On April 23, activists and several fans of the Egyptian club Al-Ahly published clips of two police officers arresting public members and dragging them among the spectators in their club’s match against Moroccan Raja in the quarter-finals of the African Champions League.
This came at a time when a number of sports media professionals close to the authority attacked Al-Ahly fans, describing them as paid agents and affiliated with the anti-regime Muslim Brotherhood. Ahmed Hossam Mido, a former Tottenham and Zamalek club player and sports journalist, wrote on his Twitter page: “Now there is a systematic smear campaign against the Ministry of the Interior because they are preventing the paid ultras leaders from offending the Egyptian state. I always say it, and I will repeat it, the Brotherhood, the Islamists, and the ultras look like each other; they are traitors with no homeland or religion!”
This was not the first time, the security forces had previously arrested several Zamalek club fans during a match for their club in the local league after they wore T-shirts bearing phrases calling for the exclusion of Mortada Mansour, one of the regime’s sports arms, especially after a court ruling imprisoned him after he was convicted of a crime of libel and slander against the Chairman of Al-Ahly’s Board of Directors, and the public was subjected to abuse.
The public as “protesters” against the authority
During the January 25 revolution, the Ahlawy and Zamalek fans were one of the most vital voices opposing the authority in all its forms. They used the cheering stands as a field to express their voice and attack the political conditions that the country suffered from. They were the voice that confronted security repression. During the rule of the Military Council, of which Abdel Fattah El-Sisi came, in 2012, a horrific massacre was committed in Port Said Governorate, in which Al-Ahly was playing a match against Al-Masry club, in which 74 of Al-Ahly fans were martyred. At the time, the revolutionary voice was loud. Yet, the military and security authorities could kill the subject without a transparent investigation or a fair trial against those responsible. At that time, fingers were pointed at the Military Council and the security services, but until now, the real perpetrators of the crime are unknown.
The rise of the current regime headed by Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi made the sports fans an enemy and launched massive arrest campaigns against them that amounted to committing a new massacre called the Air Defense massacre after the match stadium in February 2015, in which 22 Zamalek fans were martyred in a massacre described as an ambush which the president of Zamalek made inside an iron cage, in which the audience was entered with the help of security and for his benefit. According to forensic reports, the security threw tear gas canisters so that the audience died of gas suffocation. The security media said that the victims died due to the stampede.
The real perpetrators of the crime were not tried in the case, and instead, a number of Zamalek fans were arrested and sentenced to harsh sentences for political reasons by fabricating the case for them. Three months later, a judicial decision was issued banning fan associations and including them on terrorist lists. The security campaign escalated against the leaders of the ultras of the two most prominent clubs in Egypt, dismantling their groups using intimidation, security repression, harsh judicial rulings, and preventing the public from entering the stadiums.
Back to the playgrounds though
After more than six years, the masses began to return to the stands under the eyes of the security services that control the whole process, starting from selling tickets to selecting the fans allowed to enter; even inside the stands, the security grip was present between arrest and silencing with threats of arrest when chanting something that did not please the authorities. The audience returned to the stadiums gradually and in limited numbers, decided by the security. They were no longer allowed to cheer except with the regular encouragement cheers for the players. Any dissenting voice became threatened with security attacks and arrests until the matter came last month threats that reached the fans of Zamalek, who made an angry face against the players, the coaching staff and the administration because of the bad performance and results, as the security considered it a violation of the instructions.
On the first of current April, Al-Ahly had a fateful match in Cairo against Al-Hilal of Sudan in the group stage of the African Championship; the club’s board of directors addressed the security and requested that large numbers of spectators be allowed to enter. As a result, half of the stadium’s capacity was approved by the security forces, which was a large number compared to what was the case previously. During the match, the audience cheers were enthusiastic, shaking the corners of the stadium. They were all within the framework of normal football encouragement, but the security did not like the loud voice of the crowd. In the last match against Raja, the security approach was to silence the audience entirely so that the visiting fans of Raja were more vital in encouragement. Their voice was heard while the silence spread in the seats Al-Ahly’s audience.
In this security attempt to make the football audience more like a completely silent cinema audience, and after the campaign of attacks and arrests against those who cheer in favor of their club even completely silence the audience, the Ultras White Knights page of the Zamalek club fans criticized the situation and declared its solidarity with the Al-Ahly fans, especially since the matter was repeated with them previously, calling for the “free” audience to boycott the attendance of the matches in light of “the atmosphere that does not guarantee the fan the simplest rights of dignity and
freedom inside his country,” and they said in a statement on their official Facebook page: “We remind all those responsible for the fans’ file that the continuation of the situation in this way does not guarantee security or safety, but rather it increases congestion and tension within the hearts of many young people who do not find more suitable places than the stadium and football to empty their energy and express their love for their clubs, and we assure you that these methods were practiced in the past a lot and only led to failure as well and disasters inside and outside the stands. Wise people must end this and look for radical solutions to solve this problem.”


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This is very unlike me to talk about something so fruity, cliche, and meaningless as my senior prom. Usually, I just don't give a crap about things like this. But I have my reasons for getting excited about this one.
First of, there's my date, who I shall refer to only as "Ella". Ella, is the type of girl who, where I straight, and this dance romantic, would be way out of my league; she's gorgeous. But more importantly she's always unusually kind, very modest but also usually quite shy. She's just a really cool person, and I want to make this as fun for her as possible.
Then there's the social aspect; I think it would be interesting to take this dance seriously.
You see, like the vast majority of my friends, I generally mock those who take these dances so seriously, mainly because school dances don't matter to me, and neither does high school. It's just four years of my live spent stuck in a place I didn't want to be, with a lot of people I didn't care for. It simply won't matter if we manage to do virtually anything else with my live.
But I've come to the conclusion that most of these kids might never leave this town, and never try to be anything more than their parents. They'll stay here their entire lives, in this tiny little town, working day after day with the same people they went to high school with. And I guess there really is nothing wrong with that.
And while I intend to experience more exciting things than a spring formal in a rental tuxedo, there are probably some kids who will look back on this as the highlight of their "golden years".
The more I look back on this, the more it seems petty of me to laugh at this. So I guess I can handle one night of pretending that every homophobe and narcissist who's looked down on me and my friends actually matters. Some of them don't deserve it, but it won't hurt anyone. Besides; I don't have to see anyone of the people I don't want to again.

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The final years of Washington’s presidency were not happy ones for him. Despite substantial achievements in launching the republican government, including the successful implementation of the neutrality policy, Washington found himself exhausted from the demands of the job and frustrated with the increasingly personal attacks made by partisan newspapers. The politically diverse cabinet that had carefully crafted and methodically enforced neutrality through a series of delicate compromises no longer existed. In addition, the president confronted the missteps of two Democratic-Republicans in his administration, Edmund Randolph and James Monroe, whose partisan biases undercut his policies. Despite Washington’s sense of disappointment and even failure, American neutrality helped launch the United States as an independent, sovereign nation, both at home and abroad, and served as an enduring cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy well into the nineteenth century. In crafting the proclamation and then implementing it through the federal government’s three branches and across the globe, Washington demonstrated his mastery as a political negotiator and established his enduring presidential legacy as a statesman who kept the young nation at peace.
Several weeks after announcing America’s foreign-policy triumphs to Congress, Washington sounded a very different note in a letter to Gouverneur Morris, the former minister to France.1 Written on December 22, 1795, he reiterated his neutrality policy: “It is well know that peace has been the order of the day for me, since the disturbances in Europe first commenced.” Yet, the president lamented, “by a firm adherence to these principles, and to the neutral policy which has been adopted, I have brought on myself a torrent of abuse in the factious papers in this country.” In particular, Washington focused on the Democratic-Republican opposition to Jay’s Treaty. Although conceding that “a more favorable one were to have been wished,” he argued that the final document had its merits and was not as unpopular or as terrible as its opponents contended. 2
As Washington bemoaned rising partisanship, he only needed to look at his administration to see its corrosive effects. By early 1795, his cabinet had completely turned over. Lacking the range of views that had forged the neutrality policy, with Jefferson and Randolph on one philosophical side and Hamilton and Knox on the other, it now consisted of four new members, all Federalists.3 Randolph’s forced resignation in August 1795 transformed Washington’s cabinet into a partisan entity and made explicit the deep political divisions among its original members that had been previously held in check. Randolph enjoyed the distinction of being Washington’s longest-serving cabinet member, having held the posts of attorney general and then secretary of state. After Jefferson’s departure, he was also the only Democratic-Republican remaining. His continued service to Washington in two critical positions made him a reliable, hardworking, and trusted advisor, even if he lacked the political and philosophical brilliance of Jefferson or Hamilton. News of Randolph’s later political missteps hit Washington hard, particularly his desire to elevate governing above partisanship.4
Randolph’s dramatic departure from the administration occurred for two reasons: first, because he committed misdeeds, and second, because his Federalists colleagues in the cabinet, notably Timothy Pickering and Oliver Wolcott, made sure Washington knew about them. In March 1795, a British ship had captured the Jean Bart, a vessel carrying French minister to the United States Fauchet’s diplomatic dispatches to France. These papers were eventually handed over to the British minister to the United States, George Hammond, who then shared them with Secretary of the Treasury Wolcott. Three of the dispatches, the third, sixth, and tenth, contained incriminating partisan information about Randolph and the Whiskey Rebellion. In Dispatch 10, dated October 31, 1794, Randolph discussed the rebellion with Fauchet and its implications for Democratic-Republican politics. In Dispatch 3, written on June 3, Randolph reported to Fauchet that Washington’s administration had “hastened the local eruption, to make an advantageous diversion, and to lay the more general storm which it saw was gathering.” Perhaps most damaging to Randolph was Dispatch 6, written on September 5, in which the secretary of state attempted to raise money from Fauchet in order to promote pro-French policies within the administration.5
After Washington reviewed translations of these dispatches (helpfully provided by Secretary of War Pickering), the president summoned Randolph to explain his betrayal of administration policy. This meeting occurred on August 19, with Pickering and Wolcott also present. Randolph, unable to challenge the veracity of these documents, submitted his resignation to Washington later that day.6 While continuing to deny any wrongdoing, he was unable to successfully dispute the contents of Fauchet’s dispatches.7
Another partisan disappointment confronted Washington, this one coming from France. In 1794, the president had reached across the widening partisan aisle and nominated Monroe to be the new minister to France. He saw this appointment as an opportunity to soothe partisan discord and to also send an envoy more favorable to the French. Monroe, of course, was the friend and neighbor of the two leading Democratic-Republicans, Jefferson and Madison. He was also a strong supporter of the French Revolution, in contrast to his predecessor, Morris, whose disdain for it had led Paris to ask for his recall.8 Washington nominated Monroe on May 27, and the new minister sailed a month later.9
While Monroe’s mistakes marred his brief tenure as minister to France, he also entered a chaotic political situation. The Committee on Public Safety, which had presided over the Reign of Terror, still controlled foreign affairs, although the National Convention also claimed governing authority. Amid this political confusion, Monroe hastily presented his credentials to the National Convention. Immediately afterward, he delivered a speech stressing the bonds between the two republics, their similar governments, their commitment to rights, and their shared military struggle for independence, which France was still fighting.10 These remarks, particularly the linking of the American Revolution with France’s current upheaval, undercut U.S. policy to remain aloof from the European conflict.
The excesses of this speech could be attributed to the excitement and confusion of the moment. But Monroe committed a more serious mistake when he placed his partisan preferences above U.S. policy. Concerned about the effects of Jay’s Treaty on Franco-American relations, he shared a summary of its contents with the French government.11 Washington was understandably livid when he received the news. In response, he urged Monroe not “to sow the seeds of distrust in the French nation, and to excite their belief of an influence, possessed by Great Britain”; most importantly, he urged his minister to “maintain” America’s “strict neutrality.”12 Despite this admonition, Washington had already decided to recall Monroe. With Randolph no longer in the cabinet to defend the Virginian, Washington informed the new secretary of state, Pickering, that he sought a minister “who will promote, not thwart the neutral policy of the government.”13 With the arrival in Paris of Monroe’s successor, Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, in December 1796, the Washington administration no longer had a bipartisan cast.14
Although the political missteps of Randolph and Monroe added color to Washington’s second term, they should not be allowed to obscure the greater achievements associated with the formulation and implementation of neutrality at home and abroad. First among these accomplishments was the administration’s decision to avoid participating in the European conflict, despite pressure from France and Britain. This approach ensured that U.S. autonomy and sovereignty would be upheld. It also set the precedent that U.S. foreign policy should put American needs first and avoid cumbersome alliances.
With assaults on American shipping testing the strength of this policy, Washington and his administration made a series of powerful decisions to enforce neutrality. The United States banned privateering in its ports and instructed customs officers to report privateering violations, authorized U.S. district attorneys to prosecute them, and empowered state governors to use the militias, if needed, to enforce such measures. The U.S. government also defined its oceanic boundaries and agreed to indemnify foreign ships captured in these waters. Lastly, the administration took the bold step of requesting the recall of Citizen Genet, whose activities had done so much to undercut the country’s neutral stance. All of these decisions were the product of consensus among Washington and his cabinet. As the policy’s chief architect, the president approved every document, letter, and policy statement that emanated from his administration dealing with neutrality. As he steered the United States onto this course, Washington demonstrated his skills as a political negotiator as well as his commitment to peace.
With the convening of Congress in December 1793, Washington and his administration found a valuable constitutional partner that passed laws to expand the domestic enforcement of neutrality. His 1795 letter to Pickering summarized these legislative achievements: “the fortifications and defenses of several harbors,” the building of six naval frigates, and “the erecting and repairing of arsenals and magazines.”15 Additionally, Congress passed several embargoes to protect American shipping from the British navy’s assaults. Lastly, it codified the two neutrality proclamations into the Neutrality Act of 1794, which legally banned privateering in American waters and prohibited U.S. citizens from participating in foreign conflicts. The third branch of the government, the judiciary, was slower to define its constitutional role in the enforcement of neutrality, but under the leadership of Chief Justice Jay, the Supreme Court ultimately asserted its authority over admiralty cases.
As the assault on neutrality occurred on a global scale as well as in American waters, Washington launched diplomatic offensives intended to resolve these encroachments. By 1794, envoys could be found in London, Madrid, Lisbon, Algiers, and the Caribbean promoting American neutrality and coming to the aid of U.S. ship captains and sailors whose vessels had been captured and condemned. Early in the Anglo-French war, some maritime citizens, such as Gideon Henfield, sought to profit from French privateering. While the U.S. government prohibited Americans from serving on foreign privateers, the administration successfully negotiated financial compensation for lost ships and cargoes, sending vessels to rescue stranded American sailors. Through these diplomatic agreements, the seafaring community came to see the value of the government’s involvement in the protection of American shipping.
In September 1796 Washington issued a farewell address to “Friends, and Fellow Citizens” in which he summarized the major accomplishments of his presidency as well as his concerns for the future. This lengthy message, possessing a bipartisan tinge, was not a speech.16 Instead, it appeared in a Philadelphia newspaper, the American Daily Advertiser, on September 19, 1796, as an “open letter” to the American people from “an old and affectionate friend.”17 In this valedictory, Washington highlighted the themes that had guided his presidency: promoting national unity, strengthening republican government, upholding the Constitution’s principles, avoiding partisanship, and pursuing American neutrality. Washington explained that his 1793 Neutrality Proclamation served as the “index to the plan,” then listed the various reasons the United States should “steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.” First, these overseas conflicts stemmed from complex alliances and rivalries that had nothing to do with the United States. Instead, “such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful Nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.” Second, foreign entanglements were “one of the baneful foes of republican government.” While he urged that the United States “observe good faith and justice towards all nations,” he also stressed the importance “in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.”18 As Washington said farewell to the nation, he declared neutrality to be the signature issue of his presidency, thus securing his presidential legacy as a skilled diplomat and prescient statesman.19
Washington’s accomplishments in promoting and implementing neutrality can be seen in the foreign-policy decisions of his successors. Although the neutrality policy sent a strong message to the world that the young United States intended to be an autonomous and sovereign nation, international challenges persisted. John Adams confronted French assaults on U.S. ships during the Quasi-War of 1798, while Thomas Jefferson and James Madison dealt with Britain’s continued attacks on American vessels, including the practice of impressment. The Convention of Mortefontaine in 1800 finally disentangled the United States from its treaty obligations with France, while a war with Britain in 1812 would be needed to resolve the longstanding trading problems with that nation.20 And despite the large financial commitments, tensions continued with the Algerian pirates until a peace treaty was reached in 1815.21 Amid these challenges, each president followed the path established by Washington: defend U.S. interests and avoid entanglements in foreign conflicts. The continued pursuit of American neutrality beyond Washington’s administration demonstrated the wisdom and vision of this policy. Its longevity also showed that the partisan divide in foreign policy was never as great as it was in domestic affairs.
In hindsight, the neutrality policy seems like a “no-brainer.” Of course the young nation should remain aloof from European warfare and not become entangled in conflicts that did not concern the United States. Pursuing friendly commercial relationships with all nations, regardless of their political associations, also made sense. The significance of the Neutrality Proclamation lies in its explicitness. Through a written document, the United States announced to its citizens and the rest of the world its intention to remain neutral in the current European war. This policy gained added strength from Washington’s steadfast commitment to its implementation, both at home and abroad. Working with a divided cabinet, the president pursued policy compromises designed to ensure the successful enforcement of neutrality. With the executive branch leading the way in foreign affairs, this policy eventually gained the support of the Constitution’s other branches, Congress and the judiciary. American neutrality endured through the nineteenth century because this approach provided the best path for the young nation to participate, grow, and even thrive in the world.
At George Washington’s funeral, Henry Lee, Virginia’s governor and a Revolutionary War veteran, famously and succinctly eulogized the late president as “first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of the nation.”22 From the battlefield, Washington had witnessed deadly European rivalries firsthand. These experiences resulted in his deep commitment to American neutrality as president, when he pursued peace and established his enduring legacy as a statesman. Thanks to Washington’s unique experiences with war and peace, the United States built a neutral government capable of ensuring this policy’s success and the nation’s longevity.

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text: Located in the Jardins region, in São Paulo, Brazil, Studio ArquitetURAS is a family business founded by and named after Luciana Uras. She was formerly a lawyer but left her job to dedicate herself to her passion and true vocation, studying Architecture and Urbanism at FAAP. The studio focuses on architecture, interior design, decoration and visual communication. Their work style is explained on their website as follows; “With personalized, exclusive and very personal projects, she builds dynamic, contemporary and assertive spaces and in some cases she complements her graffiti on the walls of her clients.” What we’ve found impressive in their work is their selection of colours by the help of which they express the most captivating parts of the place successfully. Sometimes they use flashy colors like a light fixture, sometimes they paint one wall in a dark tone and hang up a graffity to take all the attention to that art piece only. All in all, we must confess that their projects in one word inspirational and bring fresh breee to the world of architechture. Just see them by yourself and remember to share your ideas with us.

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Location & Nature
The small Saxon village Riches/Reichesdorf is the neighboring village to Biertan (Birthälm) with its famous, imposing castle church in the heart of white wine region of Transylvania.
The village is located about 19 km southeast of Medias (Medias) and is a very good starting point for activities of any kind in Southern Transylvania.
Richis is located approximately 450 m above sea level, the surrounding green hills 80 to 150 meters above that close as a protective belt around the village. This position gives a micro-climate, in spring summer and autumn it is pleasantly warm, and in the evening it cools off wonderfully.
Unlike Biertan (Birthälm), where arrive daily tourist buses, village life runs in Richis very introspective from, though – if we are to believe the words of the sexton and the Saxon original Schaas – The Church of Richis is at least as important as the one from Biertan!
Richis is situated in the protected area of ‚Tarnave Mare’
The area is one of the last remaining semi-natural grassland and forest areas in Europe and is characterized by the traditional method of farming, Almost all the work is still done by hand and by horse and wagon. The traditional farming and grazing herds of sheep, cows and buffalo provides highly varied vegetation.
The area is known for its many wild flowers including several species of orchids. The large variety of prey such as insects, a wide variety of reptiles and amphibians provides a rich bird life.
Therefore for birders, this is a very interesting and varied area. Also a rich fauna, with still living bears and wolves.
In addition to these natural resources the region has an eventful history: 800 years Saxon colonization led to the emergence of many villages with impressive fortified churches. Alongside are the Romanian and Roma communities in a colourful Hansel and Gretel-like villages, wonderful to explore, feeling back in time!

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It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what the organic materials, colors and forms of nature have a beneficial effect on our psyche and our body. More and more designers recognize this fact and drawing liberally from natural resources to transform leaving intact their properties. Read this article for type of gold jewelry.
One example is the Hungarian Flóra Vági who, after studying in Italy and have a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art in London, she returned to Budapest where he devoted himself to the production of artistic jewelery. Overtime Jewellery sense pieces of his collection, created with individual pieces of wood, recycled paper and old books, are exhibited in galleries in Europe and the United States. For the series… beauty is all around us: just recognize it.

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Vermicelli Veg pulav No onion recipe.
You can have Vermicelli Veg pulav No onion recipe using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Vermicelli Veg pulav No onion recipe
- It’s 3 cup of vermicelli dry roasted.
- You need 1/2 cup of peanuts.
- It’s 1/2 cup of sweet corn.
- You need 1/2 cup of finely chopped cabbage.
- Prepare 2 of capsicum (cut lengthwise).
- You need 2 of tomatoes (remove seeds and cut lengthwise).
- It’s 3-4 of Green chilli finely chopped.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of oil.
- It’s 3-4 cup of water.
- You need to taste of Salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
- It’s 1 tsp of Mustard seeds.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder.
- It’s 2-3 strings of curry leaves.
- You need 1/2 cup of finely chopped green coriander leaves.
- You need 1 tsp of oregano seasoning (optional).
- It’s 1 tsp of red chilli flakes (optional).
Vermicelli Veg pulav No onion recipe step by step
- Dry roast the vermicelli. Take out and keep aside..
- Take oil in a pan, roast peanuts and take out. Boil corn simultaneously..
- In the same oil add mustard seed, curry leaves and cabbage. Roast and cook for a few minutes and then add capsicum, green chillies and tomatoes. Roast till they are some soft and gain some golden brown colour..
- Add golden boiled corns and again roast for a few minutes. Add vermicelli, salt, turmeric, red chillies and give this a nice mix..
- Add water and cook on a medium high flame. Cover the pan after 5-7 minutes and let it cook on low flame for another 5 minutes. Add green coriander and mix well..
- Take out in a bowl and serve with peanuts, and some sprinkle of oregano and chilli flakes. Add a curry patta leaf for decorating..
- More vegetables of your choice can be added as per taste and to add more nutritions. Else it just goes well with onion, tomatoes and green peas too..

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Fredericksburg, VA, Nov. 30, 2015—BQE Records, LC recording artist Dave Goodrich today announced the release of his new Christmas love song entitled Wrap Me in Your Christmas Love on major online music retailers starting on December 1, 2015. The song is a self-produced pop-rock production with 1960s Motown influences.
This single release marks Dave Goodrich’s first original Christmas song. Dave’s guitar playing on the recording is reminiscent of that of the 1980s group The Pretenders. Dave also provides rich lead vocals on top of lush backing vocal harmonies, Motown-like drums, fat bass and keyboard candy. Married with addicting melodies and musical hooks, the song’s catchy lyrics invite love in the holiday season.
Dave’s first solo recording as a singer/songwriter—the ten-song album 15 Minutes—has received over 100 placements on television shows. Additional solo recordings include the full album Stripped Away, a science-meets-psychology-inspired single called What’s the Dark Matter?, and this year’s soulful Valentine’s Day single release You Are There. In celebration of the 2014 Christmas season, Dave released a soothing electronic version of Silent Night. Dave was also a member/producer/songwriter of the 1980s DC-based power pop trio Mind’s i that released the EP A House Defiled (BBTB Records, LC), which spent a summer on the national college radio charts.
“’Tis the season to give and receive,” says the Washington-born musician and producer. “The stores are filled with Christmas toys for all the girls and all the boys, but the greatest gift of all is love.” Dave adds with a sparkle in his eyes, “A new guitar is always nice, too!”
You Are There Single Release
Dave Goodrich's new single You Are There was released on major online music stores (including iTunes and Amazon.com) on February 10, 2015. The song, which marries a modern soul feel to a retro-embellished soundscape, is about the secure feeling of true love.
To view the song trailer and listen to a sample
To view the official video
"Listen to this song and fall in love again." —Dave Goodrich
Dave Goodrich was a guest on The No Rules Show at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, on Friday, July 12, 2013. Dave performed two songs and was interviewed about his songwriting, acting, and life by the host, Joshua Morgan. This very funny live show—Half Revue. Half Talk Show. All No Rules.—was directed by Brian Sutow.
To find out more about Dave's acting experiences, check out his TV & Film page.


Once dubbed Motor City, Detroit, MI, was considered the epicenter of the automotive world. Now it is once again looking to reinvigorate the industry.
As the world looks ahead to an electrified future, Acura is joining the conversation with its first electric vehicle (EV), the 2024 ZDX.
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Introducing The All-New ZDX
The company shared during the car’s official unveiling that “ZDX continues to build on Acura’s Precision Crafted Performance direction with sleek and dynamic styling, class-leading premium technology, and an engaging driving experience.”
What’s more, Acura’s electrified future is about much more than just the forthcoming vehicle.
“We’re committed to running the official trial by 2050, but that’s really by 2040, and it’s not just all about our upcoming products,” Mamadou Diablo, senior vice president of auto sales at American Honda, shared in an interview with AFROTECH. “We’re talking about our corporate activities because it’s one thing to get your products to carbon neutrality, but if the factories that are building the cars are still polluting, then you’re not really carbon neutral. That is the commitment we’ve made as an organization.”
He continued: “Part of that is to get us to full electrification. That is not the only motive power that is going to get us there, but we have to work on fuel sales, technologies, and other things that are going to get us to trial. That’s why we’ve set these timelines in terms of our product, a percentage of our product being EVs by certain milestones. By 2050, as a company, we will be carbon neutral. That’s what the electrified future looks like.”
What Does This Look Like For Longtime Motor City Residents?
For Detroit native Nicole Dandridge, the automotive industry is in her blood. Not only has she worked within the business for years, but her entire family lineage is rooted in working for some of the biggest names in the world. That includes her father who worked for Chrysler for 30 years before retiring.
Following in her father’s footsteps, Dandridge has been working across various areas for an automobile company in Detroit for more than 30 years. She says there’s a different sense of pride that comes with being from the Motor City.
Initially, she was skeptical about the rise in electronic vehicles, but Dandridge has a newfound appreciation for what’s to come.
“I’ll be honest, in the beginning, it felt like these computers were coming to take our jobs,” she explained.
“Now, I’m very excited about the future of EV, especially as it pertains to Detroit,” Dandridge continued. “I think of Detroit as the cutting edge of the electric market, and it’s very exciting. I’m excited to see what the future brings.”
An Electrified Future
Beyond just the automotive industry, Acura also plans to take electrification to the next level with plans to break into the smart home space soon.
Additionally, Honda, which is the proud parent company of Acura, has officially landed an agreement with Tesla Inc. to adopt the company’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) as the charging port for its EV models, which are set to go on sale in North American starting in 2025.
The Acura ZDX will arrive in 2024.


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Porsche issued its big annual report today, revealing that it had an operating profit of €4.2 billion, or about $5 billion, down from last year but not by much. The bigger news, though, was about its wider plans for electrification and the electrification of its most iconic car.
I will cut right to the chase, in that Porsche is swearing off the idea of the 911 ever being an all-electric car, or at least Porsche says that won’t happen anytime in the short- or mid-term future.
Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said the 911 will be the “last Porsche which is going for full electrification,” if it ever fully becomes an EV.
“The 911 is our icon. We will continue to build the 911 with a combustion engine,” he told reporters during a media call ahead of its annual meeting Friday morning. “The concept of the 911 doesn’t allow a fully electric car because we have the engine in the rear. To put the weight of the battery in the rear, you wouldn’t be able to drive the car.”
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I cannot tell if Blume is joking when he says that because 911 is rear-engined and that is where the batteries must go as well. If he is not joking it makes me sad that Blume’s imagination for the 911 is so limited. Even Chevy had the knew that the engine layout on its most iconic car was not sacred. And, besides, if Porsche actually made an all-electric 911 it would probably just be a skateboard like almost every other EV. A rear-mounted motor with batteries ahead in the floor would be more than traditional enough, anyway.
The all-electric 911 came up in the context of Porsche talking about all of its electrification plans for the next decade. Here’s how Porsche sees that going:
In 2020, a third of all Porsche vehicles delivered in Europe were fully or partially electric; worldwide it was 17 per cent. In 2025, half of all new Porsche vehicles sold will have an electric motor; in 2030, more than 80 per cent of the new vehicles will be electric.
Eighty percent is ambitious, and the astute will recognize that includes hybrids in addition to all-electric cars. It was not that long ago that a Toyota Prius was the punchline to a bad joke, though, and now Porsche — which has as rich a racing history as any — is now casually just being like, “Yeah, the vast majority of our cars will be hybrids or fully electric, and pretty soon.”
There is the Porsche Taycan, of course, that is already here, in addition to the recently-announced Taycan Cross Turismo. Maybe coming up next is an electric Macan, and probably more Cayenne and Panamera hybrids, and reportedly all-electric 718s and Caymans, too.
Porsche will soon be a very different kind of car company, in other words, and relatively soon in terms of automaker history. I remain a little stumped why it seems hung up, for now, on not going all-in on electric with the 911. Even Ford knew that it could make an all-electric version of its most iconic car and everything turned out ... just fine.


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Background/Purpose Fatigue is the most common symptom in SLE patients with a strong impact on patients’ reported quality of life. Previous studies identified possible associations with fatigue with some contradictory results. The aim of this study was to identify additional potentially reversible associations with fatigue to generate targets for future interventions.
Methods Our study population consisted of 234 consecutively recruited SLE (1997 ACR criteria) outpatients from our university hospital based lupus reference centre. We analyzed clinical and demographic data from routine visits, laboratory variables, as well as sleeping disorders, disease perception, coping, social activities and health locus of control using validated questionnaires. We captured fatigue using the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). A score of ≥ 4 points is considered pathological. To assess depression, we used the German CES-D depression scale (values ≥ 23/60 points are considered pathological).
Results Our predominantly Caucasian cohort (99.1%) was mostly female (87.6%), with a mean age of 45.3 years (±13.4 [SD]) and a mean disease duration of 16.2 years (±9.5). In our cohort, 50.9% of patients reached a pathological result in the FSS. Depression was significantly associated with fatigue (p<0.001). Patients with poor health conditions (including sleeping disorders, pain, disease activity and damage) showed significantly more fatigue (p<0.01). Overall, in 71.4% of our SLE patients, we could identify at least one potentially reversible association for fatigue (shown in table 1).
Conclusion We observed a high prevalence of depressive disorders in our cohort and a significant correlation of depressive status with fatigue. Therefore, we suggest that psychological wellbeing is assessed in everyday clinical practice and treating physicians should react to patients’ needs accordingly. Additionally, obesity, anaemia, hypothyroidism and vitamin D deficiency can easily be assessed. Optimizing these factors represent possible targets in order to improve fatigue in SLE patients.
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The Downsides of Voltage Fluctuations
If you have faced frequent power cuts, then you know how frustrating they are. Not only do power cuts affect your work and daily life, but also the health of all your appliances. This is because power outages are often accompanied by high voltage fluctuations, which are detrimental to the overall quality of your appliances and devices. While one cannot control the frequency of power cuts, we can all take measures to ensure our pieces of equipment are safeguarded during times of voltage fluctuations. This can be done with the aid of Mainline Stabilisers, also known as voltage stabilizers.
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Voltage stabilizers are devices that correct and regulate the voltage of electronic devices. This helps create a secure power supply even during times of power surges owing to outages. You may have seen refrigerators having an external voltage stabiliser. A mainline stabiliser works on the same principle, except this is used for the main power line and not for anyone appliance. So, a mainline stabiliser protects all the appliances across the house.
How Do Mainline Stabilisers Work?
Mainline stabilizers have an inbuilt transformer. This device then generates a standard voltage with the help of electromagnetic rays. You can visualize the mainline stabiliser as a guard between your house’s electrical supply unit and all your appliances. Mainline stabilizers efficiently monitor and stabilize voltage fluctuations before voltage fluctuations can damage the device. These are then attached to the main power of your home. Since mainline stabilizers ensure there is a consistent supply of electricity to devices, they help maintain device health.
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Benefits of Using Mainline Stabilisers
The core benefits of installing a mainline stabiliser are:
1) Efficiency - A mainline stabiliser ensures that all your appliances run efficiently at all times. Voltage fluctuations often cause the power supply to exceed or fall below the prescribed levels. This voltage differential between the electrical supply and the capacity of the device leads to the malfunctioning of the device. With the aid of a mainline stabiliser, the voltage levels remain stable. This efficiency in turn increases the longevity of equipment and eliminates malfunctions of devices.
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A improbable photograph of the surface of the moon has been captured, which is one of the best resolution image of the moon ever taken from the bottom.
The tubby image contains 1.4 billion pixels and shows the Tycho Crater, named for authorized Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. It became captured using a methodology called artificial aperture radar in a collaboration between the Nationwide Science Basis’s Green Monetary institution Observatory (GBO), the Nationwide Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and Raytheon Intelligence & Teach (RI&S) using the Green Monetary institution Telescope (GBT).
The GBT, which is a large radio telescope, became fitted with a transmitter last year which permits it to transmit radar indicators to region. This fresh addition is what allowed the telescope to bewitch this form of detailed image.
“It’s completed with a course of called Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR,” explained Galen Watts, a GBO engineer. “As every pulse is transmitted by the GBT, it’s reflected off the target, the surface of the moon in this case, and it’s purchased and saved. The saved pulses are when in contrast with every heaps of and analyzed to plan an image. The transmitter, the target, and the receivers are all consistently shifting as we circulation thru region. Whereas that you would be in a position to perhaps also deem this could fabricate producing an image more anxious, it basically yields more essential files.”
Attributable to this motion, the researchers can effectively leer the target in more detail on legend of they score got a better series of heaps of snapshots to work from. The abilities to dwell this roughly image has entirely only in the near previous seriously change available, Watts acknowledged: “Radar files like this has never been recorded earlier than at this distance or resolution,” acknowledged Watts.
“This has been completed earlier than at distances of some hundred km, but no longer on the an entire bunch of thousands of kilometers scales of this mission, and no longer with the high resolutions of a meter or so at these distances. All of it takes heaps of computing hours. Ten or so years ago it could maybe score taken months of computing to receive one amongst the footage from one receiver, and most definitely a year or more from better than one.”
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VxVM System Administrator's Guide
The VERITAS® Volume Manager System Administrator's Guide provides fairly advanced information on the Volume Manager (VxVM®) and how to use it.
This guide is intended for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining systems under the control of the VERITAS Volume Manager.
This guide assumes that the user has a:
- working knowledge of the UNIX operating system
- basic understanding of system administration
- basic understanding of volume management
The purpose of this guide is to provide the system administrator with a thorough knowledge of the procedures and concepts involved with volume management and system administration using the Volume Manager. This guide includes guidelines on how to take advantage of various VxVM features, instructions on how to use VxVM commands to create and manipulate VxVM objects, and information on how to recover from disk failures.
This guide is organized as follows:
- Chapter 1, "Description of the Volume Manager," is an overview of the VERITAS Volume Manager and related concepts. This chapter also includes an introduction to arrays and Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID).
- Chapter 2, "VxVM Performance Monitoring," provides performance management and configuration guidelines for use with VxVM.
- Chapter 3, "Disk and Disk Group Administration," discusses disk and disk group administration using the Volume Manager.
- Chapter 4, "Volume Administration," discusses how to use various Volume Manager utilities to manipulate VxVM objects.
- Appendix A, "Volume Manager Error Messages," contains a list of error messages generated by VxVM, accompanied by a description of each message and a suggested user action.
- Appendix B, "Recovery," describes how to preserve and recover data with the help of VxVM. It discusses ways to prevent data loss and/or loss of system availability due to disk failure.
- The "Glossary" defines various terms associated with the Volume Manager.
Using This Guide
This guide contains instructions for performing Volume Manager system administration functions. Volume Manager administration functions can be performed via one or more of the following interfaces:
This guide focuses on using the VxVM command line interface for Volume Manager administration. Details on how to use the Visual Administrator and the
- a set of fairly complicated commands
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- a menu-driven interface (
- the Visual Administrator graphical user interface
vxdiskadm menu interface are located in the VERITAS Volume Manager User's Guide. Detailed descriptions of the VxVM utilities, the options for each utility, and details on how to use them are located in the Volume Manager manual pages.
The following are guidelines for using this guide:
Note: Most of the Volume Manager commands require appropriate privileges.
- It is strongly recommended that you refer to Chapter 1 for important overview information on the Volume Manager.
- For guidelines on how to take advantage of various VxVM features (such as striping, mirroring, and RAID-5), refer to Chapter 2.
- For detailed information on how to use VxVM commands to perform various operations on disks, volumes, plexes, and subdisks, refer to Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.
- Use Appendix A as a reference for explanations of various VxVM error messages.
- For detailed information on how to recover from various types of failures, refer to Appendix B. This appendix also contains some suggestions on how to avoid data loss and loss of system access.
- For definitions of terms associated with the Volume Manager, refer to the Glossary.
The following documents provide information related to the Volume Manager:
- The VERITAS Volume Manager User's Guide provides information on how to use various Volume Manager interfaces to perform a variety of tasks. The User's Guide documents the Visual Administrator graphical user interface, common VxVM command line operations, and the
vxdiskadm menu interface.
- The Online Data Manager overview and installaton topic provides information on how to install and set up the Volume Manager.
- The VERITAS File System (VxFS®) System Administrator's Guide provides detailed information on the VxFS file system.
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Drama over Amnesty's Navalny move raises important point: prisoner of conscience tag shouldn’t be reserved only for those we like
A prisoner of conscience, simply defined, is somebody who is imprisoned because of his or her religious or political beliefs. The term is value-free. It doesn’t matter what you believe, or the nature of your character; if your beliefs land you in jail, you’re a prisoner of conscience. You can be quite revolting, but the label still fits.
One might say that there are limits – some things are so beyond the pail that no civilized society can accept them. But even then, just believing something obnoxious is not normally considered a reason for imprisonment – you have to do something to promote those obnoxious beliefs, in which case you’re not a prisoner of “conscience” but of something else.Also on rt.com Row as NGO Amnesty says Navalny not ‘prisoner of conscience’ due to far-right views & Western commentators claim RT is behind it!
But what if you simultaneously express two sets of ideas, one of which could legitimately be considered so extreme as to be unacceptable, and one of which could not, and you are then arrested because of the latter and not the former? Are you still a prisoner of conscience? It would seem so, because your socially unacceptable views are not relevant to your imprisonment.
Amnesty International seems to disagree. The well-known organization declares that: “We help fight abuses of human rights worldwide. We bring torturers to justice. Change oppressive laws. And free people jailed just for voicing their opinion.” In pursuit of the last goal, Amnesty lists people around the world whom it considers “prisoners of conscience” and lobbies on their behalf.
Until this week, the Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny was among those so listed, following his imprisonment last month for breaching the terms of the suspended sentence he received in a fraud case several years ago. Amnesty International has now stripped Navalny of his prisoner of conscience status, citing a huge number of complaints that it has received concerning allegedly racist comments made by Navalny that Amnesty has concluded constituted “hate speech.”
Navalny’s defenders were quick to point the finger of blame for these complaints at the Russian-born, New York-based writer Katya Kazbek, who had published on Twitter a string of Navalny’s statements, some of which are far too inflammatory to be repeated in polite society. From this Russian connection, it was a short step to blaming the Russian state for Amnesty’s decision, with author Anne Applebaum, for instance, tweeting that“Amnesty caves to a Russian smear campaign.” Writer Julia Ioffe similarly declared on Twitter that Amnesty had shown that “the Kremlin has figured out how to weaponize cancel culture.”
In fact, Kazbek is about as far from a Kremlin stooge as one could imagine. Described as a “feminist and an LGBTIQ issues freelance writer,” her interests are said to “include the post-colonial struggle in the ex-USSR territories, race, migration, class, sexual violence and queer identities.” Even some of her detractors have to admit that she isn’t a tool of the Russian authorities. Rather, her dislike of Navalny stems from a time she turned up at his campaign headquarters when he was running to be mayor of Moscow, and was appalled at the racist language she claims she heard there.
Such subtleties appear to be lost in the general ruckus. In the current political climate, one has to be either pro-Navalny or anti-Navalny, pro-Kremlin or anti-Kremlin. The idea that one can be anti-Navalny and anti-Kremlin, or at any rate disapprove of Navalny but also disapprove of his imprisonment, seems to be off the cards.
The result has been a strong effort in recent weeks to dismiss Navalny’s disreputable past as meaningless. For instance, in an article in the New Yorker, Masha Gessen sought to portray Navalny’s dalliance with nationalist extremists as a well-intentioned attempt to bring them into the mainstream. Quite how Gessen fits that narrative with Navalny’s often very toxic statements isn’t very clear.Also on rt.com As column in Moscow's top progressive newspaper labels West 'New ethical Reich,' are Russian liberals turning away from EU & US?
Navalny’s supporters have also sought to blacken the names of those who draw attention to his murky past. In an article published on Tuesday, for instance, journalist Natalia Antonova suggested that Kazbek’s dislike of Navalny was driven by the fact that Kazbek’s father is a wealthy Russian businessman, arguing that she therefore feels threatened by Navalny’s attacks on corruption. Meanwhile, liberal Russian activist Yevgenia Albats tweeted that “Amnesty has long been a bunch of anti-Semites. Now it chose Navalny as its target.” The fact that Kazbek is half-Jewish appears to have passed Albats by.
The attempts to defend Navalny don’t stand up to scrutiny. He truly has said some appalling things. But that doesn’t mean Amnesty’s decision is correct. For Navalny isn’t in jail for saying those things.
Navalny’s prison sentence derives from a case in which he was accused of defrauding the cosmetics company Yves Rocher. In the eyes of many observers, this was a trumped-up charge brought against Navalny because of his political activities. But even if it wasn’t, nearly everything concerning the Yves Rocher case that followed his initial sentencing was clearly political in nature.
First, Navalny’s original prison sentence was changed to a suspended sentence. Then, he consistently broke the terms of his probation, but no action was ever taken. The implication was obvious – Navalny had what Russians call a ‘roof’, in other words somebody in power was protecting him.
Then, suddenly, the Russian authorities declared that Navalny’s breaches of his probation required that his suspended sentence be turned into a real one. What had changed? The only reasonable answer is that Navalny had lost his roof – i.e. a political decision had been made to lock him up.
Amnesty International acknowledges this. In announcing that it had deprived Navalny of his prisoner of conscience status, the organization also declared that it considered his jailing “political.”
But that makes no sense – if his imprisonment is political, then he is a prisoner of conscience, especially as the crime for which he is serving time has nothing whatsoever to do with the comments that Amnesty considers hate speech.
Amnesty has been burnt in the past by associations with political prisoners it later regretted. An example is Myanmar’s Suu Kyi, recently deposed in a military coup. For years Amnesty pleaded Suu Kyi’s cause when she was in prison, only to be embarrassed after she came to power and was accused of abusing the human rights of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. Perhaps this has prompted Amnesty to think twice about who it endorses.
Still, Amnesty’s decision is politically inept. Navalny is not only a prisoner, he is also someone who was recently allegedly poisoned and almost died. As far as the West is concerned, the only credible suspects in his poisoning yet to be identified are members of the Russian Federal Security Service. By depriving Navalny of his prisoner of conscience status, Amnesty is ignoring this, and in the process could be accused of sending a very odd message to the Russian government.
The reality is this. On the one hand, Alexey Navalny has said some very objectionable things. He’s also refused to apologize for them. On the other hand, in my opinion, the way that the Russian state has treated him is objectionable too. If you start picking and choosing which victims of state oppression you are willing to support depending on whether you happen to like them, you’ll soon lose any credibility as a defender of human rights. Amnesty International is free to do as it pleases, but it has set a bad precedent.
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|280 miles||64kWh||10hrs 30mins (0-100%, 7.4kW)||45mins (10-80%, 77kW)|
Still, 280 miles is great even by the standards of far more expensive electric cars, and our test drive suggests you’ll get some 230-240 miles in varied real-world driving.
The Soul EV can take a 100kW charge through its CCS port (located in the car’s nose), so it's set up to benefit from rapid chargers when they start popping up across the country in bigger numbers from 2019 onwards.
It also comes with Kia's new ‘UCO Connect’ telematics system – an app that allows you to check on the car’s charging status, adjust its charging parameters, set it to pre-heat and more.
Kia Soul EV range
The Soul EV’s official 280-mile range is one of the best at the price, and its real-world performance is similarly impressive. Our test drive over a mixture of motorway, rural and urban roads suggested it’ll do some 230-240 miles with ease in temperate conditions. It betters the range of both the Nissan Leaf and Volkswagen e-Golf, and easily surpasses the official claimed range for the Peugeot e-208.
The Kia is able to take a charge of up to 100kW, which will boost range from 10 to 80% in just 45 minutes. As it stands, 100kW chargers (apart from Tesla-only Superchargers) are few and far between in the UK, but even the fairly prolific 50kW rapid chargers commonly found in motorway services will deliver the same charge in an hour and 15 minutes.
The standard Type 2 charging cable provided with the car will also give you access to slow and fast chargers, increasingly found in town-centre car parks, big shopping centres or supermarkets.
Kia has an official partnership with PodPoint, one of the biggest charging-point providers; it'll fit a 7.4kW wallbox charger to your off-road parking area for under £300 (after the government subsidy). That'll charge the Soul EV up to 100% in around 10 hours; this will be how the vast majority of users charge their cars.
A three-pin cable is provided that allows you to plug the car into the standard sockets in your house. It’ll take some 30 hours or more to charge up using this method, though, and even Kia describes it as an emergency backup.
The Kia's batteries and electric motor are warrantied for seven years and 100,000 miles, just like the rest of the car. There's no guarantee of performance, though.
Unlike Renault, which will refurbish or replace the batteries in its electric cars if they drop below 75% of the as-new performance while under the warranty, Kia only promises to replace the batteries if they fail altogether.


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Visual merchandising is an often-overlooked part of food service, and it is a true difference maker in the sales of refrigerated items. Visuals help you sell products by creating a desire for them, creating customer loyalty through consistency, and encouraging multi-item purchases within display groups.
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The Hebridean premieres of brand new work by Karine Polwart, Alan Bissett and Julia Taudevin are set to attract new visitors to the Isle of Lewis this winter, as part of an exciting new off-season tourism campaign led by An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway.
The #winterinthewild campaign is a partnership between An Lanntair and VisitScotland, Outer Hebrides Tourism, Hebridean Hopscotch Holidays, Loganair, CalMac, Glasgow Airport, Cala Hotels, and Lews Castle, with support from Creative Scotland, Event Scotland and Outer Hebrides LEADER.
The campaign launched today (Thursday September 5), with a new trailer promoting the Isle of Lewis and An Lanntair’s winter programme, directed by Lewis film-maker John Macdonald and featuring music by Mairi Campbell, who will appear in two shows at An Lanntair in the coming months – Soil and Soul and Auld Lang Syne.
#winterinthewild will highlight some of the compelling reasons why the Outer Hebrides is a perfect getaway outside of the summer season – extraordinary scenery, wildlife, stargazing in some of the darkest places in Britain, locally-sourced food, the opportunity to get away from cities and crowds, the beautiful empty beaches, and a programme of high quality cultural events this winter at An Lanntair.
An Lanntair’s winter programme includes two major festivals: Faclan, which runs from October 30 to November 2, and the Hebridean Dark Skies Festival, which returns for its second year from February 7-22. Tickets for individual events at Faclan are on sale from this week, and the Hebridean Dark Skies Festival will announce its programme on October 1.
Elly Fletcher, CEO of An Lanntair, said: ‘What an incredible programme of world-class events this will be. We are looking forward to welcoming new visitors to truly experience Winter in the Wild, here in the Outer Hebrides this year.
‘Winter time in the isles can be wild and stunning in equal measure, from the breathtaking dark skies to wildlife spotting, hiking through rainbows, even cold water surfing.
‘I am delighted that, along with all our partners, we have been able to create and launch today such an exciting, inspiring and multi-layered programme of events to entice new people to experience these beautiful islands this winter.’
For updates follow #winterinthewild on social media, or visit www.lanntair.com for programme information and to purchase tickets.


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The Quest for the Golden Hammer
Once upon a time, in the shimmering land of Glittermore, there lived a valiant silver-armored knight named Sir Rowan. His helmet bore a bright red plume that fluttered like a flame in the wind. Sir Rowan was not just brave but also kind-hearted, and he spent his days riding through the kingdom to help all who needed him.
One calm evening, when the stars were just beginning to twinkle, Sir Rowan met two dwarves on his path: Diggory and Elbin. Diggory was as stout as an oak tree with a bushy beard that almost touched his toes, while Elbin was an elder dwarf with wise eyes magnified by spectacles and a robe covered in mystical golden runes.
"Good Sir Knight," greeted Elbin with a nod that made his spectacles dance on his nose. "Our village lies heavy with sadness for an enchantment has snared our precious dream wells, leaving our nights without the whisper of dreams."
Sir Rowan dismounted from his steed and knelt before them, for even the smallest creatures deserved great respect. "Fear not, my new friends," he declared boldly, "for I shall help you break this dark enchantment and return your dreams!"
The trio set out under the silver-gleam of the moon that night, their path lit by fireflies that seemed to understand their noble quest. Diggory's axe glinted as they traversed through thorny brambles and whispering woods until they reached the dwarven village wrapped in slumberous silence.
Elbin pointed towards the center of the village where three sealed dream wells stood guarded by a sly Nixie made entirely of moonbeams and shadows. "Only one who is pure of heart can break her cunning spell," he whispered.
Sir Rowan stepped forward, armor clinking softly in the silent night air while Diggory held his axe ready for any mischief from their foe. The Nixie looked on with glowing eyes but did not move; she knew only truth could win this fight.
"Oh keeper of dreams," called out Sir Rowan with a voice clear and true, "let these good folk have their dreams back! It is not riches or glory I seek but peace for their hearts." His words rang out like music through the darkness.
The Nixie swayed like she heard an ancient tune; her moonbeam form flickered then softened as she gazed at Sir Rowan's earnest face illuminated by starlight above them.
With a noise like wind chimes caught in a gentle breeze, the seals on each well broke apart and whispers of dreams started bubbling up like spring water returning to thirsting flowers after long dryness had gripped them tight.
Cheers rose from behind window shutters as awakened villagers watched dream wisps float toward their beds once more; children giggled sleepily at images dancing behind closed eyelids while adults' furrowed brows smoothed into peace once again.
As dawn painted pink streaks across Glittermore's sky, Diggory clapped Sir Rowan heartily on his armored back while Elbin smiled warmly through his spectacles saying softly but proudly: “For your courage and pure heart we are forever grateful.” And so together they watched daybreak chase away night’s gloom – knights and dwarves alike knowing that within every heart lies adventures yet untold when shared among true friends beneath Glittermore's ever-watchful stars.

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