WESTERN CANADA LEADERSHIP ACCELERATOR Brief
In approximately 150 days, PowHERhouse will host the Western Canada Leadership Accelerator in Regina, September 25-27, 2019.
Like any other purpose-driven project, initiative or campaign we undertake, we first must answer the question: For what purpose?
The answer to that question is in our communications brief below which provides context for our upcoming event to ensure it is communicated impactfully to those leaders most ready to engage and participate.
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accelerate / (ækˈsɛləˌreɪt) /
✅ to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement.
✅ to hasten the occurrence of.
✅ to reduce the time required by intensifying the work, eliminating detail, etc.
Let's take a look at the current landscape leading up to our Accelerator:
The New Green Deal (US) and creating one of our own (Canada) | Are we ready to change what needs to change most in order to shift our planet's trajectory within the next decade? Do we even know what that looks like? If we don't, can we do the creative work of dreaming up that future? Do we have a game-plan? Are we in a position of influence to move that plan into action?
Upcoming federal election | The 2019 Canadian Federal Election is scheduled to take place on October 21, 2019, not even a month after our conference. Interesting timing. Are we engaged in the process? Will we vote? Who are the leaders ready to lead our country forward throughout the next four years? How do we intend to help move them forward?
Hottest summer on record | It is predicted that we will experience the hottest year in human history. If 'climate change is the symptom, not the problem', then what is the problem? Can we articulate it? Do we have a game-plan to change the problem at its ROOT within a 10-year timeline? What does that look like?
World Strike Day | Swedish climate activist and role model for worldwide student activism, Greta Thunberg says, "There is no greater way to capture the attention of the public, and the powers that be, than a general labour strike." A global general strike has been announced for Friday, September 27, the final day of our Accelerator. Again, interesting timing.
Youth Leaders are taking action | Whether its Greta Thunberg (above), the Extinction Rebellion in London, or teen chief water commissioner in Northeastern Ontario for the protection of the Great Lakes, Autumn Peltier, there's no doubt about it: Youth leaders are taking action! How are we supporting these emerging leaders and encouraging others to do the same? What do they need from us? What do they require access to, to create their world-class impact?
Women Leaders + Gender Equality | For all of the 'noise' around this topic over the past number of years, the action + traction aren't lining up. We appear to be sliding back a couple of steps for everyone we take forward. In order to get where we need to go over the next decade, every leader needs to be seen, heard, valued and respected. It's no longer a gender issue, it's a survival issue.
Growing Business and a Stable Economy | In March 2019, Statistics Canada released results from the 2017 Canadian Income Survey, which revealed that the Poverty Reduction Strategy's interim target of reducing poverty by 20 per cent by 2020 had already been reached—a full three years ahead of schedule. By meeting this target, Canada has reached its lowest poverty rate in history. That is great news! As we build our stability as entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals, we influence the stability in the families of our communities, stress lowers and lives improve. However, our focus on business growth cannot be isolated but rather explored as a vital part of a much larger conversation. How do we fully leverage who we are as business leaders to affect the type of change needed most in our nation and across international borders?
Health & Wellness | In a country fairly fixated on working out, ideal weight and 'perfect' appearance, our quest for personal happiness, fulfilment and contentment continue to fall short. According to University of Toronto researchers, the total number of prescriptions for antidepressants in Canada jumped to 14.5 million a year from 3.2 million analyzed prescription habits between 1981 and 2000. This 353-per-cent increase occurred while the Canadian population increased 1 per cent annually. The total amount of money spent yearly on antidepressant drugs grew to $543.4-million in 2000 from $31.4-million in 1981.* Where do we need to get to, to create whole, happy and healthy leaders, families and communities?
✅ Powerful Policy Guides Our Decision-Making | The following are a few of the policies enacted in the past few years:
Canada's 2016 commitment at the United Nations to the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples.
Budget 2018's Gender Results Framework
"Feminist International Assistance Policy In 2017, Canada launched the Feminist International Assistance Policy, which refocuses Canada's development, humanitarian, and peace and security assistance on helping the poorest and most vulnerable and supporting fragile states. The policy seeks to eradicate poverty and build a more peaceful, more inclusive and more prosperous world. The Government of Canada firmly believes that promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is the most effective approach to achieving this goal. That is why Canada will ensure that 95% of its bilateral international development assistance will advance gender equality by 2021-2022."
Canada's response to Syrian refugees - Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative – Looking to the Future. In response to the Syrian refugee crisis, Canada resettled more than 40,000 Syrian refugees. This effort was an exceptional and time-limited situation which required additional resources as well as special measures which were temporarily put in place.
How's that for context?
The September Accelerator will attract and convene a diverse cross-section of 250 Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders over three days to engage in disruptive dialogue for a specific purpose.
At the end of the day, the question we will be looking to answer is:
WHO and WHERE do we need to BE to influence the change WE WANT TO SEE?
Desired outcomes and anticipated action steps forward post-Accelerator:
THE WESTERN CANADA LEADERSHIP ACCELERATOR will deliver the following five outcomes:
Moving forward most efficiently and effectively over the next decade requires not only a clear and direct path for each engaged individual leader, but also a clear and direct collective path. PowHERhouse will be introducing their proprietary body of work, THE LEADER PATH, to support this discussion and follow-up action. View THE LEADER PATH framework here.
We will engage with 250 female leaders and receive their personal leadership commitments (individual leader path) for 2020 no later than December 31st, 2019.
We will curate the collective input and feedback received from Accelerator participants and ensure that is it forwarded to each Federal party leader, the Gender Equality Network Canada, the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women no later than December 31st, 2019.
We will engage five corporate partner organizations who commit by December 31st, 2019 to advance the potential of their organization's leaders utilizing THE LEADER PATH and reporting out on their 12-month results as a role model to other organizations.
We will engage and receive commitment by December 31st, 2019 from ten leadership organizations and mainstream media partners who are interested to move this conversation forward through a joint collaborative working relationship, starting in 2020, dedicated to a well-coordinated, well-communicated collective action.
We will receive an expanded reputation as a key player in the progress of leaders who are attracted to lead at a higher level – PowHERhouse, a Catalyst, Instigator, Advocate & Mobilizer– confirming five national and three international speaking/media opportunities in 2020 to continue to move our mission forward.
Register is now open with all-inclusive early-bird passes now available! Please direct any questions or partnership inquires to talktous@powherhouse.com.
*Antidepressant Use Skyrockets in Canada, The Globe and Mail article October 2002, updated April 2018.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN | Western Canadian Leadership Accelerator Regina Sept 25-27, 2019


Does coconut oil live up to its superfood hype?
By Sarah Hughes
Eleanor Ozich of Petite Kitchen uses coconut oil for recipes such as this roasted granola with apricot and figs. Picture / Eleanor Ozich.
Monday Dec. 22, 2014
Halfway through applying coconut oil to the annual winter cold sore attractively positioned under my nose, I began to have doubts. Was this really going to work where other, more medicinal products failed? Could it honestly be as simple as dab oil on suppurating sore, see it miraculously disappear?
According to the growing number of coconut oil evangelists, the answer is yes. Apparently the little edible oil that could, coconut oil is hailed as everything from an effective treatment for stretch marks to the best method for taming frizzy hair.
Cookbooks such as Anna Jones's acclaimed A Modern Way to Eat and Hemsley and Hemsley's best-selling The Art of Eating Well eulogise about its benefits, with the Hemsley sisters noting it has "incredible immune-boosting properties and... helps to control blood sugar levels [while boosting] energy and health".
Locally, bloggers such as Eleanor Ozich of Petite Kitchen and raw chefs including Little Bird's Megan May swear by it for their gluten and dairy free recipes.
It has been touted as a skin moisturiser, recommended as a way of preventing split ends and suggested as a replacement for both nappy-rash cream and eye make-up remover. In celebrity world, where they are always happy to go that extra step, it's also swished around the mouth for up to 20 minutes a day - a technique known as oil pulling, which has its roots in Ayurvedic medicine and which fans such as Gwyneth Paltrow believe helps to prevent tooth decay, bleeding gums and cracked lips.
"Coconut oil's uses are almost limitless," explains Melissa Hemsley. "That's why everyone is now raving about it. We use it in the kitchen for everything from baking brownies and cakes to stir-fries and roasts, smoothies and curries. It's also excellent as a hair mask and moisturiser."
Nor is it simply an effective alternative beauty product. A spate of recent articles have claimed that coconut oil can have a positive effect on the brain, boosting memory and even providing short-term help to patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
In the absence of a full study into the links between coconut oil and memory it's hard to say how valid these claims are, but researchers at the University of Maryland are looking at coconut oil and cholesterol while Kieran Clarke, a professor of physiological biochemistry at Oxford University, was reported to be looking into whether coconut oil could help those with Parkinson's. Indeed, so many and varied are the claims for coconut oil's supposed superpowers that a satirical article in last week's New Yorker remarked that "coconut oil changed my life, and also my genetic coding".
No matter how incredible, or otherwise, coconut oil may turn out to be, it's also important to remember that there's a huge difference between organic virgin products such as Clearspring or Vita Coco and bog-standard hydrogenated coconut oil, which would be unhealthy to cook with and is highly unlikely to make your hair shine, at least not in the way that you're hoping.
So does the real deal truly work? It is certainly a boost in the kitchen, providing a slightly sweet but not overpowering undernote in curries and roast dishes, though it's worth noting that it is still high in saturated fat, and thus not recommended by the British Heart Foundation or the New Zealand Ministry of Health. Coconut oil fans counterbalance that by bringing up its lauric acid levels, which apparently both boost "good" HDL cholesterol and help to fight infection.
"There's a myth that saturated fats are bad for you," says Jasmine Hemsley. "Natural fats like pure, cold-pressed coconut oils are great for you and really easy to digest. Like all saturated fats, coconut oil is heat-stable and therefore far better for you than any processed vegetable oil that's manufactured for cooking. Most importantly it's natural and makes food feel more satisfying while adding flavour."
However, Professor Rod Jackson, medical practitioner and epidemiologist at Auckland University, is concerned that this type of promotion is setting the public on a path to increased coronary artery disease.
Acting director of public health at the New Zealand Ministry of Health Dr Harriette Carr says the few recent studies that endorse diets high in saturated fats are insufficient to refute the wealth of counter-evidence. The link between saturated fat consumption, blood cholesterol levels and heart disease is well established.
It would seem here that moderation is key, whereas people tend to overlook portion control with so-called superfoods such as coconut oil.
As for the beauty products: lacking Paltrow's willpower, I failed at the oil pulling, feeling nauseous and spitting it out after only five minutes. I wasn't entirely convinced by the coconut oil as face-moisturiser line, either - online blogs suggest that it works less well on dry skin - but it was a surprisingly effective eye make-up remover and a decent lipsalve.
Perhaps most surprising of all, however, was the result of my highly unscientific cold-sore test. Not only did it instantly alleviate the burning pain, within 24 hours the sore had shrunk to nothing and within another day it had gone. Is coconut oil really the miracle product to end them all? Probably not, but it cures cold sores. Frankly, that's all I need.
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Your Local Station – Across The Nation!
By TV Cream
DO YOU have fond memories of a local or even national Non-BBC radio station that we haven't got listed here? Can you say a couple of words about the character of its output that doesn't just involve listing presenters and dates or waffling on about 'airchecks' (whatever they are exactly)?
If so, then please do exactly that in the comments below; even Radio Cream hasn't heard every station in existence, so this is where YOUR memories come in… and if they're good enough, you'll get a namecheck (and not an 'aircheck') in the eventual entry!
Related Items:faded car window stickers, impenetrable boasts about how 'the music sounds better right here', requests for "Jenny listening in Stockport there", some half-arsed 'shock jock' that about three people in your class were addicted to, the 'Love Zone'
Robert Minto
I remember listening to Radio Clyde when Richard Park was still there, before he became the boss at Capital Radio.
Another DJ, I enjoyed listening to was Tom Bell on Forth AM, 1548.
They were the days.
essex radio which i remember most for the mr wishmore windows and doors jingle song played constantly,so much so that my mum phoned up mr wishmore to obtain a vinyl record floppy of the song.
essex radios first song was wired for sound by cliff,thats when i knew radio 1 was for me and essex for my mum.
also remember timbo in first years of bbc essex and rushing home from school to listen to his jingles and also plugging star trekkin by the firm every day which i loved,ahh memories 🙂
also loved listening to ceaser the geezer at invicta under the bedclothes finishing at 1am.no wonder i didnt do well at school,i couldnt stay awake.
The station of chocie for me in my student days in Newcastle in the 1980's had to be Metro Radio, the original home of James Whale's Night Owls phone-in program and the genius that was Alan Robson – initially at the weekends with his rock show on a Saturday and the Bridges show on the Sunday, but later taking over from Alan Bessant after his stint as James Whale's replacement ended.
I've never found a radio station since that met my tastes as well as that station did…
Lee James Turnock
Northants 96.6 – the Hot FM!
WGMS – the World's Greatest Music Station (no hyperbole there, then).
KCBC – Kettering and Coventry Broadcasting Corporation.
Nick O. Teen
Just adding to Mike's post above: Metro Radio memories:
The great James Whale – Nightowls was essential listening in the late '70s (once Peely had finished, of course). It was often said that Mr Whale was the North-East's biggest cult – I said CULT! – and he's still going strong, on LBC 97.3 in London. I live a long way from Newcastle now, and Alan Robson is still doing Nightowls, though when I last listened in over the 'net, the subject under discussion was slang names for the penis. Dumbing down? Naaahh!
Bill Steel's Breakfast Show – featuring a voice who'd call out "Divven't be silly man!" in the middle of records (eg the end of the talky bit in Neil Sedaka's 'Oh Carol' when Neil says 'I will surely die'…);
Paddy Macdee – the type of radio DJ lampooned by Steve Wright's Dave Doubledecks character in the 80s..every 's' sound came out as 'sh', so you'd hear "that'sh a shuper shound, ishn't it?";
Jeff Brown – the original Saturday night rock show presenter, who introduced me to Motorhead, ELP, Thin Lizzy, and many more. As a 14-year-old, I visited the Metro studio, and met Jeff. He was the music librarian at Metro.
Glenn A
I remember Metro with great affection, particularly Alan Robson on Nightowls and also in the seventies they syndicated part of Kenny Everett's show from Capital Radio. It regularly wiped the floor with Radio Newcastle, which was dominated by Frank Wappat and his thirties records, and rivalled Radio 1 for most popular station in the North East.
Everyone in Northampton can sing the Mann Egerton car showrooms jingle (YES, YES YOU CAAAAAN).
Also Manchester in 1989 had the very groovy Sunrise Radio, with a 'personal problems' section hosted by the two younger gimps from 808 State.
We used to listen to James Whale when he was on Aire FM in Leeds in the 80's and ring in with various hilarious characters. (well we thought so!)
The Haj
I listened to Radio Clyde's medium wave service, the catchy named Clyde 2 (jingle – Clyde tooooo) during the summer months when I had a student job doing deliveries round Glasgow. Basically it was 50s, 60s and 70s records, which was quite good in a Heartbeat sort of way, but the main reason was the decent traffic reports, which you didn't get on other stations (yes, Radio Scotland, I'M looking at YOU).
I did some work experience in an office where the radio was always on Key 103. Quite good to listen to, I could always get the Top 10 At 10 after a couple of songs, even if the standard playlist was limited.
Later I used to listen to Smooth FM before it became more national. It's mix of soul / blues & current music was very good.
TrevL
Very interesting reading the Metro Radio posts. The Sunday night 'Bridges' slot ran from 11PM until the close down (remember that?) just after the 1AM news.
The whole idea of the show was to 'bridge' the gap between all of the other styles of music played. This would bring in many artists such as Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Earth and Fire, Tomita, to name just a few, and was a great platform for electronic music and 'Progressive Rock'.
Originally, the show was presented by John Coulson, but following an accident, which I believe involved a charity parachute jump, John ended up in hospital, and sadly, never returned to the show.
At that point Jeff Brown, who had been presenting the Saturday Night Rock Show, stepped in and took the reins.
Both the Saturday Night Rock Show, and Bridges became essential listening, especially for teens. Unfortunately a lot of us were quite dead on a Monday morning, due to the lateness of these shows.
The Saturday Night Rock Show hosted by Jeff Brown, included a specific Heavy Metal slot, which started off as the 'Hot and Heavy Half Hour'. This became so popular that it became the 'Hot and Heavy Hour', and I think could have taken over the entire 3 hour show, if allowed to.
AlexTheEngineer-Ipswich
Surprised to see no mention of Laser 558, Radio Caroline (which took over 558 for a bit after the MV Communicator had left, and started sounding a bit less like "your Dad's pirate station ;)" or (as your cover more recent times) the myriad of Band II (FM) pirates from the 1980s onwards.
In that time I lived in Reading (near West London) so could pick up a lot of the more powerful London pirates like LWR, Green Apple Radio (though that was nearer Slough); also moved back to SE London (my birthplace) briefly during early 90s and ended up myself being a DJ on a small pirate on the same block as the better known house/rave station Fantasy FM…
Moved to East Anglia in 2006 where since 2012 I help out the local community radio station ICR-FM which has a lot of former FM pirate DJs…
Glenn Aylett
CFM Radio in Cumbria in its 1993 to 1999 incarnation, they'd play anything from heavy metal to classical music( it was modelled on the original generation of ILR stations). However, highlight of the week was the Sunday phone in with the Reverend Mike Charlton, who used to tell boring or ranting callers to p!"3 off and had regulars such as Pippa The Stripper( a CB radio enthusiast and apparently former stripper), Gareth the Gob( Thatcherite loon who still pops up in local papers) and Jeremy from Carlisle( who had an opinion on eveything). Excellent stuff for its time, but like most other ILR stations went bland in the noughties.
My favourite station was Red Rose Radio 1982-1990 on 301metres medium wave 999kHz AM (one thousand on your dial) from a directional 850watt transmitter at Longton Marsh near Preston and 97.3Mhz VHF/FM stereo from a 2kW omnidirectional aerial at Winter Hill near Bolton. It started off 18h a day 6am-12midnight expanding to 19h a day 6am-1am then 20h a day 6am-2am before throwing down the gauntlet and embracing 24h operation altogether. It was a nice radio station with good presenters, nice local ads, and informative enjoyable news sports and feature programmes plus plenty of music and lots of good times.
When it became Red Rose Rock FM 97.4 and Red Rose Gold 999 AM it was the end of good local radio as Lancashire knew it-a bad way to go indeed.
I would never have sold the station to Transworld Communications and nor would I have floated Red Rose Radio on the stock market as a PLC either for greed and gluttony of money and investment, I would have kept it going as Red Rose Radio 301 and kept the staff on and pulled it out of the IBA's control.
BungoBilly
Another Metro Radio memory for me, on top of those already mentioned, was the football coverage. In my era, Graham Courtney (now Talksport) hosted, Charles Harrison commentated on Newcastle or Sunderland away games and Bob Crosby was reporting at either Roker Park or St James' Park.
I have memories of my older brother dragging me away from Roker Park just before full-time so we could beat the traffic and inevitably hearing Charles Harrison scream "Drama at Roker, Bob Crosby", who would then describe Sunderlad's injury time equaliser/winner that we had missed. Come to think of it, that proably didn't happen that often!
Charles Harrison gained some national press attention in the early 90s (I think) when his house was broken into while he was on air commentating on a Sunderland away game. It was even mentioned on 'Have I Got News for You', along with a witty Angus Deayton comment about Sunderland's awful away form!
And the Metro Sport theme tune was absoultely brilliant!
BBC Radio Newcastle in the eighties was everything Metro wasn't: pop records would be grudgingly played among parish pump gossip( Ramblers Assocation meetings seemed to be popular), Frank Wappat and his 78 records and religious programmes dominated weekends, and no one under 40 would go near the station because of this. Also Metro was on air for 24 hours a day in stereo, Newcastle was 12 hours a day in mono. I wasn't suprised when Metro used to have double the audience of Newcastle, half of them were probably escaping from Frank Wappat's Sounds of the 30s.
Joanne Gray
Radio Tees (later TFM after the switch from medium wave) was a big part of my early childhood in the 70s. This was several years before the spectacle of TVAM, so the Breakfast Show with "Me" Mark Page strained out of our battered old battery operated set that was held together with electricians tape. We were regaled with hilarious tales of Dennis of the Boro (Mr Page's fictional and rather thick mate) and a single was released of their version of Convoy, entitled "Dennis and his CB". A sad day when " Me" Mark Page got the gig at Radio One – on Teesside, he was a well-known and well-loved local celebrity; to Radio One bosses, colleagues and listeners, he was nothing special and his national radio career petered out rather quickly. I'd love to know what he's up to now as he was a big part of my childhood mornings.
XTRA AM in the West Midlands, the medium wave golden oldies station created when Mercia and BRMB became FM only and chart based. This was where I heard Noddy Holder start his radio career presenting seventies hits.
Also when Metro became Metro FM, its medium wave frequency became Great North Radio. Its main claim to fame for me was, while most other people in Whitley Bay were cheering on England in the 1990 World Cup semi final, I was sitting in the garden with my dad, a fellow non fan, listening to a rock and roll show on GNR.
My local station for a time was BBC Radio Carlisle, a poverty stricken outfit broadcasting 8 hours a day from two studios in an office block shared with the tax office and a driving test centre. Its main claim to fame was it discovered Richard Madeley, who spent his formative years discussing the price of sheep and doing OBs from the Cockermouth Show.
Radio Carlisle, Cumbria after 1982, has long since abandoned its broom cupboard and now broadcasts 18 hours a day from its swanky offices opposite Carlisle Castle. You can even walk into reception now and get a free car sticker and a photo of Val Armstrong, the station's best known presenter.
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Newcastle boss hails great spirit after fightback against Man Utd
Steve McClaren hailed his Newcastle United side's 'monumental effort' after they twice came from behind to draw 3-3 against Manchester United.
Updated Tuesday, 12th January 2016, 10:59 pm
Paul Dummett celebrates his late leveller
A 90th-minute goal from Paul Dummett claimed McClaren's relegation-threatened side a point from last night's game at St James's Park.
The result ended a run of four successive defeats in which Newcastle hadn't found the net.
"We had to show what we are all about," said head coach McClaren.
Wayne Rooney had put Louis van Gaal's side ahead with a controversial penalty, and Jessie Lingard doubled their advantage after referee Mike Dean waved away a penalty appeal from Daryl Janmaat.
But Georginio Wijnaldum set up a comeback with a 42nd-minute strike.
Aleksandar Mitrovic levelled for Newcastle from the spot in the 67th minute before Rooney restored their lead with a late goal.
But Dummett netted from 18 yards in the last minute of normal time to move the club to within a point of Premier League safety.
"We have shown everything there," said McClaren. "We played football, created chances, we came back, we had to equalise again.
"You can't underestimate what a monumental effort it is to come back from 2-0 and 3-2. This is how far the team has come this season. Could we have come back from 2-0 then?
"That is the standard we set. Performances have been good. We needed some reward.
"People were saying boing boring (Man) United and that we had questionable character. Neither are true."
Meanwhile, under-pressure Man United manager Louis van Gaal was furious that his team had thrown away two points.
Van Gaal said: "We were the better team, and that is why it's frustrating and we lose very expensive points.
"It feels like a defeat. We have given it away.
"I am very disappointed. We are very disappointed. We could have finished the match much earlier, (Jesse) Lingard, (Marouane) Fellaini ... but we didn't do that. I have said that to the players."


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Chantix User almost Killed Himself—Or Someone Else
May 11, 2009, 3:00PM . By Jane Mundy
InterLaken, NYFor three months last year, Kevin's life was turned upside down because his doctor prescribed Chantix to help his nicotine withdrawal. Now Kevin wants the public to know the dangerous side effects of Chantix without proper monitoring. " I was one of the first patients my doctor prescribed Chantix to and he hasn't prescribed it since," says Kevin. "After my ordeal he apologized to me—he felt very responsible."
Kevin explains that for the first 10 days on the drug, he took a weak dose and then took one tablet a day that was twice as strong. Immediately after that first 'double dose" he had severe reactions, but he thought it was just withdrawal from nicotine, so he kept taking Chantix.
"One day I was driving to work and I was looking for camels across the road—I was hallucinating," says Kevin. "Then I remembered I was supposed to be looking for deer—they cross the road first thing in the morning in these parts. That was my first bad episode."
It got worse: Kevin became violent. "Granted I have a temper but I've never acted like this before--any little thing would set me off," he says. "For the next day or two I was fine but still agitated.
"One Friday I was supposed to come home from work and go for dinner with my wife, Michele. I got off work at 2.30 and it's a 30 minute drive home, but I showed up at 6.30. She asked where I had been and I had no idea, but I was driving because my car was almost on empty. Three hours of my life was gone and I had no recollection. I looked at my car to make sure I hadn't gotten into an accident --that was scary.
On Monday I called my doctor and saw him the next day. At this point I was not smoking or doing any drugs, other than Chantix and a nicotine inhaler. He said it might be the nicotine inhaler, maybe I was overdosing on nicotine. Then he put me on Wellbutrin, thinking I was depressed. Apparently a lot of people get depressed when they quit smoking but I wasn't depressed, I was pissed off because I wasn't enjoying my life. I thought quitting smoking would make me feel better; instead I felt physically and emotionally worse.
Around mid-August I started getting suicidal thoughts and I wanted to fight people. I wanted to hurt myself. One day I had the rope in the tree—I was going to hang myself. I put the rope around my neck and gave it a few pulls—just then my sister drove up and saw me...
Michele knew something was going on but I told her that I was getting better so she wouldn't ask me any questions. I didn't want to answer any questions or talk to anyone about my thoughts and that included my best friend and family. I quit communicating to everyone unless it was completely necessary.
My very last episode was September 9th. I was at a football game tail-gate party and the whole day was fine, I felt good and didn't drink too much, just a few beers. As soon as the game was over I told my wife we had to leave, right away. I gave her the car keys and we drove about 2 minutes until I made her pull over at a boat-launch site and became violently sick. Some boaters pulled up and asked if they could help. Michele said I picked up a big boulder and threw it at them and told them to leave me alone.
Michele pushed me back into the car and I passed out. It was only an hour's ride home but it took 3 hours because I kept waking up, demanding that she pull over because I had to fight someone. Halfway home I got sick in a restaurant parking lot. The owner came out and asked if I needed some water. I took a run at him. Michele told him that I was sick and on meds, and to please forgive me. Somehow they both got me back in the car. Michele said I cried and was incoherent for the rest of the way home.
We live in a very small community and the neighbors knew there was something wrong when they saw Michele trying to carry me into the house. Luckily one of our neighbors is a nurse so she helped. It was all they could do to get me up the stairs. I didn't remember a thing.
Michele was terrified. The next morning she insisted I stay home from work. She made me promise to stop Chantix and see the doctor. She told me what happened then Barb (the nurse) came over and corroborated her story.
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North Brookfield Savings Bank and FamilyFirst Bank merger complete
Updated May 30, 2014 ; Posted May 30, 2014
By The Republican Business Desk
NORTH BROOKFIELD - North Brookfield Savings Bank has completed its merger with FamilyFirst Bank.
The deal, first announced in January, recently became official thanks to approval of the Corporators of North Brookfield Savings Bank, the shareholders of FamilyFirst Bank and the banks' regulators. The combined bank will operate under the name and charter of North Brookfield Savings Bank.
With the addition of former FamilyFirst Bank branches, in Ware, Three Rivers Village of Palmer and East Brookfield, Massachusetts, North Brookfield Savings Bank, based in North Brookfield, MA, now includes seven branches in addition to the Corporate Headquarters located in North Brookfield.
North Brookfield Savings Bank, founded in 1854, is a mutual savings bank. The bank has received the highest Five Star Superior Bank rating from Bauer Financial for 74 consecutive quarters.


Broadway revivals showcase problematic scripts, characters
Michael Paulson The New York Times
NEW YORK — Billy Bigelow hits Julie Jordan. Henry Higgins molds Eliza Doolittle. Fred tames Lilli. And Edward rescues Vivian.
Amid a national reckoning with sexual harassment and misconduct, Broadway is mounting a cluster of musicals this season and next that, some theatergoers contend, romanticize problematic relationships between women and men.
The titles are beloved: ''Carousel,'' ''My Fair Lady'' and ''Kiss Me, Kate'' are classics of the canon, while ''Pretty Woman,'' a new musical, is adapted from a smash film. And each of their female protagonists has her own strength — strength that in some cases changes the men in their lives.
But elements of the stories — and the fact that all four productions are being directed and choreographed by men — are prompting new scrutiny at this MeToo moment.
''It's a huge conversation,'' said Carole Rothman, artistic director of Second Stage Theater, a nonprofit that has become Broadway's newest theater owner.
Georgia Stitt, a composer, lyricist and musician who worked on a female-led off-Broadway revival that rethought another problematic classic musical, ''Sweet Charity,'' sounded an alarm on social media last fall, as the productions were being announced.
''It's frustrating that the material people seem to want to throw their energy into is old properties where women have no agency, and then there is the real scarcity of women on the creative teams,'' Stitt said in a recent interview. ''And are these the shows I'm going to take my 12-year-old daughter to?''
The issues are not new, but they are felt especially intensely this year, in the aftermath of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, which led to a wave of accusations against other prominent men, including many in the entertainment industry, and a broader discussion of how women are portrayed in the culture.
''We're in a moment of heightened awareness in the best possible way,'' said Stacy Wolf, author of ''Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical'' and a theater professor at Princeton University.
Revivals are a staple of commercial theater, in part because there are a lot of great musicals that were written decades ago, and in part because audiences often flock to the familiar.
The first of the coming productions to arrive on Broadway will be Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Carousel,'' opening on April 12. First produced on Broadway in 1945 (and most recently in 1994), the show is about the fraught relationship between a carnival barker named Billy Bigelow (played by Joshua Henry) and a millworker named Julie Jordan (Jessie Mueller).
''Carousel'' has long upset some, not only because of the exchange between Julie and her daughter, Louise, about whether a slap can feel like a kiss, but also because Julie seems to accept being hit by Billy, while his best songs can make him seem more sympathetic and ultimately redeemed.
''There weren't many concerns when it was first staged in 1945, and most productions in the '50s and '60s tended to move very quickly over the problems,'' said Tim Carter, a professor of music at the University of North Carolina and the author of a book on ''Carousel.''
But, he said, in recent years there has been increasing focus on how the central relationship is understood.
''We're going to do it as written — it's what they wrote, and it's the truth of the characters,'' said Scott Rudin, lead producer.
Previews for the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Lerner and Loewe's ''My Fair Lady'' start March 15 before an April 19 opening. The musical — adapted from George Bernard Shaw's ''Pygmalion'' and made indelible by the 1964 Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison movie — stars Lauren Ambrose as flower girl Eliza Doolittle and Harry Hadden-Paton as Henry Higgins, the phonetics professor who gives her speech lessons.
Critiques of ''My Fair Lady'' have focused not only on the show's final exchange but also on the Pygmalion narrative itself: a man transforming a woman to meet his standards. Not to mention Henry's bullying tone with Eliza, and her return to him at the end of the show.
''Oh gosh — it is very, very sexist,'' Julie Andrews, who originated the role of Eliza on Broadway in 1956, told an interviewer last year. ''Young women in particular will and should find it hard.''
''The investigation that MeToo forces you to do is quite important,'' said director Bartlett Sher.
''Pretty Woman'' is a new musical with no pre-existing book or score. The show is adapted from the 1990 film, with songs by rocker Bryan Adams and his longtime co-writer Jim Vallance; it is scheduled to open on Broadway in August, starring Samantha Barks as Vivian Ward, the prostitute made famous on film by Julia Roberts, and Steve Kazee as Edward Lewis, the businessman who introduces her to a new life.
The show's creative team has made what it views as significant changes to the story to strengthen Vivian's self-determination — in particular, by making clear early in the show that she is eager to leave prostitution.
''Unlike in a revival, we're not locked into delivering what's been done before," said Paula Wagner, the show's lead producer.
The Roundabout Theater Company revival of ''Kiss Me, Kate,'' a 1948 Cole Porter musical, is scheduled to begin performances in February 2019, with Kelli O'Hara in the leading role of Lilli Vanessi. The show is about Lilli and Fred, once-married actors starring in a production of ''The Taming of the Shrew,'' a Shakespeare comedy in which a fierce woman is persuaded to humble herself to please her husband.
The musical has not yet begun rehearsals, but the director, Scott Ellis, said the MeToo movement will clearly affect the production.
''These are two extremely strong people, who are jockeying throughout the show,'' Ellis said. ''How do we keep strength on both sides?''


DOC NYC Gives Selected Docs a Boost
Anne Thompson
@akstanwyck
With so many worthy documentaries entering the awards fray, high-profile programs such as America's largest documentary festival, DOC NYC, are a crucial gateway to getting the right people in the documentary community–and media–to focus attention on the cream of the crop.
Among over 150 films and events, artistic director Thom Powers and executive director Raphaela Neihausen's expanded program for the fifth edition includes 19 world premieres and 7 US premieres including David Thorpe's "Do I Sound Gay?" as the opening night selection on November 13 and Laura Nix and The Yes Men's
"The Yes Men Are Revolting," which will close the festival on date November 20 with The Yes Men on hand. Both films debuted at the Toronto International Film festival.
The screenings of 92 features, 37 shorts and 24 panel discussions and master classes will be held at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village and Chelsea's SVA Theatre and Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas.
World Premieres include Amy Berg's anticipated Hollywood sex abuse expose "An Open Secret"; Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller's "Still Dreaming," about the residents of an actors' retirement home who perform Shakespeare; and Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden's portrait of an outsidcer artist, "Almost There." Both films made their debut in September at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Among the 200 filmmakers and guests on hand will be Amy Berg, Joe Berlinger, Nick Broomfield, Ric Burns, Chris Hegedus, Rory Kennedy, Steve James, Albert Maysles, DA Pennebaker, Lucy Walker, and Frederick Wiseman.
"Over the past five years, DOC NYC has brought together an exciting mix of filmmakers, special guests and influential audiences—providing the kind of experiences that happen only in New York," said Powers. "Our mix of premieres, classics, in-depth panels, and masterclasses span documentary past, present and future."
DOC NYC presents four awards to films screening in the 2014 edition. Three juries to be announced will select one film each from the Viewfinders, Metropolis and Shorts programs. Festival attendees will vote for an Audience Award. Winners will be announced on closing night, November 20.
At an awards lunch on Friday, November 14, DOC NYC will hold its inaugural Visionaries Tribute. Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to filmmakers Albert Maysles and the husband-wife duo of DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus; The Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence honoring a mid-career filmmaker (with a $5,000 cash prize) will be announced in late October; and the Leading Light Award, for a non-filmmaker who has made a crucial contribution to documentary, will be presented to Dan Cogan, Executive Director and co-founder of social action financier Impact Partners.
This year's event debuts four new programming strands: Fight the Power celebrates activism, Centerstage highlights performance, Jock Docs focuses on sports, and Docs Redux revisits classic films.
Below is a breakdown of programming by section:
Opening Night: Do I Sound Gay?
Dir: David Thorpe, 2014, US Premiere
After a breakup with his boyfriend, journalist David Thorpe embarks on a hilarious and touching journey of self-discovery, confronting his anxiety about "sounding gay." In person: David Thorpe
Closing Night: The Yes Men Are Revolting
Dirs: Laura Nix, The Yes Men, 2014, US Premiere
A chronicle of the past five years of pranksters The Yes Men, the infamous activists known for duping the media with their impersonations of corporate shills and government stooges. In person: Laura Nix, The Yes Men
SPECIAL EVENTS – Seven standout films coupled with high-profile conversations with the directors and special guests.
Dir: Roberta Grossman, 2014, NYC Premiere
Reveals the hidden history behind the creation of Israel's air force. International Film Circuit, opens Jan. 30. In person: Producer Nancy Spielberg
Back On Board: Greg Louganis
Dir: Cheryl Furjanic, 2014, NYC Premiere
This strikingly candid profile explores the triumphs and tragedies of Olympian Greg Louganis, considered by many the greatest diver of all time. In person: Cheryl Furjanic, film subject Greg Louganis
Banksy Does New York
Dir: Chris Moukarbel, 2014, NYC Premiere
Last October, when infamous street artist Banksy revealed his New York City residency, he set off a daily scavenger hunt among curious fans, would-be art collectors and, of course, the police. HBO Documentary Films, broadcasts Nov. 17. In person: Chris Moukarbel
Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man Behind the National Enquirer
Dir: Ric Burns, 2014, NYC Premiere
Serving up a sensational exposé in line with his juicy subject, acclaimed multiple-Emmy Award-winner Ric Burns uncovers the strange history of the National Enquirer and the tabloid's legendary publisher, Generoso Pope Jr. In person: Ric Burns
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
Dirs: Dave LaMattina & Chad Walker, 2014, NYC Premiere
Sesame Street's Big Bird may be one of the world's most recognizable characters, but far less familiar is Caroll Spinney, the man who has brought to life the yellow-feathered Muppet—as well as the irascible Oscar the Grouch—since 1969. In person: Dave LaMattina & Chad Walker, film subjects Caroll & Debra Spinney
An Open Secret
Dir: Amy Berg, 2014, World Premiere
Every year, thousands of children swarm Hollywood in search of fame, but what they often find under the surface is a deep and disturbing underbelly of manipulation and abuse. In person: Amy Berg
Soul Boys of the Western World
Dir: George Hencken, 2014, NYC Premiere
Spandau Ballet, one of the bands that defined the 1980s, tell their own story, set against a backdrop of evocative period footage, including never-before-seen home movies. In person: George Hencken and all the band members from Spandau Ballet—their first time in New York since 1983!
VIEWFINDERS – Juried Competition. Ten films notable for their distinct directorial visions.
Dirs: Dan Rybicky & Aaron Wickenden, 2014, World Premiere
After the filmmakers meet octogenarian artist Peter Anton, they become enmeshed in his life, helping to stage an exhibition of his work.
Cairo Drive
Dir: Sherief Elkatsha, 2013, NYC Premiere
Shot before, during and after the revolution, this entertaining film explores Cairo from the street level through the perspectives of its drivers.
Dirs: Mike Attie & Meghan O'Hara, 2014, NYC Premiere
By now, the idea of Civil War re-enactment is familiar, but the subjects of this intriguing film relive the battles of a far more surprising conflict: Vietnam.
Kasamayaki
Dir: Yuki Kokubo, 2014, World Premiere
Following the devastation of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Yuki visits her estranged parents in Kasama, Japan, a rural artist community, in the hopes of making sense of their past.
The Life and Mind of Mark Defriest
Dir: Gabriel London, 2014, NYC Premiere
Sentenced to four years in prison in 1978, Mark DeFriest's numerous escapes have kept him incarcerated for over three decades.
Meet the Patels
Dirs: Geeta V. Patel & Ravi V. Patel, 2014, NYC Premiere
Nearing 30, first-generation Indian-American Ravi Patel breaks up with his secret, white girlfriend to seek the Indian woman of his parents' dreams—who should also be named Patel, keeping with tradition.
Monsieur Le Président
Dir: Victoria Campbell, 2013, World Premiere
Volunteering in Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, the filmmaker encounters Gaston, a charming voodoo priest who shows leadership during the emergency.
Dir: Jessica Solce, 2014, World Premiere
A provocative exploration of the contentious issue of gun control through profiles of two men at opposite ends of the debate.
Song From the Forest
Dir: Michael Obert, 2013, NYC Premiere
An American musicologist who abandoned modern civilization to join an African pygmy tribe brings his son to New York City. Film Collaborative, opens Spring 2015.
The Wound and the Gift
Dir: Linda Hoaglund, 2014, US Premiere
All over the world, people save animals that were bred, abused or sold on the black market, with an impact on both rescuer and rescued.
METROPOLIS – Juried Competition. Nine quintessentially New York stories.
Dir: Viko Nikci, 2014, North American Premiere
Finally released from prison, an innocent man attempts to repair his relationship with his daughter and to confront the man who committed the crime for which he was punished.
Dirs: Rachel Lears & Robin Blotnick, 2014, NYC Premiere
An Upper East Side "Hot & Crusty" bakery serves as the unlikely setting for an old-fashioned David vs. Goliath story, as service workers demand better working conditions and wages.
Dir: Thomas Wirthensohn, 2014, North American Premiere
From all outside appearances, Mark seems to have the glamorous New York City life that many would envy… but he harbors a secret.
Penthouse North
Dir: Johanna St Michaels, 2014, NYC Premiere
In her heyday, Swedish bombshell Agneta ruled the world from her fabulous Central Park West apartment, but times—and her finances—have changed.
Rubble Kings
Dir: Shan Nicholson, 2014, North American Premiere
Confronting a bankrupt, decaying city and the dashed hopes of the civil rights generation, African-American and Latino teenagers violently took over the streets of 1970s New York.
Rubble Kings screens with the short film The Chaperone (Fraser Munden & Neil Rathbone,14 min.). An action-packed, animated retelling of what happened when a drunken motorcycle gang invaded a 1970s school dance.
The Seven Five
Dir: Tiller Russell, 2014, NYC Premiere
NYPD officer Michael Dowd was at the center of an infamous cop corruption scandal of the early 1990s.
Some Kind of Spark
Dir: Ben Niles, 2014, World Premiere
Illustrating the transformative power not only of music, but of mentorship, this film is an uplifting look at Juilliard's Music Advancement Program for inner-city youth.
Dir: Spencer Wolff, 2014, World Premiere
After David Ourlicht was stopped and searched by the NYPD for no discernible reason, he filed a class-action suit against the City of New York, alleging racial profiling in the police department's stop-and-frisk policy.
Dir: Stephanie Wang-Breal, 2014, NYC Premiere
Having lost custody of their children to Child Protective Services, two parents in New York City and Seattle fight to win back the trust of the courts and reunite their families.
AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES – Nine films present a virtual tour around the United States.
The Age of Love
Dir: Steven Loring, 2014, NYC Premiere
An unprecedented speed-dating event for seniors serves as the backdrop for this alternately poignant and funny look at love among the 70+ set.
All American High Revisited
Dir: Keva Rosenfeld, 2014, NYC Premiere
Thirty years after he profiled the senior class of a typical California high school, the filmmaker revisits several members of the class of 1984 to see how they turned out.
Dir: Andrea B. Scott, 2014, World Premiere
A resonant work of modern Americana, this film paints a rich and often humorous portrait of a cowboy town set in the heart of Arizona's prison industry.
Grazers: A Cooperative Story
Dirs: Lisa F. Jackson & Sarah Teale, 2014, World Premiere
With interest in farm-to-table food on the rise, a small band of upstate New York farmers sees an opportunity to hold on to their endangered farms by raising and selling grass-fed beef.
Dir: Tony Shaff, 2014
Even in our increasingly disconnected digital age, telephone hotlines continue to bring strangers together for a multiplicity of reasons. Gravitas, VOD Nov. 18.
Little White Lie
Dir: Lacey Schwartz, 2014, NYC Premiere
Growing up in an upper-middle-class Jewish household, Lacey Schwartz knew she looked different from the rest of her family, but never suspected the truth.
Little White Lie screens with the short film Mirror Image (Danielle Schwartz, Israel, 11 min.). An attempt to establish the provenance of an Israeli family's heirloom becomes a debate over language and history.
Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine
Dir: Michele Josue, 2013, NYC Premiere
While the world remembers Matthew Shepard's death at the hands of homophobic attackers, this poignant film celebrates his life.
A Murder in the Park
Dirs: Shawn Rech & Brandon Kimber, 2014, World Premiere
A college journalism class's re-examination of a murder case leads to the exoneration of an innocent man… or does it?
Sex and Broadcasting, a film about WFMU
Dir: Tim K. Smith, 2014, World Premiere
A portrait of New Jersey's WFMU, which has occupied a unique position as an independent, commercial-free, listener-supported radio station since its inception in the late 1950s.
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES – Eight films go globetrotting.
Every Last Child
Dir: Tom Roberts, 2014, World Premiere
After the Taliban bans polio vaccinations and spreads misinformation, Pakistan suffers devastating outbreaks of the disease, prompting strategic problem-solving from the World Health Organization.
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Dir: Mami Sunada, 2013, NYC Premiere
Offering animation fans a rare look inside Japan's Studio Ghibli, this fascinating film profiles its most famous creators, Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), and his friendly rival and business partner, Isao Takahata (Pom Poko). GKIDS, opens Nov. 28.
Marmato
Dir: Mark Grieco, 2014, NYC Premiere
Exploring the intersection of economic development, environmental impact and globalization, this is an intimate and richly observed portrait of Marmato, a rural mining town threatened with destruction.
Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile
Dir: Norah Shapiro, 2014, World Premiere
A Tibetan teenager travels from Minneapolis to India to compete in a most unlikely beauty pageant.
Dir: Adam Zucker, 2014
How does one claim an identity in a vacuum? Living in Poland, the four young women in this engaging film learned of their Jewish roots after growing up Catholic. Seventh Art Releasing.
A Small Section of the World
Dir: Lesley Chilcott, 2014, NYC Premiere
In equal measures inspiring and endearing, this film spotlights a group of Costa Rican village women who form a coffee-growing collective—despite not knowing the first thing about growing coffee. FilmBuff, opens Dec. 5.
A Small Section of the World screens with the short film Santa Cruz del Islote (Luke Lorentzen, 19 min.). Inhabitants of a remote Colombian island paradise face an uncertain future in changing times.
Dir: Diana Whitten, 2014, NYC Premiere
Moved by the plight of desperate women in countries with restrictive reproductive rights, a Dutch physician uses laws governing international waters to bring much-needed abortion and contraceptive services on the high seas.
When People Die They Sing Songs
Dir: Olga Lvoff, 2014, NYC Premiere
Under the watchful eyes of her dutiful daughter Sonia, Regina recalls the Yiddish and French songs of her youth through music therapy sessions following a stroke.
When People Die They Sing Songs screens with the short film The Lion's Mouth Opens (Lucy Walker, 28 min.). A young woman is about to learn whether she has inherited her father's incurable, terminal disease.
CENTERSTAGE – New section! Four films put the spotlight on performance.
Capturing Grace
Dir: David Iverson, 2014, NYC Premiere
Recognizing that music and rhythmic activity can help those suffering from Parkinson's disease achieve greater control of their mobility, two dancers from New York's Mark Morris Dance Group lead a dance workshop.
Capturing Grace screens with the short film The Astronaut's Secret (Zach Jankovic, 30 min.). After his 1996 mission in space, astronaut Rich Clifford and NASA kept a secret for 17 years.
The Last Impresario
Dir: Gracie Otto, 2014, NYC Premiere
From The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, producer Michael White has helped bring enduring cultural touchstones to Broadway, London's West End and the silver screen over the last four decades, but the bon vivant may be the most famous person you've never heard of. FilmBuff, opens Dec. 5.
Dirs: Hank Rogerson & Jilann Spitzmiller, 2014, World Premiere
Located just outside of Manhattan, the Lillian Booth Actors Home provides a most resonant setting for the staging of a classic play in which nothing is what it seems.
Us, Naked: Trixie & Monkey
Dir: Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander, 2014, World Premiere
A pair of acrobatic burlesque performers attempt to juggle art, love and financial stability in this perceptive portrait.
JOCK DOCS – New section! Five films focused on sports and athletes.
9-Man
Dir: Ursula Liang, 2014
A variant of volleyball developed by Chinese immigrants to America as both an athletic pastime and a social outlet in a time of widespread anti-Chinese sentiment, discrimination and segregation, now serves to unite young men with their culture.
Dir: Rex Miller, 2014, World Premiere
In the 1950s, long before Arthur Ashe or Venus and Serena Williams, Althea Gibson was the first African-American tennis player to win Grand Slam tournaments.
Dir: Natasha Verma, 2014, NYC Premiere
Although Brooklyn's Heather "The Heat" Hardy has only been boxing for a few years, she's a world champion in the making—but first she has to be given the chance to prove herself in a sport that has been slow to open its doors to female athletes.
Opposite Field
Dir: Jay Shapiro, 2014, World Premiere
In its nearly 70-year history, the Little League World Series has never hosted a team from Africa. The Ugandan team hopes to change that.
Dirs: Sara Newens & Mina T. Son, 2014, World Premiere
Three driven teenage athletes attempt to go for Olympic gold in the perpetually popular but underappreciated game of table tennis.
FIGHT THE POWER – New section! Six films celebrate the power of activism.
Brothers of the Black List
Dir: Sean Gallagher, 2014, NYC Premiere
In the fall of 1992, despite efforts to recruit minority students, SUNY Oneonta set off a firestorm of controversy that led to the longest litigated civil-rights case in US history.
Dir: Pamela Yates, 2013, NYC Premiere
Recognizing the persistence of income inequality in South America, a group of activist economists join together to offer an alternative path to eliminating poverty.
Divide in Concord
Dir: Kris Kaczor, 2014, NYC Premiere
A feisty octogenarian, concerned about the environmental impact of our disposable culture, is on a mission to ban the local sale of plastic bottled water, facing off against her celebrity publicist-turned-pundit nemesis.
Dir: Thomas G. Miller, 2014, NYC Premiere
A poignant portrait of four decades of devotion despite overwhelming odds, this film follows a transnational LGBT couple's immigration battle.
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Dir: Mary Dore, 2014, NYC Premiere
Through a treasure trove of archival material and profiles of several outspoken pioneers of the women's movement, we revisit the remarkable eruption of activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s that signaled the arrival of modern feminism. International Film Circuit, opens Dec. 5.
Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
Dir: Abby Ginzberg, 2014, NYC Premiere
At the height of apartheid, noted South African activist, author and attorney Albie Sachs was driven into exile, yet still faced threats to his life that cost him dearly.
SONIC CINEMA – Six films explore music and musicians.
Béla Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concerto
Dirs: Béla Fleck and Sascha Paladino, 2014, NYC Premiere
Commissioned to create a first-of-its-kind concerto for the banjo and an 80-piece symphony orchestra, virtuoso musician Béla Fleck faces an intensely personal challenge of collaboration and composition. Argot Pictures, opens Winter 2015.
Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock & Roll
Dir: John Pirozzi, 2014, NYC Premiere
A fascinating exploration of history as reflected through a nation's popular culture, this film excavates Cambodia's lost era of American-inflected music. Argot Pictures, opens Spring 2015.
Heaven Adores You
Dir: Nickolas Rossi, 2014, NYC Premiere
An artful tribute to the too-soon departed singer/songwriter Elliott Smith.
Jingle Bell Rocks!
Dir: Mitchell Kezin, 2013, NYC Premiere
An entertaining quest to locate the top twelve strangest holiday songs you're likely to ever hear, from "Santa Claus Was a Black Man" to "Christmas in Vietnam."
Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-1990)
Dir: Scott Crawford, 2014, US Premiere
An exploration of the development and evolution of the Washington, DC punk scene, and how it shaped independent music and popular culture in the decade that followed.
Songs for Alexis
Dir: Elvira Lind, 2014, NYC Premiere
Eighteen-year-old hopeless romantic Ryan, a young transgender man, writes songs about his sixteen-year-old girlfriend Alexis as the couple navigates a long distance relationship between Long Island and San Francisco.
DOCS REDUX – New section! Revisit seven past nonfiction favorites, including several films by this year's DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute recipients.
Filmmakers: Drew Associates, 1962
This classic follows the attorney Louis Nizer as he attempts to save prisoner Paul Crump from the electric chair.
Filmmakers: DA Pennebaker & William Ray, 1961
Rare 35mm screening of Drew Associates' portrait of a jazz trumpeter struggling through drug rehab.
Dir: Frederick Wiseman, 1968
Wiseman's classic look at an urban Philadelphia high school, capturing interactions between students, teachers, parents and administrators.
Dir: Steve James, 1994
Twentieth anniversary restoration. Two Chicago teens are followed over their four years of high school as they aspire to use their basketball skills to create better futures for their families.
Kings Of Pastry
Dirs: Chris Hegedus & DA Pennebaker, 2009
Sixteen French pastry chefs put their reputations at stake in a prestigious competition.
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Dirs: Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 2004
Tenth anniversary. The members of the heavy metal band go through group therapy to save not only the band, but themselves.
Dirs: Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1968
This breakthrough documentary follows door-to-door Bible salesmen as they ply their trade from Boston to Chicago to Miami.
MIDNIGHT DOCS – Three films worth staying up late to see.
Haunters
Dir: Anthony Morrison, 2014, World Premiere
A Michigan family-run business sets out to create the scariest haunted house in the state.
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
Dir: Dave Jannetta, 2014, NYC Premiere
Imagine a This American Life episode devoted to a real-world Twin Peaks, and you might approximate the stranger-than-fiction story of small-town Chadron, Nebraska.
Sex(Ed)
Dir: Brenda Goodman, 2014, NYC Premiere
Revisit the health class of your awkward teenage years in this fun survey of sexual education films. First Run Features, VOD/DVD Feb. 3.
SHORTS PROGRAMS – Six thematic groupings of the best in short nonfiction filmmaking. DOC NYC is now an Academy Awards®-qualifying festival, with this year's winning short film qualifying for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category.
Ways of seeing and interacting with the world, ranging from interior design and fonts to artisanal craftwork and custom yarmulkes.
Life + Death
An exploration of beginnings and endings, including the healing power of music, the recording of life's major moments and the ethics of euthanasia.
Unexpected discoveries and hidden histories, from secret presidential recordings and the lost payphones of NYC, to fancy cats and the world's longest yard sale.
Parts + Labor
A series of shorts about making a living, offering portraits of workers and their work—selling pickles, raising buffalo, stuffing animals, cobbling, and casting manhole covers.
Point + Shoot
Views through the photographic lens, focusing on blind creators, unconventional beauty, Warhol history, and war photography.
Show + Tell
Kids offer their perspectives on NYC snow days, middle-school heavy metal, dog shows, and North Dakota's oil boom.
SHORT LIST – Our newly expanded section offers our picks for awards-season contenders. Last year, nine of our ten selections made that other short list.
The Case Against 8
Dirs: Ben Cotner & Ryan White, 2014
Following the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court, as former legal foes, progressive David Boies and ultra-conservative Ted Olson, join forces. HBO Documentary Films.
Dir: Laura Poitras, 2014
A real-life thriller chronicling how Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies.
RADiUS/Participant Media/HBO Documentary Films, opens Oct 24.
Dirs: Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman, 2014
A look at the dangerous but life-affirming work performed by the Human Rights Watch Emergency Team, or E-Team, a compelling group of intrepid investigators willing to enter hostile territories to document crimes against humanity that might otherwise go unreported. Netflix.
Dirs: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel, 2013
When Vivian Maier died in 2009 at age 83, she left behind more than 100,000 negatives of her street photography—images that she'd scarcely shared with anyone. Sundance Selects.
Dir: Margaret Brown, 2014
An examination of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its impact on fishermen, oilmen and survivors. RADiUS/Participant Media, opens Oct. 29.
Dir: Amir Bar-Lev, 2014
An exploration of the Penn State scandal, focusing on hero worship and the court of public opinion, and their impact on everyday people caught in their wake. Music Box Films, opens Nov. 19.
Keep On Keepin' On
Dir: Alan Hicks, 2014
Celebrating mentorship as much as music, this inspirational and poignant film explores the common bonds between a 92-year-old jazz legend and his 23-year-old protégé. RADiUS.
Last Days in Vietnam
Dir: Rory Kennedy, 2014
In the final weeks of the Vietnam War, with the invasion of Saigon imminent, the White House ordered the evacuation of U.S. citizens—but their South Vietnamese allies flooded onto embassy grounds seeking help. American Experience Films/PBS.
Acclaimed filmmaker Steve James pays tribute to the late Roger Ebert and to the love of movies. Magnolia Pictures.
Merchants of Doubt
Dir: Robert Kenner, 2014
The director of Food, Inc reveals how corporations affect what we think, exploring the shadow world of experts who stake claims contrary to scientific consensus. Sony Pictures Classics/Participant Media, opens March 6.
The Overnighters
Dir: Jesse Moss, 2014
Pastor Jay Reinke offers newcomers seeking employment the chance to sleep in his church, setting off a controversy within his small North Dakota town and his congregation. Drafthouse Films.
Dir: Gabe Polsky, 2014
This emotional look at the Soviet hockey team blends politics, sports and human drama. Sony Pictures Classics, opens Jan. 23.
Dirs: Tracy Droz Tragos & Andrew Droz Palermo, 2014
With roots in the eponymous, impoverished Missouri town, filmmaker cousins bring a sensitive touch to this richly observed and sublimely shot portrait of three boys. The Orchard.
Dirs: Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, 2014
An insider and outsider's perspective on photographer Sebastiao Salgado and the nature preserve Instituto Terra. Sony Pictures Classics, opens Apr. 3.
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Dir: Nick Broomfield, 2014
In one of his finest films, Nick Broomfield digs into a true crime story of a Los Angeles serial killer that raises larger questions about gender, race and class inequalities. HBO Documentary Films, 2015 broadcast.
DOC-A-THON – Newly expanded from four to six days, DOC NYC's panel and masterclass series for both emerging and established filmmakers offers 24 events, organized by daily themes. All Doc-A-Thon panels take place at the IFC Center.
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Essential information for new filmmakers, with panels on "Mapping Out Your Film," "Funding," "Post-Production," and "Distribution & Outreach."
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A focus on short-form storytelling, with panels on "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Short Filmmaking But Were Afraid To Ask," "Who's Buying Doc Shorts," "Shorter Forms for Ever Shorter Attention Spans," and "Nonfiction Shorts & the Festival Audience."
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A series of masterclasses exploring production, including "Cinematography," "Producing," "Music Rights," and "Casting for Nonfiction."
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Masterclasses offering critical advice for post-production, including "Editing," "How to Produce an Award-Winning Archival Documentary," "Sound Design," and "Graphics & Animation."
Fund Your Doc
Learn who is funding nonfiction and what they're looking for, with panels on "Lessons on Creative Funding & Audience Building," "Social-Action Filmmaking," Pitch Workshop," and "The 'Documatrix' of HBO," a conversation with HBO Documentary Films' Sheila Nevins.
Panels illuminating the importance of audience engagement, including "Social-Media Workshop," "How to Maximize Digital Distribution," "Documentaries are Narrative," and "Making a Living as a Documentary Filmmaker."
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PBS and WETA Announce 'The Black Church: This is Our Story'
Two-Part, Four-Hour Documentary to Debut in February 2021
by Marc Berman July 29, 2020, 7:18 am
PBS and WETA will debut two-part, four-hour documentary "The Black Church: This Is Our Story" on Tuesday, February 16 and 23, 2021 on PBS stations nationwide. From executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the limited series traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power. The documentary reveals how Black people have worshipped and, through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from Africa to the New World, while translating them into a form of Christianity that was not only truly their own, but a redemptive force for a nation whose original sin was found in their ancestors' enslavement across the Middle Passage.
"The Black Church: This Is Our Story" will feature interviews with Oprah Winfrey; John Legend; Jennifer Hudson; Presiding Bishop Michael Curry of The Episcopal Church; gospel legends Yolanda Adams, Pastor Shirley Caesar and BeBe Winans; civil rights leaders Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. William Barber II; scholar Cornel West; and many more.
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Cyprus a step closer to reunification talks
The two sides have been working on a text for more than three months.
Talks on the reunification of Cyprus could restart as early as next week, as Greek and Turkish Cypriots inch closer to a joint statement concerning how a settlement might be approached.
The intention is to record areas of agreement so that negotiators can focus on refugee return, property restitution, governance arrangements, and other issues that scuppered earlier talks to end the 40-year division of the island. But while the Greek Cypriots, led by President Nicos Anastasiades, want the statement to address the substance of a settlement, the leader of the Turkish Cypriots, Dervis Eroglu, has been reluctant to accept such a document because it might prejudge the outcome of negotiations.
"The negotiating mandate is almost half of the problem," an official involved in the talks said. The two sides have been working on a text for more than three months. The chief negotiators, Greek Cypriot Andreas Mavroyiannis and Turkish Cypriot Osman Ertug, visited Brussels this week for informal talks with EU policymakers.
Negotiations stalled last year and were suspended altogether ahead of the election that brought the pro-settlement Anastasiades to power in February. Anastasiades fought hard for the last reunification plan, brokered by Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the UN at the time, but the plan was rejected by Greek Cypriots in a referendum immediately before the Greek part of the island joined the EU in May 2004.
"Anastasiades has an incredibly progressive view on the conflict and its settlement," said Hugh Pope, an analyst with the International Crisis Group in Istanbul. "His position is conceptually very close to the Turkish [Cypriot] position, but there's a huge gap of trust, especially between the Greek Cypriots and Turkey."
The two sides agree on the principle that Cyprus should become a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation with single international personality and single citizenship.
Alexander Downer, the UN envoy for the Cyprus talks, is scheduled to spend next week in Nicosia. An official involved in preparations for the talks suggested that a statement might be finalised in time for a meeting that would allow Downer and the two community leaders – Anastasiades and Eroglu – formally to relaunch settlement talks. The two leaders held an informal meeting last week (25 November), reportedly without much success.
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Come to Life
Queen Is Dead
Freefalling
Mr. Martyr
Way Down In The Hole
Ebony Sky
by Young Fathers
When we first met Young Fathers, we were left holding our jaws in our palms, lifting the slack as best we could to form the following words: Where in the world do we go from here? "Here," there, was the Scottish trio's striking debut EP, the percussively lush and darkly intoxicating TAPE ONE. And the answer to the question is far more logical than expected: TAPE TWO. Our trepidation wasn't fear of hearing more from YF, so much as it was of our own inability to describe whatever wrinkle arrived in the rap-song-beat group's unprecedented style. People were saying things like "what you waited over a decade for the grime movement to curate" and "remind you of the sweet Lofi-Street-Sound of a nice old Ghetto-Blaster". Thankfully, while reductive, that's still kinda fair.
The range these young men span from song to song is heroic. They are masters of emotion ("I Heard"), experts with texture ("Mr. Martyr"), incredible with rhythms ("Ebony Sky"), and fierce wielders of noise ("Queen Is Dead"). But they are also capable of being all of these things at once and coming out the other end with an odd masterpiece like "Way Down in the Hole," which begins like a warm Miguel demo before inhabiting a bombed-out horror score apparently performed by the ghostly inhabitants of the crumpled space between two terraced houses shortly after an air raid. Young Fathers can do this because they have been making music (and art and videos) together since they were 14 years old, and are telepathic besides.
YF are vocalists and perfectionists all three: Alloysious born in Liberia, Kayus raised by Nigerian immigrants, and G who also provides the score. Together, they croon like a left-field rock band or a '90s R&B squad, or rhyme like scions sent either from the D.A.I.S.Y. age or escaped from some distant dystopia in Sun Ra's mothership, and do so over production that pulls as much from African tradition as it does electronic futurism. If their sound or words sometimes seem bleak, it's only because the world outside is, and they are a mirror reflecting our truths back. But Young Fathers are also our imaginations running weird, finding color in dark corners and dancing in light nobody else sees.
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Geographical, Statistical and Historical Map of...
Henry Charles Carey & Isaac Lea
Geographical, Statistical and Historical Map of Brazil
Philadelphia / 1823
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Rich full color example of this interesting map of Brazil, from Carey & Lea's Atlas.
One of the first separate maps of the newly independent Brazil, shortly after the return of the King of Portugal to Brazil, leaving his son to rule the country.
The map is surrounded by details of the country, its soil, climate, history, populations, city information, government and a host of other historical and political details.
Carey & Lea's Atlas is highly prized not only for its cartographic information but the marvelous information about each of the states and territories which is included.
The atlas was issued in 6 editions in English, French & German between 1822 and 1827.
Henry Charles Carey Biography
Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879) was an American geography publisher and businessman. He was the son of Mathew Carey and carried on the family publishing company in partnership with his brother-in-law, Isaac Lea. Henry worked in his father's business from a young age. At twelve, he managed a store selling his father's publications. At fifteen, he was the firm's financial manager. In 1817, he became a junior partner, which changed the company's name to Carey & Son.
In 1822, Mathew Carey brought in a new junior partner, Isaac Lea, who had married Henry's sister, Frances Anne. In the same year, Mathew Carey left the business, with Henry buying out his father's share. His younger brother briefly joined the business, but left by 1829, when the firm was named Carey & Lea. William A. Blanchard joined the firm in 1833, causing another name change to Carey, Lea & Blanchard. Henry retired in 1835, leaving the firm as Lea & Blanchard.
Henry had outside interests, including political economy. He published Principles of Political Economy in 1837. He also wrote Past, Present, and Future (1848), Principles of Social Science (1858-1860), and The Unity of Law (1872). In the 1850s, he was very active in organizing the nascent Republican Party. He died in 1879.
Isaac Lea Biography
Isaac Lea (1792-1886) was an American publisher and geologist. Raised a Quaker in Delaware, he turned away from pacifist teachings and joined the militia in the War of 1812. After marrying Frances Anne, the daughter of publishing magnate Mathew Carey, Lea became a junior partner of Carey & Son in 1822. Mathew Carey left the firm in the same year and Isaac Lea worked primarily with his brother-in-law, Henry Charles Carey.
The pair conducted business as Carey & Lea, during which time they published A Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas from 1822 to 1827. This work included roughly twenty maps engraved by Fielding Lucas Jr., as well as an American edition of Starling's Cabinet Atlas. However, the firm increasingly turned away from cartographic publications.
By 1829, after the brief participation of Edward Carey, Henry's younger brother, the company became known as Carey & Lea. William A. Blanchard joined the firm in 1833, causing another name change to Carey, Lea & Blanchard. Henry retired in 1838, leaving the firm as Lea & Blanchard.
Isaac Lea was not just a publisher, but an avid researcher with aptitude for geology. He was a member of the American Academy of Natural Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He retired from publishing in 1851 and turned increasingly to geological research, results of which he published until his death in 1886.
Antique Maps / South America / Brazil
[Empire of Brazil] Nova Carta Chorographica do Imperio do Brazil Reduzida pelo Bacharel Pedro Torquato Xr. de Brito Tenente Coronel Gro do Corpo D'Engenheiro e Socio effectivo do Instituto Polytechnico Brasileiro, da que foi confeccionada pelo Coronel Conrado Jacob de Niemeyer, e outros Officiaes Eugenheiros en 1856 . . . 1867
Rare Map of the Empire of Brazil
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Abbildung der Statt und Vestung Parayba in der Landschaft Brasilia
Nice full color example of Merian's scare regional map of the area around Paraiba, Brazil, with a larger regional map showing the Captaincy of Brasilia.
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Portuguese Manuscript Chart of the Waters Near Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil
Zuyder deel van America uyt gegeven door Arnold Colom
Fine example of Arnold Colom's rare and highly important sea chart of most of South America, first published circa 1656.
[Old Color!] Delineatio Omnium Orarum Totius Australis Partis Americae, Dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam, Pariam, & Castellam . . .
Rare Contemporary-Colored Example of Linschoten's Map of South America
Price: $ 11,000.00
A New Chart of the Coast of Brazil, From The Equator To Rio Janeiro, Drawn from the Surveys made by order of the Portuguese Government. Including those of Jose Patriceo, Manoel Pimental & Several Officers In The Royal Navy. Newly Arranged. . . . 1825
Exceedingly rare and finely executed "blue-back" sea chart of the Brazilian coastline between Cabo Frío and Céara, published in New York by William Hooker and copyrighted 5th day of Jany. 1825.


Kid Cudi – Girls (Ft. Too $hort)
nick | Apr 2, 2013 |Chill, Hip-Hop, Kid Cudi, |Chill, Music
Kid Cudi is getting closer to the release of his latest album Indicud, artwork above. For his latest single "Girls" he recruited none other then Too $hort to complete the record. It is a chilled out song filled with his smooth signature flow bouncing of the production perfectly. Too $hort's verse is short and adds some contrast to the song. As great as this track is, it is just another teast for the rest of the album. Don't miss the already released "Immortal". Enjoy!
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BENNINGTON — Attorney Jason Morrissey has been appointed as the new legal counsel for Southwestern Vermont Health Care, the company announced Thursday. He succeeds Tom Jacobs, who had served as SVHC's general counsel until his death in 2020.
In addition to acting as counsel to SVHC, Morrissey will continue operating his private law practice in Bennington.
"We are so grateful for Tom Jacobs' long and dedicated service to SVHC," said Thomas A. Dee, SVHC's president and CEO. "We are fortunate to have someone of Jason's caliber to step in and fulfill this very important role within our organization."
Morrissey received his bachelor's in finance from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. He has owned his own law practice in Bennington since 2008.
He started practicing law in Bennington in 2004 as an associate attorney at Cummings, Dailey & Cohen, LLP, where he later became a partner. Prior to moving to Bennington, Morrissey worked as a senior account manager and in other roles for steel companies in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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"Jason has the skills and experience to guide SVHC through the legal aspects of our operations," said Tommy Harmon, the chair of SVHC's board of trustees. "He will make a great advisor to both our board and management team."
Morrissey serves on the boards of The Bank of Bennington and the Park Lawn Cemetery. He is vice president and trustee of the Cooper-Kelley Scholarship Fund, a member of the Vermont Bar Association's Real Estate Title Standards Committee, and moderator for the Town of Bennington. He is a former member of the Bennington Select Board and former director for Hospice of Bennington County.
"SVHC is such an integral part of our community," Morrissey said. "I look forward to contributing to the future of this great organization."
As general counsel, Morrissey will attend meetings of the SVHC board and consult on legal matters for the health system.
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#LoadShedding: Is it deliberate or is it a genuine breakdown at Eskom?
News / 13 February 2019, 10:20am / Marvin Charles
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Cape Town - Is it deliberate or is it a genuine breakdown at Eskom?
This is the question that the ANC is grappling with as it tries to make sense of the load shedding at the power utility that took even President Cyril Ramaphosa by surprise.
ANC acting national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said that the breakdown at Eskom plants was an attempt to sabotage Ramaphosa's new vision for the country.
"The coincidence is suspicious. This comes a few days after the president made very bold statements during the State of the Nation Address (Sona) about growing the economy and boosting investment," Kodwa said on the sidelines of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Tuesday.
Kodwa said the government's intention to unbundle Eskom, as announced by Ramaphosa, would make the struggling state-owned enterprise more profitable.
On Tuesday, Eskom implemented Stage 3 load shedding. According to the utility, despite the generating units returning to service as planned, the emergency reserves of diesel and water supply remained low.
Stage 3 called for 3000MW to be rotationally load shed nationally at a given period.
Economist Mike Schussler said there could be sabotage at play.
"It's a nightmare for the economy and we could see the economy shrink by 5% and if this continues it will be tragic for consumers.
"Eskom has not managed its networks well and we are slowly finding out how damaging there systems are," he said.
Professor Bheki Mngomezulu, from the University of the Western Cape's political science faculty, said that Eskom's explanation does not hold any substance.
"The load shedding problem could have been avoided if there were plans in place.
"What we know is that Eskom has continued to pay out bonuses and has requested loans from government which shows that the money has not been used properly," he said.
Mngomezulu added that we could see political parties use Eskom as a ploy as we edge closer to elections,
"Political parties are having a good day because they are going to continue to use Eskom as a playground to get votes and for their personal gain."
It didn't come as a surprise that Eskom's woes dominated the Sona debate in Parliament on Tuesday as opposition parties called on the president to intervene.
ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu said the crisis at Eskom has to be fixed.
"The crisis is a cause for concern as it negatively affects our economic ambitions.
"We are nonetheless hopeful that our government will act swiftly to arrest this situation, especially the current episodes of load shedding," said Mthembu.
IFP spokesperson on public enterprises Narend Singh said the continued incompetence and mismanagement at Eskom remained one of the greatest risks to our national security and tanking of the economy.
"The ANC must own up to its own complicity in aiding and abetting the current state of collapse at Eskom.
"Eskom has for many years under the leadership of the ANC failed."
Good leader Patricia de Lille said that the country was being held to ransom by a cadre of corrupt and unethical people.
"Power cuts are estimated to be costing our country between R2 billion and R5bn a day," De Lille said.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse's Ronal Chauke said: "Eskom's ageing power plants require urgent attention to keep the lights on and it would appear that the lack of maintenance over the past years is catching up with us today."
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The main project of 2013/2014 was to launch a high-altitude balloon into the stratosphere, where it could take photos and video, and to subsequently recover it. The balloon was successfully launched on the 15th June from an airfield near Tewksebury, Cheltenham, and landed near Glastonbury. It reached an altitude of 32 km, and spent about 3 hours in the air.
The main payload carried by the balloon contained two flight computers. The first was an LPCXpresso microcontroller fitted with an ARM processor. This interfaced with the environmental sensors (barometers, thermometers et cetera) and the GPS receiver and relayed the data via radio. We then received this data using a portable radio receiver and uploaded it to the habhub server, where it could be corroborated with other tracking data and plotted on a map. See Richard Meadows' github page for the lpc source code. The second computer was an mBed, which also received data from the GPS module and sent it via a GSM modem to an ordinary mobile phone, telling us where the balloon was. Unfortunately, this computer failed for some reason, but it wasn't essential.
The balloon was also equipped with two cameras; a GoPro Hero 3 mounted to the bottom capturing 1080p footage at 30 fps and an ordinary Canon point-and-shoot programmed to take photos every 15 seconds. For the latter, we opted for the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), an open source custom firmware for Canon cameras.
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'Ordinary' local self-publishes his first book
Thad AngellozStaff Writer
Jon Paul Olivier has traveled all over the world.
Olivier credits his travels and a co-worker for giving him the idea to write his first book, "To Be Ordinary."
The 372-page self-published work of fiction became available through amazon.com and elsewhere last month.
"I actually drew upon the story of the 'Lion King' and the 'Princess Diaries' when I sat down to write this book," Olivier said. "It is about a guy born into a royal family whose only wish is to simply be ordinary like everyone else."
The book follows Archie, who comes to the U.S. to attend college. Archie wants to put distance between him and his father, so he could be ordinary like his friends. However, his father wants Archie to assume the role he was born into. When Archie meets Erica, she finds more than she ever imagined. The two worlds collide as Archie struggles to reconcile who he wants to be with and who he should be. Archie is torn between love and the life he knows.
Olivier, a 49-year-old Franklin native and father of two, said his co-worker, Karen Vice, encouraged him to write the book.
According to Vice, it was a no-brainer to suggest the book once she began hearing Olivier speak of his global journeys.
"He was telling us about his trip to Cuba, and then he told us about other trips he'd taken," she said.
Vice, a self-proclaimed non-reader, said she enjoyed Olivier's first offering.
"I couldn't put it down," she said. "I'm big into romance, and this book has that and much more. It is a great story, and he tells it so well."
Olivier, who is working on other books, said he spent the better part of the last five years putting "To Be Ordinary" together.
After finishing the book, Olivier said he pitched it to publishing houses and was met with what he termed to be "a better-than-expected response.
"A few gave me standard stock responses, but many others actually offered me some encouraging words," he said. "Several told me they liked the overall story and the writing of it was strong."
Instead of waiting to find a publisher, Olivier decided to go the route of self-publishing through a company in California.
"I liked it because I had a lot of control over the process," Olivier said of self-publishing. "My main thing was I wanted to sell it directly to the readers that were showing an interest."
While Olivier's book is a work of fiction, it didn't stop him from being as accurate as possible when setting scenes.
"I performed research for this book because I wanted to accurately depict things like what day-to-day life was like for someone in a royal family and other things like what it is like to fly in a private jet," he said. "Basically this is fiction mixed with some reality that hopefully makes it more real for the reader."
So far, the handful of people that have read the book like it, Olivier added.
"The book is wonderful," a review on Amazon posted March 5 by Jean M. says. "Could not put it down. A must-read for every age. Keeps you interested and the story is great."
Olivier said he's employing unconventional marketing ideas to spread word about his book, including running in a T-shirt with an image of the book's cover at a recent marathon held in New Orleans.
"I printed up a shirt with the cover of my book and other information about it on the back," he said. "When you consider there were 22,000 runners there, that's good exposure. One lady actually asked me what the answer was to the question I had on the back of my shirt, to which I told her she'd have to read the book to find out."
Olivier said he gave a copy of his book to the Terrebonne Parish Main Library in Houma. You can check out Olivier and information about the book on his Facebook page.
Staff Writer Thad Angelloz can be reached at 857-2207 or at thad.angelloz
@houmatoday.com.