The summer blonde bombshell look with tousled sunkissed waves still has plenty of va va voom under its belt…so how can we transform this summer trend into something more suited to the cooler weather?
The team at Salon Yazbek suggest looking further afield to different colour tones for starters. During summer your hair can take quite a bit of a bashing from the summer elements. Being in the sun, surf or the pool can expose those already lightened highlights, so come winter, the hair is certainly in need of some TLC. This is when we move away from the ends being so obviously highlighted and instead towards melting some nice winter hues through the hair.
Elodie says that whilst balayage and ecaille is still enormously popular with women around the globe, the look has evolved from an obvious ‘light to dark’ colour technique to a more softer, melted balayage. “I am still loving the ‘ecaille’, which means ‘tortoiseshell’ in French. It is more subtle and sophisticated than balayage but still kind of ombre with deeper, multi-dimensional tones. I love this look – the colours just rouge and ribbon through the hair and the result is very natural because there is less contrast between the colours.”
“Immediately when I saw Gia, I just knew she needed a fringe” Says Salon Yazbek head honcho Nathan Yazbek. ” A fringe is a great a choice for someone who is wanting an immediate change. Cutting Gia a fringe framed her face and complimented her checkbones and just made her eyes pop ! I also suggested cutting some length off as her hair was not in the best condition after summer and shoulder length hair is certainly still an on trend length.”
And here’s Gia’s freshened up colour and cut – beautiful and perfect for winter! “I love how the colour is so much more natural,” says Elodie. “Whilst it’s not a dramatic change, the balayage is fresher and more melted through rather than blonde and brassy, which is absolutely on trend for winter, as are the richer, deeper tones.” “The cut is also a perfect length for winter as we are wearing more scarfs and jackets, so it’s a great accessory to compliment your winter outfit. It can be styled smooth throughout the day for a professional look, to an evening sultry look simply by adding some soft waves.” says Nathan.


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Congressman DeSaulnier to Host Town Hall in Moraga
Walnut Creek, CA – Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) announced he will host a town hall meeting in Moraga on Tuesday, May 30th at 6:30 p.m. Since taking office in 2015, Mark has hosted 43 town halls and mobile district office hours throughout Contra Costa County.
Residents are invited to join Congressman DeSaulnier for a town hall meeting to listen to a legislative update, to ask questions, and to share thoughts on issues of importance. Congressman DeSaulnier will also discuss the broad range of constituent services his office can provide.
Moraga Town Hall
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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1928 St. Mary’s Road
Moraga, CA 94556
Please RSVP to CA11.RSVP@mail.house.gov or call (925) 933-2660. For more information or to request ADA accommodations, contact Congressman DeSaulnier’s Walnut Creek office.

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On Human Rights Day, a global alliance of migrant rights and anti-trafficking organisations names the top three human rights setbacks over the last twenty years
Lack of national laws and implementation of existing laws; the conflation of sex work and trafficking; and growing right-wing and anti-migrant movements have posed the biggest challenges to the realisation of human rights for migrant and trafficked women over the last two decades, says the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) on Human Rights Day.
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on anti-trafficking, women's rights and migrant rights around the world named the most pressing obstacles to the fulfillment of migrants' rights – helping to identify the main factors involved in human trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers. The survey took place at GAATW's International Members' Congress, which brought together representatives from GAATW's Member Organisations, as well as partners and allies, in September 2014 to review progress in anti-trafficking and migrant rights work and plan future goals.
Lack of laws addressing trafficking or the failure of governments to implement anti-trafficking laws were identified as major setbacks in recent decades. Even where laws are in place, many NGOs said there was too much emphasis on the criminal element of anti-trafficking, rather than focusing on the protection of human rights. For example, one participant said that in Malaysia there is a "lack of implementation of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. The legislation is very crime centred, absolutely no human rights framework." The participant felt that there was "no political will" in the country to protect migrants' rights. GAATW believes that any government policy on trafficking must centre the human rights of all workers, including migrant workers and those working in informal sectors, such as domestic work.
Many NGOs stated that the rising prominence of right-wing political parties and movements, particularly in Europe, is a major challenge to human rights work. Racism, xenophobia and anti-migrant sentiments promoted by right-wing bodies are leading to "stigmatisation of women who are on the move", putting migrant women at increased risk of violence, and increasing the criminalisation of migrants. Outside of Europe, one participant said that "a right-wing government in India... is pulling back all the gains of the last two decades." GAATW is particularly concerned about persistent negative framing of migration in the official discourse, which feeds these discriminatory views and ignores that migration results from state policies and state's labour market needs.
Governments criminalising sex work in the name of combating trafficking was also a top concern for NGOs. One representative from Mexico pointed out that criminalisation of sex work had increased over the years, while many others criticised the conflation of trafficking and sex work in government anti-trafficking policies and NGO advocacy work. Trafficking is not the same as sex work. Trafficking occurs across labour sectors: while some persons are trafficked into the sex sector, not all (or even most) sex workers are trafficked. GAATW has documented the harm done to sex workers, migrants and to people who have been trafficked by anti-trafficking laws, policies, programmes and initiatives that conflate these differing issues. (For more information, read GAATW's publications Collateral Damage, What's the Cost of a Rumour? and Moving Beyond 'Supply and Demand' Catchphrases: Assessing the uses and limitations of demand-based approaches in Anti-Trafficking.)
Other setbacks identified included gender and income inequality and a lack of funding for anti-trafficking work.
Despite these setbacks, participants recognised some gains for trafficked women over the last 20 years through the increased engagement of many anti-trafficking actors with the human rights framework and more recognition of the intersections between trafficking and migrant and labour rights.
The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is a non-profit organisation that works to protect and uphold the human rights of migrating and trafficked women around the world. Representing a global network of 124 non-governmental organizations, we focus on the issues of migration, labour rights and human trafficking, with a special emphasis on women. Our activities involve research, communications, training and advocacy in order to hold governments accountable, increase access to justice for migrating and trafficked women and further the global debate on the issues.
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Pittsburg Youth Chorale to perform at parade
Pittsburg Youth Chorale, under the direction of MJ Harper, will perform a Pre-Parade Prelude at 8:30AM on Saturday, October 19th at Root Coffeehouse, 402 N. Broadway.
Sing along to holiday hits before Halloween, patriotic tunes in preparation for Veterans Day, and folk tunes perfect for Autumn.
Performers meet Tuesdays 5-6PM at First United Methodist Church, 415 N. Pine.
If you are interested in booking this ensemble, contact MJ Harper at 620-719-6633 or email [email protected] . Area singers in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade are invited to join Pittsburg Youth Chorale. Participants do not need to be enrolled in USD 250 to belong to this ensemble.To enroll, contact MJ Harper.


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Headlines about Investar (NASDAQ:ISTR) have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Investar earned a news impact score of 0.16 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news stories about the financial services provider an impact score of 46.5768099563091 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the near term.
Shares of Investar stock traded down $0.20 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $28.30. The stock had a trading volume of 8,700 shares, compared to its average volume of 16,489. The company has a market cap of $279.35 million, a P/E ratio of 25.27 and a beta of 0.36. Investar has a twelve month low of $20.25 and a twelve month high of $29.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.18, a quick ratio of 1.02 and a current ratio of 1.02.
Investar (NASDAQ:ISTR) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April 25th. The financial services provider reported $0.40 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.39 by $0.01. The business had revenue of $14.93 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $14.22 million. Investar had a net margin of 13.78% and a return on equity of 7.01%. equities research analysts forecast that Investar will post 1.65 EPS for the current year.
A number of research analysts have weighed in on ISTR shares. BidaskClub downgraded shares of Investar from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, June 15th. ValuEngine upgraded shares of Investar from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, July 2nd. Sandler O’Neill set a $30.00 price objective on shares of Investar and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 24th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Investar from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 3rd. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The company has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $27.75.
In related news, Director James M. Baker bought 1,010 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 4th. The stock was acquired at an average price of $27.80 per share, with a total value of $28,078.00. Following the completion of the purchase, the director now directly owns 6,977 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $193,960.60. The purchase was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Insiders have bought 1,168 shares of company stock valued at $32,168 in the last three months. Corporate insiders own 9.07% of the company’s stock.
Investar Holding Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Investar Bank that provides a range of commercial banking products for individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in South Louisiana. The company offers various deposit products and services, such as savings, checking, money market, NOW, and individual retirement accounts, as well as various certificates of deposit; debit cards; and mobile banking services.
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Kwik-Check keeps an eye on autolube system
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• Filtakleen Manufacturing has launched a monitoring device for its Lubrakleen automatic lubrication system.
With Kwik-Check the manufacturer is claiming that a 32-point ACL system can be thoroughly checked in three minutes.
A hand-held remote control is used to trigger the single stroke air pump from under the vehicle once the system has been put into service mode.
As the system is fired finger pressure on the pipes supplying grease points is said to be sufficient to detect if each line is functioning as it should. Should the technician be called away before finishing the test procedure, the service switch will default to normal operation mode after 10 minutes to avoid damage if the vehicle is inadvertently driven away during testing.
A pressure switch has been incorporated into the system as a further safety device. It reacts to pressure changes caused by running out of grease: a warning light on the dash is activated and the Lubrakleen system is shut down automatically.
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Can Robots Be Emotional Companions?
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Pepper, a new android from the Paris-based SoftBank Group, was unveiled last week in Tokyo. The 4-foot-tall robot has 20 movement-powering motors, a 10.1-inch touch display, and a synchronized, cloud-based database. Pepper also comes equipped with voice-recognition, as well functions that recognize human feelings and emotions. "I've believed that the most important role of robots will be as kind and emotional companions to enhance our daily lives, to bring happiness, constantly surprise us, and make people grow,” Bruno Maisonnier, founder and CEO of Aldebaran, said in a news release. “The emotional robot will create a new dimension in our lives and new ways of interacting with technology.”


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UFC 229: Daniel Cormier sends a good luck message to AKA teammate Khabib Nurmagomedov ahead of UFC 229
What's the story?
In a recent Instagram post, Daniel 'DC' Cormier had some kind words of praise and motivation for his fellow American Kick Boxing Academy teammate Khabib Nurmagomedov, ahead of his title defense against Conor McGregor at UFC 229.
In case you didn't know...
Having won the UFC Lightweight Championship at UFC 223 by defeating Al Iaquinta, standout Russian fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov will make his first UFC Lightweight Title defense tomorrow night at the T-Mobile Arena against the returning Conor McGregor.
McGregor, who was the last person to officially hold the UFC 155-pound championship, will mark his return to the Octagon for the first time in two years since his championship winning bout over Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205.
The heart of the matter
Ahead of Khabib Nurmagomedov's first UFC Lightweight Championship defense against Conor McGregor at UFC 229, The Dagestani's fellow Team AKA training partner and current UFC Heavyweight Champion, Daniel Cormier took it to his official Instagram handle and sent out a good luck message to Khabib ahead of the biggest fight of his Pro MMA career thus far.
Khabib, who in recent months has been training alongside the likes of Daniel Cormier and Luke Rockhold in the build-up to this fight, is certainly more than prepared for his first ever title defense in the UFC and what remains as his toughest challenge inside the Octagon so far. As, Irishman Conor McGregor will look forward to winning the UFC Lightweight Title for the second time in history, after being recently stripped off his championship belt due to Octagon inactivity.
As noted, DC noted on Instagram that most of the work has been done and he knows for the fact that Khabib is more than ready for the biggest fight in UFC history.
Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor will make lock horns later tonight (tomorrow morning as per IST) as the two men get set for war at UFC 229 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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An original version originally posted on 1/12/2010 as "Social Infrastructure of White Privilege and Bike Lanes" @ AMMMO
I felt very aware of my race and ethnicity almost all the time during my most formative years.
I knew that I was Filipino before I began going to the "puti" high school. It was going to be different from the more homely Filipino-dominated grade school.
I knew that I was one of only a few Filipinos in my college dorms. I didn't have too many white friends going to the "puti" high school.
I know that I am one of the few Filipinos interested in pursuing anthropology and science studies as a career. I come from a background of nurses and future nurses, and in my stage of liminality, I keep getting pulled towards a career like that.
There's just a bit of a "disconnection" between where I've gone/where I want to go and what has surrounded and currently surrounds me.
I use the word "disconnection" because that's exactly how I feel when I become "aware" of my race/ethnicity in a setting. I feel "disconnected" from the people who inhabit the space, like I can't make a connection, like we share almost nothing in common.
I can become "aware" of that when I'm in an academic conference full of older white guys as the key speakers and experts, when I'm in a wine-tasting shop in Silver Lake. I don't become as "aware" of this when I'm at the basketball court in Glassell Park.
My thinking implies that people who have a feeling of "fitting in" either consciously or unconsciously feel or have a connection. Let's assume that's true. What fosters that connection?
It is at this point that I'll borrow the term "infrastructure." "Infrastructure" fosters that connection.
"Infrastructure" is used in the context of public works projects. It is defined as the "basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise." Infrastructure is the freeways, roads, BIKE LANES, power plants, power-lines water sources, the internet, phones, and other forms of communication. I use the term "infrastructure" to mean "a collection of connective strands used to maintain a system."
When you are a white American, and probably male, there is an "infrastructure" that firstly, helps you forget the negative parts of your identity and secondly, fosters the ability to go in and fit in almost anywhere.
You see your likeness reproduced in all kinds of public discourse and spaces. You see yourself in movies, academia, arts and high-class theater, corporate jobs. You can literally identify with being almost anything cause you know that no matter where you are, someone with your identity, perhaps even your looks, are there and you can probably talk to them, and they can hook you up.
If you're a white guy in America, unless you're queer and/or poor, you don't really have to constantly (whether conscious or not) re-evaluate your "belongingness" in mid-high class settings. You don't have to think about where you come from because you're already everywhere and the possibilities are endless. You can do this and this and this. You can just be "human" and not focus on your color. You know that your opinion really counts. The infrastructure in the form of movies, academia, arts carries these people any and everywhere and they don't have to stop and think as much cause they're so connected to whatever they want to do.
Conversely, the existence of an "infrastructure" working so well for a white American male implies that there is little to no infrastructure for a person of color. There isn't as much infrastructure that would firstly help a person of color forget the negative parts of their identities. There isn't as much infrastructure that would help a person of color fit in almost anywhere.
There are infrastructures that help people of color, but are more insular (or at least can be perceived that way). The demarcation that something like a Scholarship fund is for blacks, or Asians, or Latinos makes it seem to plenty of white folk that there is just all this opportunity for people of color. The very naming and labeling of the organization makes it very explicit that it benefits who it does. There is no formal naming if any involved in the process of a white guy getting into a business or high position because he "fits" the culture or "knew someone". Without that formal naming, is an informal, connected, embedded network.
Like the BIKE LANES in LA that last for one block, the infrastructure for people of color is piecemeal and far and few between.
Bike lanes and infrastructure are built only on certain streets.
Even without any BIKE LANES/INFRASTRUCTURE on streets and avenues, a few people will still bike, but it's not expected that they will bike.
People could technically go anywhere with their bikes without "infrastructure" but it isn't a safe bet, and usually most drivers, pedestrians, don't expect bikers on their streets. The streets are reserved for drivers.
Yes, we see a few people of color here and there in some movies, some academic fields, some arts, some sports, infrastructure that holds up popular culture. But there are only certain professions and things that people of color can be acknowledged to do, like my whole my family and the nursing profession.
People of color could technically go anywhere with their careers without "infrastructure", but it isn't a safe bet and usually families and people in power, won't expect those people of color to be in professions like that dealing with Science Studies or Anthropology. The streets are reserved for white Americans and obssessive Asian kids.
So the question is how do we keep building that infrastructure for people of color?
For me...Manny Pacquiao is a start.


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Accident happened Thursday night
(HOLTON, Ind.) -- One person suffered minor injuries after a train collided with a truck in Holton.
The crash happened on West Faulkner Avenue and West Broadway Street around 6 p.m. Thursday
Ripley County deputies say the driver of the truck, Adam Franklin, age 37, of Holton received minor injuries as a result of the crash.
Agencies involved included the Ripley County Sheriff’s Office, Indiana State Police, Osgood Police Department, Holton Fire Department, Todd’s Wrecker Service, and the Ripley County Communications Center.


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Car crashes into Fayetteville motel on Bragg Boulevard
Fayetteville police are investigating a crash involving a car and building Wednesday night.
The car crashed into the Boulevard Motel at 4309 Bragg Blvd. just after 8:15 p.m. This is less than a mile from the interchange where Skibo Road becomes Pamalee Drive in northwestern Fayetteville.
The driver of the car was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. Police said the man had a "medical issue," which caused the crash. His condition wasn't immediately known.
There were no other injuries in the crash, police said.
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Distance from Dhulian to Belsand
Distance from Dhuliān to Belsand is 323 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 201 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Dhuliān and Belsand is 323 km= 201 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Dhulian to Belsand, It takes 0.36 hours to arrive.
Dhulian is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||24° 40´ 59.9880'' N |
87° 58´ 0.0120'' E
Dhuliān Distances to Cities
|Distance from Dhulian to Danapur||313 km|
|Distance from Dhulian to Kolkata||238 km|
|Distance from Dhulian to Banka||108 km|
|Distance from Dhulian to Bankura||185 km|
|Distance from Dhulian to Bangalore||1,694 km|
Belsand is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||26° 26´ 37.1400'' N |
85° 24´ 2.7360'' E
Belsand Distances to Cities
|Distance from Belsand to Baheri||637 km|
|Distance from Belsand to Ayodhya||321 km|
|Distance from Belsand to Barpeta||559 km|
|Distance from Belsand to Amroha||736 km|
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Martin Harte, Managing Director of the Temple Bar Company, a voluntary organisation of people with a commercial or cultural interest in the area, should know. He’s watched the proliferation of off-licences there and blames them for degrading the reputation of this Central Dublin destination for tourists and locals alike.
And he has figures to hand on that proliferation.
Back in 2012 he counted 62 within 10 minutes’ walk of Temple Bar to which must be added new ones opening in Dame Street and Redmond’s Hill.
And the next phase will be about how these off-licences can expand their business in liquor sales, he adds, pointing to the change in consumer behaviour in Temple Bar in the last five or six years.
“Alcohol is a lot more freely available than it was 10 years ago,” he said, “Temple Bar can accommodate a lot of people, it’s a place where people come to relax and chill-out and I noticed some years ago that a lot of people had alcohol out in the street particularly around festivals and other events.
“This is the most negative manifestation of that. But there are also kids hanging around taking over public spaces and drinking alcohol in them. We didn’t have this when there were less off-licences around the place.
“The phenomenon of drinking in the street has really become popular over the last six or seven years,” said Martin who puts the rise in anti-social incidents – particularly during the day – down to this proliferation in off-licences over last few years.
New legislation announced
Following such concerns, the Minister for Justice & Equality Frances Fitzgerald and the Minister of State for Planning Paudie Coffey recently announced a proposal to allow city & county councils include objectives in their Development Plans relating to “regulating, restricting or controlling the development of licensed premises”.
The making of a Development Plan is a reserved function for elected councillors and the proposal was drafted by the Department of Justice & Equality. It has been included in the Head and General Scheme of the new Planning & Development (Amendment) Bill published by the Department of Environment, Communities and Local Government.
“Pubs, off-licences and nightclubs are a normal feature of any town or city in Ireland,” stated Minister Frances Fitzgerald TD, “However in some towns and cities we’re seeing an unsustainable proliferation of off-licences along single streets or in historic or tourist areas.
“This is leading to concerns about the attractiveness and commercial vitality of these areas as well as prompting fears regarding drinking in public places and public order.
“I think it’s only right that local councils should have a role in regulating the proliferation of new licensed premises through the Development Plan process.”
Minister of State Paudie Coffey added, “I’ve worked closely with my colleague Minister Fitzgerald to deliver this in the heads of the planning and development bill. This proposed change will provide for greater alignment between the planning and licensing systems and will give communities, through their councillors, a say in local policies on provisions of new licensed premises.”
Martin Harte reflects the views of the Minister for Justice.
“This Bill is to be welcomed as the local authorities don’t really have the ability to limit the number of licences in an area.”
The Temple Bar Company has noticed a direct correlation between anti-social behaviour and street drinking which it attributes to the increased availability of cheap alcohol in the city centre.
So he sees the Ministers’ proposals as a welcome first step.
But of equal importance is the “licensing creep” of restaurants into pubs without planning permission, he points out.
This is leading to an over-saturation of licensed premises within the city centre too, he added.
The LVA has been engaged with the Department of Justice for some time on this planning issue to make it a requirement to apply for planning permission before being cleared to seek a licence and has also made representations to government about the lack of control on off-licensing regimes.
In 2005 there were 2,900 off-licences in the country. As of September last year there were 3,280.
It costs €250 to apply for wine off-licence and then €1,500 per category to renew.
The licensing regime has lost control in the opinion of LVA Chief Executive Dónall O’Keeffe, so the Association is naturally concerned about this proliferation.
“We’ve noted Minister Coffey’s announcement and we’re awaiting the detail,” he told Drinks Industry Ireland, “We think directionally it’s positive but are very concerned about the varying interpretations of it that might be taken up by the different councils. We need to see uniformity on this issue.”
The retail demand for pub licences comes only from multiple retailers and other reasonably large retail operators.
“There should also be a requirement to have planning permission before you apply for a pub licence. Currently, one can get the licence first and then come back for planning permission. It’s the same for off-licences.
“You should need to have your Tax Clearance Cert, be of sound character etc and have a premises that’s already got planning permission before a licence is granted.”
NOffLA welcomes but warns
NOffLA kicked up its heels at the announcement with its Government Affairs Director Evelyn Jones stating, “NOffLA welcomes any provision by the Government that encourages the responsible retailing and consumption of alcohol, however it’s important that a differentiation be made between retail outlets specialising in the sale of alcohol and those mixed traders who retail it as part of a broader offering and as a means to drive footfall to sell other dearer grocery products.
“Unfortunately the current licencing system is a result of changes made in 2000 which deregulated the market and resulted in the increase in licences available for retailing alcohol.”
However she also warned, “It’s also important to note that it’s the job of Government to regulate the industry and transferring power to local authorities may lead to local commercial circumstances impacting on the decision to award planning for new licensed premises.
“As responsible retailers, NOffLA is calling on the Government to urgently proceed with and enact The Public Health Alcohol Bill which it has committed to and furthermore we believe that a ban on below-invoice-cost selling of alcohol should also be included as it will strengthen the protections in place to safeguard the public health.
“We believe these measures will serve as a strong deterrent for the irresponsible retail of alcohol which NOffLA greatly welcomes.”
VFI urges caution
And VFI Chief Executive Padraig Cribben, too, urged caution in the implementation of any such power by city or county councils.
“Current Licencing law is primarily based on a system of control exercised by the Courts,” he pointed out, “This has, by and large, served its purposes well and Legislators should be slow to tamper with it.
“The current proposal relates to Development Plans for the future and is narrow in its definition. We would not like to see it expanded beyond this.”


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Journal Joshua 3-4 (all references are from the ESV; changes in punctuation are mine)
Scripture: (Joshua speaking to the 12 selected men from each tribe) “…that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’, then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So, these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.” Josh 3:6-7
Observation: It is hard to pick up anything but the facts of the record sometimes. But there are jewels of Godly principles to be unpacked everywhere the Living Word is recorded.
Analysis: Reading Joshua 3-4, I wondered if the writer was trying to fill up a word count, as if he got paid by the word.
Seriously, look how many times scenarios were repeated in these two chapters: the priests on what they were supposed to do; the congregation on what they were supposed to do; the 12 guys cherry-picked from the Tribes to find and carry rocks for a monument from the bottom of the Jordan, etc.
Then I understood: How do I remember anything? If I want to drill something in the gray matter between my ears, what do I do? Repeat, repeat, and repeat again. Repetition is the mother of knowledge, right?
That is what God is hammering: REMEMBER. And not only remember but remember with purpose: So that in generations to come, I will be faithful to tell of His mighty deeds. David:
- “I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.” Ps 77:11
- “We will not hide them from their children but tell the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that He has done…so that they shall set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments and not be like their fathers—a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.” Ps 78:4-8
How faithful am I about telling my children of the mighty works and wonders of God? I can check off the box saying that presented the Gospel (or a semblance thereof) to them once upon a time; but having the daily recognition of His deeds in my mouth? Shucks, I hardly tell them to myself, much less anybody in my family.
It is erecting (figuratively maybe) a monument that I can say; “See? See what the hand of the Lord has done!! Oh, sorry, have I already said this? Too bad: I am going to say it again and again. It deserves to be faithfully repeated all my days.”
Hammer point: Faithfulness comes in remembering and doing what I am supposed to do over and over again.
Prayer: Lord, how can I increase in faithfulness? One way is by remembering Your works and Your ways AND talking about them, starting with the face in the mirror, and extending to my spouse, then to my children, then to the local church, then to strangers unknown. When I meet exasperated opposition, keep on talking, gently and persuasively. AMEN.

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Neha Kakkar Hints at Depression After Reports Alleging Affair with Indian Idol Contestant Surface
Neha Kakkar posted a message to her Instagram stories on Saturday urging people "to stop making anybody feeling so bad that they start thinking of ending their life."
Image of Neha Kakkar, Vibhor Parashar, courtesy of Instagram
While popular Bollywood singer Neha Kakkar is busy touring the country, her personal life has once again taken centre stage. Only recently, she was in media news over her break up with ex-boyfriend Himansh Kohli and now her name is being linked to the finalist on Indian Idol 10, Vibhor Parashar. The two have been performing in cities together of late, sparking rumours of dating.
However, Neha, shared a note on Saturday to her Instagram stories and hinted that she might be undergoing depression and has urged people "to stop making anybody feeling so bad that they start thinking of ending their life."
She later followed her long note by assuring fans that she was alright and would be performing at a concert later in the day. See posts by Neha here:
Vibhor, on the other hand, has refuted rumours of them dating. He was quoted as saying, "“You should take it as a rumour. People have sh** mentality. If someone is helping you build your career, it is because they see some talent in you. Just because I don’t tag her as didi (sister) on Instagram, everyone starts thinking that she is my girlfriend."
Earlier in February, Neha had admitted to being in depression post her split with Himansh, but never stated why the two parted ways. The singer had opened up about the rough phase she's going through post break-up by sharing a series of heart-wrenching notes stating that she gave away everything and got nothing in return.
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CARSON, Calif. – After suffering a hamstring injury during the LA Galaxy’s CONCACAF Champions League match against C.S. Cartaginés on Aug. 20, Robbie Rogers returned to the training field on Tuesday.
During the portion of training open for media availability, Rogers was spotted running on the far side of the Galaxy’s training field. Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena confirmed that it was Rogers’ first appearance at training since his injury-shortened 44 minute shift against the Costa Rican side. Following training, Arena admitted that Rogers is moving forward, but there was no timeline in place on when he may return to full training or game day action.
When Rogers does return to the field, he'll likely be in for a positional battle as rookie Gyasi Zardes has done well to stake his claim for the left midfield spot to date.


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"It's going great! I'm really enjoying it," she told BBCi Films exclusively. "Jamie Foxx is incredible. I love Michael Mann and Tom Cruise is just a ball of sunshine! He's just a ball of electricity and I really, really enjoy him. It's been a wonderful experience and I'm having a lot of fun."
Of her character, Will Smith's Mrs said, "I play an Assistant State Attorney and I'm one of the characters who's on Tom Cruise's hit list." Then followed a rather OTT, if somewhat endearing, gush about everyone involved, particularly her "favourite, favourite, favourite, favourite" director Mann, whose advice she follows strictly.
"Finally, I just do as I'm told!" she said. "Finally, I'm willing to listen to somebody! Will's going: "Why can't I get some of that!""
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Melbourne Australia’s adrenaline-infused doom-pop rockers Coffin Carouselhave released yet another new music video! This time for the creepy acoustic track ‘The Coffin’. The video was filmed & directed by Gareth McGilvray. The Coffin is the sixth music video from the band’s latest full-length album Between Death & Dead which saw a worldwide release on October 13 via Eclipse Records.
“I am a huge Johnny Cash fan, and we also happen to share the same birthday” states front man Howard von Noise. “To write, record & release a song like this means so much to me right now. I have always been about loud guitars, smashing drums and hard rock/metal sounds but stripping all the elements of a song back to raw bones and really getting into the mood of the vocal delivery was an amazing feeling and I don’t regret adding the song to the album at all!”
Between Death & Dead contains eighteen spooky tracks, was recorded and produced by Howard Von Noise, and was mixed by Neil Kernon(Queensryche, Dokken, Hall & Oats, Cannibal Corpse). Buy the full album on iTunes, , or , and stream it via Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and more at http://eclp.se/rbtwn,


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Nighstalker, Schock Absorber, Iron Horn // Eightball Live Stage, Thessaloniki, Greece // 05.04.13
Friday night and Nightstalker return to Thessaloniki just a few months after their latest performance. Having released their new critically acclaimed album “Dead Rock Commandos”, Nightstalker need no introductions and have nothing to prove when it comes to live shows. They have nothing to prove since everyone knows that Nightstalker’s gigs turn to be real holocausts. So, taking this for granted, and, in combination with the pretty cheap ticket (only 10€!), the Eightball Live Stage filled once again by fans who expect nothing less than a true rock party!
First band on stage was Iron Horn. Featuring Savvas Mistiliadis, the singer of Drunkard, Iron Horn is a newly formed stoner band from Thessaloniki having just about 2 weeks of existence! Obviously inspired by bands such as Down and Motorhead, they played a short set-list having not the best possible sound. The ace of the band is definitely the growling vocals of Savvas, but, it’s not possible to draw reliable conclusions from the debut show of a band. I’m looking forward to seeing them in the future.
Next band was Shock Absorber from Thessaloniki as well and it’s been my first time hearing of them. Playing songs from their new album and some older ones, their groovy-stoner sound was good enough to warm up the crowd. I have to admit that some of their songs were really catchy and gained my attention reminding me of Pantera in some parts, especially the Anselmo-like vocals.
It’s time for Nightstalker. I’ve been impatiently waiting for them since I had so many years to see them live and specifically since the Metal Healing Festival in 2007! I still don’t know how I missed them so many times, cause I really had a lot of opportunities during the last years! Anyway, it’s been around 23:00 or something when the heavy-rock legends hit the stage with “Go Get Some”, a song from their new album “Dead Rock Commandos”. The sound was definitely MUCH better than before so any concerns I had flew away! The next song is the self-titled “Dead Rock Commandos” and the party has started for good. Everybody was jumping and singing the refrain proving the success of the new album! Next is “One Million Broken Promises” from the last album again and that’s how the band put an end to the new songs giving the baton to the older stuff. “Enough Is Not Enough” from the “Superfreak” album made the start with the self-titled song to be following in a row.
Argy doesn’t stop to dance giving the rhythm to the whole venue which can’t deny the invitation. It’s really hard to describe the atmosphere in words but everyone who has seen Nightstalker before can understand better what I’m trying to write here! “Line”, “Voodoo U Do” and “Iron” were the representatives from the “Just A Burn” record until we dive deeper into the past and “The Ritual”-era with “Galactic Revolution” and “Never Know” ! Honoring their entire discography, they couldn’t leave the “Use” record out of the party and that’s how “Brainmaker”, self-titled “Use” and “Freakland” came to complete this job! Next songs are “All Around” and “Just A Burn” in a row and what happened reminded me the chaos in bigger festivals when Black Sabbath or AC/DC are on stage! And I’m not fuckin’ exaggerating, Nightstalker are living legends and true rock-stars, no doubt! “Mad Prophet” from “Side FX” LP was the unexpected surprise of the night and then “The Underdog” seemed to be the last song of the night…or not?
Nighstalker left the stage and the crowd was rhythmically shouting their name expecting them to return on stage. That’s what happened just a few minutes later with Argy hitting the stage and with the same rhythm as the fans shouting “Oe Oe Oe…Nightstalker” he started shouting “Baby God is Dead, Baby God Is Dead…Nightstalker” and that was a great and special intro for the encore and “Baby God Is Dead” which really burned the venue! “Trigger Happy” and “Keep Knockin’” followed to complete this rockin’ holocaust!
Really, I have no more to say! Nightstalker know how to rock and they rock hard! I’m really proud of them and I swear, it won’t take so long again until next time! Definitely a night to remember!
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ENOUGH IS NOT ENOUGH
VOODOO U DO
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Three people, all accused of being part of anti-Islamic Republic organizations, have been sentenced to death by the Iranian regime. They were accused of protesting in the mass upheaval following the election fraud of earlier this summer. Amnesty International has expressed concern about these and other rulings targeting civilians for their peaceful opposition in Iran. To read more, click here Huffingtonpost.com.
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Imagine that you’re the editor of a big-city daily newspaper whose reporting staff has been slashed by its corporate owner. You struggle to cover the basics — local politics, business, the arts. But you’ve managed to preserve a fairly robust sports section. After all, a lot of your readers are avid fans. If they no longer needed to come to you for coverage of their favorite teams, then your circulation, already sliding, would fall off a cliff.
Well, your worst nightmare just came true. The New York Times Co.’s announcement last Thursday that it was buying The Athletic represents nothing less than an existential crisis for regional newspapers.
The Athletic is a five-year-old website that covers sports — not just national sports, but local sports as well. If sports is the only reason you haven’t stopped subscribing to your local newspaper, that’s about to change. You’ll soon be able to buy a digital subscription to The New York Times that includes The Athletic’s coverage.
“This acquisition should make mid-market metro newspaper publishers shudder,” wrote David Skok, a former top editor at The Boston Globe who’s now the editor of a Canadian business website he founded called The Logic. “The Times can now offer a unique bundle of international, national and local news that offers readers a value proposition better than that of many local newspapers with eroding sports coverage and whose news sections largely consist of wire copy from The Associated Press, Reuters and even The New York Times’ syndication service.”
The Times Co.’s acquisition of The Athletic was a certified big deal. The company paid $550 million in cash, making it the Times’ largest takeover since it purchased The Boston Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993, according to Alex Webb of Bloomberg Businessweek. (The Times Co. sold the Globe to Red Sox principal owner John Henry in 2013 for $70 million — among the more devastating markdowns in media history.)
The Athletic, with 1.2 million subscribers, will help push the Times’ paid circulation for all of its projects from about 8 million closer to its goal of 10 million. The Athletic is currently a money-loser, but, as Webb writes, the Times Co. will seek to close the gap by selling more advertising and by “cross-selling the products: persuading existing Times subscribers to pay for the Athletic and vice versa.”
That strategy has already proven successful with other Times products such as its Cooking app and Wirecutter, a consumer recommendation site that it acquired several years ago. Although the Times Co. hasn’t announced exactly how The Athletic will be priced, it seems likely that it will be included with its All Access digital subscription and sold separately to those who have a cheaper Basic subscription, or no Times subscription at all.
It’s the attractiveness of getting The Athletic bundled with an All Access subscription to the Times that has got to be causing local newspaper executives to break into a cold sweat. You might think that the best way for local newspapers to fight back is by offering quality. And, of course, there’s something to that. But cultural changes, not just newsroom reductions, put local news at an enormous disadvantage.
We are living at a moment when national trends trump anything taking place at the local level. We follow national news avidly — if not quite as obsessively as we did during Donald Trump’s presidency — while paying less and less attention to what is going on in our communities. Even local school committee races are dominated by national issues such as critical race theory rather than math scores and who can most effectively negotiate a new contract with the teachers union.
Given those trends, a high-quality regional paper like the Globe may not be safe from the Times-Athletic juggernaut. The economies of scale being what they are, an All Access subscription to the Times is actually a little bit cheaper than a digital subscription to the Globe. In addition, surely there is a contingent of Globe readers who come for the sports and don’t care all that much about the paper’s comprehensive regional coverage. It’s a good thing that the Globe’s sports reporting continues to be as strong as it is.
Aron Pilhofer of Temple University puts it this way: “The Times has placed itself in direct competition with every local news site for the same pool of subscribers. And since the average number of news sites people will pay for is one, that is very bad news indeed for local legacy news organizations.”
What’s especially disconcerting is that the Times is pulling away from the journalistic pack to an extent that couldn’t have been imagined a few years ago. Since the late aughts, the paper has avoided a close call with bankruptcy, moved far ahead in its competition with the resurgent Washington Post and now is threatening to overwhelm large swaths of the regional media ecosystem.
At a time when local news is in crisis, with newsrooms downsizing and papers closing, the Times’ dominance is starting to look like a threat to our ability to inform ourselves about what’s taking place in our communities and neighborhoods.
The acquisition of The Athletic may be good for the Times. It remains to be seen whether it’s good for democracy.

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That figure has risen since late June, as the BA.4 and BA.5 strains have become dominant because they can evade vaccination or immune protection from the former infection, while some experts say the latter is a form of measles. can be contagious.
Those in hospitals are the highest since the emergence of the coronavirus, up from January’s high of 5,390 during the first wave of Omicron infections. The daily death toll has also risen, above 100 for the first time on Saturday.
There has been an outbreak of more than 1,000 retirement homes, the government said, as the elderly are largely affected.
Defense Secretary Richard Marles said many aged care centers were facing staff shortages, with support for defense personnel at such facilities to be extended until the end of September.
“It is an extreme measure and it is correct to describe it,” he told ABC television. “Given the number of outbreaks we’ve got right now, this is the right thing to do.”
Many frontline workers in hospitals are also sick or in isolation, further deepening the healthcare crisis.
During a harsh winter with both COVID-19 and the flu virus, officials have recommended the use of masks indoors and an immediate booster dose of the vaccine, telling businesses to allow them to work indoors.
AustraliaOne of the countries with the most vaccinations against COVID-19 has given two doses to about 95% of people over the age of 16, although only 71% have had booster shots.
Still, its number of nearly 9.13 million infections and 11,181 deaths was lower than that of many developed economies.


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India Black and the Widow of Windsorby Carol K. CarrBerkley, 2011I would have thought even so resourceful an author as Carol Carr might have trouble surpassing the wit, pace, and sheer joyful bounce of her debut mystery novel India Black, but in her follow-up, India Black and the Widow of Windsor, she does so easily. Buoyed by the strongly favorable reader reaction to the first book, this second one received much wider distribution in America's bookstores, with the probable result that many mystery fans will encounter the second book before they've ever heard of the first one. Those fans need not deny themselves a little rainy-day instant gratification: Carr does a superb job of making this book a complete unit unto itself, rather than a half-complete sequel relying on its predecessor.In fact, Carr does just about everything here superbly - it's difficult almost past reckoning to believe these are her first two books. The star of what I hope will be a very long series is India Black, beautiful young London madam who's accidentally drawn into the world of 19th century British politics and espionage and (much to her own surprise, one senses) begins to like it. Her 'handler' is the enigmatic Mr. French, and their protector and benefactor is none other than the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, and in this latest adventure, the goal is simple: save the Queen.Queen Victoria, that is, who's received an otherworldly injunction from her dead husband Prince Albert during a séance: he pleads with her to spend Christmas at their Scottish estate of Balmoral, swearing to be with her there in spirit. The British government is worried that the séance might be part of a plot by ardent Scottish nationalists to assassinate the Queen while she's relaxing in the highlands, and so India Black is enlisted to go undercover as a lady's maid to an elderly noblewoman also staying at Balmoral - a post that has its own hazards:
The marchioness's breakfast arrived, and I helped her sit upright long enough to fork in a wagonload of deviled kidneys and toast, and by the time she'd finished and I'd given her a sponge bath (resolving to mention to French in the future that while I might be willing to shoot a Cossack guard or two, I was disinclined to bathe flabby members of the aristocracy), it was time to drape my charge in a clean costume for luncheon.
The hints of Flashman are obviously intentional there and throughout this juicy snack of a book (although India is a better shot than Flashy, and more honest, and braver, and smarter), whose undercurrents ripple with laughter even in the most tense moments. India Black is a knowing and insightful narrator who leads us deeper and deeper into the bizarrely repressed world Victoria has created for herself at Balmoral, complete with incongruous Indian servants and loutish Scotsmen - including the infamous John Brown. But India is equal parts pragmatist and egotist, and Carr frequently invites us to chuckle at her in addition to with her, as in the scene - one of many - in which she's driven to distraction by 'Bertie,' Prince Edward, Victoria's heir apparent:
"Curse it," I said, expelling a breath of relief. "That man is a menace. I can't seem to go anywhere without running into him. If I disappear, look in Bertie's room. He's likely to have me stuffed in his wardrobe." I smoothed my apron modestly. "Of course, if I weren't such a deuced good-looking woman, I wouldn't have such trouble."
Carr works in plenty of social commentary, a good deal of which centers on women's issues - natural enough in a novel where a brothel keeper is striving to save a queen from what could very well be a female assassin. India has little patience for the staid patriarchy that exists everywhere outside the Queen's immediate circle:
... men are free to impose their will on women, while women are denounced as sluts and bobtails for submitting to it. Give me the old-fashioned exchange of goods and services any day; there's no disgrace in conducting a business transaction among consenting men and women
But such elements are never meant to distract from the fizz and pop of the main plot, which Carr builds with assurance right up to the book's climactic sword-fight and accompanying plot revelations. I'll reveal no details, but readers seeing the surname "MacGhillechoinnich" in the closing chapters might guess that those Scottish nationalists are indeed at work among us.Fans of historical murder mysteries should rejoice at the appearance of a second India Black adventure and the prospect of more - the madam comes highly recommended.


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With a background and interests in biology, sustainability, media and design, Amy has worked in a wide variety of sectors including documentary filmmaking, virtual world simulations, environmental education, community organizing and permaculture design. Her clients include organizations such as Ecoversity, Bioneers NM, Santa Fe Community College, and the Department of Transportation. By focusing early in the design/build sequence, her design process involves seeking out and utilizing leverage points and relationships in natural systems that can have the greatest effect in the eventual design. Most recently Amy has begun collaborating with Stephanie Rothenberg, artist and professor at SUNY Buffalo, on The Myco-planning Network, an exploration of and comparison between human built networks and networks from the natural world. During her time at the residency Amy will be investigating acequia systems of New Mexico and possible correlations to food security in the state.
Catherine Page Harris, Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor, teaches Art and Ecology and Landscape Architecture at the University of New Mexico in a split position with the College of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture and Planning. She received her BA from Harvard University, 1988, MLA from UC Berkeley, 1997, and MFA from Stanford University, 2005. Harris works in art/design, and digital/analog expressions. Her built work resides at Deep Springs College, White Mountains, CA, McCovey Field, SF, CA and The Violin Shop in Albuquerque, NM, among other sites. Recent projects include collaborations with Alexander Webb and Nina Dubois on modular explorations of space at Montessa Park for High Desert Test Sites and trans-species habitat furniture with Sam Martin, shown at the Santa Fe Art Institute among other spaces. Transpecies habitat, ecological flow, and morphogenesis, are current theoretical foci.
Courtney Michele Leonard is a multidisciplinary artist from the Shinnecock Nation of Long Island, New York whose work explores the evolution of language, image and culture. Leonard’s current work embodies the multiple definitions of “Breach”, an exploration and documentation of historical ties to water, whale, and material sustainability. Leonard has given lectures and exhibited nationally and internationally as a part of the Art In Embassies (USA Embassies), Toi Ngaphui Northland College (NZ), and the Museum of Art and Design (New York). Interdisciplinary research is core to Leonard’s studio practice. ‘BREACH: LOG 16…’, a solo exhibition, recently exhibited at the ASU Art Museum CRC (Tempe, USA), with research in collaboration with indigenous artists from Aotearoa, Nova Scotia, and upon completion as an artist in resident aboard the Charles W. Morgan, a historic whaling ship. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and works as an independent artist.
From the crossroads of writing and social practice, Franciszka Voeltz curates a collective poem to the entire planet (dearbelovedsproject.wordpress.com), maintains an interactive daily writing practice, and facilitates community writing events and workshops. Her chapbook POETXTS is available from Imaginary Friend Press, and her work has appeared in journals including Dark Mountain, Analecta Literary Journal, and Adrienne: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women. Voeltz is the recipient of various poetry fellowships including those granted by the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and Art Farm. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of California, San Diego. Franciszka lives and works in Northeast Missouri at Sandhill Farm, a collective and intentional community that grows 80 percent of their food.
Jan Mun is a media artist that creates social sculptures. Using a combination of artistic and scientific processes, that manifest in the form of social practice, interactive installations, and bio-art. Jan is an amateur mycologist, microbiologist, and beekeeper working in collaboration with communities to innovate ways to communicate with each other and the larger public. She is working on two long-term projects: Greenpoint Bioremediation Project an artist-led creative cleanup and community partnership to innovate bioremediation practices for residents in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (one of the most polluted urban areas in the country) and ProfileUS: Invasive Species, which examines the interconnections made by humans and other species that have migrated to the US through the lens of art, technology, and biopolitics.
Kate Aitchison is an artist from the Southwestern United States focusing on print media. Her work revolves around connections between art and conservation, human impact in the natural landscape, and emotive connection to place. In 2015 she was a RISD Maharam STEAM Fellow, as well as the recipient of the Peter St. Onge Memorial Scholarship in Printmaking to travel to Japan to learn traditional Japanese papermaking techniques.
Simona Prives is a Brooklyn based visual artist, designer and educator. Born in New York City but having spent most of her childhood in Israel, Simona creates both physical and digital collages that focus on the process of decomposition and reconstruction. She uses fragments of her drawings, screenprints, found material and site specific video to assemble her compositions.. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York City, Chicago, Miami, California, Italy, Greece and recently China. She has been awarded residencies in Venice and Luca, Italy, Berkeley, California, Vermont, New York City and Greece. Simona is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Lois Klassen is a Vancouver-based artist and writer whose collaborative and participatory works have appeared galleries, museums and schools in Canada and abroad. Her texts have explored the impact of performance art on street audiences, the relevance of art coming out of “nowhere,” and the declarations of current feminist practices. Lois Klassen holds a Master of Applied Art degree from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada, a Diploma in Art History from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, textile arts training from Capilano University in North Vancouver, Canada, and a Bachelor of Medical Rehabilitation in Occupational Therapy from the University of Manitoba. She is currently a Cultural Studies PhD student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
Sylvia Arthur is a writer whose work explores issues of identity, diaspora and place. After graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Westminster, she worked as a runner for Sky News before becoming a reporter at News Africa magazine. She freelanced for The Guardian, the BBC and the British Journalism Review and worked as a senior researcher/assistant producer for the BBC, ITV and Sky. In 2010, she relocated to Brussels for a job with a communications agency, working as a consultant to the European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, communicating the benefits of intra-EU job mobility to young, skilled Europeans. During this time, she has travelled the continent extensively, meeting Europeans from all walks of life with compelling stories to tell about life in the Other Europe in a time of austerity. In 2013, she received an MA in Creative Non-Fiction Writing from City University, London and recently published her first book about finding a job in a tough economy.
Melanie Gleason is an immigrant justice attorney who is traveling around the United States giving pro bono legal services with her self-founded project, Attorney on the Move. She has been on the road since July 2015 and has worked with migrant farmworkers in California’s Central Valley and rural Oregon, detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, tribal members on the Blackfeet and Navajo reservations, and is most recently coming from working at Casa Alitas, a short-term shelter for women & children migrants upon crossing the US/Mexico border. Melanie is working with the Santa Fe Dreamers Project while in town and has been a long-time community organizer and educator.


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Yes, its been a while, and I am finally back with another installment to my blog series about the history of the black pin up!
A few weeks ago a work colleague who has been following my blog posts lent me a fantastic book titled 'Vintage Black Glamour' and I thought this would be a great way to ease back into the subject and refresh our minds a little about the whole world of hidden pin ups including, dancers, burlesque stars, actresses and performers who have been neglected or sidelined by the mainstream because of the colour of their skin. (If you haven't seen them already, take a look at my past posts to read more in depth about this subject).
Picking up this book for the first time I was immediately bowled over by the amount of beautiful photographs that fill it; page after page of stunning women with incredible stories. It confirmed my feelings that this rich history has been largely ignored and marginalised throughout the decades in favour of more widely acceptable and lucrative white mainstream glamour. However just one glance will affirm that there was a WHOLE lot of black talent out there making waves
Sara Lou Harris, one of the first black models to appear in national print advertisements, being photographed by twin brothers Morgan and Marvin Smith (late 1940's)
The book is broken down into chapters covering black glamour in many different guises; Pin ups and Hollywood Starlets, Beauty and Fashion Entrepreneurs, Scandalous Glamour, Jazz Singers, Musicians, Writers, Movie Stars and Theatre and TV Pioneers to name but a few! Yet the thing that makes the book so much more than just a roll call of names and faces is that the author's aunt was a successful black performer who had inspired her to delve deeper into the lives of other black performers giving her a direct link to this little known or forgotten world.
Margaret Tynes was an international singer of jazz, opera and theatre who found professional acclaim for her portrayal of Salome in the early 60's and had a career spanning 50 years. Known to the author as the 'diva in the family' Tynes had a phenomenal success working with names like Duke Ellington and Harry Belafonte.
Margaret Tynes (far left) with Duke Ellington and Joya Sherrill posing for TV special based on Ellington's suite, A Drum is a Woman
Taking Tynes lead, the rest of the book is 'a visual tribute to some of the glamorous, accomplished and often groundbreaking black women - both legendary and obscure- of the 20th Century'. Here is just a taster of the remarkable women and hidden pin ups filling these pages...
This stunning photo is of a woman named Selika Lazevski taken in 1891. It gives me all kinds of thrills; She is SO statuesque and poised, and the fact we are seeing an historic photo of a black woman in contemporary costume is unusual. The book had little to say about her, but upon doing a little research I found that Selika was a French horsewoman who performed high level dressage riding sidesaddle at circuses and hippodromes.
Known as 'Acquanetta' during her career and hailed as the 'Venezuelan Volcano' this actress's origins are full of mystery. Accounts differ with the white press stating that she was born as 'Burnu Acquanetta' meaning Burning Fire/Deep Water, of Native American descent from the Arapaho tribe, while the black press said that she actually born as 'Mildred Davenport' from Norristown Pennsylvania. It seems like a case of catering to different audiences with the most acceptable story and a shame that the actress couldn't embrace her true identity whichever that was. In possibly alluding to a more mysterious heritage Acquanetta was able to gain film roles that would have been denied to black actresses in the 1940's.
Barbara Ncnair was the first African Ameircan woman to host her own variety show on television from 1969 - 1971. She was a singer and actor who had starred on Broadway and had hit records, her career spanned 50 years. I found a great video of her singing a duet with Dean Martin on her show, both performed beautifully while Dean smoked a cigarette on stage, how times have changed.
'No one looked like her'. Donyale Luna was a model who was described as 'an extraordinary species' and was the first black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue in 1966. Luna also appeared in several Andy Warhol films during the 1960's and has remained as an icon of other worldly beauty within popular culture despite her early death at the age of 33
Finally just I love this photo of another of the authors aunts, this time Mildred Taylor pictured here on the left with her friend Queen Esther James during their modelling days in Newark New Jersey in the early 1950's. They both look gorgeous!
I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in vintage glamour, black history or old Hollywood and the entertainment industry. There are so many stories of famous and little known black women and I found every one of them fascinating, like filling in little pieces in the jigsaw of my knowledge.


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NAUGATUCK — Is there an echo in the borough?
The Board of Mayor and Burgesses took a page from the Naugatuck Teachers League strategy book when it voted, 8-1, to cast a symbolic vote of no confidence in Superintendant of Schools John Tindall-Gibson’s leadership Tuesday night.
The NTL voted two weeks ago on the same measure and enjoyed near-unanimous support from its constituency.
And as the chief board of governance in the borough, the mayor and burgesses proved that it’s not just the educators who are upset about the Board of Education’s budgetary problems.
Deputy Mayor Tamath K. Rossi motioned for the vote, saying that despite her belief that the situation should be handled in a “positive manner,” the burgesses “are the leaders of the community, and [they] need to lead.”
She indicated that, as negotiations for the 2010-11 fiscal year’s budget are right around the corner and the BOE is yet to adopt one for this year, it’s in a “very dire situation,” citing rumblings in Hartford that ECS (Education Commissions of the States) funding may be cut.
While Rossi acknowledged that Tindall-Gibson could not be blamed for “100 percent” of the problem, “executive decisions have not been made, executive direction has not been taken, and leadership has not been presented.”
Second Deputy Mayor Mike Ciacciarella compared the Superintendant to Charlie Weis, the Notre Dame football coach who was fired this week after a 6-6 season, saying that, like Weis, Tindall-Gibson’s “time is up.”
Burgess Robert Burns termed Tindall-Gibson’s performance “malfeasance of office,” noting that the blame for the budget shortfall should be placed at his feet.
Burgesses Mindy Fragoso and Bob Neth voted for the measure but expressed some reservation.
Fragoso said while she felt the BOE, as an autonomous body, should be left mostly to its own devices, the situation has reached a point where the borough must act in whatever capacity they legally can to dislodge Tindall-Gibson.
“I can’t tell you how many people are looking into Southbury schools, who are thinking of moving out,” she said, because of the budget deficit and possible across-the-board cuts, “I don’t want an exodus in Naugatuck. No one wants an exodus in Naugatuck. … There’s a tremendous apathy about not having a voice [among residents].”
Neth’s hesitation sprang from his belief that a vote of no confidence wouldn’t sway Tindall-Gibson, who’s stood stalwart against Mayor Bob Mezzo’s and the NTL’s demands that he voluntarily resign.
“There’s no way in hell this guy is going to leave $400,000 [roughly his salary through his contract expiration in 2011] on the table,” Neth said. “The reality is Tindall-Gibson will not resign, so we need to step back and analyze what’s best for the borough of Naugatuck.”
Burgess Bob Woodward questioned the various proposals on the table for bridging the deficit.
“It seems every group has its own solution,” he said. “But does anyone listen to those solutions?”
The mayor and burgesses voted 8-1, with an abstention from Hank Kuczenski.
Burgess Pat Scully was the only voice in opposition to the measure. He felt that a vote of no confidence in the superintendant was the BOE’s business, and that the municipal board “shouldn’t take a stand” against them.
So the Board of Mayor and Burgesses has upped the ante and thrown its weight behind the teacher’s union, applied their political leverage, and increased the pressure on Tindall-Gibson to resign.
But Fragoso said the symbolic measure didn’t go far enough.
“For me, it’s not a done deal,” she said. “We have to leave no stone unturned” in looking for alternative ways to remove Tindall-Gibson from his post.


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The Court of Appeal has put on hold orders that would have sentenced George Kinoti, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations’ (DCI) boss, to four months in prison for contempt of court.
The orders were set aside by a three-judge bench consisting of justices Fatuma Sichale, Msagha Mbogoli, and Imaana Laibuta, pending the hearing and decision of Kinoti’s appeal against his sentencing for failing to surrender pistols confiscated from businessman Jimi Wanjigi.
“Certainly, if the applicant is subsequently arrested and serves the sentence, he will have lost his right to liberty, and even if the appeal succeeds, the prison sentence will not be reversed, and the substratum of the appeal will have been lost, rendering the intended appeal nugatory,” the appeals court noted.
Kinoti claims in his Appellate Court case that the High Court rejected his argument that the firearms confiscated from Wanjigi were in the hands of the Firearms Licensing Board, not his.
“The firearms in question were in the custody of the Firearms Licensing Board,” according to the petition, “which he believed was sufficient explanation in the circumstances for consideration by the Court,” and “the learned judge totally disregarded the above averments and proceeded to sentence him to 4 months imprisonment.”
Kinoti claims that the Firearms Licensing Board is a separate agency over which he has no authority, and that he thus cannot order it to release the firearms.


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