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Training Courses

Behavioral Events Interview approaches and strategies are the best development thus far in the business of hiring and matching the right human capital for the most challenging jobs.  Hiring the right people first time, everythime can save the Organisation a lot of time, improve morale of the staff, overcome staff attrition and increase productivity.

This training workshop adapts the Behavioural Interview Technique developed by Dr Paul C. Green, an Industrial Organisational psychologist.

The process of getting good and quality staff in a knowledge economy demands that interviewers not only possess the ability to interview candidates based on technical competencies, but also have the knowledge and skills to engage the candidates on a behavioral level.

Training Co-ordinators play a vital role in ensuring any training actually solves the performance gap or need, this programme equips you with the appropriate tools and techniques to manage these issues. In this programme you will study:

What would you do when your company downsizes its staff due to changes in the industry and the economy? The importance of being equipped with essential skills when losing your job demands that you not only possess the mindset to accept the loss positively, but also have the attitude, knowledge and skills to find another job in the fastest time frame. This means that you need to have sufficient exposure to the intricacies of human psychology to effectively survive and succeed in the ever-competitive job market.

The management of human resources towards the 21st century requires appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes to ensure professionalism and effectiveness in the achievement of organizational goals. Dealing with disciplinary matters covering investigations, domestic inquiries and punishments requires the appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes in order to avoid costly consequences to the organization. Employees are becoming more aware of their rights and remedies available to them.

It is important for HR to keep pace with the demands of dynamic business environments and legal frameworks. Unfortunately, many HR functions have evolved without being fully aware of these demands and are either totally reactive or are driven by their specialist outlook, not taking into consideration the imperative of supporting the organization, its business and its strategies. The HR audit is used to highlight areas of weakness, areas that can be improved and even areas where there are no policies or procedures.

Employees are the most important asset of an organisation because they are the critical success factors that spearhead its success or failure. In order for organisations to meet company goals and objectives, especially in this new era of borderless trade, it is imperative for employees to be "turned on" and be highly motivated. A vital ingredient in developing a successful company is the application and implementation of good and sound human resource practices.

In this programme, participants will learn how to effectively and efficiently conduct an interview.  Participants will learn the importance of scrutinizing resumes’, evaluating candidates and choosing among them objectively. Participants will be given a step-by-step guidance in interviewing candidates. This programme will also train participants in conducting behavioral interviews.

The performance of organizations is among the top agendas in any management, and quite rightly so. Many organizations however are measuring the “wrong square peg in a round hole”, as demonstrated by them being like busy bees without collecting any honey. And since you cannot hope to manage what you cannot measure properly, it is no wonder many are not performing up to expectations. You may end up praising the bad and reprimanding the good.

This innovative dynamic programme will cover the most fundamental knowledge about Human Resource Management

  • Get right up to date with current thinking in HR
  • Have a unique opportunity to sample a number of HR functions
  • Gather HR management knowledge using easy to understand approach

View performance appraisal as an important tool for development rather than merely formality.

Although the training needs assessment is essential for effective effort, this important component of training and development is often ignored. An effective analysis of training needs assess the needs of individuals and matches these needs to organizational objectives. This allows the organization’s management to agree and implement coordinated, cost-effective and cohesive training programmes.

Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a very important management tool to corporate managers. It is important that the KPIs are formulated and implemented well. If not, they are better not done than done. Many organizations rush into establishing KPIs in a hurry to match competition and to show they are measurement focused. If they do it without aligning the KPIs to their strategy and without thoroughly evaluating and choosing the right KPIs, the exercise will not be fruitful. Sooner or later the employees will reject the KPIs as useless measures.

This is aimed at managers, supervisors, human resource officers and those who are responsible for and conduct performance appraisals. Delegates learn how to devise the competency framework for the appraisal based on a job analysis, how to design appraisal forms and questions, and how to avoid appraisals which are ultimately meaningless due to endorsement of middle responses, poor reliability and lack of validity. Effective appraisal interviewing and feedback to appraisees are also covered.

Organizations’ has many obstacles and problems when hiring new candidates. Especially, now, the new generation who is entering the workforce by storm. They are ready to take on whatever they want boldly at their own whims and fancies. Organizations’ now must throw the rule book and make them understand that there is a working code and all must adhere to them. As such, this program, Managing the Probationary Employee, is very crucial to the organization as it sets the rules and the playing field for the new workforce.

Your organization will only thrive and survive with appropriate investment in your human capital - your people. The current competitive recruitment and retention climate across both the public and private sector is creating the need for innovative talent management strategies.

The Employment Act 1955 (EA) forms the basis of employment contracts between employer and employee. It covers the minimum terms and conditions of employment for employees who are covered under the EA. Employers are free to provide better terms but a penalty awaits organizations that provide inferior terms.

At the same time it also provides some obligations and limitations from both employer and employee particularly in terms of work hours and OT and the administration of benefits.

Employee compensation, is a central part of the employment relationship. From the employees’ point of view, policies having to do with wages, salaries, and other earnings have a major impact on their overall income and thus their standard of living. Both the level of pay and how fair it seems compared with others’ pay is important. Pay is also often considered a sign of status and success. Employees attach great importance to pay decisions must be carefully managed and communicated.

Although the training needs assessment is essential for improving competencies, this vital component for training and development is often poorly undertaken. An effective analysis of training needs assesses the needs of individuals and organizations - and matches these needs against urgency and available budget. This allows management to agree and implement coordinated, cost-effective and cohesive training programmes. Training and development are investments in human ‘capital’ of the organization.

In the field of Industrial Relations developing and maintaining good employer-employee relations is of paramount importance. If this can be done, the twin objectives of increasing Productivity and high Quality will be achieved. Discipline is also an essential requirement if the targets and objectives of an organization are to be achieved. Management is therefore expected to be competent in dealing with the misconduct of their employees. Furthermore, they are required by law to give delinquent employees a fair hearing by conducting a fair and proper domestic inquiry.

A walk-in interview occurs when an individual can interview for a job position without having a pre-scheduled appointment. However, the candidate will need to prepare for these interviews just like any other. The main objective of having walk-in interview is to avoid the hassle of managing job boards or other advertisements. These are often expensive and time consuming to create and place in the appropriate area to reach candidates.


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Montague-CTE Scholars Named

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at Texas A&M University has announced its 2015-16 Montague-CTE Scholars—nine faculty members who were selected for  excellence in undergraduate teaching and learning.

Kenneth Montague

Kenneth Montague

The Montague-CTE Scholar award is named in honor of the late Kenneth Montague, a 1937 Texas A&M graduate who was awarded distinguished alumnus status and was a long-serving trustee for the Texas A&M Foundation. He and his wife, Judy, created an endowment in 1991 to benefit Aggies who are life-long learners and contributors to their communities.

“The CTE is deeply grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Montague’s son, Jim, and wife, Vicki, for their generous and continued support to recognize early career excellence in teaching and learning at our university,” stated CTE Associate Director Debra Fowler.

Each academic college has the opportunity to select one tenure-track faculty member annually to receive this prestigious award, Fowler explained. Each awardee receives $6,500 to encourage further development of their outstanding undergraduate teaching attributes, she added.

The 2015-16 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholars are:

  • David Wells, Galveston Campus, Department of Marine Biology;
  • Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo, College of Architecture, Department of Visualization;
  • Kelly Graf, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Anthropology;
  • Michelle Lawing, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management;
  • Gretchen Miller, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering;
  • Jennifer Marshall, College of Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy;
  • Maria Esteve-Gassent, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology;
  • Dan Goldberg, College of Geosciences, Department of Geography;
  • Sarah Rice, Mays Business School, Department of Accounting

The 25th anniversary celebration of The Montague-CTE Scholar Award Program will be held on Oct. 7 in the Bethancourt Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center.  Members of the Montague family, along with many of the previous teacher-scholars recognized since the award program’s inception, will be in attendance.

Counting the 2015-16 honorees, 225 Montague-CTE Scholars have been selected since the program began.

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Simply discussing the problems and issues facing America today, even from a Christian perspective, is not enough, said the leaders of two national organizations that recently announced a partnership to plant churches in Los Angeles, New York, and everywhere in between.

“We really don’t have to look much farther than social media and news outlets [to see] everything going on in our culture — the racism, the injustice…,” said Jeff Bennett, who is a Stadia executive for its U.S. Church Planting and South Region divisions. “We can talk about the injustices, we can talk about the discouragement we feel, or we could do something.”

Stadia, a church planting resource that has helped “hundreds of great leaders start new churches,” and World Impact, a ministry that “empowers the urban poor and incarcerated” recently held a “vision trip” in Los Angeles where Bennett along with World Impact National Director Bob Engel spoke to TogetherLA.net about the partnership.

They said that church planting, urban outreach and discipleship are action steps and answers to the questions many people in America are now asking in a tension filled, politically charged country. Prayer is an essential part, but not the only part, they said.

Bennett said he believes that currently many people are often asking, “What can I do? How can we impact culture? How can we change some of the things that just disgust us that are going on today? Is there something our churches can do?”

He followed the list of questions by saying that almost every American church is within 20 minutes of an urban, under-resourced community.

“There are people living in those communities who maybe your church isn’t going to reach, but that doesn’t take away the responsibility off of you to get the gospel out there,” Bennett said. “You’ve got great organizations like World Impact who are training up leaders who live in these communities, to go go back to these communities and reach their neighbors but they need our help. There are very practical things we can do, the church can do to make an impact in these communities. When we start to do that, that’s when we see culture change and communities change.”

When asked about the significance of the partnership, Engel said, “Souls. That’s always the first thing I think about. Souls are eternal, and yes, there are a lot of needs in the city. We do believe, first of all, that the church of the living God comes together and they’ve been given a steward of the gospel.

“The gospel becomes a power to transform someone from the inside,” he explained. “That transformation then brings them into community — we plant churches — that community then has been given the keys of the kingdom of God. Then, ultimately I believe, Stadia believes [that] true transformation is going to come when people are changed from the inside, gathered together as God’s people and then begin to use their gifts to transform their community around them.”

Engel said the partnership between Stadia and World Impact is “very critical if you just think about the kingdom of God.”
“The kingdom is churches, God’s people coming together to advance and expand His kingdom — can’t do it separately, you need to do it together — and so Stadia is so committed to God’s kingdom, planting churches, people coming to Christ, being discipled…,” he said. “That’s who we are amongst the urban poor and under-resourced communities and so it’s a beautiful marriage.

“When we think of LA together we also think of Stadia and World Impact together. We need to come together to move God’s kingdom forward.”

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Cooking with Kombucha: healthy, delicious and different!

When was the last time you incorporated something genuinely new and interesting into your regular cooking repertoire? Well, you can thank us later for not only adding a new element of taste to your kitchen, but one with remarkable health benefits too.

Thankfully, the world has increasingly wised up to the one-two punch of Kombucha as a beverage option, with its delicious taste, coupled with a prebiotic and probiotic boost for your gut health. You've read the title to this article already, so you're well prepared to have your mind blown: did you know that Kombucha not only can be a refreshing drink, but can also be used in your cooking?

That's right, there are plenty of creative cooks out there who are putting their favourite brew to good use in the kitchen. Take for example the author and blogger, Jerrelle Guy, who had the idea for a twist on traditional Irish soda bread. She enjoys making plant-based recipes and saw an opportunity to make vegan, probiotic-loaded muffins, using Kombucha.

“I knew that the carbonation and the acid in the Kombucha would react with the baking soda because of the concept behind Irish soda bread and beer bread,” says Guy. “And I thought Kombucha sounded a lot more fun than soda, so I just experimented with it!”

Grab yourself a bottle of Traditional & Original TONICKA Kombucha and put it to work in this Kombucha Muffins recipe. (Hot tip: make sure you have a second bottle nearby, to keep yourself refreshed).

Once you've made your friends and family happy with a batch of delicious muffins, you'll no doubt be enthused to create even more artistry in the kitchen. How about Bananas Brûlée with Mulberry Kombucha and Toasted Hazelnuts?

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Quick Links 22nd October 2017

Life In General – Well this week started out a little weird. Ex-Hurricane Ophelia was forecast, although we missed the worst of the winds and rain, she did bring a lot of Saharan sand with her, leaving some truly odd skies during the day. Sadly Ophelia claimed three lives, and did quite a bit of damage [LINK] elsewhere. We also had storm Brian at the end of the week, which for us was a bit of a blustery day and like the start of the week we missed the worst of the storm.

Had my flu jab during the week, hopefully that will offer me some protection from getting sick over the winter months. The media are getting a bit of a fever (sorry) about this flu season predicting it will be bad, after a bad season in Australia.

The clocks don’t go back until next weekend, and so the mornings have been that much darker, so I’ve been using the dog’s illuminated collars for the first time this autumn/winter, when the clocks change it’ll be a bit lighter again in the mornings for a while, but darker much earlier.

Work  A little progress this week, getting ready for another Chamber of Commerce event at the end of the month.

Allotment – The weather hasn’t been conducive to getting much done on the plot this week, but the overwintering onions are now starting the germinate and stick shoots up above the ground. The weeds don’t seem to be abating though – plenty to do.

Currently Reading – Most of the week I’ve been reading – Floating: a Life Regained
by Joe Minihane [GoodReads] – it’s essentially a revisit of Waterlog by the late Roger Deakin [GoodReads], and it’s a pretty good read. It takes a different perspective, given the different backgrounds of the two authors, but I enjoyed it, although wild swimming in winter is unlikely to become a thing for me.

The Week In Wildlife – In Pictures

Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers [LINK] There’s plenty of coverage of this out there if you want to read more [LINK], but in reality I don’t think that this comes as much of a surprise to many people.

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Diet on ginger tea: oriental weight loss

Diet on ginger tea is very popular among women of different age groups. And this is not surprising, because in addition to losing weight, this technique contributes to the overall improvement of the body. Strengthening metabolic processes and thereby contributing to the burning of extra pounds, ginger tea increases immunity and activates the body's defenses in the period of exacerbation of acute respiratory diseases.

Ginger diet: briefly about the main

Diet on ginger tea: oriental weight loss

The basis of the diet: ginger tea, about 2 liters per day.

Weight loss: 1-2 kilograms per week.

Expenses: one of the cheapest ways to lose weight.

Limitations: moderate consumption of fatty and sweet.

Result: gradual elimination of extra pounds, a beautiful complexion, improvement of the skin and general health.

Miracle plant ginger!

The root of ginger has long been famous for its useful properties. It is proved that this unique plant has a truly miraculous effect on the human body. It has anti-cancer properties, improves blood circulation, morals the metabolism, removes toxins and prevents the development of peptic ulcer.

The tonic effect of ginger gives vivacity to the body and lifts the mood. By promoting the removal of toxins and normalization of metabolism, ginger improves complexion and helps to get rid of excess weight. Strengthening the cerebral circulation, the ginger root improves memory and speeds up mental processes. In addition, ginger treats most skin diseases, relieves headaches, increases mental stability in stressful situations and excels against nausea and seasickness. In men, ginger improves potency, promotes recovery from infertility, beneficially affects the liver and thyroid gland. The healing properties of this miraculous plant are recognized as the oldest and modern medical systems.

In Africa, the ground root of ginger is used as a disinfectant and analgesic. In our country this universal plant is used for cooking almost all dishes, teas and drinks. Dry powder of ginger is present in many confectionery products, pickled ginger is indispensable for sushi and rice dishes, and fresh ginger root is an excellent addition for soups and sauces, which gives a piquant taste and promotes complete assimilation of food.

Ginger tea – "magic wand" for losing weight

Ginger tea for weight loss first began to be used in the east. According to Tibetan ideas, this drink actively struggles with extra pounds due to its warming and stimulating blood circulation properties. While traditional medicine is convinced that it is possible to lose weight with the help of ginger due to the contents of its essential oil, which enhances the metabolism in the body and has a beneficial effect on the skin.

Diet with ginger tea: weight loss and strengthening immunity

Diet on ginger tea: oriental weight loss

Losing weight on a ginger drink is the ideal way to get rid of excess weight for those people who can not take advantage of traditional diets with strict calorie restriction. Ginger diet does not require any major changes in diet and selection of special foods. To effectively burn excess kilograms, it is sufficient to consume ginger tincture, along with basic food, throughout the day, the most popular beverage in Tibet. It is believed that ginger tea with lemon and honey, drunk in the morning, tones and invigorates even better than coffee.

The essence of ginger diet is the use of at least a day 2 liters of ginger drink, prepared according to a special recipe.

The best result of getting rid of excess weight allows to achieve the following scheme of reception of this tea.

Brewed from the evening drink is drunk in the morning on an empty stomach, for 30 minutes before breakfast. Breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner are allowed by various products. In view of the fact that ginger gives satiety and discourages appetite, it is unlikely to overeat. Throughout the day, in between meals, it is necessary to drink ginger tea as often as possible in small sips. Before going to bed, you need to drink 1-2 a glass of a diet drink.

The diet for ginger tea lasts long enough – more than 1 a month, however, given its lightness and balance, this period flies by unnoticed. Almost without changing the habitual way of life, you smoothly discard extra pounds and forget about them for a long time. If you add a little exercise to the ginger diet or completely refuse from flour and sweet, then ginger tea for weight loss will give amazing results.

Ginger diet is safe enough, but there are contraindications to its use. This pregnancy, breastfeeding, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases.

Ginger tea for weight loss: a recipe for a miracle drink

It is known that the properties of ginger infusion depend on the proportions and the way it is brewed. Today, there are several recipes for making ginger tea for weight loss, each of which deserves special attention.

Recipe No. 1

Ginger rubbed on a grater, put in a thermos and poured hot water at the rate of 2 teaspoons of ground ginger for 1 liter of water. The composition is insisted for one hour, after which it is ready for use. This drink is taken in 100 grams half an hour before meals, and every 2 hours during the day. To achieve a more rapid result, a senna herb pack is added to this drink, which has an easy cleansing effect.

Recipe No. 2

To make ginger tea for weight loss in the second way, you need to cut the ginger in thin strips, pour it with clean water, bring to a boil over low heat and cook for 15 minutes. After the beverage has cooled down to body temperature, honey and lemon juice are added to it. Losing weight with ginger tea, cooked according to this recipe, has its followers even in Hollywood, where various herbs are added to this drink. For example, the famous actress Demi Moore drinks ginger tea with mint and lemon balm and leaves extremely positive feedback from this drink. Diet on ginger tea: oriental weight loss

Recipe No. 3

The next option for making tinctures for weight loss is a ginger drink with the addition of spices, which you must make immediately before drinking tea. At the tip of the knife in the drink, you can add ground cloves or ground black pepper and drink it for half an hour before eating on 100-150 grams.

Recipe No. 4

The most correct ginger tea for weight loss for those who want to get rid of a lot of extra pounds. Ginger tea, prepared according to this recipe, in addition to ginger, also includes garlic. To achieve the desired result, you should observe the following proportions: a teaspoon of grated ginger, a teaspoon of grated garlic and 1 liter of hot water. This mixture is infused in a thermos for half an hour, filtered and taken during the day every two hours.

As evidenced by numerous reviews, ginger tea for weight loss is the favorite drink of most modern women, the use of which gives positive results in a week – minus 1-3 kilograms of excess weight. Diet on a ginger drink is recognized as the simplest way to safely and gradually lose weight, allowing not only to reduce weight, but also to improve the whole body, strengthen immunity and increase the rate of metabolic processes.

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Reviews of ginger tea

I did not even think that from simple ginger tea three times a day I will be able to lose weight more than from a carbohydrate diet. However, it is, for a month of taking this tea I threw off twenty kilograms, now I'm not ashamed and go out into the street. Now I advise this recipe to all my friends, they also respond positively, no wonder, natural methods will always be effective.

I basically love ginger, so sitting on ginger tea for me was even a joy. I cooked it according to the simplest recipe No. 1, and drank it during the day. It tastes absolutely tasteless, and you even get used to it in time. Of course, I did not eat any fatty and flour dishes, and periodically went in for sports. A month later, 5 kg went unnoticed for me, and even without much strain, so that oriental people knew a lot about losing weight.

So much has been tried by me for weight loss, but my 75 kg did not move. No diet, berries, methods did not help, weight returned back. AND THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT I HAVE NEEDED IT! Seriously, girls, a diet on ginger tea is the best I've ever tried. I could not even expect such a result!)))

A month has passed, clothes hang, weight goes away. Instead of 75 now on the scales 60 !! -15 kilogram per month is a miracle. I advise everyone this diet.

Hi girls. I want to unsubscribe about my results of using the ginger diet. At first I did not really believe in this diet, but I read a lot of good things about her and decided to check on myself. I will make a reservation, that besides it tried to use only healthy food. But using a minimum of 2l of ginger tea 100% gives an excellent result. After one month she dropped 4 kg easily without suffering. The state of health is remarkable. Dare, friends.

Ginger tea in the winter is what you need! I always try to "stock" zapostis for the winter, 5kg regularly recruit. And here in the course of a long sore throat they advised to drink tea with ginger for immunity. Not only that I recovered quite quickly, but so much I liked the taste of this tea, that I drank it for another month. Imagine my surprise when, at the end of February, I got on the scales and instead of the "winter" 68 I saw 61! 🙂

So much has been tried by me for weight loss, but my 75 kg did not move. No diet, berries, methods did not help, weight returned back. AND THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT I HAVE NEEDED IT! Seriously, girls, a diet on ginger tea is the best I've ever tried. I could not even expect such a result!))) A month passed, clothes hang, weight goes away. Instead of 75 now on the scales 60 !! -15 kilogram per month is a miracle. I advise everyone this diet.

This diet was my salvation, when it was necessary to lose weight accumulated during the cold pound by the summer)) Without much difficulty lost the hated ten, so it was not a shame to look at your body in a swimsuit. I also met a good guy on vacation ^^ So I recommend this diet to everyone. It is not only effective, but also useful. Little girls, at once you will kill two hares: you will grow thin and improve your organism.

I always considered myself not the most slender lady, but after two pregnancies and long stress, modestly speaking, I got so good and fell out of the diet All the diets took up a lot of energy and gave me a strong psychological load, no, do not think that I'm weak, it is very difficult to explain these feelings, but whoever was on diets immediately understand me. About weight loss on ginger tea, I heard a long time, but found it full of nonsense. There comes a time when I'm ready to drop my hands, but I really wanted the result, I just wanted to lose weight. And it is at this point that the principle of "attempt not torture" is triggered. I tried . Lord, if I knew what was happening inside me, when I first saw in a long time a figure less than 90! I just ran around the apartment and screamed with happiness. Now I'm weighing 81, it's a great result, considering that 2 months ago my figures floated around 91-92. And why did not I try it before? Girls, I recommend everyone to drink tea – it's delicious, so you also lose weight, the most pleasant diet (and you can not name a diet), which I met!

If there is a desire to lose weight inexpensively and with the result – the diet is most) At first it was difficult to get used to a slightly specific taste, but now ginger tea was replaced by my favorite green. And most importantly, the result is!) It's nice to feel that you lose weight. In winter, it was 67 kilogram with the growth of 163, now 54. Now I began to go to fitness, I hope that by the next summer I will be able to get into swimsuits, which I did not wear for ten years)

Ginger since ancient times was a miracle cure for weight loss. This diet is simple, inexpensive and effective. Ginger has the property of burning fat, accelerating the metabolism, and generally has a lot of useful properties. I just started drinking a ginger drink without changing my usual diet. And the effect was not long in coming. For a month I lost weight on 3 kg (with a small weight). Of course someone will say that a strict diet and proper nutrition is much more effective, but no one forces you to drink a ginger. And then everything is simple, you drink gulls and kilograms go. And besides, the tea is pleasant to the taste. Tasty and useful, in a word.

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The Roundhouse is a former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England. It has been converted into a performing arts and concert venue. It was originally built in 1847 by the London and North Western Railway as a roundhouse, a circular building containing a railway turntable.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion students, take heart: Even someone with the natural talent of Marc Jacobs had to pull all-nighters to get through design school.

Just before receiving an award Tuesday night from his alma mater, the Parsons School of Design, Jacobs recalled the cloud of giddy exhaustion under which he worked at school, where he'd toil around the clock with fellow student (and now, noted fellow designer) Tracy Reese.

"Tracy and I worked all the time on our homework," he said in an interview. "I mean, we'd work so hard and be so tired — we wouldn't have any sleep. We'd get so tired that we'd be giddy, we'd just get the giggles."

Jacobs, who for years has been one of fashion's biggest names, said he never could have imagined the position he would one day occupy. "I always dreamed of being a working fashion designer, but I never knew what proportion it would take," he said. "And I am still amazed by it. Every new thing we get to do and every change that we make, I just think how fortunate I am. But I wouldn't say it's lucky, because I had the opportunity and I prepared for that opportunity. And I pushed myself. And others pushed me."

Jacobs received his award from the acknowledged arbiter of the fashion world, Anna Wintour. The Vogue editor noted in her introduction that in a world that can be filled "with superficiality," Jacobs' "feet are always firmly planted on the ground." He is one designer who doesn't take himself too seriously, she said.

Accepting his award, Jacobs lived up to that description by explaining that had he not succeeded as a fashion designer, he would have become a video store clerk.

That, he said, was his only Plan B, and that's what he told his high school guidance counselor.

"I wouldn't have had a very long career as a video store clerk, since video stores don't exist anymore," Jacobs quipped.

Tuesday's Parsons benefit, which raised $1.7 million according to school officials, also honored the French luxury conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, and included a fashion show featuring designs from Parson's 2015 graduates — an opportunity that, Jacobs noted, had helped launch his own career many years earlier.

Now 52, Jacobs designed and sold a line of sweaters while still a Parsons student. He was creative director of Louis Vuitton for 16 years, from 1997 to 2013, and currently heads his own Marc Jacobs label as well as the lower-priced Marc by Marc Jacobs line.

In the interview, Jacobs said he can't put his finger on what makes some talented designers succeed while some others do not.

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CAIRO (AP) — An international rights group says it found evidence that a Saudi-led coalition used Brazilian-made rockets carrying cluster bombs when it targeted schools in northern Yemen earlier this month.

Human Rights Watch said Friday that the Dec. 6 airstrikes on Saada killed two people. The attack came a day after Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United States abstained from a U.N. vote to ban the use of cluster munitions.

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From my experience, I’d say the Gili Islands are the Indian Ocean’s version of the Caribbean. Though Indonesia has over 18,000 islands in all, only 922 of which are actually populated, the Gilis are some of the most popular islands to visit due to their relatively close proximity to Bali.

If white sand, hot-as-hell weather, calm turquoise waters and relaxed beach bars are your jam, head to Gili Air for some sexy sweaty swimmin’ time.

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Gili Islands Fact Sheet:

  • The Gilis consist of a group of 26 islands, all surrounding Bali’s neighbor island of Lombok.
  • Of these 26 islands, 3 in particular are popular travel spots, including Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air, all located just off the northwest coast of Lombok.
  • The easiest and quickest way to get to the Gilis is by fast boat from Bali.
  • Gili Trawangan is the largest, craziest and raunchiest of the 3 islands – if you’re looking for a full moon (or any moon) beach party, and the idea of questionably legit DJ sets till sunrise sounds appealing, Gili T’s just the place.
  • Gili Meno is the smallest of the 3 islands and by far the quietest, known as ‘the honeymoon island.’ Come here to relax, catch up on R&R, and do other sexy shit in the sand.
  • Gili Air is the happy medium of the other two islands, with pumping beach parties for some, and peace and quiet for the rest. Since we live just down the street from the shit show club scene that is Kuta, Bali, we chose Gili Air. We’ve seen enough shirtless, sweaty Aussies to appreciate not rubbing up against them for a few days.
  • There are no dogs on any of the 3 Gili Islands – only horses, cats, cows, lizards, goats, chickens, and a shit ton of bugs and mosquitoes. Suck it, rabies!
  • There are no motorized vehicles, including cars or scooters. Transportation methods include your feet, a bicycle, or a cidomo, aka pony cart. While the ponies are adorable, apparently they’re extremely mistreated – as in given ocean water for drinking, made to stand all day in the sun, used to transport extremely heavy loads of concrete and tools, and only live an average of 2-3 years, among other bummers – so unfortunately we can only recommend walking or biking.
  • There is also no police station, and therefore no police officers, unless they decide to make a visit from Lombok. Because of this, drugs are widely available and widely advertised, including mushroom shakes in many of the bars. Weed and ecstasy are also offered by locals, though you need to remember that you are still in Indonesia, which has some of the harshest drug laws in the world. If you are ballsy enough to partake, do not (I repeat, DO NOT!) under any circumstances get caught.
  • On this same note, bars on Gili T, including Rudy’s Pub and Sama Sama Bar, have been known to top off their liquor bottles with methanol, which has directly led to multiple deaths by methanol poisoning. Even scarier, you can’t taste or see methanol in a cocktail, nor is there any reliable emergency healthcare facility on the island should you become deathly ill and unable to travel. For this reason, I highly recommend sticking to bottled beer, and absolutely skip any bars offering super cheap discounts on liquor. The same goes for arak, the Indonesian form of moonshine. Big ole NOPE.
  • Since the Gilis are not part of Bali (the only Hindu area of Indonesia), the Gilis are Muslim islands. Nude sunbathing is a no-no. Pack those extra pair of speedos, Europeans.
  • Gili T and Gili Air have ATMs, but Gili Meno does not. Bring plenty’a cash money!
  • Also, many of the fast boats, especially during slow season, do not go to Gili Meno at all, meaning you’ll have to pay a local boat, or wait for the public one, to make the quick ride over once you’re dropped off on one of the other two islands.
  • Gili Air was perhaps the hottest place I’ve ever been, I kid you freakin’ not. For the first time in my life, I got extremely sunburnt whilst sitting under a beach umbrella. Under, damnit! Fellow pale-skinned humans – please remember to bring sunscreen, wear sunscreen, bathe in sunscreen, consume sunscreen, and repeat!
  • Compared to Bali, the Gilis are ever so slightly more expensive, for everything from accommodations to nasi goreng to Bintang.

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Gili Air Activities:

I’m stoked to report that we spent the majority of our time on Gili Air in the ocean. As opposed to Bali, where the waves can be somewhat intimidating, the Gilis are as flat as my 7th grade chest. You can do some surfing off the southern tip of Gili T and Gili Air when swells and tides are in your favor, but for the most part, relaxed swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving and SUP are your solid go-to’s.

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We witnessed some incredible local marine life, including clown fish, hawksbill turtles, green sea turtles, mantis shrimp, and a feather duster starfish just offshore. And as usual, sir boyfriend captured some incredibly gorgeous underwater shots.

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We also opted to do the pimp thing and hire our own private boat for a multi-hour snorkeling tour of the best spots around each of the 3 islands, all for around $40 USD, or around half the cost of one of my student loan payments.

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Besides drinking beers in kickass beach huts and inadvertently increasing your risk of skin cancer, I highly recommend walking through the interior section of the island, which is funky and gorgeous and a great place to stumble upon the bamboo restaurant of your dreams, and (bonus!) a fun toilet of foliage.

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During the daytime, Scallywags Beach Club is a good hangout with a slightly fancy food menu, comfy beach chairs and annoying trance music, though you’ll find a stretch of similar options all along the eastern shoreline.

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While Lucky’s Bungalows have the best sunset views on the island, along with the occasional rockin’ beach party, yummy dinner and cocktails can be enjoyed nearby at Mowie’s, with surprisingly lovely live music entertainment afterwards at Safari Beach Bar.

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Overall, I’d go back to Gili Air in a heartbeat, though the journey to get there and back is somewhat of a pain in the ass. I’ll miss you, dear sweet calm-ass hot tub ocean water! Till next time.

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    Amman — the capital of Jordan — is a charming city with a fascinating mixture of modern world and cultural history. The city is also an excellent base for touring around popular sites like Jerash. Amman is often overlooked and underrated, but the best things to do in Amman will make your visit worth it.

    This lively city is humming with colorful and innovative cafes, art galleries, street food stalls, and the souks that are sure to amaze you. If you’re an explorer, Amman is calling you!

    1. Try the different flavors of Jordanian food

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    If you wish to explore other ancient sites of Amman, you can book a day or night tour that’ll take you to Citadel, Amman’s hilltop city, ancient museums, and art galleries. But watching the mellow sun with a view of the city’s skyline is undoubtedly one of the bets things to do in Amman.

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    The lively, crowded, and colourful bazaar of the capital meanders around Amman’s Roman ruins. All the household items are sold alongside perfumes, fruits, spices, clothes, not to mention, the delicious Jordanian cuisine. One can also visit the Souk Jara near Rainbow Street, held every friday. That’s also a flea market mainly selling handicrafts and traditional food.

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    6. Stop by Amman’s oldest building: Duke’s Diwan

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    You can linger here for as long as you want, and the warm and friendly caretaker will invite you for a cup of tea to tell stories of the past. If you’re willing to climb the steep stairs, the most beautiful house in the city is waiting for you.

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    7. Take a tour of the Royal Automobile Museum

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    If you’re a car enthusiast, you’re going to love the Royal Automobile Museum. There are over 70 classic motorbikes and cars from the collection of King Hussein, who was king of Jordan from 1956 to 1999.

    8. Looking for some thrill? Go horse riding in Amman

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    If you’re ready to explore, there are a hundred other best things to do in Amman. Those who are on a slow & long journey can even explore the rolling hills of of Amman and get under its skin to find out the hidden treasures.

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Genus: Diospyros – Family: Ebenaceae

Ebony reminds us that clarity is necessary when making decisions that impact the future of generations to come.

Ebony is one of the world’s more prized hardwoods because of its deep black color and dense wood. When polished it takes on a clear, glossy luster that can feel like metal. These unique characteristics have clearly made ebony a premium wood that has been in high demand for centuries. Ebony is a slow-growing evergreen that reaches maturity in 70 to 200 years.

It is one of 700 species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes persimmon trees. The genus name Diospyros is derived from the Greek dios (divine) and pyros (fire), meaning “divine fire.” Only a few of these species produce the hardwood we know as ebony. The word “ebony” originated around 3000 BCE when Ancient Egyptians identified an African black wood they were using as hbny.

Hbny, when translated into Greek and Latin, became ebenos. Later, as trees were scientifically classified, the black wood that inspired the word “ebony” was actually identified as “rosewood” — Dalbergia melanoxylon, or African blackwood, in the genus Dalbergia.

Gabon ebony, Diospyros crassiflora, native to western Africa, produces the darkest wood of the ebony species and barely reaches 30 feet. It is endangered due to exploitation and over harvesting.

Ceylon ebony, Diospyros ebenum, native to India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, was commercially available for centuries but its exportation is now banned. During the 16thand 19thcenturies it was used to make ornate furniture and intricately carved doors. Ceylon ebony can grow to be 82 feet tall.

Makassar ebony, Diospyros celebica, native to Sulawesi is a variegated wided-striped wood with black and brown streaks. Makassar ebony can grow to 66 feet tall, considered vulnerable.

Ebony has been the wood of choice for many musical instruments such as piano keys, guitar frets, tuning pegs and violin fingerboards. In 2012, the Gibson Guitar company was raided for using ebony in their guitars. This was seen as a violation of the Lacey Act of 1900, which prohibits the use of threatened woods. Ebony is clearly a threatened wood that needs to be preserved for future generations.

Message: Ebony is here to remind us to be current and clear-headed so we can make wise and informed decisions. We are being asked to seek new ways to create beauty and harmony that are sustainable for the long-term. This is a time to bring clarity to our intentions as we focus on the future.

Challenge: Easily clouded by misinformation or misperception. Being stuck while the world around us is changing.


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KIMBERLIN FUNDERS STUNNED TO DISCOVER THEY FUND KIMBERLIN  —  A Breitbart News investigation has revealed that many of the funders of the Justice Through Music Project (JTMP), a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization of which convicted “Speedway bomber” Brett Kimberlin is a director, do not know about his criminal past.
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Why Is The State Department Partnering With Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin  —  If you follow the blogosphere, you’ll know that bloggers who criticize left-wing activist and convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin have been harassed.  While doing some research on Mr. Kimberlin …

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National Write About Brett Kimberlin Day

Posted by John Hitchcock on 2012/05/25

Lee Stranahan suggested everyone should blog about Brett Kimberlin, and the reasons for such suggestion should be very clear to regular readers of Truth Before Dishonor (or the vast Conservative blogosphere, for that matter). Last I knew, Lee Stranahan was still a Liberal journalist (but one with integrity). Seth Allen is, as far as I am concerned, a Socialist. But, along with the Conservosphere, Lee Stranahan and Seth Allen have been very willing to shine the light on the dirtball known as Brett Kimberlin. And Brett Kimberlin and crew have used terrifying intimidation tactics against Seth. So, despite the fact that the rightosphere is blowing up with stories about Brett Kimberlin and his “crew” while the leftosphere is not as excited about it, this is not a political “right vs left” issue, but rather, a “right vs wrong” issue. In fact, we on the Right have been rather outspoken in our desire to have our political foes on the Left also write about Brett Kimberlin. Solidarity in the pursuit of a common enemy, as it were.

This is my site. Other authors writing articles on Truth Before Dishonor are doing so because I invited them to be authors on my site. They have the freedom to write about anything they choose, from any position they choose. And sometimes they write from positions contrary to mine and contrary to the official Truth Before Dishonor position (since that position is my position). I write articles elsewhere, but those sites are not mine. They belong to other people. And I strongly advise you to read the below article in its entirety to understand why I do not write about Brett Kimberlin on those other sites. (Here’s a hint: threats against family members (including minor children) of unmet people because someone those unmet people respect spoke the truth about Kimberlin.)

It is important to note that several people who have shown the Light of Truth on Brett Kimberlin has faced malicious and frivolous lawsuits from Brett Kimberlin. They have been threatened and intimidated, their families have been threatened and intimidated, their places of employment have been threatened and intimidated. People have lost their jobs because they spoke the truth about Brett Kimberlin, and those employers were fearful of a convicted bomber showing up at the place of employment. Anonymous bloggers have been outed, their full names, their home addresses, their photos, photos of their homes, information on their families, have all been broadcast over the internet as a result of telling the truth about Brett Kimberlin, the convicted bomber, the convicted perjurer, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison in the 1980s and is free today to harass and intimidate and threaten people who tell the truth about him.

And that, in a direct but roundabout way, is the reason for today being National Write About Brett Kimberlin Day. It might be easy to put out a single brush fire through legal and illegal means. But it is impossible to put out 1,000 burshfires that erupt in a single day, whether by legal or by illegal means. And I allege Kimberlin and his “crew” abuse the former and use the latter.

Patterico, a target of Kimberlin and “crew”, for”special treatment”, has written a very extensive and very explosive article for this national day. And Patterico has specifically said that very extensive article was a very brief “tip of the iceberg” summary, and that the entire material would take weeks to read. I very strongly recommend you read his article. In fact, I have reproduced his article below the fold. (See my permissions declaration at the end of this article.) I also encourage you to read his article on his site, linked above, and read the comment section. And, if you’re a person of courage and Honor, consider writing your own truthful articles about Brett Kimberlin and “crew”.

And now, on to the explosive news about Brett Kimberlin, the proprietor of BradBlog, a well-known Liberal political activist, and others!
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However North Korea is under the belief that our current Orange-Small-Penis-Professional-Tweeter-President has declared WAR on them.

Now where would Kim get that idea?

Shit for brains Donald just can’t shut the fuck up. As a world embarrassment Trump takes the chocolate cake. And somebody is going to get killed.

Now if Kim and his boys could hit Mar-a-Lago while Trump and his entire family was visiting Tubularsock would even help North Korea with the coordinates and put a big ol’ X on the spot. But Google Maps would work just as well. And then Tubularsock wouldn’t be hauled into the hoosegow as a accessory. Now just forget Tubularsock even brought this up and take this blog you have in front of you and slip it into Jared’s private emails he has been using to correspond to White House staff a-la-Hillary!

Tubularsock feels so much better. GO KOREA! RAH!

But it’s not even the real problem. The real problem is that Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, Stephen Bannon met with Saudi King Abdullah in secret, according to recently released documents, to discuss high-stake contracts to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. This discussion had to do with their personal business interest. Not government business.

As one nuclear expert put it, selling nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia is like selling “a nuclear weapons starter kit”.

“Any proposal to introduce dozens of nuclear reactors to the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, raises many proliferation red flags . . . The Saudis do not need nuclear power and them gaining access could lead to dangerous consequences down the road.”
(Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association ….. BuzzFeed)

But that didn’t seem to bother Flynn, Kushner, and Bannon! You know they worked for Trump, The Art of the Deal!

Now Tubularsock wants to be fair here. It isn’t just Trump business, remember who helped to introduce nuclear technology to Iraq ……. Dick Cheney and Halliburton.

And funny fact ……. Cheney did it EVEN THOUGH it was against the law OF THE UNITED STATES to sell nuclear technology to Iraq! Another The Art of the Deal!

You see, there is making money and there is protecting the country. When it is making money THEY are all over it!

When it comes to protecting the country (their business interests) YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE SENT TO DO THAT JOB!

  1. Batt Guano says:

    Tube: Trump is not only a dotard–he’s a DOTURD!! The entire NFL should take a knee… on his throat!! Or..let one of the NFL “son of a Bitches”, a 300 pound lineman, take a full body hit on him as they do to their opponents every Sunday. There wouldn’t be any need for a North Korean nuclear strike. Trump would be gone and we would get the evangelical Pence. Glory Hallelujah!! But don’t worry Tube–Pence would still give you plenty of subject matter.

    Liked by 2 people

  2. sojourner says:

    Tube wrote,

    “When it comes to protecting the country (their business interests) YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE SENT TO DO THAT JOB!”

    Huh uh! “Sent”, to me, implies drafted. These paid mercenaries signed up to be genocidal assholes. Fuck the “sons and daughters” who choose mass murder over working at McDonalds!

    And yes, I know McDs is mass murder as well, but you get my point!

    You are not surprised about Trump, right, Tube? After all, he’s a moron business fuck. I knew he would be twisted around these Zionist creatures’ little fingers. Business people are only good at counting cash and firing their employees. Trump is a fucking idiot, as his speech to the UN showed all too well.

    The empire is dying or already dead, Tube! All of this shit is just its last gasps! And the sooner it dies, the better off the rest of humanity and the planet will be.

    Okay now, all together, “USA! USA! USA! USA!”

    Liked by 2 people

    • tubularsock says:

      Correct sojourner, the draft is gone but the patriotic bull shit is still forming the minds of the stupid to join up. Hey kill 10 children and YOU get a college education paid for by America.

      Liked by 1 person

      • sojourner says:

        Yes, the patriotic bullshit is still in force, but “forming the minds”? I taught school twenty five years ago, and the high school kids I taught were cynical about the government, military and continual war, and this was before internet access to all.

        When you and I were kids, I would have agreed with this, because we didn’t have access to information the way young people do today. And we were much more naive than young people today.

        It is the choice of the individual. as to whether they sign up to murder or not. It is VOLUNTARY.

        As I said, they have chosen to take part in genocide rather than flip hamburgers.

        Oh, and by the way, for most kids today, a college degree is about as useless as tits on mother superior.

        Just my opinion, didn’t mean to make waves.

        Liked by 1 person

      • tubularsock says:

        sojourner, “waves” is your middle name! Ok, maybe typhoon is more like it.

        There are still guys getting the option of going to jail or signing up for the Army.

        There is still all that “manhood shit”!

        There is still stupid fucks looking for that signing bonus.

        Tubularsock isn’t saying the information isn’t out there it is just in some cases the field is tilted.

        But more importantly, just what is wrong with “tits on (a) mother superior”? You chauvinist pig you! Tubularsock is shocked!!!

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  3. Batt Guano says:

    Tube: I’m no fan of the draft and I doubt if any of your readers are either. But having a voluntary military gives every tin horn dictator who happens to be president at the time a toy to use. Oh.. wait a minute: we’ve got one of those now! He blows his horn in the form of a tweet.
    That Inspires a poem, sung to the tune of “Ain’t She Sweet?….
    ….Ain’t Trump great…
    … His tweets are filled with hate…
    … Now I ask you confidentially..
    …Ain’t he great…
    …He’s full of shit…
    …And he’s got a nasty face…
    …But you can’t tell any of that…
    …To his fanatical base…
    … So America…
    … Accept his direction..
    …. He’ll tell us every day
    …. Of his perfection…
    …. While leading us…
    ….In the wrong direction…
    ….So don’t feel too bad…
    ….Just play with your cell phone…..
    … While the world goes mad……

    Liked by 1 person

  4. sojourner says:

    Tube wrote:

    “But more importantly, just what is wrong with “tits on (a) mother superior”? You chauvinist pig you!”

    My answer: I am too!

    Tube wrote:

    “sojourner, “waves” is your middle name! Ok, maybe typhoon is more like it.”

    My answer: I resemble that remark!!

    Liked by 1 person

  5. sojourner says:

    Tube, I bow to your point! You win:

    Liked by 1 person

  6. Kimchi is really excellent for restoring healthy gut bacteria. I have a great recipe for it if you’re interested. I really wish Trump would add some to his diet – most mental imbalance is thought to stem from endotoxin-producing intestinal bacteria.

    Liked by 1 person

  7. Jay says:

    He really does love the sound of his own voice. Or the sight of his own tweets.

    Liked by 1 person

    • tubularsock says:

      Jay, Trump is a B-rated movie within himself. A washed up star that never was. A petty little man with small hands and no heart. And Tubularsock would be pleased that the next sand-trap his ball lands in on the golf course it will be quick-sand and then ……… bye bye Orange Tweet!

  8. Ever remember the movie: “Dr Strangelove” with Peter Sellers? How prophetic!

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A Musical Summer

About this time last year, I was composing my first blog, which celebrated the “glorious summer” of TV programming which we had enjoyed. No such luck this year – hardly a thing worth tuning in for on a regular basis – so, apart from catching up on some of my film collection on DVD, I have been more than usually reliant on music to keep me going. Of course, it is Proms season, and we have been even more frequent visitors than usual to the Albert Hall this year. Many of the concerts have been belters and there have been a lot of Mahler symphonies to enjoy – a rare performance of the 8th(which is perfect for the RAH, with its space for five choirs and a spectacular organ) and I’m really looking forward to the Boston Symphony doing the 3rd next Sunday.

However, I have also been enjoying music, especially opera, on Blu-ray and would like to describe two recent additions to my collection which, for me, exemplify how such releases are now an essential way of experiencing (or re-living) the best productions and performances from around the world. Back in the day, we would have relied on BBC2 on a Saturday night for rare and precious glimpses of such things – nowadays, Sky Arts provides the main broadcast platform, albeit with a much lower profile, but it is DVD and Blu-ray which have long since become the prime source for the opera lover and the number of productions recorded has rocketed.

A few weeks ago, Deutsche Grammophon released a Blu-ray of the 2017 Bayreuth imagesproduction of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. Not only was this a welcome opportunity to experience a very new and exciting production, but it is available at a rock-bottom bargain price (still under £15 last time I looked) and, when you consider that a ticket to see it in the Festspielhaus, if you were lucky enough to get one, would set you back upwards of two hundred (plus, of course, the cost of getting and staying there) the importance of such recordings being released is clear. Incidentally, though I hate to hear productions or performances being booed, the astronomical cost of attendance does make it a little bit understandable if someone feels they have been short changed.

This production of Die Meistersinger, by the Australian Jewish director Barrie Kosky (and it is significant that those two descriptors are both firsts for a production director at Bayreuth, the latter considerably more significant than the former), does, indeed, get some negative audience reaction, but I found it completely brilliant. It is one of those productions with a strong concept, which, in this case, is setting the work in the historical context of its creation and subsequent history, and that means putting Wagner himself on-stage. Act 1 takes place in Wagner’s house in Bayreuth, Wahnfried, where the composer is having a read/play through of the work, as he regularly did. Family and Unknownguests are given roles while other characters emerge (many in full reformation-era costumes, based on Durer) from his piano. Wagner himself plays Sachs (of course), though Walther and David clearly also represent himself at different stages of his artistic development, which fits perfectly with the theories of art he is exploring, as well as his own vanity. Cosima plays Eva, while her father, Franz Liszt, plays … her father. The Jewish conductor, Hermann Levi, is cajoled into the role of the comic villain Beckmesser, much as he had to endure Wagner’s antisemitism in order to be an important part of his artistic endeavour. The effect of this is to allow the director to explore issues raised by and concerning the work while not, as often happens with high-concept productions, working against what the music and the words are telling us – everything fits perfectly. The singers are historic characters playing operatic characters and are thus able to play those (operatic) characters much as they may in a conventional production.

At the end of first act the drawing room in Wahnfried is replaced by the 1946 Nuremberg trials courtroom (complete with allied flags and American MP guard), Wagner takes up a position in the dock and the stage is set for the second and third acts – the work and its composer are on trial in the city of its setting (a city which also hosted the Nazi rallies of the 1930s, and I wonder if Kosky thought, maybe just for a moment, of using that setting for the final scene?). Wagner’s antisemitism is, of course the key focus, though the way in which his works were used by the Nazis is also in play – don’t forget that every Nuremberg rally was preceded by a performance of Die Meistersinger. The city was also the stamping ground of the notorious Gauleiter Julius Streicher, whose newspaper, Der Sturmer, contained the sort of grotesque Jewish caricature which literally fills the stage at the end of the second act and haunts Beckmesser in the third. Nuremberg rallies, Nuremberg laws, Nuremberg trials – it all fits.

The courtroom becomes an apt setting for the “song trial” and Wagner/Sachs is back in the dock at the end to deliver his call to preserve holy German art, even in times of foreign occupation, before conducting an orchestra and chorus (on stage!) in the final bars. It seems he is acquitted and that his music is what has saved him, though a more ironic interpretation is also possible – the best productions, it seems to me, are those which look completely right, yet can be interpreted in a number of ways. Music triumphs also in the quality of the performance and the genius of this production is that it allows the work’s traditional values to be seen despite the unconventional staging. A great example is the scene in Act 3 where Sachs coaches Walther to compose his dream song and at the same time expounds his (and Wagner’s) theories on the balance between tradition and innovation in art. It takes place in the courtroom but is shot in tight close up for the recording and is so well sung and acted by Michael Volle and Klaus Florian Vogt (and subtly directed by Kosky) that it could be part of any production, traditional or innovative. The direction of the recording is also impressive – it is a production full of interesting detail, all of which is conveyed. Here’s a link to the trailer to give you some idea:

Unlike Die Meistersinger, the staging and music of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach have been inseparable as a theatrical experience, because the contribution of Wilson, the director and designer, as well as that of choreographer Lucinda Childs, is integral to the work. It is a landmark of theatrical, musical and Unknown-2operatic creation in the 20thcentury, and the 2012 touring revival, which I saw at the Barbican, was essentially the same thing as first seen in 1976. That production (recorded in Paris and released by Opus Arte) has been available on Blu-ray since late 2016 but somehow the sophisticated algorithms employed by Amazon and others failed to notify me, despite the internet knowing full well that I am a big Philip Glass fan. I had assumed it would remain an unforgettable theatrical experience only and was delighted to find otherwise.

But Blu-ray is the perfect format for re-creating that experience and, under the sensitive direction of Don Kent, it does just that, from the gradual introduction as the audience enters and continues to chat amongst themselves, to the beautiful final Knee Play, four and a half hours later, which draws this vibrant and hypnotic work to its serene conclusion. In the theatre, the performance is continuous and audience members allowed to come and go during it. On Blu-ray, you can pause it when you need to, which somehow isn’t the point. Indeed, despite the temptation, the grip of the work is so strong that I only did so in the moments of greatest need.

For those unfamiliar with it, there is no narrative – just a series of lengthy tableaux, some of them tangentially inspired by Einstein’s life or theories, in which music, action and words seem highly repetitive, change very gradually (though change is actually constant) and have little obviously decipherable meaning. You would imagine that would make it difficult to watch, but it is quite the opposite and it seems to pass much more quickly than it actually does – which I guess is as good a way of illustrating concepts of relativity as any. To give an example, a section of over fifteen minutes involves a couple on the footplate at the end of a receding train at night. They sing a duet involving just “fa-so-la” sounds and repeated numbers. The train does not move but the moon changes from crescent to full and back in the course of the scene. It’s beautiful and mesmerising.

One small production detail is shared by the two works I have described here: a courtroom clock going backwards. I’ve no idea if this is homage, theft or coincidence, but it is a striking image and a neat link between these two great pieces of musical drama which have enthralled me during this televisually arid Summer.