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Qualitative research tools
The Commission's revised communication strategy, published on 3 October 2007, foresees the introduction of new methods to be used by the Eurobarometer in order to "increase its ability to listen and respond to public opinion" and "use surveys more strategically in relevant phases of the policy process".
Communication Commissioner Margot Wallström has, on several occasions, supported the idea of introducing "citizens' assessments", which should become part of the standard EU lawmaking process, in the same way as impact assessments already are.
More concretely, the Commission seeks to include more widespread use of qualitative research tools, drawing on experience from citizens' debates organised in the context of the Plan D projects. It also wants to increasingly use the combination of analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to give a fuller picture of public expectations.
One example of a new method of studying public opinion is deliberative polling. This method, developed by Professor James Fishkin of Stanford University in 1988, combines deliberation with scientific sampling to provide public consultation for policies and electoral issues.
In the first step, a random representative sample is polled on targeted policy issues. Then the members of the sample gather to discuss these issues. Members are provided with informative material and get the chance to engage in dialogue with experts and political leaders.
After the deliberations, the sample is asked the original questions again. The results reflect the change in opinion the public would reach if they were to be more informed and engaged by the policy issues. Deliberative poll experiments have been conducted around the world and in Europe, the UK, Denmark, Italy and Bulgaria.
New communication technologies
Traditionally, opinion polls were conducted primarily on a face-to-face basis, but telephone surveys are becoming increasingly popular, as they can be conducted in a short amount of time.
The number of internet surveys is also steadily increasing, with online polls being able to reach out to a large number of respondents. Later, the results can be weighed according to demographic criteria to create a representative sample. However, some argue that compared to traditional surveys, online polls are based on whoever volunteers to answer the question (the so-called 'open access' poll), rather than representing a scientific sample of the population.

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Success required ingenuity,
work and a “lucky clover”
By Lynne Meredith Schreiber
UNTIL HER HONEYMOON in 2000, Natalie Hesse
never wore jewelry. “I liked jewelry but never found
any I liked,” she explains.
That is, until she saw the vivid colors of satin-smooth glass beads on a factory tour in Murano, Italy.
“I couldn’t believe how beautiful everything was,” says
Hesse, who sports a chunky black-and-gold bracelet.
“I came out of the shop with a bagful.”
Five months later, she was making jewelry on the
pool table in the basement of her Farmington Hills,
Michigan, home. Hesse read books, took classes and
watched instructional videos to learn how to turn the
exquisite beads into wearable art. “The glass is so
beautiful and simple—it didn’t need a lot of design,”
Hesse took her first custom creations to the office
of her best friend. She sold out in two hours. That led
to direct-sales parties where she presented heartfelt
descriptions of how each piece was crafted.
Today, her company, LuckyClover Inc., sells three
lines of original creations: The LuckyClover line combines Murano beads and Swarovski crystals; Gioielli
(the Italian word for jewelry) features handmade,
signed pieces by a husband-and-wife team; and
Gabriella features glass and sterling silver designs from
Florence, Italy. Hesse oversees 40 employees in a
3,000-square-foot facility and participates in as many
as 300 roadshows a year.
In seven years, the company has evolved from a
home-based business earning $70,000 a year to $1.8
million in sales in 2006. At the company headquarters,
bins of gleaming crystals and beads are stacked on tables
near the eight jewelry makers. Hesse’s two Yorkshire terriers, Lucky and Clover—yes, the company is named
after them—sit in crates across from her desk. A plastic
container of strawberries lies open nearby. (“We bought
it at Costco!” Hesse says of the snacks.)
“I’ve always been in sales,” explains Hesse, who left
a pharmaceutical career to launch LuckyClover. “I figured I could sell anything. The secret of selling is product
knowledge. Salespeople have to be on point [to answer
questions such as] ‘What is Murano glass [and] how is
it different from that sold at mall jewelry stores?’ ”
Selling at Costco has been a key to LuckyClover’s
success, Hesse says. She became a Costco member
when the Commerce Township, Michigan, warehouse opened near her home, and spent years checking out Special Events—temporary product displays
in the warehouses—as she shopped. Later, as a business owner, she thought, “Someday I’d love to be a
turned her fascination with Murano
glass beads into a
In 2005, Hesse lugged a bag of jewelry to Costco
headquarters near Seattle, hoping to dazzle a corporate buyer. It worked. She signed a contract and
worked the first show herself.
“It’s a huge privilege” to be a Costco supplier,
Hesse says. “I’m a one-person show up against huge
multinational companies. My company would never
be where it is without Costco.”
This year Hesse expects to run 250 Special Events
at Costco, as many as 20 at a time during the holidays.
At the shows, small DVD players run videos of
Murano’s famous glass artisans at work. The videos
demonstrate Murano’s eight-century tradition of
glass blowing and the craftsmanship behind
LuckyClover’s bracelets and necklaces.
Hesse is no longer the company’s front person,
putting pretty pieces in people’s hands. While she still
designs some of the bracelets and necklaces in the
LuckyClover line, she’s “running the business, looking for new business, maintaining accounts.” Besides
Costco, LuckyClover creations are sold wholesale to
specialty boutiques and museum shops, and through
a home party division.
The husband who accompanied Hesse on that
fateful trip to Italy is strongly behind her venture. She
is thrilled with her company’s growth, but also a tad
wistful that success means she spends two-thirds of
her time on the road and in a supervisory, rather than
a creative, role. It wasn’t her intention to launch a
newfound love of delicate Murano glass into a lucrative career on a national scale.
“It’s really pretty jewelry,” she says, “and I just
wanted to be around it.” C
Lynne Meredith Schreiber writes about food, faith and
home from Southfield, Michigan.
Company: LuckyClover Inc.
39225 Grand River Ave.
Products at Costco:
LuckyClover jewelry can be
found only at Special Events
roadshows. (The schedule
of events can be found in
this issue on page 70; look
for “Venetian and Murano
glass jewelry.”) Besides the
jewelry lines, LuckyClover
features Murano slide beads
and art-glass collectibles.
Comments about Costco:
“When we need something
for the business or personal use and we’re not
sure if Costco carries it,
we remember our motto:
‘Costco has everything!’ ”

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Ducklings Cross The Street, Fall Into Storm Sewer In A Row
PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) _ Why did the 18 ducks cross the busy street?
They were trying to get to the other side, but they didn’t make it. Seventeen fell into a storm sewer.
Louie DeLuca said he was looking out the window of his woodworking shop Friday when he saw a wood duck hen with 17 ducklings trailing behind cross the busy street in downtown Papillion.
″I couldn’t believe it,″ he said. ″They were certainly in the wrong place.″
DeLuca, 42, said he and his 12-year-old son, Danny, ran outside and stood in the middle of the street ″directing and stopping traffic″ so the ducks could pass.
But the mother duck began to run when she spied DeLuca.
″She ran right over a sewer grate and naturally the little ones followed,″ DeLuca said.
And one by one, the baby ducks disappeared through the openings in the grate. The mother continued to run and eventually flew off, DeLuca said.
″My son and I got a box and, as each baby duck jumped out of the sewer grate, we caught them and put them in the box.″
The nimble brown-and-yellow ducklings were about the size of tennis balls, DeLuca said. All but one jumped out of the sewer, he said.
″The last one seemed kind of scared.″
So the duck Samaritan called the Public Works Department and a crew came out with a crane, lifted off the grate and pulled the last duckling out.
DeLuca said his son and daughter took the ducklings to the Henry Doorly Zoo.
″The mother never returned,″ he said.


A rookie London MP’s proposed law has passed a crucial second reading, which only about a third of all private member’s bills survive in the House of Commons.
The bill by Peter Fragiskatos, Liberal MP for London North Centre, aims to amend a Criminal Code oversight that he believes “cheats victims” across Canada.
Torture is a crime in Canada, but only if it’s committed by “the state” — such as a police officer beating a suspect for hours. But it doesn’t apply to extreme crimes by ordinary citizens, who are instead often convicted of aggravated assault.
If successful, the proposed law would make torture a crime in “the private sphere,” Fragiskatos said.
“This is a proud day,” he said after the second reading. “But this was never about me. It’s about standing up for the victims of torture.”
Only about three per cent of private member’s bills ever become law, and the Fragiskatos’ proposal has a long way to go still.
It now goes to a bipartisan committee for analysis, then returns to the House of Commons for a third reading. If it passes, it goes to the Senate for consideration. If successful there, it’s sent for royal assent and becomes law.
Fragiskatos has said in a previous interview that the term “aggravated assault” often doesn’t capture the severity of some crimes.
“There are many . . . cases, including in London, where offences far exceeding what is implied by ‘aggravated assault’ took place. In fact, these are all cases of torture,” he said. “When suffering goes unacknowledged, justice cannot be said to exist.”


What 'Radiator Capping' SB 1133 Really Did
Times-News Editorial Board
April 1, 2013
Twin Falls Times-News
They call it "radiator capping." In this metaphor, the radiator cap is taken off of a vehicle. The original vehicle is removed and an entirely new vehicle is driven under the cap, which is then screwed onto the radiator.
The legislature did it this Tuesday with the school safety bill that we've written about extensively in this paper and on this Opinion page. Though it had some serious problems - namely the shoehorning of several public records exemptions within its language - it was a bill with good intentions. The school safety bill (SB 1133) would have required school districts to come up with safety plans in cooperation with the local sheriff.
There were a lot of questions about the bill, but instead of asking those questions, Rep. Jason Monks, R-Meridian, "radiator capped" it. He amended the bill in a way that removes its language entirely and replaced it with a new vehicle - the text of his own gun-rights bill, HB 280, and the text of HB 219.
The only thing that stayed the same was the bill number.
You'll recognize those gun-rights bills from earlier stories about them. HB 219 got the most attention as it would have made it a criminal offense for Idaho law enforcement to enforce here-to-date hypothetical, newly enacted federal gun seizure laws.
We're not here to argue about the merits of either of those gun bills.
We're concerned about the process - the "radiator capping."
Radiator capping is amateur, it's petty and cynical.
That said, it's hard to know just where to start in commenting on Tuesday's actions.
Should we start by asking what happened to the school safety bill? (Answer: It is gone. "That has been removed in this amendment," Monks responded during the debate.)
Maybe a better question is to ask what happened to the due process for the gun-rights bills?
Should we start by asking why this underhanded tactic is even legal? If it's legal, can we ask why anyone considers it ethical?
If there weren't any reporters there to watch over this romper room, how would the voters know that SB 1133 isn't the school safety bill that went through committee, was approved by the Senate and found its way to the floor of the House?
A reporter was there to witness and share these shenanigans with the public, but it makes us wonder: What haven't we been there to witness? Maybe we should just ask: Who are these people, how did they get elected and have they lost their minds?
To say we have lost faith and trust in our leaders is an understatement.
We sit in shock at the maturity level that Monks showed. If he were running to represent the Magic Valley, we would lead the charge for his ouster.
Unfortunately, House Speaker Scott Bedke was not on the floor when this vote went through. Bedke has shown us this session that he is a thoughtful and cool-headed leader.
We are embarrassed that the House leadership that was present let this go through.
According to Betsy Russell, legislative reporter for the Spokesman-Review, there was an objection that the amendment violated House rules because it wasn't relevant to the bill, but House Assistant Majority Leader Brent Crane, R-Nampa, ruled it relevant.
"The chair has ruled that it is - there is a nexus between school security and firearms," Crane said. When a voice vote on the amendment was too close to call, division was called for, and Crane declared that the motion had carried. That means SB 1133 is no longer a school-safety bill, and is now a compilation of the two House-passed gun rights bills."
If the House was going to kill a bill - the school safety bill - they should have just killed it. Instead, they took two bills that the Senate refused to hear, repackaged them as SB 1133, which the Senate had already passed, and sent it back to them.
The Senate will now have to vote again on the "new" version of SB 1133.
What a waste of everyone's time and taxpayer dollars.
House members who supported this radiator capping have been in the Boise bubble too long and need to be reminded by their constituents that we expect more from them.
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11 prostitutes and 3 johns were arrested in an anti-prostitution sweep done by the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office Friday night. Save for three all of them have been released pending court appearance at the municipal court.
The prostitutes attempted to solicit undercover, plain-cloth, detectives.
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The three still detained had previous criminal records or possessed illicit drugs.


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The 'Good Wife': Struggles over Resources in the Kenyan Horticultural Sector
This paper examines how the contracting of French beans has engendered conflict over rights, obligations and resources in Meru District, Kenya. In response to pressure for agricultural diversification and the expanding European market for "gourmet" vegetables, horticulture, the historical domain of women, has been rapidly intensified, commoditized and in many cases, appropriated by men. Women have responded to the erosion of their rights in ways that appear paradoxical -- some undergoing Christian conversion while others poison their husbands -- practices that simultaneously affirm and contest the prevailing norms of the "good wife". In Meru, gender relations are key to the negotiation of household resources and the potential for capital accumulation in the export horticultural sector.
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Residents of sparsely populated northern Canada are experiencing a phenomenon that weight watchers the world over would love to deal with. That part of the country feels less gravitational pull than the rest of the planet, according to a new study, so residents weigh ever-so-slightly less. The difference isn't huge--only about four-thousandths of a percent--but it's enough to help scientists tease out some important clues about the last ice age and the dynamics of the mantle underlying Earth's crust.
About 20,000 years ago, much of North America lay under the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a massive glacier more than 3 kilometers thick in some locations. Its crushing weight caused some of the rock beneath to compress and sink, and in the process displace the underlying semifluid mantle. This effect was most severe in two regions of northern Canada flanking Hudson Bay, where the ice formed two huge domes. Theorists had predicted that Earth's gravity retained the echoes of the glacial domes as a pair of dimples where the force is reduced.
Now, researchers using NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites have created a map of the two gravity anomalies and how they are changing over time. The spacecraft use ultraprecise clocks to track irregularities in their orbits caused by anomalies in Earth's gravitational pull. In tomorrow's Science, a team led by geophysicist Mark Tamisiea of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, confirms that gravity is slightly weaker--about 1/25,000 less than normal--in the two regions. The tug of gravity is increasing slightly as the crust slowly rises and the mantle refills the resulting cavity underneath. Based on observations from the GRACE satellites over four years ending in 2006, Tamisiea says it will take up to 300,000 years for the regions' gravity to return to normal. The observations "tell us a great deal about the crust and mantle," he says, in terms of their rates of deformation and recovery.
These changes in gravity observed over time show that the planet's interior is "not too fluid and not too sluggish," says geophysicist John Wahr of the University of Colorado in Boulder. Based on these findings, Wahr adds, the GRACE satellites could help scientists tease out even more details about the behavior of massive ice age glaciers.


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Tiffany Clark, RN, MSN, CNP
Adult Nurse Practitioner
Orthopedic & Rheumatologic Institute
Tiffany Clark, RN, MSN, CNP is an Adult Nurse Practitioner at the Cleveland Clinic in the Orthopedic and Rheumatologic Institute. She received her Master's Degree in Nursing from Kent State University. She has been a long time caregiver with Cleveland Clinic for the past 21 years, serving a cardio-thoracic RN during her early years. She is certified by ANCC and has served on multiple advisory boards for the treatment of gout, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. She also has served as the peer editor for Rheumatology Nurses Association and has been honored as a finalist for the Ohio Nurse of the Year award from the Arthritis foundation. Additionally, she has received several Excellence Awards from Cleveland Clinic. She has also served as a speaker at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Biologics Summit and has been a guest lecturer at many regional Ohio APN meetings.

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The Slump Test is the most widely-used method of measuring the
workability of fresh concrete. This involves sampling concrete directly from a readymix truck which wastes many thousands of cubic metres of the material that should be poured into the building or structure. This paper outlines the development of a Probe (a sensor) that can be mounted into the drum of a ready-mix concrete truck to monitor the concrete workability in real time. It can also measure the concrete temperature, drum speed and the volume of concrete in the drum.
The workability is first assessed by measuring the normal pressure applied on the
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Balancing Growth, Risk and Opportunity in China
By Aidan Shevlin, Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific Liquidity Fund Management, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
In this month’s Executive Interview, Helen Sanders, Editor talks to Aidan Shevlin from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, about the changing investment conditions in China – evolving from a period of uncertainty and currency devaluation to a more steady state albeit with some challenges still in place for corporate investors.
How would you characterise the investment landscape in China today compared with 12-18 months ago?
2016 was a year of negative economic headlines in China, and a rapidly weakening currency. This led to significant concerns amongst foreign multinational corporations, particularly given low on-shore RMB interest rates and increasing credit risks. As such, the trend amongst many was to move money out of China wherever possible. During the second half of the year, the government introduced modest fiscal and monetary policy stimulus, as well as tightened capital controls, which led to greater stability and successfully averted an economic crisis. Although the currency continued to weaken during this period, it did so at a slower rate than we had witnessed during the first half of 2016.
To date, the economic growth has picked up in 2017, with strong momentum in China’s GDP figures and other key economic data, reflecting a broad-based improvement on the position of 12-18 months ago. Unlike other countries in Asia, China has actually tightened monetary conditions, which has resulted in greater stability, as well as an appreciation of the RMB, which many market commentators did not expect to happen.
Although the picture is much improved, what key challenges in China should corporate investors be aware of?
Five key challenges that corporate investors in China should be aware of include:
1) Balancing growth and economic stability
In the coming autumn, the Communist Party Congress will confirm the country’s leadership for the next five years, and it will be important that this decision is made in the context of a stable economy. Although China has benefited from economic tailwinds and an improvement in both global and domestic growth, the focus on stability may result in a slowdown in growth as the country is not making use of all its economic levers; some evidence of this includes the focus on curtailing lending, curbs on the housing market and cutting policy rates – all factors which contain growth. However, while China’s current economic growth may be slower, the stamina of this growth remains robust.
2) Ensuring currency stability
The extended period of RMB appreciation is now over; during 2016, the RMB was devaluing at a rapid rate – up to 8% year-on-year at one point and 6.5% overall during 2016. Meanwhile, from a peak of US$4tr, Chinese foreign exchange reserves dropped by over US $1tr, raising concerns about escalating capital outflows. Logically, currency appreciation could never be sustainable over the long term, particularly as interest rates fell, the economy slowed and the US economy experienced growth, however, the pace and degree of currency devaluation did come as a shock to market observers.
2017 has brought some respite with the currency unexpectedly appreciating versus the US dollar. This has been highlighted in the Chinese government’s promoted use of the new Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) RMB Index which values RMB against a basket of currencies and therefore provides a more holistic picture of currency performance. In addition, as economic concerns dissipate, investors have become more comfortable with increased two-way volatility, and as a result, capital controls have slightly loosened.


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Within minutes of arriving at the Lyric Hammersmith, I’m climbing into bed with a stranger. Not quite the start I anticipated my Fun Palaces weekend getting off to, but it’s indicative of the playfulness embedded at the heart of the All Change Festival. As Eve Leigh, one of the directors of the festival, tells me, they are interested in work that acknowledges and plays with its own theatricality, exploring the boundaries between genres and forms.
The bed and the stranger are part of The Sleep Project, a one-on-one performance currently being developed by Theatre Absolute. Within moments of awkwardly sliding under the duvet, my bedfellow begins to talk about his chronic insomnia, a sleeplessness that seems to be symptomatic of a broken world. It begins as a monologue, but the edges of the theatrical contract shift and blur, eventually making space for an airing of my own insomniac tendencies. As we’re already sharing a bed, it seems oddly churlish not to be frank in my replies.
It’s a tiny little sliver of a performance, lasting only a few minutes and imparting the same sort of fleeting yet haunting thoughts that occupy that hallucinatory territory between waking and sleep. Theatre Absolute might not smash down any boundaries when it comes to intimate performance – and the way in which they make space for the responses of their solo audience members could still do with a little work – but it’s a gentle introduction to what can be for many an alien and intimidating form.
The same goes for other offerings at the festival. Taking up the philosophy of Fun Palaces, the programming has set out to appeal to as wide and varied an audience as possible, taking in everything from magic tricks to storytelling to a (sadly soggy, as it turned out) bouncy castle. Often, as with genre-defying late night offerings from Patrick Simkins and MiM and Gideon Reeling, a sense of the event is built into work that is part theatre, part music and lots of other parts besides, with the hope of bringing in and surprising new audiences.
On Friday night, the collaboration between artist Patrick Simkins and music producer MiM attempts to cultivate the atmosphere of a gig or club night, using a thumping and occasionally euphoric soundtrack to underscore a comment on the digital culture of sharing. As projected social media images flash up on a screen of paper, audience members are invited to trace over the outlines, which change faster than we reluctant artists can move our sticks of charcoal across the surface. Our overlapping scrawls create two improvised pieces of art that speak messily but eloquently to the compulsive online documenting of our lives.
Interactivity is also key to Tablesale, Gideon Reeling’s offbeat piece on the second night of the festival. In this case, however, the mashing up of different genres and elements leads to confusion – not least about the role of the audience. There’s plenty of standing up, moving around and cheering, as well as some fun with chocolate mice and shots of unidentified alcohol, but it doesn’t quite add up to the promised immersive experience. The show itself, meanwhile, lampoons too many targets at once, leaving everyone in a bit of a muddle. But at least we all go home with a prize.
Back in time to Friday evening, the Lyric cafe. Hastily eating a packet of crisps in lieu of dinner, I watch the space begin to fill up as darkness falls outside. Waiting for the start of Josh Coates’ Particles, it begins to feel for the first time that day that we really are part of a festival, rather than just a clutch of individuals wandering from attraction to attraction around the Lyric. Staging work in the cafe helps too, taking it out of a strictly theatrical space and into a social, informal one.
Particles works perfectly for this setting. Coates’ show is part theatre, part storytelling, part stand-up, all held together by little more than his own ability as a performer. Luckily, Coates is all ease and warmth, lightly switching from careful narration to freewheeling audience address. At the centre of it all is a repeated tale about one man and his seemingly small decisions, opening out into musings on everything from chaos theory to British politics. It feels light while touching on weighty subject matter and somehow, somewhere along the way, it cheerfully battles apathy with optimism.
Given that Particles is all about people and possibilities (and particles, of course), it seems absolutely fitting that it should be performed in these surroundings, where all that is required is speakers and listeners. It follows another storytelling piece, Ingrid Who Quarrelled with NÃ¸kken, with a less successful approach. Storyteller Kristen Blakstad is not short of talent, but her Norwegian folklore inspired tale feels calculated more to showcase her huge range as a performer than to envelope us in the narrative. There’s plenty of physical invention, but to what purpose?
Then again, there doesn’t always need to be a reason for telling stories. On Sunday afternoon, I’m persuaded to join a story making session in a corner of the Lyric cafe, where a small group of us make up ludicrous tales through a process of play. The game involves a title as a starting point and then a free choice of yes or no questions from all participants, yielding increasingly ridiculous narrative twists. It’s like a deliciously silly, extended version of Consequences and has me laughing more than anything else at the festival. It feels like a game Joan Littlewood would approve of. Everyone a storyteller.
“What’s art without a bit of wank?” quips Hofesh Shechter. The choreographer, who has spent the last 45 minutes or so of this rainy Saturday afternoon talking about the challenges and intricacies of his creative process, also has the good humour to laugh about it. Yes, this is serious, but it’s a little bit wanky too. And that’s OK.
This conversation, which delves into fascinating depth in its discussion of how Shechter works (apparently it’s a lot like being a tennis player – the isolation, the need to motivate oneself without external assistance), represents one end of the wide spectrum that Leigh and fellow organisers Rachel Parish and Cristina Catalina have curated. At the other end, it’s refreshing to see popular forms given a slight twist and, on the most basic of levels, done well. After long hours I’ll never get back watching excruciating improv comedy on the Edinburgh Fringe, it’s a delight to see Nelson David and Chris Rowe do improvisation so effortlessly and often hilariously in Unexpected Human in Bagging Area on Friday evening.
Similarly, I’d be unlikely to see an illusionist under normal circumstances, but Philipp Oberlohr completely wins me round on Saturday night. Chatting to Megan Vaughan afterwards, she suggests that Fun Palaces is doing as much to ground and confound art snobs as it is to coax others into new cultural experiences. As for the latter, it’s hard to tell whether All Change succeeds in that aim of the Fun Palaces manifesto. Family oriented events during the day seem to hook in a larger, more varied audience, whether it’s to gasp at giddying Parkour from the Urban Playground Team or lie in a hammock watching the world go by as part of the Institute for Crazy Dancing’s Lifeboat, but in the evening the participation seems to thin, leaving more of the usual suspects.
One event for which the space is bursting at the seams, however, is the Chris Thorpe and Barrel Organ double bill in the rehearsal room on Saturday night. Both prove – more so than Vacuum Theatre’s messy, muddled Something for Nothing the following day – that sometimes you don’t need much more than bodies and voices in a room to make astonishing theatre. Thorpe once again works wonders with just text, voice and microphone, telling a meandering and many layered tale in High Speed Impact. Test Number One. Thoughts and associations fold into one another, making this short piece much more complex and knotty than it might initially seem.
Barrel Organ’s Nothing, meanwhile, encompasses a huge amount while using very little. It’s now the third time I’ve seen this collection of interlaced monologues, but again it offers new facets, new links to trace between the separate speeches. And because the piece is performed from within the audience, with a newly improvised structure each night, there is always an edge of the unexpected. In this setting, it sends tangible ripples through the audience each time a new performer speaks from among the crowd, completely fitting the formally playful bill outlined by All Change.
Central to the Fun Palaces ethos is making work with the local community as well as just for them. Daytime workshops aside, All Change is arguably a little light on this, but offerings from Fleur Alexander and Hannah Nicklin put the stories of local people at their centre. Alexander’s Wagging Dog Tales takes us away from the Lyric and out into the surrounding streets of Hammersmith, on a walk punctuated with stories shared by local dog walkers. The concept is simple, but it’s the form that really lifts it. In the same way that dogs act as a connection between people, sparking rare conversations between strangers in a busy, atomised city, all of us on the walk are soon chatting easily between stories. Sometimes all it takes is the invitation.
The invitation to offer stories, however, can be harder to accept. As I talk to Alexander on the way back to the Lyric after Wagging Dog Tales, she tells me that many of the people she met were reluctant to speak to her at first, and when they did they often felt that they had nothing to tell. It reminds me of similar experiences that Nicklin has shared in the past. As she puts it, capitalism has stolen our stories to sell them back to us, leaving us with the sensation of being empty handed. What of worth could we possibly have to say?
Songs for Breaking Britain, the piece that Nicklin closes the festival with, defies the media’s lucrative monopoly on our narratives. This punk storytelling show weaves together stories that Nicklin has collected in Bradford, Stockton, South London and now Hammersmith, putting them to music and demanding that we listen to them. It’s funny, compassionate, heartbreaking and very, very loud. I’m reminded a little of the angry, ear-splitting blast of sound that is #TORYCORE, but here the righteous rage – rather appropriately following an open invitation to rant – is just one layer.
“It’s hard to be human, isn’t it?” That one line, uttered by a woman Nicklin spoke to in Stockton, lodges somewhere in my chest during the show. There is lots that is difficult in the show; the voices that Nicklin has collected speak of unemployment, of despair, of fear and lack of inspiration. But there is also joy and hope and huge generosity. This extends to the gig style performance of the piece, which gathers audience members around Nicklin and her band at the centre of the room. And it feels absolutely in keeping with the spirit of both Fun Palaces and All Change. Yes, it’s hard to be human. But it’s that little bit easier when we try being human together.
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The expectations were high before the launch of the proposals for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum. A new impetus was desperately needed in order to achieve a real harmonisation of asylum policies and most of all, a fair responsibility-sharing of asylum claims among the Member States.
In 2016, in response to the increased number of arrivals through the so-called Balkan route in 2015, during the ‘refugee crisis’, the Commission had launched new proposals on the asylum procedure, reception conditions and responsibility-sharing. While the negotiations ended in a deadlock in the Council of Ministers, the Parliament managed to take a common position. As it takes two to tango, no trilogue started. In her first State of the Union speech, Commission President Von der Leyen referred to the images of the Moria camp as a painful reminder of the need for Europe to come together. We had hoped that this heart cry signalled the launch of fundamental reform.
But boy, were we wrong...
Despite references to a fresh start and true solidarity, the Pact will not do what it promises. The preservation of the first country of entry criterion, which formed the main obstacle for a fair responsibility sharing, coupled with the newly introduced border procedure, will increase instead of lower the pressure on border countries. Especially while the length and fairness of the procedures will largely depend on the national capacities of the immigration authorities, lawyers and judges. The Pact strengthens the linkage between asylum and return procedures. And this is especially applied in the border procedure, where the asylum seeker is treated as if he/she is not yet on the EU territory. During this fiction of non-entry, people are screened, undergo an asylum procedure and if they are rejected, the return procedure takes place there as well, in a procedure with short time-limits and limited safeguards. All stages of this procedure will probably take place in detention. As border countries will have the largest “burden” and returns are difficult to execute, there is a risk of long detention periods.
Although the border procedure is only mandatory for a certain category, namely the asylum claims of nationals from a country with a recognition rate of less than 20 percent, it can all in all be a significant group, especially while countries can influence that recognition rate themselves. Furthermore, Member States may apply a border procedure in many more cases, for instance regarding applications made at the external border, or following an apprehension after irregular border crossing or disembarkation. Also, decisions on inadmissibility, which include the application of the safe third country concept, can be made in that border procedure. Projected on the Greek situation, I expect that all cases currently dealt with on the Greek islands will be subject to the border procedure, except for the minors below the age of twelve years. How can we reasonably expect that this new Pact will bring an end to Moria-like situations, as all elements creating them, will continue to be there?
The only chance for a relief of the burden on border countries, which is a condition for a fair and effective asylum procedure in decent and protective circumstances, depends on the solidarity system. The Commission proposes not only a very complex and bureaucratic procedure but it also offers a large amount of flexibility to the Member States. If they can choose between capacity building or operational support, return sponsorships or relocation, I am not quite confident that the number of pledges will be sufficient, with the risk of many asylum seekers stuck at the external borders. Actually, the mechanism doesn’t foresee relocation of asylum seekers from the border procedure at all, unless a crisis situation is applicable.
What are the criteria for ‘migratory pressure’ or a ‘crisis situation’?
This crisis mechanism, triggered if the solidarity system proofs to be insufficient, only leaves the choice for Member States to opt for return sponsorships or relocation. Again, no safeguard for sufficient pledges. And what are the criteria for ‘migratory pressure’ or a ‘crisis situation’? There will be no quantitative threshold for defining (the risk of) ‘migratory pressure’, but instead a ‘holistic assessment’ will be made by the Commission. Through the lack of a precise definition, its application by the Commission may lead to controversies with and among the Member States, and thus, to lengthy procedures. Why not chosen for an automatic application of the mechanism in case the number of asylum claims in a certain Member State exceeds its distribution key (based on the size of the population and the total GDP of a Member State)? Furthermore, the element of ‘own responsibility’ as a factor for triggering the crisis mechanism (the crisis is only recognised as a case of force majeur if it could not have been avoided by the Member State), can be used as a tool to contest mandatory solidarity.
Solidarity through return sponsorship, which is one of the few innovative elements of the Pact, implies that solidarity is merely related to the border country, and not to the asylum seekers. The return sponsorship implies that the sponsoring Member State makes efforts for readmission to the country of return. If the return has not taken place within eight months, the returnee is being transferred from the beneficiary state to the sponsoring state. Taking into account the Return Directive, where the definition of a ‘country of return’ includes a transit country and ‘another country’, returnees might be pressed by the sponsoring state to return to a partner country where they have never been before and where they may end up in legal limbo.
Does this New Pact address and solve the current problems? No: the attempt to keep all Member States on board has led to a receipt to fail. It does not depart from the main principles of the Dublin Regulation, instead, the period during which the border countries are responsible is extended from 18 months to 3 years. The incentives to comply with the distribution key instead of being imposed on the Member State, are imposed on the asylum seeker. Without a system of fair responsibility sharing, we will not achieve high-level harmonisation in law and practice. Overburdened countries will be forced or even seduced to perform below the standards, and in the end, the rights of asylum seekers, including the core right to asylum, are at risk. Actually, we already have pretty good rules in place, especially since the Recasts of the Qualification (2011), Procedures and Reception Conditions Directives (both 2013). However, instead of focusing on implementation and enforcement, Commission and the Member States are wrangling about new rules during the last five years. There is no refugee crisis, but a compliance crisis, threatening nothing less than the right to asylum. The number of pushbacks at the external borders has drastically increased, and the lack of a response from the Commission has created a sense of impunity. The national monitor mechanism foreseen by the Screening Regulation will not monitor how border guards brutally violate the fundamental rights in forests or at sea.
Luckily, there are also elements to be supported, such as the exemption from the border procedure for minors under the age of twelve, and the obligation for the Member States to grant people fleeing from war situations immediate protection status when the crisis regime applies. The negotiations will hopefully preserve these elements and improve the weak parts, and of course, we will do our utmost to achieve this. But without fundamental changes, this Pact will remain a missed opportunity.
OK, but what should be done instead? How can we avoid Moria-like situations, and how to achieve a system with equal responsibility-sharing and at the same time a real harmonisation of asylum law based on high standards, effectively implemented and enforced? The Greens/EFA have expressed their position in a proposal for a fair and efficient Asylum System in Europe
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Chipotle Restaurant’s chicken easy to make
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Featured Recipe: Copycat Chipotle Chicken
My son Sam was eating way too much of his favorite fast food – the “Chicken Burrito Bol” from Chipotle – and I set out to “help” him curb the habit.
First, the money approach. By my estimations, he was spending $100 a month on the burritos alone, and when I pointed this out, he just shrugged. (Maybe my mom skills are lacking, but try controlling a starving teenage boy with a part-time job and a driver’s license.)
Next I aimed straight for the gut. “Fast food is so unhealthy,” I said.
“Not Chipotle,” he shot back. “It’s all natural.”
Finally I found the ammunition I needed at my son’s second-favorite place (after Chipotle) – the Internet. Chipotlefan.com contains a nutrition calculator that lets you plug in ingredients and toppings from Chipotle and it tallies the calorie and fat content. (Check it out by clicking here.)
The damage from my son’s Chicken Burrito Bols? A grand total of 645 calories and 31 grams of fat each. “Wow,” he said. “That’s a lot of fat.”
I hate to be a spoil sport, and so to make it up to him I adapted a recipe from Chipotlefan.com to construct a lower calorie -- and vastly cheaper -- version of his favorite meal. We’ve served today’s Copycat Chipotle Chicken to top off salads, quesadillas and nachos and as a filling for burritos. It’s got a spicy kick that my son admits tastes fairly similar to the real thing.
If you try it, we’d love to know how you think it compares. If you have other restaurant copycat recipes you like, let us know about those, too!
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This is the most perfect comic ever created!
It’s a shame we will never see it….
But that is OK, because there will never be a perfect comic.
Comic Art is like any other form of art, in as much as it is subjective to the viewer and their personal preferences.
There are so many artistic styles active within the comics world that a single style will never be the one that meet with the approval of all people who view it.
Some people prefer highly stylised images, whilst others want a more photo-realistic version given to them to indulge in.
But the one thing that I think CAN be a common thread throughout all comics, regardless of popularity, the style in which they are created or even the medium they appear – and that is that they should be created by artists who enjoy what they are doing.
Too often in the comics world, artists will clash over the smallest things (often just due to a mis-interpretation of what may have been implied) and full on melee will erupt between two parties. Very often, in these cases, sides are taken and many more artists pop-up, just to throw their hats into the ring and be seen to be part of it all.
Pros and cons of the medium in which a comic is presented, will be debated vigorously.
Egos will be inflated and former glories will be held high as proof that that party is the correct one in the current debate.
And names are always called.
When I see this occurring, I cringe.
I want to just say out loud “can’t you just do what you do and love what you do?”
Not everyone wants to be a pioneer.
Not every comic artist will make a living from their passion.
No one medium is the ultimate and best one to use.
No one knows it all – there is always more to experience.
@ryanstegman posted on twitter recently, a great piece of advice to the newer artists out there – “STAY POSITIVE. There is no conspiracy against you breaking in! Work hard and make your own luck.”
The fact that there is even a perception of a “conspiracy” that newer artists have no hope in breaking into comics and achieving what they want to, is too much for me.
All this fighting and bragging can actually dissuade some upcoming artists from trying, which may then deprive us of some fantastic comic art in the future!
Those who have “made it” in the comics world should be setting examples of how to behave as a professional, as well as portraying what a unified and sharing community the Comics world actually is.
Too often though, they spend their time baiting others just because they can, or defending their own techniques or methods.
I would love to see 2010 be the year that the comics community worldwide, takes a step back and lets little comments roll off their back. Raise thos tolerance levels and become the “bigger man”
Ignore that ridiculous post.
Refrain from commenting, especially when you know the shit-storm it may create.
Let that twitter comment wash away in the tweet stream.
Let’s just remember that we are not journalists or politicians.
Our work should speak for us. Not the other way around.
Overall, I feel that comics creation should stem from of a love for creating comics and drawing – nothing else.
We do what we personally feel is right for our art.
The rest is just gravy.


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This video is the first out of four videos on the subject of Transitional Justice in Yemen.
Summary by Christine Petré for Your Middle East on July 18, 2013
Are Yemenis aware of the "transitional justice" project? (VIDEO)
As Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference (NDC) is underway, how do the people feel about transitional justice and reconciliation?
Four months into the six-month mandate of Yemen’s NDC, an initiative bringing together individuals from the country’s diverse political, social, geographic and demographic groups to discuss the future of the country, blogger Yemeniaty took to the streets of Sana’a to ask its citizens about transitional justice and national reconciliation.
Have you heard about transitional justice in Yemen?
“We never heard of this… Never,” one respondent says in the video clip, followed by others who simply answered “No.”
But one woman had an idea: “It is a program running in the National Dialogue, more or less,” she said.
What does it entail?
“I don’t know,” she continued. “I haven’t seen the project itself or what they are doing with it. But, I think they’re bringing closer different perspectives between the different political parties.”
What do you think transitional justice means?
“Transitional justice is releasing Yemen from the current status quo by creating laws and legislation… like good governance by creating laws and legislation that guarantee the safety of the citizens and their freedom,” one man told the interviewer.
Another answered, “It means the transfer of power, power-sharing between all the people…”
However, one Yemeni admitted, “In all honesty, the dialogue’s mechanisms are not clear,” and asked, “Until now, what are the outputs?”
When asked about justice in Yemen one respondent said:
“We hear about it, but unfortunately it is just words on paper.”
One man summarized the situation with cynicism…
“In Yemen…there always is, not limited to the concept of transitional justice, there is a type of guardianship practiced by the political elites over the people. Meaning: if we (political elites) already know what the subject is, what we will do, and what the outputs will be, then there is no need for people to know. We don’t have to bother the people or have them bother us. The concept of transitional justice is an obvious example of what I am saying. The concept was not introduced to the people…”
This is the first episode in a series of 4 focusing on Transitional Justice in Yemen.


The Minister of Financial system of Argentina, Sergio Massa, knowledgeable on Monday (Oct. 31) that the federal government is getting ready an financial plan to freeze costs to comprise inflation.
This system is anticipated to final 120 days between December 2022 and March 2023.
The knowledge is from the Argentinean newspaper Clarín.
In response to Massa, the worth freeze will apply to 86% of merchandise thought of to be mass consumption by the inhabitants.
Firms that fail to conform could also be fined as much as US$240 million.
Argentina’s Commerce Secretary Matías Tombolini is negotiating with representatives of main manufacturers within the meals, hygiene, and cleansing merchandise business to determine reference costs.
In response to producers from the Argentine newspaper, there was no information in regards to the negotiations because the final assembly in mid-October.
Inflation rose 6.2% in September and reached 83% over 12 months. The October charge ought to be launched within the coming weeks.
The tabulated costs may be consulted by the appliance “Mi Argentina”, returned by the federal government.
Via the platform, it will likely be attainable to seek the advice of the values by bar code and report the institutions that aren’t complying with the freeze plan.


A theoretical scheme for a new surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) fiber sensor with a fiber Bragg grating imprinted into the fiber core for SPP excitation is presented for the first time to our knowledge. In our scheme the energy in the fiber core mode can be transferred to a SPP with high efficiency by means of a properly designed short-period fiber Bragg grating (SPG). Developed for the cylindrical (fiber) geometry, our scheme without loss of generality can be applied to a planar geometry. Our simulations are based on the coupled-mode method and are performed at telecommunications wavelengths.
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