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bethsims-nocc · 3 years

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Game Checklist

☑ Done

☐ To Do

A checklist of Sims to create if I custom-design everybody in my save game, for my own reference. Please let me know if I’ve left anything out.

Feel free to copy/paste to use for yourself.

Services

☑ Mailman, 1

☐ Fireman, 2

☑ Pizza Delivery, 1

☑ Maid, 1

☑ Repair, 1

☑ Adoption, 1

☑ Nanny, 1

☑ Restaurant Critic, 1

☑ Master Fisherman, 1

☐ Master Gardener, 1

☐ Gardener Service, 1

☑ Forest Ranger, 1

☑ Bear, 1

☑ Hermit, 1

☑ Santa, 1

☐ Easter Bunny, 1

☑ Sad Clown, 1

☐ Bar Regular, 3

☐ DJ, 1

☐ Masseuse, 1?

☐ Reflexologist, 2?

☐ Vendor, 8

☐ Butler, 6

☑ Producer, 4

☑ Director, 4

☑ Wardrobe Stylist, 2?

☑ Makeup Artist, 2?

☑ Camera Operator, 3?

☑ Special Effects Operator, 1

☐ Island Elemental, 4

☐ Magic Sage, 3

☐ Gym Trainer, 1

Tricky Services

☐ Bartenders, 8?

☐ Paparazzi, 5?

☐ Yoga Instructor, 1

☑ Librarian, 3?

☐ University Roommates, ??

☑ Landlord, 1

Occult

☑ Aliens, 8

☑ Ghosts, 10+

☐ Mermaids, 8

☐ Spellcasters, 10+

☑ Vampires, 8

☐ Potential Werewolves, 8

☐ Potential Fairies, 6

Careers

☑ Actor, 8

☐ Astronaut, Ranger, Smuggler, 5

☑ Athlete, Pro, Bodybuilder, 5

☐ Babysitter, 1

☐ Barista, 3

☐ Business, Manager, Investor, 5

☐ Civil Designer, Planner, Tech, 5

☐ Conservationist, Environmental, Marine, 5

☐ Criminal, Boss, Oracle, 5

☐ Critic, Art, Food, 5

☐ Culinary, Chef, Mixologist, 5

☑ Detective, 8

☐ Diver, 3

☐ Doctor, 8

☐ Education, Administration, Professor, Foxbury, Britechester, 9

☐ Engineer, Computer, Mechanical, 5

☐ Entertainer, Music, Comedy, 5

☐ Fast Food, 2

☐ Fisherman, 3

☐ Freelance, Digital Artist, Programmer, Writer, Fashion Photographer, Crafter, Paranormal Investigator, 1+

☐ Gardener, Botanist, Floral Designer, 5

☐ Law, Judge, Attorney, 5

☐ Lifeguard, 3

☐ Manual Labor, 2

☑ Military, Covert, Officer, Strangerville Covert, Strangerville Officer, 6

☐ Painter, Master, Patron, 5

☐ Politics, Politician, Charity, 5

☐ Retail Employee, 2

☐ Salaryperson, Expert, Supervisor, 5

☑ Scientist, Strangerville Scientist, 10+

☐ Scout, Child, Teen, 7

☐ Secret Agent, Agent, Villain, 5

☐ Social Media, Internet Personality, Public Relations, 5

☐ Style Influencer, Trendsetter, Stylist, 5

☐ Tech Guru, Gamer, Entrepreneur, 5

☐ Writer, Author, Journalist 5

University Majors

☐ Art History, Foxbury, Britechester (H), 6

☐ Biology, Foxbury (H), Britechester, 6

☑ Communications, Foxbury, Britechester (H), 6

☑ Computer Science, Foxbury (H), Britechester, 6

☐ Culinary Arts, Foxbury, Britechester (H), 6

☐ Drama, Foxbury, Britechester (H), 6

☑ Economics, Foxbury (H), Britechester, 6

☑ Fine Art, Foxbury, Britechester (H), 6

☐ History, Foxbury, Britechester (H), 6

☑ Language and Literature, Foxbury, Britechester (H), 6

☐ Physics, Foxbury (H), Britechester, 6

☑ Psychology, Foxbury (H), Britechester, 6

☑ Villainy, Foxbury (H), Britechester, 6

Retail

☐ Bakery, 3 Staff

☑ Garden Center, 3 Staff

☐ Grocery, 3 Staff

☐ New Age, Herbs, Crystals, Potions, Books, 3 Staff

☐ Pet Store, 3 Staff

☐ Survivalist Shop, 3 Staff

☑ Vet Clinic, 3 Staff

Restaurant

☐ Chinese, 5 Staff

☑ Diner, 5 Staff

☐ Experimental, 5 Staff

☑ Ice Cream Parlor, 5 Staff

☐ Indian, 5 Staff

☐ Mexican, 5 Staff

☐ Seafood, 5 Staff

☐ Sushi, 5 Staff

☐ Tea Room, 5 Staff

Batuu

☑ Citizens, Human, Alien, 10+

☑ First Order Officers, 5

☐ Rebels, 8

☑ Scoundrels, 8

☐ Stormtroopers, 8

Other

☐ Celebrity, 8

☐ Celebrity Fans, 8+

☐ Conspiracy Theorist, 6

☐ Criminal for Detective Career, 6

☐ E-Sports Competitor, 4

☐ Drama Club, 4

☐ Soccer Team, 4

☐ Islanders, 8

☐ Selvadoradians, 6

☐ Komorebi Local, 6

☐ Campers, 8

☐ Love Guru, 1

☐ Moving Statue, 2

☐ Weirdo, 2

Flavor

☑ LGBTQ+, College, General, 10+

☐ Hippies, 5

☐ Farmers, 5

☐ Deadbeats, 4

☐ Homeless, 5

☐ Teen Vampire Fans, 8

☐ Teen UFO Chasers, 6

☐ Archaeologists, 3

☐ Psychics, 3

☑ Superhero, 1

☑ Supervillain, 1

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nonscolemondedapres · 3 years

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Portrait #4

Voilà, c’est mon tour, de tenter l’exercice du portrait, moi qui suis à l’intérieur de l’EN depuis plus de trente ans – 50 même, si je compte mon long cursus scolaire, avec seulement quelques 13 mois d’interruption, pour une incursion dans le milieu de l’édition pour enfants.

Après avoir été pionne, auxiliaire, je suis prof et formatrice à l’INSPE (formation des futurs profs), spécialiste des apprentissages en projet et référente culture.

Pur produit de l’EN, nourrie dans le giron de l’école laïque publique et gratuite, ascenseur social et tutti quanti ; je suis Une qui s’est cramponnée, bec et ongles, à l’école, pour ne pas tomber : question de survie.

Est-ce que j’ai ma place ici, dans cette série de portrait de parents IEF et unscho ? Est-ce que c’est MA place ? Ah cette éternelle question de la légitimité, elle vient de loin ! C’est en tout cas la place que je me choisis.

J’ai eu une de ces enfances paradoxales, pleine de la chaleur d’une tribu, de bonheurs lumineux, d’explorations, d’aventures en bandes d’enfants, de cabanes et de découvertes dans la nature. Les joies simples et sauvages d’une enfance libre, jusqu’à mes huit ans, dans le monde rural de la fin des années 60, la vie d’un bistrot de campagne où j’ai passé mes plus belles heures magiques entre parties de cartes et de billard et le bonheur de soirée chantées et contées. Puis j’ai découvert la ville et des journées à me dépasser dans la danse classique, dans les arts, la bande d’enfants de quartiers.

Mais aussi, une enfance pleine de violences : violences familiales, descentes de flics, assistantes sociales, psychologues délégués pour bilans familiaux …. Famille coup d’éclats, famille éclatée, recomposée, décomposée encore. Est-ce que j’avais ma place dans un monde où personne ne vivait les mêmes choses que moi, dans ce monde de la deuxième moitié du XXème siècle où, en campagne comme dans un petite ville bourgeoise catholique de province, les enfants de divorcés avec 4 frères de 3 pères différents – et de différentes origines-, n’étaient pas légions ?

L’école, dans tout ça, l’école avec ses contraintes immuables, ses rituels bien réglés, ses systèmes de récompenses et de punitions sans surprise et ses adultes à leur place prévisibles d’adultes a été mon port d’attache : un espace de normalité. Je pouvais y faire semblant, sans qu’on n’y remarque rien pour peu que j’en saisisse bien le fonctionnement. J’y ai eu de la chance aussi, la chance de vivre ma scolarité à une époque de transition, à une époque où il y avait encore beaucoup d’enseignants biberonnés à Piaget et Freinet, des convaincus d’un idéal pédagogique, et des gauchos, très rouges, préoccupés des enfants qu’ils avaient en charge (et ils en avaient bien moins de trente à l’époque !) qui nous faisaient sortir de l’enceinte de l’école, du collège, pour vivre des apprentissages sur le terrain, rencontrer des gens différents, expérimenter, collaborer. Ces adultes-là me sont devenus images tutélaires et ont forgé ma vocation. Et m’ont permis de ne pas trop me focaliser sur tous les autres, ceux qui tétanisaient la petite fille en moi en me rappelant par trop les échos des violences familiales.

Alors, toute petite, je me suis promis deux choses : je serai un meilleur parent que ceux que j’avais connus et je deviendrai une enseignante préoccupée de celles et ceux à qui elle enseigne. J’apprendrai la juste dose d’amour à porter sur moi, sur les autres, sur ce que je fais pour que le monde aille mieux. Et ça prendrait le temps qu’il faudra.

J’avais un but dont je ne pouvais dévier. Il me fallait me plier aux règles de l’école ; c’était le seul chemin que je voyais, le seul accessible. Très vite pourtant, j’ai compris que l’école ne fonctionnait pas à tous les coups, n’était pas bénéfique pour tous les enfants. Parce que, ce qu’elle avait représenté pour moi, elle n’avait pas su le réussir pour mes quatre frères, ni pour eux ni pour tellement d’autres que j’ai croisés par la suite. Je n’étais pas une expérience reproductible. J’étais seulement moi, avec mon histoire et mes instincts, mes intuitions.

Et pourtant, malgré ça, à l’école, j’ai toujours été trop. Trop bavarde, trop curieuse, trop littéraire, trop « présente », trop fantasque. Trop et pas assez à la fois. Sentiment de ne pas être tout à fait à ma place toujours, et SURTOUT de détester les étiquettes que l’école collait sur le dos des élèves si vite et de manière si définitive.

J’y ai refusé la voie d’excellence que l’on m’y proposait (hypokhâgne), j’ai louvoyé avec le système -puisque la vie s’était chargée de m’apprendre à m’adapter- pour parsemer ma scolarité des choses que j’aimais le plus : du théâtre, de la danse, du théâtre encore. Être sur scène finalement, c’était faire vivre pleinement l’artifice, le masque que j’avais décidé d’endosser.

J’ai réussi mon cursus scolaire sans difficulté. C’était simple pour moi, de me conformer, de fonctionner dans ces contraintes-là, qui me semblait tellement moins douloureuses que ce que j’avais vécu à la maison, facile de comprendre ce que l’on attendait de moi à l’école, au collège, au lycée, à la fac, facile pour moi de jouer ce rôle attendu de l’élève « pas trop parfaite un peu rebelle » et d’assurer le minimum nécessaire à la réussite, facile d’ingurgiter des savoirs, souvent inutiles, mais qui au moins me permettaient d’ouvrir porte sur porte et de me tenir loin d’un monde fracassé, … avec l’assurance de ne pas revenir en arrière. Portée par le désir de faire avec les autres, par un amour de l’humain qui ne m’a jamais lâché, je me suis engagée, très tôt, dans l’éducation populaire, d’abord en tant qu’animatrice, puis formatrice, puis présidente associative. J’ai fait la paix, avec le passé, avec ma famille, avec moi. Assez pour regarder mes vieux démons en face, assez pour vouloir fonder un couple et puis une famille.

Je suis devenue mère de ma première merveille l’année de mes 25 ans, l’année où je préparais les concours de l’EN. Une grossesse immensément désirée, à la fin de mes études, une grossesse heureuse, vivifiante : sages-femmes indépendantes, préparation haptonomique, chant prénatal, yoga... Un accouchement dans une clinique Leboyer, sans violence, en deux heures. Joie totale ! Je suis née à moi-même avec elle. En paix vraiment. Et forte.

J’ai été reçue, aux 2 concours : instit (on les appelait encore comme ça début 90) et prof du second degré. Mais là encore, j’ai choisi de ne pas être une « tout à fait prof » : alors que j’avais suivi des études de Lettres, puis de Français Langue étrangère, j’ai opté pour le métier de professeur documentaliste. Parce que je ne voulais pas de la prison d’une discipline qui rétrécirait le champ des possibles, qui rendrait ridiculement étroits les dialogues et les échanges avec les enfants, qui m’obligerait à les noter, à courir après un programme, à n’être qu’une quand ce que je trouvais passionnant était dans la multiplicité… Et j’ai choisi le lycée et le lycée pro, pour la certitude d’aller là où il y aurait les élèves les plus abimés par le système, ceux pour qui l’école n’avait pas été la voie de la construction mais le parcours du chaos et de l’échec. Envie de réparer l’humain. J’avais la foi, celle des hussards si chers à Blanquer, dit-on. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité chevillés au corps et au cœur et la conviction que je pouvais être, à mon tour, un de ces adultes référents qui accompagnent les résiliences, même là où c’était particulièrement complexe.

Seulement, … je n’ai jamais cessé de me questionner, de comparer l’éducation populaire et l’EN, de lire, de chercher à comprendre, à mieux faire, à mieux être. En tant que mère. En tant que prof. Ça m’a rendue de plus en plus « regardante ». J’avais été formée et formatée par l’école, que je le veuille ou non, et j’y croyais encore, assez pour sacrifier au rituel ma fille et mon fils de 4 ans son cadet (né en 7 minutes lui, pressé qu’il était de prendre sa place dans une fratrie où il était follement attendu).

J’étais convaincue qu’accompagnés par notre amour, notre vigilance, notre bienveillance familiale, mes deux enfants en retireraient le meilleur. Je pourrais dire que je n’ai pas vu s’éteindre chez ces enfants, mes enfants, plein de vie, de curiosités, de dons naturels, cette pure vivacité qui s’épanouissait avec nous : je mentirais. J’ai vu des enfants, mes enfants, heureux d’être au milieu des humains de tous âges et si différents qui partageaient nos vies, pleurer de devoir rester à l’école. J’ai entendu ma fille, qui parlait couramment à 10 mois sans pratiquement avoir parlé bébé, me raconter l’âpreté des relations aux autres, les injustices des punitions, dès l’école maternelle où elle était entrée à 2 ans et demi parce qu’elle me l’avait demandé et parce que c’était la norme, celle que je portais et que je transmettais sans même en avoir conscience. J’ai vu mon fils de 3 ans, qui dessinait parfaitement des micro-mondes complexes, avec de minuscules personnages et des tas de détails, cesser de dessiner quand il a été obligé de commencer à graphier à l’école, avec sa gestuelle de gaucher. J’ai vu toutes ces choses qui me serraient le cœur et sur lesquelles, ensemble, nous mettions des mots et que nous avons essayé de démonter de notre mieux, en famille, au fil des années… pour compenser. Mais je les ai laissés dans l’école, parce que j’y étais, parce que je ne voyais pas d’autres solutions possibles dans la vie qui était la mienne. Parce que je venais de si loin. Et j’avançais à petit pas vers eux, avec eux. Lentement.

Ma fille s’est adaptée au système, avec beaucoup de mots autour des situations, beaucoup d’écoute, d’échanges, pas mal d’erreurs de ma part aussi. Mon fils, bien moins facilement, mais lui, pour un problème de santé nécessitant des interventions chirurgicales pendant 4 ans, a été scolarisé à la maison, de la 3ème à la terminale, 4 mois par an. En une petite semaine de face à face pédagogique, 4 heures par jour, il rattrapait un mois de cours, y compris en terminale S. Et il a obtenu 16 au bac en espagnol en ayant travaillé tout seul, avec quelques cours du CNED, juste le strict minimum obligatoire pour pouvoir valider son année. De quoi bien questionner l’efficacité du système d’apprentissage imposé ! J’aime les belles personnes qu’elle et ils sont devenus aujourd’hui, leur fratrie complice, leur regard sur le monde qui me fait grandir sans cesse, leurs choix de vie. J’aime les entendre dire qu’ils ont pu trouver leur voie en confiance parce que leur parole était écoutée à la maison, parce qu’ils se sont toujours sentis respectés en tant que personne. Cela adoucit un peu le sentiment de culpabilité de les avoir laisser se débrouiller, malgré tout, avec tout ce qui fait violence dans l’école, tout ce qui me faisait violence, à moi de l’intérieur… et mes « C’est comme ça, hélas je sais, mais je vais vous donner des clés pour vous adapter mes enfants chéris, et passer le cap ! » pour toute réponse.

Ces clés, je continue sans cesse, chaque année, à vouloir les déposer à portée de mains des jeunes dont je croise la route. Avec la même obstination et le même amour de leurs potentiels. J’essaie d’ouvrir grand les fenêtres et les portes et de repousser les murs pour ne pas les étouffer et étouffer avec elles et eux.Je vois comment notre formation d’enseignant, loin de nous enrichir, nous rétrécit, faisant de nous des « sachants », incapables de nous penser « avec », mais toujours au-dessus, en position d’autorité, d’adulte responsable de sa classe : la fameuse « posture du prof » attendue par l’institution ! Je vois combien il est difficile pour mes collègues, ceux que j’embarque dans la pédagogie de projets, d’accepter de ne plus être au centre, de se mettre simplement à hauteur d’élèves et de faire avec eux, d’être élèves avec eux.

Je vois comment l’obsession du programme à couvrir prime sur l’intérêt et le sens même du contenu dudit programme et comment le timing d’une séance de cours de 55 minutes ne correspond guère au temps nécessaire pour générer de la disponibilité, de la curiosité, de la digression et du dialogue avec les enfants ou les jeunes (à quelques rarissimes exceptions près).

Je vois combien une journée de cours (qui démarre parfois à 6h du matin – lorsque l’on prend en compte les temps de transport- et s’achève au lycée à 18h) ne respecte aucunement les rythmes et les besoins des adolescents et que le nombre de têtes qui s’effondrent, ou de cerveaux qui s’échappent dans le rien ou vers autre chose en sont des preuves évidentes.

Je vois bien qu’un adulte est incapable, sans manifester de l’inconfort, de suivre 8 heures de formation descendante par jour alors que c’est ce que l’on impose à un adolescent, 5 jours par semaine.

Je vois la maigre place qui est faite à la parole des adolescents, l’absence d’espace prévu pour le dialogue, la dévalorisation même de cette parole si elle n’est pas pure reproduction du contenu d’un cours. Et leur demande incessante, bruyante, de cette parole confisquée.Je vois le mépris et la condescendance, tour à tour et parfois conjointement, lors des conseils, en salle des profs, quand ce n’est pas en classe. Pas par tous mais déjà trop.

Et je vois comment celleux qui se préoccupent d’un mieux-être des jeunes souffrent, et de plus en plus, de ne pas savoir, de ne pas pouvoir.Je vois comment l’on traite l’échec, comment élèves et adultes sont renvoyés à leur échec, coupable d’échouer, alors qu’il ou elle n’est « coupable » que d’avoir essayé… ou pas.

Je vois l’effet terrible des notations sur l’estime de soi et sur l’envie de faire.Je vois ce que l’école fait des recherches en pédagogies, des théories pédagogiques alternatives, des expérimentations ou plutôt ce qu’elle n’en fait pas, la place que cela tient dans la formation des enseignants, le peu d’outils comparatistes prévus au cursus professoral.Je vois. Que l’école n’est pas la moins pire des solutions. Elle est la seule « pensée », construite pour servir les desseins d’une société. Et elle est en peine. Je suis en peine.

Ainsi c’est parce que je vois que je reste. Pour tenter de faire pour d’autres, ce que j’ai pu faire, un peu, pour mes propres enfants. Pour tenter aussi d’accompagner mes collègues vers d’autres voies, Vers d’autres VOIR. Consciente qu’il me reste encore tant de progrès à faire pour ne pas être dans le jugement, dans une forme larvée de violence, consciente aussi que je me fais complice d’un système, le rendant plus supportable en étant un « agent atténuateur » mais incapable de renoncer à agir de l’intérieur… à cause d’une promesse d’enfant.

Alors après avoir été complice et même activiste d’un système dont je vois pourtant les défauts, me voici maintenant Traîtresse (Dézécolle comme dirait Pef !) puisqu’en train de rédiger un portrait pour un groupe majoritairement coordonné par des parents IEF ? Je ne trahis rien, je confirme ma promesse, celle d’agir pour une école respectueuse des enfants, cette promesse qui me fait m’employer à rendre vivant, autant que je le peux, le triptyque républicain ET la Convention internationale des Droits de l’enfant Et les libertés individuelles.

Je suis ce que je suis : pas toujours à ma place ; je déteste les étiquettes ; je déteste ce qui réduit, ce qui enferme. Mais je ne cesserai jamais de vouloir MIEUX. Vouloir que chaque enfant, ici et dans le monde, puisse avoir accès à l’instruction, à l’altérité, aux connaissances et à la culture, selon ses besoins et ses désirs, et non pas dans un format où la contrainte dépasse de très loin les effets bénéfiques.

Vouloir que chaque enfant puisse expérimenter réellement le sens des mots Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité et non pas qu’il n’en connaisse que la saveur amère, celle de l’injonction.

Vouloir que chaque enfant soit considéré comme un être humain à part entière et non réduit à une « fonction » obligatoire d’élève et ce dès l’âge de 3 ans.

Vouloir que chaque enfant puisse choisir comment il apprend.Vouloir des ponts entre les mondes, entre les connaissances, entre les humains.Et vouloir donc que demeure l’IEF, pour toutes les familles qui en font le choix, mais aussi pour l’école de la république elle-même qui a tant à apprendre en se regardant dans ce miroir-là.

Vouloir.

En équilibre entre deux mondes qui ne s’opposent pas mais se complètent. Parce que demain c’est maintenant.

Sylvie

#unschooling #homeschooling #ief #eniefmercimesenfantsvontbien #nonsco #mondedaprès #liberté #resilience #climatechange #socialjustice #childrenlivesmatter #teamjedi #portraits

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haggsyy · 4 years

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Harvard Reference & Bibliography

References

- Week 5

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Michael Powell. (1946). A Matter of Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven. Available: https://stairwells.org/stairs-in-film-a-matter-of-life-and-deathstairway-to-heaven/. Last accessed 15/12/2019.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hqprn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ7UwnfQ2nA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Dx-o3vfJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZm_lwJaD8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qFF2v8VsaA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Sov3xmgwg

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The Revenant (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoebZZ8K5N0

Gravity (2013)

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Birdman (2014)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITqYqMNF4R8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxILSc5XhM

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11ersfilmkritiken · 4 years

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Am 24. März 2020 ging der Streamingdienst Disney+ in Deutschland an den Start. Noch immer hat man die Möglichkeit, die Plattform eine Woche kostenfrei zu testen. Ich habe dies bereits in der Startwoche und darüber hinaus getan und bin zu folgenden Ergebnis gekommen…

Ein neuer Konkurrent für Netflix?

Getestet wurden eingehend die App mit ihrer Benutzeroberfläche, Funktionen, Angebot/Inhalt und Preis. Beginnen wir doch erst einmal mit der Benutzeroberfläche und deren Einstelllungen.

Die Registrierung über den Browser und der Download im Play Store gingen wie erwartet ohne Probleme vonstatten. Nach der schnellen Bestätigung per E-Mail konnte auch schon die App geöffnet werden. Nach der entgültigen Anmeldung ging es erst einmal zum eigenen Profil, welches dank des wählbaren Avatars leicht gefunden wurde. In meinem Fall ist dies unten rechts der Kreis mit Spider-Man, der direkt zu anderen nützlichen Einstellungen und Hinweisen führt. In der Spalte App-Einstellungen kann die Video-Wiedergabe und die Downloads ganz individuell auf die eigenen Bedürfnisse angepasst werden. Geht man wieder zrück, so kann das Konto oder auch Rechtliches eingesehen werden. Die Hilfe wird gesondert über den Browser geöffnet. Ganz oben findet man “Mein Liste”. Aber dazu später mehr.

Wie schon im eigenen Profil findet man auch auf der Programmoberfläche eine schöne Übersicht. Ganz oben werden Hinweise gezeigt, die entweder für einen interessant sein könnten oder man bekommt eben Titel präsentiert, die neulich hinzugefügt wurden. Darunter können die einzelnen Sparten “Disney”, “Pixar”, “Marvel”, “Star Wars” oder auch “National Geographic” angewählt werden.

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Disney

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Star Wars

National Geographic

Und wenn man so will, ist dies das Herzstück des gesamten Programms, weil es eben fast komplett in der Mitte der Übersicht erkennbar ist. Nun möchte ich euch die fünf Bereiche im einzelnen von links nach rechts etwas näher beleuchten. Der Bereich Disney ist mit Originals wie z.b. Zenimation, Küchenhelden oder Star Girl ausgestattet. Darunter findet man die Filme aus dem Walt Disney Animations Studios. Klassiker wie Die schöne und das Biest oder Aristocats bieten u.a. was für Nostalgiker. Wer es moderner mag, wird bei den Live-Action-Filmen wie Dumbo, Christopher Robin oder Star Girl fündig werden. Natürlich ist auch der Disney Channel mit seinen Original Movies und Serien vertreten.

Auch der Bereich Pixar hat allerhand zu bieten. Bei den Originals gibt es u.a. Titel wie Out Was ist lesen? zu entdecken. Darüber hinaus ist die Auswahl mit vielen Spielfilmen und Kurzfilmen sehr groß. Fans von Toy Story oder Findet Nemo werden ihre wahre Freude haben.

Kommen wir zu Marvel. Hier muss nicht viel gesagt werden. Das MCU ist natürlich genauso vertreten wie die X-Men. Live-Action-Serien wie Agent Carter oder Inhumans sind natürlich inbegriffen. Natürlich dachte Disney auch in dieser Sparte an die jüngeren Fans und pflegte u.a. die Animationsserien wie die X-Men (1992-1997), Guardians of the Galaxy (2015-2018) oder diversen Spider-Man Serien ein.

Im Star Wars Feed kommen Nostalgiker als auch Fans der neueren Titel voll auf ihre Kosten. Neben allen 12 Spielfilmen ist auch der Seriengenuss vollends abgedeckt. Die Animationsserien The Clone Wars und Rebels bieten ebenfalls viel Tiefgang und die neue Real-Serie The Mandelorian lässt jedes Fanherz um ein vielfaches höher schlagen.

Wer dem Mainstream entfliehen möchte, geht am besten in Natiol Geographic rein und wählt eine Dokumentation nach seiner Wahl an. Unser Kosmos oder auch Amerikas National Parks bieten nicht nur beeindruckende Beschaulichkeiten, sondern auch viel Hintergrundwisssen an. Auch hier sind Filme und Serien gleichermaßen abgedeckt.

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Die Qualität ist im großen und ganzen sehr gut. Die Wiedergabe von Bild und Ton erfolgt flüssig und synchron. Untertitel und Sprachen können belieblig ausgewählt werden. Je nach Titel wurden Extras zur Verfügung gestellt. Dies können Trailer, Clips oder auch gelöschte Szenen sein. Qualitativ lässt ist auch kaum etwas an der App auszusetzen. Scrollt man in der Startseite ein wenig nach unten, dann erkennt man den Fortschritt der vier zuletzt gesehenen Titel. Ein kleines Manko fällt auf, wenn man in eine der vorhandenen Serien direkt reingeht. Zwar können die einzelnen Staffeln direkt ausgewählt werden, aber es ist nicht zu erkennen wie viele Folgen/Episoden man schon geschaut hat. Hier bedarf es noch einer Feinjustierung. Dafür stehen alle Titel als Download zur Verfügung, so dass auch offline bzw. unterwegs der Dienst genutzt werden kann.

Das Preis-Leistungverhältnis mit 6,99 € pro Monat geht in Ordnung. Wer ein Jahresabo abschließt zahlt 69,99 € und erhält die 7 tägige kostenlose Phase mit dazu und man spart auf 12 Monate gerechnet ganze 13,89 €. Im Monat ergibt sich dadurch ein Betrag von 5,83 €. Und wenn sich zum Beispiel ein Pärchen mit Kindern den Betrag teilt, dann sind es pro Kopf nur noch schlappe 2,91 €. Zwar ist das jetzt eine Gießkannenrechnung, aber es soll verdeutlichen wie günstig Disney+ eigentlich ist.

Sternvergabe Benutzeroberfläche

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Nicht perfekt, aber auf den besten Wege dorthin

Disney+ macht von Beginn an einen guten Eindruck. Neueinsteiger als auch Kenner in Sachen Streaming-Diensten werden begeistert sein, da es hinsichtlich auf die Benutzeroberfläche und Preis-Leistungverhältnis nichts auszusetzen gibt. Zwar besteht bei den technischen Funktionen und Inhalt noch ein wenig Nachholbedarf, aber die Vielfalt ist dank der unterschiedlichen Bereiche trotzdem gegeben. Familienprogramm ist hier trumpf. Wer mit Disney aufgewachsen ist und Klassiker an die nächste Generation weitergeben möchte, hat hier den perfekten Streaming-Dienst gefunden. Kann Disney+ mit der Konkurrenz mithalten? Auf jeden Fall! Durch das gezielte Familienangebot ujnd der Eigenproduktionen hebt man sich vielleicht von Konkurrenten wie Amazon Prime Video oder Netflix ab.

“Meine Liste” nutzen, um nichts mehr zu vergessen

Wie bereits angedeutet komme ich als kleines Extra zu dieser ominösen Liste. Experten munkeln, dass dieser “Medienmogul” so einige Listen führt und eben solche extrem lang sein könnten. Nun, dank Disney+ kam nun eine neue Liste hinzu. Im Gegensatz zu den ganzen anderen Auflistung hält man sich, was die Anzahl der Titel betrifft in Grenzen. Schließlich möchte man eine gewisse Übersicht wahren. Was nun folgt, wurde nicht 1 zu 1 aus meiner “Liste” kopiert, sondern liebevoll und mit besten Gewissen für euch zusammengestellt. 😉

Titel Film Serie Aladdin (1992) * König der Löwen (1994) * Pixar In Real Life * Disneys Requisiten * Die verschollenen Inseln * Empire Of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy * Before the Flood * Titanic – Jubiläum einer Legende * Das Leben und ich (1993-2000) * Iron Man * Star Wars: Episode I – Die dunkle Bedrohung * Ratatouille (2007) * Coco * Maggie Simpson in “Der längste Kita-Tag” (Short film) * Mrs. Doubtfire – Das stachlige Kindermädchen *

Vielen Dank, dass ihr meinen Artikel gelesen habt. Lasst doch gerne ein Like da, wenn es euch gefallen hat. Ihr habt einen Gedanken zum Text oder Film? Dann postet es mir gerne unten in die Kommentare. Ansonsten ließt man sich im nächsten Artikel. Bis bald…

Disney+ im Test – Eine Oase für Nostalgiker?

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Late Tongan PM ‘Akilisi Pohiva remembered as ‘beacon of democracy’

Akilisi Pohiva, a school teacher who evolved into the leading figure of Tonga’s democracy movement to eventually become prime minister, died today. He was 78.

His death was confirmed by the government this morning. Tonga’s parliament has been adjourned indefinitely, and Mr Pohiva’s deputy, Semisi Sika, is the acting prime minister.

Mr Pohiva, who became prime minister in 2014, was flown to an Auckland hospital with pneumonia on Wednesday, his condition steadily deteriorating. Mr Pohiva had been in poor health for the past few years, and he spent much of this year in Auckland being treated for liver complications.

A constant thorn in the side of the monarchy and nobility, Mr Pohiva was for decades the face and voice of Tonga’s pro-democracy movement, his lifelong battle seeing him fired from the public service, charged with sedition, and jailed at various points in his storied life.

But he maintained strong support among the people, who repeatedly voted him into the Tongan parliament after he was first elected in 1987, making him the longest-serving people’s representative.

In 1992, Mr Pohiva organised a democracy conference. Radio Tonga was banned from making any mention of the event, and speakers invited from overseas were turned away at the border, on government orders. Still, about 700 people attended.

“Those people at the top outcast me, they have been trying to isolate me from the rest of my colleagues and from the people, but they could not,” Mr Pohiva told RNZ at the time. “More and more senior people in the country have come to back up and to support the movement.”

“I’m very confident that change will happen.”

It did. Constitutional changes brought in after the 2006 riots in Nuku’alofa eventually cleared the path for Mr Pohiva to become prime minister in 2014, and he was re-elected in 2017 with an increased majority, despite King Tupou VI dissolving parliament and calling a snap election.

“He was a beacon of democracy in the Pacific,” said Malakai Koloamatangi, a Tongan political scientist at Massey University. “He was kind of a reference point for people who wanted more democracy.

“It’s a sad day,” he said.

Democracy Struggle

Samiuela ‘Akilisi Pohiva was born in Fakakai, on the island of Ha’apai, on 7 April 1941. He studied at the University of the South Pacific before beginning a career as a school teacher.

He returned to the USP, teaching history and sociology at the university’s campus on Tongtapu, and it was there that he first became involved in the pro-democracy movement.

Under Tonga’s 1875 constitution, it was the monarch who wielded most of the country’s power, along with a hereditary nobility representing the various village and island groups.

The Privy Council and most of the legislature were appointed by the King.

Then, Tonga’s parliament was split between the nobles and the people’s representatives. There were nine seats reserved for Tonga’s 33 nobles, and nine seats reserved for the people’s representatives, who were elected by about 90,000 people.

In the latter half of the 20th century, a democracy movement started simmering and grew to be increasingly outspoken, and at its forefront was ‘Akilisi Pohiva.

Then a civil servant, Mr Pohiva started contributing to the movement’s radio programme, Matalafo Laukai, and became the assistant editor of its monthly newsletter, Kele’a. As his criticism of the monarchy grew ever more trenchant, Mr Pohiva was fired from the civil service as punishment. He sued for unfair dismissal and won.

He then ran for parliament in 1987 as one of the people’s representatives. But even within the system, he continued to push for dramatic change, his political career marked by constant battles with the government, the nobles and the monarchy.

“The existing system is very much like a dictatorship type of system,” Mr Pohiva told RNZ at the time.

“People have no voice in the present government and we need more representatives of the people to participate in the running of the government.”

Mr Pohiva was often labelled a rebel, but to many Tongans, he was a hero.

Throughout the 1990s, he would spend much of his time in and out of the courts, charged with all manner of things from libel to sedition.

In 1996, he was imprisoned for contempt of parliament after he was found guilty of leaking information to a pro-democracy newspaper edited by Kalafi Moala, who was in jail with him.

“He was without question the best opposition leader Tonga ever had,” Mr Moala said.

He recalled that of the 26 days they spent behind bars, Mr Pohiva spent much of that in hospital suffering from complications with asthma. The trio were released after the Supreme Court ruled their imprisonment unlawful.

“He came into a period in Tongan politics in which changes needed to take place,” Mr Moala said. “He was the one that brought in questions, challenges, he was able to bring scrutiny to the governing powers of the day for over 30 years.”

In 2005, the country was hit by major strikes and public protests which culminated in the riots that destroyed large parts of the capital, Nuku’alofa, in 2006.

In the wake of those riots, Mr Pohiva was again arrested and charged with sedition, the democracy movement accused by the government of fomenting the unrest.

“What happened … is the culmination of several social, economic, political and moral forces which is part of the human struggle for their fundamental rights and their fundamental freedoms,” Mr Pohiva told RNZ as he was awaiting his sedition trial.

“If we go deeper and analyse the causes of the riot we may come out with a different solution to the problem.”

“It would be better for the government to make peace with the people,” he said.

It was thought the democratic movement had been set back when the government invoked emergency powers following the riots, but in 2008, King Tupou V announced that elections would be held in 2010, preceded by constitutional reform.

For the first time, the majority of the legislature would be elected by the people, a move which was hailed as a massive victory for the democracy movement.

Dr Koloamatangi said throughout his career, Mr Pohiva became the most prosecuted person in the history of Tonga.

“One thing we cannot take away from Pohiva is the fact that I’ve never seen anyone persevere for that long for a single cause,” he said.

Mr Pohiva contested the 2010 elections under the banner of his new political party, the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands, which he formed with members of the kingdom’s human rights and democracy movement.

A noble, Lord Tu’ivakano, was narrowly elected prime minister by a vote in parliament, but Mr Pohiva would accept a position in the cabinet, becoming health minister.

That only lasted a few months. He soon resigned in protest, becoming the de facto opposition leader.

Then, in the 2014 elections, Mr Pohiva finally became the first democratically-elected prime minister in the country’s second democratically-elected parliament.

However, his government became marred by controversy and complaints of ineffectiveness.

Among the problems faced included changes to the education system, a decision to develop a wetland on Tongatapu, and the dismissal of three cabinet ministers, including one who was convicted of bribery.

“He did not prove to be the prime minister that he had hoped to be,” Dr Koloamatangi said.

“He kept on being a political activist and a rebel even though he was prime minister. There was nothing tangible to fight against because he was the establishment. He was maybe fighting against himself.”

Part of those problems were attributed to challenges posed by Tonga’s nascent democracy, including the considerable power that was still wielded by the throne.

That power was wielded in September 2017 when the King made the sudden decision to dissolve parliament more than a year before an election was due.

The Speaker, Lord Tu’ivakano, had gone to the palace to vent his frustrations with Mr Pohiva, and asked for the dissolution.

But Mr Pohiva’s support remained strong. In the November 2017 elections, the prime minister was returned with an increased majority.

His final official trip abroad was to Tuvalu in August, for the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting.

‘Akilisi Pohiva, at the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum summit in Tuvalu. Photo: RNZ / Jamie Tahana

There, he was frail and barely able to walk. But he gave some of the most impassioned moments.

At the leaders’ meeting he broke down in tears speaking of inaction on climate change; at a meeting with civil society leaders, he railed against the region’s decades of inaction on West Papua.

But prophetically, he said it would probably be his last trip.

Tributes flow

Tonga was in mourning, and so was much of the Pacific, with tributes flowing from across the region.

New Zealand’s parliament moved a special motion, mourning the death of one of the region’s strongest leaders. The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, said he was terribly saddened. “He was a passionate advocate for his people, for his beloved Tonga and our Pacific family,” Mr Morrison said.

Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said Mr Pohiva had inspired the world with his raw emotion, and Vanuatu’s Foreign Minister Ralph Regenvanu described him as a good friend and principled leader.

Details of a funeral are yet to be announced, and the Tongan government and royal family are yet to release an official statement.

Mr Pohiva is survived by his seven children. His wife, Neomai, died in December.

Additional reporting from Don Wiseman and Koro Vaka’uta

Fiji prime minister Frank Bainimarama (left) and Tonga prime minister Akilisi Pohiva both spoke on the issue of West Papua at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu. August 2019. Photo: Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

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WHAT YOU TALK

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Wombwell Rainbow Interviews

I am honoured and privileged that the following poets, local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me. I gave the writers two options: an emailed list of questions or a more fluid interview via messenger. The usual ground is covered about motivation, daily routines and work ethic, but some surprises too. Some of these poets you may know, others may be new to you. I hope you enjoy the experience as much as I do.

George Szirtes

many books of poetry have won prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize (2004), for which he was again shortlisted for Bad Machine .Satantango by László Krasznahorkai (whom he interviewed for The White Review was awarded the Best Translated Book Award in the US. He is also the translator of Sandor Marai and Magda Szabo. The Photographer at Sixteen is his first venture into prose writing of his own.

What follows is an extract from his Curriculum Vitae found on his blog:

Poetry 1978 Poetry Introduction 4 with Craig Raine, Alan Hollinghurst, Alistair Elliott, Anne Cluysenaar and Cal Clothier (Faber & Faber) 0-571-11127-0 1979 The Slant Door (Secker & Warburg) 436-50997-0 1981 November and May (Secker & Warburg) 0-436-50996-2 1984 Short Wave (Secker & Warburg) 0-436-50998-9 1986 The Photographer in Winter (Secker & Warburg) 0-436-50995-4 1988 Metro (OUP) 0-19-282096-6 1991 Bridge Passages (OUP) 0-19-282821-5 1994 Blind Field (OUP) 0-19-282387-6 1996 Selected Poems (OUP) 0-19-283223-9 1997 The Red All Over Riddle Book (Faber, for children) 9780571178070 1998 Portrait of my Father in an English Landscape (OUP,) 0-19-288091-8 2000 The Budapest File (Bloodaxe) 1-85224-531-X 2001 An English Apocalypse (Bloodaxe) 1-85224-574-3 2004 A Modern Bestiary with artist Ana Maria Pacheco (Pratt Contemporary Art) 2004 Reel (Bloodaxe) 1-85224-676-6 2008 The Burning of the Books (Circle) 978-0-9561869-0-4 2008 New and Collected Poems (Bloodaxe) 978-1-85224-813-0 2008 Shuck, Hick, Tiffey: Three Regional Libretti (Gatehouse) 978-0-9554770-8-9 2009 The Burning of the Books and Other Poems (Bloodaxe) 978-1-85224-842-0 2012 In the Land of the Giants (Salt) 978-1-84471-451-3 2013 Bad Machine (Bloodaxe) 978-1-85224-957-1 2015 56 (Arc) with Carol Watts to appear later this year 2015 Notes on the Inner City (Eyewear) to appear later this year

Translation 1989 Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man, verse play (Corvina / Puski 1989) 978-963-13-5850-6 1989 Sándor Csoóri: Barbarian Prayer. Selected Poems. (part translator, Corvina 1989) 1989 István Vas: Through the Smoke. Selected Poems. (editor and part translator, Corvina, 1989) 9789631330694 1991 Dezsö Kosztolányi: Anna Édes. Novel. (Quartet, 1991/ ND 1993) 0-8112-1255-6 1993 Ottó Orbán: The Blood of the Walsungs. Selected Poems. (editor and majority translator, Bloodaxe, 1993) 1-85224-203-5 1994 Zsuzsa Rakovszky: New Life. Selected Poems. (editor and translator, OUP March, 1994) 0-19-283089-9 1998 László Krasznahorkai: The Melancholy of Resistance (Quartet / ND) 0-8112-1450-8 1999 Gyula Krúdy: The Adventures of Sindbad short stories (CEUP, 1999, NYRB) 978-1-59017-445-6 2003 The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems of Ágnes Nemes Nagy (editor-translator, Bloodaxe) 1-85224-641-3 2004 Sándor Márai: Conversation in Bolzano (Knopf / Random House, 2004) 0-375-41337-5 2004 László Krasznahorkai: War and War (New Directions, 2005) 0-8112-1609-8 2005 Sándor Márai: The Rebels (Knopf / Random House) 978-0-375-40757-4 2008 Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole (Telegram) 9781846590344 2009 Sándor Márai: Esther’s Inheritance (Knopf/ Random House) 978-1-4000-4500-6 2011 Sándor Márai: Portaits of a Marriage (Knopf / Random House) 978-1-4000-4501-3 2012 Yudit Kiss: The Summer My Father Died (Telegram) 978-1-84659-094-8 2012 László Krasznahorkai: Satantango (New Directions) 9781848877658 2014 Magda Szabó: Iza’s Ballad (Random House) 978-1-846-55265-6

Editing 1991 Birdsuit: writing from Norwich School of Art and Design (9 vols) – 2000 1995 Freda Downie, Collected Poems (Bloodaxe) 1-85224-301-5 1996 The Colonnade of Teeth (co-ed with George Gömöri (Bloodaxe) 1-85224-331-7 1997 The Lost Rider: Hungarian Poetry 16-20th Century, an anthology, editor and chief translator (Corvina, 1998) 963-13-4967-5 2001 New Writing 10, Anthology of new writing co-edited with Penelope Lively (Picador) 9780330482684 2004 An Island of Sound: Hungarian fiction and poetry at the point of change (co-editor) (Harvill) 978-1846555565 2010 New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post-1989 Generation (Arc) 9781906570507 2012 In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on Their Poetry, with Helen Ivory (Salt) 978-1-907773-21-1

Other 2001 Exercise of Power: The Art of Ana Maria Pacheco (Lund Humphries) 9780853318279 2010 Fortinbras at the Fishhouses: responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the sense of history as knowledge. Three lectures. (Bloodaxe) 978-1-85224-880-2

Performed Works (dates, titles and venues of performed works): Over twenty plays, libretti, and other texts for music, mostly performed but not for professional stage

Journalism: BBC radio and TV, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Magma, and many others. Mostly reviews of literature or art, some columns or essays, occasional pieces on Hungary and miscellaneous matters.

Honours 1980 Faber Memorial Prize for The Slant Door 1982 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1984 Arts Council Travelling Scholarship, 1986 Cholmondeley Prize 1990 Déry Prize for Translation The Tragedy of Man 1991 Gold Star of the Hungarian Republic 1992 Short listed for Whitbread Poetry Prize for Bridge Passages 1995 European Poetry Translation Prize for New Life 1996 Shortlisted for Aristeion Translation Prize New Life 1999 Sony Bronze Award, 1999 – for contribution to BBC Radio Three, Danube programmes 1999 Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for The Adventures of Sindbad 2000 Shortlisted for Forward Prize Single Poem: Norfolk Fields 2002 George Cushing Prize for Anglo-Hungarian Cultural Relations 2002 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship 2003 Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2004 Pro Cultura Hungarica medal 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize, for Reel 2005 Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for the Night of Akhenaton 2005 Shortlisted for Popescu Translation Prize for The Night of Akhenaton 2007 Laureate Prize, Days and Nights of Poetry Festival, Romania 2008 Bess Hokin Prize (USA) Poetry Foundation 2008 Made Fellow of the English Association 2009 Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize with The Burning of the Books 2013 Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize with Bad Machine 2013 Best Translated Book Award (USA) for László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango 2013 CLPE Prize for best book of poetry for children with In the Land of the Giants 2014 Made Honorary Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Letters (see above) 2014 Made Honorary Fellow of Goldsmith’s College, London 2015 Translator of László Krasznahorkai winner Man Booker International Prize

The Interview

What were the circumstances under which you began to write poetry?

I was in my sixth form at school, not doing well at the wrong subjects (the sciences) and drifting in all kinds of ways when I started picking poetry books off the school library shelves. Poems were small texts with lots of white space, ideal for drifting and dwelling on, for clearing my head and at the same time opening doors to feelings and ideas I was attracted to without fully understanding them., But I did not think to write poems myself until, not much later – I was seventeen at the time – a friend showed me a poem by a mutual acquaintance. Suddenly I wanted to be a poet. So I bought a notebook and started writing, a poem per day or more.

My family was not literary so we had few books, I had dropped English at O Level and, besides, it was my second language (though that thought never bothered me then). I hadn’t read much literature in the past few years and didn’t really know what I meant by being a poet or what made good poems good. It was a decisive venture into unknown territory. In many ways it was the saving of me in that my life changed and I had a purpose. I went to art school instead of university and things went on from there.

2. How aware were you of the dominating presence of older poets?

Hardly at all at the beginning. The poets I first encountered were either dead or elsewhere. But soon I made friends with another pair of boys who were also studying science but had become as involved in poetry as I was. Like me, they came from non-literary backgrounds. Steve’s father was a postman, Ashley’s a scoutmaster. We passed each other books in chaotic fashion – no particular period in no particular order – just whatever we fancied as long as it was available in cheap paperback or at the library. In retrospect, our reading would have been considered ambitious but we had no idea that it was so. That reading included Keats, Rilke, Rimbaud, Ginsberg, Cavafy, and Donne. but many others too. It was not thorough or analytical reading – none of us read through any solid body of work by a poet unless in a thin cheap paperback and we had no language of criticism. We tasted and swallowed poems whole. The poets were just names to us, not histories, but we read them with excitement. Ginsberg was still alive of course but he may as well have been in some other time zone. If I had done English A Level I suppose I would have been reading D H Lawrence, Eliot and Hughes or Plath, but they came along later., mainly under the tutelage of Martin Bell, my first real poet, who taught an afternoon a week at the art school in Leeds. And later still Larkin, Auden, Stevens and the rest. By the time I was reading Larkin I could see how he was a dominant figure in terms of tone – as was Plath in her way but I learned little directly from either because I had arrived there through other channels. Maybe Larkin’s restraint had some effect on me but it was clear that, not being English, I couldn’t simply adapt his voice. At some point I set myself to read through poetry Eng Lit style from Chaucer on. I got a decent way with that.

3. What is your daily writing routine?

My daily routine is to rise about 8am, have breakfast, then come straight down to my desk and spend the rest of the day there with some breaks for exercise. I write something every day – not always poetry, though I do use Twitter as a kind of small-scale literary notebook. I deal with correspondence. I also maintain my posts on Facebook where other thoughts tend to get some initial development. I read and I watch discussions.I am working towards a new collection booked for 2020. The poems come when I give them space to come or where they appear as potential shadows of poems. Most people consider me productive. I suppose I am.

4. What motivates you to write?

I started writing at the age of seventeen because, for the first time in my life, I suddenly understood that poetry was a way of telling some kind of truth about the world. Over the years that understanding gradually became more complex while remaining essentially the same. Now I would say writing poetry is a kind of drive to do with language, the way language moves in and out of reality to create an experience that feels as true as life, so true that it can feel like a physical shudder. That shudder is to do with the way words spring out of and form a sense of reality. It is about meaning and shadows of meaning lodging themselves powerfully in the mind.

That is what continues to motivate me.

5. What is your work ethic?

Work ethic: You don’t let other people or yourself down.

6. How do the writers you read when you were young influence you today?

Mostly exactly as they did before though some who were important then are less important now. My first loves: Rimbaud, Eliot, Rilke, Blake, Auden, MacNeice, Bishop, Yeats, Stevens and Dickinson remain top loves. Add some other figures chiefly from Europe and US, but I don’t want to list them all. There are plenty of others, plus those who have come into the picture since – either because they were really there but I hadn’t read them or because their books were published later – modify my reading of the original list. Some poets go deep early and set the landscape. Those that go truly deep don’t leave you.

6.1. What do you mean by “go deep”?

I mean that by the time the poem has been once or twice read it has left such a mark on the memory it becomes part of the receiving mechanism for whatever is read later..

I can expand on that if you like but that’s a reasonably succinct way of putting it.

7. Whom of today’s writers do you most admire, and why?

The answers to today’s writers will be generational.

Of the generation slightly older than me or roughy the same age: Peter Scupham, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson, James Fenton, Penelope Shuttle, Christopher Reid, and Jane Draycott. Then there is Ian Duhig, Don Paterson, Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Alice Oswald, Imtiaz Dharker, Michael Hoffman; and younger still: Tiffany Atkinson, Jack Underwood, Vahni Capildeo but now I am listing names that occur to me and no doubt I could go on, especially since I am sure to regret having left out people who should certainly be in. It isn’t a particularly original list but they are all admirable. I don’t necessarily write – or could write – like any of them but of those who are perhaps closest to me in terms of angle to the universe, I’d choose Mahon and Fenton. Mahon aesthetically-morally; Fenton: formally and emotionally. Peter Scupham was a wonderful friend and critic. I am very lucky to have met him.

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: George Szirtes Wombwell Rainbow Interviews I am honoured and privileged that the following poets, local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me.

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Chemical weapons inspectors in Syria will be permitted to visit the site of an alleged chemical attack on Wednesday, Russia has said.

The international team has been in the country since Saturday, but has not been allowed to visit Douma.

The attack on 7 April prompted military strikes on Syrian government targets by the US, UK, and France a week later.

Syria and its ally Russia deny any chemical attack took place – with Russia calling it a “staged thing”.

Early on Tuesday, Syrian state media said the country’s air defences had responded to a missile attack over the western city of Homs.

The missiles targeted Shayrat air base, it said – but did not say who fired the missiles.

Another report, from the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia, said that Syrian air defences had intercepted three missiles targeting Dumair military airport, north-east of the capital Damascus.

A Pentagon spokesperson told Reuters: “There is no US military activity in that area at this time.”

What is happening in Syria?

Early on Saturday morning Syrian time, the US, UK, and France launched a coordinated missile strike on multiple targets in the country.

The operation was in response to a chemical weapons attack the three nations say was carried out by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which targeted civilians and killed dozens.

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Investigators from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in the capital, Damascus – but have been waiting to begin their inspection.

When they arrive at the site on Wednesday, it will be 11 days since the attack. They are expected to gather soil and other samples to help identify the substances – if any – used in an attack.

The US envoy to the OPCW, however, expressed concern that Russia had visited the site and “may have tampered with it” to impede the investigation.

But in an interview for BBC’s Hardtalk, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: “I can guarantee that Russia has not tampered with the site.”

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He said the supposed evidence the US, UK, and France said they had was only “based on media reports and social media” and that such evidence was a “staged thing”.

Mr Lavrov and others have also criticised the three countries for carrying out the strikes before the OPCW team could conduct their investigation.

What we know about the ‘chemical attack’

Why is there a war in Syria?

What is said to have happened in the Douma attack?

When the alleged chemical attack took place on 7 April, Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta region, was a final rebel stronghold near the capital Damascus, having endured months of shelling.

Now, it is under the control of the Syrian government and Russian military.

Two bombs filled with chemicals were reportedly dropped several hours apart on the town.

Syrian medical sources say bodies were found foaming at the mouth, and with discoloured skin and cornea burns.

US sources said they had obtained blood and urine samples from victims which had tested positive for chlorine and a nerve agent.

Catch up on the aftermath of the air strikes:

How did the air strikes happen?

Late on Friday night in Washington, President Donald Trump addressed the nation, revealing that he had authorised strikes in Syria with the UK and France.

As his speech came to a close, the first reports of explosions in Damascus began to emerge.

The US says 105 missiles were launched and it believes none were intercepted by Syrian defences. It says Syria’s chemical weapons programme has been set back years.

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The Russians, however, say 71 missiles were shot down by Syrian systems – many of them older Soviet-era defences.

One of the three sites hit was the Barzeh complex, which the US says was a centre for development, production and testing of chemical and biological weapons, although Syria denies this.

The other two were suspected chemical weapons facilities at Him Shinshar near Homs.

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Walla Walla Movie Crush, July 1-2

The inaugural Walla Walla Movie Crush (www.wallawallamoviecrush.com) serves up America’s most intoxicating blend of short cinema over the first weekend of July 2017. The festival will showcase narratives, documentaries, animation, music videos and experimental films grouped in themed packages. The films range in length from one to 30 minutes, with most under ten.

Movies will screen in hour-long blocks from noon-5pm and 7-9pm on Saturday, July 1st and from 1pm-5pm and 7pm-9pm on Sunday, July, 2nd at the GESA Power House Theatre (111 N 6th Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362) The Sunday evening session will feature ten brand-new short films created specifically for the Walla Walla Movie Crush in response to this prompt: Your First Crush. These “Challenge” films will be created by a pantheon of talents: The Adams Family, Genevieve Anderson, Mtume Gant, Josh Seftel, Jadoliva Studio, Caveh Zahedi, Wenjo Carlton, Josh Lunden, Jacob Strunk and Granger’s own Rick Castaneda. The “Challenge” screening will be followed immediately by an awards ceremony during which top honors will be bestowed in accordance with the wishes of a jury of award-winning filmmakers including Duncan Jones, Jen McGowan, Brian Knappenberger, Tess Martin, Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen and more.

All proceeds from the Walla Walla Movie Crush go to support The Red Badge Project (http://www.theredbadgeproject.com).

Shorts presented in this year’s schedule include appearances by John Turturro, Tituss Burgess, Stephen King, Sam Elliott, Casey Wilson, Bobby Canavale, Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Stephen Dorff. For the full line-up of the inaugural Walla Walla Movie Crush, please visit: https://www.wallawallamoviecrush.com/schedule

Here are a few highlights from the schedule:

saturday, july 1

12pm: IMPROPERLY VETTED

Unfortunately, just because one serves their country doesn’t mean their country serves them. Soldiers may lose their lives on battlefields, but those who survive may face even greater losses on the home-front. These shorts examine the impact of war on those who fight them and how civilians may better serve those who defend their ways of life.

This package of films is dedicated to SSG Michael J. Mantenuto, 1981 - 2017.

1pm: LONERS, REBELS & THE DOTTY

There are a lot of things about these folks you don’t know anything about. Whether a first-time thief, a best-selling author, a con artist, the subject of many artists, a recovering addict, or a lost soul, there are things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things... you shouldn’t understand.

4pm: JOCK & JILL

You needn't go pro to love sports — heck, that’s the root meaning of amateur. Those who play for the love of the game always prove themselves champs on the rink, on the courts, in the church, in the crowd, in the pinball arcade and even in Bryant Park. They shoot, they score. You watch, you win!

5pm: First Annual Walla Walla Ping Pong Tournament! Details coming soon.

7pm: BLACK LIVES, MATTERS

The black experience is not monolithic; instead, it is as varied as the color spectrum. In order to appreciate the sanctity of individuals, we must first embrace the wondrous diversity and emotional commonality of the human race. A rodeo star, a music icon, an aspiring astronomer, a grieving mom, a grave-digger, a hopeful boat owner and a renowned falconer represent just a small sliver of the possibilities.

8pm: THE MATING GAME

Meeting cute is the business of romantic comedies; staying together is the struggle that instills our need to laugh at love. The compromised couples and swinging singles in these shorts remind us that contrary to popular movie wisdom, love means always having to say you’re sorry. (*Adult themes and material.)

sunday, july 2

1pm: BULLY PULPIT

Power corrupts... absolutely. Given the least bit of authority or sheer audacity, too many are ready to lord themselves over others, whether classmates, lovers, the canine, the statuary or those in need of counseling. Still, there is hope in speaking up, standing up and even, shutting down.

4pm: HIGHLY ATTUNED

Summer’s here and the time is right to thank those who make the music that has us dancing in the streets, grooving in the sheets and marching to very different beats. Bowie, Cobain and the Allmans appear on this short soundtrack as do a few folks — real, surreal and animated — whom you’ve never heard before, but will be humming for years to come.

7pm: WALLA WALLA MOVIE CRUSH CHALLENGE

WORLD PREMIERE! In honor of this inaugural edition of the WWMC, we asked ten of our favorite filmmakers/filmmaking teams to create brand-new shorts in response to this prompt: your first crush. The only other parameter was that these movies could be no longer than seven minutes. (NOTE: no one, including the organizers of this festival, will have seen these shorts until they hit the screen. And, who knows if they will be seen again? This is truly a World Premiere event.)

New films by: The Adams Family, Genevieve Anderson, Wendy Jo Carlton, Rick Castañeda, Mtume Gant, Jadoliva Studios; Josh Lunden, Joshua Seftel, Jacob Strunk and Caveh Zahedi

8pm: THE BEST OF THE WALLA WALLA MOVIE CRUSH & AWARDS CEREMONY

The very best films of the inaugural Walla Walla Move Crush — as selected by a jury of internationally-acclaimed filmmakers and WWMC curator Warren Etheredge — will screen prior to our Closing Night Ceremony, during which the winners of the Best Short Narrative, Best Animated Short and Best Short Documentary prizes will be announced.

The Walla Movie Crush was co-founded by Warren Etheredge and Nancy Dragun, the latter serving as Executive Director, the former as Artistic Director. For seven years, Mr. Etheredge was the Curator and Host of the internationally-acclaimed 1 Reel Film Festival (at Bumbershoot), the nation’s best-attended celebration of short cinema. Prior to that, he spent three years both programming and heading up the Membership department for the Seattle International Film Festival. For ten years, he has worked as a programmer, host and workshop leader of the Rainier Independent Film Festival, and regularly appears moderating Q&As, panel discussions and interactive sessions and hosting awards ceremonies at festivals in Ashland, Austin, Port Townsend, San Antonio and Tacoma. He has hosted industry confabs at Sundance, Slamdance, NFFTY and SXSW. Additionally, Mr. Etheredge is an accomplished producer (FUREVER; EVEN THE WALLS; THE LOST MARINER) and the host of the Emmy®-nominated television series, The High Bar (www.thehighbar.tv), now turned podcast (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-high-bar/id1216502573?mt=2-). The WWMC Staff also boasts the beloved Ranielle Gray, who helped grow the 1 Reel Film Festival, and Heather Bartels, who will supervise “after dark” programming. Heather currently serves as a lead instructor for the SHRIEK: Women in Horror series and is a featured speaker at Crypticon. Walla Walla’s own Beth Hudson provides critical CPR for the festival as its Community Liaison.

Tickets will become available for purchase on June 1, 2017. Day passes are $15; a pass for both days is available for $25. Tickets may be purchased via Eventbrite thru June 30th, 2017: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/walla-walla-movie-crush-tickets-34915445036 Day-of-show tickets will be available at the door of the GESA Power House Theatre (111 N 6th Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362).

The Walla Walla Movie Crush receives support from The City of Walla Walla, the Walla Walla Public Library, the GESA Power House Theatre and Washington FilmWorks. All proceeds from the Walla Walla Movie Crush go to support The Red Badge Project (http://www.theredbadgeproject.com/).

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Ars staff members uncovered: our home office setups We'll demonstrate to you our own on the off chance that you demonstrate to us yours.

What's your home office setup like? Regardless of what number of work areas with PCs we've all found in our lives, it generally a touch of energizing and voyeuristic to investigate another person's life to perceive how they set up their workspace. Here at Ars, there's a really various range with regards to our own home office setups, some of which you may have as of now observed from our latest Ars Technicast post.

Since the analysts on that post have invested some energy investigating what they see on our work areas so far, we thought it is pleasant to let some different Ars staff members in on the good times. Underneath, you can see the home office setups for various staff members and givers, alongside short portrayals of what they have running. We don't generally work at our work areas—and a few of us don't have work areas—however when we do, this is the thing that they resemble.

Lee Aylward: Lead Programmer

This goliath work area has stayed with me for a long time and through five moves. It has heaps of space for tablets, drinks, and the incidental feline. After I started telecommuting, I immediately understood that I required a more agreeable seat, so on Ken's proposal I grabbed an Aeron. The 30" LCD is another expansion, and I cherish how well it functions with the little 11" Macbook Air. There is a Windows PC tucked under the work area for gaming and sporadic IE testing. A couple of other critical things: bobble head Spock, smaller than expected Tom Servo, and renegade mythical beast.

Aurich Lawson: Creative Director

While my MacBook Air is propped up by a straightforward cardboard box (despite the fact that I some of the time troll Craigslist to search for something more pleasant), I for the most part do the vast majority of my genuine work in the more strong ViewSonic screen. I have 2TB of outside capacity connected to my WiFi switch and portable PC, alongside an arrangement of speakers. My printer/scanner is holed up behind my screen. My work area is normally semi-disrupted, and I have a variety of devices adjacent—an auto tablet charger, a compact advanced recorder, an old iPod nano that I've been intending to offer. The recognitions over the work areas are my better half's (left) and mine (right). They are student degrees (however our Master's degrees are above, not imagined). And keeping in mind that I may not be a large portion of the rebel that Capt. Benjamin Sisko was, I keep two balls around my work area to hurl around when I get exhausted.

Iljitsch van Beijnum: Ars Contributor

Having moved as of late, I haven't had the opportunity to cover my work space under a heap of rubble at this time, and my IBM Model M is still away. So it's quite recently the basics: a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air, a pot of tea, a sound nibble. Normally the 23" Dell screen is all I require, yet I can open up the portable PCs in the event that I require more screen land. I as of late abandoned my six-year-old Mighty Mouse's scrollball, so now I have the enchantment trackpad for looking over, swiping, and squeezing, however despite everything I wind up going after the mouse consistently. The little speaker under the screen has bluetooth—everything is better with bluetooth all things considered—however so far I've for the most part been utilizing it wired, not at all like the mouse, trackpad, and console. Goodness, and once you attempt a roundabout mousepad, there's no backpedaling.

Jon Brodkin: Senior IT Reporter

There's no space for an "office" in my one-room townhouse, however I get by with a work area I purchased in school for $45 and have tucked toward the side of my lounge. It has quite recently enough space for a Core i7 Mac smaller than normal (256GB SSD, 750GB turning plate, and 16GB of RAM), a 3TB outside drive, SIP telephone, call recording gadget, and evidently a smooth. 16GB of RAM is extravagant for running virtual machines, and I have a Windows 7 segment that can be gotten to either from Boot Camp or in Parallels.

The two screens are delightful, yet they make the space feel cramped, so I'm investigating extending the workspace or simply purchasing a greater work area. (Refresh: This article enlivened me to go purchase somewhat table/plate that can fit under my work area and hold my console.) Not envisioned is my copier/faxer/scanner/printer, and a MacBook Air that goes down remotely to the Mountain Lion Server introduced on the smaller than usual. Also, yes, that is tape over the webcam. What occurs at Jon's work area remains at Jon's work area.

Chris Foresman: Ars Contributor

My workstation is intended to augment working space in my little corner of the home office I share with my sweetheart and her child. The work area is an extra to IKEA's Expedit stockpiling rack; the mix keeps running about $120. The seat is additionally an IKEA plan that cost $89.

Since I'm the kind of individual that normally has roughly 647 activities in different phases of advance, it doesn't generally look as clean as I'd like. Be that as it may, abundant capacity given by the eight extensive segments of the Expedit rack makes it simple to keep the wreckage avoided general view. The huge work area surface is more than I requirement for my 11" MacBook Air, however it has a lot of space for amplifiers for podcasting, books I'm perusing or utilizing for research, heaps of photographs, and materials for visual computerization ventures. There's additionally huge amounts of room underneath the work area, so I utilize some fundamental archive stockpiling boxes to keep ventures I've put on hold inside simple reach.

The most vital component of my workstation, nonetheless, is that I'm found sufficiently close to the workplace way to close and bolt it when I need to dig in and Get Things Done.

Megan Geuss: Staff Editor

I get a kick out of the chance to surmise that the scattered wreckage you see here is on account of everything else that I do on the PC is recently so damn sorted out, and I don't have room schedule-wise to keep my IRL space clean. Lamentably, the case might be that I'm quite recently chaotic constantly. I require two rulers (who doesn't?) and you'll see my MacBook charging calmly next to my PC desktop for crisis discharge circumstances that may happen in my home office. You'll additionally see the edge of a Kindle Fire behind that towel. The octopus guarding my tower is quite great at what he does (yet despite everything I utilize against infection programming).

Eric Bangeman: Managing Editor

Here you see Eric Bangeman's 2008 "Harpertown" Mac Pro that accompanies two 3.0GHz quad-center Xeon processors, 10GB of DDR2 RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and an ATI Radeon HD 5770. The machine keeps running with a 480GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD within, and in addition two 2TB Western Digital Black drives running at 7200rpm. Eric embellishes this look with three screens: a 30" Apple Cinema Display running off one of the design cards, and a couple of 23" Apple LCDs off the other. What's more, when he's giving his hair a chance to down for a trek to the nearby Panera, he brings his trusty 11" MacBook Air. Très chic!

Cesar Torres: Social Editor

I like moderation in my work process and in my home style, so my work setup is planned to be perfect and streamlined. I utilize a Crate and Barrel work area in polished white, on which I utilize a 2011 iMac and a Blue Snowball mouthpiece for podcasting. Indeed, even the mic is white. Underneath my work area I run an outside drive for all my sight and sound. I utilize a rack underneath the work area for it, so I can keep the surface of the work area mess free. I do my reinforcements remotely utilizing Time Capsule. At whatever point I utilize note pads, pens or books on the work area, I try to put them away when I am done, with a specific end goal to keep the work area spotless and moderate.

Ryan Paul: Open Source Editor

I work at a tallness customizable work area that enables me to exchange amongst sitting and standing positions for the duration of the day. I regularly utilize two PCs without a moment's delay, a MacBook Air associated with a 27-inch Thunderbolt show and a PC tower that runs Ubuntu. I utilize Synergy to share enter gadgets between the two frameworks. The left-hand screen is mounted on an articulating arm with the goal that I can swing it out over my work area.

Diminish Bright: Microsoft Editor

I have a custom-fabricated, L-formed work area coordinated into the custom-manufactured bookshelf that spreads one mass of my office. On the work area I have an old Aiwa NSX 999 across the board greetings fi that is generously broken, yet at the same time has an utilitarian speaker and volume dial, three Dell UltraSharp U2410 24" screens, a Dell AT102W console, a Logitech Performance Mouse MX, a 13-port USB center point, a wired Xbox 360 controller, a Sennheiser PC 150 headset, a couple of Webcams (one Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF, one Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920), a 64GB third era iPod touch, a no-name 20-in-1 memory card peruser, a USB infrared collector for a remote control, and a more established model 1TB Western Digital MyBook. These things are altogether associated with a self-constructed full tower PC. This is outstanding for being housed in a SilverStone Fortress FT02 case, which puts the motherboard's back board connectors on the highest point of the PC, enabling me to connect things to without moving the framework far from the divider.

Notwithstanding this, my work area regularly likewise contains a Lenovo X300 portable workstation, a mid 2008-era MacBook Pro, and for as long as couple of months, a Samsung Series 7 Slate on which I've been trying Windows 8. The Slate is matched to a Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000 and a Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse. There's likewise a Polycom SoundPoint IP 320 Desktop IP Telephone.

The seat is an old, rather shoddy office seat that should be supplanted with something more agreeable.

Be that as it may, the most vital thing of all is the thing that I call the stroking stage. The little stage on the left with the blue-green cover is a Kitt-In Box from The Refined Feline. Tragically ceased, these are feline beds that rush to a work area, giving my feline Millie some place to rest other than on my console.

Jacqui Cheng: Senior Apple Editor

When I'm really working in my home office, I utilize a 27" 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo iMac that was discharged in 2009. Within, it has 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive—this thing was a survey machine when it was first acquired, so it's a quite standard model. When I'm not at my work area—or notwithstanding when I am—I additionally utilize a 11" Core i7 MacBook Air from mid-2011. Furthermore, obviously I generally have my third-gen iPad and iPhone 4 convenient for OS, application, and different other testing purposes.

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International News:

--- "North Korea's latest rocket-engine test showed "meaningful" progress, South Korea said on Monday, while an analyst said it was a dangerous step towards the North's goal of developing a rocket that could hit the United States. The North's KCNA news agency said on Sunday the engine would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite-launch capability, indicating a new type of rocket engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile. The North's announcement of a successful engine test came as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Beijing at the end of his first visit to Asia for talks dominated by concern about North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes. "Through this test, it is found that engine function has made meaningful progress but further analysis is needed for exact thrust and possible uses," Lee Jin-woo, deputy spokesman for the South Korean defence ministry, told a regular briefing. State-run North Korean media reported that leader Kim Jong Un had hailed the successful test of a new high-thrust engine at its rocket launch station as "a new birth" of its rocket industry."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN16R02P?il=0

--- "Syrian rebels launched a major offensive on Sunday that brought them close to the heart of the Old City of Damascus, and government forces responded with intense bombardments of rebel-held areas. The escalation, reported by witnesses, state TV, rebel sources, and a monitoring group, marked a bid by the rebels to relieve army pressure on besieged areas they control to the east of the capital. Moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA) and jihadist groups were both involved in the assault on the districts of Jobar and Abbasiyin, some 2 km (1.2 miles) east of the Old City walls. Syrian state television said the army had repelled an infiltration attempts by the militants and bombarded them with artillery, inflicting heavy losses. Witnesses said the army deployed tanks in some adjacent neighborhoods, and troops could be seen patrolling on foot. "The streets are empty and the army has despatched dozens of troops in the streets, and tanks are being moved. The sounds of mortars from Jobar have not stopped," said a resident of the nearby Tijara district, who asked not to be named. Another witness said most shops had closed in areas close to the fighting, as people fled further away from the clashes. Heavy explosions rang out in the background as state TV broadcast live from Abbasiyin square, a usually teeming area that seemed to be deserted of traffic and pedestrians."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-jobar-idUSKBN16Q09X?il=0

--- "Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Wales on Monday as part of a plan to engage with all the nations of the United Kingdom before she formally launches Britain's departure from the European Union. May is due to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, beginning two years of formal divorce talks, by the end of this month, and her office said she would be visiting Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to hear people's views...On Monday May and Brexit minister David Davis will meet with Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones and business representatives to discuss how Wales can make the most of opportunities offered by Brexit, her office said."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-wales-idUSKBN16Q0XE?il=0

--- "Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen would lead the first round of voting in France's presidential election with 26 percent each, a Kantar Sofres-Onepoint poll showed on Sunday. Conservative Francois Fillon came third in the poll on first-round voting intentions, with 17 percent, which would eliminate him from the second-round run-off. Next in the poll were Socialist Benoit Hamon and far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, tied on 12 percent. French voters go the polls on April 23 and May 7 in the two-round election."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-poll-idUSKBN16Q0S7?il=0

--- North Korea has conducted a test of a new high-thrust engine at its Tongchang-ri rocket launch station and leader Kim Jong Un said the successful test was "a new birth" of its rocket industry, the reclusive North's official media said on Sunday. The engine would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite launch capability, KCNA said, indicating the test was of a new type of rocket engine for long-range missiles. The United States and China pledged to work together to get the North to take "a different course" and move away from its weapons programs after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met his Chinese counterpart on Saturday. North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests and a series of missile launches, in defiance of U.N. sanctions, and is believed by experts and government officials to be working to develop nuclear-warhead missiles that could reach the United States."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN16P0UZ?il=0

--- "Three U.S. troops were wounded on Sunday after an Afghan soldier opened fire on them at a base in the southern province of Helmand, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said. The soldiers are receiving medical care, the NATO-led training and assistance mission said on Twitter. A spokesman for the Afghan military in the south of the country said the Afghan special forces soldier was shot dead after firing at the Americans at Camp Shorab air base at around 3 p.m. local time."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-shooting-idUSKBN16Q0LZ?il=0

Domestic & International News:

--- "With warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended his first trip to Asia since taking office with an agreement to work together with China on North Korea and putting aside trickier issues. China has been irritated at being repeatedly told by Washington to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and the U.S. decision to base an advanced missile defense system in South Korea. Beijing is also deeply suspicious of U.S. intentions toward self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, with the Trump administration crafting a big new arms package for the island that is bound to anger China. But meeting in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, those issues were brushed aside by Xi and Tillerson, at least in front of reporters, with Xi saying Tillerson had made a lot of efforts to achieve a smooth transition in a new era of relations."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tillerson-asia-china-idUSKBN16Q0TP?il=0

--- "German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke up for free trade at a major technology fair on Sunday with jabs clearly pointed at an increasingly protectionist United States. Both called for a free trade deal to be reached quickly between Japan and the European Union, in comments made after G20 finance ministers and central bankers dropped a long-standing mention of open trade in their final communique after a two-day meeting in Germany. Neither leader named the U.S. government as they opened the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover, but both used the opportunity to distance themselves from protectionist tendencies coming from the Trump administration. "In times when we have to argue with many about free trade, open borders and democratic values, it's a good sign that Japan and Germany no longer argue about this but rather are seeking to shape the future in a way that benefits people," Merkel said."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cebit-merkel-idUSKBN16Q0UR?il=0

--- "German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Germany owes NATO and the United States "vast sums" of money for defense. "There is no debt account at NATO," von der Leyen said in a statement, adding that it was wrong to link the alliance's target for members to spend 2 percent of their economic output on defense by 2024 solely to NATO. "Defense spending also goes into UN peacekeeping missions, into our European missions and into our contribution to the fight against IS terrorism," von der Leyen said. She said everyone wanted the burden to be shared fairly and for that to happen it was necessary to have a "modern security concept" that included a modern NATO but also a European defense union and investment in the United Nations."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-germany-defence-idUSKBN16Q0D8?il=0

Domestic News:

--- "U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will face tough scrutiny at his Senate confirmation hearing starting on Monday, with Democrats seeking to make the case that he is a pro-business, social conservative insufficiently independent of the president. In a bid to place hurdles in the way of Gorsuch's expected confirmation by the Republican-controlled Senate, Democrats on the judiciary committee considering the nomination have said they will probe him on several fronts based mainly on his record as a federal appeals court judge and a Justice Department appointee under former President George W. Bush. Nominated by President Donald Trump to fill a year-old vacancy on the court, Gorsuch is a conservative appeals court judge from Colorado. Cool-headed and amiable, he will likely try to engage senators without being pinned down on specifics."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-gorsuch-idUSKBN16Q0BP?il=0

--- "The directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency will break their public silence on Monday about their investigations into possible links between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign at a rare open congressional intelligence committee hearing. Representatives Devin Nunes, chairman of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Adam Schiff, the panel's top Democrat, have called FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers to testify as part of their committee's probe into allegations that Russia meddled in U.S. elections. Other congressional committees also are investigating the matter, mostly behind closed doors. But amid a furor over whether Moscow tried to influence the 2016 presidential race on Trump's behalf, lawmakers said they would make public as much of their probes as possible. Russia denies attempting to influence the election. Comey and Rogers are not expected to reveal much in public about the probes, which include information that is classified Top Secret and also separated into different compartments, each of which requires a separate clearance. But the hearing could become heated as Republicans balance support for their party's leaders and Democrats vent frustration over Republican congressional leaders' refusal to appoint a special prosecutor or select committee to investigate."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN16R077?il=0

--- "U.S. lawmakers from both parties said on Sunday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion. Several Republicans last week urged Trump to apologize for the allegations he made in a series of tweets on March 4. The maelstrom also caused tension with key U.S. allies and threatens to distract Republicans from campaign promises on health care and taxes. "I don't know the basis for President Trump's assertion," U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I do believe he owes us that explanation." Collins said she supported Trump as president, but she wouldn't side with him if he "misstated what the facts are." FBI Director James Comey is expected to be asked about Trump's claims when he testifies at a rare public hearing on Monday about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Russia has denied the assertion it was involved in hacked emails and other attempts to influence the race. Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee holding the hearing, called Trump's claims "patently false" and said he expected Comey to say as much on Monday."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN16Q0LL?il=0

--- "A detailed version of President Donald Trump's budget to be released in May will lay out plans to eventually erase U.S. deficits, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday. "We're getting into that now. By May, I think it's mid-May we're shooting for right now, we'll have that larger budget..." Mulvaney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. Mulvaney acknowledged that the budget would not be balanced in the upcoming 2018 fiscal year but said the administration wants to put the country on a path toward eventually wiping out annual deficits. "We won't be able to balance the budget this year, but we're working on trying to get it to balance within the 10-year budget window, which is what Republicans in the House and the Senate have traditionally done in the last couple of years," Mulvaney said. "It is a very complicated budget process when your entitlements, your mandatory spending is driving most of your budget deficit," he said. "So over the course of the next decade, we'll have to look at the mandatory spending side in order to figure out a way to make changes to the way we spend money.""

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget-idUSKBN16Q0SW?il=0

--- "U.S. House Republicans are working on changes to their healthcare overhaul bill that would implement a work requirement for the Medicaid program for the poor, as well as boost tax credits for older, lower income people, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday. "We think we should be offering more assistance than the bill currently does," for lower-income people age 50 to 64, Ryan said of the tax credits for health insurance that are proposed in the legislation. Speaking on the "Fox News Sunday" television program, Ryan also said Republicans are working on changes that would allow federal block grants to states for Medicaid. Lawmakers plan to have the healthcare legislation on the House floor this Thursday, Ryan said."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-obamacare-ryan-idUSKBN16Q0JI?il=0

Further Details: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN16Q0OR?il=0

--- "President Donald Trump may begin his overhaul of the U.S. tax code as early as late spring, White House spokesman Sean Spicer has told Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper. "We are going to have tax reform after we get healthcare completed... I think we are looking at late spring to summer," Spicer told the newspaper in an interview during Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny's visit to Washington late last week. Trump has vowed to deliver major tax cuts to the middle-class and the business community this year but deepening Republican divisions over a House Republican healthcare bill which has spawned concern that action on tax reform may be delayed. In a survey released last week, only 16 percent of about 1,000 business, tax and financial executives polled by accounting and advisory firm KPMG said they expected to see tax reform in 2017."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tax-idUSKBN16Q0AB?il=0

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