Before AFI hit punk pay dirt in 2003 with Sing the Sorrow,
the quartet built a bloodthirsty following on Dexter Holland's Nitro Records. AFI
documents the band's pre-Rolling Stone
years with a balanced selection of fifteen of the band's best early tracks. For longtime fans, there's little to get frothy about other than four previously hard-to-find tracks. For neophytes, however, AFI
provides an excellent introduction to the Goth punks' unique hardcore sound. Davey Havok's Danzig-esque croon/scream and dark lyrics -- along with some badass musicianship -- distinguish AFI from the rest of the punk horde throughout most of the collection. Someone should have his black eyeliner revoked for life, though, for the terrible idea of arranging the songs in reverse chronological order, which gives the unfortunate and erroneous impression that the band has regressed over the years.


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Academy of Visual Arts
In South China, maritime material culture forms an important constituent of cultural identity and local heritage. Corals, shells and pearls play a role in the everyday ecologies of coastal inhabitants and have been attributed with a variety of financial, social and artistic values.
In addition, artfully crafted ocean objects from the region have become meaningful souvenirs for visitors from all over the world. In this zone Anna Grasskamp follows maritime material culture from Southern China through the ages and across the globe.
This zone presents part of the outcomes of Anna Grasskamp's research project, carrying the same name as this zone (click here for more info).

domain: geography


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Mariama Ba was a Senegalese author and feminist. In So Long A Letter, her first novel, she conveys her frustration and ultimate acceptance of the fate of African women. Her work focused on stories of the female condition. So Long A Letter went on to win the first Noma prize for African literature in 1980. This is a short and easy read, hope you enjoy!
Written in the form of a letter. So Long A Letter is a sequence of reminiscences, some wistful, some bitter, recounted by a recently widowed Senegalese school teacher. The letter, addressed to an old friend, is a record of her emotional struggle for survival after her husband’s abrupt decision to take a second wife. Although his action is sanctioned by Islam, it is a calculated betrayal of his wife’s trust and a brutal rejection of their life together. This novel is a perceptive testimony to the plight of articulate women who live in social milieux dominated by attitudes and values that deny them their proper place.

domain: literature


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Expert industry analysts are eyeing May as a probable month for a potential spot Ether ETF exchange-traded fund. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart estimates a roughly 60% chance of approval for spot Ether ETFs in May.
The Securities and Exchange Commission-SEC recently delayed decisions on several proposed ether ETFs. It caused the experts to turn their attention to May as the next significant milestone for potential spot ether ETF approvals.
James Seyffart said the chance of spot Ethereum ETFs being approved in May is about 60%, but the SEC has many ways to delay it. If the SEC is willing to approve, they will likely do so on May 23. If approval in May is unsuccessful, Seyffart said the resolution will be delayed until 2025.
Seyffart has identified May 23 as a critical date in the spot ether ETF narrative, marking the 240-day window for the SEC to decide on proposals from Ark/21Shares and VanEck.
Several prominent firms like BlackRock, Grayscale, Ark 21Shares, and VanEck are seeking approval to launch spot ether ETFs.
Grayscale, a digital asset investment firm, is pursuing a similar strategy for its ETH ETF as it did for its Bitcoin ETF. Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm has indicated that Grayscale is targeting a decision from the SEC in the summer 2024.
Industry experts emphasize the importance of caution in predicting spot ether ETF approval. Scott Johnson, a finance lawyer, released a series of threads highlighting the spot ETF journey, regulatory landscape, and the SEC’s approach to digital asset offerings. Factors such as the existence of Ether, future ETFs, and ongoing dialogues between issuers and the SEC will influence the final decision.
Industry analysts remain optimistic about the prospects as the spotlight shifts to May as a probable milestone for spot Ether ETF approvals. While Seyffart’s estimation suggests a favorable probability, the final decision rests with the SEC. Surely, the SEC will carefully evaluate various factors before reaching a verdict. May holds significant implications for the future of spot ether ETFs, and stakeholders are eagerly waiting for further developments and news from the regulatory bodies.

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I sent you email today; a joint email. I like a good conversation circle, as you both well know. It occurs to me: do you know each other? Probably. The town where we met each other is indeed a small one. Journeying very many miles and days since then, those moments when we met, I mean, and also, those when we connected, loosely, in the cloud, through the e-circle style I mentioned, well, those things happened, didn’t they, and here we are. I’ve been good here.
A lot of updates to share, and I’m going to look forward to it.
On the off chance you happen to get my mail (things go to filters a lot now, owing to spam bots and other ‘nefarious’ mechanisms, I thought it was funny someone put it that way… ‘nefarious’…)… So yeah.
If you get it, and if you read it in time, and if you reply, and if you see my note here, somehow, all those ‘ifs’, if they line up… then let’s do it. Start another party, in the cloud. Just us three.
I’m certain we have many, many things to discover and co-discover, from here. Check your inbox, like.
My Irish accent, um, is on these days, thanks to the writing of End of the Rainbow (Sept. 15 / Kismuth Books). Wow, long story, but yeah. West Cork, that is to say. Grand stuff, so. Mostly I just really wanna know how you’re doing but I don’t want to send more 1:N notes. Too much work, too little reward, and far less personalized. What’s the point of that? I don’t know. See you in the up, maybe, L & C?
I’ll be waiting for you, here.
PS Miss you.
The lead story here is by Quân Nguyễn. Nguyễn writes about his time abroad Denmark, at a ‘Julefrokost’ party in Aarhus.
Anyone who has struggled with life away and the uncanny unsettled feeling that comes from returning may be able to relate to his story.
It’s called ‘Unnecessary Jackets’. Cover art by DK Creative Director Dipika Kohli.
Here is a link.
S P C | Hà Nội, ‘Bittersweet’
I’m just gonna tell you what it was like. Being out here, where I am. Over… lockdown.
Being known to someone and seeing that person or set of people regularly: that’s been absent, these last four months. It’s a curious and intriguing opportunity, though. To find out things, totally solo, with no agenda, no history with anyone, and even kind of forgetting about the old histories. Which is liberating, too.
My balcony hotel room on the fifth floor was a gift, for three solid months. I am lucky. I think my favorite part was the amazing wifi. I also had a view of the sky, and some stars, on the days before rainy season got going in full swing. Part of why I left there, finally. Also, you were allowed to move around again. And so, me being me, I got in a taxi, then a bus, then another bus. [deleted]
The only things missing are the balcony, wine and the pistachios. Also my Zoom kind of broke. A bit of a story, but… I prefer it this way. [deleted] I’m happy writing. And, a lot. And zining, of course. Setting things up for 23 June and 30 June‘s issues. They’re called ‘Continuous Partial’ and ‘Start with Something Simple.’
Also, I was playing new music, while talking to old, old friends on Zoom and asking after them, also just snacking away on pistachios, because these are good. And it felt quite cozy, too, because this reminded me of a different moment, in another hemisphere, and another decade. Seattle. And with pistachios, that time, too. Also, water. I didn’t have wine, then. I was just so happy, that day. Played some of my favorite music, enjoying the simplicity of it. Knowing what feels good, and setting things up. (HT… well, you know who you are… it’s been more than a decade since we met, wow. I suppose that’s how it goes sometimes.)
It was good, then, and it is good, now.
The next things are coming up now. Wineless, pistachio-less, and balcony-less and even kind of zoomlessly… but what that does is… it…
S P A C E.
HT Guests of ‘Papers‘. Thanks for being there and sharing so, so much. I appreciate it! <3
This one is super light, and fun.
It is part of a series of new zines, coming out in June, from S P C.
This one is a chapbook, that is to say, it is Book I of a new, larger work called Finnmark. The author of Finnmark is Dipika Kohli. Finnmark (Kismuth Books / 2020) is inspired by H.C. Andersen’s children’s story The Snow Queen as well as Kohli’s personal visits to Copenhagen in 2007 and 2015, and Rovaniemi in Lapland, 2018.
It is a members-only series. It is part of a set of four. All four S P C issues in the Finnmark series will be available to two sets of people. First, members of S P C. Second, guests of our June edition of ‘Papers’.
For more information about Papers, go here. (Note: link will only be available for a limited time).
Join S P C + get this issue at this link…
Dear Seattle… Reading the news, thinking of you. With a long look from afar (very, very far). It’s been 2004… so, what’s that, 16 years?, since I started this studio in Seattle, out of an apartment in Capitol Hill on a laptop with my best friend, Akira Morita.
I decided to make you guys a mix tape. I’m not sure if the article that made me think up the idea’s worth clicking over to, but a particular paragraph was pretty much me going… “Yup…”’ Here’s the part that’s good: ‘… but Gen Xer’s — the latchkey kids of the ’80s and ’90s — are uniquely qualified for social distancing. In their youth, they spent hours alone in their rooms, watching after-school specials, doing homework, making mixtapes for their friends. To this day, they’re perfectly content holed up at home and finding ways to entertain themselves.’
For those of you who still read this blog, thanks.
I made you this mix tape, ‘Dear Seattle’…
Here it is..
A mix tape.. <3 dipika
safe hands by world health organization’s dr. tedros adhanom ghebreyesus (@DrTedros)
don’t stand so close to me (the police)
look sharp ! (roxette)
posse on broadway (sir mix-a-lot)
yoshimi battles the pink robots (flaming lips)
ghen cô vy with English subtitles (nioeh x khắc hưng x min x erik)
play with me (taylor eigsti)
sleeping in (the postal service)
staring at the sun (simple kid)
safe hands (world health organization)
There are simple things we each must do to protect ourselves from #COVID19, including 👐 washing with🧼 & 💦 or alcohol-based rub… [Note: this is a great video to show you how to do it super correctly!]
— World Health Organization Western Pacific (@WHOWPRO) March 18, 2020
don’t stand so close to me
posse on broadway
yoshimi battles the pink robots
ghen cô vy
play with me
staring at the sun**
**Erm, and about that hat… Yup. I know Shelby NC. HT RJ and AP…
Today we share ‘A Life that Isn’t Yours.’
- Contemporary ‘New Wave’ Photo Essay
- Commissioned by ‘The People Who Want to Do Stuff’, a new nonprofit organization set up by the Cambodia-based collective, Artists In Residence, at Their Houses. Cost of creating this work: $4,062
- This series was conceived and led by A. Spaice, in collaboration with Dipika Kohli, in Phnom Penh. Find further information, below
A Life That Isn’t Yours
Photo essay by A. Spaice & DK
What a critic is saying
Critic L.O.Q. writes, ‘ALTIY is a significant and highly relevant, not to mention hugely important, if I haven’t said that already, investigation into the works of art that are made today and shared digitally and largely impersonally with equally impersonal audiences, and why that’s something to really stop and think about, anyway.’ L.O.Q. will publish the full critique in an upcoming issue of This Magazine is The Awesome, and the two schoolfriends we discovered through deep internet searches for just the right face and ‘look’ for this series, whose stage names are ‘Susan’ and ‘Carly,’ will star in a forthcoming lifestyle segment of a new BBQ reality TV show, ‘Squirt.’
All photos used with permission of their creators, over at that new website that lets you do that kind of thing. Completed January 10-February 4, 2020.
About A. Spaice
A. Spaice is an artist who works in a variety of media. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, Spaice makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of a global superabundance and marketing.
Spaice’s artworks never show the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, they try to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere, while the build-up of tension is frozen, to become the memory of an event, that may or may not ever take place. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, they try to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. A. Spaice currently lives and works in Phnom Penh. —Artist Biography written by 500letters.org.
Naming, brand identity design, and showing up to make space—quality space—for the process of people who want to discover somethign new, together, is what we did for NUK Cafe. This was 2014. DK had just opened up our doors in Phnom Penh for business, and this was our first gig.
Since then, five years’ experience of living and learning here in Phnom Penh has given us a chance to flex our creative and intellectual muscles. We’ve gotten into very different kinds of projects, since moving away from typical brand identity deign. Still, I think it’s important to share the jo gurney, and how we got to where we are from where we stated. This post is part of a series of updates to our portfolio.
Discovery, networking, change, and reinvention has led us through a wide set of experiences.
Journeys that, for better or worse, taught us some important lessons. I’ll just leave it at that. It’s a long story.
A new DK portfolio
Really enjoyed the NUK project.
Sharing as I go, now, since DK’s going to open again for design commissions from February 2020. That’s a lot of stuff to anticipate, for DK, but the short story is this. We’ve done things, we’ve been places. We’ve learned. We have more to do.
The work is the work, not the pretty pixels you see at the end of hte design process. If learning by doing and seeing how we get from a blank page and zero idea of what to do towards the finished things, which almost always are a 100% co-created set of designs (yes, we hand you pencils sometimes, and get to work together!), then yeah. Get in touch. This is the place to do that.
We’re really only interested in working with business owners who have 5+ years’ experience. For those interested in solopreneurship or personal branding, perhaps try our 8-week workshop, The Mirror, instead of our heavy-hitting journey of brand identity design for DK (which is also waaaayyy more expensive.) It’s not for everyone. (Still, there are 1 out of every 100 people who ‘get’ us, our approach, and see that there’s value in doing it right the first time, even if that means going through the hard question-asking series of things that we will ask of our clients. Apply to be a part of DK’s brand identity design programs from February. Apply here.)
The original post about the story of how we came to make this design for a cafe in Phnom Penh back in 2014, is below.
Phnom Penh. DK had just arrived to Cambodia.
‘Never imagined we’d stay five years:’ DK.
Emergence, innovation, change: Inventing as we go
Design. Making meaning out of vague and abstract collections of thought. Streamling and clarifying…
I still remember when we did this, for the NUK Cafe, which we named and branded back in 2014.
That was DK’s first gig in Cambodia.
Things have evolved for them quite a bit at NUK, I think they’ve moved on from our original design, but the ‘N’ is still there on the cups that DK’s Dipika Kohli drew.
Which is this:
I really like this story. Of how you start with ‘…’ and get to this design. It’s not a straight line. The creative process moves around and changes a lot, in the middle. It’s how it goes. It’s how we learn, and how we grow, too. Since DK had been doing branding work for more than a decade, it wasn’t hard. (These days we’re not doing branding work, by the way. More consulting. More experiential programs. Like these.)
Of DK’s founders hitting the road in 2013, going in search of ‘I don’t know what it even is yet’, and discovering the first team in Phnom Penh to give DK an open hand to design the way we know how to design. By asking questions. Listening. Learning. Gathering. Percolating. Generally: trusting the process. Why not? It’s worked for us for so many clients in the past.
It makes me happy.
Funny, all that drawing of the ‘N’ and exploring it led to the birth of something completely different.
Things. Turn into things. Don’t they?
“Zines run the gamut in both quality and subject matter, but they all share a common and salient thread — they speak for their time, they are unedited, they are personal, and they deal with things you would never read about in major publications, from the personal to the political and beyond.
— Sara Century, writing for The Establishment
Quoted here: https://www.lgbtculturalheritage.com/zines
Found something really cool today at the website ThirdCultureDesign.blogspot.com, by self-identified ‘Third Culture Kid,’ or TCK, Gerrit J. Hoppe. I think it was about 2011, if I’m reading and understanding correctly, which is interesting. Why is this old, underpopulated site, coming up on page one of a search about ‘cross cultural design?’ Hmmmmmm.
Oh! But this is the thing. Identity, right? Identity and culture. Between-ness. And design. And uncertainty. And knowing that you have to trust the process. And being okay with more than one answer existing at the same time, even if those answers cancel each other out. This is no-brainer stuff for people who are international… people who cross cultures all the time, and that doesn’t mean just nation-boundaries (who needs those?), but other ones. The way we grow up. What a certain word means to us. Whether or not we believe that orange and chocolate are a classic combination or not and if we don’t we can argue about it for hours and hours if we are the type to do that, TCK-type types, I mean.
That’s a side thing.
An inside joke, thing.
Hrm. Should I be writing inside jokes into serious blog posts about culture, identity, politics, resp0nsibility, ethics, and design?
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Focus, focus, focus
I am writing, again, behind the scenes. In protected-page posts. About design. Culture. The open road, uncertainty, trusting the process. And much, much more. It is a journey of change and discovery, it is an important time of learning and reflection. Especially given all that is developing and unfolding in a world that doesn’t know how to cross cultures intelligently.
I think some are uniquely positioned to write, share and publish about the how of this. About noticing. About listening. About engaging. And I want to find those people. And interview them. And write more, and make a podcast, “S” is for Sincerity, is the working title. I really need to do this work but I don’t know how this is going to actually happen, given that it takes hours and hours of time, and like the article I was talking about (link, coming up) before going into this long-winded side story says, you have to immerse to get into a space, place, and moment to really say something worthwhile. Am I there, yet, by now, to be the interviewer? I don’t know. I want to try to keep learning, but it’s also important to hit ‘go’ sometimes, before we’re even ready, because, you know, Greenland is melting.
What design can learn from crossing cultures
Quoted therein…“The term cross-cultural design has become popular lately. Nobody designs in a vacuum, and we rarely design for people in the same life situation as ours. These days, it’s almost effortless to talk to and work with people all over the world. This is a fantastic development, and I think it’s really helped broaden people’s horizons. As a designer, though, it means we now have an extra set of responsibilities. The term “cross-cultural” implies that designers remain in their home culture and survey others from afar, designing from a distance. This isn’t enough.
I think it’s important to engage in intercultural design instead, in terms of how we think about problems and then act upon them. “Intercultural” implies more immersion and personal engagement.” —Smitha Prasadh
As Prasadh hints, the key element to intercultural design is immersion, but as immersion into a new culture takes up large quantities of time, it has been nearly impossible to accomplish in the past…. Read the full piece here.
LOOKING BACK, it must have been at the conversation salon ‘The State of Publishing’ that I got the first inkling of what the thing is that today I call S P A C E. In which new and different others gather for a unique, once-off, real-life moment for remarkable connexion.
This is me, at that event:
SO MUCH happened there. So many old ties, crisscrossing with new ones. There had been a decade interval since the time I was in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, NC, for those who are not familiar). I had been there for university and my first jobs, including freelance work in photography and illustration, back in the 90s. So I of course had to invite some of the editors I knew from those days, including the people behind what was then the cool creative nonfiction-style not-a-magazine, and not-a-newspaper that was called the Urban Hiker. UH had run my first-ever first-person story, ‘Midmorning Lakeshimmer,’ which had been about sitting lakeside in Udaipur, Rajasthan, enjoying, guess what, a conversation. With a fellow passerby. The content of that conversation, and the publication in which it ran, set in motion, I think, to me, the notion that we can tell our first-person true stories, in the ways we like, if we just make a space to publish them. It was with great admiration that I continued to follow UH, until I read somewhere from the other side of the country, or perhaps when I was abroad in Ireland, prior to that, that it folded. Well, then. But the spirit of writing, conversing, connecting, and sharing: that was glittery. And that’s what I think I am carrying forward, here, in my own way, with the zines and salons in S P A C E programmes near, far, and online.
More to say about these ideas, about a hat tip to the past salons and of course, to the people who came, who shared, and who, in the end, made the magic moments happen. It’s all about showing up; showing up is Art, to me, and making the space for new and different others to convene in remarkable ways is what I’m up to here, at DK. Come a long way since freelancing for the then Spectator in Raleigh, I’d say. But then again, I remember walking into that office, asking what’s up, and getting a commission, on the spot. Not bad. Same thing happened over the years, repeating, telling me and confirming for me that yes, people want to hear about others, read about places, discover through the simple act of sharing what it is to go beyond the edges, and see what gems one might discover there. Thinking about these things, considering the tracks since I was back in NC, one of my many homes.
Another pic from State of Publishing:
OF COURSE IT IS IMPERATIVE that we have a strong sense of self before we can really engage in the kind of peaceful dialogue that will help all of us quell the ills of the world, what with its many division-making tendencies. Too this or too that, you’re relegated to too ‘out.’ You stay in the margins long enough and you discover other people are there, too. That’s how it happened, really. That’s how DK got going. We were wacky. We were curious. We were open. We were not buying into the program. We wanted new things, but didn’t know where to find them, or how they would change us, or why we felt compelled to go further into the ‘out there.’ The unknown. The not-yet-knowable. The uncertain, the different, the new. In the end, it’s because of the chance encounter with that one guest at SoP that led to the thought that it was no longer interesting for me to be in North Carolina, that I had things to do, somewhere else, wherever ‘somewhere else’ might be. I knew, after I put it down, and spent 9 hours writing a blog post that got circulated a little (and accidentally deleted when, well, it’s a long story, has to do with not making backups, something that people who aren’t as organized as they wish they could be have a tendency to fail to do), and yea, it was that time, and the people I met, and the things we said, and the books that got recommended, and the reading of those books, that led to new things.
Philosophy, I read recently, is the work to examine questions that will allow us to live more pleasurably. As I write from my very last night on the long, twelve-week stretch of being still for the ‘slow moment’ in northern Finland, I’m thinking about that. I’m thiningabout the chance encounters and the conversations and the people and what we made together. I’m curious about what will come of this, in my own thinking, and the style that will become what it will, as ar result of all the influences of being here. I remember a 17 year-old girl walking, at sunset, letting me stop and say hello, letting me say, ‘Thank you for participating in that workshop we did, the other day. It was nice to meet you.’ Letting me talk a little more about my feelings about being here, in a rural place, and sharing her own ideas, too. Then meeting her mother. Meeting a woman whose poise and patience were both of the highest level I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a lot of leaders in my life, and I saw that she was of that kind of upper crust calibre, and I saw that she did that work of mothering with the kind of gentle hand that we need to see in leadership today, in every walk of life. Because the mothers of the world know how to be tender. How to listen, with love, how to give of our affection. We aren’t expecting anything, when we’re mothering at our best. We just do. We just be. That’s the lesson I’ve learned, too, from being here, in Finland.
To the journeys, then. The new, the near, the now, and the next.
ONE OF THE FUNNEST things about being in the middle of Finland all summer is listening to Radio Nova. I’m not kidding. I really like it. I don’t know. I think it’s because of all these 1990s songs, hit songs, stuff I haven’t heard since… well… then. I don’t listen to the radio much except when I’m in places that are otherwise rather remote or quiet or just the sound of the new language is interesting to hear. Pieced between the many announcements, often about ‘summer,’ because I am beginning to pick up a few words (‘Friday,’ ‘good,’ ‘let’s see then, maybe,’ ‘thank you,’ and ‘mind peace’), there is stuff like A-Ha. I’m listening to’ Take On Me’ Great video–do you remember that? I remember that. I remember being very, very intrigued. Drawing and animation and this song. This song. I’m listening to it right now. I was going to link to the YouTube but you know what, they have these stupid ads now, and they have tracking, and it’s annoying–and—wow that’s a high note—and it’s been… really interesting to hear how people listen to songs like Roxette‘s Listen to Your Heart and Sinéad O’Connor‘s Nothing Compares 2 U. Plus that one that’s been playing all summer and is ‘oh, you don’t need to know the words, it’s like all the Finnish songs, about being sad and lonely and depressed and wanting to commit suicide…’
BLAST FROM THE PAST. Nineties music. Nice to hear it all. Zining while listening to this stuff reminds me of something else.
Mix tapes. Collaging. Curating. Sharing. Now you just queue things up on Soundcloud, in a playlist. Or?
Thinking about all that, all those things. Listening to the ‘Hot 9 at 9’ back home. One of the places that used be home, but isn’t now, I guess, would be more accurate. Talking about Home in one of our online forums. Talking about Arrivals. Talking about Slow Moments. Talking, talking, writing, writing. Listening to the radio and drinking coffee at 11:25PM and wondering where the sun went. It is the first time this summer that I’ve needed to turn on the lights.
Bicycling home last night from karaoke, too. First time I had cycled in the dark.
Next, I’m pretty sure, Radio Nova will play us some Michael Jackson. Annie are you okay…
THE LONG DAY is reminding me about old conversations, in many places, about time. Philosophical, you could say. That’s part of who DK is. It took a while to admit to it, but then, didn’t we do a TEDx talk about how there’s not that much time left? We did. Six years ago. Seems like a lifetime: I’ve been on the road for a year in Asia, then parked for four years in Cambodia, now I’m on the road again–in Scandinavia. Well, kind of on the road. Because I’ve learned that bouncing around from point to point is not as intriguing as sitting still in one spot and absorbing it more fully, I’m here for three solid months in the middle of northern Finland. Lapland is over yonder, there is talk of reindeer meat, or reindeer hitting your windshield, and how nice it is to see the sun. Lots of talk on the talk radio about summer. Festivities and the cheery feeling of it; the sun not going away, the lakes reflecting all of it, with a mesmerizing shade of light grey twinged with blue. Chillin’. I noticed it’s a quiet day, today, here. I saw some people getting their cameras out and taking pictures of the river. I saw some others getting gas and going in for a bite to eat–the hamburger place, the pizzeria, the cafe where I’ll be co-hosting a zine popup this month. Buncha stuff. There are people who come through this town because it’s a stop on the motorway from Oulu to Helsinki, a major throughline, though the road is only two lanes and looks like it’s any countryside road, to me anyway, in the smaller counties of North Carolina. One of my many homes. That’s another thing, though. That’s drift. Today, time.
Slow down to see now
SLOWING. That’s the topic, these days, here. Slowing down to sense. Slowing down to see. Slowing down to feel. Letting things catch up… feeling the ambient awarenesses that have been percolating for years, but haven’t had time to precipitate out into the here and right-in-front-of-you, because… time. ‘The way we live our days is, of course, how we live our lives,’ it has been said, and many times, and I am thinking about my friends who will say, ‘Yes, I wanted to, but I didn’t have time.’ I’m thinking of DB in Seattle, who, in his drawing class for freshman and sophomores, would make a comment about how texting and drawing nude models just isn’t a good idea, that you don’t need to multitask here, that, ‘we all have the same amount of time.’ Priorities are the thing to focus on, instead of how to make more time. How to do the right things, instead of just doing things. How to… well, wait. I’m turning into one of those productivity blogs. I don’t meant to do that. But I do agree with PT who said, ‘Relentlessly prune bullshit.’ You just have to, if if you want to move the ball further down the playing field, towards the end zones that you decide are worth pursuing. You can’t just… wait for things to happen, nor can you… wish for more time. All of these thoughts are trickling in and out of the S P A C E of spaces where I’m conversing with some of you, some new people here in Finland, too. And learning. Always, always curious. Wanting to know more. Where does the time go? What did we do with it? Is it important to plan? What are the benefits of not-planning? And: what will I do with my days, while I live? This is the question, ultimately, that the TEDx talk landed up, asking about. What will be your legacy?
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like I was aiming to go up there and make a long philosophical statement about how people are being busied into being busy and forgetting how to slow down, notice now, and be present and aware of what it is they actually want their lives to be about. What is the story your life will spell? (DK always asked this of our clients, and then, added to it, with: How can you design for that?) Not that popular a topic. Thinking about the life you want to live and what you can do to make it happen? That’s big-picture stuff. That takes overarching grand views on things and letting some time go by so as to reflect. But who has time for that? The day to day details of getting things done are at hand. And that’s why, really, honestly, the pervasiveness of the ‘to-do’-ers and their insistence that making time is more important than making artful connexion and meaningful moments of their time is probably why I decided to come here to focus on ‘Slow Moment.’ It’s a long story. It’s going to have to be shortened, though, because ‘Slow Moment’ will be an 8-page zine. That’s later, though. Now, I’m thinking about a time I sat on a terrace and talked with someone I hadn’t seen for more than a decade, about what we did with our lives, in the interim.
‘The time,’ he said. ‘The time does not come back.’
I wonder if he remembers it as clearly as I do.
YES, IT WAS DIRECT, and sort of out of nowhere. ‘The time does not come back,’ he said. Did I detect regret? Resentment?
I remember looking out over the plates and chairs and people who were talking together in groups of two or four, drinking their wine and beers and partaking of desserts and salads, and the sun was setting, and it set, and we were still talking, and I remember this clearly, about that line, ‘The time does not come back.’ Of course, I’d wanted to say, and then add something about reversible time and physics and multiverses and some theory–but it wasn’t that kind of a party.
Time. Not reversing. But that’s why we have to notice it, right? Be here now. All that stuff. Notice it and do the things that feel good, make the work that matters–to us. It’s relative, after all. Why follow someone else’s prescription for ‘what counts’ and ‘what matters?’ A job is really you just selling your time. What is the work that matters to you? Are you doing that? What is the legacy you want to leave?
I’d wanted to ask such questions, of course. I always do. Was there something you had wanted to do with it that you didn’t? (This is mostly what I had wanted to ask, but couldn’t, of course. Acquaintanceship is different from friendship, after all.)
We parted. The year ended. The next one came. This is life. This is the cycle. This is how things go. Probably won’t ever see one another again, either. Something about feeling… a sense of distance. At not knowing why the action and initiative weren’t there. I felt he had regrets, but they weren’t faced on, not looked at, not examined, or questioned. Self-awareness of this was missing, too. There was some weird sense that there was a lacks somehow. A lack that could not be felt, or seen, until another day, and time, which, I got the feeling, would not come.
Because making the time and space to reflect isn’t for everyone. Those who do come out, I think, with a purpose to their life that goes beyond ticking boxes of filling in lines or paying bills. Those who are able to assess themselves clearly can do… living. Yes. Do living. Do it. Without trying so hard to conform to someone else’s pictures of ‘success’. Without avoiding looking in the mirror, and asking the hard questions, ‘Is this for me? Am I living the life I want? Am I being true to myself?’ So many people skip this. Well, of course. It’s hard.
But I think about these things a lot. I look for others who do, too. I count those people amongst my friendship circles. I listen for the curious, the ones who are saying, ‘There’s got to be more. Help me think about this.’
‘Did you see Waiting for Godot?’ I’ll ask them. ‘Or read the play?’
‘Beckett. Read it. Then let’s talk more.’
Philosophically, these kinds of existential queries—what is the point of it? what are we doing with our time? where is the meaning?–are the ones that we thinky-thinky types like to dwell on. (Sometimes too much. Acknowledged.)
For the writer, it’s been said that the best thing to do upon waking up is grab the pen… or at least the keyboard, and empty out all your earliest thoughts or journal away the sins of yesterday. It’s a great method for any artist that is meant to really help get into the right kind of artistic mindset for the rest of the day.
These days, first thing I’ve been reaching for is the cell phone.
I have this grand compunction to know what time it is, even though I have gone out of my way to do the kind of work that is not time sensitive. I don’t have a place to report to by a certain time, nor do I have any specific deadlines I’m trying to reach. “Knowing the time” on the clock does little to help me at all, yet I keep reaching over as soon as I’m awake. I’ve been here before… Instead of being on “world time,” the intervals of reality where events happen when they happen and people awaken and choose to move with their needs and their hearts; I find myself on “corporate time,” the time invented to create a schedule to move items by rail that would allow people 200 years ago to coordinate and make a lot of money.
We think of art in such a variety of ways that it is virtually impossible to come up with anything close to a universal definition. Case in point, I typed in “art is” in Google search and the hive mind finished my sentence with options like “essential to life,” “dead,” and “in bakery.” Then there was my personal favorite, “an explosion.” Art is… formless in a way, but at its best it is communicative, illustrative, and transformative. In being those things, it can also be subversive, disruptive, and even destructive. Art simply “is,” and yet we continually invent new reasons for it to exist. So why do we art? After all,
It’s not like it’s going to make you rich.
It’s not like it’s going to change the world.
It’s not like it’s going to make a difference.
It’s not like it’s going to make you happy.
It’s not like it’s going to make you feel better.
It’s not like it’s going to give you a reason to live.
…save for when it does, which is kind of all the time.

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Tailgate and vendor sales start at 12:00 on Thursday. Be sure to visit our vendors including:
Bring any items you’d like to sell or trade, and browse others’ goodies. The early birds get the better buys, and the earliest tailgaters will begin setting up on Thursday when the grounds open at noon. Come early to enjoy the tailgate sales. You are encourages to bring blacksmith and other items to trade or sell.
John Guenther – Knife Cases
John & Ritchie, Miss. – truck load 5160 tool steel
Green-Mengel – Old and new blacksmithing tools, anvils, swage blocks, cone mandrels, etc.
Tool Fool – Old and new blacksmith tools, anvils, swage blocks, blowers, forges, etc.
Kentucky Leather & Hide – Leather & Accessories
Brent Bailey – Handmade Hammers & Tooling
Raymond Head – Power Tire Hammers
Dave Custer – Fiery Furnace Forge. Dave is known for his hammers and tooling, but his work also includes dinner bells, hooks, bathroom & kitchen hardware, gates, railings, furniture, & fire screens.
Blue Moon Press
Blue Moon Press, Ltd., founded in 1999, is located in the eastern United States, nestled in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania. They are committed to collaboration with friends around the world to produce highest quality manuscripts for the global metal artisan community. They are devoted to researching and translating the best metal books available, and are dedicated to producing the finest reference materials for blacksmiths, sculptors, jewelers and all metal artists.
Inksmith specializes almost entirely in blacksmith designs and is a regular vendor at the Southern Blacksmith Association (SBA) and Southern Ohio Forge and Anvil (SOFA) Conferences.
Ron Richerson’s Green River Custom Knives
Ron has everything a knife maker could want or need. He has a large assortment of metals for blade making including Damascus. His large variety of materials for knife handles is unmatched, from exotic woods to antlers of all species to mammoth teeth. Green River has it all.
Swirl Girl Art
Allison Bohorfoush is Swirl Girl Art! She has been creating one-of-a-kind original artwork jewelry for 22 years and travels to shows throughout the Southeast. She most commonly uses chasing and repousse techniques. Animals and plant forms are a staple in her pieces.
Blacksmith Supply and owner John Elliott “try to stock the items we, as blacksmiths, use everyday.”
– Whisper gas forges
– Smithin Magicians
– Fuller Punch sets & swage blocks.
– TOM TONGS
Mount Sharon Forge
Mount Sharon Forge was started in 1991 by Ray Spiller who has been blacksmithing since 1983. Ray will be at the Conference selling a wide variety of hand-made tongs, scroll jigs, and art work. Visit Ray & Mount Sharon Forge on facebook and http://mountsharonforge.com/ also @ the AACB 2014 conference.
Working as a self-employed blacksmith has afforded Allan the time to travel and take classes from many well-known Master Blacksmiths. Allan sell power hammer tools, both closed and open faced, as well as hot and cold cuts and a wide assortment of hand files.
Iron Mountain Forge
Custom built blacksmithing tools. Designed by a master with more than 40 years experience.


You just got finished with your latest show, and now you have no idea what the next one is going to be. Maybe you will settle on reruns of your favorite nineties show or rewatching the latest Marvel movie. Or maybe this time around, you'll watch the five craziest shows Netflix has to offer.
Debby Ryan plays a former fat girl, Patty Bladell, who gets into a fistfight with a homeless guy and ends up getting her jaw wired shut and results in her losing seventy pounds. The show centers around her character meeting Bob Armstrong, who has a conflict with the locals in their small Georgia town. The two's encounter with the law makes Bob's interest in Patty all the more scandalous. Bob wants to be Patty's pageant coach after failing to attract any new clients after a false accusation. Patty's out for revenge for everyone that made fun of her for being fat, and the endless trail of insanity continues into the entire season. This is one show that you will not be able to stop watching.
2. "Santa Clarita Diet"
Santa Clarita Diet
Drew Barrymore has historically been a rom-com legend and Timothy Olyphant is all around awesome. They both play Sheila and Joel Hammond lead a pretty normal suburban life with their daughter Abby. There's just one thing: Sheila is slowly turning into a zombie. A raw, meat-loving, turned accidental killer mother who simply cannot control her impulses at times. The show is actually really funny and easy to watch (if you like that sort of thing, which you will). This show stands out among a lot of the Netflix shows being put out recently.
3. "Big Mouth"
"Big Mouth": you can claim you know everything about this show simply from the promos but it is way more than teenagers and sex. This show is about how those teenagers grow up while dealing with every emotion that comes with hormonal changes and how they shape who they are. While that might sound more wholesome than it seems, this show is very open across the board. You won't be disappointed by the cast and their familiar voices, as most of them come from a comedic background if not all of them.
4. "Sex Education"
I know you are thinking I am crazy for including this one on the list but hear me out. "Sex Education" is a high school British drama/comedy that follows Otis, a young and inexperienced teenage boy whose mother (the glorious Gillian Anderson) is a sex therapist. Otis sees that other kids at his school are having a hard time with their bodies and he decides to be the school's unofficial sex therapist. With the help of Maeve and Eric, they are able to navigate treacherous waters into the world of sex and relationships. This show deals with hot and scandalous topics that are so prevalent in our time, such as abortion, LGBTQ rights, and poverty. This show attracts all types, even including one of my English professors, who gave me this idea for the article, since it surprised me that he loved it so much.
Now I know this was previously a Lifetime show before Netflix bought it this past year, but since it is now a part of the Netflix community, it is time to give it its rightful place. Joe Goldberg aka Dan Humphrey for any of my Gossip Girl fans out there is an every Joe (sorry for the pun, but that's where this comes from). Originally a novel, YOU goes over the obsession Joe has with the women in his life and how he magically makes things happen and fall into place for him. Beck is the obsession season one surrounds itself with and it has so many twists and turns to it that you will never guess what happens each episode.
Beck is a young MFA student living in New York City that somehow can't find the strength to buy curtains to cover her apartment window that Joe peers into almost every day. Beck has a complicated backstory and her life as a woman who's trying to figure things out leads her to some of the darkest places in the human psyche. The season continuously shows us flawed characters who in a sense, are wrapped into Joe's dark world, unknowingly contributing their own malicious acts to the plot. I rave about this show probably the most on this list, and that could be because I too have an obsession, but it's with handsome men turned crazy killer shows, but that's just me. Also, you can never go wrong with a surprise role by John Stamos. You won't be disappointed binging this show and will never guess how the end turns out, so turn on your TVs and get to watching. You know I will!


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Supreme Court Rejects US Service Members' Appeal Over Burn Pits Illnesses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a bid by U.S. troops sickened by smoke from open-air pits used to burn waste in Iraq and Afghanistan to revive a lawsuit against defense contractors KBR Inc and Halliburton Co.
The justices left in place a 2018 lower court ruling in favor of the companies. The former service members said in the lawsuit that they developed various cancers, neurological damage and other illnesses, often fatal, because of KBR's negligent operation of the burn pits.
The case centered on the liability of KBR and Halliburton over waste disposal services they provided the U.S. military in Afghanistan starting in 2001 and Iraq starting in 2003. KBR was part of Halliburton until it was spun off in 2007.
The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the various consolidated lawsuits brought by service members and their relatives amounted to a "political question" that Congress and the president should resolve, not the courts.
The plaintiffs, whose cases were consolidated in Maryland in 2009, said they were harmed because the companies did not follow correct safety procedures. They accused KBR of placing the burn pitstoo close to occupied areas and operating them without regard to wind conditions. The contractor used the pits to dispose of plastics, tires, batteries, medical waste and other material that released airborne toxins when burned.
Both companies said they should not be held liable.
The Supreme Court in 2015 declined to hear the cases at an earlier stage in the litigation after the companies lost a prior bid to dismiss the lawsuits.
Dick Cheney, who served as chairman and CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, was U.S. vice president at the time the American military operations involved in the case began in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WATCH NEXT: Operation Enduring Freedom Turns 17
A group of vets are raising money to pay for a medal the Iraqi government awarded them, but never delivered
In June 2011 Iraq's defense minister announced that U.S. troops who had deployed to the country would receive the Iraq Commitment Medal in recognition of their service. Eight years later, millions of qualified veterans have yet to receive it.
The reason: The Iraqi government has so far failed to provide the medals to the Department of Defense for approval and distribution.
A small group of veterans hopes to change that.
For a cool $8.5 million, you could be the proud owner of a "fully functioning" F-16 A/B Fighting Falcon fighter jet that a South Florida company acquired from Jordan.
The combat aircraft, which can hit a top speed of 1,357 mph at 40,000 feet, isn't showroom new — it was built in 1980. But it still has a max range of 2,400 miles and an initial climb rate of 62,000 feet per minute and remains militarized, according to The Drive, an automotive website that also covers defense topics, WBDO News 96.5 reported Wednesday.
A doctor who treated accident victims has a radioactive isotope in his body. Russia says it came from his diet
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities said on Friday that a doctor who treated those injured in a mysterious accident this month had the radioactive isotope Caesium-137 in his body, but said it was probably put there by his diet.
The deadly accident at a military site in northern Russia took place on Aug. 8 and caused a brief spurt of radiation. Russian President Vladimir Putin later said it occurred during testing of what he called promising new weapons systems.
Groundwater at the Air Force Academy is contaminated with the same toxic chemicals polluting a southern El Paso County aquifer, expanding a problem that has cost tens of millions of dollars to address in the Pikes Peak region.
Plans are underway to begin testing drinking water wells south of the academy in the Woodmen Valley area after unsafe levels of the chemicals were found at four locations on base, the academy said Thursday.


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Can I legally marry my friends?
All parties just need to be aware the ceremony has “no legal effect whatsoever” and the happy couple with have to pop to the registry office before or afterwards to make their commitment legally binding. … However, those wishing to conduct a friend’s wedding can take inspiration from this kind of ceremony.
Can a friend officiate my wedding in Ontario?
Now, depending on where you live in Canada, this may be possible, however, if you live in Ontario, one must be legally allowed to officiate weddings. … In order for that to happy, this individual must be: A Judge or Justice of the Peace.
Who can legally marry someone in Canada?
Legally, you must be 18 years or older and not already married. There are exceptions to the legal age limit. You may marry with your parents’ consent if you are under 18 and over 16. Under some circumstances, parental consent may not be necessary if a judge says so.
Can anyone get ordained in Canada?
On its website, the United National Church claims anyone can become an ordained minister in Canada and “lawfully perform marriages for your family, friends, or anyone in your community.” The website also states, “Our Minister’s Licence is Valid across Canada.”
Can u get married to yourself?
Yes, that’s right, Women (and men) are renting out venues, purchasing wedding attire and planning elaborate, themed wedding ceremonies in which they stand before friends and family members to dedicate their life to themselves. …
Who can marry me?
You can be married by:
- Clerk-Recorder’s Office (marriage commissioner or vital-records clerk)
- Deputized relative or friend (one-day deputy commissioner)
Who can legally marry you in Ontario?
There are only three categories of people who can legally solemnize a wedding ceremony in Ontario: Religious Official, Ontario Municipal Clerk/Designate, Judge/Justice of the Peace. There are two types of marriages in Ontario.
How can I marry someone in Canada?
must be 18 years or older. must be a permanent resident of Canada. is appointed for one day. is only authorized to perform a civil (non-religious) marriage ceremony in Alberta.
How much is a wedding officiant in Ontario?
According to our research, the average wedding officiant price in Toronto, Canada runs between $500 and $600. The packages include the ceremony and on-site rehearsal. Based on the data we analyzed, 84% of the couples pay wedding officiants in the GTA charge between $500 and $700.
What happens if I marry a foreigner in Canada?
Marriages that are legally performed in a foreign country are usually valid in Canada, and you do not need to register them in Canada. Marrying a citizen of another country may automatically make you a citizen of that country.
Is online marriage legal in Canada?
Does IRCC recognize marriages conducted by proxy, telephone, internet and fax? No. We don’t recognize these types of marriages. If one or both parties are not physically present at the ceremony, we won’t recognize the marriage.
Is adultery a crime in Canada?
For adultery, American law requires sexual intercourse. In Canada, you can commit adultery without actually having sex. Canada boasts the western world’s first and only, and still legally authoritative, court ruling* that artificial insemination constitutes adultery.
Is online ordination legal?
In most states, a person ordained through an online process is still a minister, at least for the purpose of marrying a couple. All the officiant needs to do is sign the marriage license after the ceremony and then mail it to the correct office. But in some areas, ordination thorugh an online church is not acceptable.
Does being ordained expire?
Ordination permits the minister to perform church rites and sacraments, such as baptisms, legal marriages and funerals. … Unlike ordination, which is usually considered to be a one-time event, the credentials for licensed ministers may only be valid for a specific period of time.


IDC predicts that 298,000 edge and remote IT locations will be built this year. This means even more critical IT will be housed in locations without on-site IT staff. Sentry represents an opportunity for MSPs and MSSPs to solve the problem of monitoring critical IT more cost-efficiently without compromising service quality. Sentry makes it easier to prevent, thwart, or remediate costly IT situations without being there.
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One of the most difficult parts of the job is to have “eyes and ears” in remote or “lights-out” locations, such as branch offices, wiring closets, or remote data centers. I often had to rely on local administrators who were typically at the low end of the technical scale, or I would need to drive to the location myself. Sentry provides a low-cost way for IT administrators to better manage remote locations.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC--(Marketwired - June 22, 2017) - The majority of surveyed clinical trial teams -- from those with global responsibility to those positioned at the country level -- report better cross-geography communication through centralized adaptive trial design decision-making structures, according to a recent study by business intelligence firm Cutting Edge Information.
The study, Adaptive Design Clinical Trials: Strategically Modify Traditional Methodologies to Support Efficient Clinical Operations
, found that 65% of surveyed global teams have a centralized adaptive trial reporting structure. In these structures, global teams develop strategy and allow country-level teams to adjust the strategy to better align with any specific needs they may have. Additionally, half of surveyed non-global teams with either therapeutic or regional responsibility also report centralized structures.
Of the organizations that are not completely centralized, most (30%) have at least some degree of centralization in place. The remaining 5% of surveyed clinical teams report a decentralized structure.
"Establishing centralized clinical structures helps influence active dialogue between global and country-level teams," says Adam Bianchi, senior director of research at Cutting Edge Information. "Because they foster open communication, various company types tend to favor centralized adaptive design structures."
The data show that company type affects the degree of centralization that the organization uses. Both surveyed teams at Top 10 pharmaceutical organizations report using somewhat centralized clinical structures.
By comparison, each of the four surveyed Top 50 company teams leverage completely centralized structures. The key difference between centralized and somewhat centralized structures is that in the former, non-global teams do not contribute to clinical strategy development.
The only company who reported a completely decentralized decision-making process was a small pharmaceutical firm. When decision making is completely decentralized, country-level clinical teams make their own decisions about the use of adaptive trial design, depending on specific trial needs.
Adaptive Design Clinical Trials: Strategically Modify Traditional Methodologies to Support Efficient Clinical Operations
, available at https://www.cuttingedgeinfo.com/product/adaptive-design-clinical-trials/, details the time- and cost-savings metrics associated with adaptive design clinical trials. This report covers the industry's use of adaptive trial design including organizational structures, resources and uses of adaptive designs across specific trial development stages and therapeutic areas.
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£100 million shopping village ‘boost for town’
A £100 million designer outlet village could be up and running in Grantham in three years, creating 1,500 jobs and attracting 3.5 million customers.
Rioja Developments wants to build a village of 130 outlets to attract customers from all over the east of England.
The village is planned for an area of the KiNG31 industrial site next to the A1, where a new junction will be built as phase 2 of the town’s relief road. The village will take up two thirds of the KiNG31 site.
Rioja, a specialist developer of designer outlet villages, has teamed up with Buckminster Estate, which owns the land. The planned village will cover 270,000 square feet.
As well as shops, the site will include restaurants, cafes, a hotel of about 80 rooms, a tourist information centre and 1,800 car parking spaces.
There will be a public consultation on the plans this month, starting with a drop-in consultation where the public can see the plans and make their comments. This will be held at ChristChurch in Finkin Street on Friday, September 16, from noon to 8pm, and on Saturday, September 17, from 10am to 4pm.
A planning application could be submitted by November. If it is approved, construction of the village could start in 2018 with the first phase of the designer outlet village opening in spring 2020.
The first phase would see about 80 of the outlets built and established before the rest are built as part of phase 2, to be fully open in 2023.
Buckminster Estate has told the Journal that it agreed to the development because of the potential benefits for Grantham town centre, where it owns a number of properties. Rioja says that its experience from other shopping villages it has built is that about 10 per cent of customers will visit the town centre as well, meaning a potential 350,000 people could boost the town’s economy and tourism.
Giles Membrey, managing director of Rioja, said: “There is considerable demand for a designer outlet village in the east of England area and we feel Grantham is the ideal location. Designer outlet villages are unlike other retail developments in that they feature upmarket quality brands most, if not all, of which you won’t find in any typical market town – with prices between 30 per cent and 50 per cent lower than high street equivalents.”
Mr Membrey added: “Research shows that designer outlet villages tend to attract customers from up to 90 minutes away, often as part of a day out, with shoppers often visiting both a designer outlet village and the nearby town centre. As such they are as much tourist destinations as they are retail centres.
“Grantham Designer Outlet Village will bring people to Grantham who wouldn’t otherwise be coming to the area – many of whom we expect to visit Grantham town centre alongside their trip to Grantham’s designer outlet.”
Similar examples of designer outlet villages in the UK can be found at Cheshire Oaks near Chester, the York Designer outlet and Bicester Village – which the developer said has had an enormously positive impact on the town.
Buckminster Estate says a designer outlet village in Grantham would bring in much-needed custom to the town centre.
Managing director Stephen Vickers said: “As a major investor and property owner in Grantham town centre we are absolutely committed to Grantham’s future and excited by the prospect of bringing thousands of new visitors to the town.
“Grantham Designer Outlet Village will provide a catalyst for further investment and jobs. Drawing in people from both this region as well as wider afield, the outlet will increase confidence and bring more trade to the town centre.
“We hope to see as many people as possible take part in the consultation process that will allow the residents of Grantham to help shape the scheme.”
Leader of South Kesteven District Council Councillor Bob Adams said: “These certainly appear to be very exciting proposals which could potentially enhance our economy and help make Grantham an even more attractive destination.
“We all want Grantham to be a great place to live, work and visit and we are encouraged by the volume of public engagement that the developers are planning.
“We will need to ensure that these proposals appropriately safeguard our existing businesses whilst creating significant new opportunities.
“The council, in its role as the local planning authority, will be consulting widely with the public and all interested parties to make sure we understand what our businesses and residents think.”
Following the consultation, the plans will be available to see online at www.grantham designeroutletvillage.com and a leaflet outlining the plans will also be distributed throughout the town.
The chairman of Grantham Business Club, Darren Joint, says he backs the £100 million plan for a designer outlet village.
Mr Joint says the ambitious plan could potentially be a big boost for Grantham business.
Mr Joint, managing director of Viking Signs in Grantham, said: “I am very supportive of it. It will be very interesting to hear how they will work to ensure the connectivity with the town centre and zero harm to local businesses.
“If the quality of the offering is maintained, so that it is not drawing customers away from the existing provision in the town, then it sounds very sensible and it should be good for local business.
“It sounds like it is well thought through and I wouldn’t expect anything else from them. I wish them the best of luck.”
The business club meets on Thursday and it will be addressed by Stephen Vickers, of Buckminster Estate, who will outline the outlet village proposal. Any local businesses who would like to be represented at the meeting can book their place by going to the business club website at www.granthambusinessclub.co.uk/events


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I find myself somewhat distressed and dis-heartened about the news today that a European Court has once again made another ridiculous ruling in the interests of political correctness without any real consideration for the wider implications of its actions.
Here is an excerpt from the report in the Daily Telgraph:
The European Court of Justice has ruled that using differences between men and women to help set premiums for car insurance, medical insurance and pension schemes breaches EU rules on equality.
Here we answer questions about the ruling.
Who will it affect? The ruling has huge ramifications for financial companies, but it will particularly apply to insurance premiums and annuities, which are used to convert a pension pot into an annual income in retirement. However, more than just gender is considered when calculating the level of an insurance premium and this will continue to be the case.
Who will be hit the hardest? The people who are probably most likely to see a change in the cost of their insurance are young drivers as there is currently a difference of several thousands of pounds between what an 18 year old man and an 18 year old female pays for cover. The woman currently pays less but there is expected to be a levelling off of premiums with women paying the price. Middle class men with pension pots of between £20,000 and £100,000 will also be affected as it is unlikely they will be able to secure such good rates on their annuities once the ban is applied. Currently, they receive better rates than women as they are not expected to live as long.
How much will it add to the cost of my policy? It will take time for insurers to work out exactly how much their prices are going to change following the ruling. But be prepared as the change is likely to filter through by the time you come to renew your insurance or look around for a better deal.
When will these European Judges get off their high horses and realise the ramifications of their actions. Rather than assisting women in their fight for equality they have now succeeded with one swift blow to overrule a prime statistical factor for deciding insurance and pension rates, that will only result in the person in the street once again being worse off.
The major problem that I see with the laws that are being generated by shaky decisions made in European courts is that they seem to be adapted with any consideration or rebuff from our own legal system.
We are effectively sending a statement to the world that says decisions made by our elected members of parliament carry no weight, so we might as well dissolve our parliament and entire political system and bow to the superior will and might of Strasbourg now.
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As 2019 comes to an end, the time has come for trance lovers worldwide to unite in ecstasy as Armin van Buuren has just released his ‘A State of Trance Year Mix 2019’. An ongoing end-of-year tradition tracing a few years back, this annual album release is the perfect way to indulge in all our favorite trance tracks from the past twelve months.
Its been quite a year for A State of Trance, as we’ve gotten the chance to celebrate the beauty of many music lovers’ genre of choice at some of the most grandiose events throughout the globe. Between all the ASOT episodes, live streaming an eight-hour broadcast during Amsterdam Dance Event, and hosting exclusive events in Utrecht, Madrid, Kiev, Mexico City, the California Bay Area, and festivals like Ultra Miami and Tomorrowland, the brand always finds a way to unite its trance family no matter where in the world they might reside. Not to mention that the creator behind it all Mr. van Buuren himself released his seventh studio album ‘Balance’ as well as ‘Moon of Jupiter’ under his GAIA alias this year as well.
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Carmi-White County High School Teacher, Erin Pennington has had a book selected for publication. Pennington's chap- book of poems "Something to Say" was chosen by Finishing Line Press of Georgetown, Kentucky. Pennington's manuscript was one of 302 entered in a contest by Finishing Line Press in February of 2018. In August of 2018, Ms. Pennington was notified that the book was deemed worthy of publication by FLP at no cost to her.
The presale for Ms. Pennington's book has passed. She sold 110 copies from November 19 to
January 19. Due to the interest, her press run, or initial copies published, will be 500. After the first 500 copies are sold, the second press release will be 1,000 and Pennington will be eligible for royalties at that time. The book will be assigned an ISBN number and will be available for purchase online at major retail stores like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders in March of 2019. Those people that bought the book early should receive their copy in the mail by the end of March or first week of April.
The cover art for the book was designed by Maunie resident Eli Frashier. Mr. Frashier is the son of Mrs. And Mrs. Randy Frashier of Maunie. Eli is also a former English student of Ms. Pennington's. The book "Something to Say" consists of 30 poems written by Erin Pennington from 1986 to 2016. Fourteen of the thirty poems included, almost half, were published in other books, magazines, and online journals such as: Murray State University's Shagbark Review, New Scriptor Journal, Gemini Magazine and others.
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6th album from Long Beach, California band Cold War Kids. After its stellar 2006 debut Robbers & Cowards, the group continued to release well received full-lengths, some of which included hit singles such as 2014's "First" off of Hold My Home. La Divine is the first since Hold My…, and it features 14 tracks recorded with a line-up that consists of Modest Mouse's Joe Plummer on drums and David Quon on guitar (more than half of original members have moved on from CWK). Kicking off the LP is "Love Is Mystical," a piano-lead, radio-friendly tune, with "So Tied Up" following closely with infectious melodies and a sing-along hook. "Can We Hang On?" is also a highlight, and you should also check out "Restless," "Part Of The Night," and "Invincible." This is the indie-exclusive purple vinyl, limited to 1000 copies.
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The broader media gave the story of how a young woman was set upon by five other women for sunbathing in a bikini in a park in Reims, France, some attention today and a few new titbits have come out. (I covered this yesterday.)
According to the national newspaper Le Monde, under the headline ‘Emotions and hasty conclusions’ the woman who was attacked is Angélique Slosse. Three of her alleged attackers have been named, Inès Nouri, Zohra Karim and Hadoune Tadjouri. The other two are minors and their names have not been released. All five are Muslim.
On Wednesday lunchtime, at the Léo-Lagrange Park near the town centre of Reims, France, a 21-year old woman was sunbathing with two of her friends, dressed in a bikini. This is perfectly normal and if you visit any park in France in summer, especially a hot one like this, you will see plenty of women wearing swimsuits getting a tan. It’s a French passion.
However, the woman, whose name has not been disclosed, was spotted by a ‘group of five girls’. One of the came over and told her to ‘Get dressed, it’s not summer.’
The sunbather replied that the newcomer was not ‘the religious police’ and at that point all five of the girls attacked the woman, requiring her to be hospitalised. She was signed off work for four days.
My neighbour was given this with a load of other bits and bobs. She thought it was a toy, but closer examination made me disagree. For a start, it was quite clearly a gun of some order, but it didn’t have any kind of handle. There wasn’t a conventional trigger either.
It might have been a toy cannon, but it didn’t have a carriage. Yet opening it up revealed that it was chambered to take a real twelve-bore shotgun cartridge. Plus it’s made of very heavy cast iron. It’s just not like a child’s toy at all.
Well, summer did finally arrive here in P’tit Moulin and the warm balmy days are back. I must say they are very welcome, and could have been here sooner. The girls are all out in their skimpiest dresses, to show off their golden-tanned skin and the boys…well, who cares about the boys anyway?
Napoleon was actually a tall guy. Did you know that? It’s true. The legend that the great conqueror of Europe was severely vertically challenged is just that—a legend. Maybe not quite an urban myth—I don’t think they had those back then—but nevertheless, a myth.
My friend Antoine the potter had a little incident with the Gendarmes from Bligny not long ago. Now before I begin this tale, I feel I should put to rest a belief that has become, apparently (according to my children,) current in the UK in the last few years.
This is that the Gendarmes in France are not real police. Well, they are, and this is a classic bit of Anglo-Saxon, er, confusion. I believe it has even been aired on that odious arch-slimeball Stephen Fry’s television show; not that that would make it any more the truth.
Tomato plants? Well, spring in France this year was the worst I can remember, and so far summer has not been much better. By this time I should be on first-name terms with the community of lizards that live in my courtyard, but this year, hardly a hello. They’re all still hiding.
Mind you, it’s not been so bad for all the critters in the yard. My pet hate, les limaces, our delightful Burgundian slugs, are positively thriving. I mean, these ones are not shy, they don’t even try to hide, and they’re bright orange anyway. Maybe it’s a warning that they taste disgusting. I’ll let someone else find out. What I do know is they like my tomato plants. Continue reading “Slugs and Snails and Tomato Plants?”
French Onion Soup! tells the story of a mad Scotsman (me) taking his family to live in France.
It’s full of hilarious anecdotes as well as lots of useful information that you’ll need if you are planning something similar. Most of all, perhaps, there is lots of humour…because moving to a different country will make you laugh or cry, and laughing is a lot more fun.
Brilliantly funny tales of the life of a mad Scotsman, his wife, children, two dogs and a cat, who escaped the rat-race to live their dream in a country house in France. In 1993, photographer, journalist and Francophile, Rod Fleming and his artist wife bought a house in France. French Onion Soup! is the first in a series of books describing their life in France.
There can be no question that actually finding a property is one of the most exciting phases of the whole process of acquiring a house in France.
The doorstep that is two inches too low to prevent the quagmire outside seeping into the house, the drainage system made of two-inch pipe that turns the courtyard into a lake when it blocks, which of course it will do several times every winter, the dripping and split gutters, the multitude of little leaks in the roof, the rising damp and the access road that has turned into a single-lane swamp. All of these delights will provide you and your partner – if you have one – with hours of after-dinner chat.


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Irruptions of the Real. The attempt to find a common denominator in the work of Toufic, a writer, thinker and video artist, seems even from the get-go doomed to failure, not simply because his work stretches from theory to literature to art in many books and videos, but rather, more basically, because such a task seems inappropriate: "My texts and videos do not try to accomplish the same thing, but complement each other."
The attempt to find a common denominator in the work of Jalal Toufic, a writer, thinker and video artist,
seems even from the get-go doomed to failure, not simply because his work stretches from theory to
literature to art in many books and videos, but rather, more basically, because such a task seems
inappropriate: “My texts and videos do not try to accomplish the same thing, but complement each other.”
While one finds in his books thought-provoking thoughts that are discontinuous yet together form (and
occasionally disperse) a universe that “does not fall apart two days later” (Philip K. Dick), his videos are
attempts to do something else. Whether he focuses on the yearly commemoration of the slaughter of imam
Husayn and many members of his family and companions in 680 (‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins,
2002), or videotapes, in a single long take, his sleeping nephew (A Special Effect Termed “Time”; or,
Filming Death at Work, 2005), or, in Credits Included: A Video in Red and Green (1995), registers the
“withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster” following the fifteen-year civil-war in Lebanon, one of the
main concerns of Toufic’s videos is “providing ‘reasons to believe in this world’ (Gilles Deleuze)—through
resisting this ‘world.’” Another main concern of the works of Toufic, who describes himself as a “mortal to
death,” is mortality—less as physical death at the end of life than as a simultaneity of life and (un)death.
Jalal Toufic, *1962 in Beirut, Lebanon, or in Baghdad, Iraq, is the author of several books, such as: Distracted (1991; 2nd ed., 2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993; 2nd ed., 2003), Over-Sensitivity (1996), Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002), Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You (2005), ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins (2005), The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009), Forthcoming (2009) und Reading, Rewriting Poe’s “The Oval Portrait”–Angelically (100 Notes-100 Thoughts Documenta 13) (2011).
Toufics videos and film-installations have been presented in numerous international one-person and group shows, for example at: Artists Space, New York; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona or Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. Toufic taught at the University of California in Berkeley, CalArts und USC in Los Angeles, at the Rijksadademie in Amsterdam and most recently at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. Jalal Toufic is a guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm/ DAAD in 2011.
Most of Jalal Toufic’s books are available for download as PDF files at his website: www.jalaltoufic.com
In conjunction with the film program Irruptions of the Real, which comprises three of his videos, made between 2002 and 2006, Jalal Toufic will hold, on three consecutive Saturdays, a seminar titled Radical Closure on Saturdays: 14.5., 21.5., 28.5. always 4-8pm.
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Today will be a wrap up of the grouping activity. Hopefully you have a clearer picture of how atoms, elements, molecules, and ions should be represented and their properties after today. This will also be our first lab at the lab tables. Make sure you are prepared!
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