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Between the Living and the Dead
A Halloween Conference
30th October 2021 – 31st October 2021
BOOK OF ABSTRACT
Investigating the Veil – Modern Paranormal Groups at Halloween and Beyond.
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
commodifying, preoccupation with the dead, ritual, haunted spaces/places, paranormal.
Depictions of paranormal phenomena and individuals who investigate it have long been represented in films and television. Belief in paranormal phenomena pervades throughout history and global civilisations, and in 21st century Britain and the USA, the majority of people reportedly believe in at least one paranormal belief or phenomena, suggesting human preoccupation with the dead. Anecdotal evidence suggests that shows like Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted have inspired countless individuals to become investigators in the USA and UK. Modern Paranormal Groups regularly visit “haunted” places and spaces, but on Halloween this endeavour to investigate such phenomena will reach its peak. They attempt to capitalise on the moment when the veil is reputedly at its thinnest, drawing upon ritualistic behaviour, practices and technology. Ghost-hunting event companies will also offer participants the opportunity to hunt ghosts at some of the most haunted locations – for a premium price. Drawing on preliminary doctoral research, this presentation will address the role of ghost hunting rituals, practices and use of technology as they negotiate their relationship with the beyond. Firstly, it will explore how their subculture exists within contemporary society. Secondly, it will address the possible influence of media narratives upon amateur paranormal investigation rituals and, in effect, upon parapsychology itself. Thirdly, it will explore how Modern Paranormal Groups commodify professional practices and utilise technology in paranormal investigations to pierce the boundary between living and dead. Finally, it will explore how the author will be exploring each of these areas in his PhD research utilising an ethnographic approach to paranormal media and field study. To conclude, this presentation will reflect on how the practices of Modern Paranormal Groups can help us to understand the commodification of spiritualistic and pseudo-scientific rituals, and how these facilitate our enduring fascination with the spirit world.
Death Reimagined: The Case of Spain
Leticia Cortina Aracil
Spanish Folklore, Popular Costums and Traditions, Halloween, All Souls’ Day
Spain has a vast lore relating the bond between the world of the living and the dead that ranges from institutional art (such as the gruesome depictions of the Lying Christ of the Baroque) to the overabundant anecdotes of ghostly encounters. This includes local and national festivities, the veneration of relics, folk traditions and even seasonal sweets. Still, due to a peculiar mixture of enlightenment and secularization (both of which reduce this to superstition or ideological tribute), the social concealment of death (its medicalisation and expulsion of cemeteries from the urban environment), and the derivation of mortuary rites to specialised companies, many of these traditions have passed into the background or disappeared. Nevertheless, the thirst for contact with the world of death is not extinct but has sought other modes of expression, such as the participation in related leisure experiences that do not force the participants to question their beliefs or the adoption of foreign traditions, such as alternative rituals and practices, that are perceived as endowed with a deeper meaning; among them stands out the celebration of Halloween. This faces a noteworthy rejection from some sectors of the population, both for its eminently commercial and imitative nature of USA’s audio-visual productions and for being perceived as superstitious (particularly from the religious and scientific spheres.). Taking as a focus the Catholic celebration of All Souls’ Day, this paper will briefly address the historical relationship of the Spanish culture with the world of death at different levels and the contemporary emptying process of its historical traditions. It will be defended how the controversial adoption of foreign lore and practises shows its cultural drive for a permanence of a relationship with the sphere of death, concluding with a critical appraisal of the rooting function that this relationship has in this cultural context.
Eerie Victorians: Tim Burton’s Neo-Victorian Aesthetics
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Animals Who Return: Ghost Animals, Pet Psychics, and the Cultural Politics of Animal Souls
Clinical Associate Professor Expository Writing Program New York University
Animal/human relationships, ghosts, psychics, mediums, anthropology, death, souls
Historically, from Cartesian philosophy to Christian theologies, the presence of a soul has acted as a key dividing line between human and non-human animals in the West. This presumed absence of a soul has meant that when animals die, no part of their consciousness, soul, or spirit was thought to survive. The contemporary world, though, is characterized by stories of animal ghosts and spirits who defy these expectations: dogs who haunt churches, cat spirits who visit their beloved human companion, and people who can communicate with the spirits of these dead animals. Drawing on long-term, ethnographic fieldwork with paranormal investigators, mediums, and psychics in the U.S. and the U.K., this paper analyzes the emergence of animal spirits and the people who seek them out. The vast majority of animals who return as ghosts as well as the animals that pet psychics and mediums communicate with were companion animals. Indeed, these animals are overwhelmingly those humans loved and those who humans perceived to love them back intensely. What, then, does this mean for contemporary understandings of animal souls? The ensoulment of animals, this paper argues, reflects the affective ties of humans for their animal companions. This paper ultimately argues that examining the presence and absence of animal spirits reveals the contingent, or flexible, quality of animal souls and the flexible nature of souls themselves. This has important implications for understanding the cultural meaning of animal death and, more broadly, the nature of human/animal relationships in the North Atlantic world.
Beyond Death Do Us Part: Patriarchal Control Over Female Bodies in Nalo Hopkinson’s “Glass Bottle Trick”
Alannah Ari Hernandez
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
Jamaican duppies, afterlife, ghostly rebellion, domestic violence, female solidarity
The Caribbean is a geography very much in tune with the idea of a continuing presence of the departed among the living. This is due to the syncretic convergence of beliefs about the afterlife that come from the original Arawak and Carib populations, as well as the ‘imported’ European and African cultures. The short story by the Jamaican author, Nalo Hopkinson, is basically a rewriting of the Blue Beard fairytale within a Caribbean locus. It presents the readers with a diegetic realm that is not only shaped by the hierarchical construct of male superiority and female submission but also by the colonial notions of colorism as a human ranking system. Within this pigmentocratic re-rendering of the fairytale, the living and the dead share the same domestic space. This space is inhabited and governed by a paterfamilias who controls the women in his life by stripping them of the activities and people that are important to them and he goes as far as using Caribbean folk knowledge and praxis (trapping spirits inside glass bottles) to control the women even after their deaths. Thus, constructing a dystopian family that is comprised of living and dead members. is a This paper intends to examine the patriarchal practices of female oppression within a Caribbean/Jamaican context where female intelligence is curtailed and female biological creativity is punished. It will also address the phenomenon of female solidarity and rebellion, between a living woman and two dead women who have turned into duppies, as an attempt to restore power dynamics and obtain justice beyond death.
“Between the Devil and the Zombie: Collapsing Reality and Acts of Becoming in Juan Cardenas’ Los estratos” (Strata)
Gustavus Adolphus College
Colombian contemporary novel, trauma, demonic pact, zombie
In Juan Cárdenas’ novel Los estratos (Strata) (2013) a main character sees his reality decompose as fragmentary memories of his childhood make their way to his everyday life. The indeterminate nature of the events that prompted the trauma appear as movement and affect without motivation. This lack of connection between images and movement in the character’s agency throughout the plot is replaced with two clear supernatural elements that the narrative clings to to, unfruitfully, make sense of the events: the devil and the zombie. As representation of the undoing of the bounds of reality, these narratives provide a framing threat that ultimately become dead ends. The devil and the zombies are, thus, markings of areas where conventional reality becomes undone and threats the socio-cultural sense of belonging on which the main character is rooted. At the same time, these areas have replaced the fixity of conventional strata (the character’s bourgeois, “white”, Catholic, and “living” backgrounds) with what Delleuze and Guattari refer to as “becoming”, an area of intersubjectivity and deterritorialization. The story of devil of Churupití and the zombie linger as narratives that enforce the constrains of the system, but at the same time indicate that in which the character “becomes.”
Revisiting Memento Mori as Health Advice in a US Newspaper after March 2020.
University of Dayton
The Stoic philosophical tradition privileged notions of the inevitability of death as a motivation for fully committing to the present and to an ethical life founded on collaboration with other human beings, communion with nature, and a benevolent outlook and disposition towards life’s unexpected situations. “Since it is possible that you might depart from life at this very moment,” said Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations, “regulate every act and thought accordingly.” For this school, philosophy stems from a reflection on what death is as the human mind considers that a being is “nothing else than an operation of nature.” This reasoning led Stoics to affirm the deep level of equality that exists particularly among human beings, despite a variety of differences in relation to several markers of identity, such as ability, origin, and social rank, among others. This warning of “remember that you will die” (memento mori) became a common trope that traversed the middle ages and the renaissance.
March 2020 and the events that followed the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic were interpreted in a way that utilized fragments of the traditional discourse of the inevitability of death and its ethical and philosophical consequences. As millions of people got sick and thousands died in the United States, while others lost their jobs or experienced some sort of hiatus in their normal lives, magazines and newspapers made sense of the new order of things by revisiting death as the ultimate frontier and equalizer, codifying humanity’s obsession with the dead one more time as advice for health and well living.
This presentation analyzes the main characteristics of the discourse of memento mori after March 2020 as expressed in a selection of articles in the health and living-well sections of newspapers such as The New York Times, including the readers’ comments.
“Interweaving Life and Death: Visual Narratives of Mental Illness in a Colombian Asylum”
Sandra Lucía Castañeda
Independent scholar and artist
The first mode of grappling with sexual violence in the Holocaust in Israel was the controversial literature of Auschwitz survivor, Yechiel Feiner (Denur), in his books, House of Dolls (1953) and Atrocity (1958), which depicted sexual slavery and abuse in concentration camps. The second attempt to address sexual violence in the Holocaust was the no less controversial literature of Stalags, a phenomenon that coincided with the commencement of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in April 1961 in Jerusalem (after his apprehension in Argentina). Stalags were pocket-sized books whose plots revealed lusty female SS officers sexually abusing camp prisoners. During the 1960s, sales of this pornographic literature broke all records in Israel and hundreds of thousands of copies were sold at kiosks. The Stalags were written in Hebrew, by Israeli authors, in the style of genuine memoirs (in the first person), masquerading as translations from English. The popularity of the Stalags declined after the court found the publishers guilty of disseminating pornography in 1963.
My presentation discusses Ari Libsker’s documentary Stalags: holocaust and pornography in israel (2007). It explores the temporal coincidence of the Eichmann trial and the Stalags, and the relationships of the latter to K. Tzetnik’s books. I argue that the film, in contrast to the narrator’s (the filmmaker) declaration, ultimately links the two literatures to the experience of sexualized violence in the Holocaust. Moreover, while, according to his defenders in the film (who have studied his literature), K. Tzetnik’s descriptions of sexualized violence are based on first-hand accounts, the Stalags, as my analysis of the film shows, resulted from a repressed or silenced sexual trauma by Holocaust survivors, who unconsciously transferred it to their children, ‘the second generation.’ The latter expressed the aftermath of sexualized violence in their writing of this genre, as well as in its consumption.


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Exclusive: FDCTech Closes $35 Million Genesis Financial Acquisition
Trading technology provider, FDCTech informed Finance Magnates that it has entered into a purchase agreement for the acquisition of Genesis Financial, a financial services company with operations in wealth management and direct-to-customer lending, thus closing the major deal.
The companies officially agreed on the deal with the submission of an 8-K form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last Wednesday. The confirmation came after FDCTech signed a non-binding agreement for the acquisition earlier this year.
The deal received a green light after the board of both the companies agreed on the terms. In addition, Genesis shareholders voted to favor the acquisition deal.
FDCTech will acquire 100 percent equity interest in Genesis Financial in the agreed stock-for-stock deal. Per the agreed terms, Genesis’ existing shareholders will receive 70,000,000 shares of FDCTech, which at $0.50 per share price are valued at $35 million.
Commenting on the acquisition, FDCTech Co-Founder and CEO, Mitchell Eaglstein, said: “We are pleased to achieve this transformative milestone for the Company (FDTech), its employees, shareholders, and the clients we serve.”
A Strategic Deal for Global Dominance
FDTech, which has an extensive presence in the Americas, is expecting to expand its reach to new markets with the closure of this deal as Genesis’ business is concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region.
Genesis offers advisory services to $540 million funds under advisement and managing $62 million funds under management through its network of 114 licensed advisers. It is expecting over $15 million in fees from wealth management and tax/accounting advisory business.
“Our new GFNL colleagues should be commended for their efforts, along with those of our team, to achieve this turning point for the Company. As a result, the new direction will create a fintech driven well-diversified financial services powerhouse with the focus on high growth financial categories, with a global footprint and access to US capital markets,” Eaglstein added.
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The Department of Health (DOH) is mandated to be the over-all technical authority on health. The major mandate of DOH is to provide national policy direction and develop national plans, technical standards and guidelines on health. It is also a regulator of all health services and products; and provider of special or tertiary health care services and of technical assistance to other health providers specially to Local Government Units (LGU).
With other health providers and stakeholders, the DOH shall pursue and assure the following:
- Promotion of the health and well-being for every Filipino;
- Prevention and control of diseases among population at risk;
- Protection of individuals, families and communities exposed to health hazards & risks; and
- Treatment, management and rehabilitation of individuals affected by diseases and disability.
The 1987 Constitution, Article II, Section 15 declares that “The State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them. Also, Articles XIII, on Social Justice and Human Rights on Health, declares that it is the responsibility of the State to “adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services available to all the people at affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the under-privileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers” (Section12); “establish and maintain an effective food and drug regulatory system and undertake appropriate health, manpower development, and research, responsive to the country's health needs and problems” (Section 12); and “establish a special agency for disabled person for their rehabilitation, self-development, and selfreliance, and their integration into the mainstream of society”(Section 13).
Other statutes depicting the legal mandate of the Department of Health are: Executive Order 102, “Redirecting the Functions and Operations of the Department of Health,” issued by the Office of the President on May 24, 1999; Republic Act 7160, or the Local Government Code; and Executive Order 272, Executive Order 292, Administrative Code of 1087, Section 2, Chapter 1, Title IX).
Based on Executive Order 102, issued by the Office of the President in May 24, 1999, the DOH is responsible for and serve as the:
- Lead agency in articulating national objectives for health, to guide the development of local health systems, programs and services;
- Direct service provider for specific programs that affect large segments of the population, tuberculosis, malaria, schistosomiasis, HIV-AIDS and other emerging infections and micronutrient deficiencies;
- Lead agency in health emergency response services, including referral and networking systems for trauma, injuries and catastrophic events;
- Technical authority in disease control and prevention;
- Lead agency in ensuring equity, access and quality of health care services through policy formulation, standards development and regulations;
- Technical oversight agency in charge of monitoring and evaluating the implementation of health programs, projects research, training and services;
- Administrator of selected health facilities at sub-national levels that act as referral centers for local health systems i.e., tertiary and special hospitals, reference laboratories, training centers, centers for health promotion, center for disease control, and prevention, regulatory offices among others;
- Innovator of new strategies for responding to emerging needs;
- Advocate for health promotion and healthy life styles for the general population;
- Capacity-builder of LGUs, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, peoples organizations, national government agencies in implementing health programs, services, through technical collaborations, logistical support, provision of grants and allocation and other partnership mechanism;
- Lead agency health and medical research;
- Facilitator of the development of health industrial complex in partnership with the private sector to ensure self-sufficiency in the production of biologicals, vaccines and drugs and medicines;
- Lead agency in health emergency preparedness and response;
- Protector of standards of excellence in the training and education of health care providers at all levels of the health care system;
- Implementer of the National Health Insurance Law; providing administrative and technical leadership in health care financing; and
- Expressing national objectives for health to lead the progress of local health systems, programs and services.
Essentially, the DOH has three specific roles in the health sector: leadership in health, enabler and capacity builder and administrator of specific services namely, national and sub-national health facilities and hospitals serving as referral centers, direct services for emergent health concerns requiring complicated technologies and assessed as critical for public welfare and health emergency response services, referral and networking systems for trauma, injuries, catastrophic events, epidemics and other widespread public danger. To accomplish its mandate and roles the Department has the following power and functions based on Executive Order 102:
- Formulate national policies and standards for health;
- Prevent and control leading causes of death and disability;
- Develop disease surveillance and health information systems;
- Maintain national health facilities and hospitals with modern and advanced capabilities to support local services;
- Promote health and well-being through public information and to provide the public with timely and relevant on health risks and hazards;
- Develop and implement strategies to achieve appropriate expenditure patterns in health as recommended by international agencies;
- Develop sub-national centers and facilities for health promotion, disease control and prevention, standards, regulations and technical assistance;
- Promote and maintain international linkages for technical collaboration;
- Create the environment for the development of a health industrial complex;
- Assume leadership in health in times of emergencies, calamities, and disasters and system failures;
- Ensure quality of training and health human resource development at all levels of the health care system;
- Oversee financing of the health sector and ensure equity and accessibility to health services; and
- Articulate the national health research agenda and ensure the provision of sufficient resources and logistics to attain excellence in evidenced-based intervention for health.
To perform these functions are the various central bureaus and services and sixteen (16) field offices called Centers for Health Development in every region including specialty hospitals and regional hospitals and medical centers. It also have provincial health teams made up of DOH representatives to local health boards and technical personnel for communicable disease control.

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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua is seeking feedback on its proposals for collecting data on financial entities to support cyber resilience.
The ability of cyber attackers to undermine, disrupt, and disable ICT systems used by financial entities was a threat to financial stability, the bank said today.
Service outages could affect individuals, businesses and organisations and lead to a loss of confidence where there was lack of alternative providers or disruptions between financial entities.
To improve the bank's understanding of cyber risks and resilience in the sector, it has releaed a consultation paper proposing the collection of data in three areas:
First, a material cyber incident reporting requirement that mandates regulated entities report all material cyber incidents to the Reserve Bank within 72 hours after detection.
Second, the reporting of all cyber incidents, regardless of materiality, on a periodic basis.
Finally, a periodic survey on the cyber resilience of regulated entities based on the Reserve Bank’s cyber resilience guidance.
“Collection of this information will improve our understanding of cyber resilience in the financial sector," said director of prudential policy Kate Le Quesne.
"It will also support industry engagement by sharing insights and ultimately enable better responses to cyber incidents."
The Reserve Bank is working closely with the Financial Markets Authority on cyber data collection. It is therefore proposing its material incident reporting template could be used for reporting to both entities and that information gathered from the proposals would be shared.
This would provide a joined-up approach across regulators and minimise the regulatory burden for regulated businesses.
"We observe that, with some notable exceptions, most successful cyber attacks impacting the financial sector affect one institution and produce limited damage," the consultation says.
"However, a successful attack with enough technical force to disable or disrupt a key institution or spread through the financial system could become a systemic event.
"A significant system failure could have the same effect."
The bank itself was hacked in late 2020, months after it had recognised internally that it was not investing adequately in cyber security.
In May 2021, the bank published guidance for regulated entities on cyber resilience, setting out its expectations on how they could build resilience to help promote a sound and dynamic financial system.


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Russia is understood for its cold climate, vodka, great literature, unique architecture, beautiful nature, and bears. that’s why the amount of foreign tourists in Russia is increasing annually. In 2017, 24.5 million foreign tourists made trips across Russia. Most of them had to get a visa to Russia before making their trip.
What is a Russian Visa?
A Russian visa may be permitted within the sort of a sticker affixed during a traveler’s passport. It allows its holder to enter, stay, and leave Russia within a specified period of your time. It contains the subsequent information:
-the entry and exit dates
-information about the person or party that sends you (the visa holder) the invitation.
Do I want a Visa to travel to Russia?
Russia features a very strict visa policy. Most of the planet countries will get to get a visa to Russia, even for tourism. Several others fall into the Russian visa-free regime. This suggests the nationals of those countries don’t need a visa when traveling to Russia.
In addition, Russia has made possible visa-free visits for up to 72 hours for a cruise liner and ferry passengers, via several ports. Transiting without a visa is feasible through several airports. Holders of diplomatic from several countries are exempt from the visa requirement during a few cases also.
Russian Visa Types
Depending on one’s purpose for traveling to Russia, there are several Russian visa types. Each of them has its own requirements, application process and specifications.
The Russian visa types are as follows:
-Russia Diplomatic visa. this is often a visa issued to a far off citizen holding a diplomatic passport. I.e. heads of state, heads of state, members of a politician delegation, etc.
-Russia Service visa. this is often a visa issued to a far off citizen having service (consular, official, special) passport. I.e. members of official delegations, administrative and technical and repair personnel of diplomatic missions, etc.
Russia Ordinary visas.
-Russian Private Visa. This visa is issued to persons traveling to Russia for a brief visit on the idea of a call for participation letter.
-Russian Business Visa. This visa is issued to people traveling to Russia for business. Get thai elite visa

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Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.
A rather unexpectedly sweet rock & roll gem.
Thank heavens for "Tonight You're Mine" (or its original title in the U.K.: "You Instead"), a movie that manages to exceed my expectations for a story like this. Undeniably sweet, magical and occasionally funny at times, this rock and roll gem will surprise you from start to finish. It's also the kind of movie you can watch on a rainy day and you can still have a good time. Luke Treadaway from the "Clash of the Titans" remake and "Attack the Block" stars as Adam, one-half of the American rock band "The Make". His day is not starting to go well. He's supposed to perform at the "T in the Park" music festival in Scotland. While that happens, he happens to be handcuffed, thanks to a scheming minister, with Morello (Natalia Tena, Nymphadora Tonks from the "Harry Potter" film series), the band leader for the British female rock group "The Dirty Pinks", (who also have to perform at the festival) after some bitter arguments. All of this takes place at that festival and throughout the movie, Adam and Morello has to find a way to break out of those cuffs, play their gigs, and---possibly---make a magical connection that might find themselves in love. I know you think that this is another one of those groan-inducing rom-coms, but trust me, this is much different than that. Clocking in a rather fast time of 80 minutes, "Tonight You're Mine" has a heart that pulsates with energy and a soul that rollicks with a staggering sweetness. It's hard to believe that Treadaway (with a very solid American accent) and Tena are very talented (Singing and playing guitar/keyboard) on- and off-screen. But they are and they accomplished that in spades. Their chemistry together is incredible. The music in the film is amazing. It's like listening to a mix tape that you made before, but never listened to it until now and it happens to be a very eclectic mix tape filled with many different sounds. (One of the standouts of that mix tape is Adam and Morello performing "Tainted Love" on stage.) I give director David Mackenzie (of the sexually charged "Young Adam", the Ashton Kutcher disaster "Spread", and the mind-boggling "Perfect Sense") credit for taking us inside the actual "T in the Park" festival. It must have been very difficult to shoot in the festival for 4-5 days, bringing a lot of pressure on the actors. But it feels very authentic, real and organic. What also works is that Mackenzie and screenwriter Thomas Leveritt gives the characters a lot of humanity, including Adam's model girlfriend (Ruta Gedmintas), Morello's on-again, off-again boyfriend (Alastair Mackenzie, the director's brother), Adam's other half Tyko (Mathew Baynton) and the sleazy manager (Gavin Mitchell), who nearly hits on women when he's drunk. Yes, there are no surprises. But there's nothing to be surprised about anyway, except for a couple of them. That's why "Tonight You're Mine" is really magical in many ways possible. You won't be disappointed. Give this film a go.
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Introduced by the Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chair of the Committee investigating Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.
In 2009-11, the Hon Michael Kirby served as a member of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) of the Commonwealth of Nations. The group was chaired by Tun Abdullah Badawi (former Prime Minister of Malaysia) and included 10 noted luminaries of the Commonwealth, including Sir Malcolm Rifkind (former British Foreign Secretary).
At a meeting of the EPG, Kirby proposed the drafting of a Charter of the Commonwealth as an urgent priority. Everyone agreed in principle. But they considered that there was insufficient time to settle the draft and to get it approved by the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Perth. Travelling back to Australia on the long plane journey, Michael Kirby prepared a draft of possible text of the Charter , using airline paper napkins to record his thoughts. When these were typed up and distributed, there was consensus in the EPG that his text should be included in the report, so as to give an impetus to gaining approval. Eventually the EPG report was released (not without resistance) at the CHOGM in Perth in 2011. The final shape of the Charter was approved by officials who used the Kirby draft. In the result, on Commonwealth Day 2013, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II signed the Charter and it came into effect with the approval of all Commonwealth countries.
This lecture will describe the unpromising origins of the Commonwealth Charter, its contents and prospects. Strengths and weaknesses of a soft power document of this kind will be explored. It is Kirby's belief that, if the future of the Commonwealth is to be assured, it must rest on universally endorsed values that can be enforced and influential, rather than on purely historical considerations that are bound to be even more controversial.
Hon Michael Kirby is Former Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009) (the nation’s Federal Supreme Court); President of the Court of Appeal of NSW (1984 – 96) and of Solomon Islands (1995-6); Editorial Advisor of LexisNexis Law Reports of the Commonwealth (1985- current); member of the Eminent Persons Group on the Future of the Commonwealth (2010-11); and Chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in DPRK (North Korea (2013-14).
This keynote lecture is part of the Soft Power in the Contemporary Commonwealth: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges Conference which is being held online.
To register for the full conference please visit the event page.
This event is free to attend, but booking is required.

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Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who discovered missing teens Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, spoke to Cleveland’s NBC affiliate yesterday, pushing back on the “hero” label that’s been affixed to him since his video interview went viral.
“I don’t even want it,” Ramsey said of the attention. “They keep saying I’m a hero. Let me tell you something — I’m an American, and I’m a human being. I’m just like you. I work for a living. There was a woman in distress, so why turn your back on that?”
Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame.Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.
It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into themost basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

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10 Young Ballers Who Deserve a ‘Future Stars’ Upgrade in FIFA 20 Ultimate Team
FIFA's 'Future Stars' update blesses the best young players on the planet with monster upgrades to recognise their huge potential – this is our pick for FIFA 20's wave of wonderkids.
Young ballers have been ripping it up across the biggest leagues in Europe this season and EA Sports are about to pay tribute to this next generation of greats by dropping the second wave of 'Future Stars' cards in FIFA 20 Ultimate Team.
'Future Stars' upgrades will be given to talented young players who have been balling out in the 2019/20 season and have the potential to become elite level talent as they progress their careers. In FIFA 19 last year, players like Jadon Sancho, Matthijs de Ligt and Trent Alexander-Arnold received glimpses into their future and got a huge stats increase in-game.
Last year's 'Future Stars' cards dropped in late January so with that time of year approaching again, it seems about right to predict the young ballers we believe deserve a place in FIFA 20's class of 'Future Stars'.
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1. Mason Greenwood
Club: Manchester United
FIFA 20 rating: 67
Mason Greenwood has been the bright spark in an otherwise dismal season for Manchester United. After earning his first ever senior minutes towards the end of last season, the 18-year-old has exploded to life in 2019/20 and established himself as a certified bagsman. The baller – who can bang with both feet – has scored nine goals so far this season and been a regular across United’s front three. He already looks like a player that will live up to the hype.
2. Samuel Chukwueze
FIFA 20 rating: 76
An attack-minded forward with big confidence and an eye for goal makes Samuel Chukwueze one of the most promising, and underappreciated, talents in the world right now. Flying slightly under the radar unless you play close attention to La Liga, Chukwueze has elite dribbling ability and has performed at his best in big games for Villareal. He was on the 10-man shortlist for last year’s Kopa Trophy, made a big impact in the African Cup of Nations, and has hit four goals for his club so far this season. If he can add consistency to his game, this guy can be a world beater.
3. Erling Braut Håland
Club: Borussia Dortmund
FIFA 20 rating: 73
Not much more can be said that hasn’t already been said about Erling Braut Håland. Still only 19-years-old, the striker scored 28 goals in just 22 games for RB Salzburg this season before moving to Dortmund in January, where he became an instant hero with a hat-trick on his debut. This guy moves different – and if there’s one player in FIFA 20 right now who is outperforming his regular rating more than anyone else, it’s probably him.
4. Callum Hudson-Odoi
FIFA 20 rating: 74
Calteck made a big impact in his breakthrough 2018/19 season at Chelsea – winning the club’s Young Player of the Year award and bagging four goals on their Europa League run – and he probably should have been included in last year’s wave of ‘Future Stars’. After a serious Achilles tendon injury in April 2019, CHO is ultimately still working his way back to top form – and any criticism levelled at him for an underwhelming season so far is overly harsh. The Wandsworth baller has still scored three times this season is building a nice understanding with Reece James on Chelsea’s right wing. Callum Hudson-Odoi is still a problem – and his pace and dribbling ability will make him a threat on FIFA for years to come.
5. Nicolò Zaniolo
Club: AS Roma
FIFA 20 rating: 74
Before injury cruelly ruled him out of action until the end of the season, Nicolò Zaniolo was putting together a run of form that saw him heralded as the future of the Italian national team. At 6 ft 3 in, Zaniolo has the build and strength of a physical centre, but the grace and vision of a playmaker with an eye for goal. The baller joined Roma for just €4.5 million in 2018 in a deal that already looks like amazing value. While sitting on the treatment table (and potentially missing Euro 2020), a FIFA 20 ‘Future Stars’ upgrade will at least put a positive spin on Zaniolo’s place in the game right now.
6. William Saliba
Club: Arsenal (on loan at Saint-Étienne)
FIFA 20 rating: 71
Arsenal stole a march on a host of European rivals when they secured William Saliba’s signature for £27 million last summer, and the technically-astute centre back has continued to win plaudits during his loan spell at Saint-Étienne in 2019/20. Despite only making seven appearances for the Ligue 1 club so far this season, Arsenal considered recalling him in January and are reportedly planning to build the team around him next season. Should he be selected as a ‘Future Star’, Saliba has all the raw attributes to be one of the most dominant defenders in FIFA 20.
7. Rabbi Matondo
Club: Schalke 04
FIFA 20 rating: 66
Rabbi Matondo became the latest British baller to switch the Premier League for Bundesliga in January 2019, and his early performances for Schalke 04 have been pretty encouraging. The Cardiff baller – a rapid winger who can carry the ball up the pitch at a frightening pace – left Man City with a view to getting more first team minutes in Germany (a route well established by Jadon Sancho) and he scored his first goal for Schalke in September 2019. He’s also a firm fixture of the Wales national team at just 19-years-old.
8. Reece James
FIFA 20 rating: 73
Of all the young players coming through at Chelsea right now, Reece James is the name that generates the most excitement. The full back has all the pace and positional awareness to dominate in defence, but also has a killer right foot that’s seen him earn direct comparisons with compatriot, Trent Alexander-Arnold. James excelled on loan at Wigan last season and has more or less established himself as Chelsea’s first choice right back in just half a season. With 79 pace and 70 defence, his current FIFA 20 card is criminally underrated. It’s time to put that right.
9. Victor Osimhen
FIFA 20 rating: 74
Victor Osimhen is a hitman that exploded into consciousness at the U17 World Cup in 2015 – winning the Golden Boot for Nigeria – and he’s delivered on that vast potential this season with Lille. The 21-year-old has already scored 15 goals for the French club and picked up a Ligue 1 Player of the Month award in September, making the whole world aware of how cold he is in front of goal. Osimhen is a star boy destined for big things in the next few years.
10. Gabriel Martinelli
FIFA 20 rating: 68
The whole world has been surprised at just how quickly Gabriel Martinelli has found his feet in English football. The 18-year-old Brazilian is playing without fear for Arsenal and has become the first teenager to score 10 goals in a single season for the club since Nicolas Anelka back in 1998/99. Martinelli has ice running in his veins and Jürgen Klopp might not have been wrong to label him the “talent of the century” after balling out at Anfield in the League Cup. This talent is the definition of a ‘Future Star’.


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For the automotive industry, gone are the days of locally manufactured cars. In the global marketplace, to stay competitive as a car brand means outsourcing parts and materials from around the world and even assembling different parts in different countries from where the car will actually be sold. This process describing a long supply chain that gathers resources and car parts in different stages of production from around the world is becoming the standard that the automotive industry manufactures its products.
Supply Chain Visibility
Supply Chain Visibility is the ability to track down component parts from the manufacturer to the final destination. The process of turning raw materials into a finished product is one that unavoidably involves many third-parties. That is the reason the process is called a supply chain. Visibility is the process that aims to improve the supply chain by making data readily available to stakeholders. This is no easy feat because a lengthy and convoluted supply chain involves many third parties which makes the lines of communication complicated if not positively convoluted.
Supply Chain Visibility is now quite important because many brands and companies are outsourcing parts of their supply chain that they used to make themselves. This means that they have lost control and visibility over what used to be part of their operations. SCV is a way to gain back some control over the supply process.
Supply Chain Visibility Technology
The rise in computer technology has advanced beyond the cargo and transport systems currently in place. Revolutionary computing methods such as cloud systems on the internet that can handle the great amount of data needed to keep track of supply chains around the world are now in great demand since supply chain visibility software can solve the problems faced by brands and companies in keeping track of supply deliveries from around the world. A great SCV software can map all of a company’s suppliers. Not only that, but it can also even geographically locate suppliers down to their zip code, city, and country.
Supply chain visibility software is what connects inter-company departments and different companies with one another. This field is undergoing a revolution of development in order to fill in the needs of supply chain management which translates into forming a bridge for a great deal of data coming from around the world.
Supply chain visibility technology can help companies identify where all the components which they need in their assembly factories are produced. It also allows decision-makers the information they need to make quick responses to change by taking actions towards reshaping demand or redirecting supply. Because of the opportunities that they can create for global businesses, supply chain visibility technology is growing to fill the demand.
Benefits of Supply Chain Visibility
With the advent of business becoming global the benefits of supply chain visibility begin with transparency between partners, stakeholders, manufacturers, and suppliers. Instead of becoming bogged down by confusion caused by too many and unclear lines of communication, everybody involved in the supply chain can receive reports of just where orders and shipments are in real-time.
Beyond the transparency which Supply Chain Visibility offers, it also has a real effect on a company’s bottom line. By increasing access to data, more information is shared with stakeholders and decision-makers which improves the ability to plan, avoid unnecessary costs, and increase efficiency.
Blind Spots in Supply Chain Visibility
A fully integrated web of information about the current status of supply chains is the future of global business including the automotive industry. It does sound too good to be true and at the current level of technological development and systems in place it still is. The fact is that at present, supply chain visibility still has blind spots. This is because not all places or companies are making use of technology. Simply put, while others are ahead of the game, full transparency is not possible until everybody catches up in using supply chain visibility software to stay connected and updated.
The software is continuously being developed to cope with the amount of data needed to keep track of supply shipments as they move around the world. However, this does not mean that all companies in the supply chain are already making use of it. When all partners in the supply chain are on the same page then the blind spots will disappear and complete transparency would have been achieved.
Supply chain visibility is a work in progress that improves the manufacturing process of many companies in the automotive industry. Even so, having transparency and visibility in the supply chain is revolutionary for global business companies, specifically those in the automotive industry.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — LSU coach Johnny Jones decided to start junior forward Shavon Coleman, a rare move for someone who's usually his first player off the bench.
The move paid off Thursday as Coleman scored 24 points, and the Tigers held off Georgia 68-63 Thursday to give the first-year coach a win in his Southeastern Conference tournament debut. It was just Coleman's seventh start this season, and he hit a career-best four of his five 3-pointers.
"We're very fortunate he was able to get into a rhythm," Jones said. "He knocked a couple down and became very confident out there and made big plays."
Coleman was just shy of his career-high of 25, which he had in the second game of the season. He hadn't scored in double figures the past four games.
"I just had the hot hand, and the team kept coming to me," Coleman said.
LSU, which started league play by losing its first four games, now has won three of four. The Tigers (19-11) will play No. 13 Florida in the quarterfinals Friday. The Gators beat LSU 74-52 on Jan. 12 in the Tigers' second game in league play.
Georgia (15-17) has lost two straight and left the SEC tournament with a loss in its opening game for the first time since 2009. On the fifth anniversary of the tornado that hit Atlanta during the 2008 tournament, which the Bulldogs won, coach Mark Fox expected much more after a few good practices following their loss at Alabama last weekend on a half-court buzzer beater.
"I obviously didn't have us where I thought I did," Fox said.
The Bulldogs trailed by as much as 23 before whittling away LSU's lead. They used a 12-3 run to pull within 66-63 with 28.5 seconds left. Andre Stringer, who hit a 3 with 36 seconds left, also made two free throws to finish off the win after Kentavious Caldwell-Pope hit off the left rim from 25 feet away.
"We were fortunate our guys were able to hang on," Jones said.
Caldwell-Pope, the SEC coaches' pick for player of the year, had 25 of his career-high 32 points in the second half trying to bring Georgia back. He also had 13 rebounds. The sophomore guard had a couple of options before attempting his 15th 3.
"He's earned the right to take whatever shot he wants, he's had such a great year ...," Fox said. "We still ended up with Kentavious having the ball in his hands. He had an opportunity to shoot the 3 or drive it and get back to the foul line, and he just missed it. He just missed a shot. He's made a lot of them for us. He just missed that one."
Stringer finished with 16 points for LSU. Johnny O'Bryant III added 12 points and 12 rebounds.
Charles Mann had 15 points for Georgia.
Georgia managed to outrebound LSU 48-34, but the Tigers outshot the Bulldogs 43.4 percent (23 of 53) to 28.6 percent (16 of 56). The Bulldogs repeatedly missed close looks in the paint as Nemanja Djurisic and John Florveus struggled and combined to go 2 of 14 from the floor. Donte' Williams fouled out with only two points.
LSU led 39-19 at halftime before a 33-13 Georgia edge on the boards in the second half, along with going 19 of 24 at the line, helped the Bulldogs get back into the game.
"We came out in warm-ups and shootaround, and we looked good," Caldwell-Pope said. "We just didn't carry it over into the game."
He did his best to get them going in the second half. His fifth 3 got the Bulldogs within 10 for the first time at 54-44, and Mann's 3 with 6:20 left got them within 60-51 — the first time Georgia had been within single digits since 18-9. O'Bryant, who had been 1 of 7 at the line, hit five of his next six free throws to push the lead back to 63-51.
Mann hit two more free throws with 1:06 left to pull Georgia within 63-61, only to see Stringer hit his fourth 3 over Kenny Gaines with 36 seconds left. That was LSU's first field goal since 8:37, and it proved enough as the Tigers held on to win.
"The shot clock was going down," Stringer said. "I believe when I looked up it was 7. I initially wanted to drive to the basket. I tried to create some room, and I let it fly. I felt it was going in when it left my hand."
The Tigers just had more energy from the start and took care of the ball with a season-low five turnovers.
The Bulldogs led only once, at 2-0, as LSU jumped on them from the start, hitting six of its first eight shots. The Tigers took the lead for good on a jumper by Coleman, and he quickly pushed the lead to 12-4 with back-to-back 3-pointers.
Anthony Hickey added another 3, and Stringer's 3 gave LSU its first double-digit lead at 18-7, which it pushed to as much as 23 late in the half.


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| FistPunch17 chapter 1 . 12/12/2011
I really loved this story right here.
Maybe it's just because I love Country music. Makes me feel good! I can't wait to see what you have in store next!
| Flutejrp chapter 1 . 12/10/2011
This is actually nice though! And I know how you feel about stepping out of my comfort zone when that short oneshot I made you! So anyway, good job! :)
| NerdyNightStocker chapter 1 . 12/10/2011
This song about a cold and distant girl really does sound like Heather! I liked Justin's fantasy! It was really sweet and not over-the-top. I would love to see Justin's dream come true one day! Great ficlet!
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Awww, this was really cute! I barely see Heather and Justin here anymore, so this was exciting to see! Great work! :)


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Grayed or neutralized color are terms used to describe a color whose “out-of-the-tube” strength and purity has been reduced by mixing it with a complementary color or a gray mixture. When a color is significantly neutralized, only a faint hint of that color remains to differentiate the mixture from a gray of similar value mixed from black and white.
The most common method of graying color is achieved by mixing a pure hue with its complementfor example, combining alizarin crimson and phthalo green. (The general pairs of complementary colors are red and green, orange and blue, and yellow and violet.) Unfortunately, not all of the variants of these colors have exact complements. In such cases, creating a neutral mixture often requires adding other colors to compensate for the effects of near complements. For example, white neutralizes most colors, but it also lightens and cools the color temperature. You can compensate for this by adding black or another dark color to reverse the value change, then adding a warm color, such as cadmium orange, raw sienna or yellow ochre, to restore the proper color temperature. As you refine any grayed or neutralized mixture, ask yourself these two questions:
- Is the value correct? If not, adjust it with a lighter or darker color.
- Is the mixture veering in an undesired direction? If the answer is “yes,” adjust it by adding a complementary color.
Mixing grayed color isn’t a science, and it’s certainly not a matter of life and death. So be flexible and adventurous and, most of all, look on the process as a learning experience.
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HAVING just returned from Paris fashion week, I’m full of new ideas. Paris is a great source of inspiration, as people involved in fashion from all across the globe are centred there for the week and it’s great to see people with their unique take on how they wear the latest fashions.
I’m glad to say that Paris fashion week brought to an end the winter buying season, so no more travelling now, back to the shop and concentrating on the beautiful spring/summer clothes.
It’s really busy in the shop at the moment, as everything seems to be so close together this year. Only last week we had Mother’s Day, now we’re getting ready for Easter, followed closely by the races which are a week earlier this year.
The Style 2008 Contest at Aintree looks like it’s going to be even bigger and better this year, as there’s up to £35,000 worth of prizes to be won, including a holiday to the Caribbean, to either Barbados or St Lucia, a Citroen car, plus loads of other goodies. So it really is worth entering.
I know that lots of girls who come into the shop and have a fantastic sense of style, always come in after the races complaining about the winners, but when I ask if they entered more often than not it’s the same reply: ‘oh no, I’d be ashamed.’
I think you can’t complain about the outcome if you’re not going to have a go yourself.
On Wednesday, I went to Rihanna’s Arena concert courtesy of my friends at the ECHO. We had a great night and it’s the first time I’ve been to a proper concert there, aside from the opening ceremony. Also, it was my first time in one of the boxes. The food before the concert was laid on by Heathcotes and I have to say it was a really high standard, especially as in Manchester the food is not so good ... hot dogs, nachos and other unhealthy options.
The atmosphere at the concert was also much better than the MEN, as it feels a lot more intimate, so we beat them on that as well.
On Thursday, Sheree finally had the baby. She had a little girl who is, up to now, unnamed. She is little baby Kewell for now.
I’ll keep you posted and let you know what name they decide on.
Mum and baby are both doing well and the baby was a good weight, 8lbs.
On Thursday and Friday the Hard’s Day Night hotel hosted a fashion show for the Linda McCartney Centre. Two of the girls who work in the shop showed their collections: Tanya Maxwell and Katie O’Grady.
Unfortunately I couldn’t make either date, but I believe it went really well, and all for a great cause.
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Plot Outline: A romantic comedy set in the world of 1920s football, where the owner of a professional team drafts a strait-laced college sensation, only to watch his new coach fall for his fiancée.
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McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which makes over-the-counter drugs such as Tylenol, Rolaids, and Benadryl, said it was recalling all lots of Rolaids Extra Strength Softchews, Rolaids Extra Strength plus Gas Softchews, and Rolaids Multi-Symptom plus Anti-Gas Softchews distributed in the United States.
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Workshops & Residencies
Here’s a list of the various workshops we offer:
Through skits and group activities, families explore the joy of reading together. A Books Alive! evening includes a reading and performance of a popular short story, a group activity for the whole audience, and a chance for each family to work together to create their own performance piece based on a popular piece of literature. Books Alive! generates new excitement and strategies for reading and a renewed enthusiasm in family quality time.
The Giving Tree – IRIS (Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services), New Haven, June 2009
My Name Is Celia – Keefe Community Center, Hamden, CT, October 2009
Participants collectively create a short play exploring an important social issue. Through writing, improvisation, and theatre games, they create and explore characters and scenes based on themselves, their families, and other people they know. They then collectively create, write, and read aloud a cohesive final script that uses theatre to change the way they and other people think about the issue.
Arts Farm, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 2007
Youth create original fables around themes of race and diversity using the animal kingdom as inspiration. Students play theatre games, study movement and dance, brainstorm and write a collective story, create animal masks, rehearse, and perform their original fables.
Youth as Leaders @ Casa Latina / John Martinez School, Summer 2008
Collective Consciousness teaching artists train classroom and after-school teachers in a variety of theatre-based activities and theatre games to use with their students. The training enables active teacher participation, encouragement, and leadership while teaching artists are in residence in their classrooms, and trains teachers to develop participatory, educational theatre projects that enhance student skills when the teaching artist is not in the classroom.
Easter Seals / Youth as Leaders / John Martinez, June 2008
Students work independently and collectively to create hip hop poems, monologues, and scenes that explore individual identity, conflict, and conflict resolution. They learn the basics of hip hop theatre, dramatic structure, plot, character, and beatmaking. They brainstorm scenes, improvise action and dialogue, and write raps to create collective hip hop scenes for a final performance.
Boys & Girls Club of New Haven, Summer 2009
The Old Globe Theatre and Lincoln High School, San Diego, February 2009
Participants work with I’m Just a Superhero actors to learn effective ways to handle bullying. Through discussion, role-playing, sharing of personal experience, and theatre games, students explore bullying, its effects, and positive ways to resolve it. Fun and interactive, the workshop explores different roles (bully, bystander, target), different forms of bullying (name-calling, spreading rumors, payback), and different ways of handling bullying (compromise, assertiveness, group response).
Through a variety of theatre exercises, teachers and administrators learn ways to improve the parent-teacher relationship in general, and the productivity of parent-teacher meetings specifically. Exercises include writing a monologue in the voice of an adversary (parent, student, administrator, fellow teacher, etc.); acting in and problem-solving role-plays based on actual events; and sharing true stories of parent-teacher interaction in which a lesson was learned.
Elm City College Prep School, New Haven, December 2008
Educators and administrators from throughout Connecticut confront their own identities and bias – first in a talkback following a performance of No Lie: A Hip Hop Bus Trip, and second in a series of theatre-based exercises. Participants generate individual poems and raps, as well as small-group tableaus and scenes, and end with a stimulating conversation about how to integrate these exercises into their own teaching.
SERC (State Education Resource Center) Conference, Cromwell, CT, June 2008
Teachers use theatre to explore their experience with race in and out of the classroom. Teachers write, share, and stage personal stories of (im)migration and difference; then role-play a variety of race-based situations that have come up in the classroom; and finally brainstorm solutions.
Elm City College Prep School, New Haven, Fall 2008
Led by Struggle for Freedom actors, participants debate and define the meaning of the play’s key themes: freedom, justice, and social change. They then use theatre games to experience first-hand the strategies of identity-affirmation and working together used by key figures like Rosa Parks and Crispus Attucks. Finally, they work in groups to create new scenes demonstrating or responding to a Struggle for Freedom concept: hero, determination, segregation, boycott, etc.
Participants learn the techniques of movement-based Russian acrobatic theatre. They experiment with solo, paired, and group movement improvisation, and learn how to use movement to tell stories. They use text, characters, and plot from Shakespeare’s plays as inspiration for the creation and performance of movement-based final scenes.
Arts Farm, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 2007
Participants should range in age, race, religion, and socioeconomic status. They will explore the aspects of society that inform self esteem and decision making, and re-evaluate how language can simultaneously oppress and empower them. Over the course of an hour, a day or several weeks Collective Consciousness artists will work with the participants to show them how the media and society determine what they buy, how they look, how they speak to each other, and the decisions they make. They will apply this knowledge to their own personal experiences, good or bad, and use it as inspiration to explore acting, movement and writing to create a performance piece. This performance will unite its participants through a deeper understanding of common struggles and give the audience a window into the anxieties, frustrations, hopes, and dreams of the performers as well as themselves.
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Review of Capitalism, the Anti-globalization Movement and the Third World by Neil Thomas. In Capital & Class, summer 2007, 92: 45-80. Review by Yan Liang. University of Redland firstname.lastname@example.org Abstract: Thomas (2007) debunks three misconceptions in the current anti-globalization movements, namely, globalization entails universal liberalization, globalization has weakened traditional functions of the Northern states, and anti-globalization does not require a battle against capitalism. Thomas argues that these misconceptions undermine the efficacy of anti-globalization movements. He proposes that anti-globalization movements should challenge selective liberalization, Northern states’ neoliberal policies, and the very basis of neoliberal globalization, that is, capitalism. I argue that in addition to all his proposals, attention should also be paid to the role of Southern states and co-operations between Southern states in the anti-globalization movements. Keywords: anti-globalization movements Neil Thomas sets out to debunk the fallacies in today’s anti-globalization movements and he successfully accomplishes the goal. He convincingly shows that there are three common misconceptions about globalization in the anti-globalization movements, which inhibit the development of these movements. These three misconceptions include: first, globalization entails universal liberalization following the tutelage of neoclassicalism; second, traditional functions of the Northern governments have been eroded due to globalization; and third, anti-globalization does not involve or necessitate a battle against capitalism. Anti-globalization movement (AGM) as an organized process began in 1997 with the landmark establishment of the “Association pour la Taxe Tobin pour l’Aide aux Citoynes” and the World Social Forum. Although the movement has gained increasing coherence and sophistication, it is incapacitated by three mis-conceptualizations of the globalization process. First, AGM organizations (AGMOs) perceive globalization as the opening-up of markets throughout the world, as the neoclassical free-market doctrine prescribes. Examining agricultural and industrial policies in less developed countries (LDCs) and more developed countries (MDCs), Thomas shows that in reality, neoliberal globalization is featured by privatization of means of production and selective liberalization of trade, investment, finance and labor; in particular, markets are much more quickly and broadly liberalized in LDCs than those in MDCs. This misconception of liberalization makes many AGMOs put emphases on the appropriate conditions and sequencing of liberalization, rather than liberalization itself. They also overlook the
importance of the differences of state interventions with regard to non-trade matters in MDCs and LDCs, which are significant factors causing different levels of development. Second, AGMOs consider that globalization is accompanied by the retreat of the state and therefore, they wage wars against transnational corporations (TNCs) and institutional institutions such as the WTO and the IMF without challenging the Northern states. Citing examples of how Northern states, driven by ideologies and corporate pressure, support privatization, protect private companies, entice foreign firms and promote pro-TNC rules at the WTO and other institutions, Thomas demonstrates that “nation-states are both instruments and architects of the global capitalist system” (61). Finally, AMGOs fail to engage with the capitalist nature of globalization. This in turn leads to AMGOs’ counterproductive activities. For example, they support the removal of one-sided liberalization but downplay self-reliance; they question the decision-making procedures of the international institutions but ignore the latter’s radical shift from the Keynesian to neoliberal foundation; and they focus on TNCs’ contingent ethical behavior but not their “incessant, expansionary and largely amoral” search for profits. In short, this misconception leads AGMOs to challenge globalization as such but not the capitalist foundation of globalization. Thomas has given a comprehensive and critical diagnosis of the AGMOs. Although these criticisms can hardly apply to all AGMOS as Thomas reckons, given their heterogeneous nature; they help to shed constructive light on AGMOs’ future direction. That said; there are two points I would like to add. First, to the extent that AGMOs should not be contented with balanced liberalization but should focus on nations’ selfreliance, what is the role of regional, balanced and fair trade? It is correct that even given market accesses; LDCs may still be marginalized in the international trade due to their lower technological level, insufficient production capacities and weak institutions. But should we totally abandon trade, even trade between LDCs? Should we give any credit to Southern regional trade arrangements, such as the ALBA? Second, Northern states promote and perpetuate the current neoliberal system; they should be one of the foci in the battle against Neoliberalism. But Southern states should not be spared either. Although Northern states, through international institutions, have imposed many binding rules on the Southern countries; the Southern states should by no means subscribe to the status quo. Nor are they stripped of the capacity for policy maneuvers. Therefore, AGMOs should engage with the Southern states with a clear recognition of the latter’s capacity and responsibility in shaping globalization. Yan Liang is an assistant professor of Economics at University of Redlands. Her research interests include open economy macroeconomics and political economy of globalization and development. She has published a number of articles in Journal of Economic Issues, China & World Economy, and The Chinese Economy. Her book reviews have appeared in Review of Radical Political Economy, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Socio-Economics and the Heterodox Economics Newsletter.

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This hotel was a nice overnight the second time around for me. The 1st time was not the best experience, but I'm glad I had another overnight stay. My room was comfortable, clean, and inviting. However, the breakfast offered is overly priced and not worth the visit. Definitely recommend exploring other nearby areas. But this is a nice hotel stay.
Aug 29, 2023
Staff was great. Breakfast was also good but a little pricy for the caliber. Room was disappointing. It smelled heavily of bleach, which was quite unpleasant. Room lacked sufficient available outlets (needed 2 phones, Bluetooth headset and a laptop) and lacked modern USB receptacles. I dont think that 4 near the desk or beds is an unreasonable ask. Sink had very low flow & pressure. Heavy bathroom door with auto close was also repeatedly inconvenient. All told an OK place, but well below my expectations for the brand.
Jun 22, 2023
Good hotel and good location for research triangle park. I booked breakfast, but the record of my booking was gone. The system incorrectly checked me out early so cleaners tried to come into my room while I was getting changed.
Jun 19, 2023
After a delayed flight from Miami, and being stuck at Raleigh Durham airport, it was suggested by baggage claim to try this hotel... After reading through the reviews vs our overall experience, I must say, would come again. Our shuttle person, Ryan, was truly a vibe! Energetic, knowledgeable and kind. He suggested a food spot called, "The House", which seemed to be walking distance. The food there was amazing, I'm drooling just thinking about it.
Upon arrival to the hotel there was a bit confusion from different parties, however Ms. J at the front desk truly took care of us! Blessings upon blessings. We only stayed for a few hours, but I imagine a longer stay would be even more enjoyable!
As for the actual room, it is clean, but definitely in need of an update, no other complaints.
May 16, 2023
Nice location right off Interstate 40. Only 17 min to unc chapel hill.The facility was clean and well maintained. There is ample parking. The rooms were clean and nicely set up. My only complaint was that the air conditioner sounded like a plane taking off what it would kick in. The drain in the bathroom sink was also slow. My main beef was the restaurant seem to be understaffed. This resulted in a long wait for a relatively simple dinner order. However everyone seems to have difficulty hiring enough help at this time. The front desk staff was very friendly and helpful. Overall I would stay there again.
Apr 27, 2023
I wish in the near future the hotel can use wall-mounted refillable bottle for shampoo and hand wash instead of travel-size packs.
The hotel can use more employee training. My trip partner checked in at night time and the front desk staffs chatted to each other in front of him for 5mins without attending to his check-in. There was an non-front-desk staff wearing the earphones with a straight face walked around, without having eye contact with guests she met while taking the elevator and also in the lobby
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Mar 19, 2023
Good location and service to and from airport. Stay here for business but I would stay here for personal travel. Clean rooms, reasonable prices and friendly staff. It would be nice if the restaurant was open Sunday’s when business people arrive for Monday work. Will stay here on my next business trip.
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Nov 16, 2022
I've been making frequent visits to Durham to clean out a relative's home, with the help of a dear friend. Our 1st overnight, I chose a different hotel that was okay, but didn't inspire me to book there again. Via Google, I came across this Hilton Garden Inn. I see it's rated as a 3-star hotel, but based on its' employees friendly "above and beyond" service and true humanity, alone, should be higher. I do have to add the rooms are nice and the evening bar has a "Cheers" like feel and magically transforms to a top knotch fresh made breakfast area overnight. Marissa and Cleon absolutely have to get individual shout outs as exemplary members of a winning team. We've been back a few times with more visits planned. Thank you for being an extremely pleasant part of a long, difficult task.
Nov 16, 2022
We discovered this hotel close to a home where a friend and I were working on an estate sale for her family member. The hotel is very nice with comfortable beds and friendly accommodating staff. Cannot say enough good things about the 2 people we have had the most contact with, over several visits to the area-Marissa & Cleon!They have a buffet type breakfast ($11) that is really good with a lot of choices with cook to order items that are great!
Nov 13, 2022
The 2 beds room was really small. Nice and clean but not much room to get around. The bathroom was large. About as big as the room. We had to get our door cards redone often and that was a pain being on the 7th floor going up and down on the slow elevator. The hotel was booked solid and we were there for a large wedding so it was a bit of in convenience with these small details and pouring down rain all day and night.
Oct 28, 2022
Right by the airport. Checked in at 1am, very nice black guy helped me. The furnace is on the wall, so AC doesn't work on the window part, it actually has its own touch pad. Bed was comfy. Shower was nice. Breakfast was available but as much as you pay for those rooms, a decent breakfast that doesn't cost 10 dollars should be added. It's ridiculous how they get over on you that way.

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Seeking a compromise on road blocked by locked gate
I attended last week’s County Commission meeting and listened to the discussion about the road issue on Big Lookout Mountain. I have hunted in that area for more than 40 years and was dismayed when I encountered the locked gate near the top of the Manning Creek road blocking access to public land. I spoke with the county road department and two of the commissioners, and learned of the county ordinance declaring the Connor Creek road from the Snake River road to the Lookout Mountain road a county road under Revised Statute (RS) 2477.
Using RS 2477 as a tool to claim jurisdiction over roads in the West has been asserted many times. Generally these assertions take place on public lands, but some have occurred on private lands where documentation shows the route existed prior to the land’s transfer out of the public domain. The RS 2477 case law is extremely complex and generally is consistent with state law regarding road definition, location, duration of use, improvements (or the lack of), tread, etc. One common element is that the rule of “… as is, where is…” applies, meaning that significant route modification, surface changes, or widening are not allowed. If routes asserted on public lands under RS 2477 need to be modified, the county applies for a right-of-way under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA). In the case of private lands the county would negotiate with the landowner for a right-of-way or easement for any modifications.
An important point in this case is whether or not the county has enough documentation to establish its claim on the private lands in question. In the recent past, the existing county ordinance regarding this road was enacted. The private landowner, taking issue with the county’s documentation, installed a locked gate. Litigation seems likely to resolve this dispute. I hope it doesn’t come to that. My sincere hope is that a negotiated settlement resulting in ensuring public access to public lands from the top of the Lookout Mountain road can be reached. I am confident that both parties (with input from adjoining landowners, hunters, and recreationists) can do this.
Enjoyed re-reading two recent Herald articles
Relaxing in my living room, after shoveling my walk from today’s snowfall, I re-read some very pleasant articles by the paper’s editor, Jayson Jacoby. I have long enjoyed his obvious enjoyment of nature, and his very unique writing style, but somehow I really took to his two articles of Feb. 8. One article, concerning the natural water cycle in Oregon, including the dual effect of the Elkhorn Mountains, was not only informative, but fun to think about. How many articles have you read that can combine a 7-year-old boy’s fun in a few puddles, with the hydrologic cycles in Oregon, in such a unique and fun way?
The second article concerned the frozen art along various different rivers in winter, and with similar musical comparisons of creeks (or cricks) in warmer months. To me, God’s beauty in nature surrounds us at any season of the year. During most of the year we’re usually too busy with our own lives to pay much attention to the gifts of nature. Mr. Jacoby often reminds us to open our eyes to what we have. But on a cloudy winter day, when nature puts on her quiet, restoring effects of winter beauty to counteract the politics, injustices of the world, rampant hatred, and innumerable other problems, Mr. Jacoby hits a seldom-used nerve of appreciation in us to turn our hearts toward peace and tranquility. Many thanks, Jayson, for reminding us.


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There's only really one dress to discuss from the Oscars. Michelle Williams in Chanel was absolute perfection on the night. I don't know who got to her from Sunday to after the Golden Globes, but thankgod they did!
It's a pity at how staged the whole affair has become. I personally would have preferred to see less celebs waiting in town cars for their cue and more inpromptu walks down the red carpet with perhaps Michelle sporting a fox fur stole? It seems all too straight and narrow. I mean if the most controversial item coming out of the Oscars is Helena Bonham Carter's outfit choice then we're probably clutching at straws. Aren't we?

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It was like a scene from the movie. Danville Police say Elton Chambers barricaded himself, firing 20 rounds through his door, shooting at police.
Danville Assistant Police Chief Tony Gray put his negotiating skills to use Monday night when Chambers began firing. Gray fired back with his weapon, not a gun but a cell phone.
After a 25 minute phone conversation, the active scene ended with Chambers surrendering peacefully.
Several weapons were retrieved from Chambers' possession.
He is now facing multiple charges of Wanton Endangerment, 1st Degree.

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Getting past our old culinary cop-outs
When it comes to food, I'm somewhere in the middle of the spectrum for a college student. I'm not cooking up fancy meals with organic rice and posting it on Instagram, but I'm also past eating at the dining halls or ordering Jimmy John's four times a week.
Recently though, to my bank account's chagrin, I've been exposed to a new world; the world of food beyond the basics of Tennessee.
For fairness' sake, I'll admit that I like Roboto's, Chipotle and most other places along Tennessee Street where most students seem to eat when going off campus. There's nothing wrong with a food coma-inducing burrito now and then, even if a New York Time's article just revealed said burrito has half my daily calories and all the daily salt I need. But while there's nothing wrong with those food options, there are nonetheless better alternatives out there, and they're not very far away.
One of my classmates recently showed me a great restaurant in a gas station on Tharpe, called WoodChuck. The food coma I got from the steak and eggs there was among the best I've ever had. The week prior to that, my roommate showed me a place called Dave's Pizza Garage, which also gave me an excellent food coma. And about a year ago, I went to Monk's, a.k.a. Well's Brother's for the first time. That too gave me a great food coma.
Aside from revealing my affinity for food comas, the last paragraph stands as a testament to the great and affordable food options available within 10 minutes' drive of campus. For someone like me that thinks eating the same leftover pasta for a week straight is a strong bit of cooking, the proximity of cheap and tasty food is very important.
It means that students don't need to feel confined to dining halls, boxes of pasta they got on BOGO at Club Pub, or the rinse-and-repeat combination of Chick Fil A, Chipotle and other at-hand options once you step off campus. And lest this lesson seem obvious, it's taken me almost four years and two degrees to learn it.
Part of the reason is because for most of freshman year I had about $5 in the bank after paying off housing and my meal plan. For students currently in a similar situation, I empathize. You're absolved of any guilt you might feel from hearing me talk about the great food awaiting us once we get off the beaten path. That being said, for both the currently broke and those relative high-rollers amongst FSU's populace, my tidings should be kept in mind for the next time hunger strikes and your wallet is full.
Whether it's this commentary, the annual Best of Tallahassee edition of the FSView or anywhere else, it's important to keep an ear out and a mind open for new things, especially food. Routines are great, as are go-to food choices in your own kitchen and in restaurants. But when that exploratory mood strikes, remember this commentary and others that talk about the places we might not know about. Food doesn't have to be luxurious caviar, especially when you're a poor undergrad student like I once was, or a poor graduate student like I am now; it also doesn't have to be an unpleasant gobbling down of dining hall fare or sticking to a limited routine until it becomes a rut. I may not like spicy food, but we would all do well to remember that variety is the spice of life, and the one spice that all food needs.

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