BUSUANGA, PHILIPPINES — The Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation (PTFCF) and C3 Philippines are working together to develop a program for a community-led conservation of mangroves and their related resources in barangays Sagrada and Bogtong in Busuanga Municipality, Palawan. The partnership aims to develop a conservation program and at the same time improve the economic condition of the communities.
Realizing the socioeconomic consequences of mangrove degradation, which can range from an increased risk of flooding to the loss of fish stocks for daily living of families living in the area, C3 and PTFCF combined their resources for the project. The project will include the conduct of socioeconomic and habitat evaluations in close collaboration with the local communities. The project also aims to come-up with good and effective management strategies for the mangrove forest of both barangays.
Through the project, PTFCF and C3 hope to help communities in their efforts to protect the environment of Busuanga while helping them find options for sustainable livelihood opportunities.
In the Philippines, mangroves play a critical role in the protection of coastlines from storms erosion and floods. They also purify water and are important feeding and nursery grounds for many fish species. The mangrove ecosystem is a very diverse one and is home to many birds, fish, mammals, crustaceans and other animals.
In a survey of mangrove forests conducted by the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff (PCSDS) in 2003, it was found that the Sagrada and Bogtong mangrove forests were already in need of serious conservation and restoration efforts. The new mangrove initiative is the latest step forward in C3’s work to conserve the rich biodiversity of Busuanga Island.
The C3 Philippines Field Team recently participated in a series of workshops conducted by the Busuanga Municipality which aimed to consult stakeholders on the priorities of the legislative and executive local government units.
The series of workshops was led by Ms. Leny Escaro of the Department of Interior and Local Governance, and was conducted over a 3-day period from 30-31 July and 10 September 2013.
The workshop aimed to 1) Review and amend Busuanga’s mission-vision statement as needed; 2) Create a 3-year Executive-Legislative Agenda (ELA); and 3) Create a 6-year Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP).
The workshop began by assessing the current status of Busuanga Municipality through the standardized Local Government Performance Management System (LGPMS) in different areas of concern such as governance, economic services, social services and environmental management. Areas of need were then identified, as well as what their goals for improvement would be. Participants also listed down what projects needed to be done in order to meet these goals, set which projects would be prioritized, created timetables for these projects, and identified persons-in-charge and possible sources of funding.
C3 Philippines was then invited to give feedback on these priorities of the local government for the next 3-6 years. Areas of possible collaboration with the local government were also identified in order to strengthen coordination and Public-Private Partnership.
C3 Madagascar 2009-2013 activity report now available
Depuis 2009, C3 a apporté son expertise sur la conservation des espèces marines en danger et la gestion de l’écosystème en développant plusieurs initiatives de conservation des ressources naturelles dans la région Nord de Madagascar. Par ailleurs, nous avons collaboré au projet régional initié dans l’Océan Indien occidental sur la conservation des espèces en danger (dugongs, tortues et requins).
Des recherches ont été planifiées pour répondre aux besoins de conservation et de gestion des espèces et ressources marines et pour identifier aux besoins de développement des communautés locales dans les zones côtières du Nord-ouest. Plusieurs méthodes ont été utilisées pour étudier ces espèces en danger : interviews, observations directes des zones de nidification des tortues marines et cartographie des habitats et zones d’utilisation des ressources naturelles. Les études socio-économiques, d’exploitation des requins et les stratégies de gestion des ressources naturelles ont été faites grâce à des interviews dans six villages de la Commune de Mangaoka.
Un total de 586 pêcheurs ont participé aux sessions d’interviews sur les espèces en danger durant les deux années de recherches; en plus, 38 ménages ont été impliqués dans les études socio-économiques au Nord-ouest. Les pêcheurs qui ont participé aux études sur les dugongs révèlent une diminution significative du nombre de dugongs durant les années 1990 dans la zone maritime du Nord. Par ailleurs, les communautés suggèrent le besoin d’efforts de conservation du dugong menacé par les pressions anthropiques. Les informations recueillies, particulièrement entre la zone d’Ambilobe et Vohémar montrent l’importance de la région du nord de Madagascar pour les espèces de tortues marines qui y migrent et y nidifient. L’exploitation des tortues marines est très étendue sur la côte Nord-est. Les populations de tortues marines ont augmenté suite à l’interdiction de leur capture dans le Parc marin de Nosy Hara. La surexploitation des requins pour leurs ailerons constitue la raison principale de leur vulnérabilité dans la zone Nord de Madagascar. La valeur économique des requins, en plus d’être une source d’alimentation pour les pêcheurs, est la raison principale de leur capture ciblée.
Reconnaissant que l’éducation peut affecter la perception des communautés locales sur l’environnement et conduire à leur participation à la gestion et à la conservation, C3 a intégré l’aspect éducation, formation et sensibilisation dans son projet. C3 a établi des collaborations de formations avec les institutions nationales Centre National de Recherche Océanographique (CNRO), Madagascar National Parks (MNP) de Nosy Hara et de Sahamalaza et l’Université d’Antsiranana.
L’aire protégée marine et côtière de l’Archipel de Nosy Hara a été mise en place en 2007 pour assurer la gestion durable des ressources naturelles de la zone. L’entière dépendance des communautés locales à ces ressources comme seule source de revenus constitue une menace potentielle pour la biodiversité du parc. Les communautés locales dépendent entièrement de l’élevage, de l’exploitation des ressources marines (concombre de mer, poissons récifaux), et de l’agriculture (riz et maïs) pour subvenir à leurs besoins. C3 met en place un projet de développement qui consiste à intégrer le programme environnemental dans le développement du bien-être humain et la pérennisation financière.
Danica Lopez of C3 Philippines reports on a recent workshop to integrate local communities into the enforcement of regulations against illegal fishing methods on coral reefs such as dynamite fishing in Palawan. C3 Philippines focuses on involving local people in coastal management in the Municipality of Busuanga.
We are working with Dr Joanna Murray of CEFAS UK to investigate ways to make the trade in aquarium fishes on Busuanga more environmentally sustainable while maintaining local livelihoods. Check out this video where we interview the ‘Percula Queen’ of New Busuanga, a very experienced live aquarium fish collector to find out more about this trade and how we can work to reduce its impact on local coral reef communities.
From the palm-lined postcard pretty shores of the tropical isles to the big, bustling city skyscrapers of the second largest city in Sweden, five young Reef Rangers had the opportunity of a lifetime to visit Gothenburg City in June this year.
Facilitated by Community Centred Conservation (C3) Fiji and supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme and Kate Stokes Memorial Award, the Reef Rangers are comprised of 70+ youths of Kia Island aged 5-15 years who are part of a programme developed for coastal communities to empower and educate them about the threats facing their natural resources. In this fishing community, sitting on the third longest barrier reef system in the world, human induced threats driven by intense commercial demand and pressures of an exploding population are of great significance. Lessons and activities offered through this programme feature a variety of interactive and engaging learning tools where children are given the opportunity to harness their creativity in a fun and educational way with underlying conservation messages and the overall community benefits in the education and outreach component of the Reef Rangers programme that works to broaden scientific knowledge at the local level and mold attitudinal changes.
Exceptional conservation work and community outreach earned the Reef Rangers international recognition and a spot in the finals of the 2013 United Nations Environment Programme/ Volvo Adventure Awards held annually in Sweden. Selected as one of eight finalists from over 400 applicants worlwide, the Fijian Reef Rangers competed with other youth groups ages 13-16 from the US, UK, Bangalore, Indonesia, Turkey, Peru and Bulgaria for the top three places at the awards. An eye-opening experience for these first time travellers who presented to an international jury and treated to various tours around Gothenburg including a visit to Volvo headquarters and factory and family exchanges. The Fijian youngsters relished the opportunity to interact and build networks with other environmental youth groups from around the world and contribute to statements about the environment and calls to action. The Reef Rangers were the first group from Fiji and the South Pacific to ever be represented at the awards and were placed fourth overall.
As the next generation of stewards; the youth have the greatest potential to change attitudes and behavior of local communities in managing their environment effectively.” John W Whitehead rightly put it “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see” - the Reef Rangers of Kia have proven through their commitment and zeal that they truly are-Guardians of the Great Sea Reef.
Danica Lopez interviews Dr Joanna Murray, a C3 Postdoctoral Fellow in Busuanga and marine ecologist with CEFAS, who is studying sabellid (feather duster) worms and their potential as a source of alternative income for fishing communities on in the municipality. her study sites include the Concepcion Marine reserve, a hotspot of coral reef biodiversity in Palawan.
Welcome to Rey Ramilo - new head of C3 Philippines
I have worked for more than 15 years in the field of community development and environment. Working with communities in the Philippine countryside — farmers, indigenous peoples, fisher folks and others having different cultures, views and languages — is very challenging yet fulfilling for me.
I decided to join C3 carrying the enthusiasm and inspirations of the local communities I worked with. In C3, I found the uniqueness of environmental work with a focus on conservation and community as the center of success in development. This is also a learning experience for me, from upland ecosystems to coastal and marine ecosystems. This is the realization of the landscape approach of development and environmental management.
Whenever there is time, I travel and go out with my family, spend the weekend in farms and parks. Love talking to ordinary people in the streets and markets.
Spreading the word for marine conservation in Macuata
The Reef Rangers is a marine education/outreach programme that aims to improve environmental stewardship through youth education and raising awareness on Kia Island and beyond. The programme targets youths from the ages of 5-15 years who attend the local school on Kia Island, a small isolated island in Northern Fiji surrounded by marine environment of local, regional and global significance being the third largest barrier reef system in the world. The island has three villages and is home to under 300 people with the fishing industry being the number one source of income for over 80% of the local population. Community Centred Conservation (C3) has a field office based in Yaro Village on Kia and has been instrumental in driving marine conservation projects on the island.
With recent generous funding from the Kate Stokes Memorial Award, we have the following activities in the pipeline to spread the Reef Rangers project to other communities in Macuata over the coming months!
Each Conservation Ambassador will be assessed in terms of their current knowledge and their ability to impart that knowledge to the Reef Rangers. The project team will then deliver remedial training to eliminate any shortfalls or gaps in knowledge. We plan to select four Conservation Ambassadors to deliver the training to other communities.
We already have a wide range of activities and materials developed, so we plan to select the most successful of these and provide detailed guidelines and training on their delivery. Activities so far have included: snorkeling sessions, mangrove tree planting, beach cleanups, painting competitions, costume design and classroom sessions.
Using the Reef Rangers toolbox, the Conservation Ambassadors will be responsible for the majority of hands-on training for other communities. We will focus on schoolteachers, because they already have educational skills and can quickly rally their pupils to participate in the Reef Rangers. We will also set up a knowledge exchange system so that each Reef Rangers team can update the others on activities and ideas. Ideally we hope that an annual Reef Rangers jamboree can be arranged.
Bula vinaka and hello friends, my name is Akosita Rokomate and I am from the Fiji Islands which are located in the South Pacific. Fiji is made up of over 300 isles and 90% of teh local population is comprised of coastal communities, reliant heavily on their marine resources for survival. I am currently working with a small, isolated island community in the northern province of Macuata, an island called Kia. On Kia, people depend on fishing as their number one source of income. However, increasing fishing pressure, caused by a number of factors such as commercialisation of the resource, better fishing technology and an increase in population is damaging the marine ecosystem and resulting in lower catches. This has serious implications, not only for the local community’s livelihoods but also for the species diversity in a marine environment of global significance; as Kia island sits on the Great Sea Reef, which is the third largest barrier reef system in the world. Our surveys revealed a lack of knowledge and awareness amongst Kians as a main contributory cause of unsustainable resource use and a lack of compliance with fishing rules and regulations. And so the title: Building Blocks for Youth Empowerment in Marine Conservation in Fiji was born - to improve marine environmental stewardship through youth education and recognizing the vital role they play in addressing these issues. The purpose of this project is to build on themes and concepts already established and develop the capacity of voluntary environment youth groups called the Reef Rangers and Conservation Ambassadors of Kia Island. For the foreseeable future, our team will continue to build the capacity of individuals, explore partnerships and expand the network of youth groups to other communities outside of Kia, ensuring the widespread reach and the sustainability of this work. This approach is preferred becasue it is community-driven, fostering the exchange of knowledge and experiences in the name of marine conservation for generations to come.
This work is funded by the Kate Stokes Memorial Award and Melinda Gray Ardia Foundation


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Suzanne Stewart, Austin painter, has joined the blogging world. It seems such a stretch, but I would like to share some insights I have gained. My painting experiences have formed a new and exciting path. Please share your comments with me. What will survive of us is love.
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." Vincent Van Gogh
Friday, January 14, 2011
This is my little sculpting project which I still have not delivered to the foundry. I have loved working on her and just can not seem to bring the project to completion. How I have loved working with master sculptor, Beth Schoen. The tactile process is wonderful. Beth is such a great instructor.

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Once it stood for digital versatile disc. Then it became digital video disc.
But in the past three months, DVD has taken on a new meaning for manufacturers, retailers, and consumers trying to sort through rapidly shifting technological specifications, business alliances, and promises of innovation followed by frustrating delays. The new technology might as well stand for deeply vexing divisions.
This week, consumers began to feel the effects of that chaos. People who bought DVD players were angered to learn that new formats could make their purchases obsolete. As a result, even though DVD players and movie titles have hit the market, there's still little sign of an industry standard--and consumers aren't sure what to do.
A ten-manufacturer consensus on the DVD-RAM specification started unraveling last month when first a group led by Sony and then NEC struck out on their own with technologies the companies claimed would far surpass DVD-RAM's storage capacity. Their substitute products will be incompatible with DVD technology. Then this week, the issue took on a new wrinkle with the advent of Divx, a technology to debut in consumer video rentals that will not be compatible with DVD players now on the market.
Few doubt that before long, VHS and floppies will go the way of the LP and 8-track tape. But exactly what flavor of DVD will fill the void remains to be seen. Here's a look at the most recent news.
DVD owners dis Divx
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Owners of DVD players are up in arms over news that the Divx format could make current DVD hardware obsolete.
Hitachi weighs in on DVD-RAM
Zenith trumpets Divx for DVD
Disney enters DVD market
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Sony abandons DVD-RAM format
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I couldn’t allow myself to get through this whole challenge without including an Edith Piaf song. This one is not my favorite. (That would be “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien”.) This one does, however, have a strong case for being #2. (It would be a big fight.)
I wish I could tell you what this (or any other Edith Piaf song) means to me. I don’t speak a bit of French, though. I have no idea what she’s singing about. I mean I figure she’s saying something about love and/or a lover with words like “mon amour”, but in general, I am clueless. She could be singing about eating people’s faces off, and I would be none the wiser.
I should probably know the meaning of the song considering Jeff Buckley did a cover mostly in English. Then again, the translation might be way off, and like I said, I just don’t care what it’s about because of that voice. There is something about Edith Piaf’s voice that just kills me. She could sing the phone book, and I would love every second of it. (Jeff Buckley had quite an amazing voice himself. Just listen for yourself.)
And now as a bonus, here’s my favorite Edith Piaf song.

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This summer, Kevin Garnett will become a free agent for the first time in his Hall of Fame career.
Yesterday afternoon, Tim Tebow was traded to the Jets.
Then he was untraded.
After last night's loss to the Twins (Oh no, the Mayor's Cup!), Bobby Valentine was very clearly unhappy with certain members of his team.
Well, it appears that plans for Fenway's 100th Anniversary are moving along as horrifically as we all imagined.


enCompass Racing participated in the second annual Morgul Bismark race in Superior over Memorial Day Weekend. This race is one of Colorado's most famous courses dating back to the Coors Classic in the '80s with riders such as Andy Hampsten and Davis Phinney participating.
Battling high winds in the criterium, Tim was 16th in the Masters 45 men, while Zane threw down for the podium with a 2nd place effort in the Cat. 3 men!
In the field
Cat. 3 criterium podium!
The next day riders had to bring their climbing legs to tackle the plethora of climbs including the feared "Wall." Both Zane and Tim placed 9th in each respective category.
In the road race
In the middle of the field on one of the many hills
With their strong performances out on the road, Zane powered to a 4th place overall omnium effort, while Tim raced to 8th place in the omnium.


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Fumonisin B2 induces mitochondrial stress and mitophagy in Hek293 cells.
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Food insecurity poses a significant socio-economic problem in third world economies, particularly in countries that rely heavily on maize and maize products. Ubiquitous soil fungi parasitize agricultural commodities and produce mycotoxins. Fumonisin B2 (FB2), a neglected mycotoxin, is produced by several Fusarium species. The aim of this study was to investigate mitochondrial stress responses in human embryonic kidney (Hek293) cells exposed to FB2 for 24 hours (hr). Cell viability was assessed via the methylthiazol tetrazolium (MTT) assay and the half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) value (317.4 μM) was generated. Additional concentrations of 100 μM and 500 μM were selected to achieve a broader toxic profile of FB2. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) was quantified (fluorescence), mitochondrial membrane depolarisation (fluorescence) was assessed and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentration was evaluated (luminometry) to assess mitochondrial integrity. The relative expression of mitochondrial stress response proteins, Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3), Nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2), LON protease (LONP1), PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1), ubiquitin-binding adaptor p62 (p62) and heat shock protein 60 (HSP60) was determined by western blots. Transcript levels of SIRT3, PINK1 and microRNA-27b (miR-27b) was assessed using quantitative PCR (qPCR). Results indicated that both low and high concentrations of FB2 that were within the naturally occurring concentration range of the compound were able to induce mitochondrial dysfunction. FB2 (IC50) downregulated mitochondrial stress proteins and upregulated mitophagy markers. Despite upregulation of mitochondrial stress maintenance proteins at the highest concentration (500 μM) of FB2, mitophagic markers increased with subsequent cell death; whilst at a lower concentration (100 μM) of FB2, mitochondrial stress protein expressions were upregulated resulting in decreased expression of mitophagic markers and cell proliferation. In conclusion, FB2 was cytotoxic to the kidney derived Hek293 cells via induction of mitochondrial stress and mitophagy. Keywords: Fumonisin B2, mitophagy, mitochondrial stress, PINK1, Nrf2, SIRT3, human kidney cells, microRNA

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Come See How It’s Made in ZBrush – Ian Robinson – Maxon ZBrush Trainer – ZBrush 2024
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Dive into the world of digital sculpting with Maxon's own expert, Ian Robinson, in a captivating demonstration of character creation using the latest iteration of ZBrush. Witness a character come to life, from the initial block out to the polished final product, while exploring the newest features that ZBrush has to offer. Scheduled for a live session, viewers are invited to engage and enhance their skills through real-time interaction. Bring your curiosity and queries to the live chat for an enriching learning experience tailored for both newcomers and seasoned professionals in the realm of 3D sculpting. Don't miss out on this opportunity to expand your ZBrush expertise!


Huawei Honor 4C Dual SIM's lowest price in Pakistan is Rs.8,990.
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Huawei is known as the smartphone market underdog but is recently making its way into the mainstream aisle by not only producing phones that are feature rich, but also giving attention to the detail in the design department; as well as keeping the price tag lower than its competitors. One of their more recent players in the game is the dual sim Honor 4C; a mid-ranger that aims to make more noise than its predecessor (Honor 3C).
Talking about its predecessor, the 4C hasn’t been upgraded much in terms of display. It still comes with the same 5.0 inches IPS LCD 720p screen with a pixel density of 294ppi. However, the screen-to-body ratio has been changed from 69.2% to 66.9% as the whole body has been redesigned to be more acceptable in today’s age.
In terms of performance, Huawei has replaced the Mediatek chipset with its own in-house built HiSilicon Kirin 620 which is believed to be the more powerful one. The processor has been added four more cores to it as well, making its CPU an Octa-core 1.2 GHz but the 2GB RAM and eight gigabytes of internal storage, however, remain the same which is, to some extent, a downer since the mid-range standard has moved to an increased amount in both the departments.
The primary camera, on the other hand, has gotten a major upgrade (compared to the previous 8-megapixel one) and now packs a sensor of 13 megapixels with an aperture of f/2.0 which produces a pretty decent image in low-light situations. It also has an LED flash and records full HD video at thirty frames per second (just like the 3C). The front camera remains the same, packing five megapixels of image resolution as well as recording 720p HD video which is still acceptable for an average user’s needs.
The battery has been increased from 2300 mAh to 2550, but it still doesn’t do justice to the rest of the specifications as well as keeping the device a little behind in the smartphone race. So overall, the Honor 4C is a reasonable device considering its cost but will have to face tough competition in the market with newer and better technology shifting the mid-range standard with each passing day.
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For many Sulawesians, Luwu is considered to be the oldest kingdom in Sulawesi, whose people are the ancestors of many Sulawesi kings. It is recorded in I La Galigo, the longest historical epoch ever written which was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World (MOW) in 2012. Aside from its cultural significance, Luwu area is also known for producing high-quality honey from the Trigona bee, which the locals call ketape, kammu or emmu. This stingless bee is very small and has a unique black-colored body. It is able to produce high content of propolis, a lot more than other bees. Luwu’s lush vegetation and the abundantly available Uru trees provide Trigona bees with the best sources of nectar and climate to produce propolis-rich honey, highly recommended for health purposes.
Luwu Forest Honey is harvested from Apis Trigona bees, which are unique stingless bees. Trigona bees thrive on the nectar of various plants and herbs. The nectar is then stored in their hives, which are made from beeswax and plant resin. Then, it infuses Luwu Honey with the beneficial propolis. As one of the major honey production centers in Indonesia, Luwu has exported their famous Trigona honey to Asia and New Zealand.
Our multifloral honey is sourced from clean and unpopulated environment in remote parts of Luwu forest, free of pollution and other contaminants. The color and delicious flavor of our honey come from various plants that provide Trigona bees with the nectar they love. Pure and rich in propolis, our honey does not undergo any treatment other than clean filtering and blending.
Tiny bees with big power. Our Trigona honey is a special and rare honey from tiny stingless bees. The bees keep the honey in small pots covered with propolis, making it rich with nutritional values. The locals in Luwu build a special "barrack housing" that looks like an unwalled house, with only some columns and long board, where they extract honey from the bee. The long board is used as pad for boxes of bees. In general, each house is filled with up to 20 boxes of bees. We encourage every beekeeper to develop the housing by themselves as it has contributed largely to increase their monthly income.

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New Orleans police investigate rash of thefts, burglaries
Updated On: Apr 27 2014 08:52:56 PM CDT
Police are looking for four people in connection with a rash of burglaries and robberies in New Orleans' Lakeview community.
The crimes happened on April 20 around 4:25 a.m.
The four people investigators are looking for were captured on surveillance video when the crimes were committed.
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Police are offering up to $2,500 for information leading to arrests. Information can be given anonymously.
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Accused killer in Jaclyn Wirth shooting in court; case continued
Lashawn Cecil,, the Norwich man charged with murder in the shooting death of Jaclyn Wirth in December 2011, had a pre-trial hearing today at New London Superior Court.
Judge Hillary Strackbein granted a continuance and is next due in court on Oct. 5.
Wirth was killed when, at 1:42 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2011, nine shots were fired through the door of her Mohegan Commons apartment on East Baltic Street. Seven shots hit her. She later died of her injuries at The William W. Backus Hospital.
Cecil, 34, of 400 Norwich Ave., Taftville, also faces weapons charges in connection with the case.


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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a tricky poem, in the literal sense that it’s full of tricks: a rug repeatedly pulled out from under you, a magician smirking and holding up a card that you cannot entirely be sure was yours. Written sometime in the late fourteenth-century by an unknown author, the poem tells the story of a ‘crystemas gomen’ (a ‘Christmas game’, in midlands-dialect Middle English) between its titular characters. The Green Knight allows Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew, one blow with an axe; one year later, the Knight will return the blow. Gawain’s blow strikes off the Knight’s head, but the green figure simply picks up his head and rides away, telling Gawain to seek him out in the mysterious Green Chapel – location unknown – next Christmas. Most of the poem deals with Gawain’s journey to find the Green Knight, particularly in the long section Gawain spends at Hautdesert, a noble castle where he is hosted by the mysterious Lord and Lady Bertilak. But the poem opens with the splendour of Camelot at the height of its power and youth, before Lancelot meets Queen Guenever, before the Holy Grail, before the dark will come and swallow King Arthur’s court. The poem tells us:
such glaumande gle glorious to here
dere dyn vpon day daunsyng on nyȝtes
al watz hap vpon heȝe in hallez and chambrez
with lordez and ladies as leuest him þoȝt
The hubbub of their humour was heavenly to hear:
pleasant dialogue by day and dancing after dusk,
so the house and its hall were lit with happiness
and lords and ladies were luminous with joy.1
In the poem, Camelot burns so bright that if you can bear to turn your gaze from the merry light, you can almost see the waiting shadow it casts. But in David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, we meet a very different court. Gone is the colour and cheer, and King Arthur and Queen Guenever are weary and sickly. The Round Table is made from austere, milky slate and sits in a dark room; a stark contrast from the sumptuous set piece of the poem, where we find Guenever
ful gay grayþed in þe myddes
dressed on þe dere des dubbed al aboute
smal sendal bisides a selure hir ouer
of tryed tolouse and tars tapites innoghe
þat were enbrawded and beten wyth þe best gemmes
gloriously framed at her place on the platform, pricelessly curtained
by silk to each side, and canopied across
with French weave and fine tapestry from the far east
studded with stones and stunning gems
Here, Gawain sits beside his aunt Guenever on her ornate platform, at home in the luxury and ceremony, but the film’s Gawain, played by Dev Patel, is a new creature. Patel’s intimate and careful portrayal stresses Gawain’s anxiety and hunger to prove himself. We first encounter him happily in bed with his lower-class lover Essel, before he leaves her to join his chivalric peers at the Round Table, face the Green Knight, and try to prove his worthiness. The silence of the Round Table falls over Gawain, and a gloominess sets over the rest of the film: blood-soaked fields, shit-scattered courtyards, dour interiors. It’s a rendition of the medieval period aligned to our modern perception – a time of decline, the great kings of the past fading into obscurity, needless bloodshed and warfare – which makes sense, because despite its medieval subject, The Green Knight is a very modern film. Maybe that’s not such a good thing.
Critics have flooded to applaud The Green Knight. ‘The film is a curious and gloriously risky effort,’ Alissa Wilkinson writes in Vox. ‘There’s no effort to modernize the story, no attempt to make it easily legible to the audience.’ But in fact, the film is all modernisation, quick to strip away the intricacy of the poem’s narrative and implying in this act that it is providing a politically progressive update. From the characters to the narrative structure itself, The Green Knight dampens or misunderstands the work its original text is doing, providing a modern adaptation that loses all the glittering complexities and intrigue of the actual medieval story.
Structure is significant here: it’s one of Sir Gawain’s greatest tricks. After Gawain has left Camelot, roughly 1300 of the poem’s 2530 lines take place within Hautdesert, the castle that Gawain stumbles across in his hunt for the Green Chapel. At Hautdesert we find Lord Bertilak and his Lady, along with their court, and it is here that Bertilak sets up another game, the famous sequence often referred to as the ‘exchange of winnings’. Gawain is weary; Bertilak suggests he rest and restore himself after his long and arduous journey, before his final frightening confrontation with the Green Knight, while Bertilak goes hunting. ‘ȝet firre […] freke a forwarde we make,’ says Bertilak. ‘quat soeuer I wynne in þe wod hit worþez to yourez / and quat chek so ȝe acheue chaunge me þerforne.’ [Here’s a wager: what I win in the woods will be yours, / and what you gain while I’m gone you will give to me.] What follows is a strange three days of parlour power-games, shifting alliances, and a Lady of the house determined to seduce Gawain. While Bertilak goes hunting, the Lady coaxes Gawain into accepting three kisses from her, which he dutifully passes on to Bertilak: ‘he hasppez his fayre hals his armez wythinne / and kysses hym as comlyly as ho couþe awyse’. In his translation, Simon Armitage says Gawain ‘hugged the lord / and kissed him in the kindliest way he could’; but I prefer a translation that acknowledges the bodily details of what Gawain is doing, clasping Bertilak’s neck in his arms and kissing him not kindly, a mood descriptor that gives the action the vibe of a friendly handshake, but comely: prettily, handsomely, transforming it into an aesthetic and even erotic moment. Gawain is constantly struggling to discern who he can trust – at times the answer seems clearly to be ‘everyone’, at others ‘no one’. When he finally leaves Hautdesert and rides to the Green Chapel to meet his viridescent doom, the Green Knight reveals that he is Bertilak, and that he and his wife had been deliberately toying with him. It’s the ultimate sleight of hand: what you think is a rest stop before Gawain goes off to fight his monster turns out to be the real monster, the real test.
Lowery’s adaptation upends this structure. The Green Knight takes eight lines of Sir Gawain and makes it the bulk of the film, re-centring the story around Gawain’s journey to the Green Chapel (and, therefore, to Hautdesert). Sometimes this works to good effect: Patel is magnificent on his miserable expedition through the wilderness, embodying the poem’s plaintive sentiment that ‘werre wrathed hym not so much þat wynter was wors’ [fighting troubled him not so much as the winter]*. During Gawain’s encounters with battlefields and bandits and even a grumpy saint, the film makes literal what the poem draws a veil over. Where the poem casually mentions ‘etaynez, þat hym anelede of þe heȝe felle’ [giants pursuing Gawain over precipitous rocky highlands]*, the film shows enormous blue figures moving through the icy mist. Yet while The Green Knight restores the grandeur of the journey to the story, it also skims over the real stakes of the poem, which are ultimately domestic ones: about the lies we tell in communities, about the implications sex has on our identities, about the way humans manipulate and control other humans. Instead, Lowery transforms a communal story into a comment on heroism and modern masculinity.
In the poem, Gawain spends most of his time surrounded by other people, negotiating his own identity and chivalry within the remit of a crowd, where everyone seems at once very friendly and very dangerous; in the film, we see him thrust up against single antagonists (the Green Knight, the Lady, a battlefield scavenger) or friends (a fox, his mother), or simply toiling alone. Despite stripping his name from the title, the film belongs to Gawain – he is given a hero’s journey, all the better for Lowery to question the underlying motives of this hero’s journey. Lowery is suspicious about the heroic masculinity that underpins a knight’s journey, a classic story that tends to uphold the epic tales of our past and reeks of patriarchal paradigms and cruelty. ‘Why greatness?’ Gawain’s lover Essel asks of his ambitions. ‘Why is goodness not enough?’ Knighthood, the film suggests, is a fair cover for foul deeds, and the ending offers Gawain a choice. At first, too afraid of the potential beheading, Gawain runs away from the Green Knight and we watch a flash-forward montage where Gawain becomes king, rejects Essel in favour of a noble wife, and eventually sees Camelot overcome by warfare and cruelty. The film cuts back to Gawain in the Green Chapel, horrified by this vision of his future; he removes a magic girdle which protects him from harm, bows his head to the Green Knight and tells him, ‘I’m ready.’ It is a criticism not so much of knighthood but modern masculinity; a coming of age tale where we see a young man learning to reject a patriarchal inheritance of cruelty and power; a chivalric romance for the #MeToo era, eager to show the harm men inflict in seizing the reins of power. The right thing to do, the film suggests, is simply bend your head to the blow, and be brave.
This is all very well, but there is a massive blind spot in this journey. By believing that we can provide a more nuanced story than the original source, we lose the nuance that was already there. The Green Knight’s obsession with modern masculinity and its pitfalls encourages viewers – from our comfortable seats in 2021 – to point out the flaws in founding cultural myths, thereby affirming our own superiority and growth. The film draws attention to the trajectory from the fourteenth-century so-called hero to twenty-first-century toxic masculinity, which is a story worth interrogating. It’s always interesting to unpick the assumptions that make a hero, and King Arthur and his knights have been attached to all kinds of violent ideology over the centuries. But The Green Knight’s revision of its medieval source material is less about exploring this trajectory from knight to modern-day patriarchy, and more about fixing the original story. Far from offering a subversive version of Sir Gawain, the film rids the poem of its subtlety, its sexiness, its fun.
This overlay of contemporary mores is particularly obvious in The Green Knight’s approach to women. Many of the film’s female characters are new: Essel, Saint Winifred and Gawain’s mother make no appearance in the original text. Queen Guenever and the Lady of Hautdesert, who do, are given expanded speeches. It’s an obvious choice for modernisation – bring more women into your medieval story, and give them more to say.
But what do they say? The Lady is a mysterious and somewhat inaccessible figure. Played by Alicia Vikander, who also plays Essel, she has the smirking delivery of a Powerful Woman™. She monologues about the power of nature, quizzes Gawain on his quest (‘You’ll do this one thing [and] return home a changed man, an honourable man?’), and, finally, delivers the magic girdle to save him from harm. Along with it, she gives him a hand-job in a studied reversal of gendered power dynamics: Gawain naked, the Lady dressed; Gawain on his back, the Lady leaning over him, both maternal and contemptuous as she tells him to ‘take it’ (the girdle, the pleasure, both). The camera lingers on Gawain’s bewildered face and the somewhat emasculating cum shot that follows, and the Lady declares, ‘You are no knight.’
This may be an erotic encounter, but compared to the poem, it is staid, underdeveloped, even conservative. Our original Lady is not inaccessible nor stern (as though that is the only way a woman can inflict damage). She is playful and charming, and when she visits Gawain in bed every morning of his stay at Hautdesert, they banter in the courteous yet boisterous mode of medieval romance. Full of good humour, she emphasises Gawain’s powerlessness: ‘now ar ȝe tan astyt bot true vus may schape / I schal bynde yow in your bedde þat be ȝe trayst’ [You’re tricked and you’re trapped! But let’s make a truce, / or I’ll besiege you in your bed]. She extolls Gawain’s well-known deeds – ‘for I wene wel iwysse sir Wowen ȝe are / þat alle þe worlde worchipez quere so ȝe’ [for I know well that you are Gawain, whom the whole world worships wherever you ride]* – in a bid to use his reputation to claim the kiss she wants. When Gawain politely declines, she questions his identity: ‘so god as gawayn gaynly is halden / and cortaysye is closed so clene in hymseluen/couth not lyȝtly haf lenged so long wyth a lady / bot he had craued a cosse’ [A good man like Gawain, so greatly regarded, / the embodiment of courtliness to the bones of his being, / could never have lingered so long with a lady / without craving a kiss]. Eventually, Gawain has no choice but to give in.
It’s a sly show of women’s power within medieval courts as arbiters of chivalry. If knights must do good for noble ladies, it falls to noble ladies to decide who (or what) is doing good. The Lady playfully rebukes Gawain with ‘ye are not Gawain’, because the famous Gawain would kiss her, Gawain would court her, Gawain would, essentially, do what he was told. The consequences are real and dangerous, as Gawain’s identity bends and fractures to make room for her demands. While the Lady of the poem is friendly and charming, there is something cruel about the way she manipulates Gawain into becoming the knight she wants him to be; a cruelty even more apparent when, in the poem’s final section, the Green Knight reveals his true identity. Rather than Vikander’s stern powerhouse subduing Gawain in an unimaginative display of sexual power, the Lady of the poem is more vicious, more creative in the way she flexes and plays with him. Her goal is not Gawain’s momentary embarrassment, but rather the gentle dissolution and control of his entire identity.
Similarly, the queerness of the poem is oddly defanged in the film. Gawain kissed Bertilak comely, as we have seen; one of three kisses, which the Lady flirts and bullies out of him and which count as Gawain’s ‘winnings’ for the day, meaning that he must then ‘exchange’ it by kissing Bertilak in the evening. Kisses between men were common in medieval texts, and this relationship would not be so notable except for the unwritten suggestion which hovers over the poem: if Gawain did have sex with the Lady, as she clearly wanted, by the laws of the game he would be obliged to have sex with Bertilak as well. It’s a suggestion that has thrilled and tantalised queer medievalists for decades. In her 1997 essay ‘Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Gawain, Foucault’, Carolyn Dinshaw explains that ‘homosexual sex is thus one hypothetical fulfillment [of the game]… but is a forbidden end. Or rather, not forbidden, but unintelligible within the heterosexual world of this poem’. In other words, it was a possibility too subversive for its medieval author to acknowledge, but the idea of it still hangs over the text, adding to the poem’s troubling and riveting sense of queerness.
The Green Knight, however, replaces the kisses with a puzzling skip of logic. From the Lady, Gawain receives a hand-job; to Bertilak, he gives a kiss that he never received. Imagine me flashing up my furious red card: it doesn’t follow the rules of the game! Determined to vamp up the Lady and too cowardly to follow the logical through point of its own invented sex scene, The Green Knight breaks the rules so smoothly that it’s easy to miss.
This is what we lose when we decide that a medieval text does not do a good enough job of interrogating its own themes. Gone is the queerness, gone is the worrying communality of Hautdesert, gone is the mutability of Gawain’s identity, gone is the Lady’s power to change Gawain into who she wants him to be. Instead we are left with a halfhearted thought about the importance of bravery as Gawain bends his neck to the Green Knight’s axe. It is no wonder that The Green Knight’s Camelot is empty and austere – it supposes a world in which single men are important and you can always pick out the significant shadow thrown against the wall. There is no room in it for Sir Gawain, with its rooms teeming with people and its walls hung with tapestries, an ambiguous text brimming with brightness and edged with shadow. Though the film reaches after some of Sir Gawain’s ideas – the dangerous Lady, the ambiguity of chivalry – it does so with a ponderous sense of its own immaculate moral vision. It is so afraid to make the wrong statement that it loses the potential and discomfort of a story which is in no hurry to make any definitive statement at all.
Why do we want to fix older texts? Where does this urge come from? Why are we so desperate to dig our fingers into a source and haul it into the twenty-first century, where we are certain we can improve it? Sometimes barely any time has passed; see the 2021 Gossip Girl reboot, released less than 10 years after the original show ended, where characters agonise over their own privilege with the kind of earnest browbeating that would have had deeply problematic ‘Queen B’ of the Upper East Side Blair Waldorf gagging, or the Disney live-action remakes of their own 90s oeuvre, where princesses are frequently given a new determinedly feminist song (‘I won’t be silenced, you can’t keep me quiet,’ Jasmine carols in the 2019 Aladdin). Nor is Sir Gawain the only medieval text to fall under the scalpel: Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife (2018) recast Beowulf as an American suburban drama with its titular hero a corrupt cop. Sometimes a retelling can create genuine nuance, a new story that questions or complicates its original without condemning it wholesale, like Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018, which plays with The Odyssey) or Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966, riffing on Jane Eyre); sometimes it is great fun, like Clueless (1995’s teen comedy version of Emma) or 10 Things I Hate About You (1999’s take on The Taming of the Shrew). But there is something deeply unappetising about the instinct not just to retell an old story, but rescue it from its own perceived flaws.
Part of this instinct might lie in the current fear of ‘cancel culture’, where the distinction between a text that includes or interrogates troubling ideas and a troubling text seems to be blurring. Rather than preserving the ambiguous complexities of the past and risking the contaminating seep of creation into creator, we want to present a text so upright and stalwart in its morality, or so obvious in its condemnations, that we cannot be questioned.
But it is also a deeply comforting narrative to believe that we now know everything we need to know, that human morality has reached its apex. The past was misogynistic! It was racist! It was homophobic! As though we have left misogyny, racism and homophobia behind us. As though the world moves along a teleological curve and no time was ever better than this exact time, when we know the most we have ever known and are most accurate in our judgments of our fictions and ourselves. Perhaps it’s the concept of better that is the problem, as though we can slice through the fabric of centuries and cultures and genders and classes to compare two years, say 1392 and 2021, and determine which was the most morally upstanding.
It’s nice to feel safe. It’s nice to feel right. It’s not nice to feel like Sir Gawain in his original poem, tested at every corner, with no clear answer, no clear enemy, no clear ally, not even himself. Unlike the flash-forward epic ending of The Green Knight, in Sir Gawain, Gawain bends his head to the axe, flinches, and is given only a nick on the neck. The Green Knight reveals his true identity as Bertilak, and explains the entire plot was set in motion by the enchantress Morgan Le Fay to ‘to haf greued gaynour and gart hir to dyȝe’ [to grieve Guenever and frighten her to death]* Bertilak and his wife were toying with Gawain all the time; Gawain has been a pawn in a game he did not understand. Now all is forgiven: won’t Gawain come back to Hautdesert for dinner? Instead, ashamed of his failure and cowardice, Gawain returns to Camelot. When he tells his strange tale the court laughs at him.
That laughter is the truly ambiguous marker of the story. Scholars don’t know what to do with it; no clear meaning has ever been assigned to it. It is the most joyous, baffling and unnerving end to a story I know, ringing out steadfast and sure in the face of Gawain’s confusion and unhappiness. But now it is 2021, and bad men are simply bad and better men must try to be good, and no man, before or behind the camera, can bear to be laughed at.
1Unless otherwise stated, all translations from Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Faber, 2008


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Are you interested in publishing written pieces on legal developments while on co-op? Recently I sat down with Stuti Kokkalera, L.L.B., L.L.M. (and current doctoral student in Northeastern University’s Criminology and Justice Policy program), to discuss tips that she followed and that are worth thinking about in order to publish while being an intern. These four tips are valuable tools to develop written-work during your co-op, and you can continue to use them when you return to the academic quarter.
1. Utilize your initiative in your co-op network.
If an interesting topic comes up during your co-op, take the initiative to write about it and its legal development. Go for it. There are a number of benefits to this. First, as a co-op student you have a variety of resources at your disposal to help with your research. You often have access to computer sources like Westlaw or even PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records). You are also surrounded by many colleagues who may already be familiar with the topic you are writing about. They can help with your research and support you in the process. Second, you can often reach out to your colleagues or supervisors at your co-op for comments and edits during the writing process. This is important as they can provide you insight from a practitioner’s point of view. Third, if you are developing a piece from a lead you are taking, this is often not as structured as creating traditional legal documents. You have a little more freedom to research and write. Fourth, performing well on a task like this shows your strengths as an intern, and will improve your writing overall. And last, part of this writing could be published on your own in a law review! So what are you waiting for!
2. Think of choosing a co-op at a firm that does advocacy work or an agency that does human rights work.
Often a co-op based on human rights, based in advocacy work, or at a law firm with practice in these areas has job tasks around policy development in addition to traditional litigation or drafting. Look at the job description itself to see if writing skills, writing development, or publications are discussed. These tasks can provide more opportunities for writing. Further, these types of co-ops are often willing to support additional research and written work that you take the initiative to explore. A co-op invested in this work can open a student to many legal developments worth researching.
3. If not in the job description, think about co-oping with a judge.
If you are not inclined to take the human rights or advocacy route, consider working with a judge on your next co-op. Judges are very much in tune with legal developments, and often love to immerse in interesting and new legal topics. Case decisions in particular as new legal developments would be important to discuss. Many of your activities as a judicial intern, including discussions with the judge, could prompt a student note or short paper. Additionally, in a judicial co-op, as you are in the context of cases being decided, there are a number of sources at your disposal as well as many interesting questions to ask.
4. Don’t just write to publish. Write to network.
Finally, another reason to connect with your co-op supervisors and colleagues on writing about legal topics is to increase your network. As you delve into new legal topics, you are in touch with not just what is happening in the law but by whom. Further, your co-op employers will notice your initiative and think about you when another opportunity comes around. If you are continuing to write after your co-op, you can continue your relationship with your co-op by having your supervisors be involved in the editing process of a publishable piece!
Good luck writing!
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A footbridge at a popular north-east beach has been shut this afternoon due to safety fears.
Moray Council has closed the Lossiemouth East Beach bridge as it has been “deemed to be unsafe for continued use”.
The bridge links the town with the east beach and spans across the River Lossie.
Walkers were allowed to use the crossing to get back to the town if they had used it during the afternoon.
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A Moray Council spokesperson said: “The nice weather this week has understandably led to more people visiting the East Beach.
“Unfortunately, the sheer volume of people crossing the bridge has led to deterioration significant enough to warrant closure of the bridge in the interests of public safety.
“While the bridge is not the property of Moray Council we have a responsibility to keep the public safe around such structures.”
A survey, commissioned by the Lossiemouth Community Trust in 2017, found the bridge was “generally structurally sound” but advised “significant works will need to be carried out to ensure this remains the case”
The spokesperson added: “The East Beach is still accessible via Kingston but members of the public should be aware that there will be no through path via the footbridge on or off the beach.”


Following rain alerts from the Alipore weather office, Kolkata Municipal Corporation officials are spending sleepless nights.
On Tuesday, KMC officials held several parleys to ensure that the rain does not dampen the puja spirit and that pandal-hoppers’ mobility is not affected in case of showers.
Tarak Singh, member of mayor-in-council who also oversees the KMC's sewerage and drainage system, held a meeting with the chief executive engineers of the civil and drainage departments of 16 boroughs.
The officials said in case of a heavy rainfall, it’s a dual problem as the lock gates have to be shut and in case the rainfall is around 50mm, most city roads get waterlogged creating a messy condition, especially in the festive season.
To deal with the situation, additional submersible pumps have been ordered which will be installed in each borough in advance so that in case of heavy rains, the accumulated water can be discharged into the canals.
Meanwhile, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has directed mayor Firhad Hakim to keep a hawk-eye vigil on certain areas like Behala, Tollygunge, Jadavpur, both sides of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, Thanthania in north Kolkata, Amherst Street, several areas on both sides of Chittaranjan Avenue, Sinthee, Cossipore, Bowbazar, Tiljala and Kasba.
The KMC authorities have also prepared a chart mentioning the timings of high and low tides to facilitate civic operations in case of a downpour.


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Durban - The eThekwini municipality has budgeted R1.5 million to entice crowds to events at Durban’s three major stadiums – including giving away “free” tickets at ratepayers’ expense.
A report that the city would have to fork out money to entice people to watch games has angered opposition parties, who want to know why ratepayers should pay to attract crowds.
The municipality move comes after concerns were raised about the long-term viability of the R3.1 billion Moses Mabhida stadium which has no anchor tenant with deep enough pockets to make it financially sustainable.
In June, the city revealed that it had already paid R50m since the soccer World Cup to attract events to the stadium and dismissed claims that it was a white elephant, saying it had generated an income of over R207m in the past two years.
This week the city splashed R125 000 on 15 000 tickets for Saturday’s clash between AmaZulu FC and Golden Arrows. The tickets have been given to four local sports teams and others for distribution at schools and in municipal wards.
The head of the parks, recreation and cemeteries department, Thembinkosi Ngcobo, said tickets purchased by the municipality would be given to the Sharks, KZN Dolphins, Lamontville Golden Arrows and AmaZulu FC. The sports clubs were then expected to give the tickets away – to their fans.
Ngcobo said the city had started an initiative called “My city, my teams, 60 000” and they expected stadiums to be packed to capacity when local teams played.
Ngcobo said the initiative was intended to break down racial barriers because, in the past, sport was a tool used to divide people.
“Our stadiums are not full during soccer matches because people support Joburg clubs like Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs. Our sports facilities do not get full because our clubs are not popular. We want our stadiums to be full for every event,” he said.
“Apart from purchasing tickets, the R1.5m would also be used for education campaigns to encourage people to watch local games, recruit cheerleaders and promote cultural events linked to the different sports.
“The R1.5m budgeted for this financial year is not enough and will not cover all the social cohesion programmes we have planned,” said Ngcobo.
He said he would present a report to the health, safety and social services committee requesting more funding.
DA caucus leader, Tex Collins, said buying tickets and giving them away to sports clubs was a “crazy idea” that his party would never support.
“Why should the city pay people to come to watch matches at our stadiums? It makes no sense. We have never smelt a report requesting such funding as the executive committee,” he said.
Minority Front councillor Patrick Pillay said there had to be more creative ways to encourage people to be involved in social cohesion programmes as opposed to squandering ratepayers’ money.

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Cecilia Blomberg’s tapestry weavings are recognized the world over for their exquisite detail and intricate technique.
Blomberg, a long-time Gig Harbor resident, was born in Sweden and holds dual Swedish-U.S. citizenship.
On Oct. 4 at the library, she showed her most recent weavings and talked about her current project — a series of eight tapestries depicting various saints for the Catholic chapel at the U. S. Air Force Academy.
Three of the tapestries are complete — St. Ignatius of Loyola, Michael the Archangel and St. Joan of Arc — and Blomberg had hung them at the library for the community to view before she delivered them to the Academy. It was the first time she was able to see the tapestries actually hanging on a wall.
“Of course I saw them on my loom as I was weaving them, and then when they were finished I rolled them out on my driveway and looked down at them from an upstairs window — but this was the first time they’ve actually been hung,” she said.
The commission came as a complete surprise.
“I got a mysterious email about a year and a half ago that just said ‘Are you still weaving tapestry?’ There was no identification, but I just answered ‘Yes.’”
The next communiqué inquired if Blomberg was interested in doing 60 tapestries, each of which would measure 20 feet by 2 feet. Each tapestry would have to be hand woven — not machine made.
“I told them that it would take decades to weave that many tapestries and that none of us were likely to live that long,” Blomberg said with a chuckle.
It turned out the mysterious inquirer was an art consultant from Colorado and that the project was for the Air Force Academy chapel.
“I went there for a visit and showed them samples of my work and we talked about the project and they asked me to do a proposal for weaving just those three saints — with each tapestry measuring 9.5 feet by 18 inches.
She was awarded the commission for a total of eight weavings and started working on the first three a year ago. “I can do three pieces that size at a time on my 8-foot loom,” she said. “I finished them in August and then we had a party to cut them off the loom.”
The next three saints in the series will be St. Cecilia, St. Francis of Assisi and either Joseph or St. Joseph of Cupertino.
Blomberg is especially pleased that St. Cecilia will be one of her next series. “They sing her special hymn at the Academy,” she said.
Doing research is one of her favorite parts of any new project and this project is especially challenging. “I’ve always found religion to be interesting because it has such an influence on the politics and culture of a country. I’ve been doing lots of research on each of the saints and trying to learn why people are so drawn to saints.”
She looks for the specific attributes of each saint she’s depicting “and then I kind of pick and choose the things I like or admire most in each one.”
An example is her depiction of Joan of Arc. “I didn’t portray her as mad or crazy. She was a political activist and she had long hair. She had a suit of armor made for herself and she designed her own banner, so that’s how I showed her.”
Blomberg does take a few liberties in mixing historical elements in her work, as shown in her inclusion of a globe in the foreground of the St. Ignatius tapestry. “He was the patron saint of education. But the globe didn’t come into being until about 50 years after he died,” Blomberg said. “The globe is actually taken from a Vermeer painting, but I felt like it symbolized his world-wide influence.”
In her next series, Joseph, who is usually portrayed as a withered old man —often sleeping — will be “striding across the desert carrying the baby,” in Blomberg’s tapestry. “I’m showing him as the protector and being quite strong. And Bethlehem will be in the background, because he was in the direct line of King David.”
She debated about having him wear a Star of David, “but that wasn’t invented until many years later,” she said, “so I decided to leave it out.”
She’s just now finishing up the final sketches for the next three saints, and there will be two more to do after those are complete.
But because of sequestration, some of the money that had been designated for the tapestry project has been diverted to pay the salaries of the music director and the secretary of the Catholic Chapel at the Academy. “So they’re doing a lot of fundraising right now to keep the project moving,” she said.
Blomberg works at her loom every day on this commission. “I’m having great fun and it should keep me busy for another three years. I weave every day, sometimes six days a week. Sometimes when I’m weaving I just completely lose track of time.”
She uses Norwegian yarns almost exclusively. “They’re light-fast and color-fast and they last for years — and the tapestries will probably last for thousands of years if they’re cared for properly. The Unicorn tapestries were woven back in the 1400s and they were totally mistreated and they’re still here hundreds and hundreds of years later,” she noted.
“I feel so fortunate to do what I love. The satisfaction is just so amazing and I feel so lucky.”
To view the saints’ tapestries and other of Bloomberg’s work, visit ceciliablomberg.com.


Belgian Heavy Metal Band Evil Invaders have a 4-track EP coming out September 30th on Napalm Records, In For The Kill. A music video for the track “Raising Hell” was released via Decibel Magazine and you can watch it here.
Evil Invaders Frontman Joe says, “Raising Hell is one of our most energetic songs so far! It’s about life on the road where there’s no time to slow down. Take Motorhead on full fucking speed and you have it! For the video we decided to work with a live setup that reinforces the power, speed and adrenaline that this song already contained. So get ready to get your guts blown out and Raise some fuckin’ hell!”
The new EP will be available on the Napalm Records online store and the band’s webstore – find it here.
Evil Invaders will head out on tour in October with Suicidal Angels, Skull Fist, Crisix, and Mortillery. Tour dates and more info at the band’s official website.


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KANSAS -- It's the viral video sending chills down the spines of people all across social media.
A high school junior on a school trip to Italy belted a stunning tune into a well, a la Snow White.
Seventeen-year-old Tiffany Day was traveling with her Kansas high school choir for spring break, singing in Italian cathedrals along the way.
When the musician noticed a wishing well in Venice, she decided to try out the acoustics. And voila, a star was born.
The teen's beautiful version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" echoed in the well, and across the globe.
The video has been retweeted thousands of times, not just for Day's singing chops, but also for her adorable smile at the end of the video.
If 48 seconds of Tiffany isn't enough, you can check out more of her original songs and covers, like the one below, on her YouTube channel.


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Good afternoon, everyone. On a mild and gorgeous day, I wanted to give you a quick update on the low-end potential for for a few strong to severe storms.
There’s a weak boundary dropping toward the region from the north, but this slows down near the Ohio River this evening. That allows for a few storms to develop along and south of the boundary. The SPC has northern Kentucky in the low risk for a few severe storms…
A few storms linger into Friday across the northern half of the state. Temps will still be warm, but those storms have the final say on how high the numbers can get for any one location. The south and west can make a run at 80, though.
Winds will be gusty as our strong southwesterly wind kicks in through Saturday. That’s another day with very warm temps.
A potent cold front sweeps eastward across the state by Saturday evening into the wee hours of Sunday morning. A line of strong to severe storms will likely develop ahead of this boundary as it moves through. The SPC has the initial risk across the west on Saturday…
Temps come back down into the 60s behind the front on Sunday. Winds will be very gusty as a mix of sun and clouds show up.
The system by next Tuesday and Wednesday continues to look like it can bring some ugly in here.
I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm. Here are your tracking tools for the day…
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great day and take care.
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Good Thursday, everyone. Mild weather continues to increase across the region as spring really begins to ramp up. As a matter of fact, conditions over the next few days will be more common of May than the end of March. As we look longer term, there’s still the potential for a little ugly showing up as we start the month of April
Let’s begin with today and roll forward. Temps will likely range from 70-75 for many, with the potential for the numbers to push close to 80 in the far west and southwest. Follow those numbers…
Friday is a warm and windy day across the bluegrass state. Temps range from the low and mid 70s in the north, to around 80 in the far south and west. That said, a few showers and storms may impact those numbers. There’s a shot for scattered storms from late tonight into Friday.
Saturday looks warm and windy once again as we wait for our Front. That slides in Saturday night with a line of strong storms.
The GFS shows the Friday scattered storms and the Saturday night thunder…
That doesn’t last very long as our next storm moves in as we end March and kick off April. This has a very ugly look to it…
I will hook you up with another update later today. Have a good one and take care.


Microsoft started its Windows Insider program in 2014 to get public feedback on Windows 10 as it was being developed. Ever since then, the company has continued to provide regularly updated prerelease builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11 to preview and test new features.
Like many public beta programs, Microsoft has maintained different channels for different users, with periodic tweaks to each channel’s name and stated purpose. Today, Microsoft is renaming one channel and introducing another one. The one formerly known as the “Dev” channel will now be called the “Canary” channel, and it will be where Microsoft tests its least-stable and most-experimental features (including “major changes to the Windows kernel, new APIs, etc.”).
“The builds that will be flighted to the Canary Channel will be “hot off the presses,” flighting very soon after they are built, which means very little validation and documentation will be done before they are offered to Insiders,” writes Windows Insider Program Lead Amanda Langowski.
Some software releases’ Canary channels (including Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightly) can update once per day, and Microsoft has historically maintained a “Canary” channel for internal use that is updated daily. This new public Canary channel “won’t receive daily builds,” writes Langowski, “however, we may ramp up releasing builds more frequently in the future.”
The Dev channel will still exist, but it’s being “rebooted” as a rung between the Dev and Beta channels. Microsoft will continue testing early features here, including some that will never make it to the stable version of the operating system. But compared to the Canary channel, the builds “will provide better platform stability” and will be more thoroughly documented—blog posts highlighting new fixes and features will still be available for all Dev and Beta channel releases, but not for all Canary channel releases.
The Beta and Release Preview channels aren’t being changed. The Beta channel will be more stable than the new Dev channel, and features that make it to the Beta channel will likely be released to the public eventually. And the Release Preview channel is typically the last stop an update makes before it’s released to the general public.
Shaking up the different Windows Insider channels makes more sense for how Windows 11 is being updated—a little bit at a time, with small tweaks released regularly, larger batches of updates bundled together a few times a year, and bigger structural changes confined to once-yearly “feature updates” that become the foundation for other changes going forward.
But it may cause some short-term pain for anyone in the old Dev channel. Insiders in the current Dev channel will automatically be moved to the Canary channel, where they will continue to get Windows updates with build numbers in the 25000s. Moving to the “rebooted” Dev channel to get 23000-series builds will require a clean install of the operating system, though it is possible for current Beta and Release Preview channel users (both with builds in the 22000s) to move to the new Dev channel without reinstalling Windows.


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