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oil, beeswax, rice paper, gold leaves on canvas
80 x 70 cm (100 x 90 cm with frame)
»Gaia was the great mother of all: the primal Greek Mother Goddess; creator and giver of birth to the Earth and all the Universe. I present her yin side with her yang side and with a dharma wheel in the middle supported on a lotus flower. The dharma wheel is one of the oldest symbols of Buddhism. Owner of painting:
Ekološka trgovina, Peter Babarović s.p.
Mestni trg 19, 4220 Škofja Loka

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China’s second largest e-commerce player, JD.com, will restructure its main shopping site and create an office of the chief executive to what the company described in a statement, “better serve its customer-centric strategy.” It also noted that the e-commerce industry is undergoing “tremendous changes after rapid development in the past decade.”
The overhaul will divide JD Mall, the company’s main revenue driver, into three segments, including a unit responsible for understanding customer behaviour and market changes, another to provide
services to satisfy customer demands, and a third to handle infrastructure-building, service support and risk management.
The new business segments will report directly to Xu Lei, who took on the role of rotating chief executive for JD Mall last year, in a move considered unusual in a company tightly controlled by founder Richard Liu Qiangdong.
The statement also announced the establishment of a new Chief Executive’s Office to coordinate the company’s major reorganisation and business reforms, without naming members of the office.
JD.com’s November revenue went south – signs of a turnaround?
U.S. prosecutors last week announced they would not press charges against JD.com’s founder and chief executive Richard Liu, who was arrested in the U.S. in August after a woman accused him of rape while he was attending a university business programme. Liu was released on December 21 and returned to China hours later after prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence to follow through with charges.
Beijing-based JD.com, which is backed by Walmart, Alphabet’s Google and China’s Tencent Holdings, reported lower-than-expected revenue in November due to increased spending. It also said investment costs in technology and logistics were escalating amid rising competition in China’s online shopping market.
In a related development, the U.S.-listed e-commerce giant announced on December 26 that its board of directors has authorised a share repurchase programme under which the company may repurchase up to US$1.0 billion of its shares over the next 12 months. In a statement, the company said it plans to fund repurchases from its existing cash balance.
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The Optimist Club of Radcliff held its annual youth recognition ceremony Nov. 14 at Colvin Community Center to recognize students chosen by their principals, counselors or teachers for their efforts in arts, athletics, academics and/or community service work. The students recognized this year were Nicholas Kabalen and Rosemarie Lambert of Radcliff Elementary; Aysia Williams and Arissa Peters of Woodland Elementary; Shelby Beavers and Nolan Haukap of Meadow View Elementary; Madison Parker and Alexis Witherspoon of New Highland Elementary; Caroline Vowels and Thomas Webb of Vine Grove Elementary; Emily DeRosa and Isaiah Bankhead of North Middle; Hannah Lowman and Ben Wilkins of J. T. Alton; Sara Collins and Sam Herringshaw of Bluegrass Middle; Jonathan Berry and Owen Grimsley of FAITH home school; Carlos Jones and Missy Schneider of North Hardin Christian; Allie Dennis and Chaffin Blair of North Hardin High School; and Bonetta Wright-Sweet and Michael Kimble of John Hardin High School. Awards were presented by Jackie Banks, Optimist Club of Radcliff president, and Anthony Conder, Optimist Club of Radcliff president-elect as well of master of ceremony.
Jackie Banks, president of the Optimist Club of Radcliff, presents the Educator of the Year Award to Kristina Gonzales of Meadow View Elementary School.
Mayor J. J. Duvall signed a proclamation declaring the week of Nov. 11 through 17 as Youth Appreciation Week. Pictured with Optimist members Denise Haynes, program chair; Anthony Conder, president-elect; and, Jackie Banks, president.

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Amazon rival Jet has closed a $350m funding round led by Fidelity Investments but also involving previous investors Alibaba, Bain Capital and Google Ventures.
The company also said it expects to have raised an additional $150m for which it has received “verbal commitments” before the end of the year.
Under the terms of the deal, the fast growing e-commerce vendor also has capacity to raise a further $125m from investors, including a $50m increase in a credit line from Silicon Valley Bank and $75m from venture debt investors.
The $350m investment values the e-commerce start-up at $1.5bn.
Jet is challenging Amazon, Walmart and other e-commerce players with an array of household items, electronics, pet supplies and more.
The one-year-old company employs 250 people and was set up by Marc Lore, who sold his company Diapers.com to Amazon.com, along with Mike Hanrahan and Nate Faust.
The company previously raised $220m in three rounds from investors including Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, Accel Partners and Alibaba Group.
It differentiates itself from its competitors by using a real-time pricing algorithm that takes into account location in relation to distribution centres.
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My friend Craig does not feel bad about negative experiences. I remember his ideas when I become malcontent. When we went to a bad restaurant, he said that it was all an adventure. We would know not to do that again. When I went to the Texas Roadhouse for a steak dinner, I was told there would be a five minute wait. It was a busy time. But the receptionist said the reason was that there was a meeting behing held for the service staff; they would return in about five minutes. About eight minutes later, I was seated. It was noisy. The room pulsed with loud country-western music. My waitress arrived and I had to raise my voice to give my order. The food was expensive. The medium-rate steak I ordered was medium. I set it back and waited and waited. The second steak was medium also. I started to leave, but I was hungry, and I ate it. It was all right. The potatoes were greasy. The salad was not fresh, and the dressing was anemic. The waiters and waitresses who sang “Happy Birthday” had to scream and shout it above the broadcast music. A steakhouse in Hell. As I left, I noticed a gaggle of waitresses waiting at the reception area. They looked like slatterns. I will not go there again. A few days later the church service was not organized well. The pianist apologized for missing notes in the opening hymns. She said she was out late last night at a wonderful party of two of her peianos students. She would do better on the last hymn. The sermon video was tedious and did nothing to exemplify the thesis of the speakers before the video. But the folks were realaxed and friendly and welcoming. I remembered both times Craig’s statement of learning adventures.
One of the nights of the meteor showers was a night of pouring rain. The next night, at 3:30 in the morning, there were heavy clouds and patches of clearing. THe moon was a brown-orange orb low in the northeastern sky. I imagined the scene without the streetlamp at the corner, without the across-the-street neighbor’s spot light, without my next-door neighbor’s pole lamp lighting all her back yard and part of mine. Pan would reign.
Christmas Mourning by Margaret Maron is a good mystery novel. I read mystery novels for setting and character mor than for plot, and Maron writes to my liking. I collected speech from the novel, speech still heard in parts of eastern North Carolina, where Maron’s books are set: (1) “bust his britches” (to get something done) (2) “thought she hung the moon” (3) suffering from the “sugar diabetes” (4) coffee smelling “fittin’ to drink” (5) that’s “why come” something happened (6) the law (meaning police officer) (7) He “favors his brother” (resembles) (8) “poor as Adam’s housecat” (9) “poor as Job’s turkey” (10) “fixing” to do something.
Geocaching at Lake Michael, Mebane, North Carolina. Why am I tearing around, walking quickly, checking the GPS device often, rushing to the location of the cache? It’s a hot day. I have nothing else to do that afternoon. I’m not enjoying the woods, its coolness, its sounds, its smells. I’m in a rush to the coordinates, ignorning all else. What is going on here?
The p-h-y-s-o-t-e-g-i-a in the north border is blooming now. Beautiful light purple bells. Try typing it. Each time I did the spell-correct changed it to hysteria. No wonder typewriters are making a come back. Try it. Does your word processor change it? Mine doesn’t if I were to capitalize Physotegia. I noticed many bees (“Buccaneer of Buzz” and thought it attracts hummingbirds, I not seen one there.
A murder of eight crows examined the back yard. They made their lordly walk around, searching for the ground for something. Another crow was stationed as a look-out. They don’t often come; I’m glad when they do.
“Ruby Sparks” is a fun movie. It questions our concepts of reality. It’s funny, especially the character of the brother of the writer. Many leaving the theater said it was “strange.” The friend with me thinks our lives and relationships are pretty much a crap shoot. The movie sows how we make our reality. I will plan to see it again.
Hearing Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 2 was a summer treat. The recording is 1986 by Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. The fifth movement is a romp. It must be fun to play, to end the piece with the abrupt BLAAH of the last chord! Next will be Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, with its evocation of an afternoon thunderstorm.
There are several poems celebrating trees in One Hundred and One Famous Poems, which I finished this week. My favorite (and best) is Lucy Larcom’s “Plant a Tree.” Each stanza illustrates what we plant when we plant trees: hope, joy, peace, youth, love. Some research on Larcom provided interesting information. As a child, she was a mill worker to support the widowed mother; she became a teacher. Whittier admired her poetry. A search of web sits on Larcom shows one web site which contains many of her poems. In the introductory poem of a 1896 collection: “…All thiings are beautiful/Because of something lovelier than themselves,/Which breathes in them, and will never die.” How about that for those of us with panetheistic or almost-pantheistic souls! And: “Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.”
Since my reading alternates fiction and nonfiction (with plans and poetry read on the side), I’m ready for fiction again. My nonfiction was a book of essays, Only the Sacred: Transforming Education in the Twenty-first Century edited by Peggy Whalen-Levitt. It was a gift from a firend in New York City. My favorite essay, the best, is by John Shackelton of Asheville, NC, who writes: “We have not approached knowledge respectfully or revered its sacred nature; we have probed it as a means of controlling our destiny; we have treated knowledge as a servant to our purposes, and now we are in a dangerous place.” Yes. Now to another Margaret Maron mystery!
I hope your week was good, and that you will enjoy the time before I write again.

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Newcastle v Arsenal Preview, Team News, Likely Line-Ups & Predicted Score
Arsenal travel north to face Newcastle United at St James Park on Sunday for the final game of the season. Here’s a preview with team news for the big game.
Arsenal travel north to face Newcastle United at St James Park on Sunday for the final game of the season knowing victory will guarantee at least fourth place in the Premier League table.
We head into the game sitting fourth after Tuesday’s 4-1 win over Wigan Athletic saw us leapfrog Tottenham – who now sit just a single point behind in fifth – while third-placed Chelsea are two points ahead with a +1 superior goal difference.
There is the tantalising prospect of pipping the Blues to third should they lose to Everton, while a 0-0 draw at the Bridge combined with a 2-1 win for the Gunners would see us forced into a play-off for third spot, but the main focus for Arsenal is to beat Newcastle and secure Champions League qualification.
The good thing for us is it’s in our own hands. We know if we win, fourth is ours. I personally don’t see Spurs slipping up at home to Sunderland, so I think 3 points are going to be required this Sunday and it’s not going to be easy.
Newcastle have lost 3-0 to Sunderland and 6-0 to Liverpool in their last two home games so they owe their fans a performance on the final day of the season. They will be up for this game, make no mistake about it. We haven’t beaten the Geordies away in the league since 2009 but if we want Champions League football next season, I think we’re going to have to break that run.
Newcastle are safe after beating QPR last weekend and they could finish as high as 10th with a win, while defeat could see them finish 17th, so there is still a lot to play for for Alan Pardew’s men.
The big fitness doubt is over influential midfielder Mikel Arteta who was forced off against Wigan with a calf injury and has only a small chance of playing this weekend, according to Arsene Wenger.
Should the Spaniard miss out, Jack Wilshere is likely to get a recall despite not being 100% fit. Wilshere is due to have a minor operation on his right ankle to remove a pin next week and Wenger would prefer not to play him, but the situation couldn’t be much more critical so I think we’ll see Jack start on Sunday.
The other option is to start Francis Coquelin while I’ve also heard fans call for Thomas Vermaelen to start in midfield, but I think that’s highly unlikely in a game of this magnitude.
Olivier Giroud is available again after serving his three-match ban and should return up front, despite Lukas Podolski scoring twice in midweek. I’d like to see the German retain his place but move back out to the left with Santi Cazorla restored in the middle.
Newcastle midfielder Cheikh Tiote is expected to start despite being forced off against QPR last week with a hamstring problem. Moussa Sissoko, striker Shola Ameobi and defender Ryan Taylor are all out with knee problems but Davide Santon, Steven Taylor and Massadio Haidara could all return.
Alan Pardew will be forced to play 40-year-old goalkeeper Steve Harper after Rob Elliot was sent off last weekend, while first choice stopper Tim Krul is injured.
Arsenal won the corresponding fixture 7-3 at the Emirates earlier in the season so you could say the Magpies will be out for revenge in this one, but hopefully our desire should be far greater than the home side and that should be enough to ease us over the line….just. Newcastle 1-2 Arsenal COYG!!!
What would be your starting eleven and whats your score prediction for the game? Get involved in the comments section below.
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NFF: A Sunbury family relies on Salvation Army
SUNBURY — Its been a really heard year for this Sunbury family of five. A man, who declined to be identified, said they are getting by with disability payments but rely on Salvation Army with extras for the kids, “A lot of (help) comes from Salvation Army, clothers, toys…and things the kids can play with.”
Its the ghings the children want, especially around Christmas, that proves a challenge ofr this couple, both of whom have disabilities. They make ends meet with disability payments and food stamps. Salvation Army officials say most of their giving targets children in The Valley, children whose parents can’t provide new clothing and gifts for their children.
You can help this family, and many others, with a generous contribution to the Needy Family Fund. Each year, The Daily Item, the Salvation Army of Milton and Sunbury, Susquehanna Bank and the radio stations of Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation team up to raise money for families in need.
The Salvation Army distributes toys, food, clothing, and gifts to eligible families. You are asked to please consider a generous contribution to the Needy Family Fund. Donations can be dropped off at any branch of the Susquehanna Bank. (Codi Jade)
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Police in Scottsdale, Arizona, have gotten involved in a case regarding the president of the school district following reports he compiled a ‘dossier’ on parents who were opposed to COVID restrictions imposed in the city’s schools as well as critical race theory curriculum.
News broke last week that Scottsdale Unified School District president Jann-Michael Greenburg had assembled information after he mistakenly shared it with a parent.
The Arizona Republic reported:
A copy of the Google Drive that parents created was obtained by The Arizona Republic and it included screenshots of Facebook conversations parents had about their opposition to topics such as critical race theory and COVID-19 mask mandates. It also included emails sent to school board members calling for Greenburg’s resignation, photos and videos of parents protesting the school district and screenshots of parents’ Facebook profiles that indicated their support for former President Donald Trump.
What was even more alarming to critics was the fact that the dossier also contained very personal information including financial and property records, Social Security numbers, divorce decrees, and other personal data on nearly 50 parents.
In a statement, the Scottsdale Police Dept. noted that it is “aware of the allegations against Scottsdale Unified School District President Jann-Michael Greenburg.”
“We are conducting an investigation into the matter and will report our findings once it is complete,” the statement noted further.
But the police statement did not say whether Greenburg is suspected of violating any crimes.
Charlie Kirk conducted an interview with a mother that alleges she has obtained footage revealing Greensburg had folders of pictures of little girls.
Check it out below:
Scottsdale Unified School District superintendent Scott Menzel similarly announced an investigation into Greenburg and the creation of the dossier on Friday:
Today, the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) began the process of hiring an independent forensic investigator to determine if any school resources were used to compile, access or modify the private dossier allegedly created and maintained in Google drive folders by Mark Greenburg, the father of SUSD Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg, and shared by the latter. We want to determine if school resources were used inappropriately. We take our responsibility as good stewards of public funds very seriously.
It is important to emphasize the District did not create, maintain or have control over the dossier. The information it contains appears to be largely from public documents, and parents are rightly upset that certain data, photography, and video have been collected and shared.
“I want to stress, again, that no Governing Board member has unfettered access to student records,” he noted further, adding that such information is protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
He went on to say that “all actions that detract from our goal of educating our students” are to be condemned, and that launching a probe into the situation would allow the district to continue its core mission of educating students “with the highest level of integrity and transparency.”
Local media reports that more than 1,200 parents have signed a petition demanding Greenburg resign.
Kim Stafford, the mother of a student no longer enrolled at the district, told the Arizona Republic she was emailed a link to the original Google Drive in mid-August.
After sharing the link with other parents, she said she was contacted and told, “You need to see what’s on here.” She also said she discovered a photo of her daughter from her Facebook profile in the document.
“Naturally, my first reaction was horror that a publicly-elected official would have such records on private citizens who were the parents of the students he represents in his district,” she said.
“But then, as a parent, when I saw a non-public picture of my then-13-year-old daughter in that file, then I was angry. And that’s what prompted me to act.”

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Considering the ongoing health crisis, we’re sticking to the last year’s approach to Valentine boudoir photography. Instead of doing a marathon, we offer a 30% off special. And—there’s even more this year!
Don’t miss this year’s boudoir specials! The results of our sold-out successful boudoir marathon two weeks ago can demonstrate what New York boudoir photography is meant to be—chic, bold, confident, conceptual, and metropolitan.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — Before the F-35 Lightning II, reservists here flew various airframes to include trainers, heavies, and fighters. Most beloved among those planes were the F-105 Thunderchief and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
The 419th Fighter Wing, known then as the 508th Tactical Fighter Group, flew the F-105, nicknamed “Thud,” from 1972 1983 – the very last United States Air Force unit to fly the jet.
The unit then made a critical transition from F-105 to F-16, dubbed the “Viper.” Pilots and maintainers assigned here at that time say the transition was challenging due to the “quantum leap in aircraft technology.” But reservists were up for the challenge, having made nearly 10 transitions since 1955.
An F-105 and F-16 from the wing’s history are on permanent display on the north end of Parking Lot 1 at Hill AFB. The F-105 is painted and marked as it appeared in 1981 when it first served with the wing’s 466th Tactical Fighter Squadron. The F-16 is painted and marked as it appeared when assigned to the 466th in 1994 – the same jet that flew during the Air Force’s worldwide fighter gunnery meet known as Gunsmoke in 1985, when the 419th placed first in the competition.
Beginning in 2015, the wing transitioned to the Air Force’s newest fighter jet, the F-35A. The wing flies and maintains the F-35 in a Total Force partnership with the active duty 388th FW. By the end of 2019, Hill AFB will be home to 78 F-35 aircraft.


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UPDATE: The Cyber Symphonies will be streamed once more, the first (including the Elgar cello concerto) on 29 January 2021, and the second all-Mozart programme on 5 February 2021. Both will be on for three months and access at R100 is a once-off. You will be able to access the concerts on www.artmusic.tv
After a successful foray into recording and streaming chamber music concerts, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra presents their first two Cyber Symphonies. The concerts were recorded at Artscape in November for streaming on 3 and 12 December, 2020. Each is available for four days on the Quicket platform – until 16 December.
CPO Cyber Symphonies tickets are R120 each, or R200 for both. Book here.
On the podium
Principal guest conductor Bernhard Gueller is on the podium for both concerts.
On 3 December, in the annual Huberte Rupert Memorial Concert, you can hear Peter Martens in the Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, as well as Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D 485.
Mrs Rupert, a great philanthropist, was committed to the arts and her legacy remains in the Rupert Music Foundation, which has sponsored this concert. The concert is also being dedicated to Alexander Buzlov, the extraordinary Russian cellist who died in Moscow recently at the age of 37.
Principal guest conductor Bernhard Gueller is also conductor laureate of Symphony Nova Scotia where he was music director for 16 years. He has conducted major international orchestras, where he has been acclaimed for the mastery and magic he brings to podium.
Peter Martens, principal cello, one of South Africa’s leading cellists, is acclaimed internationally through CDs and performances.
The second concert, from 12 to 16 December, 2020, features an all-Mozart programme, with the overture to Cosi fan tutte and the Symphony No. 39 in E flat, K 543, with pianists François du Toit performing the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos.
Two of South Africa’s favourite pianists, François du Toit and Albie van Schalkwyk, are collaborating on this concerto in which the writing for two pianos is evenly spread. Both are revered soloists and accompanists, and widely respected teachers. Van Schalkwyk recently retired from UCT, where Du Toit continues to teach.
What: Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra Cyber Symphonies
When: 3 and 12 December 2020


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The funniest book you'll read all year - a must-read for fans of Holly Bourne, Derry Girls and Sex Education.
The day they gave me the St Mary's rulebook, I ripped it up.In a world of curfews, uniforms and traditions, Alex is a lone, loud voice for female equality. So when she decides to stage the ground-breaking feminist play The Vagina Monologues she has one thing on her mind - getting expelled. But as Alex's campaign kicks in, she realises that just maybe she can make a change at St Mary's. To do that, she's going to need a little help... Hilarious, bold, sparky and surprising, this is the funniest book you'll read all year. A must-read for fans of Holly Bourne, Derry Girls and Sex Education.
Flynn Meaney is the author of The Boy Recession and Bloodthirsty. She studied marketing and French at the University of Notre Dame, where she barely survived the terrifying array of priests and nuns, campus ghosts, and bone-crushing athletes who inspired Bad Habits. Since completing a very practical MFA in Poetry, she works for a French company and travels often between New York (when she's in the mood for bagels) and Paris (when she's in the mood for croissants).
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Well, the church of St Anthony in Loches has had a renovation of late. By the entrance there has also appeared a 15th Century crucifix and a couple of information boards from which is gleaned the following:
1. “St Anthony’s Church: During the period of the Consulate, the old collegiate church of Notre Dame du Château, renamed Eglise Saint-Ours, was chosen to be the parish church. However, because it was difficult to access, it was decided to have a second church in the lower town. A new church was built, using the old dorter  and refectory from the Ursuline Convent (1627), much of which had been destroyed during the French Revolution. By this time, it was being used as stables by the Gendarmerie that stood where the post office is today. Consecrated in 1812, it was named in honour of St Anthony. The Chapel of the Sacred Heart was built in 1822, the Lady Chapel in 1835 and the bell tower in 1836. The building contains some rare decoration from the Restoration period and a collection of high-quality paintings and sculptures. The church underwent complete restoration from 2009 to 2001. Inside are paintings by J. Boucher and P. de Cortone, statues by Avisseau and stained-glass windows by Lobin. In the adjacent Gallery are the Carvaggio paintings originally purchased by Ph. de Béthune. (South Aisle).”
2. “Crucifix from the Ursuline Convent – 15th Century. Until the French Revolution, the crucifix stood in the middle of the graveyard of the Ursuline Convent founded in the 17th century on what is now Place de Verdun. During the Revolution, most of the convent was razed to the ground, with the exception of the two houses at the corner of the square and Rue Jeanne d’Arc, and the nuns’ refectory with the dorter  above (now St Anthony’s Church). The Ursulines’ graveyard was retained, and extended to become the municipal cemetery. In 1850, it was moved to the new cemetery, Les Mountains. The remains of the nuns were brought there and buried in the ossuary . The crucifix was then moved and re-erected along one of the cemetery walls. When the renovation of St Anthony’s was completed in 2011, the Ursuline crucifix was resited against the West Front of the church as a reminder of its history.”
 dorter = a bedroom or dormitory, especially in a monastary or convent
 ossuary = a chest, building, well, or site serving as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce.

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|The Halo is so ugly|
The most obvious change is the Halo cockpit head protection system that weighs over 15 pounds and increases the cars weight to 733kg w/o driver
Getting in and out of the car will take longer and the driver could be trapped in the car if it goes upside down and burn if the car catches on fire.
Engine regulations and grid penalties
Drivers are now limited to three power units per season, rather than four, before incurring penalties.
Even more challenging, they are limited to only two MGU-K units and two energy stores (Batteries).
Now, any driver who is handed a penalty of 15 places or more will start from the back.
Pirelli has added hypersofts and superhards to its 'rainbow' range of seven compounds, with the sidewalls color-coded as ever for easy recognition.
The tires are generally softer with the current hard tire (light blue) roughly equivalent to last year's medium.
The super-hard is unlikely ever to be used because it is so hard.
The general target is for a two-stop strategy.
France returns for the first time since 2008, with Le Castellet's Circuit Paul Ricard back on the calendar for the first time since 1990.
Germany's Hockenheim circuit is back after being left off last season's schedule but the current deal expires after this year's race.
Malaysia is gone, so there are now 21 races, one more than last year
Formula Two's Charles Leclerc and Russian Sergey Sirotkin will be making their F1 race debuts in Australia at Sauber and Williams respectively.
New Zealander Brendon Hartley and his French teammate Pierre Gasly are starting their first full seasons at Toro Rosso.
'Grid Girls' out, 'Grid Babies' in
The beautiful female models employed to parade before the start and stand by drivers' cars with their race numbers have been phased out – woman put out of a job by F1.
In their place come the 'Grid Babies', children who will get to meet their heroes.
New logo, later starts
|New F1 logo|
Formula One introduced a new logo at the end of last year, one of the more visible changes since US-based Liberty Media took over in January, 2017.
Race starts will be at 10 minutes past the hour to allow television broadcasters time to air the pre-race show.
Grands Prix in Europe and Brazil will also start an hour later than before.
All practice sessions and qualifying at those European rounds will also start an hour later.
The Longest Journey for the Teams
|Can anyone beat Aldo Costa's latest creation?|
Moving a team from one country to another is never easy, but this is especially tricky when it’s a 10,500-mile journey across the globe. The daunting 24-hour trip is the longest on the 2018 Formula One calendar, but it definitely makes for a unique start to the new season.
Heading to the vibrant, bustling city of Melbourne has become a familiar season-opening trip for the F1 paddock. It’s one of the most popular locations on F1’s schedule, which makes the journey a little bit easier, and there’s always a giddy sense of excitement and anticipation.
But, while it’s a great place to start the new campaign, transporting an F1 team to Melbourne is a mammoth task. In total, over 100 people from our Brackley and Brixworth factories will be attending the first round in Australia. This means a similar number of flights (which feature stopovers in either Abu Dhabi or Singapore) and a fleet of 25 Mercedes-Benz cars need to be organized.
Of course, the F1 travelling circus doesn’t just include people. An array of equipment is needed to run an F1 team across a race weekend and there’s also the small task of getting the new cars from one side of the world to the other, as well…
So, there’s over 40 tons of air freight and 23 tons of sea freight to transport to Melbourne, from more basic items such as chairs, tables, garage walls and hospitality decorations to complicated equipment such as starter motors, the pit wall and the most intricate thing of all – the latest F1 cars.
The cars and their components are part of the air freight, which departed for Melbourne last week and touched down on Sunday.
Each race requires three 40-foot containers-worth of sea freight, which was waved off for Australia mid-way through January and only arrived last Friday.
“There’s a set-up team out there in Melbourne, who started offloading all the sea freight, heavy duty equipment and the garage paneling when it arrived on Friday," explains Mark Shepherd, Mercedes Freight Team Leader.
“They built the shell of the garage over the weekend and then when all the air freight reached its destination, the race team and garage technicians arrived to offload it and populate the rest of the garage with all the cars, car parts and other equipment."
For the departments handling the transportation of team members and freight, Australia is just like any other race, apart from the fact it takes longer for everything and everyone to get there. As Mark says, all races “have their own idiosyncrasies" but “it’s a similar process, wherever in the world" you are travelling to.
Long-distance travel takes its toll on the human body, though. Therefore, detailed preparation is vital. Those making the day-long voyage over to Melbourne have got to be in tip-top shape, because not adapting to the staggering 11-hour time zone shift can impact the performance of a highly-skilled racing team.
There are a number of tactics and techniques that can be deployed to make that happen. For every hour of time difference, there’s a 24-hour delay in adapting to that new location. So, for the trip from Brackley to Melbourne, it would take eleven days to properly settle into that time zone if nothing is done.
Team members have a sleeping plan to help shift their body clock across to the new time zone. Some will start to move gradually across to this in the days leading up to the flight and team members back in Brackley, who are working on Melbourne time to support from HQ, also have their own planned adjustment.
The flights to Australia are picked to fit as best they can into the sleeping plans. Obviously, the perfect scenario isn’t possible all the time. But the hope is that they can start to adapt to Melbourne time on the flight – sleeping when it’s night time in Oz and eating meals at the same time as their destination.
Sticking to light food on the flight and keeping well hydrated is recommended. When they’ve landed, light and dark exposure is also something that must be considered, as are meals, meal timings and amount of exercise (the team has a physio and coach heading out to Melbourne).
Of course, the drivers follow these plans too and take them to new levels in order to be as prepared as possible for the seven hours of intense track time ahead of them. They’ll only complete light exercise, as it helps speed up the acclimatization process and all the necessary training was already completed before setting foot on the plane.
While some team members may prefer the longest journey of the season to come later in the year, starting the season with the Australian Grand Prix means everyone feels that bit fresher and more energized compared to the gradual fatigue that sets in.
Even though the car launch and testing period on the run-up to Melbourne is an intense time, people are in a more positive and eager frame of mind, wanting to get back on the road and racing again. They don’t have much longer to wait.
|Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team||Sauber-Ferrari||#9
|Aston Martin Red Bull Racing||Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer||#3
TAG Heuer/Red Bull
|Haas F1 Team||Haas-Ferrari||#8
|McLaren Honda Formula 1 Team||McLaren-Renault||#2
|Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team||Mercedes||#44
|Renault Sport Formula One Team||Renault||#27
Carlos Sainz Jr.
|Sahara Force India||Force-Racing Mercedes||#11
|Scuderia Toro Rosso||Toro Rosso-Honda||#10
|Williams Martini Racing||Williams-Mercedes||#18
Hamilton Will Win Again
|Your 2018 F1 World Champion|
Australia GP Odds
F1 Drivers Championship 2018 Odds (You don't beat an Aldo Costa Designed Car)
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Well.... it’s been amongst my favorites for a decade. I just wish I could afford to visit more often!! Definitely after the mortgage is slain!! Thanks Anna and crew!! Must be 30-40 visits? Oysters? Duck? Affogato? Oh WOW!! Maybe it’s just that it’s felt better than home!
You know, we have been going to Cecconi’s for many years and even had staff Xmas parties there. Such a fantastic restaurant. Normally I would give 5 stars for everything, but the waiter we had although professional and not bad and I did leave him $50 tip but it was like he wasn’t interested. Like he’d had a bad day, and it showed there was no passion for what he was doing.
Food, never had a bad meal at Cecconi’s ever I would have to say so the only thing we both felt and it was seafood salmon pasta etc....but VERY salty, like abnormally salty. We both thought and commented to each other.
I have had several business’s so feedback is important.
As l have been to your restaurant before and had exceptional service was a little disappointed this time as was not told about specials and only knew there were some when the table beside us were told .Our main meal came out very quickly after our entree which made the time we arrived till the time we ate our main about 35 minutes!!
Fabulous evening celebrating my birthday with a birthday candle and chocolate to celebrate! The food was wonderful and staff very attentive. Had a great time! We will be back.
Great service, very attentive but not too much. The waiter asked if we had a show to attend after (we did) and made sure they met the time. Food was outstanding!! Beautiful. Number one thing was the recommendation of the Gin from the Almalfi coast was superb! Great restaurant would love to go again!
A lovely treat for my partner's birthday. The food was divine.
We had a beautiful evening! The food was absolutely lovely.
Has been my favourite place to dine for many years. Hadn't been for a few years and was exactly as I remebered. Food was amazing and the service outstanding.
Had a wonderful night, staff were lovely and food was amazing. Best Italian food in Melbourne!!!
I order seafood pasta there wasn’t enough seafood in it . I order the lamb it came cold. Staff don’t do check back on customer very hard to get their attention. Staff doesn’t smile . The food is It’s overpriced best go to IL Barco much nicer experience there to be very honest
Food and wine were great and the waiters were friendly
Food quality was very good, not excellent as some courses appeared to lack some basic seasoning. Ambience is excellent and service is very good, although seemed a bit rushed, as we were only given a one and three quarter hour sitting time. This is frustrating, as it is not cheap, and this is a restaurant you would want to linger and maybe have another drink as it has a lovely feel.
Great for a special occasions, if you can get a 2hr+ seating window, and is at the top of the pricing scale for this type of eating experience.
Very nice restaurant. Waiter was very efficient, food was lovely, except I had marinara and it was a little too salty, but otherwise enjoyed our dinner.
Loved our experience at Cecconi's. 5 star all the way!
As a single female traveler you sometimes feel like a second class citizen. I felt nothing of the sort here. I was seated at a prominent table, nobody repeated the question I often get of are you waiting for someone else etc. the service was impeccable and the food was amazing!
This is an excellent Italian restaurant possibly the best in Australia, in my view. Great food, fantastic wine list, wonderful friendly service and great ambience. Slightly on the expensive side but well worth the money! Will be back.
We come here every time we come to Victoria. THE best Italian going round. Really beautiful food, service is always very good and the wine list is excellent. It just feels like Melbourne when we come here.
A first class experience. The venue is very good, clean, fresh and bright. A good atmosphere.
Very happy with the food, very tasty. The service was outstanding, excellent.
Fantastic food, service and ambience. Will definitely eat there again.
Lovely meal, food was great and service was excellent.
Love it, nice to go to a place that has a wide range of gluten free options.
Very enjoyable evening. Food was very goog and the service excellent. Would be very happy to go there again.
Lovely restaurant, attentive and informed staff. We were seated in a bit of a service thoroughfare, which detracted from the ambience a little - particularly given that we had booked some time ahead for a wedding anniversary. Watch the offer of sparkling water and refills - they are not complimentary. Overall, a good experience though. Staff made note of special eating requirements and meals were prepared accordingly.
Always a great place for a special celebration. The food never disappoints and is always delicious. The chocolate pudding for desert is to DIE FOR! and I have had this every tine I visit (20 years!)
Celebrating my daughter's 21st Birthday i wanted a restaurant that we could look back in years to come and it would put a smile on our faces. Ceconni's did not disappoint. Great service food and ambiance.
Still a great place for a business lunch. Delicious food and broad menu combine with fantastic table service and a quite reasonable noise level to make it a really pleasant outing.
Will be back.
Fantastic food, attentive staff, have never had a bad food experience here. Yes it's a little $$$$, but so worth it. Live a little and enjoy every bit of your experience here- you won't regret it!
While the veal plate was substantial, the fish and the rack of lamb we ordered was very poor in quantity and I was indeed fearful that our overseas guests would leave hungry. It was almost embarrassing to receive more food than them at our table, on our plates....perhaps having plenty of starters is expected, but if we do not know how much (or how little) the portions are for the main dishes, it's difficult to order a good deal beforehand.
Stylish restaurant located down a set of stairs in Flinders lane.
Staff courteous & efficient for a very busy Saturday night.
The decor is plush monotones with comfortable seating (this is important!)
Food very tasty but a little on the expensive side.
Would happily recommend to other diners :)
First class. The best fine dining Italian in the city
The atmosphere, service and food was absolutely fantastic. I would recommend to anyone looking for a place to dine in Melbourne city to try Cecconi’s.
Love the food, love the waiters, love Cecconi's !
Good service. Nice atmosphere and delicious food and wine.
We had the best time celebrating our 1 year wedding anniversary here. The staff were so welcoming the food was amazing and a nice touch of something sweet written in chocolate congratulating us on our one year to finish at the end was so nice to be acknowledged.
Thank you we will definitely be back!
Reviews were better than the experience. Probably little expensive for what is was, have paid more and paid less for a more authentic Italian food.
Been wanting to go here for 3 years. Did not disappoint, will definitely make it a regular date night choice!
Superb meal with professional service and a warm, welcoming ambiance. Excellent wine program to accompany whatever you wish to eat.
Amazing service, amazing food, amazing atmosphere just pure class
Our anniversary experience was amazing! From the food to the friendly staff, it was a great night!
A real credit to all involved
Wonderful service and really delicious food. Would highly recommend to both locals and visitors.

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On this date in Texas Rangers history, the Rangers executed the longest triple play, in terms of touches, in more than 30 years.
The game was on April 14, 2002, and the Rangers were hosting the Seattle Mariners. With Kenny Rogers pitching for the Rangers, Seattle’s Ruben Sierra — yes, that Ruben Sierra — doubled to start the fourth inning. John Olerud followed that with a single, which moved Sierra to third and put runners at the corners. That’s when the fun started.
Ron Wright grounded back to Rogers, and the left spun around and threw the ball to second base, where shortstop Alex Rodriguez was covering the bag. That forced out Olerud. Sierra tried to score from third, so Rodriguez threw to Rangers catcher Iván ‘Pudge’ Rodríguez at the plate, catching Sierra in a run down. Rodriguez threw the ball to Rangers third baseman Hank Blalock, who then threw it back to Rogers, who finally applied the tag to Sierra for the second out.
During the rundown, Wright made it to first safely, but became greedy and tried to take second base. For the second time, Rogers wheeled around and threw to second base, with Michael Young covering the bag and applying the tag to Wright for the third out to end the inning.
If you’re keeping score, that was a 1-6-2-5-1-4 triple play. Up to that point, the last triple play with six or more touches in the Majors was on August 29, 1969, when six Atlanta players executed a triple play against the Chicago Cubs. The Atlanta players involved in that play, in order, were Orlando Cepeda, Gil Garrido, Clete Boyer, Pat Jarvis, Félix Millán, and Rico Carty.
Oddly, Carty played for the Rangers in 1973, but also played for the Chicago Cubs and the Oakland Athletics that season.
Also on this date …
April 14, 1981: The Rangers opened the home portion of their schedule at Arlington Stadium with a 7-1 loss to Cleveland, in front of 22,761. Jon Matlack took the loss for the Rangers, as he fell to 0-2 for the season. Buddy Bell went 3-for-4 and drove in the only run for the Rangers. Rick Waits threw a complete game for Cleveland, giving up just one run.
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She has performed at various events, such as; Radio RJR 94 Fm Music Week Acousticks Live Concert, Gungo Walk Alternative Music and Art Festival, Radio RJR 94 Fm Wednesday Night Live, French Embassy Fete De La Musique, Roots of the Arts, JARIA Reggae Month Show, Womanbition, Plug N' Play, Jazz N' More, Muzak Heart and Soul Noise Talent Show at California State University L.A, U.S.A. , Guest Soloist for The Diocesan Festival Choir of Jamaica Concert Series, the National Choral of Jamaica Elijah Tour as "The youth", just to name a few.
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MILAN (Reuters) – European soccer’s governing body UEFA has rejected a request by AC Milan to waive the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, citing uncertainties in the Italian soccer club’s financial situation, it said on Friday.
Under UEFA regulations, any European soccer club that spends more than its generated revenue faces possible sanctions, including, in certain circumstances, a ban from playing.
However, a club can ask for a waiver to the FFP under a so-called ‘voluntary agreement’ scheme.
Milan had asked UEFA to be able to exercise its right to waive the FFP rules after Chinese entrepreneur Li Yonghong bought the club from Italian holding company Fininvest.
“There are still uncertainties in relation to the financing of the loans to be paid back in October 2018 and the financial guarantees provided by the main shareholder,” UEFA said in a statement.
“AC Milan will continue to be subject to the ongoing monitoring process and the situation will be assessed again in the first months of 2018,” it added.
(Reporting by Francesca Landini and Elvira Pollina; Editing by Philip Pullella and Ken Ferris)

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The March 11th disaster at Fukushima nuclear power plant - operated by TEPCO - and arguably the world’s worst nuclear disaster in history is now in the sixth month since the crisis began. Progress has been slow but steady and the Japanese government has been reactive to each problem it has encountered. While under the mass scrutiny of the developed world, nuclear energy and power via uranium fission remains a dominant and needed source of energy for the global future.
Fukushima has put the industry on the defensive for the past half year and the first victory is on the horizon with the restarting of the first plant in Hokkaido. Prefectural governor Takahasi Harumi announced at a press conference that the green light go-ahead was given at the local level to restart the plant. “I put safety above all else and would like to work towards easing the concerns of the people of Hokkaido,” the governor was quoted in a personal statement. “With the Fukushima accident in mind, I urge the government to do all it can to ensure safety and make sure that trust is not lost between the people and the government.” One more approval must be given however, by the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry. Trade Minister Kaieda Banri was explicit in his urge towards the restart of the reactors in order to ease the current energy crisis in the country. The Hokkaido reactor in Tomari has received no negative response from locals according to Takahasi Tetsuro, a village official. The spokesman of Hokkaido Electric, Kanno, announced that if the reactors are not restarted by the onset of winter, they will be unable to supply sufficient power to the population.
Utilities such as Tohoku Electric Power Company are at the absolute limit to provide power to the people of Japan and announced it was having difficulty maintaining their extremely high 97% operating capacity. Despite receiving emergency power supply from TEPCO, the utility is still running at 96.6% due to the elevated use of air conditioning in the dead of the Japanese summer. It is clear that the power deficit created by the nuclear shutdowns needs to be filled. Due to the emergency Tohoku is pleading with citizens to conserve as much power as possible.
During this period of nuclear restarts, TEPCO is still struggling to both contain the reactors in Fukushima as well as their own profitability. The company posted a staggering 571 billion yen loss last week – most of which comes from the 400 billion employed for the Fukushima reactor disaster. This combined with the previous fiscal years loss of 1.25 trillion yen has produced the largest net loss ever incurred by a Japanese utility.
Workers from inside the Fukushima reactor have reported levels within the reactor building are still fatal when they vented hydrogen gasses out of the building. TEPCO cites difficulties with basement water levels prohibiting proper circulation and trapping highly radioactive cooling waters as the cause. Due to the water levels in the basements fluctuating on a daily basis, the cooling systems are reported to be operating between 60 and 80 percent – much lower than the goal of 90 percent operating capacity. TEPCO seemed proud to announce that these water levels have decreased to 3.55 metres from 3.80 metres 90 days prior. Today the utility is implementing the SARRY radiation absorption facility which is expected to vastly improve the operation and on the 20th a second evaporative system will come online. The struggling AREVA system will work in tandem with the Toshiba made SARRY to remove cesium based radiation which has been out of control since the March disaster began. Controlling the radioactive output of the reactor has been labeled as “Step 2” in a multi-step process and is scheduled to be completed sometime during the winter.
The Japanese government has pushed through a bill with the aid of the newly formed Nuclear Regulation Agency, a part of the Ministry of the Environment. The “special measures” bill will put legislation in place for the central government to deal with the extreme pollution produced by contamination from a nuclear source; it also has provisions for the clean-up of nuclear contaminated rubble.
While currently there are no laws in place for the removal of contaminated materials, this bill will become the first to deal with the issue. The objective is to reduce the health risks posed by radiation contamination. The Minister of the Environment will have the ability to designate special areas which require strict decontamination measures and protocols to be enacted.
The bill also calls on those responsible for the contamination to finance the clean-up. In this case, Tokyo Electric will be responsible. This puts the groundwork in place to responsibly and quickly deal with any future accidents.
The economic effects of the nuclear disaster are indeed far reaching, affecting even the apple market. The demand for Japan’s agricultural exports has fallen over 40% with some export items such as apples falling as much as 86%.
In order to combat the public tensions in relation to the radiation, the Japanese government has begun dissemination of materials through the public education system to teach children through teenagers about radiation and the lack of true danger. Books on the subject have been given to every school and are paired with courses for the educators in how to teach the material. Online, pamphlets are also available for download.


Formerly known as The Ark, Coca-Cola Place in Sydney was a 28,500m2 A+ commercial office development. With Cundall as the ESD consultant, the scheme was the first commercial high-rise building to achieve a '6 Star' Green Star V2 As-Built [rating].
The design featured a number of potable water reduction initiatives, including the collection of approximately 10,000l of grey water for re-use for toilet flushing. Initiatives such as these have resulted in a 55% reduction of potable water use for cisterns, a 30% reduction of flow to sewer, and 100% recycled water for non potable use.
A tri-generation plant was installed, with a 750kva gas-fired generator system for the building power supply. The system is also an integral part of the building services where the tri-generation plant output heating cooling loads provide energy to the mechanical system. When running at full capacity, it provides 770 kWe of power to the base building and 650kWr of cooling to the air conditioning system.
T5 lighting reduces energy use and provides natural day-like light. The lighting was designed to meet a 400 lux level. The windows on three sides and a side core also allow for maximum natural light flow into the workspace.
Sustainable transport design was also incorporated. There are now charging bays for hybrid/electric cars in the car park, which can utilise the energy generated by the tri-generation plant while the driver is in the building. This both reduced petrol consumption and minimised reliance on the grid for electric charging. In addition, 228 bicycle racks, 196 half lockers and 20 showers were installed.
- PCA Best Sustainable Development in Australia (2011), New Buildings, Baulderstone Award
- PCA NSW Development of the Year (2011), Innovation and Excellence Award
- Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards (2010), Development of the Year
- Australian Property Institute NSW Excellence in Property Awards (2011), Environmental Development Award
- Master Builders Association NSW (2011), Excellence in Energy Efficiency
- Master Builders Association NSW (2011), Best Use of Glass


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Arod has decided to part ways with the Yankees... but he is still going to be an issue for at least a year.
Everyone who knows baseball knows that the legendary Steinbrenner family owns the New York Yankees.
Recently Hal Steinbrenner has been quoted as saying “The Yankees won’t be sellers this trade deadline.
Will the signing of Chris Carter really impact the Yankees?
Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman get their guy. New York Yankees resign Aroldis Chapman in record deal.
Brian Cashman continues to impress Yankee fans with subtle moves. Matt Holliday is next on his list of moves.
While the Yankees didn't make the postseason King Brian Cashman has had arguably his most successful season.
There are no stories written for Joe Girardi yet.


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Collected Poems: 1976-2017 (Shearsman, 2017)
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In Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible (2010), poet and critic Peter Robinson records a hope that ‘people can display in life what art might choose to invoke’.
His own poetry over the last forty years — now superbly gathered together by Shearsman for Collected Poems (2017) — finds ample space to consider both what art might display, and the range of people, places, and poetics it might invoke in the process.
A 1981 self-portrait adorns the cover, and it calls up William Hazlitt’s maxim — quoted elsewhere by Robinson — that unlike writing, ‘one is never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered’. In this sense, Robinson is one of poetry’s painters: we never tire of the work here, in part because it can be so humble, subtle, or generous about its discoveries.
As you follow Robinson’s work across the decades, an architecture, language, and recognisable poetic landscape come into view, like a bark rubbing. This is a world that thrums with the caw of indifferent birds (the pigeons in Whiteknights Park, the scavenging gulls of Bristol, a group of heron-watchers disturbed by a military operation in Palm Beach), and glistens with wet leaves (final cherry blossom, fallen magnolia on pavements, petals stuck with rain water).
‘Leaf-Viewing’ is the title of a 1989 poem, and its ‘looking back and forward’ suggests an oeuvre of ‘seasonal differences’. Indeed, Robinson’s voice is usually lyric, and tends to the ruminative. It takes its cue from epigrams, translations, foreign travel, political upheaval, explores the intellectual and ethical puzzles of music, painting and writing, and often listens in to the quieter moments of city, coast, and country.
Because Robinson’s work has always looked in both directions, its mixture of retrospect and vision draws exquisite patterns across the collection, like spiders spinning their way into time travel.
Individual poems often choose a significant date in the personal or political diary, perhaps ‘today’s date or interest rate’ (124) to wander through the thickets of the past, or what ‘Red Wednesday’ calls the ‘need / to hold in mind each cherished feature / from the years we had laid waste, / and even for the sake of some lost future / keep faith with that past’ (162-3). Collected Poems keeps faith by offering a lived chronology.
In ‘Dirty Language’, from Robinson’s first collection Overdrawn Account, a crabbed older poet is unmoved reading ‘somebody or other’s Collected Works’ (56): his hairs clog the bathroom soap, and the poem’s narrator, a long-suffering helpmeet, notes ‘it makes no difference what I say’.
In ‘Vacant Possession’, another early poem, life is hollowed out and the poet fills the air with mournful sputters of nostalgia (84). Yet these first summons of the poet’s late effects, or the speaker who perpetually looks back, belie the acute and distinctive eye of Robinson’s subsequent poet-narrators, who offer vital sketches (‘Epigrams of Summer’) or open questions (‘On a Training Chart’) — as ‘Doppelgänger’ puts it, old age is neither ‘mentor’ nor ‘memento mori’ (465).
While the lyric I is meditative, the plangent is often kept at bay by the unusual drum rolls of rhythm and rhyme (‘debts’ / ‘majorettes’ in ‘Marking Time’), and the gnomic brilliantly offset by ellipsis and wry humour: the ‘Ringstead Poems’, new for this collection, call up John Cornford’s relief that he might ‘stop pretending to be an artist’ (473).
Robinson has always been able to place considerable pressure on the throwaway phrase or the casual aside. In ‘By the Way’ — framed thoughtfully here into a section which gathers poems from Anywhere You Like (2000), Selected Poems 1976-2001 (2003), and Ghost Characters (2006) — he thickens the title into a thick, rich paint: the poet charts a plein air painter setting his easel ‘by the way’ near a concrete path that ‘centuries of feet / have trodden down before’ (242).
The narrator’s own walk to work tracks a similar journey, passing tree trunks which record a deepening process of ‘recession, progress’ (243). Feeling itself slips ‘by the way’ in the final stanza, ancient enmities or aggressions dissolving like leaves as they detach from ‘personal things’. The position recalls Stevie Smith’s ‘Pad Pad’, the speaker exonerated from anger as the years remove their taste for it. In its place, we hear only the sharp sound of ‘a monkey’s cry / heard through tyre or engine noise’ (243).
By the poem’s conclusion, the poet has walked us through the titular phrase so casually, it is neither a location, interjection, or something incidental. Like much in the Collected, it widens into other meanings, subtler hints: he gives the words new traction and texture.
In the perfectly pitched poem ‘Hearing Difficulties’, the patient cajoles themselves with the thought of ‘jokes about a poet going deaf’ (171). Yet the fear of not being heard is often tempered by the fear of saying too much (‘but my word you do go on’). The poems give us cause to listen again.
The byways of Robinson’s speakers walk us round the globe. These poems travel well and age well though, true to his own interest in the language of economics, both come at a cost. Often, they turn their attention to the ‘Transit Lounge’, the spaces of delayed departure or frustrated trip, or to borders, nations or spaces called up by translation and exiles.
The poems tend with care to the poet’s time in Italy and Japan, and his habitual returns to Liverpool. But the Collected also reminds us of Robinson’s skill in tracing a line around his native country. He summons up Larkin’s ‘Here’ to catch the ‘colours merging’ from the Sheffield to Reading train on the day of the 2015 election (491). England’s archipelago is sketched out from Shanklin to Solent Water in the deft ‘Our Island Suite’.
The poems offer some of their sharpest insights on realisations long-delayed and closer to home, the ‘one great unknown / under my nose’ (356).
While Hazlitt saw the poet as doomed to write what they already know, Robinson’s Collected Poems help us map the marvel of what we have failed to know, or long understood but never made clear to ourselves.
Will May is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton. He is the editor of The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith (Faber, 2015) and Reading F.T. Prince (Liverpool University Press, 2017), and author of Stevie Smith and Authorship (2010). He is currently writing a study of poetry and whimsy.
 Peter Robinson, Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010), p.68.
 William Hazlitt, ‘On the Pleasure of Painting’, Table Talk (1824), The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, 21 vols, ed. P.P. Howe (London and Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1930), viii, p.7.
 Peter Robinson, Collected Poems (Bristol: Shearsman, 2017), p.146.
Peter Robinson has a bio note at the foot of this page here.


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As I delved more deeply into my passions for cosmology, biological anthropology, and psychology, I began to develop a deep belief in a power that exists in the universe that is not all that dissimilar to the religious perception of a personalized anthropomorphic god.
Further research indicated that I was not alone. Many of the great minds of our time held, or continue to hold, a similar belief in a universal force that is at one with nature. A benevolent force that does not demand our subservience and worship, but which is the creator and nurturer of the universe, and perhaps universes, and all it contains; including the miraculous creation of life.
My faith in this belief is unwavering, a faith so profound and real that it has supplied answers that were never available to me while I was immersed in, and blinded by what I began to recognize as the improbability of religious dogma.
But does religious enlightenment and freedom from the yoke of Creationist thought mean we will find ourselves living in an atheistic void? Certainly not! By shaking the very foundations upon which religion is based, Faith Without Religion will free you to believe in a higher power without the burden of guilt imposed by organized religion.
WHY THIS BOOK?
I believe that the only way to truly evaluate religious beliefs and their tenets is to look inside the various holy books and texts in order to determine the veracity of that which religious movements claim is sacrosanct and the undisputed word of God.
In Faith Without Religion, I examine all of the principal religious texts, not in isolation, but as a comparative study. The results may shock you, as certainly they shocked me, but with knowledge comes enlightenment, without which we would still be living in the Dark Ages.
Chapter 1: Judaism.
Chapter 2: Christianity.
Chapter 3: Jesus.
Chapter 4: Roman Catholicism.
Chapter 5: Protestantism.
Chapter 6: The Prophet Muhammad.
Judaic belief is a rich mosaic of colourful events based on thousands of years of unconfirmed narrations, beginning with God’s creation of the earth, the heavens and all life, commencing with the first humans, Adam and Eve. In Chapter 1: Judaism I look at the source, the reliability, and the habitual truthfulness of the many anecdotes and legendary stories it presents as being fact.
In terms of numbers, Christianity is the major religion that supports the concept of a supreme deity, but do the foundations upon which it has been created stand up to scrutiny? In Chapter 2: Christianity I offer an appraisal of its convoluted history and roots.
Jesus is perhaps the most enigmatic person ever to have lived, but the question is, did he? In Chapter 3, I examine the purported life and times of Jesus and raise the possibility that his image is a reflection of the recorded story of Yeshua ha-Nostri (Jesus the Nazerite), the son of Mary whose husband was a carpenter named Joseph. Like the Christian Jesus, his predecessor by one hundred years was a Jewish religious miscreant who was put to death for leading Jews away from Orthodox Judaic belief. I also examine the link between a belief in the Sun God, Mithra of Persia, and the Christian Jesus, and the influence Mithraism has had on Christian church ritual.
Chapter 4: Roman Catholicism addresses the formation of the Roman Catholic Church and its rise to power by employing every means possible. While it claims benevolence in the name of God, its history is overshadowed by corruption, suppression, bloodshed, and cover-ups.
The first schism in the Christian movement was between the Eastern Church in Constantinople and the Western Church in Rome, a rift that has remained unresolved for 1,700 years. Although discontent among practising Catholics with the Church of Rome was becoming wide-spread, it was Martin Luther, a Roman Catholic priest, who was largely responsible for the reformation which led to the establishment of Protestantism, from which thousands of secular denominations have emerged. Chapter 5: Protestantism, is an absorbing account of the events leading up to, and subsequent to, the establishment of the other Christian church.
The sixth and final chapter deals with the life of the patriarch of Islamic belief, The Prophet Muhammad, and his legacy that currently claims 1.6 billion followers, representing 23% of the global population.
While many authors simply condemn religion out of hand, my mission was to thoroughly research the available material and compile a balanced history outlining the emergence and establishment of religion in its many, and often hostile, forms.
Faith Without Religion, in conjunction with The God Alternative, Faith or Fiction? and Decoding the Mystery of Life, offers the reader what is perhaps the most widely researched and balanced appraisal of religion from its inception to the present. For many, the concept of medieval religion and its outmoded tenets is no longer pertinent to their lives. They seek answers but do not want to abandon having faith in a higher power.


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I was downtown today and for lunch I had New York Fries! It`s not very healthy but I was craving fries. I had crush to drink because it`s one of my favourite sodas. I`m usually pretty good with my diet, but I was out so I didn`t care as much.
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Much to the disappointment of fans who were eager to see the famed Dutch DJ perform this weekend at San Diego’s SAP Center, Tiesto unfortunately had to cancel the show after suffering from a concussion while making his way to the stage. He reportedly smashed his head on a giant flat-screen TV as he started to play his headlining set at Electric Bounce House.
He allegedly passed out beside the decks with paramedics determining that he should be sent to the hospital. Andre Saint-Albin, a DJ who was present at the gig explained: “Tiesto was walking up to the booth & hit his head on an LED screen. He was bleeding & wanted to play, but mgmt said no!” Tiesto’s accont was a little more vague: “I had an accident and got a concussion at last night’s show. Dr’s told me to rest so no show tonight.” He later linked fans to a TMZ article explaining what had happened. The following video posted by a concertgoer shows the accident, which happened when the countdown reached 7 seconds.
This isn’t the first time that DJs have suffered from collisions with rigging. Last year, Skrillex ran into a bulwark as he was leaving a stage in Mexico.


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In this talk I discuss an aporia in Adorno’s work, and argue that Surrealist poetry may provide a path out of the crisis. It is unclear how Adorno’s concept of mimetic comportment brings about the expression of utopia as nonidentity, because expression results from the imitation of reified life. If expression is bound to reification, how can it present an image of freedom? I argue that, in automatic writing, the subject attains proximity to unconscious processes that are not repressed by reason. In this way, the subject imitates freedom, and materiality demonstrates its agency, which appears in the spontaneous affinities between words and images in Surrealist poetry. Surrealist images demonstrate their agency through the spontaneous connections that appear in the poem; such connections form a model of freedom that does not involve violently mastering nature, because surrealist images are fragments that long to be reconciled into a nonviolent togetherness that preserves difference.
Justin Neville Kaushall is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick. His research interests are: Adorno’s Critical Theory and Aesthetics, Kant's Critique of Judgment, Western Marxism, Beckett's novels and short fiction, and Dadaist and Surrealist art and poetry.


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I begin today's examination with PBS NewsHour's Supreme Court hands down climate change, immigration rulings on final day of historic term.
The U.S. Supreme Court has wrapped up a term that rewrote the law books on abortion, guns, climate change and asylum policy. That, in turn, set the stage for more history, when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman on the court. She was sworn in Thursday by Justice Stephen Breyer, who retired. The National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle joins John Yang to discuss.This has certainly been an eventful term, thanks to the three justices that The Former Guy appointed, which moved the court even more to the right. The damage from his maladministration continues, a year and a half after he left office. At least the Biden Administration can claim victories over immigration and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
I'm continuing with PBS NewsHour's EPA Administrator Michael Regan discusses Supreme Court ruling on climate change.
Many environmental advocates acknowledged Thursday that the Supreme Court's decision in the Environmental Protection Agency’s case is a significant blow in the government's efforts to limit greenhouse gases in the short term. West Virginia won the case after a legal battle over the clean power plan. EPA Administrator Michael Regan joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.This is indeed bad news for fighting climate change and could be a precedent that constrains regulations by many branches of government. The good news is that hasn't happened yet and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants are decreasing because of market forces, which EPA Administrator Michael Regan mentioned in his interview. May we continue to be so lucky.
Follow over the jump for three of FiveThirtyEight's videos explaining the Supreme Court's decisions about abortion, the establishment clause, and guns.
I am beginning FiveThirtyEight's coverage with Here’s What Overturning Roe Means For Abortion Access Across The U.S.*
The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade. Before today, the right to an abortion was protected under the U.S. Constitution, which meant that state lawmakers couldn’t just ban the procedure if they wanted to. Now states have free rein to ban abortion, to restrict abortion and to regulate abortion. So what happens next? Here’s where abortion laws stand in each state.That's a useful guide to an unpleasant situation.
Next, The Supreme Court Dealt A Big Blow To The Separation Of Church And State.
On Monday, the Supreme Court released an opinion that could erode the separation between church and state. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the court’s conservative majority ruled that a public high school football coach was within his rights to pray at midfield after games. In doing so, the court abandoned a decades-long precedent on how the First Amendment is interpreted.This may be a popular decision, unlike many of the others I'm highlighting today, but I think it's also a bad precedent.
Finally, I'm embedding How The Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling Remakes Gun Control For Millions Of Americans.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that the right to bear arms in public is protected by the Second Amendment. This means that it could soon be much easier to carry a handgun on the streets of New York or Los Angeles. What will Americans think of the decision?This is the decision in the case that worried Samantha Bee and it's bad news for gun control. The good news is Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed a gun control bill into law. I'll take that half a loaf from the other two branches of government.
Stay tuned for July 4th. Will the theme be drum corps or theme parks? Come back to find out!
*FiveThirtyEight has two more videos about the fallout from the decision. Both are about a half-hour long, so I decided to save them for a future post.