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LONDON (Reuters) - From Ukraine to Iceland, domestic politics and popular discontent are threatening International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue deals, unsettling investors who view them as vital for financial recovery.
At the height of the global crash, many governments promised painful belt tightening in return for IMF loans but selling these economic reforms to their electorates has proved tough.
That leaves countries facing standoffs with the fund, which could panic markets and leave governments without the cash for public salaries and sovereign debt payments.
"There were a lot of unrealistic expectations last year about how easily these reform packages would solve crises," said senior research fellow Vanessa Rossi at London-based think tank Chatham House.
"But like any debt renegotiation, it's going to be a difficult, messy process and they are going to get unstuck from time to time. It's going to last several years. You can't ignore the democratic process."
Iceland's economic aid package was thrown into doubt this week when its president rejected a bill to repay Britain and the Netherlands more than $5 billion lost by savers after its banking sector imploded in 2008.
The "Icesave" bill is opposed by 70 percent of Icelanders who complain it leaves them bearing the cost of the banks' mistakes. But rejecting it could imperil EU membership efforts, financial support from fellow Nordic countries and an IMF lifeline. Ratings agencies downgraded Iceland after the move.
Almost all mainland Europe's most exposed economies -- notably Ukraine, Latvia, Hungary -- hold major elections in 2010, meaning short-term political ends will likely take priority over meeting IMF requirements.
Ukraine's IMF deal has been effectively suspended until after a January 17 presidential election which still may not end months of political paralysis and infighting that have blocked reforms.
Latvia's government pushed stringent budget and pension cuts through parliament only to have them overturned by the constitutional court, sending it back to the negotiating table with lenders.
Parliamentary elections later this year could strain or even fracture its ruling coalition, again endangering potentially both the deal and Latvia's currency peg, the failure of which would spook markets across Europe.
The latest disbursement of Romania's 20 billion euro IMF-led package was delayed last year ahead of elections, but the IMF says it is hopeful payments could resume after the new centrist coalition government 2010 budget bill goes through parliament this month, probably by January 15.
Hungary's IMF deal remains on track, but could be upset by parliamentary polls due in April or May. Center-right opposition party Fidesz, which wants to renegotiate with the EU and IMF and almost double the budget deficit, is tipped to win.
Country-specific political news has also become an increasing driver of foreign exchange and bond prices as emerging markets shift from the herd-like moves that characterized the initial crisis and then recovery to greater investor discrimination between countries.
If countries do not follow its prescriptions, the IMF will have to decide whether to walk away and risk letting them collapse and potentially default -- which could spark a wider market rout -- or become less stringent in its demands.
That in itself will likely come down to how the powers that dominate IMF board voting rights choose to play it. Many of these countries, such as Britain, are simultaneously facing demands from ratings agencies to make painful cuts themselves to square their ballooning budget deficits.
Troubled emerging economies will likely feel hard done by and may even band together if richer countries are slow to tackle their own debt but continue to lecture weaker states.
Latvia called the sharp response of some richer nations to Iceland's presidential blocking of the bill "exaggerated.
"Is this reaction due to the fact that Iceland is a small country?" said Latvian Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins. "It is difficult to imagine that similar comments would be heard if for example such a step had been taken by the French president."
And within the EU, Brussels could potentially face a tricky choice over whether to continue to support members if the IMF -- usually regarded as the "bad cop" of the relationship -- walks away from a shared bailout deal.
"Probably, these support packages will survive but there will be standoffs from time to time," said Rossi at Chatham House. "It will be like a multi-headed hydra. As soon as one head is cut off, trouble will rear up elsewhere."
Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton
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The Aim is to use all the Power Produced
Feed in tariffs have decreased dramatically over the years. In most states around Australia, the feed in tariff is only minimal and is usually lower than what people pay to draw power. This means that there will not be a significant amount offered in return for excess power that is fed back into the grid.
As a result, it is better to produce power and use it rather than buy it from the electricity retailer or sell it back to the retailer at a cheaper price. Depending on which retailer is being used, feed in tariffs are around 6c-10c/kWhr.
Make Your Solar System Work For YOU!!!
How to Get the Most of your New Solar Power System
Once your solar system has been installed, there are a few tips and tricks that can help you get the most out of it. Most tips are just a change in routine or very inexpensive but can save you loads in the long run.
- Try and run as much as you can during the day. Start dishwashers and washing machines/driers after the sun has risen so they run on power being generated.
- Rearrange hot water tariffs and pool tariffs to run on tariff 11 (the main tariff) so that they draw from the solar system and not off peak power.
- Add a timer to hot water systems and/or pool pumps to give you greater control of when they run. Try to keep them running during daylight hours and less at night time.
- You pay for any electricity you use once the sun has gone down – try to run as little as possible in that time!

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Strxia: The Odds Are Against Us by Maggie Daniels and Matt Michel is a sci-fi adventure. Starting off with baseball tryouts will appeal to those who love the sport, like Chase and Jared. Those who don't love it will agree with Seth. The characters were each unique, and readers will be able to relate to at least one of them. Alex is fast and stands up for herself, which I really liked. Chase is always cracking jokes and would be fun to have around. Seth seems like a nice guy who is amazing at math and science and likes to think things through, which are all qualities I like in friends. Baseball fanatic, Jared, has the hardest time listening to what others say, but I like his confidence in his abilities. It was fascinating to see how their lives at each point in time intertwined. If they did something well in Stxia, they played better in the game, which was cool and definitely interesting to think about. I recommend this book to anyone age eight and up who enjoys getting lost in other worlds. Sci-fi can involve some tricky math and science and the authors did a great job making sure readers understand what's happening and how the worlds work. The story will appeal to those who love technology, baseball, math, and space travel. This adventure wraps up, but readers can tell that there's more in store for the foursome as they work to save Strxia. I look forward to reading the next book and finding out what else is in store for them!
*Maggie and Matt are generously giving away three paperback copies of Strxia: The Odds Are Against Us. All you have to do is comment on this review or our interview tomorrow to be entered for a chance to win. Winners will be randomly selected. Good luck!


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With a stay at Fiesta Americana Hermosillo in Hermosillo, you'll be near the airport and close to Hidalgo Square and Cerro de la Campana. This hotel is within close proximity of Plaza Zaragoza and Museum of Popular and Indigenous Cultures of Sonora.
Make yourself at home in one of the 221 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs and hair dryers. Conveniences include coffee/tea makers, and rollaway/extra beds can be requested.
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One man's trash is indeed another man's treasure. Never has that been clearer to me than this year, when Pete and I moved into our new home in the country.
Back in mid-January Château Tracteur, which we named our new abode, was in pretty terrible shape. The couch was a cast-off from the local brothel (no, seriously). The curtains in the lounge were ripped and stained and falling off their rods. The slats were falling out of the base of the tiny bed, meaning Pete and I had to sleep in separate bedrooms for a while (which is actually kind of my dream – sorry but Pete's a snorer).
Anyway, suffice to say, we had work to do. But we also had very little money.
That's where the fun began.
See I love bringing pieces of unloved furniture back to life – turning what's essentially someone's rubbish into a prize piece in my living room. Apart from saving money, this also saves the furniture from ending up in landfill, making it a sustainable way to redecorate.
So we set to work, moving all our old pieces into the Wwoofa shack (it too was getting an upgrade), then putting the word to our family and friends: WE WANT YOUR TRASH.
Our call was heeded. My parents-in-law just happened to be redecorating their house at the time, so we picked up a coffee table, dining table and chairs, hall stand, sideboard, kitchen stools and more that were all just about to go to the tip.
At the same time, my auntie and uncle were downsizing, and instead of either throwing away their large pieces of furniture or putting them into storage, they gave or loaned them to us. Couches, antique armchairs and rugs – even a king-sized bed that was almost brand new.
There was also loads of stuff just laying round the farm: an old paint-splattered desk that just worked in our place, a rocking chair that I spied stuffed up in the loft above the worker's shed that was covered in cobwebs, an antique carved wooden sideboard that was missing a couple of handles.
For the small pieces we headed to the Wollombi Markets for pelts, vintage urns and lamps, an antique bird cage and other vintage decorations. We hopped on Gumtree and found a very cool second-hand bamboo couch and seats for $90. We also used what we had to decorate the walls – old textiles and hats that had been stored away in the cupboard gathering dust, and lots of potted plants we'd found around the farm or at the local nursery. For soft furnishings, I held off until my work trips and bought some antique textiles from Morocco and Turkey.
So now, just ten months after we've moved in, we have a house that very nearly feels like a home; one that we didn't have to bust the budget for. We saved our families a couple of annoying trips to the tip, we reduced and we reused, and we saved the planet from having to deal with more landfill. We're now also surrounded by pieces of furniture that remind us of our families – all of which feels pretty damn good.
Next up – figuring out how to sustainably redo our floors and how to revamp the packing container next to our house to create an extra room. I'll keep you posted.


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United Sketches proudly presents the selection committee of "Women Cartoonists International Award" of 2019
Anne Derenne (Alias ADENE)
Editorial Cartoonist, Illustrator - Spain, France
Anne Derenne (Alias ADENE) is a French cartoonist and illustrator based in Madrid (Spain). She studied international economics, getting a Master degree in development economics in 2006. In 2011 she began her carrier as a freelance cartoonist. She is collaborating with Cartoonmovement, Cartooning for Peace, United Sketches and with different magazines, NGOs and associations.
Her artwork has been exhibited in a lot of collective international exhibitions worldwide.
She has won several international prizes for her cartoons (In 2016, first prize in international cartoon contest Niels Bugge; in 2017, second prize in «Exile» cartoon contest organized by EXILE-Kulturkoordination in Germany ; in 2018 3 third prizes in three different international cartoon contest in Germany, Canada and Italy)
Céline Schmitt
Spokesperson, UNHCR - France
Céline Schmitt is Head of Public Information, External Relations Senior Officer and Spokesperson for UNHCR, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in France.
She joined UNHCR office in Paris in July 2015. Her role is to mobilize media and various actors to create a favorable environment for refugees arriving in Europe and to create synergies and common projects between UNHCR and its partners, including civil society.
She has been working for UNHCR since 2007, alternately at the headquarters in Geneva and on the field in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, particularly in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Before UNHCR, she worked for an NGO in Cape Verde and for the French Embassy in Tanzania. She graduated from Strasbourg Institute of Political Studies and have a Master's degree in development, cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Elizabeth Rivera Rivas
Communications Director at IFEX - UK
Elizabeth Rivera Rivas is most passionate about political communication and the intersection of media, social movements and human rights. For the past two years she has held the position of Communications Director at IFEX, a global network that promotes and defends freedom of expression. She has been fortunate to consult for human rights organizations such as WITNESS and lead the Latin America and Caribbean newsroom for Global Voices.
Elizabeth has a long background in communications, branding and media, including an MA in Global Media and Postnational Communications by SOAS, University of London. She has had a unique career path of almost two decades, spanning from fast-moving corporate marketing to NGO communications and global media. She strongly believes that building communication bridges through positive storytelling and strong trust networks is key for a brighter future.
Jodie Ginsberg
CEO, Index on Censorship - UK
Jodie Ginsberg is a former journalist who is passionate about the power of words and the importance of debate. Prior to joining Index, Jodie worked as a foreign correspondent and business journalist and was UK Bureau Chief for Reuters news agency. She sits on the council of global free expression network IFEX.
Kat Roma Greer
Art director, Micro Galleries - Hong-Kong, Australia
Kat is a curator, urban disruptor and creator of public art interventions that focus on positive social change. She has trained in voice, theatre and performance-making for over 25 years and has been actively working with emerging artists for over 18 years. Kat studied Theatre, Classical Singing and English Literature in Australia, obtaining a Bachelor of Creative Arts; Bachelor of English Literature and her Master of Arts (Research) in Performance Studies. Kat has a strong interest in contemporary creation practices and how they can influence positive change. Her research thesis focused on emerging, urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and opportunities available for the development of a sustainable creative presence, and she has recently returned from the prestigious The Arctic Circle Residency where she continued her research and activations on climate disruption art and the role of artists in this vital issue. Based in Asia, she is the founder and Artistic Director of the global arts initiative Micro Galleries, was a Director and Chair of the Board of Directors for Sydney alternative arts space The Red Rattler, is an Advisor for French-based, International organisation United Sketches, was shortlisted for Sydney University Alumni awards and was named as one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence for 2015, for her work in the cultural sphere.
Liza Donnelly
writer and award-winning cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine and CBS News [USA]
Liza Donnelly is a writer and award-winning cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine, where she has been drawing cartoons about culture and politics for over thirty years. She is also resident cartoonist for CBS News, creating political cartoons and live-drawing for CBS This Morning and special events. Donnelly is a contributor to The New York Times and CNN and was designated a top writer and cartoonist in politics and feminism on Medium.
Donnelly has been a Cultural Envoy for the US State Department, traveling around the world to speak about freedom of speech, cartoons and women's rights. Donnelly delivered a very popular TED talk, which was translated into 38 languages and viewed over one million times. She also spoke at SXSW 2019, a talk titled Drawing Disruption; the United Nations in New York and Geneva; The New Yorker Festival; several TEDxes, colleges, universities, NGOs and corporate venues in the US and abroad.
Donnelly is the creator of a new digital visual journalism she calls live-drawing. For CBS News, CNN and The New Yorker, she covered the DNC in 2016, and the 2017 inauguration, White House Press conference, political protest marches and various events for them since. According to NBC News, Donnelly is "a pioneer of on-the-fly sketching of live events" wherein she quickly cartoons people and events on her tablet and immediately tweets them out, sometimes with humorous and insightful commentary on the drawing or in the tweet.
In 2016, Donnelly was the first cartoonist to be granted access on location to live draw and tweet the Academy Awards and red carpet, and she will be returning for her third time in 2018. She covered the presidential debates, State of The Union, election returns, the Oscars, Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys, the BET Awards, the Tonys, the Olympics, World Cup, Superbowl, literary events, and more. Along with CBS News and The New Yorker, her clients include Fusion, The New York Times, BET, Medium, PBS, Narrative Magazine, Deutch Bank, ESPN, Stanford University, The Hindustan Times and others. Her innovative approach to reporting and commenting on events with live tweet drawing has been covered in Time, CBSNews.com, NBC News.com, Ad Week, USAToday, and People Magazine.
Donnelly was profiled on CBS Sunday Morning, MSNBC.com, NBC, has appeared on CBS This Morning, and has been interviewed on radio and in numerous magazines, newspapers and online. Donnelly's cartoons and commentary can be seen on various websites: the New Yorker; Politico, CNN; Huffington Post; Salon; Daily Beast; Fusion; Politico; Narrative Magazine. Her work has appeared in print publications, including The New York Times, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, South Hampton Review, Jerusalem Post, and The Harvard Business Review. Donnelly is the author/editor of eighteen books. Donnelly is a charter member of the international project, Cartooning for Peace, helping to promote understanding through humor. Her work has been in numerous exhibitions globally, and she has curated exhibits of international cartoonists, here and abroad. Donnelly taught at Vassar College and the School of Visual Arts.
Currently a Distinguished Fellow at Barnard College, Donnelly is a recipient of an honorary PhD from University of Connecticut and delivered the Graduate School Commencement address, was a Thurber Prize finalist, the award for written humor in the United States, and is a recipient of a Reuben Award, the Salon St. Just International Prize, France, the AAUW Women of Distinction Award, and the Forte Dei Marmi, Italy, Satire Award. Her cartoons are in the Library of Congress Prints Collection, The Museum of Illustration and in private collections, and her cartoons are collected in numerous books around the world. A member of PEN, Donnelly is the Vice President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists.
Her website is lizadonnelly.com, and on twitter at @lizadonnelly, she can be contacted at email@example.com. She lives in New York with her husband.
"Donnelly's cartoons are the best kind of funny—sly, smart, and right on the money.
[They] are great social commentary as well as great fun." Susan Orlean,
"Liza often steps out from behind her drawing table to make this world not just a funnier place, but a better one too." Planet Green
Louise Christine Larsen
Art historian, Co-founder of the Museum of Danish Cartoon Art - Denmark
Louise C. Larsen is a Danish art historian, mag.art, specializing in political cartooning. Co-founder of the Museum of Danish Cartoon Art at The Royal Library in Copenhagen 2000 and facilitated the transition of The Storm P Museum, Copenhagen, into a museum of comics in 2012. Her latest book is Khartoon!- a collection of the works of Khalid Albaih 2018. She has written and spoken extensively on international political cartooning and runs the blog cartooniana.blogspot.com on the subject. She was awarded Svarres Legat in 2015.
Marilena Nardi
Editorial Cartoonist - Italy
Marilena Nardi was born in Italy in 1966.
Professor of Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, she has collaborated with her illustrations and humoristic drawings with several newspapers and magazines. She begins to approach satire thanks to the possibility of publishing her drawings on the net, in real time.
Among his collaborations: Diario, Corriere della Sera, Gente Money, Borsa & Finanza, Salute Naturale, Monthly, Avvenimenti, Barricate !, Il Misfatto, Antitempo, Il Ruvido, Aspirina the rivista, etc.
She collaborated regularly with Il Fatto Quotidiano from its publication in 2009 until 2016.
Then, his collaborations with this daily became more casual.
Today, she publishes online with SatiraOpinion and other news sites. For the French press she draws for Espoir, Zelium and Siné Madame.
Among the most important awards she received were the first prize at the World Press Freedom Cartoon in Ottawa in 2011 and the Forte dei Marmi Award for the Satira politica for the satirical Drawing in 2013. In 2018, the first time of a woman during the 13 editions of the Festival, she won first prize in the Editorial Drawing category and the Grand Prix at the World Press Cartoon in Caldas da Raínha, Portugal.
Mona El Tahawy
Feminist, International Public Speaker - Egypt, USA
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is based in Cairo and New York City.
She is the author of "Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution," released April 2015, and is a contributor to the New York Times opinion pages. Her commentaries have appeared in several other publications and she is a regular guest analyst on various television and radio shows.
During the 18-day revolution that toppled Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, she appeared on most major media outlets, leading the feminist website Jezebel to describe her as "The Woman Explaining Egypt to the West".
In November 2011, Egyptian riot police beat her, breaking her left arm and right hand, and sexually assaulted her and she was detained for 12 hours by the Interior Ministry and Military Intelligence.
Newsweek magazine named Ms Eltahawy one of its "150 Fearless Women of 2012", Time magazine featured her along with other activists from around the world as its People of the Year and Arabian Business magazine named her one of the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women.
Before she moved to the U.S. in 2000, Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for many years, including almost six years as a Reuters correspondent and she reported for various media from Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia and China.
In 2012, the Missouri School of Journalism awarded her its Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism and the Columbia Journalism Review named her as one of 20 women in the media to watch.
In 2010 the Anna Lindh Foundation awarded her its Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver gave her its Anvil of Freedom Award.
In 2009, the European Union awarded her its Samir Kassir Prize for Freedom of the Press for her opinion writing and Search for Common Ground named her a winner of its Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern Journalism.
Mona was born on Aug. 1, 1967 in Port Said, Egypt and has lived in the U.K, Saudi Arabia and Israel. She calls herself a proud liberal Muslim. In 2005, she was named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the American Society for Muslim Advancement and she is a member of the Communications Advisory Group for Musawah, the global movement for justice and equality in the Muslim family.
Nzeeha Saeed
Journalist and Advocate for Press Freedom - Bahrain, France
Nazeeha Saeed, Bahraini journalist with ninghteen years of experience in journalism. Working with international print, radio and TV media. Heavily involved in the coverage of human rights and political stories. winner many awards in journalism on the top of them Johann-Philipp-Palm-Award for Freedom of Speech and the Press 2014. Advocate for freedom of press and expression. Trainer in safety of journalists.
Rashin Kheiriyeh
multi award-winning Illustrator/Author, animation director and painter - USA
Sara Qaed
Editorial Cartoonist - Bahrain/UK
Sara Qaed is an artist from Bahrain (currently living in the UK). She practices art via editorial caricatures, drawings, comics, illustrations, wearable pieces, and anything in between, delivering an interdisciplinary approach in her work. Her daily caricatures focus on refugees, women, corruption, power, human existence, and contradictions. Her passion for caricature as a visual language led her to experiment with different methods and materials to present this kind of art.
The Surreal McCoy
Cartoonist and Illustrator - UK
Cartoonist and illustrator. Published worldwide in the New Yorker, Spectator, Prospect, Fortean Times, Reader's Digest and Oldie magazines: Sunday Times, Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers in the UK. Illustrated Girls Are Best by Sandi Toksvig, Alex Through The Looking Glass by Alex Bellos & Women Deliver – The World Receives, curated by Liza Donnelly. Featured in The Inking Woman – 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain, published 2018 by Myriad Editions.
Cartoons exhibited worldwide: UK, USA, Australia, France, Bulgaria and Greece.
Full-length graphic memoir The Wolf of Baghdad to be published by Myriad Editions 2020.
Committee member for overseas affairs at the Professional Cartoonists' Organisation.
Veronica Yates
Director, Child Rights International Network - UK
Veronica Yates is the Director of the Child Rights International Network – CRIN, where she has been working for over 15 years. Her firm commitment to rights, not charity for children has laid the foundations for CRIN's identity: courage, the law and plain communication are the route to lasting change, not the latest trend or the biggest wallet.
CRIN has recently gone through a transformation from a business-as-usual NGO to a radical new way of operating and behaving, with at its core, the central question which all NGOs should be asking themselves: do we really need to exist? This led CRIN to adopt its very own Pirate Code, which sets out the principles that guide the work and how we should behave as human rights organisations.
In its new iteration, CRIN defines itself as a creative think tank that produces new and dynamic perspectives on human rights issues, with a focus on children's rights. Its mission is to challenge the status quo because the norms that dictate children's place in society need radical change. Through research, artwork and a vision for the future, CRIN encourages people to think critically about the world and start their own conversations. At the heart of this new transformation is also the realisation that for too long, organisations like CRIN have mostly focused on highlighting the horrors in the world while failing to provide a vision for what the world will look like when we succeed. The coming years will therefore focus on describing what we are fighting for, not just against.
Veronica is highly ambitious for CRIN's developing role and believes that small, focused organisations can make a disproportionate impact by working collectivelly with unusual suspects; it's not about growing, it's about networking better. To this end, CRIN is exploring new ways of working with artists, activists, environmental campaigners and children and young people. In light of changes and challenges to funding, she is also in the process of setting up a new sister organisation to CRIN which will operate like a social enterprise, based in Berlin to focus on the intersection between human rights and the arts.
Veronica has travelled extensively with CRIN and other organisations. She was Co-chair of the International NGO Council on violence against children, held several Board positions, including of Child Soldiers International, Approach Ltd. and Child Rights Connect, and is a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch's Child Rights Division and s supporting the incubation of the Right to Education Initiative. Veronica is half Swedish, half English and grew up in Belgium. She has degrees in English and Creative Writing. She currently lives in London.


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Film made by Vivi Stamatatos
Music made by Henry Collins
Going from strength to strength, The Island started back in 2007 as a short term project based at the old bridewell police station.
8 years later we are in the great position to be negotiating a longer term lease and to be hosting some exciting new work from artists from all around Bristol and beyond.
The Island as a project is proving the importance of positioning all artists in the heart of the creative community of a city and allows them to become contributors to re-design resilient cities and spaces.
To celebrate the hard work and the love that has gone to this project we'd like to present our documentary on The Island project.
Great project, great space, great people!
We hope you enjoy the documentary and thank you for all the love and support all those years!
Onwards and upwards!
A huge thank you to:
Dina – project manager
Ryan – director Artspace Lifespace
Laurie – previous steering group
Claire – partnerships and development officer Bristol City Council
Molly Rose – director creative carnival
Sophie & Polly – My Bad Sister
Kimmy – fashion designer and Island tenant
Ben – music production and Island tenant
Lois – fashion designer and Island tenant
Lisa May – independent dancer and film maker
Derek – director Creative Youth Network
Jo – Yum! Cafe
Doug – director Artspace Lifespace and Invisible Circus
Claudio – Capoeira Bristol
Rosie – Island artist tenant
Tina – project assistant
Becky – Mayfest project manager
And all our friends and supporters all those years


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Tabcorp chief: Sort out the funding model
THE chief of Australia's largest betting company says he is lobbying governments to stamp out customer credit and ensure a viable funding model to support the nation's racing industry.
Tabcorp chief David Attenborough said the Northern Territory bookmakers could offer credit to customers when his company could not do the same in NSW or Victoria.
He said his NT counterparts also paid much less tax, suggesting they paid $2 million tax on the $5.7 billion they made while Tabcorp paid $292 million on the $10.88 billion generated.
Mr Attenborough, speaking in Brisbane at the QUT business leaders forum, said he had first been focused on taking the company on a technology journey since he took on the big job because customers were screaming for mobile access to betting.
He said 11% of all digital transactions were conducted over mobile in the last financial year but jumped to 50% during the recent spring racing carnival.
But Mr Attenborough said he was passionate about the racing industry, admitting he had a stake in a racehorse himself, and believed the unequal national regulations could affect its future.
"We believe it's not just really about Tabcorp, it's also about the funding of the racing industry," he said.
"Last year we funded as Tabcorp $730million to the racing industry - that's over five times our net profit.
"Compare that to the levy in the UK of 80 million pounds from all bookmakers.
"So it's a very effective funding model.
"My message to the racing industry and the government is - 'you've got to sort the funding model out otherwise you're just going to see a degradation in your industry and perhaps closing; it will become a mess over the next five to 10 years."
Mr Attenborough said the NT was reviewing taxation levels, the Federal Government was expected to look at removing gambling credit in the next calendar year and was already prepared to restrict advertising further if needed.
He said gambling was set up and regulated in Australia to ensure the racing industry, and the communities where meets occurred, were funded.
When moderator Kerry O'Brien threw in a question about the Tom Waterhouse ads and odds updates during sporting games, Mr Attenborough took the opportunity to have a swipe.
He said he would pause the game and fast forward it to the game resuming, or switch channels.
"From my point of view he overdid it considerably," he said.
Tabcorp has a 43% market share of the $26 billion Australian wagering market, has 3000 employees and about two million customers.


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Weblogon is a common system within the university for wireless online logins – to Weblogon everyone can login, both employees and students, and it works the same across the whole university.
Employees log in to Weblogon by using their LUCAT identity, and students should use their STiL identity instead.
Weblogon is only available as a wireless computer network. See the list of conference rooms for details of which conference rooms have Weblogon. To use Weblogon, you need a laptop with wireless connectivity. In this guide is described below how to connect using such a wireless network connection.
Weblogon is a wireless network that is advertised by the name LU weblogon. Keep in mind that when you use weblogon communication takes place with a very simple form of encryption that does not offer any protection, and is open for anyone who is on the same network, i.e. students and visitors, to intercept.
Because of the low security of Weblogon, you should not use Weblogon for access to key systems where high security is required.
If higher security is desired, please instead use a network cable or use the wireless network eduroam, which provides better security. Separate instructions for how to connect to Eduroam can be found on the page Eduroam.
To use Weblogon, you need access to the following in advance:
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|Second half of 2015
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LDC provides manuals for Weblogon and Eduroam at the following address:
* http://www.ldc.lu.se/tjanster/natverk/tradlost-nat
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Games tax relief
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In Alastair Darling's 2010 budget he announced that he wanted to offer help to the computer games sector, similar to the steps which are helping to restore the fortunes of the British film industry, acknowledging that we need to find a way to keep British talent in this country.
I was lucky enough to be invited to the 'Games Tax Relief Summit' hosted by Deloitte and attended by a healthy mixture of some of the smaller studios and some of the heavy hitters in the games industry namely Sony, EA and Activision Blizzard.
It is with crossed fingers that we are all approaching George Osborne's new budget on the 22nd June as we are hoping that the new government will honour the hard work of Richard Wilson and his colleagues at TIGA in raising awareness of the problems faced by the games industry in this country.
I was honoured to be invited to speak at the All Party Parliamentary Group earlier this year at the House Of Commons to help throw some light on the issues faced by start up games companies in the UK, and encourage MPs to act on our behalf. Issues such as gaining and retaining talent, the lack of funding available to smaller companies with no tangible assets and the quality of graduates and University courses in the gaming sector to name but a few.
At the Summit, all the representatives were offered the chance to input to the structure of the proposed games tax relief in order that it will suit all size of companies and all types of online and offline games. The relief was initially designed to steal elements of the film tax relief and the R&D tax credit system although it became apparent that both of these systems have their problems and shoe-horning this tax credit into one of those formats will simply not be effective enough.
The games sector contributed approximately £1 billion to the UK's GDP in 2009 and generated £400 million for HM Treasury in tax revenues and is under stiff competition from the likes of Australia, Canada, China, France, South Korea, Singapore and the USA, all countries that receive regional/state tax breaks for games production or other significant financial assistance.
The generous tax credits in areas such as Quebec in Canada have created pockets of amazing gaming talent, Quebec is now considered to be a made up of 'games clusters', areas where the games industry is supported by government, educational institutions and other community services. I would love gaming to be treated the same way in the UK and for the same phenomena to occur here.
Fingers crossed for the new budget.
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"The average international gross per Pixar film is more than $550 million" according to the new article in Wired this month. I am a huge fan of Pixar films, and find the emotion that is baked into their animated films breath-taking.
I had the pleasure of attending a brilliant talk by Matthew Luhn at GDC this year which went a long way toward helping me to understand how they make their films so emotionally rich. No expense is spared when it comes to the quality of the storytelling and I believe that this is one of the secrets to Pixar's multi-blockbuster successes.
Luhn started by explaining the history of stories and how ancient the roots of storytelling are. Different cultures have always been influenced by their environment, and use stories to entertain and educate.
Storyboards as a plan are incredibly important pre-investment in a film. The storyboarding process starts with the Director's idea, from this a story structure is created.
Story Artists like Luhn need to be multi-skilled as writers, actors, comedians, draftsmen, salesmen, editors and cinematographers, working closely with Directors to help communicate the vision for a film.
Beatboards are developed, these are clear drawings for key moments of the film, similar to children's book illustrations, beatboards often include many deleted scenes as the drawings determine which scenes would not work.
Character development is a key part of the process. The characters are given identifiable human traits that people can relate to and identifiable human occupations, nationalities even, the process of character development can lead to actual scenes in the movies. Characters are invoked out of thin air using a short thought process; It is… what is the character's physical appearance? You are…what is the character's relationship to you? Thou art….what did this represent/embody to you? I am…be the item, personify it, describe what the item's life is like. For example, in the case of Toy Story, the characters came from some of the Story Artist's childhood toys.
The story starts with a controlling idea, an idea distilled into one sentence. We were asked to distill a favourite film into one sentence…. a young boy from a sheltered childhood on a remote planet loses his family and in so doing discovers his untapped potential and the dark secrets of his heritage…. I am sure you can guess mine!?.
The entire project is outlined up front by starting with story ideas to figure out if the story will work prior to animation and production.
Every good story follows the same structure…try this out on your favourite film, try it out on a Pixar animation even!
Once upon a time….and every day…. Exposition; characters are introduced, the rules of the story world are set down.
Until one day….. Inciting Incident; an event that causes the story to start in earnest and action to be taken.
And because of that….and because of that…. Progressive Complications; problems/issues that get in the way of completing the action, these escalate during the film and help facilitate the story's learnings.
Until finally… Crisis & Climax; everything comes to a head and learnings are used.
And since that day…. Resolution; the story works itself out for the good or the bad.
The moral of the story is…. Theme; the ultimate learning.
The ultimate business learning from this talk for me was about quality. Quality is so important to consumers and as technology advances, consumers expect the level of quality in all areas of their lives to be higher and higher. I think it is a lesson that all businesses need to take on board to be successful.


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In 2009, Congress designated September 11 as a national day of service and remembrance for those who gave their lives in service to the nation. As we honor the sacrifices made on Patriot Day, it might be a good time to learn more about how Social Security can help the survivors of these fallen heroes. Continue reading
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Social Security provides survivors and disability insurance for workers and their families. Through times of tragedy and despair, we've risen with the American spirit to provide support to those we serve. Like few other times in our history, was our agency's presence needed more than after the terrorists' attacks of September 11, 2001.
Fifteen years have gone by but that tragic day is still present in our memories and hearts. We remember where we were and what we were doing when our nation was forever changed. We remember the innocent lives lost. We remember the courage of the first responders who risked, and even lost their lives to save others. And at that time, we remembered our commitment to be with you through life's journey, helping secure today and tomorrow. Continue reading
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The September 11 terrorist attack on the United States will always evoke a special emotion in me as an American, a New Yorker and a Social Security employee. On this day, we honor the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center, in Pennsylvania and in the Pentagon. We also salute the courageous men and women dedicated to the rescue efforts. This incomprehensible event changed us all. Continue reading


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Established as a post office in 1884, Payson, Arizona, is a small community known for scenic views and natural wildlife. The town is surrounded by the Tonto National Forest and has a variety of recreational activities such as hiking, horseback riding and gaming. Numerous hotels provide a variety of accommodations and services.
Kohl's Ranch Lodge
Kohls Ranch Lodge sits in the middle of one of the world's largest pine forests and is 1 1/2 miles from Payson Airport. All 66 rooms have wireless Internet access and cable television. Suites have a fireplace, kitchenette and spa tub. Hotel activities include horseback riding and a nine-hole putting course. The hotel is home to the Zane Grey Steakhouse and Saloon, which is open daily. A banquet hall is used regularly for weddings and private events. Kohl's Ranch Lodge 202 W. Kohl Ranch Lodge Road Payson, AZ 85541 928-478-4211 ilxresorts.com
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The Mazatzal Hotel & Casino is in the center of Payson, 1 1/2 miles from the Payson Airport. Its 40 rooms feature cable television, wireless Internet and 24-hour room service. Some rooms include a spa tub and private balcony. The hotel also has an indoor pool and restaurant. Casino games include poker, slots, blackjack and roulette. Mazatzal Hotel & Casino Highway 87, Mile Marker 251 Payson, AZ 85541 928-474-6044 777play.com
Paysonglo Lodge
The Paysonglo Lodge is three miles from the Payson Airport and offers 47 rooms, including king and queen rooms and suites. Room features include cable television and wireless Internet access. Suites also have a fireplace, mini-fridge and microwave. The hotel has a pool, spa tub and offers complimentary Continental breakfast. Several restaurants are within walking distance. Paysonglo Lodge 1005 S. Beeline Highway Payson, AZ 85541-5415 800-772-9766 paysonglolodgeaz.com
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Wed, 27 May 2015
Ed from Boston brought us beers from Night Shift Brewing's 2014 Barrel Society, and we all review five of them with the "assistance" of Dennis. This solid lineup from the Massachusetts brewery includes many brettanomyces-enhanced sours and barrel-aged goodies. In addition, Dennis provides his expertise on dog food and how the food industry uses specific descriptors to trick you. We try and diagnose what's wrong with Ryan. There's a debate over forest floor or forest flora or forced floor. And Craig reads from the bottle and watches the Blackhawks. We somehow manage to talk beers amongst a mixed bag of distractions that also includes mousy taints, Garfield, "Hanging Yoga", Cool Water by Davidoff, horses, and David Schwimmer. Someone please hire Dennis.
Ed and Craig
1. Pluto (Sour ale aged with raspberries and brettanomyces)
2. Nebula (Berlinner Weisse aged with brettanomyces and prickly pears)
3. Quasar (Barrel-aged ale with brettanomyces and passion fruit)
4. Orion (Sour dark ale aged in oak barrels)
5. Big Dipper (Rye wine aged in Nicaraguan rum barrels)
Ryan and Dennis
1. Pluto (Sour ale aged with raspberries and brettanomyces)
2. Orion (Sour dark ale aged in oak barrels)
3. Nebula (Berlinner Weisse aged with brettanomyces and prickly pears)
4. Quasar (Barrel-aged ale with brettanomyces and passion fruit)
5. Big Dipper (Rye wine aged in Nicaraguan rum barrels)
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Temperance Beer Company is churning out medal-winning beers from their Evanston brewery, and brewmaster Claudia Jendron invited us up to try most of their portfolio. Turns out that spending an afternoon drinking ten beers with Claudia makes for pretty great conversation. In addition to plenty of brewing notes, Claudia talks about the experience of winning a medal at GABF; her extreme commitment to quality control and customer service; and her preference for English ingredients to create a unique take on refreshing, approachable beers. She also talks about moving from receptionist to brewer at Goose Island and how the AB-InBev buyout impacted the brewery. We learn about the challenge of hop contracts, canning's benefits over bottling, and the calculated risks in barrel-aging. This is a great listen, and by the end, you'll want to start a hop farm.
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1. Smittytown Tart ESB
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Grapefruit Escapist IPA
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Direct download: ABV_Chicago_69_Temperance.mp3
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Imperial Oak Brewing is approaching their first anniversary, and we visit them at their Willow Springs brewpub to sample their beers and talk about their operation. Brewers and owners Grant Hamilton and Brett Semenske are getting the most out of their 7-barrel brewery through constant experimentation with post-fermentation additions and barrel treatments. Owner Chris DiBraccio talks about his decade-plus experience running Brixie's Beer Bar in Brookfield and how it's helped keep Imperial Oak flowing smoothly. We learn a bit about their unique artwork, the plethora of growler and merchandise selections they sell, and why the local bikers love them. Craig also geeks out a lot on Star Wars, and someone finally calls Ryan out on his shit. It's a trap! (Please don't sue us, George Lucas.)
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Direct download: ABV_Chicago_68_Imperial_Oak.mp3
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It's adjunct stout hour featuring chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon, and peppers - all tasted and reviewed blind! We review and rank six "Mexican hot chocolate" style beers, and only you - the lisener - will know what we are drinking. Get ready for some Telenovela-sized plot twists in this one, as we ruin Craig's favorite beer for him forever and an unexpected local brewery handily defeats all the others. Bring your mouth!
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2. Perennial Abraxas
3. Cigar City Hunahpu's Imperial Stout (2014)
4. Westbrook Mexican Cake (2013)
5. Hailstorm Vlad the Conquistador
6. 18th Street Bitches' Bank
1. Spiteful Malevolence: Chocolate Caliente
2. Cigar City Hunahpu's Imperial Stout (2014)
3. Perennial Abraxas
4. Westbrook Mexican Cake (2013)
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It is ironic that environmental groups and others jumped ship from the Environmental Protection Agency's food-quality advisory panel on the same day that President Clinton presented the National Medal of Science to Bruce Ames for his work on chemical risks, particularly pesticides ["7 Groups Quit Food Panel," Federal Page, April 18]. These groups think that the EPA is being too lenient when setting new pesticide standards. Dr. Ames's research dearly shows that the EPA is more likely being too harsh.
Dr. Ames's research shows that pesticide residues at current exposure levels pose little, if any, risk to public, health. In fact, consuming large amounts of fruits and vegetables—even with pesticide residues—is our best defense against cancer (in addition to not smoking). And, as Dr. Ames has found, obsessing about synthetic chemicals makes little sense given that 99.9 percent of the chemicals we consume are naturally occurring at levels thousands of times that of synthetic pesticides. In 1996, the National Academy of Sciences study similarly found that "the great majority" of natural and synthetic chemicals in our diet are present at levels "so low that they are unlikely to pose appreciable cancer risk."
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Selena Gomez & Niall Horan Sighted On Date: Holding Hands & On Rollercoaster — Watch
Niall Horan and Selena Gomez are seriously going from 0 to 60 sooo quick! Just one day after being spotted kissing at a party, they were out holding hands and riding a rollercoaster on a date together on Dec. 5. And it's all on video! Check it out, here.
Niall Horan, 22, and Selena Gomez, 23, aren't shy about their new relationship! Just one day after being seen kissing at a party on Dec. 4, the pair was on a romantic date to the pier where they rode rollercoasters, got ice cream and held hands! You've just got to check out the precious date night video.
Wow, so we were totally shocked by the reports that Niall and Selena were kissing at a birthday party on Dec. 4, but now more and more things keep emerging that prove that they're a real, legit thing! First HollywoodLife.com learned EXCLUSIVELY that the pair was hanging out and flirting behind the scenes at Jingle Ball. Then we learned that Niall has had a crush on Selena for years and she's finally seeing him as "boyfriend material." Now, videos have emerged on Dec. 6 of the pair out at the Santa Monica Pier! You've got to take a look for yourself.
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ON THE ROAD TO PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — What would Jesus do? Well, in these circumstances, he'd probably pull strings at three embassies, stock up on machetes, put yellow police lights on his vehicles and find a quiet place to cross the border into Haiti.
At least that's how Randy Landis interpreted his likely course of action.
"Our emphasis is to witness, to be the hands and the feet of Jesus," said the 50-year-old senior pastor and founder of the Lifechurch in Allentown, Pa., who is leading a desperate relief mission to the Haitian orphanage the church sponsors. "If Jesus were here, what would he do? I don't think he would be in America sitting and watching the television. If he had a way to get to Port-au-Prince, he would get here. He would be a first-responder."
It was nearly dusk on Thursday when Landis and three other members of the nondenominational church left the Dominican Republic city of Santo Domingo for the Rescue Children's Orphanage in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Already, the 11 children and four staff members there have spent two nights sleeping outside, afraid to risk the collapsed walls of their home amid continuing aftershocks.
After loading the SUV with as many supplies as possible, Landis and the others paused for a minute of prayer, forming a small circle by the side of the highway, before beginning the journey. The trip to the border, on good highways through the mountains, was expected to take about four hours.
But the group wasn't certain it would be allowed to cross, and safety on the other side was uncertain. The State Department warned Americans not to visit Haiti and not to travel after dusk in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The church members aren't afraid to use guns, but they weren't willing to try and take any firearms across the border. Machetes and police lights would have to do.
"How many of you got a knife?" mission director Ramon Crespo asked as the workers finished tying down the two stories of supplies: 25 gallons of gasoline, sacks of potatoes, vegetable oil, bananas.
He then handed out hunting knives like boarding passes as the others clambered into the SUV. But he held onto "Johnny," his 10-inch serrated knife. "If you throw this, it nearly always sticks," he said.
The border guards from the Dominican side were said to be turning back many vehicles, particularly rental vehicles like the group's Mitsubishi, the last vehicle available at the Santo Domingo airport.
But the pastor had in his pocket a lucky card to play.
On the flight down from Newark, N.J., church handyman Ramon Morales sat next to a Haitian living in New Jersey, Hubermann Debrosse, who said he has not heard from his wife or children — a 2-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter — in Haiti since Tuesday's killer earthquake. Debrosse, who said he was a doctor who speaks three languages, was trying to make his way to Port-au-Prince, so he was immediately hired on as translator/fixer. It turned out that Debrosse's roommate from the Haitian medical college he attended works in the Haitian Embassy in Santo Domingo.
So on Thursday, before heading out, the doctor and the pastor visited the embassy.
"There were maybe 70 (or) 80 Haitians "frantically trying to communicate with embassy officials, notes, pieces of paper, can you find so and so," Landis said. "And inside it was just jam-packed, trying to get in to see an official. Wall-to-wall people. Very orderly. You could see despair on their face."
Hubermann talked to the guard, and "we were immediately walked right through the crowd that took us to the back of the embassy into an office where the doctor was. He immediately embraced him. He said everything in Creole. All I know is he gave us his business card, wrote his number on the back. I'm hoping we won't have to use it."Slideshow: Hearing the call
If they are turned back by border guards, there is a plan B, Landis said. "Our driver knows another way in without a checkpoint," which they hope will enable them to enter Haiti unnoticed.
The group had been offered a charter flight to Haiti from Santo Domingo. The pastor's wife, Maribel, has a second cousin who works at the American Embassy in the Dominican Republic, and the cousin's husband works for the Dutch Embassy. But a charter flight wouldn't have allowed the group to bring all the gasoline, propane, food and crates of medical supplies.
"The orphanage has food for maybe 10 more days," Crespo said. "They have rice, but not much else. Without this food, they're not going to make it."
Earlier in the day, the load on top of the SUV came loose, spilling medical supplies packed by former Bronx paramedic and church volunteer Frank Andino onto the side of the road. The driver screeched to a halt and the load was retied more securely.
Now, passing a Burger King on the highway out of the city, the roads were smooth and the view serene: beautiful mountain peaks reaching into the clouds.
"Right now, this is all the easy part," Landis said. "Once we get near that city. … I hope we get there. If we can't reach our destination, it's not like there's a Motel Cinco."
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UPS employees, including the 50,000 new holiday hires, aren't required to pat you down when you send those 430 million packages which will be shipped this Christmas season.
But, the UPS employees are beefing up security measures in response to that potentially deadly cargo that was in Yemen, reports Portfolio.
Now, both when you go to a UPS customer center and to its growing number of retail outfits, the UPS representative will request a government-issued form of identification that contains a photo. That means documentation such as a driver's license or passport. A credit card, issued by a commercial financial institution, wouldn't suffice. There is an exception made if you are using a pre-printed shipping label.
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(real surname, Sarukhanov). Born Apr. 21 (May 3), 1894, in Tbilisi; died Dec. 30, 1959, in Riga. Soviet Russian actor and stage director. People's Artist of the USSR (1956). Member of the CPSU from 1953.
Iurovskii began his stage career in 1914 and worked in theaters in various cities of Russia. He was a member of the company of the Riga Theater of Russian Drama off and on from 1924 and also performed at the Riga Workers' Theater until 1934. His roles included Chatskii in Griboedov's Woe From Wit, Tevye in Tevye the Milkman, based on the work by Sholem Aleichem, and Lear in Shakespeare's King Lear. He staged about 100 productions, including Korneichuk's Platon Krechet (1937) and Blaumanis' In the Fire (1955). Iurovskii also appeared in films, for example, as Dietrich in Meeting at the Elbe (1949) and in the title role of Zhukovskii (1950).
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One of the great things about being a writer is that you get to meet a lot of other writers.
Christopher Bernard and I have been friends for more than twenty years. We argue, we bitch, we talk into the night, encourage each other and try to be tactful when the other acts the fool. Most of all we admire each other.
So let me brag a little about my friend Chris. He's a fantastic writer and it's not just his friends who think so. The following is quote from one of the reviews of his collection of short stories,
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Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls of FemLINKPACIFIC (Fiji), Pacific region co-ordinator of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has been appointed to the UN Women's new Global Civil Society Advisory Group.
The announcement was made on May 17, 2012 in New York by UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet. According to a report from the Women's UN Report Network (WUNRN), the Global Civil Society Advisory Group will facilitate regular consultations and dialogue between civil society and UN Women. The Group serves as a consultative forum for UN Women.
"I am delighted that a group of outstanding international women's rights advocates and experts on gender issues have agreed to serve on my Global Civil Society Advisory Group. They will play an important consulting role, and provide strategic perspectives on advocacy on gender equality and women's empowerment and on UN Women's thematic priorities," said Ms. Bachelet. "They will also help strengthen UN Women's engagement and partnerships with civil society at all levels. I look forward to working together towards our common goals," she added.
The report notes that the establishment of UN Women Civil Society Advisory Groups at the global, regional and national levels was announced earlier this year at the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The Global Group appointed by the Executive Director is based on wide consultation with civil society networks and nominations from civil society organizations. All members have proven track records of work in areas related to gender equality and women's empowerment, and bring diverse experience and expertise to the group. Members include grassroots, rural and community-based leaders, leaders of indigenous people's groups, feminist scholars, human rights lawyers, and male leaders working on gender and women's rights issues.
A dedicated women's rights activist, Bhagwan-Rolls has maintained a consistent lobby for the implementation of international and regional commitments to improve the status of women in and through the media. She is also a strong advocate for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
The report notes that national and regional civil society advisory groups are currently being set up by UN Women regional and country offices, and a dedicated global website will be established for information sharing between the civil society groups and UN Women.
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I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It's been a busy holiday season and will be nice to have a bit of a break over the next week. I'm so blessed and so very grateful for how everything is going and I'd like to thank everyone who has giving me a chance to photograph their children over this past year while I learn and grow my business. I'm already booking up for January, and am so excited to see where 2009 will take me. I look forward to continuing to capture your children as they grow and change, and look forward to starting on that journey with many more of you.
I'll leave you with the first go at our family Christmas card. We didn't end up using this one, but I thought it was too cute not to share. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and a very Merry Christmas. I'm looking forward to working with you all in the new year!
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Kyle 6 Months – Sneak Peek
Little Kyle was back for more! My 2nd Newborn has turned into quite the adorable 6 month old. He's so cute and such a good little guy. I can't believe how big he has gotten and he's sitting up so well. I'm sure he'll be crawling in no time. I absolutely loved his little cashmere outfit that was a gift to his mommy before he was born. He looked so cute and cuddly it made me want to just squeeze him! Thanks so much for coming over Aimee, I hope you and Scott love the outcome. I hope to get him back for his 1 year smash cake session!
Jager & Berlin – Sneak Peek
My brother and sister in law came down yesterday for a photoshoot with their new German Shepherd puppies Jager & Berlin. We got rained out about 30 minutes into our shoot, but it was just enough time to get a few good family shots. The dogs were just beautiful and very well behaved and although they were worried it would be a disaster it actually went really well. I must say that a photoshoot with 2 dogs is still easier than a shoot with a child any day! I hope you enjoy your sneak peek Chad & Michelle and I can't wait to see which one you choose for your Christmas card!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Violet & Wright – Sneak Peek
I'm so excited that I FINALLY got a chance to have a session with my best friend's kiddos. Leah and I have been best friends since we were 11 and have remained close and lived near each other since then. I've been bugging her to bring Violet & Wright over for the past few months, but I think she was just waiting for me to get my new camera in! (More about that later.) If you know Leah's kids you know that they have a serious side to them which was just perfect for a beautiful B&W so I was really happy to be able to capture that side of them as well. Anyway, it was such an honor to do this and I hope you love them Leah!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
The B Family – Sneak Peek
I just finished proofing the 2nd family session I did this past weekend. I headed over to the lake with the B family and there was beautiful lighting before sunset. Their son Braden is a year and a half and such a cute little guy. He was so serious, but I did manage to get a few smiles out of him. He wanted to just run and explore and I had a great time chasing him around and capturing this beautiful family. Kelli is expecting and due in May and I can't wait for the opportunity to do a newborn shoot when he/she arrives. Enjoy your sneak peek guys!
Monday, December 1, 2008
B/P/O Family Session – Sneak Peek
I got the chance to try out my photography skills on my friend Katie and her sister Aimee's newborns a few months back. I knew I would love newborn photography and Megan and Kyle will always hold a special place in my heart. They were my first 2 newborns and gave me the opportunity to do the type of photography I had always wanted to do. When they contacted me to see if I would be interested in doing a family session for Holiday photos I was more than happy to do so. They welcomed me into their parent's home and we did a shoot right in the backyard. It was a beautiful property and I wish we had gotten to take advantage of more of it. Thank you so much guys, I hope you all love the outcome and I'd love the chance to document your kiddos as they grow. Enjoy your sneak peek!
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It has been a year of "firsts" for us at ExcePTional Physical Therapy. First year of business. First year of growing. First business loan. But all in all, it's been a wonderful first year.
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