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Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen
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Marine Ecosystem Acoustics Group
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Ph.D. candidate (present) in Marine Biology, University of Oslo
M.Sc. (2012) in Marine ecology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
B.Sc. (2011) in Biology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
B.Sc. (2005) in Political sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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I am a marine ecologist interested in anthropogenic influence on reproductive behavior, population dynamics and contemporary evolution in crustaceans and fish. My main approach involves combining genetic methods and field studies of behavior and life history traits to understand the eco-evolutionary consequences of different management strategies and harvesting practices. I'm currently involved in studies addressing the sustainability in harvesting wrasse species for the use as cleaner fish in salmonid aquaculture. We use mark-recapture data from in and outside marine reserves, otolith analysis and sea data to investigate how behavior of fish and fishermen relate to one another, and how populations change due to selection. I am also in the final stage of completing my PhD where I study how the fishery interacts with the European lobsters' population dynamic, and how it affects sexual selection, reproductive strategies and mate choice.
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Population dynamics of wild wrasse populations along the Norwegian coast (led by Anne Berit Skiftesvik)
Sørdalen, T.K., K.T. Halvorsen, H.B. Harrison, C. Ellis, L.A. Vøllestad, H. Knutsen, E. Moland & E. Moland Olsen. 2018. Harvesting changes mating behavior in European lobster. Evolutionary Applications 11:963–977. DOI 10.1111/eva.12611
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Halvorsen, K.T., T.K. Sørdalen, L.A. Vøllestad, A.B. Skiftesvik, S.H. Espeland & E.M. Olsen. 2017. Sex- and size-selective harvesting of corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops) cleaner fish in salmonid aquaculture. ICES Journal of Marine Science 74: 660-669.
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Halvorsen, K.T., T. Larsen, T. K.Sørdalen, L.A. Vøllestad, H. Knutsen & E.M. Olsen. 2017. Impact of harvesting cleaner fish for salmonid aquaculture assessed from replicated coastal marine protected areas. Marine Biology Research 13: 359-369.
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Halvorsen, K.T., T.K. Sørdalen, C.M.F. Durif, H. Knutsen, E.M. Olsen, A.B. Skiftesvik, T.E. Rustand, R.M. Bjelland & L.A. Vøllestad. 2016. Male biased sexual size dimorphism in the nest building corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops): implications for a size regulated fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science 73: 2586-2594.
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Ellis, C. D., Hodgson, D. J., André, C., Sørdalen, T. K., Knutsen, H., & Griffiths, A. G. F. 2015. Genotype reconstruction of paternity in European lobsters (Homarus gammarus). PLoS ONE 10: 1–14.
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Why More #Anarchists Should Get Involved With #Anonymous… Announcing Anonymous (A)narchist Action
(Vanzetti's Ghost) Of course I can only ever give my personal opinion about this subject, a subject which is changing all the time. I'll try not to abstract too much and speak from my personal experience and observations of anonymous…
It's like this. I didn't find the Anonymous IRC (internet relay chat) server until after "participants" in Operation Payback had taken down websites like Mastercard, Paypal and others. I had known about known about Anonymous before that but seeking them out had never really appealed to me until I saw them in the news for "defending wikileaks". It took a while before I was able to navigate to their IRC, but once I was able to, I started looking around and realized a bunch of things…
What I thought I knew about Anonymous was fairly wrong:
The more I hung around the more I learned about what was actually going on. For the most part Anonymous really is non-hiearchical. At least, as horizontal as the anarchist movement ever is. Also while it may have this reputation, it is not a group of "hackers"alone. Sure there are hackers involved but there are also "everyday internet citizens", writers, graphic designers, translators, and people with many other skills. Sure there's the 14 year olds the news talks about but theres also some 60 some year olds if you believe them… My point being that any attempt to generalize about Anonymous is a failure, because whatever can carry that name is so diverse that it really defies stereotyping a lot of the time…
Anonymous =/= 4chan, People growing up/are already grown up:
Having navigated over to 4chan before and seeing some of the previous actions claimed by "Anonymous" I admittedly had a little trepidation going into this. But what I found assuaged my doubts. If there was a time when "Anonymous" was a synonym for 4chan that time has passed. But at the same time it was born out of that. From what I've seen it looks like Anonymous, or really those calling themselves Anonymous have matured a lot. Even over the past month or two I've seen tone and level of thought in the server change visibly for the better. Sure Anonymous may seem immature to some with their culture of "for the lulz" i.e. trying be funny whenever you do something. Where do some cross the line, that's up to individuals to decide. The point is though, it would be a mistake to take the actions, opinions and ideas of a few in Anonymous to speak for the whole. There really are no leaders or spokespeople in this.
I've always been more interested in computers than most people but certainly I am not as skilled with them as a lot of people. There was a point after reading way too many obscure theoretical texts I was ready to abandon technology and the internet all-together. A rash decision. Then I stumbled across Wikileaks. I went to the Pittsburgh G20 protests and subscribed to the comm twitter. Out of breath after running around the city,receiving detailed tweet-updates (on where the march was, where the police were, who the police were looking for and more) in text message form, I came face to face with reality. Anyone who's eyes have been open for the past few years, and really in the past few months really cannot deny the possible role of the internet, technology, and more specifically of Anonymous in social struggles.
Reasons why more Anarchists should get involved with Anon:
1)Anonymous is anarchist in form, the people involved are amenable to the idea if not already there:
Despite the trashy journalism put out by some mainstream outlets about Anonymous, theres no "secret" power structure in the group. Although some people complain the people running the IRC server are the "leaders" that's not true. How do things get done in the group? Anyone with an idea for a project or "operation" can start a channel on the server, gather people there and if enough people like the idea, boom, that's an Op(eration). For those familiar, imagine a crimethinc where people actually plan and execute actions under the name. There's also the international nature of the thing, the ability for anyone so inclined to hop on the server and start a channel. I'll let the words of some people I interviewed speak for themselves:
from an interview with an Italian anon participant in Operation Italy
I think things should change radically, at this point the world runs too much on money and power. They raise generations with false goals that makes them slaves of the system.
from two other interviews I did with anons
Anon1: "We do NOT want to throw over governments, that is not our prime intention. But if that MUST happen in order to set people free, we WILL support it."
Anon2: "I see it [civil disobedience] as justified when your own government is already breaking established laws and policies. This is not to say that I suddenly condone murder or anything extravagant, but sometimes, as is the case here frequently, it becomes necessary in the course of an operation to violate some to make a point, catch media attention towards a cause, and further our goals"
And while the aims, press releases, and interviews of some "members" of anonymous may be more liberal and less radical, that does not mean there are no signs of revolutionary thought present even in those who aren't explicitly anarchist.
2) The immediate necessity of working with others for solidarity's sake:
It's not so much a "The Enemy of my enemy is my friend" type thing as much as a practical thing. There's a great piece of writing by David Graeber which deals with this subject in the context of the anti-globalization movement. To use his idea, two people can work together without the same ideology if their short and medium term goals line up, even if the long term goals differ. There's a great history of anarchists showing solidarity to other struggles, the social insertionism idea, and there's some criticism of this. But really I think it benefits us (anarchists) by acknowledging our common cause with other movements and people. We can't be too puritanical about our ideas without risking total isolation, irrelavance and inefficacy. Not to say we compromise what we believe. What I mean, if there's a good reason for us to work with others in such a way that we don't sacrifice our way of doing things, I see no reason not to participate.
3)At best there is direct action happening, at worst the internet "protests" support the real life ones and teach us skills for the future:
Of course online action will never replace real life action. But we're seeing more and more the insane potential of this online field of struggle (like that google exec who using a facebook and a sudonym helped organize in Egypt). here are a few different tactics and benefits that come to mind when I think of the things Anonymous has done
But yes, Anonymous came into the spotlight recently over a DDOS (distributed denial of service) protest against corporations who pulled funding for Wikileaks. DDOS works like this… Imagine clicking the refresh button on your browser thousands of times until the website is too overloaded with requests to work. This is the denial of service. Members of anonymous all get together and do this at the same time using a program called "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" or LOIC. To sum up, the distributed part being different computers working together, the denial of service part being the overloading the website with requests… The media and public for the most part know nothing about DDOS, and so classify it sensationally as hacking, but it isn't. A more adept terminology would be direct action. There is still a discussion on when and where to use this form of direct action, and many are edging towards a more symbolic way because of recent repression against DDoS'ers (you can get up to 10 years in jail in some places I hear). Still though, when mastercard's payment processing system went out during the DDOS on their site, they surely lost money. A strategic DDOS as part of a boycott, or a counter-information strategy makes sense.
A defacement is when someone changes the physical appearance of a website. This was done recently multiple times to pretty deserving targets in my opinion. The appeal of a defacement is obvious. Replace a message on a website you disagree with with your message, also gumming up the works of the site at the same time. For example, here is a confrontation one member of anon had with a member of the westboro baptist church. By the end of the video, the WBC website was defaced.
Faxing Dial Up Info to Countries Like Libya and Egypt, interviews, working the media…
One other type of action being undertaken that's worth mentioning is the effort to fax dial up numbers and information to countries like Libya. The idea is that people can subvert internet blackouts caused by the government by using dial up modems. Once on the internet they can show the world what's going on in places where there are little to no foreign journalists…
I, like many anarchists, am very suspicious of relying on the mainstream media to communicate anything worthwhile. Anonymous is great because not only do they do well with traditional media, they also show the possibilities of social media and the internet for communication. This really dawned on me when I happened to get an interview with an Egyptian protester in the Anonymous' chat room for #opegypt…
So the possibilities are still very open, especially the possibilities for non-hackers to get involved and see some benefit to their actions. And of course it's unavoidable those involved will learn at least a little something about computers and other topics, and this is great.
4) Anonymous is not a static thing: its open to change, has already changed and will continue to do so:
Anonymous has its pros and cons like any group, movement or social force. Sure there are assholes who call themselves anonymous, and maybe some of the operations are a bit reformist for my taste… But that doesn't mean we can just abandon the whole thing because it doesn't fit into our perfect conception of what a movement should. More anarchists
becoming involved with Anon is mutually beneficial. There are skills, ideas, jokes, even (the 4channers would hate me for this) morals and goals we could exchange. E.g. Anarchists could learn to take themselves less seriously and there are those in anonymous who could definitely benefit from exposure to our ideas.
Anonymous is a young movement. The participants and the movement itself are very young and we definitely haven't seen the final shape anonymous will take yet.
5) Last but not least, a new anarchist group within Anonymous has formed… Introducing Anonymous (A)narchist Action or A(A)A
Anonymous Anarchist Action or A(A)A is a recently started explicitly anarchist tendency within anonymous. Here is a statement from those involved:
In the last few years, Anonymous has gained increasing notoriety for its action against websites, agencies and organizations that promote censorship and control. It has helped spread information and supported protestors demanding freedoms and rights.
But the popularity of the movement, the attention it brings along, and the structure it has engendered threaten to push Anonymous away from the decentralized, collective movement it has been. As decisions become more centralized and newcomers jump on the bandwagon, Anonymous risks becoming yet another ineffective reformist group, fueled by well-meaning rethoric but subject to third party interests and paralyzed by its fear of authority.
This is why we, as members of Anonymous and anarchists, have decided to start an autonomous group to help spread the ideas of anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism and self-organization within it. We want to provide the skills, tools and experience of direct action in the streets, and take advantage of the new resources and techniques of hacktivism.
Please join us in irc.anonops.ru (#anarchism) for discussion, information or support.
A(A)A is fairly new and there hasn't been a chance to do too much recruiting. Anyone interested (anarchists and non-radicals alike) is encouraged to log on to the Anonymous IRC server at irc.anonops.ru and go to channel #anarchism. As said in the picture the weekly meeting is sunday at 20gmt and there are varying amount of people in the channel at other times…
This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possibilities involving Anonymous, the internet, anarchism and a social force. It should be more than enough reason for anarchists to check out Anonymous at the very least. A lot of things happening with them are great, and with the beginning of A(A)A there is the possibility to explore the role of technology and the internet in social struggles in our way, an anti-authoritarian way…
P.S. A super abridged guide to getting onto IRC with anonymous
Since many people don't seem to understand this simple task I figured I'd lay it out here.
1)either install an IRC client on your computer or use one that's web-based like mibbit. You can log onto the same chat using either irc.anonops.ru or irc.anonops.in as the server.
2)pick a username and register it. the command for this is "/nick yournickhere" to change your nickname and "/msg nickserv register pass fakeemail" to register your nickname.
3) if you're new and you want to check out the chat its recommended to hide your ip some way (or multiple ways). this guide being distributed answers a lot of questions about how to preserve your anonymity online. One easy way to hide your ip on irc chat is to go to channel #vhost and follow the instructions there to setup how your ip looks to others on the chat.
4)You're good! look around in the different channel (i.e. #OpIran, #Opbahrain, #hispano, etc…) each channel has a different purpose and each specific project or operation has its own channel. Figure the rest out yourself…=P
Source: http://ghostofvanzetti.net/blog/2011/02/why-more-anarchists-should-get-involved-with-anonymous-announcing-anonymous-anarchist-action/


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We are going to be heading out for a week long trip and that had me thinking about all the things I do to prep. I like to do things to help me get ready for the trip (obvi!) and have me thanking myself when arriving home so let's jump in!
If we're planning on flying I make sure that we have all our travel size necessities (toothpaste, lotion, etc). If we use something up by the end of the trip I will add it to my shopping list to pick up so I'm not running around before our next trip.
We usually do a weekly grocery trip since most things we buy are fresh fruits and veggies and they are perishable. For the week leading up to any trip I try to use up what we have in the fridge and avoid buying or opening anything I can't use up. I don't think anyone likes coming home to rotting produce 😖
As close as I can to our departure date I will do a nice deep clean of the house. Coming home after vacations can be sad and I don't like to make it worse by coming home to a dirty house!
This goes along with the cleaning but I wash all our last minute laundry, blankets, sheets and such. I like fresh sheets and we will probably be coming home with a load of laundry anyways so this minimizes the loads we have to do.
I check the weather and overpack. I've come to realize over the years and after a few trips that 72 degrees in California is not the same as 72 in Hawaii. I tend to pack layers since I get cold very easily and I like choices so I do overpack…I know I need to work on this, but it's so hard. Lucky for me I have a wonderful husband who has no problem packing whatever I decide to bring 😀
That last one wasn't helpful so much as it was me being super honest! It helps me in the sense that it gives me peace of mind, but I can't help but feel jealous of those that can pack 1 pair of pants and 3 tops for a 3 weeks. Meanwhile I'm over here packing my whole house for a week long trip…send help!
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By Rev. Dr. Ed Hird
Dr. Murray Bowen once said that longevity has more potential lasting impact than frequency. For the past forty years, the North Shore Pastors have been gathering together in order to better serve our community. Some people mistakenly think that North Shore churches and pastors are competitors. One of the things that troubled me as a new Christian was the infighting between all the different denominations. Why couldn't the Anglicans, Baptists, Pentecostals, Mennonites, Presbyterians, etc learn to get along and stop competing? One of the wonderful gifts of living on the North Shore is that denominational bickering is at an all-time low. Clergy and pastors speak well of each other's congregations. There is a generosity among North Shore pastors that allows us to bless each other instead of cursing each other. This hasn't happened by accident. It is the fruit of forty years of prayer by the North Shore clergy, first at Hillside Church, then at Valley Church, and more recently at Sutherland Church. Because we meet together, share together and pray together, we have become each other's best friends and advocates. God has used the North Shore Pastors Prayer Fellowship to deepen our love for each other and our conviction that there is really only one Church on the North Shore. While there are many diverse congregations, we believe that our unity in Christ is greater than our individual differences.
Some of the original founders of the North Shore Pastors Prayer Fellowship included Arnie Toews of North Shore Alliance Church, Jim Lucas of Canyon Heights Church, John Hardy of Hillside Baptist, and Bob Allison of St. Andrews & St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church. All these have since either retired or moved to other communities. Those currently attending the fellowship picked up the torch from the pioneers who believed that we could better serve the North Shore in unity rather than apart.
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Pastor Owen Scott of Valley Church commented that being part of the North Shore Pastors Prayer Fellowship has been one of the most helpful things for him, knowing that he is not alone. Rev. Ken Bell of St. Timothy's Anglican Church says that praying together gives us an opportunity to share with one another and participate with each other on the North Shore. Pastor Scott Anderson of Cap Church said that our gracious embrace of one another is evidence of our experience of God's gracious embrace.
Every denomination has its own strengths and weaknesses. Instead of putting down another group for their flaws, we are learning to hold them up in prayer that they may become all that they are meant to be. Presbyterians don't need to become Anglicans, and Anglicans don't need to become Baptists. Our real calling is to love each other with the life-changing love of Jesus Christ. Many churches have formed because someone was hurt. We have been learning over the past thirty-five years that it is time to forgive, time to heal, time to pray. Why fight when we can pray? The North Shore Church are family, God's forever family. My prayer for those reading this article is that we may rediscover the deep truth that the family that prays together stays together.
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Club Glam: Changing the Game
To represent Glam in its fullest, the collective chose to feature Dese Escobar's 100-year-old grandfather. While we couldn't chat with him ourselves, office spoke with a few members of the Glam family, who gave us their thoughts on the intercultural and intergenerational importance of sports, the similarities between artists and athletes.
How do you think glam reflects the sentiment of this specific project?
GLAM We really wanted to capture everyone in their own truth for this project. Our message is to be inclusive gender, race and age we welcome it all. it was great to see people comfortable in their own skin and that is what glam is really about.
What is the message behind "No Basketball Adherences?
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DE The culture of basketball can become the center for creative and athletic exchange.
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DE Basketball is the favorite sport of both my father and grandfather. They immigrated from the Philippines and fell in love with the culture. I never played basketball but wanted to have my 100 year-old grandfather in the shoot to bring together different cultures for the love of basketball.
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Day 270: Season of war.
1/ Mitch McConnell and Trump met for lunch today after Steve Bannon called for a "season of war" against the Senate majority leader and the rest of the GOP establishment. Bannon compared McConnell to Julius Caesar and vowed to challenge any Senate Republican who doesn't publicly condemn attacks on Trump. "Yeah, Mitch, the donors are not happy. They've all left you. We've cut your oxygen off," Bannon said. (Politico / The Guardian / CNN)
2/ After his meeting with McConnell, Trump said they are "closer than ever before." Trump also said he would try to talk Bannon out of declaring war on "some" of his primary targets saying, "I'm going to see if we can talk him out of that, because I think they're great people." (Axios / CNN)
3/ Rex Tillerson refused to answer whether he called Trump a "moron," dismissing the question as the "petty stuff" of Washington. Meanwhile, Trump tweeted that Tillerson "is wasting his time" trying to talk with North Korea, and Bob Corker charged that Trump had "publicly castrate[d]" him. "I checked," Tillerson said, "I'm fully intact." (Washington Post / NBC News)
[email protected]: Did you call Trump a moron?— CNN (@CNN) October 15, 2017
Rex Tillerson: "I'm not gonna deal with that petty stuff" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/kOTYS3As6c
- The next CIA director could be Tom Cotton if Trump replaces Tillerson with current CIA Director Mike Pompeo. (Axios)
4/ Robert Mueller's team interviewed Reince Priebus. The former chief of staff was present for many key moments, including Trump's efforts to limit questions about Russian meddling in the election and the discussions that led to James Comey's firing. (Washington Post)
5/ Paul Manafort's financial ties to a Russian oligarch total around $60 million over the past decade. Previously unreported documents revealed a $26 million loan between a Manafort-linked company and Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin. (NBC News)
6/ Trump said that Pence "wants to hang" all gay people. The comment, an apparent joke, came after a legal scholar told the two that if the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many states would legalize abortion on their own. "You see? You've wasted all this time and energy on it, and it's not going to end abortion anyway," Trump said to Pence. The conversation then turned to gay rights and Trump motioned toward Pence and said, "Don't ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!" (The New Yorker)
- Jeff Sessions sent a federal hate crimes lawyer to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender high school student. Sessions has spoken out against same-sex marriage, voted against expanding federal hate crimes laws to protect transgender people, directed the Justice Department to no longer protects gay or transgender people from workplace discrimination, and reversed a policy encouraging schools to let transgender students use bathrooms that fit their gender identities. (New York Times)
7/ Trump's top allies aren't sure if he realizes his feuds with Republicans and lack of legislative wins are putting his presidency at risk. Top White House aides, lawmakers, donors, and political consultants have privately wondered if Trump grasps that losing the House next year could bring on new subpoenas, an intense focus on the Russia investigation, and possible impeachment proceedings. (CNN)
8/ Eighteen states sued the Trump administration to stop him from scrapping subsidies to insurers that help millions of low-income people pay medical expenses. Trump said he would dismantle the Affordable Care Act "step by step," which prompted Adam Schiff to tweet that "Trump is the worst President in modern history," accusing him of "deliberately undermining people's health care out of spite." The 18 states and District of Columbia are asking the court to force Trump to make the next payment, but legal experts say they face an uphill battle in court. (Reuters / The Hill)
ObamaCare is a broken mess. Piece by piece we will now begin the process of giving America the great HealthCare it deserves!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2017
Latest reason why President Trump is the worst President in modern history: Deliberately undermining people's health care out of spite. https://t.co/mh9JXLYJp7— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 13, 2017
- poll/ 66% think it is more important for Trump and Congress to work to improve the ACA marketplaces rather than continue their efforts to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law. (Kaiser Health Tracking Poll)
9/ Steven Mnuchin: repealing the estate tax "disproportionately helps rich people." The Treasury secretary's concession contradicts what Trump said about the estate tax last month: "To protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer, we are finally ending the crushing, the horrible, the unfair estate tax, or as it is often referred to, the death tax." (New York Times)
9/ A woman who said Trump groped her has subpoenaed his campaign for documents about "any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately." Trump has denied her accusations and is fighting the subpoena, calling the accusations "lies, lies, lies." Trump's lawyers have sought to have the suit by the former "The Apprentice" contestant dismissed or at least delayed until he is out of office. (BuzzFeed News / NBC News)
10/ The firm behind the Trump dossier is objecting to subpoenas issued by the House Intelligence Committee to the partners who run Fusion GPS and questioned whether Chairman Devin Nunes, who recused himself from the investigation earlier this year, was authorized to issue them. The firm claims the subpoenas violate the First Amendment and would "chill" future opposition research. A lawyer for Fusion GPS called the subpoenas "a clear abuse of power" that were "designed to obfuscate the facts and conjure up rank conspiracy theories at the behest of the president and his most obsequious allies in Congress." (Bloomberg)
11/ Trump will declare a national opioid crisis next week and will be "looking into" his drug czar nominee after it was reported that Tom Marino helped guide legislation that weakened the DEA's ability to go after drug distributors, even as opioid-related deaths continued to rise. The law makes it very difficult for the DEA to stop suspicious drug distribution companies supplying doctors and pharmacists who sell narcotics to the black market. The drug industry worked behind the scenes with lobbyists and members of Congress, pouring more than a million dollars into their election campaigns. (Washington Post)
poll/ 58% of Americans believe the current reforms being discussed would favor the rich, while 18% think they would favor the middle class and 19% feel the changes would treat all equally. (CBS News)
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Glittering chandeliers, pastel accents and gleaming white marble. Forget granny armchairs and mis-matched cutlery – Creams is the polar opposite of your quintessential British tearoom. It's glamorous.
The first time I walked past it, I knew I wanted to go there.
First Impressions
The brightness and lightness of the place shine out from its out-of-the-way location in the Core Shopping Centre in central Leeds. It's not in a high footfall area, and although it's never packed, it seems to be quite busy.
The entrance area is more of a shop, with picnic hampers, teddy bears, and a counter to order take away food and cakes from. Towards the back is a seating area, with massive windows and decadent chandeliers overhead. It's utterly photogenic.
I've now visited Creams twice. Both times, unfortunately, there were a few issues. The menu proudly boasts of a tablet-based ordering system, but this wasn't working either time we visited. We had to go up to the counter to order, which felt at odds with the "luxury" vibe of the place. Similarly, because serving staff weren't around the dining room, it was difficult to get their attention if you needed extra cutlery or napkins.
The menu is a little busy, with a lot of different options. Many of the food items don't exactly scream "opulent tearoom", such as the beef burger and fries.
In addition, the toilets are pretty basic (just a single stall), and seem like a bit of an after-thought considering the glam of the main restaurant.
Afternoon Tea
The first time I went with TC and his mum, and we tried out their unusual afternoon teas.
Rather than just your standard offering – finger sandwiches, scones and petit fours – Creams have three additional options. The "Eastern Emperor's Afternoon Tea" features a chicken tandoori naanwich, samosas, and cakes, while the "Royal Arabian Afternoon Tea" includes either lemon pepper chicken, either as a salad or sandwich, then hummus, olives and pitta bread, and of course cakes.
I was somewhat surprised that these two afternoon teas didn't include scones, and so I knew I'd have to pick the final unusual option. The Italian Afternoon Tea kept the scones and little cakes, but swapped out the sandwiches for a margherita pizza. All of the unusual afternoon teas suggested alternative drinks to the traditional pot of tea, and so I had a cappuccino with my Italian feast.
TC's mum chose the Arabian Afternoon Tea. TC himself avoided the afternoon teas and went for Eggs Benedict followed by a waffle.
Our afternoon teas were served traditionally, on a three-tier stand. My pizza was really tasty for a simple margherita, with halved cherry tomatoes on top and a side salad.
The second layer is always my favourite. The kitchen kindly swapped out my sultana scone for a plain one, and the mini jar of jam and pot of clotted cream were the perfect amount to smear onto my halved scone (jam first, natch). I honestly wouldn't mind an afternoon tea with three tiers of scones…
Finally, the cakes. In my experience, this is always the most variable layer of the tea. I've had some outstanding cakes in my time, and Creams put up a good challenge. Two small chocolate beans, a strawberry cheesecake, a macaron (<3) and a surprisingly large cupcake, which was the highlight of the plate. There were a few different cupcake varieties: you didn't get to choose, but I lucked out with a caramel one. It was covered in sweet buttercream, drizzed in caramel syrup and… filled with caramel too. I was almost too full for the cupcake by the time I ate it, but I'm glad I managed to!
TC and his mum both enjoyed their meals too, and we decided to come back a few weeks later with a few more of his family in tow…
Salad and Freakshake
My second visit to Creams was with a larger group – TC, his mum, sister, aunt, uncle and cousin.
Knowing I wanted something sweet for afters (though at that point I was torn between freakshake and waffle), I chose a lighter main. I ordered the lemon and pepper chicken salad. It was pretty massive for a salad tbh, and I definitely didn't need a dessert afterwards… but I wanted one.
Creams have three freakshakes on their menu. I didn't think I could tackle the giant slice of cake that's served on top of the Chocolate Monster Freak… So I went for the Tough Cookie Freak. My first freakshake was down in London, and it was a bit of a behemoth. So I felt a little bit let down when this one came out.
Nevertheless, once I actually dug into it – through the cookies and cream cupcake that topped it – I was pleasantly surprised. The smaller size meant that it didn't feel impossible to finish it. It felt decadent but not overwhelming. The taste of the milkshake itself was delicious – vanilla fro-yo with crushed cookies, toffee sauce and Nutella (I omitted the banana). The only downside was the cupcake was a little dry when I came to eat it.
Overall Creams isn't my definition of British Luxury. It's certainly a nice tearoom – and very reasonably priced considering how opulent it looks – but it's more of a cafe than a luxury experience. I'd happily take friends and family there again, but I'd warn them that some of the sparkle is only skin deep.
Disclaimer: I visited Creams British Luxury last July, so the menu and service may well have changed since then.


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We offer courses and tandem flights paragliding in Bourg Saint Maurice and les Arcs.
The courses season starts at the beginning of May and finished at the end of September, tandem paragliding flights take place all year long, even in winter with ski take-offs, in this case you have to know how to ski and have a lift pass.
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Rebecca SAUNDERS: Solitude (2013)
Liza LIM: Invisibility (2009)
Mauro LANZA: La bataille de Caresme et de Charnage (2012)
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Chaya CZERNOWIN: Adentium capillus veneris no. I / SONGS OF THE MUTED ONE (Arr. Severine Ballon, 2015) World Premiere
Brian FERNEYHOUGH: Time and Motion Study II (1977)
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Juan Cristobal Cerrillo, electronics
In the tradition of the great avant-garde string players Irvine Arditti, Rohan de Saram and Stefano Scodanibbio, the brilliant young French cellist Séverine Ballon has established herself as one of her generation's premiere soloists. A regular collaborator with the world's leading ensembles, interpreters and composers, Ballon is a spellbinding musician with a poet's touch, able to breathe life into seemingly impenetrable scores. We are thrilled to welcome her for her Los Angeles solo debut.


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All about colour
May 21, 2015
This is the second oil painting in the series inspired by Rende's photos of bottles against one of my previous still life paintings. See this post for the first one and some background info.
As I mentioned in the other post, painting something that is already beautiful is not my usual choice. But the richness he captured in the glass against the colourful painting spoke to me. I hadn't worked with such saturated darks before, and I loved using them.
Nicholas Wilton's latest post about colour is full of good practical information, a sort of Colour 101. And I appreciated that even though he gives workshops, he is generous about sharing his insights and knowledge for free as well. Basically he breaks down colour theory in painting to 3 main choices, and they all have to do with contrast. Are you going to use a dark or light colour next to your existing colour? Will it be saturated or diluted/toned down? And finally, will it be a cool or warm colour?
All these choices are going on instinctively while I paint. Even though I have a photo as reference, and this dictates my choices to some extent, effects, transparency, back and foreground can all be influenced by the 3 principles Wilton mentions. I'm starting on the third one now, a bit more ambitious as far as complexity. And it really does help to be more conscious of how the colour is going to work in the painting. Here are 2 previous phases of the finished painting above. In this one, after sketching in the approximate colours, I worked from dark to light and slightly more painterly than in number 1.
Nature art
March 24, 2015
Starting at the end of January, we've had a continual oasis of blooming spring bulbs on the dining room table. As one pot reaches its peak and fades, we replace it with a fresh new one.
Rende got fascinated with the dried up mini daffodils (in background), and made some great photos of them awhile back.
I was idly sitting at the table a few nights ago and picked some of the dried out flowers and stems and started playing with them. The results are below. They eventually inspired a mobile, which I'll post soon.
Reflections in oils
April 8, 2014
And now for something completely different.
This painting is done from a photo of Rende's. Normally I avoid working from his beautiful photos, since he has already made all the aesthetic decisions, there doesn't seem to be any challenge in just copying them. But I needed a break from fruit (!) and the rippling water with reflections and that lovely red edge of the boat fascinated me.
I used oils but first painted an acrylic ground of that heightened turquoise which shines through most of the painting. My broad, synthetic brushes worked really well getting the large areas of water down, and frankly, this went quickly and more easily than my still lifes. I left a lot of it just as I first sketched it in, and am happy not to have overworked this one.
For more of Rende's reflection photos, see this book.
Fun with plastics on Brighton beach
March 4, 2014
During my recent trip to England, this was the usual weather. And these muted greens and earth colours were the palette in the South Downs area.
There was some relief from that the day I went to Brighton to meet Sonia. I'll write about our pleasurable meeting later, you can see Sonia's account of it here.
I'd thought Brighton was a charming, small white-housed seaside resort- so I was kind of surprised at my first glimpse of it through the train window!
And after Sonia and I had a light snack at the museum, and I headed out to the ocean, I got away as fast as possible from this scene.
So I guess it isn't surprising, considering the dull pre-spring greens I'd been seeing up until then, that when I finally got to the beach, my eye was pulled to stronger colours. I had a brilliant time scavenging for bits of washed up plastic. Though it was devastating to see evidence of how plastics end up in the ocean food chain, I decided to see them also as colours and forms. Below is the first collection.
After that I set about collecting (via photos) plastic objects, one for each colour of the rainbow.
Whale Journey, connecting with Humpback whales
February 24, 2014
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I'm just back from 2 weeks in the UK and will post on that later. For now I want to let people know that my dear friend, Kathy Carr has completed her DVD, Whale Journey, connecting with Humpback whales.
Kathy and I go way back, from Findhorn days. We've worked together on several Findhorn publicatoins, one, Faces of Findhorn, published by Harper and Row.
She is a consummate photographer, and impassioned artist and activist. Kathy lives in Hawaii and swims regularly with dolphins. The Whale Journey film was made during several trips to Tonga where she swam with and connected deeply with humpback whales, and photographed these encounters.
I have always been fascinated by dolphins and whales, and one of my dreams is to eventually be in the water with them. In the meantime, I live with the above image in my studio (available to buy from Kathy's site), and feel daily the vast, benign presence of these intelligent creatures.
New photo book: Reflections
December 8, 2013
Rende has a new photo book, a real beauty. You can see it here: REFLECTIONS
This is the fourth in a series, the other 3 you can view here.
New photo books!
November 1, 2013
Rende, my husband has designed 3 books of his photography and has had them reproduced. They are one-offs and they are gorgeous in themselves as well as being beautifully reproduced.
And here you can see LEAVES.
Here you can look through BOATS .
And here is the one on DOORS and WINDOWS from his recent trip to France.


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