received a call on March 10th letting us know that the messages were very helpful and that the messages were being discussed during a morning mass at church that morning.
Sotik/Sotik-Borabu Border
SNA-K received a lot of feedback is Sotik, specifically around the Sotik/Borabu border.
|On March 5th, a subscriber called Barimen living on the Sotik Borabu border told Pastor Mosonik, the area coordinator, that he was happy that the SMS came in right before and during the elections and "helped maintain calm even when the electronic registers were not working." He thanked SNA-K for bringing peace to the border.
This and other feedback show that SMS, if used well, can be a tool to encourage patience in particular and help people wait out scenarios that could otherwise lead to rumors and tensions. On March 6th, a subscriber called Langat wrote to the office line to say:
|"Its been a long stretch towards the finishing line of 2013 elections, On behalf of Sotik district I wish to thank SNA-K for tireless work of reminding the residents importance of maintaining peace."
Finally, as a nice piece of general feedback, SNA-K also received a message to the SMS number 22762 which, translated to English, read:
|"Thank you SNA-K educating me through your messages and for helping me maintain peace. Mine is to say that God bless you because your organization is like a church."


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We've all heard the horror stories about employees of game development companies being forced into large amounts of overtime in order to meet, or miss, a deadline. Who can forget the reports of the terrible working conditions and unpaid wages at Team Bondi? It's a shame to watch any person have to take the brunt of forcing these high-production titles out of the door. It's no surprise when we hear about 60, 70, or 80 hour work weeks during "crunch time", and I can only imagine the strain that it can put on a marriage or a new family.
In a recent interview with Keith Fuller, founder of Fuller Game Production, he attributes his decision to start a production consulting company to a specific instance during mandatory "crunch time" developing a AAA game.
It was late one night… and the guy to my left, a level designer, is fixing the scripting in one of his maps instead being at home with his fiancee helping to plan the wedding that's occurring in a couple of weeks. And then I look to my other side and there's a Senior Technical Artist, and he is working on the art in a map to bring up the framerate instead of being at home with his less than two week old daughter.
When you hear and see situations like these you can't help but want to see a change for the better. Fuller Game Production is designed to help take the stress off of game studios and their employees by going in and managing the production and project management aspects of development.
A study conducted in February and March 2011, by Keith Fuller, sheds some light on many production practices and opinions of a number of development studios. In our interview, we were able to discuss some of the results of the study and how Keith's company is equipped to alleviate these burdens from game studios.
In just a few short days Keith Fuller will be speaking at the 5th annual IGDA Leadership Forum in L.A. in order to discuss the results of his study with the attendees. He plans to address the findings showcased in his article featured on Gamasutra as well as another 40% of the results that were a little more ambiguous in nature.
The questions posed at the end of the survey proved to be more open-ended and will require more feedback from the studios who agreed to remain un-anonymous, and from participants in the audience. He hopes to attract some industry involvement by allowing people the opportunity to give their insight on the results and perhaps give feedback on their own studio's practices.
Expect a large part of the discussion to focus on one very specific point addressed in the second question of the survey. When participants were asked, "Name the area in which your company excels the most," a majority answered by saying Production was their studio's strongest attribute, but absolutely no one responded by saying that Mentoring/Training, or Company Leadership were strong attributes of their company.
On the flip-side of that question, participants were asked what they would like to see improved the most, and Company Leadership received twice as many votes than any other single question.
While this doesn't provide definitive data, Keith believes that many companies are lacking in either proper leadership, or the realization of that leadership within the production process. Keith said, "there are a lot of situations, especially in a comparatively young industry like game development, where you can get put into a leadership position not because you have the skills necessarily, but because you may be the best person available, or they just need to have somebody."
Keith believes that organizations need to address these issues and hopes that involvement with the IGDA Leadership Forum, and his session in particular, will open their eyes to the possibilities that his services can provide.
For those not familiar with the IGDA Leadership Forum, it is an annual conference held in Los Angeles that features industry leaders and professionals from all over the world who speak in various sessions that last throughout the weekend. This years Leadership Forum is on October 27 & 28, 2011 and is being held at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, LAX at 6101 W. Century Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.
Keith speaks highly of the IGDA LF and states that it's imperative for anyone who is, or is working to become a leader in the video game industry. "It's absolutely a phenomenal experience for someone who needs more exposure in the industry," Keith says, "but also to be able to learn from a lot of the thought leaders in the industry."
Don't think that the IDGA Leadership Forum is only for leaders or those aspiring to be one; this conference is equally as beneficial for someone who may have just taken an entry level position at a studio. Keith sums up its benefits by saying, "You get exposure to what is of critical importance to people in leadership…you get to see and hear from people in those positions talking about what's important to them, and you get a sense of their knowledge, their background, their training, and the sorts of things that they still need in their position."
So whether you are an entry-level game tester, or the CEO of a multi-million dollar game development company, there is plenty for you. Take time out of your busy week to rub elbows with the best in the industry, and if you can't make it out this year then mark your calenders for next year. Make sure to visit Keith's discussion on Friday, October 28, at 11:00 A.M. called "Industry Survey Results on Improving Production Practices."


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THE DEATH of modern agriculture's biggest champion, Norman Borlaug, is a great loss. Who better to be frank about the use of biotechnology to feed a starving world than the well-decorated humanitarian Borlaug? The online encyclopedia Wikipedia reports that Borlaug saved more than a billion people from starvation through his work in plant pathology and genetics. Much of his work was in wheat where he helped double yields. These genetic strides spawned the term "Green Revolution."
So when Borlaug stated in an interview with Reason in 2000 that using organics to feed the world is "ridiculous; this shouldn't even be a debate," people listened.
In that famous interview, Borlaug went on to say that producing enough manure to fertilize crops to feed the world would require another 5 or 6 billion head of cattle. "How much wild land would you have to sacrifice just to produce the forage for these cows? There's a lot of nonsense going on here," he said.
With Borlaug's death, the media have brought his comments to light once again. Ironically, the comments are very timely, especially after the recent Time magazine cover article, "The Real Cost of Cheap Food." This article pretty much indicts the entire U.S. food production system, except for organics.
But here's another irony: Remember the liberal magazine Mother Jones? Still going strong, the magazine recently published a thoughtful article that sides more with Borlaug than Time. The article "Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008" is well worth reading. It gives hope that the world is listening to common sense like Borlaug's.
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The 12th Annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference is headed to Marksville, La.
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As in the past 11 years, the conference is co-sponsored by Louisiana State University along with the following seven universities: University of Arkansas, Mississippi State University, University of Missouri, University of Tennessee, Louisiana State University, Auburn University, and Texas A&M.
USDA-NRCS of Washington, D.C., and USDA-ARS centers in the Southern states are co-sponsors as well.
The conference has numerous corporate co-sponsors and a large trade show. Ag-Media co-sponsor is Farm Press Publications — Delta Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press.
This conference, a perennial success, first opened in Little Rock, Ark., in 1997 and alternated locations in succeeding years between Texas and Mississippi. The 2008 conference in Tunica, Miss., drew a record attendance of farmers who accounted for more than 1.4 million acres of agricultural production last year.
"Marksville is an ideal setting for the conference, providing a relaxing environment where farmers can visit with other farmers and researchers," said John LaRose, chairman of the conference Steering Committee. The conference speakers are farmers and researchers from the Mid-South states.
As in the past, two other conferences will be sponsored by the Cotton and Rice Conference and held at the same time and location. The Mid- South Corn and Soybean Conference and the Mid-South Precision Ag Conference are held in conjunction with the Cotton & Rice Conference.
The Cotton and Rice Conference is a must-attend event for all farmers wishing to hone their production methods. The conference offers farmers ways to trim inputs while boosting yields.
In recent years both farmers and landlords have found that beyond tillage, there are many other farming resources that can be conserved through a properly designed conservation systems program.
The importance of conserving soil moisture, as well as reducing fuel, labor, seed, chemical, fertilizer and other input costs is the key to economic success for all farmers and landowners.
"The main emphasis of the conference is reducing production costs and increasing yields in cotton, rice, soybeans and corn through precision agriculture in its many forms," said LaRose.
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By Ed Harris
The public by and large supported the Board of Education and its budget proposal during a hearing at DePaolo Middle School Monday night.
Numerous residents, teachers, PTO and town officials spoke in favor of passing the school board proposal as is, with little to no cuts. Only three people talked out against the Board of Education proposal, focusing on the plan to add all-day kindergarten.
Of those three, one backed the addition of all-day kindergarten, but asked that it be phased in.
"You can't spend enough on our education system," said resident James Williamson.
Williamson said he had lived in four states over the years and had moved to Southington due to the school system, even though he no longer had any school aged children. He urged the Board of Finance, which oversaw the meeting, to fully pass the school board budget and allow for the implementation of the all-day kindergarten program.
Resident Dr. Mary Yuskis and her husband John agreed, both urging for the full funding of the school budget and the kindergarten program.
"I am in one hundred percent favor of all day kindergarten," Mary Yuskis said. "Our children are ready."
Lakshmi Frechette was one of the few to speak against the funding of all-day program. She argued that the family bond was more important than a kindergarten program.
Frechette also argued against the information and statistics behind the move to all-day kindergarten. She said that any gains made were minimal and lost by the third grade.
"The data is lacking," she said.
The school board proposal, which has already spent some time in front of the Board of Finance, is for $85.3 million, an increase of 3.51 percent over the previous year. This budget is about $900,000 less than the original proposal from Southington School Supt. Dr. Joseph Erardi. Erardi' original proposal would have called for a 4.87 percent increase.
School officials have cited rising costs for salaries, health insurance, special education, and transportation as familiar reasons for the increase proposal. Other reasons, such as $412,000 worth of technology upgrades and the hotly debated all-day kindergarten program, were more specific to this year.
The town side of the budget did not get all that much debate, compared to the Board of Education's side. This is likely because the town side budget is asking for a very minimal increase.
Town Manager Garry Brumback's proposal is a $593,194 or 1.3 percent increase over last year's $45.3 million budget. The increases in the proposed budget stem from a rise in capital requirements, though many of these increases are offset by revenue derived from an increase in state aid and the close out of some smaller projects, and an increase in medical insurance costs.
The budget proposal also funds the initial bonds for the middle school rehabilitation project and road improvements that were passed overwhelmingly at a recent referendum.
Perhaps the main point of contention on the town's side is the doubling of the Information Technology Department's allocation, which is earmarked to further implement a virtual town hall. This includes a 51.7 percent rise in the IT budget, increasing that allocation from $243,222 to $507,734.
The increase deals with information technology and a virtual town hall that Brumback began implementing last year.
"This year's budget was extremely hard to prepare," Brumback told the tax board, citing state finances.
Brumback also praised the town department heads for "responsible" proposals.
If both the town government and school board budgets are passed as is, they would result in about a two-thirds of a mil increase in taxes.
The Board of Finance must adopt a budget by April 1 and submit it to the Town Council. In turn, the Town Council must adopt the budget no later than May 13.


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SPIN is a support & research platform for artistic practices, run by 3 artists from the performance field since 2011. You can read about what it does here: www.spinspin.be.
Solidarity was a main motivation in gathering together as SPIN. We wanted to counteract a tendency in the performance field that individualised and fragmented artists' trajectories and support - artists usually choosing between project-hopping with short/mid-term support, or competing to become one of those (very few) to build a 'classical' company around their work alone. Instead through SPIN we attempted a practice of 'collective autonomy' in which the collective supports each individual's differing basic needs over the long term. To do this we mutualised our professional financial resources, but also importantly our time, experience, network, content-dialogue, reflection and other kinds of support. We found it important that SPIN be artist-run, so the organisation could adapt itself in direct relation to changes in the artists' practices over time.
Concretely, SPIN receives structural funding so it can give a skeleton of support and administration for the three artists (who are all in different tempos of research and production). With this funding SPIN is able to provide a crucial core of long term development support budget - then each time an artist needs budget for a specific creation or research, SPIN helps them raise this as project funding. This mix of long term and and project funding allows each artist to pursue their own changing tempo and focus, without constantly negotiating within the group for a finite artistic-creation budget.
The shape of SPIN's organisation shifted over the years; at first we 'shared' the skills and time of one fulltime producer who handled all of our practices. This was a juggling act of coordination, and developed into overwork for that central figure. Meanwhile our artistic practices also matured and diverged, so we shifted to a new model in which each artist designs their own trajectory with different development / production teams. This complexified SPIN to involved more collaborators, so the administration core was also strengthened to mediate a greater flow of information and exchanges.
SPIN's second core practice, which runs separately to this artistic support, focuses on knowledge-development in the arts field at large, with peers, colleagues and institutions. This is also financed with the structural funding, and explores solidarity through co-learning, exchange, and collaboration. Some of these initiatives were classical seminar events, but many were more experimental, dreamy or celebratory - lasting a few hours or many months. There were two living-room festivals, a camp-ground, a treasure-hunt, a political choir, a reading club, radio shows, and many co-learning gatherings on the subjects of work, political art, and artistic practice - more than 20 initiatives happened so far, involving the arts field, institutions, public, and people working outside the arts
For us SPIN has been a steep learning curve in the joys and pitfalls of collectivity, as well as the mechanics of shaping an organisation. The three artists are not 'qualified' as managers or directors, so this continues to be an experiment of learning-by-doing - SPIN has territories of great lucidity and efficiency, and some swamps and tangles of ongoing development… Our current questions include: how to 'open' SPIN to support more practices; strategies to maintain an artistic practice at the same time as running an organisation; and recognising the practices of independent 'art-workers' we collaborate with (eg. on production and development) who face the same precarious work conditions as artists.
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Winter bites, but SPIN bites back - here's the lowdown on current activities: Diederik is preparing rehearsals for his performance 'Undead' (working title), the last stop of his project Apparitions. The show will premiere in June at Shauspiel Leipzig (D).
In the meantime the 'Futurology of Cooperation' kicks off, the research Diederik will be conducting over the next 3 years with Anna Czapski at KASK & Conservatorium, School of Arts in Ghent. In February they invited Maja Kuzmanovic for an initiating lecture and workshop about the art and science of futurology.
Meanwhile Kate's tour rolls onward to Australia, France and Germany...
And Hans updates the blog with local perspectives from Mexico City where he's at.
WILSON Y LOS MÁS ELEGANTES / HANS BRYSSINCK - film online & publication
We've finally made Hans' film Wilson y Los Más Elegantes available for watching online here! Just gather some friends, open a couple of fresh beers, lay your hands on the biggest screen that's around and enjoy watching it together...
And if you'd like to do some further reading, Juanfran Maldonado wrote a critical approach to the piece: Why is he singing our music? You can either read the original Spanish version on our blog here, or go to the English translation here.
Wondering what we've been busy with? Planning a great tour of In Many Hands of course! We'll be presenting at venues and festival all over Europe - so check out the calendar to find out where to meet us.
In the meantime Hans is back in Mexico, writing up the script for his mysterious film project, while Diederik is checking out graveyards to find Dracula's voice.
SPIN THIS! Radio Show #1 has gone podcast!.... listen here
Recorded and live streamed from Chaff Cafe in Brussels, if you missed it the first time you can listen now. Episode #1 focuses on engagement - social, political and personal....
this Friday 6 May @17h!
or BE THERE IN PERSON!
Le Chaff Café
21 Place Jeu de Balle, Brussel 1000
With a wild pirate-leap onto the radio waves we launch SPIN THIS! Radio Show.
Broadcasting live from Le Chaff café on Brussels' fleamarket – you can join us there to listen, speak, or throw tomatoes… or listen live from anywhere on the planet with the online streaming.
SPIN THIS! Radio Show will be a live and spontaneous brainstorm on the matter of engagement – political, social, personal.
We jump into inspirations and confusions about engagement - not as experts, but as people who want to talk about how we engage in public.
We're interested in problems in the public sphere that affect the many, and how we can, how we try, how we desire, how we fail to engage with those problems.
We're interested in formats of engagement - for us right now, in utopic future scenarios, in colourful historic examples.
And we have lots of personal struggles with what engagement means (maybe because we come from different countries???)!!!
So why not talk about it all together at the bar?
Also, we've never done radio before!
It's all about figuring it out as we go.
The Facebook page is live and ongoing - news will keep coming!
SPIN is not lazy, but dreams about it and reads about it out loud at the end of February during the next BudaVista at Buda in Kortrijk. In April Hans will take these relaxed thoughts with him to Texas where he will present Wilson y Los Más Elegantes and hopefully make the Texans sing ever so softly.
SPIN has also been involved with State Of The Arts to prepare the symposium on Fair Practices on 27 Feb (everyone's invited!). And BUDA hosted us to collaborate on their coming program What's The Matter With Cooperation in April.
Meanwhile, Kate is deep in the studio cooking up a new performance… the premiere is set for 14th of October at PACT Zollverein (D) so save the date!
And last but not least, we want to show that this society can be different by actively taking to the streets in the Big Parade of Hart boven Hard - its on 20 March, be there!
SPIN is very concerned about the policy that the Flemish Minister of Culture seems to be setting out... Brutal cuts into project-funding attack our renowned Flemish arts-field at its roots, and if the current imbalance between project and structural funding continues we foresee a disastrous disturbance for the field.SPIN supports actions of HOOGTIJd, and signed this letter, as many others did.
Last year the civil movement Hart Boven Hard kicked off by handing our Flemish Government an alternative September-declaration. This month the governement will announce a new round of austerity measures - and will meet a fresh wave of civil action right in front of the Flemish Parliament. Join!
As engaged artists we feel we can't be missing, so we are taking the train, bus and bike to Paris together with Climate Express and urge everyone else to do the same! Be part of this historical moment and sign up for the Climate March on Sunday 29th of November or the Climate Games from December 11th to 13th. We hope to see you there!
Meanwhile on stages and screens: In October don't miss the opportunity for a Diederik-dive: both Red Herring and Hulk are showing at De Werf in Brugge, Belgium. Hans' film Wilson y Los Más Elegantes will be screened in Brussels. It might also be the perfect opportunity to purchase the first record of this band. Kate is about to plunge into touring All Ears and Worktable through Belgium, UK, Germany and…Brazil! To top it off, SPIN organises a weekend at Occupaïe Le Vivat and a workshop together with Amicale de Production.
It's november and this is what we do:
Kate will spend next week at PACT Zollverein in Essen - to perform All Ears on Thursday and to run a workshop at the IMPACT14 symposium on Sunday.
Saturday 22.11 Wilson y Los Más Elegantes will be screened at the TheaterFilmFest in Dusseldorf. The day after on Sunday 23.11 Hans will take part in a conference on Film and Theater.
The new season has begun and we are very proud to announce the film premiere of Wilson y Los Más Elegantes and the release of the first album by the band with the same name. So if you were wondering what our man in Colombia Hans Bryssinck has been up to, please read more below and pick up an evening dress to join us for the première. Or come see the avant-première and swing by SPIN's camp at Buda Vista#5.
In the meantime, Kate McIntosh is leading a workshop during Impact14 and so is Diederik Peeters, during Summer School. Kate keeps on touring with All Ears and Diederik is clearing his throat for his first ever opera appearance in Inventer Des Nouvelles Erreurs by old time favourites Grand Magasin. We hope to see you at one of these events!
Meanwhile in Belgium a right-wing Flemish government has been installed and a Federal one is in the making... Policies are changing, therefore we want to support a large scale movement joining forces to care for social, cultural and human values. Everyone is invited this Monday 22nd September to the public meetings of Hart boven Hard in Brussels, Gent and Antwerp. Let's gather our thoughts and voices.
Summer has definitely arrived! To finish the season in beauty, SPIN cordially invites you to The Flat Shows in several living-rooms in Brussels. During the holidays we organise a summer-camp for the residents of Workspace Brussels Summer Residency. And in the meantime Hans will be Watching & Talking during the Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, as Kate and Diederik continue touring with All Ears, Worktable and Red Herring.
the next two TUESDAYs, we invite you to our
QUANTIFICTION room at Kunstenfestivaldesarts for a conversation salon.
We offer tasty pie-charts and a lively discussion putting
(over)quantification under the microscope... Welcome!
Tuesdays 13th & 20th May / 18:30-19:30
>> Cinema Marivaux / KFDA festival centre, Brussels.
SPIN presents Camping Bella Vista!
At each BUDA VISTA, the collective SPIN intervenes with a customized action that brings artists and audiences together in encounter, action and reflection. Camping Bella Vista is the third in line. Join us!
SPIN has some lovely performances and interventions coming up so take your agenda and write down these dates:
23-25/10 Kate's next stop is hometown Brussels! She will be performing All Ears at Kaaistudio's. The 24th there will be an aftertalk so stick around if you want to hear Kate tell you all about the performance and more!
26/10 Join SPIN's workshop in imagining the future and thinking up small revolutions at Vooruit100. During the last day of Possible Futures people come together and discuss plans for the future and what part we can all play in this.
30/10 Diederik and Nada are ready to entertain you on these cold, creepy late October nights. We hope to see you all at the performance of Hulk in STUK (Leuven)! Mua-ha-ha-ha!
06-07/10 SPIN will be participating in State of the Arts: Call for Action at Beursschouwburg. These two days will create a platform by and for artists where there will be discussed what the 'State of the Arts' will be in an world driven by privatizations, cuts, profit, competition and based on inequality. Because our society very much looks like it's heading that way, it is important, necessary even, to think and talk about these issues and how we as artists can and want to position ourselves and take action.
What Diederik is doing? Getting all excited to show you his new performance HULK! Don't miss the premiere:
11-12/10 Beursschouwburg, Brussels (B)
In this new show hothead Diederik is ready to blow a fuse and awake his inner Hulk! Read more about it here.
Other dates in October: 17-18/10 De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) - 30-31/10 STUK, Leuven (B)
As October rolls in, SPIN is getting ready to cure your autumn blues with news from our man in Colombia and some new dates!
Hans just got back from a "productive holiday" in Colombia and would like to share his experiences and thoughts on creativity, production and starting a traditional Colombian band with you. Read more about it here. Leaving his aguardiente and exquisite coffees behind, Hans is now in Kortrijk with Kate preparing the SPIN appearances at the BUDAVISTA!#3 festival which takes place this weekend! Kate will be performing All Ears on Friday 04/10 and on Saturday there will be a treasure hunt with our friends of Amicale de Production. Aye! So be there! If you can't make it this weekend, come and check All Ears at the Kaaistudio's in Brussels on 23-25/10 or on one of the other dates you can find here! And if you like to roll up your sleeves, you can always join Kate's workshop Worktable at the Fierce Festival in Birmingham on 03-06/10! So yes, SPIN is quite busy. But what is Diederik doing exactly?
SPIN gathering this weekend..... come!
21 September, 2013 - Kaaistudio's, Brussels
18h - 22h30
For this edition of 'Imagine Work' SPIN invites us to fantasise another sense of time - in our work and in our lives. Invited guests from very different perspectives will offer us a provocation on what work can be and how it can interact with the time of our lives. Can you imagine working only five hours a week? Could you see your procrastination as a skillful practice? Where do the time pressures of work come from, and what do they achieve? If your time seems scarce, if you're unsure how to juggle your own availability, if you dream of slow days or maybe faster ones, 'Imagine Work' proposes an opportunity to reflect, discuss and imagine what other kinds of working time might be possible.
For this session we hear from several guests - Mark Fisher (author of 'Capitalist Realism, Is There No Alternative?'), Gilad Reich and Yael Messer (curators of the exhibitions 'Time/Resistence' and 'Our Work is Never Over'), Hiroya Hirano (researcher on Basic Income and 'temporal autonomy') and Siegmar Zacharias (WOW-WE WORK HERE) - and you are invited to join as a discussion partner on the ideas they propose. Prepare to meet, to think, to listen and argue as we imagine together how radically different our working life and times could become.
SPIN is organizing a gathering titled Imagine Work!
In preparation, we are asking friends and colleagues to send us a short statement in response to the question: If you were free to invent your way of working and your working conditions - what would you imagine?
This proposal of a possible, desirable or imagined work-life can be as crazy or as down to earth as you prefer. It can be focused on a minor detail, or it can be very broad. It can but doesn't have to be realistic - radical imagination is surely allowed.
Try to keep this desire statement short: 3 or 4 lines of writing is great, a few strong words is fine too. If you prefer recording a short video-message, or sending an image, these formats are welcome too. It would be great if we can have your answer by next Wednesday 5th of June.
News from our new base camp at Kaaistudio's in Brussels!
There are some great SPIN performances coming up so save these dates in your agenda:
Diederik Peeters will be presenting Red Herring at VirusFestival in De Spil, Roeselare (B).
After Roeselare, Peeters will take his Red Herring on a trip to BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen (NO).
Kate McIntosh's Worktable will be all yours to explore at the In Between Time Festival in Bristol (UK).
Untried Untested by Kate McIntosh will show at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL).
In March we recommend BUDA VISTA!#2 at Kunstencentrum BUDA in Kortrijk (B), where SPIN will be a guest contributor...
We hope to meet you on one or more of these delightful events!
Last week we sat together with our friends of Amicale de Production for some in depth sharing of tips and tricks for production and for discussing the challenges of our artist-run organisations. It gave us some exciting insights. These kind of exchanges should happen more often! And as we are writing this Peeters & Bryssinck are losing it in the underground art scene of Mainz (DE). They are showing Los Viernes at the artist-run Performing Arts Depot.
Meanwhile SPIN is looking for beautiful strong built men who can help us with a double move. We will finally be released from the cage (aka our office) at Beursschouwburg to move to a co-working space (details will follow). And we will leave our old storage space with leaks to move into a new one without leaks.
Brutal cuts are being made in the cultural budget of Wallonia-Brussels!
The Minister of Culture of Wallonia-Brussels, Fadila Laanan, has made a budget for 2013 in which there will be massive cuts, especially for the theatre. The joke of it all is that the sector had to read about it in the newspaper (La Libre Belgique) on 12th November.
After taking note, protest was quickly being organised, led by the group Conseil Dead. There was a petition, a protest letter and a Facebook group and website launched. On the 20th there was a kind of funeral march towards the office of the minister. There, protesters held a small demonstration and a delegation talked to the minister and gave her the protest letters and petition signatures.
The news spread rapidly and the protest grew. On 26th November there was a demonstration in front of the office of Rudy Demotte who is the "minister-president", the prime minister, of Wallonia and Brussels and has made a global budget for the region for 2013 (with an avalanche of fresh cuts of course).
Some numbers:
The global budget of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels: €9.640.558.000
The project subsidies are being reduced by 25%, from €657.000 to €490.000
In the performing arts, these project subsidies are being cut from €9.248 million to €8.272 million, a diminution of 10%
The Commission of aid for theatrical projects is facing a 45% budget cut! There will be €700.000 to work with instead of the €1.260 million in 2012
The Commission for non-classical music will have its budget cut from €475.000 in 2012 to €340.000 in 2013
The Commission for dance will get €275.000 instead of €450.000 in 2012
(sources: La Libre Belgique, Le Vif)
As you can see, the project subsidies for theatre are being cut on a hallucinatory scale. Not that the other performing arts are being spared. These measures hit especially the artists, as structural organisations and cultural centers are mainly left untouched.
Support the artists and your colleagues and show your solidarity by signing the petition!
More info on our blog.
Kate McIntosh's Worktable will be presented at brut in Vienna (AT) from 5.12 till 9.12. Get to work!
In the meantime, in the secrecy of their living rooms, Diederik Peeters and Hans Bryssinck are working on an impossible project...
Also, we are trying to pimp our Facebook presence. So hey, check our page out!
If you haven't seen the great Red Herring by Diederik Peeters then make your way to BUDA Kortrijk on 28.9, or to Vooruit in Gent on 17+18.10. For the ones who like to travel you can also see it at the 4+4 Days in Motion Festival in Prague (CZ) on 27.10.
You can see Untried Untested by Kate McIntosh in Mousonturm in Frankfurt (D) on 27+28.09. If you want to see her onstage, go and see Although we fell short by Tim Etchells in Frascati in Amsterdam (NL) on 6.10. Or take the rare chance to go and see Hullapolloi that she has made back in New-Zealand together with Jo Randerson and the Footnote Dance Company. It will be shown in Mousonturm in Frankfurt (D) on 13+14.10.
Hans Bryssinck just came back from Colombia with plenty of video footage and is now working in his studio-livingroom on the editing of that material.
For German speakers!
A radio interview with Kate about Untried Untested playing this weekend at Pact Zollverein in Essen. Click here and scroll down to find the interview...
In the frame of the SAPERE AUDE - DARE TO KNOW!-festival at Beursschouwburg there is an open call to participate in Chto Delat's seminar-rehearsal of a new Learning Play: "Russian Woods"
Seminars will take place on Sunday 18th, Monday 19th late afternoon time and the whole day on 27th of March, with a general rehearsal and public presentation on 28th of March 2012.
This seminar, initiated by the Chto Delat collective, continues a series of seminars dedicated to different issues of political and aesthetic representation and realized in a form of the rehearsal for the staging of a new Learning Play. It will be introduced to the public on the 28th of March in context of the festival Sapere Aude. Dare to know! at Beursschouwburg.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 12th, 2012
Please send your application with a self introduction and your previous experiences to: Dmitry Vilensky firstname.lastname@example.com and Séverine Debecker email@example.com
Holidays are definitely over and so we're spinning!
Kate is in the final sprint towards the première of her new show 'Untried Untested', commissioned by Campo in Ghent, where the show opens next Thursday (9, 10, 11/02). Meanwhile Hans is warming up with Zhana Ivanova for a new episode of 'Now We Do It For Real' in Beursschouburg next Saturday (11/02). Diederik is hiding in the studio with Sarah & Charles, cooking up a new part in their 'Props for Drama' series entitled 'Plot Hole'. Diederik will also pop up in Vooruit in Ghent during 'Inside Superamas' next Wednesday (8/02), when Vooruit and Superamas officially kick off their long-term collaboration. A week later (14/02) you can catch him in STUK in Leuven where he joins Anna Rispoli for 'Casting Out The Nines', Anna's project for the Artefact Festival there. - It goes without saying it would be phenomenastic to run into you on of these occasions.
Just a couple of hours ago we were all still dancing in Sarah & Charles' living room, and now we can safely say that the first edition of the Brussels' Living Room Festival is officially closed. We're very happy everything went (relatively) well: nice living rooms, good audience, good performances, lectures, films and concerts...
Once more a big hug and massive thank you to all the organisers, to all the artists that performed for free... It's absolutely great to do something that only thrives on the enthusiasm of everyone involved! And also thanks to our lovely audience of course! Hope to see you again next year.
But first, a good, deep winter sleep...
Hans Bryssinck & Christoph Hefti will perform in Les Thermes, an installation with a swimming pool with 20000 balls that have stoic thoughts engraved on them. It's conceived by France Distraction (Belinda Annaloro / Antoine Defoort / Julien Fournet / Halory Goerger / Sebastien Vial) for Musée de la danse (Rennes) on 17 + 18 + 19 November.


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