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SF SKETCHFEST PRESENTED BY AUDIBLE ANNOUNCES INITIAL 2019 FESTIVAL LINEUP
TICKETS ON SALE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 AT 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET @ sFSKETCHFEST.COM
“Comedy's best and brightest” – SF WEEKLY
“Eclectic, surprising and star-filled” – SF CHRONICLE
“In the pantheon of comedy festivals, SF Sketchfest is one of the GOAT’s” – THE INTERROBANG
SF SKETCHFEST TO HONOR ENTERTAINMENT ICON AND SKETCH COMEDY LEGEND, CAROL BURNETT, TRIBUTE AND SPOTLIGHT HONOREES ALSO INCLUDE: MARGARET CHO; W. KAMAU BELL; JULIE KLAUSNER; BRUCE CAMPBELL; ANIMATOR BILL PLYMPTON; THE CAST AND CREATORS OF BEST IN SHOW WITH CHRISTOPHER GUEST, CATHERINE O’HARA, EUGENE LEVY, JANE LYNCH, JENNIFER COOLIDGE, MICHAEL McKEAN, JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS, MICHAEL HITCHCOCK, FRED WILLARD, AND ED BEGLEY, JR; AND NBC’S SUPERSTORE WITH AMERICA FERRERA, BEN FELDMAN, MARK McKINNEY, LAUREN ASH, COLTON DUNN, NICHOLE BLOOM, NICO SANTOS, AND JUSTIN SPITZER; – PLUS AN ALL-STAR ROAST OF ICONIC DRAG PERFORMER, PEACHES CHRIST
THE FESTIVAL ALSO INCLUDES APPEARANCES BY: JENNY SLATE AND BIG TERRIFIC WAJATTA FEATURING REGGIE WATTS AND JOHN TEJADA; THE MILK CARTON KIDS; BUSY PHILIPPS; DAVID CROSS; WAYNE BRADY; FELICIA DAY; PAUL F. TOMPKINS; JANEANE GAROFALO; JOHN HODGMAN; MICHAEL IAN BLACK; SASHEER ZAMATA; PETER RIEGERT; JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL; HOPE DAVIS, DANA GOULD, SIMON HELBERG, GRACE HELBIG, MAMRIE HART, TIM HEIDECKER, JOSHUA MALINA, TONY HALE, DOUG BENSON, NATASHA LEGGERO, MOSHE KASHER, ADAM SAVAGE, JEN KIRKMAN, PAUL SCHEER, APARNA NANCHERLA, LAUREN LAPKUS, MARTHA KELLY, MARY LYNN RAJSKUB, HARI KONDABOLU, UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE, CAST MEMBERS FROM FUTURAMA, I’M SORRY, JON GLASER LOVES GEAR, SCHITT’S CREEK AND RIFFTRAX, SPECIAL COLLABORATIONS WITH AUDIBLE AND THE SPEAKEASY – AND MUCH MORE.
ADDITIONAL SHOWS AND PERFORMERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
SF Sketchfest presented by Audible announces the initial line up for the 18th annual San Francisco Comedy Festival January 10-27, 2019, featuring top comedic talent performing in venues across the city. Audiences can expect another outstanding year of programming and fun as SF Sketchfest will host major comedy stars and the best up-and-coming acts from around the world for non-stop entertainment including sketch, stand-up, alternative comedy, music, improv, films, tributes, live podcasts, storytelling, family shows, workshops, panels, and more.
SF Sketchfest is proud to announce that Audible is returning as the official presenting sponsor of the 18th annual festival. Audible is the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken word entertainment. Audible content includes more than 450,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers.
Audible will be presenting live versions of some of their original comedy products at SF Sketchfest, including: “Bad Reception” featuring Mary Holland, Lauren Lapkus, Eric Martin, Jessica McKenna, Justin Michael, Zach Reino and Paul F. Tompkins; “Gustafer Yellowgold LIVE” featuring Morgan Taylor and Mike Phirman; “The Hills of Baldwin” featuring Jordan Black, Nyima Funk, Daniele Gaither, Phil LaMarr, Gary Anthony Williams, Cedric Yarbrough, and special guest Wayne Brady; “The Indignities of Being a Woman” with Merrill Markoe and Megan Koester, with special guest Laraine Newman; and “The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe” featuring Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Andy Richter, Eliza Skinner, Paul F. Tompkins and Janet Varney. These Audible Originals and many other exclusive titles – from David Spade’s “A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World” to “Hi, Bob!” featuring Bob Newhart in conversation with some of his famous friends such as Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell and Conan O’Brien – are available exclusively on Audible, along with a wide range of world-class audio programming. In recent months, Audible introduced the Originals Member Benefit, through which Audible members can choose two Audible Original productions for free in addition to their monthly credit. For more visit www.audible.com/comedy
New for 2019 is the debut of SF Sketchfest at The Speakeasy: An Immersive Comedy Experience offering six shows in a groundbreaking format within this one-of-a-kind venue, which recreates a Prohibition Era club with disguised entrances, secret passageways, two bars, a casino, and a two-story cabaret. SF Sketchfest will activate spaces throughout The Speakeasy venue where audiences will be free to roam and take in performances in every area for an intimate and interactive comedy experience. From sitting bar side and catching an informal set from your favorite comic, getting pulled into a small room for an impromptu mini-performance, eavesdropping on comics behind a two-way mirror, to catching a headliner on the cabaret’s mainstage, this is an immersive comedy experience like no other. Performers include: Michael Ian Black, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo & Jen Kirkman, Dana Gould, John Hodgman & Paul F. Tompkins, The Second City Improv All-Stars with Scott Adsit & Tami Sagher, and more.
SF Sketchfest will honor iconic comedy feature films and their stars: Evil Dead II with Bruce Campbell and Local Hero with Peter Riegert. Other cinematic events include: RiffTrax Day of the Shorts and The Mads are Back, featuring some of the stars from the original Mystery Science Theater 3000; The Benson Movie Interruption of Fifty Shades Freed with Doug Benson and friends; On Cinema with Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington; and Found Footage Festival vs. Everything Is Terrible!
SF Sketchfest celebrates the best in television comedy with: Schitt’s Creek: Up Close & Personal; spotlights on two of truTV’s best shows, Jon Glaser Loves Gear with Jon Glaser and John Hodgman, and on I’m Sorry with Andrea Savage; and the returning favorite Futurama live.
Musical highlights include: Wajatta with Reggie Watts and John Tejada with guests Galen & Solar from Sunset Sound System; The Milk Carton Kids & Friends Variety Show; Bring the Rock with Greg Behrendt; Matteo Lane in Streisand at the Bon Soir; Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and “Friends”; Jon Daly Kills It; and local ensemble The Red Room Orchestra recreating the soundtrack of “The Big Lebowski” live and taking a deeper dive into the music of Twin Peaks with an all-star band under the direction of bandleader Marc Capelle.
Returning festival favorites include: the hit podcast, Judge John Hodgman; the Upright Citizens Brigade ASSSSCAT with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and more; a special night of comedy at the California Academy of Sciences; Selected Shorts: Too Hot for Radio with guest readers Hope Davis, John Cameron Mitchell, and host Aparna Nancherla; Celebrity Autobiography, (celebrating its 11th consecutive year at SF Sketchfest) with Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Rachel Dratch, Michael McKean, and Laraine Newman; and Fake TED Talks with Jonathan Coulton, Jean Grae, Justin McElroy, Sydnee McElroy, Paul & Storm, and Adam Savage. The festival returns once more for SF Sketchfest NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences featuring Jon Glaser, Sawbones with Justin & Sydnee McElroy, Omnibus with Ken Jennings & John Roderick, and more.
Improv shows include: a special first look at Madison Wells Media’s new improv sci-fi adventure, Voyage to the Stars with Steve Berg, Felicia Day, and more; SpontTourCo with Paul F. Tompkins, Eugene Cordero, Eban Schletter, and more; The Improvised Shakespeare Company; Workjuice Improv with Craig Cackowski, Marc Gagliardi, Marc Evan Jackson, Hal Lublin, Annie Savage, Paul F. Tompkins, Janet Varney, and guest monologist Busy Philipps; Wild Horses with Stephanie Allynne, Mary Holland, Lauren Lapkus, and Erin Whitehead; members of The Groundlings in The Gale and Cookin’ with GAS; Speechless; The Black Version; Super Married with John Ross Bowie and Jamie Denbo; Theme Park with Rachel Dratch, Simon Helberg, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Jessica Makinson, Oscar Nunez, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney, and guest monologist Tony Hale. The craft of sketch comedy represented by BriTANick; The Groundlings: The Best of Sketch; original first year SF Sketchfest returnees, Please Leave the Bronx; Bay Area collective Killing My Lobster; Gabriel Gundacker, creator of the viral hit “Zendaya is Meechie”, and much, much more.
Audiences may attend live recordings of popular podcasts including: Stuff You Should Know with Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant; The West Wing Weekly with Joshua Malina, Hrishikesh Hirway; This Might Get Weird with Grace Helbig, and Mamrie Hart; Jordan, Jesse, Go!; We’re No Doctors with Steve Agee and Busy Philipps; The Allusionist; Doughboys; Dumb People Town with The Sklar Brothers and Dan Van Kirk; Oh No, Ross and Carrie!; the narrative sci-fi comedy series, Bubble with Cristela Alonzo, Alison Becker, Jonathan Coulton, Mike Mitchell, Jordan Morris, Keith Powell, Eliza Skinner, and many more.
The SF Sketchfest Dozen, a yearly spotlight on twelve top comedians features: Emmy Blotnick; Byron Bowers; Nore Davis; Jo Firestone; Caitlin Gill; Zainab Johnson; Dwayne Kennedy; Langston Kerman; Matteo Lane; Jacqueline Novak; Max Silvestri; Kate Willett.
SF Sketchfest hosts many of the current up-and-coming headlining stand-up comedians from around the country including these variety shows: Big Terrific with Jenny Slate; Gabe Liedman and Max Silvestri; Butterboy with Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla; Joel Kim Booster’s Joy F*ck Club; Reductress Presents Haha...WOW!; The Daily Show Writers Stand-Up; Asian AF with Will Choi; Filipino AF; The 420 Show with Matt Besser
Plus stand-up appearances by: Todd Barry, Guy Branum, Sean Cullen, Will Durst, Naomi Ekperigin, Danny Franzese, Jena Friedman, Sabrina Jalees, Moshe Kasher, Jackie Kashian, Martha Kelly, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Kilmartin, Andy Kindler, Natasha Leggero, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Nico Santos, Alice Wetterlund, Lizz Winstead, Sasheer Zamata, and more. International stand-ups are listed below.
The diverse programming of the festival is reflected in these unique shows: family shows with Story Pirates; The Groundlings Children’s Show; live theater including the West Coast premiere of Peaches Christ and Varla Jean Merman’s “The Whining,” a drag-parody of the Stephen King classic; viral YouTube star Manon Mathews; storytelling by Porchlight, hosted by Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte; RISK! with Kevin Allison; and lively game shows and debates: Brew HaHa: The Comedy Drinking Game Show; Iron Comic with Moshe Kasher and Nato Green; Shit Arcade with Mike Drucker; Uptown Showdown Debate: The Future vs. The Past, with Greg Behrendt, Michael Ian Black, Andrea Savage, and more.
Experienced or neophyte comics can hone their skills participating in workshops listed below.
SF Sketchfest once again has teamed up with 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization that provides free writing, tutoring and publishing programs to under-resourced students in San Francisco. Founded by educator Ninive Calegari and author Dave Eggers, 826 Valencia comprises two writing centers (a flagship location in the Mission District and a new center in the Tenderloin neighborhood) and three satellite classrooms in Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8, Everett Middle School, and Mission School. This year 826 Valencia will be celebrating its 17th anniversary and, as part of the official festival program, SF Sketchfest will host a to-be-announced benefit show.
The festival will also be staging a fundraiser for Bay Area comedian, Mikey Walz, who learned back in October that he has cancer. (On Halloween, in order to remove the soft tissue cancer in his left leg and save his life, Mikey had it amputated.) Sudden Pirate: A Comedy Show Benefit for Mikey Walz will feature Mikey’s closest comedy friends doing stand-up, along with a closing set by Mikey himself.
Find the SF Sketchfest 2019 schedule at www.sfsketchfest.com. Lineups are subject to change.
All shows are ticketed separately and go on sale at 10AM PT / 1PM ET on Sunday, November 18 at www.sfsketchfest.com.
SF SKETCHFEST TRIBUTES
SF Sketchfest Tribute: Carol Burnett, in conversation
SF Sketchfest Tribute: “Best In Show” 20th Anniversary Reunion & Screening with Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara, Fred Willard and Karen Murphy
SF Sketchfest Tribute: Margaret Cho, in conversation
SF Sketchfest Tribute: W. Kamau Bell in conversation with Hari Kondabolu
SF Sketchfest Tribute: Julie Klausner, in conversation
SF Sketchfest Tribute: “Superstore” with America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Mark McKinney, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nichole Bloom, Nico Santos and creator Justin Spitzer
SF Sketchfest Special Events
Who’s Laughing Now: An Evening with Bruce Campbell and “Evil Dead II”
Salute to Bill Plympton: Films, Live Drawing and Q&A
The Roast of Peaches Christ (in celebration of her 45th birthday!) with Clea DuVall, Heklina, Jinkx Monsoon, Mink Stole, Roast Mistress Coco Peru, and more
Wajatta: Reggie Watts and John Tejada, with Galen & Solar from Sunset Sound System
Big Terrific with Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman & Max Silvestri
SF Sketchfest at The Speakeasy: An Immersive Comedy Experience:
Special interactive nights including:
Dana Gould with Blaine Capatch, Caitlin Gill and more
David Cross & Friends
Janeane Garofalo with Jen Kirkman and Sabrina Jalees
John Hodgman & Paul F. Tompkins
Michael Ian Black with Tom Kenny & The Hi-Seas, and Ryan Stout
The Second City Improv All-Stars with special guests, Scott Adsit & Tami Sagher
Audible Presents: A series of special events recorded live for Audible including:
Bad Reception featuring Mary Holland, Lauren Lapkus, Eric Martin, Jessica McKenna, Justin Michael, Zach Reino, Paul F. Tompkins, and more
Gustafer Yellowgold LIVE, featuring Morgan Taylor and Mike Phirman
The Hills of Baldwin featuring Jordan Black, Nyima Funk, Daniele Gaither, Phil LaMarr, Gary Anthony Williams, Cedric Yarbrough, and special guest Wayne Brady
The Indignities of Being a Woman with Merrill Markoe & Megan Koester, and special guest Laraine Newman
The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe featuring Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Andy Richter, Eliza Skinner, Paul F. Tompkins, Janet Varney, and more
SF Sketchfest NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences featuring: Jon Glaser, Sawbones with Justin & Sydnee McElroy, Omnibus with Ken Jennings & John Roderick, Worst First Chapter: Bad Sci-Fi Edition with Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm, and more
CINEMA & TELEVISION
The Benson Movie Interruption: “Fifty Shades Freed” with Doug Benson & Friends
Found Footage Festival vs. Everything Is Terrible!
“Futurama” Live with David X. Cohen, John DiMaggio, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Tress MacNeille, Lee Supercinski, Billy West
Spotlight on “Jon Glaser Loves Gear” with Jon Glaser and John Hodgman
“Local Hero” screening with special guest Peter Riegert
The MADs Are Back with Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu
On Cinema with Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington
Outtake-o-rama: Famous Celebrity Outtakes with the voice talents of “Futurama” with John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, David X. Cohen
Riffer’s Delight with Kaseem Bentley, Nato Green, Natasha Muse: “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”
RiffTrax Day of the Shorts with Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Bridget Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl, Cole Stratton, Paul F. Tompkins, Janet Varney
Schitt’s Creek: Up Close & Personal
Spotlight on “I’m Sorry” with Andrea Savage
Totally Looped with Joe Liss, Jessica Makinson, Laraine Newman, Oscar Nunez, Rick Overton, Cole Stratton, Vince Waldron
The Bat: Improv in the Dark with Cole Stratton and Janet Varney, and more
The Black Version
Facebook Improv with Owen Burke, Chad Carter, Phil Jackson, Seth Morris, Paul Scheer, Charlie Sanders, and more
The Gale: A Ferociously Queer Night of Improv
The Groundlings: Cookin’ with GAS
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Playhouse Masterpieces with Paul Rust and Neil Campbell
SpontTourCo with Paul F. Tompkins
Super Married with John Ross Bowie and Jamie Denbo
Theme Park Improv with Rachel Dratch, Simon Helberg, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Jessica Makinson, Oscar Nunez, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney, and guest monologist Tony Hale
UCB East vs. UCB West Harold Competition
Upright Citizens Brigade: ASSSSCAT with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and more
Wild Horses with Stephanie Allynne, Mary Holland, Lauren Lapkus & Erin Whitehead
Workjuice Improv with Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Hal Lublin, Marc Evan Jackson, Annie Savage, Paul F. Tompkins, Janet Varney, and guest monologist Busy Philipps
LIVE READS & THEATER
Celebrity Autobiography with Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Rachel Dratch, Michael McKean, Laraine Newman, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, and more
Fake TED Talks with Jonathan Coulton, Jean Grae, Justin McElroy, Sydnee McElroy, Paul & Storm, and Adam Savage
Peaches Christ and Varla Jean Merman in “THE WHINING” A drag parody of the Stephen King classic, The Shining
Selected Shorts: Too Hot For Radio with Hope Davis, John Cameron Mitchell, host Aparna Nancherla, and more
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist, with Tom Lenk
Worst First Chapter with Jonathan Coulton, Jean Grae, Paul & Storm, Laser Malena-Webber, and more
MUSIC & COMEDY
Bring the Rock with Greg Behrendt
Don’t Stop or We’ll Die / The Sloppy Boys
Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm, and “Friends”
Jon Daly Kills It
Matteo Lane: Streisand at the Bon Soir
The Milk Carton Kids & Friends Variety Show
The Red Room Orchestra play the music of “The Big Lebowski”
The Red Room Orchestra play the music of “Twin Peaks” Vol. 2: A deeper dive into the musical world of David Lynch
Skinner Alive with Eliza Skinner and Sam Johnides
PODCASTS & TALK SHOWS
The Bechdel Cast with Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante
Bill Corbett’s Fun House
Bubble with Cristela Alonzo, Alison Becker, Jonathan Coulton, Mike Mitchell, Jordan Morris, Keith Powell, Eliza Skinner, and more
Cool Playlist with Eliza Skinner
Couples Therapy Podcast with Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman
The Daily Zeitgeist
Dead Parents Society with Chris Garcia
Dead Pilots Society with Ben Blacker, Tony Hale, Andrew Reich, and more
Don’t Say… with Paul Greenberg and Dave Foley
Doug Loves Movies with Doug Benson
Doughboys with Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger
Dumb People Town with The Sklar Brothers and Dan Van Kirk
The Greatest Generation
Hound Tall Podcast with Moshe Kasher
improv4humans with Matt Besser
The Jackie and Laurie Show with Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin
Jordan, Jesse, Go! with Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn
Judge John Hodgman
The JV Club with Janet Varney
The Kondabolu Brothers Podcast with Hari and Ashok Kondabolu
Lady to Lady with Barbara Gray, Brandie Posey, and Tess Barker
Maybe It’s You with Amiira Ruotola and Greg Behrendt
Movie Crush with Chuck Bryant
Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo
Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Obsessed with Joseph Scrimshaw
Off Book: The Improvised Musical
Oh No, Ross and Carrie!
Omnibus with John Roderick and Ken Jennings
Pardon My Tangent with Janeane Garofalo and Arden Myrin
Probably Science with Matt Kirshen & Andy Wood
Roderick on the Line with John Roderick and Merlin Mann
Sawbones with Justin & Sydnee McElroy
Stuff You Should Know with Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
Talking Simpsons Podcast
This Might Get Weird with Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart
Totally Hosted with Dave Hill and Sarah Thyre
Voyage to the Stars with Steve Berg, Felicia Day, Colton Dunn, and Janet Varney
We Got This with Mark Gagliardi & Hal Lublin
Weird Laugh with Dannah Phirman
We’re No Doctors with Steve Agee and Busy Philipps
The West Wing Weekly with Joshua Malina and Hrishikesh Hirway
Will You Accept This Rose with Arden Myrin, Paget Brewster, and more
Yo, Is This Racist? with Andrew Ti and Tawny Newsome
The Birthday Boys
Gabriel Gundacker (“Zendaya is Meechie”)
The Groundlings Mix Tape: Best of Sketch
Killing My Lobster
Please Leave The Bronx
STAND UP & VARIETY SHOWS
Alex Edelman: Just For Us
Asian AF with Will Choi
Bad Asians with Imran G, David Nguyen, and more
Best of Edinburgh International Spotlight Series: Alex Edelman, Matt Kirshen, John Hastings, Clara Bijl, Chris Turner, and more
Best of Edinburgh International Spotlight Series: Wil Anderson with Jena Friedman
Best of Edinburgh Spotlight: Natalie Palamides: Nate
Best of Sacramento: JR De Guzman, Kiry Shabazz, and Ngaio Bealum
Brandon Wardell & Friends
Butterboy with Jo Firestone and Aparna Nancherla
Charla Lauriston: Live Album Taping
The Daily Show Writers Stand-Up
Danny Franzese and the House of Glen CoCo
Donde esta mi COMEDY? with Baruch Porras Hernandez
Facial Recognition Comedy: A Desi Woman Stand-up Show
The 420 Show with Matt Besser
Harmon Leon Infiltrates Trump’s America
Joel Kim Booster’s Joy F*ck Club
Joyelle Nicole Johnson / Charla Lauriston / Maggie Maye
Late Late Breakfast
Lizz Winstead / Laurie Kilmartin
Man Haters with Ash Fisher, Irene Tu, and more
Martha Kelly / Mary Lynn Rajskub
Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher: The Endless Honeymoon
Nico Santos from “Crazy Rich Asians”
Reductress Presents Haha...WOW! with Naomi Ekperigin, Jena Friedman, and Sabrina Jalees
Resistance is Fertile with Nicole Calasich, and more
Sasheer Zamata Party Time!
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
The SF Sketchfest Dozen: Emmy Blotnick, Byron Bowers, Nore Davis, Jo Firestone, Caitlin Gill, Zainab Johnson, Dwayne Kennedy, Langston Kerman, Matteo Lane, Jacqueline Novak, Max Silvestri, and Kate Willett
SF Sketchfest Threesome with Alex Koll, Amy Miller, and Clare O’Kane
SF Sketchfest Threesome with Guy Branum, Sean Cullen, and Alice Wetterlund
The Sklar Brothers with Dan Van Kirk
Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour
Vintage Basement with Max & Nicky
Will Durst & Friends: Trump Year Three
Porchlight, a storytelling series with Beth Lisick, Arline Klatte
RISK! with Kevin Allison
The End of the World with Josh Clark, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Humanity
DEBATES & GAME SHOWS
Brew HaHa: The Comedy Drinking Game Show
Iron Comic with Moshe Kasher and Nato Green
Playing Games with Jimmy Pardo
Quiz-o-Tron with Rebecca Watson
Shit Arcade with Mike Drucker
Uptown Showdown Debate: The Future vs. The Past, with Greg Behrendt, Michael Ian Black, Andrea Savage, and more
The Groundlings’ Children’s Show
Reductress Satire Writing Workshop
Storytelling Skills: WOW Your Crowd Workshop with Kevin Allison
Character Workshop with Groundlings Alum, Brian Palermo
How to Improvise Like a Married Couple with Craig & Carla Cackowski
SHOWCASES FOR EMERGING STAND-UP, SKETCH, SOLO, AND IMPROV PERFORMERS
Abhay, Adam Quesnell, Alex Falcone, Alex Price, Alexandria Love, Allison Mick, Alyssa Westerlund, Amy Estes, Amy Miller, Andie Main, Andrew Holmgren, Andrew Michaan, Andrew Orolfo, Andy Rider, Annick Adelle, Anthony K, Arjun Banerjee, The Art Critique Stand Up Show, Arthur Gaus, Atsuko Okatsuka, Aviva Siegel, Back Alley Racket Club, The Ballroom, Barbara Gray, Basement Party, Bear Supply, Becky Braunstein, Ben Harkins, Ben Kolina, Bethany Van Delft, Billy Anderson, Blair Socci, Brian Bahe, Brooke Heinichen, Bryan Babylon, Butch Escobar, Butt, Caitlin Peluffo, CAMDONyes, Caleb Lush, Capital PUNishment, Cardinal Redbird is So LA, Carly Ballerini, Carter Anderson, Chad Opitz, Charles, Chase Brockett, Chris Conatser, Chris Estrada, Chris Gordon, Chris Sandiford, Chris Turner, Claptrap, Clara Bijl, Clare O'Kane, Clay Newman, Clinton Ware, Cobranauts, Comedy Baseball, The Comic Thread, Conor Kellicut, Corina Lucas, Cory Robinson, The Crazy Str8s present: Focus Group Improv, CUCK: A Comedy Show, Dalia Malek, Dammit Carol!, Dan Kapr, Dan Linley, Daniel Humbarger, Danielle Perez, Dauood Naimyar, David Nguyen, David Nihill, David Roth, Day Job, Daytime Talk at Night, The Deadbeat Improv Party, Death Hammer, Deep Night with Dale, Devon Walker, Dewayne Perkins, DJ Real, Dominique Gellin, Donnie Sengstack, Don’t Watch This Show Live, The Doubleclicks, Drew Harmon, Dro Knows, The Drunk Theater Company, Dylan Jenkins, Eddie Della Siepe, The El-Salomons (Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini), Eloisa Bravo, Emily Catalano, Emily Van Dyke, Emma Haney, ESC, The Everything Report, Feel Woods, Femmebot PhD, Fizaa Dosani, Florentina Tanase, The Fork! presented by Little Gem, Francesca Fiorentini, Gabby Poccia, Gary Hughes, The Geek Show, Geneva Rust-Orta, The Get Brown, G.O.A.T.$, Good Hombres, Grace Thomas, Granny Cart Gangstas, Grant Gordon, The Great Difficulties, Hail to the Queen, Hanna Evensen, Hannah Einbinder, Hayden Greif-Neill, Hayley Benham-Archdeacon, Hoodo Hersei, Hope This Helps, Human Amusements, I Think I’d Be Good At That, Imran G, Irene Tu, J.A.D.E., Janesh Rahlan, Jason Mack, Jason Saenz, Jazmyn W., Jennifer Dronsky, Jennifer Jolly, Jesse Hett, Jesus Trejo, Jesus U Bettawork, JoAnn Schinderle, Joe Kwaczala, Joe Nguyen, Joey Avery, John Hastings, Jordan Thewlis, JR De Guzman, JV presents #ThrowbackFriday, Jules Posner, Julia Shiplett, Julie Ash, Kazu Kusano, Keith Lowell Jensen, Kelly McCarron, Kevin Camia, Kevin O'Shea, Kevin Whittinghill, Kid Cactus, Kids These Days, Kiry Shabazz, Krista Fatka, Lady Garden, Land Smith-Abbinante, The Laser Comedy Show, Liss n’ Sams, Living Impaired, Local Honey presents Real Honeys of SF, Luxury Cruise Singles Mixer, Lydia Popovich, Lynn Stein, Man Haters, Maria Wojciechowski, Mark Smalls, Matt LeGrande, Matt Lieb, Merrill Davis, Michael Foulk, Mike Lane: One of the Good Ones, Missed Connections, Mission CTRL, Molly Sanchez, Moon Choe, Naptime, Nasser Khan, Nate Craig, Nate Follen, Neel Nanda, The Next Big Thing with Courtney & Dara, Nicole Calasich, Nicole Conlan, Nick Sahoya, Nipsey, Nori Reed, Normal Show, Opey, Paco Romane, Paige Weldon, Pallavi Gunalan, Paul Conyers, Pedro Gonzalez, Please Leave the Bronx, Princess Party, Priyanka Wali, “Queer and Now” from Martini Ranch, redDoor, Richard Sarvate, Ronn Vigh, Rosebud Baker, Ruby Gill, Ryan Sudhakaran, Salma Zaky, Samantha Gilweit, Sara DeForest, Sara June, Scott Vermeire, Sean, Secret Family, Shanti Charan, Somebody’s Baby, Spanish Aqui Presents, Spunky Moms, Stef Dag, Steve Ausburne, Stuart Thompson, Sup Doc, “Swipe Right” from the Unscripted Theater Company, Sureni Weerasekera, Talkies, Tanael Joachim, The Templeton Philharmonic, Torio Van Grol, Traumatized with Erin and Jason, The Trifecta, Troubled Comedy, Troy Walker, TSTMRKT, Valerie Vernale, Very Famous, Wake Up Wyoming!, Walker Glenn, Wanjiko Eke, The Westside Sketch Co., Wendy Wroblewski, Whitney Chitwood, William Williams, Yogi Paliwal, Your Fucked Up Relationship, Zach Noe Towers, Zahra Ali, and Zorba Jevon Hughes.
2019 PRESENTING SPONSOR
2019 MAJOR SPONSORS
Kimpton Buchanan Hotel, Kimpton Sir Francis Drake Hotel
2019 CHARITABLE PARTNER
2019 OFFICIAL CANNIBIS SPONSOR
2019 OFFICIAL SPONSORS
Calicraft Brewery, Winc, SCHED, Trejure, KIND Snacks, Aquahydrate, Hint Water, Snap Yourself!
Alamo Drafthouse at the New Mission, Brava Theatre and Cabaret, Cafe Du Nord, California Academy of Sciences, Castro Theatre, The Chapel, Cobb’s Comedy Club, Gateway Theatre, Marines’ Memorial Theatre, The Masonic, Mezzanine, The Nourse, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, PianoFight, Punch Line Comedy Club, The Speakeasy, Swedish American Hall.
ABOUT SF SKETCHFEST
SF Sketchfest, co-founded, and directed by David Owen, Cole Stratton, and Janet Varney, produces the eclectic San Francisco Comedy Festival, the longest-running comedy festival in the U.S. SF Sketchfest is an internationally-recognized and critically-acclaimed event that mixes major comedy stars and the best up-and-coming comedians from around the world for over two weeks of sketch, stand-up, alternative comedy, music, improv, films, tributes, live podcasts, workshops, and panel discussions. SF Sketchfest offers its audiences the rare opportunity to see their favorite performers in intimate live performances and discussions.
PAST SF SKETCHFEST
In past years, SF Sketchfest has featured renowned comedy artists such as:
Aziz Ansari, Fred Armisen, Dan Aykroyd, Maria Bamford, Dave Barry, Mike Birbiglia, Jack Black, Rachel Bloom, Julie Brown, Dana Carvey, Margaret Cho, Billy Crystal, Noel Fielding, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Christopher Guest, Eddie Izzard, Monty Python’s Terry Jones, Key & Peele, Robert Klein, Michael McKean, Kate McKinnon, Tig Notaro, Conan O’Brien, Patton Oswalt, Penn & Teller, Amy Poehler, Paul Reubens, Mort Sahl, Amy Schumer, Amy Sedaris, Garry Shandling, Harry Shearer, Robert Townsend, Aisha Tyler, Reggie Watts, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robin Williams, and “Weird Al” Yankovic.
The festival has also hosted film and television stars including:
Alan Arkin, Will Arnett, Candice Bergen, Bruce Campbell, Lizzy Caplan, Dick Cavett, Bud Cort, Ted Danson, Laura Dern, Danny DeVito, Sally Field, Nathan Fillion, Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, Bill Irwin, Ricky Jay, Rashida Jones, Cloris Leachman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Jason Schwartzman, Adam Scott, Jason Segel, and Gene Wilder; ensemble comedy groups: The Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The State, Drunk History, and the Upright Citizens Brigade; reunions of the casts from: Wet Hot American Summer, Animal House, Twin Peaks, and Party Down; musical guests: David Byrne, Bill Frisell, Ben Gibbard, Tenacious D, Aimee Mann, Bob Mould, Rhett Miller, tUnE-yArDs, Nellie McKay, and Robert Glasper, and many more.
More information at sfsketchfest.com
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EMILY HELLER NEW COMEDY ALBUM ‘PASTA’
OUT NOVEMBER 19 ON KILL ROCK STARS
PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW
HEAR UNRELEASED ALBUM TRACK “EXPRESS TRAIN” BELOW
Comedian EMILY HELLER is set to release her new album, PASTA on NOVEMBER 19 on KILL ROCK STARS. A fit follow up to her KRS debut, GOOD FOR HER, Pasta amplifies her singular comedic voice and vision in all the right ways. Recorded live in Portland, Oregon, Emily’s set has the casual, friendly feel of a hang with your best friend, whether that’s at a bar or your couch, anywhere you can share caustic barbs and bitter truths about your life and the weird world you’re surrounded with. Emily is effortlessly and fearlessly funny as she goes over her need for therapy, dealing with slightly invasive personal trainers, kids who deserve to be on leashes, the joys and perils of romantic relationships, and more. It’s the perfect comedic blend of the intensely personal yet instantly relatable.
Hear unreleased Pasta album track “Express Train” here: https://youtu.be/Qnj93soG5B4
Pre-order Pasta here: http://smarturl.it/emilyheller
Emily Heller is an Emmy-nominated writer and comedian who has her own Comedy Central half hour show and has appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conan, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show, Maron, Inside Amy Schumer, @midnight, Chelsea Lately, and as a series regular on the TBS show, Ground Floor. She is a writer for the HBO series, Barry, starring Bill Hader, as well as TV shows for Fox, NBC and TBS. She was named a New Face at Just For Laughs, a Comic to Watch by both Variety and Comedy Central and one of the Funniest Women in Comedy by Marie Claire. Emily is also the co-host of the long-running podcast, Baby Geniuses.
More at: http://emilyheller.tumblr.com/
Kill Rock Stars press page: http://press.killrockstars.com/krs648/
COMEDY DUO FRANGELA DEBUT COMEDY ALBUM RESIST!
OUT TODAY ON KILL ROCK STARS
HEAR NEW ALBUM TRACKS BELOW
Comedy duo FRANGELA release their debut comedy album, RESIST! today on KILL ROCK STARS. RESIST! is an album that’s pointed and hilarious in equal measure and Frangela is everything that political comedy should be in 2018: two women speaking truth to power, stoking the flames of resistance, bringing together likeminded people for a common cause, and wondering why in the hell green bean casserole is a thing. RESIST! was recorded in front of an appropriately raucous audience as Frangela brought a fast-paced, wickedly funny spin through our present day agonies, from politics and protests to healthcare and toga parties. Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton are fired up and want you to be, too!
Currently, Frangela can be seen in their new TV show, “Me Time with Frangela” and heard on their weekly podcast, “The Final Word”. You can also find Frangela as regulars on Stephanie Miller’s Sexy Liberal Radio Show and Sexy Liberal Tour.
Head to ComedyHype to check out an exclusive interview with Frangela and the premiere of album track “Pop Up Protest” at: http://bit.ly/2PJXP2q
Hear RESIST! album tracks:
TOGA PARTIES: https://youtu.be/RVF8Pie_IeI
WELCOME TO NAMBIA: https://youtu.be/ihWkq-o0NY4
Get Frangela RESIST! on all digital platforms: http://smarturl.it/frangela
More at: http://frangela.com/
On Twitter: @frangeladuo
THE WINE COUNTRY SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL, PETALUMA, OCTOBER 19-21
COMEDY, STORYTELLING, POETRY, PANELS, WORKSHOPS & MORE
FEATURING BAY AREA COMEDIAN AND CNN HOST W. KAMAU BELL, ELIZABETH ELLIS, DENICE FROHMAN, BIL LEPP, ZAHRA NOORBAKSH, STEVE CONNELL
ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE
The Wine Country Spoken Word Festival brings a weekend of fun to Petaluma, California on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 19-21 featuring performances by comedians, storytellers and poets – plus panels, workshops, master classes – and more.
Those scheduled to perform include the Bay Area’s own W. Kamau Bell (comedian and Emmy Award-winning host of CNN’s United Shades of America) and Zahra Noorbaksh (comedian, host of Good Muslim/Bad Muslim) plus national acts Elizabeth Ellis (award-winning storyteller), Bil Lepp (5-time Champ West Virginia Liars Competition), Steve Connell (performed for President Obama and the U.N.) and Denice Frohman (Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion). Now in its 2nd year, this is the only festival of its kind as the Gitlit crowd meets PoetrySlam meets The Moth for a weekend of comedy, storytelling, poetry, panels, workshops and more at The Wine Country Spoken Word Festival.
The Mystic Theater in downtown Petaluma hosts performances by the headliners on Friday night with Steve Connell, Bil Lepp and Zahra Noorbaksh, and on Saturday night with W. Kamau Bell, Elizabeth Ellis and Denice Frohman. On Saturday morning and afternoon, The Hotel Petaluma hosts the headliners in intimate events including candid conversations and classes. The festival concludes on Sunday, October 21 when The Storytelling Association hosts panel discussions, workshops, traditional tales for adults, swap/slam sessions, and more.
Festival producers Dave and Juliet Pokorny are proud to host the Wine Country Spoken Word Festival in Petaluma where they have been building the storytelling community over the past decade. They look forward to hosting a celebration of the spoken word to bring together the East Bay, SF, Marin, the North Bay and the Wine Country for a weekend of entertainment and fun in Petaluma.
Advance tickets are on sale now and sold separately for each event allowing festival goers to create their own festival.
Find the full festival schedule here: https://www.davepokornypresents.com/2018-schedule
The Wine Country Spoken Word Festival launched in 2017 and it was one to remember. The festival was scheduled for the weekend after the Tubbs fires began. By the start of the festival (on Friday, October 13th!) the largest wildfire in the history of Sonoma County had put thousands of people out of their homes, but instead of canceling the festival, local organizers Juliet and Dave Pokorny forged ahead.
“We made a decision on that Friday the 13th, that this community needed a place to gather and spoken word artists and storytellers have always been a reason for communities to gather. It is at the core of who we are as people. Without story and personal connection we have lost,” said Dave, co-producer of the event. The Inaugural Wine Country Spoken Word Festival persevered, the Pokornys (and a dozen or so volunteers) pulled it off, over 30 spoken word artists, from all over the country, arrived in the Wine Country, they came to help in the best way they could.
Now in its second year, The Wine Country Spoken Word Festival looks forward to hosting amazing talent for a weekend of stories, comedy, workshops, masterclasses, and panel discussions to bring audiences throughout the East Bay, SF, Marin, the North Bay, and Wine Country together for a weekend of entertainment in Petaluma.
THE WINE COUNTRY SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL
When: Friday, Saturday & Sunday, October 19, 20 & 21
Where: The Mystic Theatre and The Hotel Petaluma
Tickets: Single Tickets available
Prices range from $10-$48
Purchase tickets at: https://bit.ly/2BfV4Ts
Find the full festival schedule and more information at The Festival website: www.davepokornypresents.com/wine-country-spoken-word
Petaluma is a town built on community and stories. It was 2010 when Dave and Juliet Pokorny kicked off the North Bay’s first StorySlam in downtown Petaluma and they have been building that amazing storytelling community ever since. Dave and Juliet are proud to produce the 2nd Inaugural Wine Country Spoken Word Festival to celebrate the art as local storytellers and national and international spoken word artists come to Petaluma to celebrate storytelling. This is the only festival of its kind in the country as the Gitlit crowd meets PoetrySlam meets The Moth at the Wine Country Spoken Word Festival!
“MIND PARASITES LIVE”
ADAM CONOVER, HOST OF TRUTV’S “ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING”,
TO BEGIN NATIONAL TOUR THIS NOVEMBER
Creator, writer and host of the critically-acclaimed series Adam Ruins Everything on truTV, ADAM CONOVER, will embark on a national tour, MIND PARASITES LIVE!, beginning November 28th in Boston. Presented by truTV, the tour will run through January 2019 stopping in 24 major cities around the U.S.
In this original hybrid of stand-up comedy and psychedelic biology class, Adam will reveal the cultural parasites that seek to control your mind and behavior, and explain how you can protect yourself from their influence and achieve intellectual freedom. From advertising to alcohol to algorithms, Adam will change your perspective on free will and American society forever.
Adam Conover is the creator and star of truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, a comedy that dispels common misconceptions and encourages the audience to think critically about the world around them. Adam recurs on the hit Netflix animated series Bojack Horseman. Prior to this, he was a writer and performer for College Humor Originals and co-wrote and starred in the film festival darling The Exquisite Corpse Project.
Tickets for Mind Parasites Live! Tour are available via AMEX pre-sale today 10:00 am local. General on sale is this Friday, October 5 at 10:00 am local available at axs.com. The initial tour schedule is available below.
The Mind Parasites Live! Tour launches in tandem with all-new episodes of the Adam Ruins Everything television series which premieres Tuesday, November 27 at 10:00 pm ET/PT on truTV. In eight (8) new half-hour live-action episodes, the series tackles some of the most ambitious topics in its history including guns, cops, technology and…a plate of nachos. Trust us, you’ll never look at an avocado the same way again.
More at: http://www.adamconover.net/
CAMERON ESPOSITO TO RELEASE ‘RAPE JOKES’
ON SEPTEMBER 28 VIA ASPECIALTHING RECORDS
VINYL AND DIGITAL AVAILABLE
Stand-up comic, actor and writer CAMERON ESPOSITO will release her critically-acclaimed special, ‘RAPE JOKES’ as an album on Friday, September 28 via ASPECIALTHING RECORDS. A personal exploration of the #MeToo movement, Rape Jokes premiered to rave reviews within the first 24 hours. The hour has been praised as “unapologetically hard-hitting, bracingly timely hour” (Vanity Fair), “blistering, masterful, tragic, hilarious” (New York Magazine) and the “first great stand-up set of the #MeToo era” (The Daily Beast).
Rape Jokes will be available digitally and on marbled vinyl for purchase in record stores and on Cameron’s tour. 100% of the proceeds will go to RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. Cameron has raised over $70,000 for RAINN thus far.
The comedian forewent the traditional route of releasing her hour with a studio backing to raise awareness and make an impact in the community. The show was self-financed with the help of friends who donated their time to maximize the proceeds for RAINN. Cameron turned around the final product within a week and released it for free on her own website in June.
PRE-ORDER CAMERON ESPOSITO ‘RAPE JOKES’:
Vinyl available in select record stores and at the live shows. (Go to TOUR page.)
ABOUT CAMERON ESPOSITO:
Cameron Esposito hosts her own stand-up show, ‘Put Your Hands Together’ every Tuesday night at the famed Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. She also hosts her own podcast, QUEERY – featuring hour-long conversations with some of the brightest luminaries in the LGBTQ+ family. Esposito is co-creator and co-star of ‘TAKE MY WIFE’, a television series which has gotten rave reviews from The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vulture and Indiewire and is available now on iTunes and the Starz App / Starz On Demand.
This fall, Esposito is taking her ‘Person of Consequence’ set on tour around the U.S and London.
More at: https://www.cameronesposito.com/.@cameronesposito
ASPECIALTHING RECORDS is a Los Angeles-based independent comedy record label owned and operated by Matt Belknap and Ryan McManemin. Stemming from an online message board, aspecialthing (AST) records has taken a D.I.Y. approach to producing and distributing the finest stand-up comedy albums since 2006. AST is home to Patton Oswalt’s Grammy Award-winning album ‘Talking for Clapping’ as well as outstanding releases from Bob Odenkirk, Paul F. Tompkins, Doug Benson, Greg Proops, Jen Kirkman, Wyatt Cenac, Karen Kilgariff, Kyle Kinane – and many more. AST looks forward to expanding their catalog while continuing their dedication to exceptional emerging and established comics.
JONATHAN PIE PREMIERES NEW COMEDY SHOW IN THE U.S.
‘JONATHAN PIE: BACK TO THE STUDIO’ IN SELECT CITIES THIS FALL
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
JONATHAN PIE, the UK’s angriest news reporter, brings his new live comedy show Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio for its U.S. premiere in select cities this fall.
A frustrated news reporter known for venting in unguarded “off-camera” rants and satirizing the world of politics, entertainment and the media, Jonathan Pie has amassed a huge online following and notably shot to fame in America after his response to the election of Donald Trump racked up over 160 million views worldwide. Pie’s weekly videos regularly achieve millions of views.
The creation of Tom Walker, Jonathan Pie’s newest live show Back to the Studio is already an overseas hit with performances across the UK including Edinburgh and sold out nights at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. Back to the Studio has been praised as “a true tour de force” (Evening Standard) and a “superb blend of well-informed political analysis, hard truths, gratuitous swearing and guilty laughs” (What’s On London). In this show, Jonathan Pie is angrier than ever and his aim is set at the Right, the Left…and everything in between.
“An electrifying performance” – Chortle
“as exquisitely performed as it is written” – The Scotsman
“As with Ricky Gervais’ Humanity, Pie does an excellent job emphasizing the irrelevance of most moral outrage and exposing its fickle nature…a funny and thought-provoking performance” – What’s On London
Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio U.S. promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LilTJ4t2Bs
Twitter: (132K) www.twitter.com/jonathanpienews
Facebook (1.2M followers): www.facebook.com/jonathanpiereporter


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Cheap Key Fob (merged)
I was wondering what my fellow owners thought about the ignition key that comes with the honda. My partner owns a Mercedes CLK and her key has a bit of class to it, even my last car, Citroen C4, the key was a lot more interesting.
Seems a shame that Honda could'nt have spent a few quid more and produced something a bit more snazzy. A folding key fob?
Maybe someone at Honda is looking at this and will do something about it?

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Hannah & Austin
"I absolutely love Natalie Marie and was overwhelmed with excitement and happiness when I saw my ring! My new fiance Austin had chosen NMJ on his own accord (as I wanted to leave it up to him). Great minds must think alike as unbeknownst to Austin, NMJ are my all time favourite jeweller! I love the focus on sustainability, and the ring is more beautiful than I ever could have imagined. I'm so excited to wear it forever." - Hannah

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Dean Lorin Warnick visits College of Veterinary Medicine at City University in Hong Kong
Dr. Lorin Warnick paid a two-day visit to the College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences (CVMLS) of City University (CityU) in Hong Kong last month as part of the strategic and continuous collaboration between CVMLS of CityU and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
According to the CVMLS communications team, the visit aimed at providing Warnick with a timely update on the key development of the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine Program (BVM), as well as ensuring an ongoing discussion between CityU and Cornell.
Warnick had a packed schedule during the two days. The visit itinerary included meetings with the senior management of CityU, engagement activities with PhD and undergraduate students of Department of Biomedical Sciences, as well as facility visits.
Another key part of Warnick’s visit was meeting the BVM offer holders at an information session to demonstrate Cornell’s committed support to BVM.
Below: Warnick meets with PhD and undergraduate students of Department of Biomedical Sciences
Below: Warnick visits the Peace Avenue Veterinary Clinic, the largest veterinary practice in town acquired by CityU

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Director of Vineyard Operations
There have been many events along the way that influenced my passion to be a winegrower. I remember so vividly when I was about four years old and my Greek Grandfather led me out to the barn and took an old tin can, which he filled with some red wine from an old dusty barrel. He offered me a sip and it was good. I tried my hand at milking a goat that day also.
While attending UC Davis in the early 70's, my roommate at the time was an enology student. That seemed so interesting to me as a subject that I soon changed my major study from wildlife biology to plant science. I then started taking as many viticulture and enology classes that I could and eventually received a Bachelor's Degree in Plant Science/Viticulture. My professors were very passionate about grape growing and winemaking, which made this subject all the more exciting and interesting. It was there that I learned that wine is made in the vineyard - it takes good grapes to make good wine. I feel blessed to have been taught by some of the best in the business.
After finishing school I had many jobs including fruit, grain and commodities inspector for the California Department of Food and Agriculture. At that time, I found myself involved and passionate about photography as a hobby, learning as much as I could and I developed a portfolio. My direction eventually changed and I landed a job with the City of Sacramento Recreation and Parks department as a photographer/Publicist for a couple of years and then went out on my own as an editorial photographer. My business grew with many large clients in the Sacramento area.
While working in the photography business, my wife, Angela and I moved to El Dorado County and it was there that my interest in viticulture was re-kindled. We had the space, so I planted a small vineyard that had always been a dream of mine and began making homemade wine. Our little vineyard has produced many awards including gold, double gold, and best of show at various fairs including the California State Fair.
A few years later, I had an opportunity to develop a commercial vineyard in the Clarksburg appellation of the Sacramento River Delta region. There I had the opportunity to meet and to be mentored by some of the top wine growers in the area. This was a great learning experience for me and I am glad to say that the vineyard in Clarksburg is still doing well.
After over 22 years in the photo business, I decided to place all of my attention to winegrowing and agriculture and put the photo business behind me. I went to work for the El Dorado County Ag Commissioner as an Agriculture Biologist and it was there that I had the opportunity to visit and inspect most of the vineyards in the county. At the same time I had the good fortune to meet Nello and Danica Olivo who were interested in planting a vineyard on their property in Cameron Park. There, we developed the vineyard. Great care and planning went into the project, including soil preparation, layout, proper trellising, irrigation, and choosing the right rootstock and varieties for the site. The vineyard was planted in 2002, and with great care, it has come into fruition producing very high quality fruit, which is necessary in making the best wine possible from that site.
I look forward to continue working with the Olivo's as they too share my passion for grape growing and making excellent wine.
I have been blessed all along my journey and one observation that I have made time and time again is that most all grape growers and winemakers are good people. They are almost always eager to share their passion and what they know with anyone who is interested. As a group, it is hard to find a nicer bunch of folks.
It is indeed a pleasure to care for and be a custodian of what the good Lord provides for us.
If you love what you do, then it's not work!
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We're the closest winery to Hwy 50, at the "corner of" Hwys 50 and 49. Start your wine tour here. We have winery maps!
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Rofecoxib (Vioxx) was one of the first selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors (coxibs) to be approved for use in humans. Within five years after its release to the public, Vioxx was withdrawn from the market owing to the adverse cardiovascular effects of the drug. Despite the widespread knowledge of the development and withdrawal of Vioxx, relatively little is known at the molecular level about how the inhibitor binds to COX-2. Vioxx is unique in that the inhibitor contains a methyl sulfone moiety in place of the sulfonamide moiety found in other coxibs such as celecoxib and valdecoxib. Here, new crystallization conditions were identified that allowed the structural determination of human COX-2 in complex with Vioxx and the structure was subsequently determined to 2.7 Å resolution. The crystal structure provides the first atomic level details of the binding of Vioxx to COX-2. As anticipated, Vioxx binds with its methyl sulfone moiety located in the side pocket of the cyclooxygenase channel, providing support for the isoform selectivity of this drug.
Keywords: Vioxx; crystal structure; cyclooxygenase; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; rofecoxib.


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National Governance Association Spotlight on Disadvantage – Survey Launched
February 9, 2018
This week, National Governance Association launched a survey as part of its efforts to improve understanding of the governance role in supporting disadvantaged pupils. The survey is for those governing in schools across England, and asks governors and trustees about the principles underpinning their school’s use of pupil premium funding and their school’s success in helping disadvantaged pupils. The survey takes around fifteen minutes to complete.
There is currently little research on the role of governance in helping disadvantaged pupils. Correcting this will allow the NGA to better support schools that are looking to use their pupil premium effectively.

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The Cure: At the edge of a deep green sea
One of the best bootlegs from this era the sound is really great and the performance also the CD2 was filled with songs from the secret gig in 1991 and the strong point is that all the encores are included as a difference with Show an strange fact is the A forest wasn't played during this concert, anyway M & Tree imaginary boys are really good.
1. Tape, open, high, pictures of you, lullaby, doing the unstuck, just like heaven, apart, a night like this, Wendy time, the walk, let's go to bed, Friday I'm in love, in between days, from the edge of a deep green sea.
2. Fascination street, never enough, cut, end, in your house, m, 3 imaginary boys, boys don't cry, charlotte sometimes, primary, the big hand, 1,2 ,3,4 (cut), a letter to Elise, Wendy time.
Soundboard Recording, Quality 10.
Live at Killburn, National Ballroom, London, U.K 05.03.92.
Tracks 11-14 disc 2 from 17.01.91 T & C II club.


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"The excellent and comprehensive front-page story on the Providence Renaissance by Bill Van Sicen in Sunday's Providence Journal of May 21, 2000, nicely brought together all of the exciting development from the recent past, the present, the planned future and the vision of what the long-term future might be for the capital city's center. And the map, which depicted the location of these 18 development sites, was impressive in the sense that so much of the downtown and nearby areas have been and will be affected by this development. Oh, how different from the recent past."
Smolski, Chester, "Congratulations on City's Renaissance" (2000). Smolski Texts. 271.

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India’s North East region has offered many paradoxes for observers over the years, thus emerging as a major field of research. Professor Udayon Misra has been one of the early commentators on the region making some of the pioneering interventions on various contentious issues. His recent book India’s North East: Identity Movements, State and Civil Society is a voluminous compilation of some of these works around ‘India’s North-East Experience’, ‘an experience made up of grave challenges to the nation-state and compelling the latter not only to take note of happenings here but also to expand its own parameters of the nation-state and ideas of nationalism’ (p. 349). The book is divided into four thematic parts, each containing a series of articles around the given theme with an introduction that provides some contemporary perspective to the articles within each section. Most of the articles having been published at different points of time over the last three decades benefit from these updated accounts.
In ‘Northeast India: Roots of Alienation’ puts the discussion in the context of the fight for ‘the exercise of the Constitutional right of the northeastern indigenous communities to be accepted as Indians on equal grounds, without being “integrated”’ (p. 6) The student protests in recent times by ‘a new generation of tribal youths’ in many Indian metros is cited as resistance to stereotyping as well as demand for a rightful share in the nation-building process as Indian citizens. (pp. 4–5).
In ‘Who “Owns” India? The meaning of “My” in “My Country”’, a central question is asked: ‘Why is that many of us living in different parts of our country are not able to acknowledge, in their heart, that India is theirs unlike the rest of us?’ (p. 74). He places this emotional disconnect in the basic inconsistency between the conception of the modern nation-state and the pervasive reality of the polyethnic or multinational character of the country. Attempts at ‘national integration’ have led to an overriding of ethnic diversities and imposition of a homogenous set of values creating enough resentment in the region manifested in militant secessionist movements. ‘…It would be necessary to redefine the preset commonly held concepts of the Indian Nation and enlarge the parameters to include all those who are still on the periphery’. For Misra this ‘redefinition’ has to be forged at the level of grassroots social movements ‘aimed at restoring value based politics’ movements that will do away with the situation of ‘“two Indias”—one with access to resources, power and privileges, and the other totally left out’ ‘Course and Character of the Naga Struggle’ is a detailed account of the movement for Nagalim, ‘amongst the earliest challenges to the Indian nation-state but also the longest surviving ethnic armed struggle in the subcontinent.’ Spread over six sections, the chapter provides a rich account of the various phases as well as the emerging contradictions of the movement, where ‘behind the veneer of Naga nationalism there has emerged a deeply divided society where loyalty to one’s tribe quite often supersedes everything else.’
The essay ‘Immigration and Identity Transformation in Assam’ is a fascinating account of the historical narrative in the evolution of the category ‘Assamese’ and the demographic changes that the author considers as having the potential to alter ‘the overall composition and cultural content of the Assamese population’ as it will work towards an increasing inclusion of Muslim immigrants, the tea-tribes and the Nepalese while alienation of the plains tribes from the Assamese speaking caste Hindu population will be almost complete. However, Assam’s socio-political discourse has witnessed the emergence of a particular notion of ‘indigenousness’ which has brought together the ‘plain tirbals’ and ‘Assamese Hindus’ on a common plank built on a renewed emphasis on a sense of a shared past especially in the context of perceived threat of growing influx of the ‘Bangladeshi Muslims’. This new equation thereby seems to have downplayed, for the time being, the importance of shared linguistic identity as a marker of political commonality. Besides, even if one does agree that the issue of ‘continuing influx of Bangladeshis’ has become an ‘established’ part of Assamese national imagination, resulting in an identity politics based on a sense of loss and fear, one needs to remember that academic discourse too is a crucial source to the cultural production of imagination. A deeper engagement with the many contestations on the extent of the ‘Bangladeshi threat’ to Assamese identity would have added weight to the author’s otherwise cogent thesis.
Other sections in the book focus on the discourse of militant Assamese nationalism embodied in the doctrines of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), where it begins it’s descent in popular Assamese imagination with the killing of civilians and subsequent arrest of top leadership leading to negotiation between the Government of India and sections of the militant organization.
The section on the Bodo identity movement considers the many complex causes behind the ‘Bodo stir’ that had once raised the call to divide Assam fifty-fifty. Seen as a ‘burden of history’ the imbroglio of Bodoland is contextualized in the unfolding of history, ‘since the 1930s’, when ‘the issues of land, immigration, demographic change, and identity have been core ones in this region.’ ‘Adivasi Question’ in Assam brings into focus this otherwise underfocused element in the identity discourse in Assam, that has assumed its own problematics regarding its situation in this discourse.
The final chapter on ‘State and Civil Society in Northeast India’ places the issue of growing marginalization and ineffectiveness of civil society in conflict situations in its partisanship to populist agendas. There are commentaries that also point out the ‘impunity and indifference with which the security forces continue to violate human rights in areas under draconian laws like the Armed Forces Act.’ In the last section ‘Representative Democracy and Traditional Institutions’, a case is made for reassessment of India’s federal experience in the light of the North East experience, a possibility often curbed with overemphasis on the violence. He ends with a note of concern, ‘it remains to be seen how the modern democratic process will maintain balance between the contrasting pulls of representative democracy and traditional structures of power…’ (p. 356).
The essays in the collection focus only on the two major models of ethno-nationalist struggles in the North East—that of the Nagas and the Assamese, ‘because these two struggles present, in many senses, the two ends of the pole as far as the Indian nationstate is concerned.’ The more this ‘construct’ of North East India becomes a ‘brand’ with a niche market, the more the definitional contours of it will come under scrutiny. Misra himself has been cognizant of the term becoming ‘an umbrella connotation which tends to wipe off its immense diversity of history, culture and politics’ (pp. 7–8). Perhaps some ‘exclusion’ becomes unavoidable when one is trying to deal with a region as diverse and multilayered as India’s North East. Some explanation in the preface/introduction of the work would go a long way towards clearing much of the confusion or possible perception of oversimplification in this regard.
Many of these essays appeared first as a kind of running commentary to events of momentous importance in the region’s social history. As testimonies to the evolving narrative of social change in the region with an appeal that ‘the perception of India as a country must be broadened to include those nationalities which have been at the periphery, culturally, politically, and economically’ (p. 83). Often the author ends an essay with some musings and bit of exploratory social forecast. On a few counts subsequent unfolding of events have proved these otherwise. But Misra’s writings pioneer the brave practice of the act of falsifying the ‘accepted’ truths in a region of multiple truths, and specially where truth is often the first casualty of a bullet fired from different camps.
Kaustubh Deka is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi.

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[PODCAST] EU Open Rundown 05.06.18
- Asian equity markets traded slightly indecisive after the momentum somewhat petered out from Wall St.
- RBA kept rates unchanged as expected and reiterated its prior statements which continued to suggest a prolonged pause by the central bank
- UK PM May reportedly abandoned plans to present UK-EU blueprint before this month's summit in Brussels and will now postpone its release to after the summit
- Looking ahead, highlights include EZ, UK and US services PMI, US ISM non-manufacturing, APIs, BoE’s Cunliffe and ECB’s Weidmann
Asian equity markets traded slightly indecisive after the momentum somewhat petered out from Wall St, where all majors extended on gains and the Nasdaq Comp. posted a record close. ASX 200 (-0.3%) was negative with the index weighed by the energy sector after oil prices briefly slipped to below USD 65.00/bbl and with Retail Food Group the worst performer in the index after it flagged a statutory net loss due to termination payments. Elsewhere, Nikkei 225 (+0.2%) remained afloat following the recent currency weakness, while Shanghai Comp. (+0.2%) and Hang Seng (+0.2%) were choppy as participants mulled over a mild liquidity drain as well as inconclusive Chinese Caixin Services and Composite PMI data which were unchanged from the prior month. Finally, 10yr JGBs were flat amid similar quiet trade in T-notes and the indecisiveness in the region, while the10yr JGB auction failed to provide a catalyst as the results were mixed which added to the sombre tone.
Chinese Caixin Services PMI (May) 52.9 vs. Exp. 52.9 (Prev. 52.9). (Newswires)
Chinese Caixin Composite PMI (May) 52.3 (Prev. 52.3)
PBoC injected CNY 70bln via 7-day and CNY 50bln via 28-day reverse repos, for a net daily drain of CNY 30bln. (Newswires)
PBoC set CNY mid-point at 6.4157 (Prev. 6.4208)
BoE’s Tenreyro (Neutral) said a few rate increases are needed and that timing is an open question, while she expects gradual tightening of monetary policy will be needed over the next three years. Furthermore, Tenreyro added that future policy changes can act as substitutes for immediate change and that weakness in UK economy in Q1 likely to be erratic but does raise the possibility of some underlying subdued demand. (Newswires)
UK PM May reportedly abandoned plans to present UK-EU blueprint before this month's summit in Brussels and will now postpone its release to after the summit. (FT) Elsewhere, there were separate source reports which stated UK PM May and ministers was said to have told business leaders a decision on the preferred customs option post-Brexit was 'imminent'. (Newswires) Business executives have warned UK PM May that clarity is needed on the government’s post-Brexit plans to help them prepare their companies after UK departs from the EU. Leading firms including Tesco (TSCO LN), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK LN) and BAE Systems (BA/ LN) said more information was needed on issues such as customs arrangements. (The Guardian)
UK PM May has a week to forge a compromise with Conservative party backbenchers that are threatening to defeat the government on post-Brexit customs arrangement legislation which are to be voted on next Tuesday. (The Times) There were also separate reports that UK PM May is under fire regarding attempts to overturn all 15 House of Lords defeats of the EU withdrawal bill in a single day when the bill returns to the House of Commons next week. (Independent)
UK Trade Minister Liam Fox said the response to US steel and aluminium tariffs must be measured and that the UK is to take safeguard measures to prevent steel dumping on the UK, which could be in place by the middle of July. (Newswires)
UK BRC Retail Sales YY (May) 2.80% (Prev. -4.20%). (Newswires)
Most major pairs have been range-bound overnight and the DXY flat around the 94.00 level. As such, EUR/USD and GBP/USD traded sideways in which the latter languished in proximity to retest the prior day’s lows around the 1.3300 level. This was amid the usual Brexit-related toing and froing, as the latest reports stated that PM May scrapped plans to present the UK-EU blueprint before this month's summit in Brussels and is also said to be under fire over attempts to overturn all 15 House of Lords defeats of the EU withdrawal bill next Tuesday. Elsewhere, antipodeans have held on to most of the prior day’s gains although AUD/USD is off best levels following a miss on Current Account and Net Exports of GDP data, as well as an unsurprising RBA rate decision in which the central bank kept rates unchanged as expected and reiterated its prior statements which continued to suggest a prolonged pause by the central bank.
RBA kept the Cash Rate unchanged at 1.50% as expected and reiterated that low level of rates continues to support the economy and that the board judged policy is consistent with sustainable economic growth and reaching the inflation target. Furthermore, the RBA also repeated that inflation and wage growth likely to remain low for a while and that a strengthening currency would result in slower pick up of growth and inflation.
Australian Current Account Balance (Q1) -10.50B vs. Exp. -9.95B (Prev. -14.00B, Rev. -14.70B). (Newswires)
Australian Net Exports Contribution (Q1) 0.30% vs. Exp. 0.50% (Prev. -0.50%)
Commodities were mixed overnight in which WTI crude futures nursed the prior day’s losses in which prices briefly slipped to below USD 65.00/bbl in a continued pullback from multi year highs, while participants now await the latest stockpile counts with API inventories due after-hours later. Elsewhere, gold was flat amid an uneventful greenback and copper saw mild profit taking alongside a predominantly indecisive overnight risk tone.
US partially eased sanctions against Deripaska's EN+ Group. (FT)
Iran nuclear official Kamalvandi said Tehran will inform the UN atomic agency regarding beginning of capacity increase for uranium gas production. (Newswires)
Treasuries were lower on Monday as political turmoil settled in Europe following last week’s events in Italy and Spain. Yields were higher but off their multi-year peaks as trade fear remains in investors’ minds. Volume in the complex was average in a quiet session; the yield curve saw some modest bear flattening with 2yr and 5yr yields higher by c.4bps and 30yr higher by c.3bps, but major spreads across the curve were pretty much unchanged at settlement. US 10yr T-notes futures (Sep 2018) settled 11 ticks lower at 119-26+.
Mexico is to impose a 20% tariff on pork legs and shoulder from US as part of its retaliation to US metal tariffs, while there were earlier reports that Mexico will start a dispute settlement process at the WTO regarding US tariffs on steel and aluminium. (Newswires)
US Special Counsel Mueller alleged that former Trump campaign manager Manafort attempted to tamper with a potential witness. (Newswires)

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Shimadzu SPD-M10A VP Diode Array Detector DAD HPLC Chromatography
Shimadzu SPD-M10A VP Diode Array Detector DAD
This unit was pulled from a working environment and appears to be in good used shape.
Unit was tested to power on and go green.
Cat No 228-40800-38
Serial Number C20903970608US
Volts 115~ Hz 50/60
- Light source: Deuterium lamp
- Wavelength Range: 190 ~ 600 nm
- Spectral bandwidth: 8 nm
- Wavelength accuracy: 1 nm
- Wavelength reproducibility: ± 0.1 nm
- Cell path length: 10 nm
- Cell volume: 8ul
- Cell pressure tolerance: 12MPa
- Measurement wavelength: Selectable, two wavelengths in 190- 370 nm or 371-600 nm
- Sampling frequency: 1.2 sec for one wavelength
- Response: Selectable in 10 steps corresponding to time constant 0.05, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0 seconds
- Range: Can be set between 0.0001 and 2.56 AUFS in 0.0001 AUFS steps
- Zero Adjustment: Auto zero function, baseline shift function
- Wavelength scanning function: Performs wavelength scanning with flow stopped. Data stored in three files, one of which stores background. Background is subtracted from sample scans. File data is not saved up (lost when power is turned OFF).
- Time Program: Available in detector or by system controller
- Set Items: Wavelength ( including dual wavelengths), auto zero, range, marker, response, wavelength scanning, event, polarity, lamp ON/OFF, loop
- Number of Steps: Maximum 32 steps
- Output for Recorder: 10 mV
- Output for Integrator: 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 1.25, 2.5 AU/V in 6 steps
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interview by Harry Savides
(continuation of part one)
Are there any direct comparisons between the Brexit referendum and Greek referendum of 2015?
I am not sure there is easy direct comparison, but I suppose one is the difficulty of the question. In 2015 you had this amazingly complicated question on the basis of a deal that the EU redundantly said no longer exists. So there is a sense of voting to a fictitious question. Similarly for us now. In the UK we have no precedence, no prior history of a referendum which is not just a binary choice, yes or no. We have no history like Switzerland of setting two questions or conditional questions. So that is why for the moment, for example Jeremy Corbin is suggesting that there might be a referendum between a specific deal and remain. So with referendums I think we are reluctant and also concerned about the difficulties of setting them clear – what is the meaning of the question.
Are there any other parallels between the UK-EU and the Greece-EU rows?
I think there are also many parallels with the Greek case in terms of the campaign. Athens and London have misjudged Berlin, believing it would become more flexible on the last minute – that they will back down. Johnson used these words. He said something very-very similar to Alexis Tsipras, talking about backing down. That was definitely the establishment of the Brexiters in 2016: “Don’t believe what they are saying now. At the last minute they will back down”. Well they did not. Perhaps they both received dubious messages. Athens in 2015, London from 2016 have basically misunderstood the game. Feeling it is a game of chicken and you just have to wait until the 11:00 hour, plus, plus… and they will back down. So Athens and London separately believe that they were playing a certain game, which is fine. But that was not the game that Brussels, Berlin and Paris were playing at the same time.
Moreover, both Varoufakis and successive governments in London since 2016 have assumed that they will be able to create some kind of counter-coalition in the EU. So after 2016 the argument was that we will actually divide and rule, given that the British Empire was built on this. Again, both have found that the game is different, precisely because the EU is very rule based organization. It is not a question of individual political leadership interpretation. For one thing there is not one person for whom the gun being put to the head – it is 27 and then you add the institutions. It is very-very much a rule based organization. We must maintain the rules of the single market, in the British case or the Euro currency regime, in the Greek case: a highly path dependent system – legalistic. Michel Barnier clearly epitomizes that it is a wonderful Cartesian French logic of rules, rules, rules, with a clear mandate from the 27. And that conflicted with a cultural perspective in London, which was based on the idea that this would just be a pragmatic issue, that it would be the two of us across the table, looking an eye to eye and find some kind of compromise midway. It was not a Mexican standoff because the other side has 27 mandates to a single, so London is not negotiating with 27 plus the other institutions - it is a single mandate, emphasizing the integrity of the single market or previously of the euro, with Greece. We both had the misperception that we could create alternative coalitions and we utterly failed. The EU in both cases has remained remarkable united.
Does Brexit has any effect on British institutions?
The biggest long-term question is about the repercussions off all these on the British institutions. Since 2016 many of the established assumptions about British institutions have just been contradicted. We had the newspaper headlines about judges being the enemies of the people. McCarthy would have been very comfortable with that. Secondly, we had parliament being suspended, with a narrative that somehow parliament was not doing its job – in a way parliament was the enemy of the people, fighting the popular will. And a third aspect has been in terms of the government machine: the assumption about the high quality, well-coordinated, expert, pragmatic public administration of Whitehall. Well, we now have very senior people saying that, for the first time in living memory, there are major dilemmas of loyalty. If you are a senior civil servant in the British government then there is a kind of conflicting loyalties you are serving. We don’t actually have a notion of a public servant serving the national interest – they are there to serve the Prime Minister. And of course the suspension of parliament also brought the Queen into a more sensitive political territory.
All those controversies will not be forgotten, when the Brexit procedure will be over?
These things have occurred in such a significant fashion that I do not thing they will just disappear in a short term. Even if Johnson wins in the election and gets his Brexit deal, then there are those close to him, like Cummings, who argues that the British tradition about the public administration should be overturned and we should have more political appointments, like Athens and Washington.
I guess preBrexit we had a long term decline of the Westminster model and also of public trust in the institutions. So we have had a scandal about the press and problems of privacy with the press, we have had the scandals with corrupt financial payments to members of parliament, the royal family it has been through so many scandals it is impossible to remember. Now with the Brexit and judges being the enemy of the people and parliament against the people. There is a preBrexit story which is continuing to the present, of declining public trust. And of course part of that was also a lack of trust in experts. There was a wonderful phrase in the campaign that we have had enough from experts, so we don’t want to listen to experts any more. Many of the traditional assumptions have just been shaken to the foundation.
No let’s assume that in 2020 there is a Brexit deal, some kind of result. Many of these things will continue within the system for some years: experts not trusted, parliament, the judiciary, the queen as someone who may be manipulated for political reasons. These things are here to stay for at least the medium term. They are setting the stage for the elevation of a populist leader.
Could this blow on trust to institutions prove beneficial, forcing them to evolve? For example, could it be now stronger the case for a written constitution?
There are some people who think, precisely as you say, we must go to a written constitution but there's very little political support for that. For generations in the UK we've assumed that we have a checks and balances system based on informality and now we realize actually we don’t. We can’t easily facilitate a populist or radical Prime Minister. The checks and balances aren’t really very strong. I think it will take a very-very long time for the system to be restored or to change. In other words I think to the next decade we will be in a situation where our system institutions will remain very vulnerable to political manipulation, trust will be low. Even if Johnson was to be defeated the cause of the Boris remains.
How long will it take to tell whether Brexit was a good idea, at least on economic terms?
I think unfortunately with these things we have such passionate emotional positions but we don't have a simple causality. So both sides will be able to claim but even if we come out with Johnson hard Brexit and it leads to negative economic impact, unfortunately I am sure they have already planned, to make arguments to say that what went before undermined our strategy etc.
It is rather like the economic situation at the moment. The central predictions of the economic hits of Brexit made in 2016 in the referendum have been proved to be direct. OK there is a spread of projections, but if you take the average, and indeed the BoE projections, then our loss of output has been very consistent with the graph line predicted by the Bank in 2016. But it's also the case that our growth rate is not so different from that of Germany or France, the Eurozone is not doing so good, the bigger economies, and so we can't have the wonderful clean simple social science experiment. People on both sides of the argument can make the story more complicated and say “yes, but if this have happened we could have had the pure Brexit” and we could have had the typical salvation that Brexiters promise.
However, there's a huge irony that the UK is seeking Brexit so that it can trade freely with the rest of the world, when the rest of the world is shifting from multilateralism to regional blocks and trump-like protection etc. So it's a bit we are leaving 10 years previously, assuming that multilateralism is that force to benefit from.
Is Washington a motivating force for Brexit?
The strongest supporters of Brexit are as we would describe Atlantisists and some of those are pro-Trump, Farage, probably Johnson. Putting Trump aside, it will play well with British public opinion, to be seen to be closer to Washington than Paris or Berlin - that is still a historically correct. Trump, just as in Greece or other European countries, is seen as an idiot – a jester. So for example Trump made a comment to on the British election the other day – this is not helpful to Johnson.
But again Trump saying that you get a true Brexit we will give you a big-big trade deal, that's highly consistent with the Brexit argument and people like it. Some of those who vote for Trump, say yes if we had Trump we would have had a better Brexit deal. Perhaps the two governments are talking about this behind the scenes, but actually until the article 50 process is finished legally we're not allowed to talk to other countries.
Even from the US point of view, Trump can offer anything he likes, but it in Congress, who decides on trade deals, there is Nancy Pelosi. And if you are talking about tough negotiators I think Nancy Pelosi will be no.1 or in the top-3. So she has made it very clear that Congress Democrat controlled House of Representatives, would not been agree with any trade deal, as part of any package, which damaged the Irish Republican cause. And also let us see whether Trump will be reelected. Who believes that a new trade deal can be negotiated before Trump is history.
So I think to suggest it seems a motivating force is a bit difficult to be sure about. I think to say there is a strong overlap between those that are pro-Brexit and the general values of Atlantisism is correct. And those who are pro-Brexit would like the idea that Trump offered a big, open, deregulated trade deal. So there are many correlations, but to say that it was an original argument for Brexit I think it is more complicated than that.
Lastly, when Obama made a comment before the referendum, to say that Brexit would be a strategic mistake, domestic opinion was already so strong, that the Press was able to rubbish Obama. So the American factor, even when it was deployed in favor of remain, didn't work.
What is your prediction for the coming election?
What is defeat for Johnson In the coming election? Is that he finishes with something like Teresa May results, with no majority. Although in terms of long term electoral trends that would be a relatively stable sort of outcome, it will be interpreted as a major defeat for him. Even if the Conservatives come first with no relative majority or a majority of say five, Johnson will be in a very-very difficult position.
For Labor victory is precisely the Conservatives not having a majority and I think this can happen. I think we have one of the more unpredictable elections here for a number of reasons. One that’s part of the Conservative strategy rests on being able to win normally Labor areas that voted for Brexit and I think they are probably misjudging the tribal loyalty to the Labor Party and the toxic idea of a labor voter voting for the Conservatives and especially for Johnson. So I think they could be wrong with that. Secondly, Liberals will pick up some seats from strongly remain areas. So I think it is very unpredictable. We were just discussing at lunch I think the most likely outcome was within the range of no party having an overall majority and the Conservatives having a majority of say less than 20, which in our system is small – if you have 650 seats. And I think the other aspect of the unpredictability is that, not for the first time, we have an election where it is assumed it's going to be on one issue. Well it will not be. Life will be more complicated.

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Worcester Music Festival Showcase at Worcester's Hive
I'm a big fan of Worcester Music Festival - which has only been going for four years now, but has been highly rated amongst the best of the national free and metropolitan festivals going. It attracted more than 12,000 visitors last year and I reckon that this year looks sure to better that - as it's been moved back to its August Bank Holiday spot - with an extra day added for good measure.
The first major promotion for this year's event took place at the incredible and controversial 'Golden Temple of Worcester' that is The Hive, close to the riverfront. It's the first time I've been into this amazing building - which opens officially in July as the library of Worcester University and the home of the county archives and I have to say it is absolutely stunning.
The Worcester Music Festival team had lined up a great selection of acts of all genres during the day to showcase this year's event, but I was especially taken with a long-overdue performance of solo-looping breathless math-rock from Sam Knight AKA Theo. I do wish he'd take a break every ten minutes or so to let the audience show their appreciation for his amazing efforts!
Much kudos to Hitchhiker, Hennesea and The Bitter Roots for braving the bitter wind on the day as they they welcomed visitors on the outside performance area - I really felt for all these guys but they did a fantastic job.
It's about once in a lifetime that you'll get the opportunity to play extremely loud and raucous rock music in a library and of course Chris and Katy of Das Sexy Clap took full advantage of this never-to-be-repeated offer, with a very tasteful selection of numbers like Push It In Break It Off and Put It Out Yeah from their tastelessly unmentionable new album - hmmmm I like that!
There were lots of fringe events at this bash like workshops from the incredible Ed Steelfox and the Worcester School of Rock and Performance which really added to the atmosphere of the day. The evening rounded off with a sublime mix of gypsy jazz, Klezmer and East European rock-folk mayhem from Johnny Kowalski & The Sexy Weirdos - who I've been waiting ages to see - and didn't disappoint in the slightest.
But I've got to say that the highlight for me on the day was the Demo Derby workshop forum featuring Scott Garrett of MAS Records, Muff Murfin and Russ and Danny of Cantaloop. This pretty much un-trumpeted sideshow was a chance for newby musicians to get their compositions commented and suggested on by some industry individuals who don't half know what they're talking about.
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Ronco Scrivia (GE, Italy), June 20th, 2023 – Racing Force S.p.A. (the “Company”), parent company of Racing Force Group (the “Group”), specialized in the development, production and marketing of safety components for motorsport worldwide, listed on the Euronext Growth segment in Milan (RFG) and Paris (ALRFG), announces that the Company’s Board of Directors has resolved to approve the 2022 sustainability report (the “Report”).
The Report, prepared following the guidelines of the “Global Reporting Initiative” (GRI), describes the Group’s approach to environmental and social sustainability issues, illustrating the main activities relating to the year 2022.
The Sustainability Report is a document drawn up on a voluntary basis, which testifies to the Group’s commitment and transparency towards the issues of sustainability and social responsibility and especially towards people, partners, customers and suppliers, the community in which work and the environment.
The Report is part of a series of initiatives undertaken in 2022, including the adoption of the Group’s code of ethics and the implementation by the Company of an organization, management and control model pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001.
In this perspective, the current investment plan, which involves the main operating offices of the Group, is inspired by sustainability criteria, which will make it possible to reduce the environmental impact of the Group’s activities and, at the same time, achieve improvements in terms of energy efficiency.

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Carrying on my series of posts around Azure Sentinel, I wanted to see if I could use it to process logs from a honeypot and produce useful information. Eventually this could be extended to provide additional context to alerts and even train ML models within Sentinel.
Having played with honeypots a little in the past, I wanted to use something quick and easy to set up; since I wanted to analyze high-level data at scale rather than digging into specific attacks, there was no need for a high-interaction honeypot. HoneyDB seemed to meet these requirements so I went ahead and installed it on a new EC2 instance running Amazon Linux
I won't go into details of installing the honeypot agent since there's adequate documentation for that. Once it's installed it requires little to no coniguration to get started, I added my HoneyDB API keys, enabled local logging, disabled some services that I wasn't so interested in, added an allow any/any rule on the security group and watched the logs start to roll in
In order to catch specific exploits and attacks I wanted something that would analyze the network traffic in greater detail so I installed Suricata and added the Emerging Threats Open rules.
Now that I had JSON logs from the honeypot-agent and from Suricata I installed the Microsoft OMS agent and created a couple of custom file definitions in the Log Analytics dashboard. Since Log Analytics doesn't parse files on ingest it's possible to use a wildcard for the honeypot logs even though each service contains different fields. We can parse these differently when we come to query them.
Log Analytics contains a handy
parse_json() function which takes the RawData field and turns it into a dynamic field
evaluate bag_unpack() can turn this into separate columns so we don't need to write any of the parsing logic manually.
To start with I wrote a couple of simple queriesto parse the JSON logs and saved them as functions so that I could reuse them later.
| extend logdata=parse_json(RawData)
| evaluate bag_unpack(logdata)
| project-away RawData
Then I used these functions in an Azure Workbook to produce a nice dashboard with a parameter for adjusting the time-scale that's being inspected.
For some services, the honeypot records more data such as login attempts, this is recoded as a hexadecimal string. Frustratingly KQL doesn't provide a function to convert hex to ascii at the moment, one option would be to do some pre-processing on the server before sending the logs but in this case I used Azure's Jupyter notebooks to do the analysis
The first cell in the notebook loads the KQL extension that will allow us to directly query the logs, It then connects to the Log Analytics Workspace using an interactive login prompt and tests the connection by grabbing a single record from our honeypot function.
I then wrote a quick function that attempts to convert the hex to ascii and applied it to the dataframe containing the results which added a new column with the decoded data. The output then shows records where the decoding has succeeded and the HTTP or SSH data is returned. As more data is collected this will allow for analysis of common credentials and potentially linking addresses to specific botnets/malware.
Intelligence gathered from this data could also be used to take action, addresses that have been seen hitting a honeypot address repeatedly could be blocked on a firewall using an Azure Logic App or additional verification could be requested in an application such as a Captcha.


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GST Representation and AAR Ruling under GST
GST started almost a year ago. There are a lot of grey areas in the law and procedures. The Law shall evolve years to come. In the process of evolution, there shall be a lot of issues wherein there will be a need to face the authorities, show cause notices, GST assessments, disputes, litigation matters, etc.
There can be basic matters like application and follow-up for “letter of undertaking (LUT)” for exports without payment of tax. Even the matters like claims of refunds may call for advice and follow-up with the department on the matter.
Handling Issues With GST Department
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While the in-house team takes care of the business requirements and maintenance of statutorily needed records, there must be a specialized team who can act on behalf of the company to represent the connected government department. This can help minimize the impacts of the illegitimate tax burden, interests, penalties on the company.
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The specialized representation team comes to the rescue in an important situation. APMH has a team that just works on the department facing matters of the clients. The members of this team are trained regularly with the changes in the GST law and possible answers to the litigations around the same. The team has a good amount of understanding on the way the department pursues a tax situation and how shall that be best lawfully tackled. Team is also well equipped with the knowledge and infrastructure to work with technology-based representation which is going to be the prime way for dealing with GST litigations in the current era.
• Representation to the government
• Assist in drafting representations
• Liaising with trade associations and the Ministry of Finance for representation
• Application and follow up for “letter of undertaking (LUT)” for exports


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Pensions Law in Plain English sets out in a simple and approachable way the law governing occupational and personal pensions.;The book follows the sequence of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 taking in the Regulations and relevant case law along the way. It is practical, designed to speed the decision-making process and is certain to provide a welcome alternative to more turgid accounts of the law.