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Jack Swagger, fighting under his real name, Jake Hager, defeated J.W. Kiser by submission in the first round on Saturday night at Bellator 214.

Hager looked impressive in his MMA debut, showing a wide array of skills and channeling his University of Oklahoma amateur wrestling background.

Hager took a punch from Kiser early and immediately worked for a takedown, using his amateur wrestling background to control him on the ground. After working for a kimura, he broke Kiser’s defensive position and landed some big elbows that hurt him.

Hager worked into position for a head and arm choke and tapped Kiser fairly quickly at 2:09 of the first round without even having proper positioning with his legs.

In a special moment before the big victory, R-Truth rapped while Hager made his entrance to the age. Bellator also played a video of Hager saying his WWE catchphrase, “We The People.” He also said it during his post-fight speech.

In his post-fight speech, Hager didn’t say a lot of note other than he wanted to make Bellator his home and fight a lot over the next decade. When broadcaster John McCarthy asked Hager about advice he got from his “old boss” Vince McMahon, Hager said, “Sometimes to convince Vince, you have to con Vince.”

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Kenny Omega Addresses The Women’s Division In AEW

During an interview with, Kenny Omega discussed trying to get the AEW women’s division established:

We have talent from all corners of the globe. One of my main focuses from the beginning is, I wanted to show some of the Joshi talents from Japan that haven’t had the opportunity to be seen on a global scale. There hasn’t been much exposure of Stardom on a worldwide scale, but people know who they are, mainly due to Kairi Sane and Io Shirai. Since their NXT debuts, people have dug a little deeper and gone back to the roots and seen what Stardom is all about. I’m sure they’ve gained fans through that, but there are other styles of Joshi wrestling and other talent that people haven’t seen, that don’t wrestle for Stardom. These are the people I want to introduce to the world,” he said.

“That’s what I’m trying to shoulder and the responsibility I want to take. Not only show the kind of style that someone like Io has shown the NXT Universe, which is fantastic wrestling and great high-flying and everything that makes exciting wrestling. But it’s not the be-all, end-all because there are all sorts of flavors of wrestling. I want to be the one, as best as I can, to show the variety in that. 2020 is going to be a very exciting year because we have a lot more names jumping on board, and I hope once we increase our talent pool, people will be excited, and we’ll set the stage for hopefully a number of great performances that people can see.”

“I want the women to have the largest stage possible on Dynamite and Dark. I’m fighting for it every week for them to have more time,” stated Omega. “‘Cut mine, I don’t care.’ When you have such a focus on the (tag team title) tournament, which took up so much time on each episode, it was two to one titles. I have to put blame on myself because I had the angle with [Jon] Moxley as well. At the end of the day, there’s only so much time in an episode. It’s almost amazing how fast it gets eaten up. We haven’t been able to focus on women as much as I’d like. Some of it has been availability. We have girls signed and hopping on board. I hate to say ‘wait til 2020,’ but I can safely say in 2020 there are going to be interesting and exciting signings that will shake up the division. As soon as we have a women’s tag division, that will balance (things) more and give the women more of a stage. Once there’s that ‘thing’ for them to fight for, you’re going to see more time devoted per episode for the women.”

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Are energy bars nutritious? Sure, energy bars, also known as nutrition bars, are convenient, but there are plenty of other convenient—and healthy—foods. After all, "How inconvenient is an organic apple and some nuts?" asks Ashley Koff, RD, the author of Mom Energy (Hay House, 2011). "The difference in calories and nutrients can be significant. The organic apple and nuts supply fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients that you may not get in most bars—and many bars provide more calories."

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Despite the downsides of energy bars, Koff says they do have use: when you're traveling, as a post-gym pick-up, or as a back-up plan for busy days, for example. But the whole food route is always a better option, she says. Some bars come much closer to delivering quality nutrients in their "almost whole food form."

Still want to stash an energy bar in your bag in order to avoid an afternoon trip to the vending machine for a candy bar? Koff recommends you choose a bar with balanced, quality nutrients. Look for:

  • Organic, non-GMO ingredients
  • 1 to 2 servings of carbohydrates (15 to 30 grams)
  • 1 serving of protein (15 grams)
  • 1 serving of fat (up to 10 grams), which should be from nuts, seeds or nut butters.

A bar with this balance of nutrients will not be too high in calories, and will give your body the nutrients it needs.

The following four brands offer bars that fit the bill. Find more approved options from Koff.

Clif Bar
These contain 70 percent organic ingredients. Koff likes the chocolate chip peanut crunch and the crunchy peanut butter varieties.

Each bar contains no more than nine whole food ingredients. Try the Chocolate Cherry Torte.

Gnu Food Flavor and Fiber Bars
These bars are high in fiber; both the banana walnut flavor and chocolate brownie contains 48 percent of the daily recommended amount of fiber.

Organic Square Bar
Non-GMO, gluten-, dairy-, soy-free, and yes, organic, these cocoa-covered bars come in almond, cocoa crunch, and coconut.

Ashley Koff, RD, reviewed this article.

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Please come to the McDonald Institute Visitor Centre for a FREE TOUR! Scientists working in the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute will give a guided tour through the McDonald Institute Visitor Centre, featuring an introduction to particle physics and astrophysics, some information on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment that won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, a discussion of the future of observing dark matter and neutrinos, and various interactive exhibits covering a range of scales and science. Come and have a taste of the world of astroparticle physics!

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Although being aware how dangerous bears actually are one particular boxer named Gus Waldorf wasn’t’ too intimidated by them. In 1949 Waldorf decided to face a bear in a special boxing match. The bear wore a customized muzzle on its jaws and gloves covering the deadly claws. Regardless of how handicapped the bear was it actually won the fight in the end.
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2. Determine if you want to submit an application for Willer Hall to be connected with the new House System OR if you want to pick a lottery number.  If your group wants to be connected to the House System, you will need to fill out the application (sent to your QU email) and set up a time to speak with Dr. Tracy.  If you are approved, your group will be pre-assigned to Willer.  Any Willer suites that are still vacant after this process is approved will be part of Housing Selection night.  (Willer suites wanting to be connected to the House System will be approved & finalized before housing selection night).
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It’s easy to forget that Rabbitohs centre Dylan Walker only made his first grade debut in round 10 of 2013. But this Friday, Walker will experience Good Friday Footy in the red and green for the very first time, and he’s not alone.

In 2013, a then regular-season record crowd of 51,686 was on hand to see the traditional Good Friday clash between the Rabbitohs and the Bulldogs, solidifying the event as one of the season’s true high-points.

In 2014, Walker, along with a whole new batch of Rabbitohs will be introduced to the custom after Michael Maguire named an extended squad for the tussle, including recent debutants; Kyle Turner, Apisai Koroisau, Cameron McInnes and Kirisome Auva’a.

Joe Picker, Joel Reddy, Luke Burgess and Alex Johnston (all named in the squad) are also yet to experience the Good Friday clash that regularly attracts some of the games’ biggest crowds and will be ready to answer the call should Maguire need them.

Despite the excitement surrounding the clash, for Walker and his team, it’ll be business as usual on-field.

“We’re treating it like a normal game,” said Walker of the much anticipated match that saw the Rabbitohs emerge victorious 17-12 in 2013.

“I guess I didn’t really understand how big an event it was and what it meant to people until I saw how big the crowd was last year.

“I was there watching it and it was a really tough game – plenty of contact and plenty of feeling so I can’t wait to get out there myself and do the same. I think it’s become one of the biggest games of the year really.”

Although a relatively fresh face himself, asked how he thinks the newer inclusions in the Rabbitohs camp will enjoy the experience in front of what is shaping as a healthy Good Friday crowd, Walker had no doubts.

“We prepare well as a team,” said Walker.

“The boys have been playing well and I’m sure it’s going to be something we’ll all remember. But we’re just focussed on playing good footy.”

Rabbitohs Head Coach Michael Maguire recently praised his new crop of talent on for their enthusiasm and professionalism.

“I’ve been impressed with the way they went through the pre-season and just the way they’ve gone about their development,” said Maguire.

“They’ve been really professional and they bring a great deal of enthusiasm and that’s part of the joy of bringing in young guys – they’re really enthusiastic and it rubs off on those around them. Myself included.”

The seventh placed Rabbitohs will have their work cut out for them against a resurgent Bulldogs side currently sitting in second position, and coming off a one-point victory over the Warriors in New Zealand.

“They’re a big forward pack and we’re expecting plenty from them up-front,” said Walker.

“They’re a great team in great form, so we just have to keep doing what we’ve been doing – training hard, sticking to our standards and keeping the focus we’ve had over the last few weeks. We’re certainly feeling strong as a team right now, we’re feeling good.

“We’re just trying to play good footy by sticking to those standards we keep talking about, get those wins and be humble about it.”

Walker urged all Rabbitohs Members to turn out in force on Friday afternoon to throw their support behind the red and greens in what promises to be another match to remember.

“I really hope our Members and supporters get out there on Friday,” said Walker.

“Plenty of people bring the family and spend the day there and it just felt like a big event last year. I can’t wait to be out there! It’s going to be a great game and it’s going to be a great show, so don’t miss it.”

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16,000 youths in Ekiti state are to benefit from the Federal Government Special Public Works Programme aimed at providing modest stipends for 774,000 Nigerians who are to be engaged as itinerant workers.

Governor Kayode Fayemi made this known at the inauguration of the State’s selection Committee for the programme, held at Ado-Ekiti.

In a message, the Ekiti state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ forum, said anybody who was not ready to be engaged as unskilled personnel should not apply.

Earlier, the Chairman of the committee, Mr. Biodun Omoleye who is also the Chief of Staff to the Governor maintained that anyone recruited under the scheme would be engaged in environmental sanitation, filling of potholes, traffic control, clearing up blocked drainage channels among others.

Coordinator, National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Mr. Babatunde Alao sought the cooperation of the stakeholders, adding that the methods of recruiting would be devoid of political, religious, and ethnic colourations.

The federal government special public works programme is one of the measures designed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic especially on the vulnerable, unemployed youths and poor people in the society.

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DfT should ‘let market decide’ on East Coast – Eversholt

Eversholt Rail has criticised the DfT for ‘prescribing’ IEP rolling stock for the East Coast Mainline, and argued that Mk4 carriages would have been a better choice.

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin confirmed the £1.2bn contract yesterday.

Agility Trains, the consortium formed to deliver the IEP, welcomed the commitment. Chief executive officer Martin Garrett said: “Agility Trains is delighted by the Secretary of State’s further commitment to the IEP, which will represent a step change in train performance and passenger experience on the East Coast Main Line.”

And Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland said: “Clearly new jobs in an area suffering from high unemployment is really good news…We welcome the present government's decision to proceed but it comes after delays and a total shambles because of the decision not to award the Thameslink contract to Bombardier.”

But Eversholt Rail criticised the decision, stating that Mk4 carriages would have been a cheaper option.

A statement from the company said: “Eversholt Rail is disappointed that the Department for Transport has decided to proceed with IEP Phase 2 and prescribe what rolling stock will be used on the new East Coast Mainline franchise. We continue to believe that the best option would have been to let the market decide.

“On that basis we put forward a very compelling proposition to modernise the existing IC225 fleet with refurbished Mk IV carriages and new traction systems. This would have offered substantial cost savings, greatly improved levels of comfort and service for East Coast passengers and state-of-the-art on-board technology.

“We believe that refurbished Mk IV rolling stock remains an attractive option when other rail franchises are re-let, including Midland Mainline and Greater Anglia, and we look forward to discussing our offer with potential bidders in due course.”

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Kev Smith   19/07/2013 at 12:37

The mk4 "apt" package will soon be snapped up by another operator, I find it highly amusing that the DFT has specified the same criteria as the Original MK4 system - 140mph with 125 Max speed... Class 91 & her Mk4's have No worries, they will leased by someone who wants to use on the GWML when the string is all up and running, Virgin may even use them...

Nick Andrews   19/07/2013 at 22:04

Sounds like sour grapes to me from Eversholt. Surely the MK 4s will be offered as part of a stock cascade in normal fashion? Probably going to the poor cousin in the form of "Intercity Anglia"?

Ian   22/07/2013 at 15:15

The whole IEP concept is so flawed it has become something of a joke within some sectors of the industry, yet D(a)fT carry on wasting money. Hey ho, they have never understood railways and this proves it.

Martin   23/07/2013 at 00:22

To those who say IEP is flawed, the concept of a more generic fleet was proven with the IC125 decision many years ago. Of course their were lots of doom and gloom merchants who said it was all flawed and would never work / last. The economies of scale, consistent spare parts supply and common technical knowledge in itself are a large step forward. .. Now if only we can get common couplings on all the MUs

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  Written by American World Adoption Association on 07 Jul 2015

One of the concerns that we often hear as staff when working with families is the topic of how to help a child cope with something that may be “different” about them.

We’ve all seen it happen. A child is out in public and perhaps they have a cleft lip or a missing limb and you catch someone or several individuals staring or often pointing at your child. They may mean no harm at all and quite possibly they are just curious, but this can often make a child or their parents feel very uncomfortable, especially if the child is of the age where they can distinguish differences and have come to realize something about me may be a little “different”. Maybe you’ve been guilty of this or have seen others do this to you or your child when out in public.

This was Karen’s story. As an adult affected by cleft lip and palate, she came to realize that many families affected by cleft conditions shared that oftentimes their children need a unique type of emotional support and a means to help them express and understand the feelings that they have about themselves, their appearance, and their treatment process as a child. It was due to this, that Karen decided to take on a project that has now grown substantially for children with cleft lip and palate.6a00e54fbb4092883401b8d12fc071970c-500wi

While attending a conference, she saw a doll with stitches sewn across its upper lip and in that moment, felt that the doll would have helped her cope with her facial difference as a child had it been available. She began collecting donations of Teddy Bears and began to hand sew stitches on the lips of 300 bears. The project was later realized by the Cleft Palate Foundation and became a partnership where teddy bears are now available to families who have a cleft affected child.

Parents of children who had received the cleft bears began providing feedback that illustrated that the bears provide unique emotional support for the child and help them express and understand the feelings they have about Carmen, age 6, was born with cleft lip and palate and received one of Karen’s original bears. According to his parents, “Even though it’s a stuffed toy, Carmen relates to it and feels he’s not the only one with a cleft. It builds his self-esteem and he has even shown it to teachers and relatives.” Likewise, the parents of Barry, age 7, state, “The bear gives us an opportunity to explore Barry’s feelings about the bear’s appearance and condition and then monitor our son’s feelings about himself. Anything that can enhance a positive self image for children with clefts is invaluable.” (from www.cleftline.org)

If you are interested in learning more about cleft lip teddy bears or cleft conditions, click here.

Our waiting children programs at America World receive a large number of files annually of children with cleft conditions, particularly our China program where there is a great need for families open to girls and especially boys with cleft conditions, both repaired and unrepaired.

Due a large number of new child files arriving in the upcoming months, we anticipate little to no wait time for many of our families who submit a dossier to China for a cleft affected child. We encourage you to visit our Waiting Children pages or contact our China staff at 800.429.3369 to learn more.

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I rarely post a review on fragrances, but I just feel like I had to share this long time perfume love that I've always had in my stash. It's no other than the cult favorite, DKNY Be Delicious (original scent). Not sure if you remember one of my old post, the Empties Perfume Edition. This very same scent was present in that post as well, but it was the 50ml bottle, this time I got the 100ml bottle, yay!

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Prequels, sequels, and time jumps: Ellen Kushner is here to show you the way.

It’s kind of confusing, isn’t it?

You’ve just finished reading all thirteen Season One episodes of Tremontaine. Or you’re contemplating diving in, now that you don’t have to wait a week for each one. But . . . is there homework? Will there be a test?You already know that Tremontaine is pitched as a “prequel to Ellen Kushner’s blah blah better than sliced okra novel Swordspoint, published so long ago that it’s earned the label ‘cult classic;’ indeed, so very long ago that some people didn’t even have smartphones” – but where does that leave you now? Today?Should you read Swordspoint first, because it was published first? Or will that contain spoilers for Tremontaine? Or will Tremontaine contains spoilers for Swordspoint?

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wouldn’t know if you read them in order. But that’s kind of like deciding at what point in anyone’s life – your grandmother’s, let’s say, or your first crush – you want to meet them, and how much of their past you want to hear about, or how far into your own future you want their company.Nobody’s ever the same age from book to book. The desperate teens in The Privilege of the Sword are all grown and settled and established and terrifying their younger relatives in Kings.And what you read first will probably determine what you pick up on in the others. If you began with The Fall of the Kings, everything else will be about the past that got us there. And you’ll wonder why there isn’t more about the University in two of the others, and get a kick out of seeing some of the old farts in Kings being feckless young students in Tremontaine—no, wait, that’s coming in Season Two…..If you started with Swordspoint, you’re going to be wondering all the time in all the rest when the swordsman St Vier and his lover Alec are going to turn up. And sometimes you’ll get lucky.

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If you start at the other chronological end with Tremontaine, you will know things about the Duchess Diane that even I didn’t know when I wrote Swordspoint – but which all seem perfectly obvious to me now.That’s the weird and wonderful thing about writing in this world: I keep finding hints I’ve dropped myself, clues that that the younger writer wasn’t even aware of, but nevertheless wrote in, about the city and its economy, about the Tremontaine clan and their in-fights, about students and teachers and swordsmen and their mothers. As the years go by, I can pick up the hints and threads, and weave them together in a way that makes sense in ways I couldn’t have known.I don’t want to be too specific here, in case you haven’t read everything. But next time we’re in the same place,[1] find some friends, set up a Tremontaine Spoilers Table, and I’ll spill the beans for you. Including the bits I haven’t even written yet.[2][1] In 2016 I plan to be at ICFA, WisCon, Clarion, Readercon and World Fantasy Convention. Full schedule with links is here .[2] I want to take this Footnote to thank, extol and admire all my collaborators on the Tremontaine serial. They not only created characters who fit the world perfectly, but picked up and ran with some of the ones who already existed – and breathed life and vigor into them in such a way that everything seemed real and inevitable. Which just underscores to me the notion that they really do have a life of their own. Or that all my friends are geniuses. Which, of course, they are.

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Lisa Gye

The cygnets on the ornamental lake at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne were somewhat bemused. When not being enlisted by their long necked parents to drum up a little business from people throwing bread at the water’s edge, they poked about the curious floating objects which have temporarily invaded their space. These objects, which sang and chirruped exquisitely as the cygnets cavorted around them, were part of Garth Paine’s installation Reeds, for the Melbourne International Festival.

Reeds was a site-specific installation consisting of a series of reed pod sculptures (artfully designed by Christopher Langton) which transmitted and broadcast computer-generated music. The music was produced in response to data gathered by the pods on the basis of variations in the weather, light, wind speed and direction and solar activity. In this sense, the music was conducted by the natural environment with the aid of interpretive and generative software programs hooked up to the reed pods. The data collected by the pods was transmitted to a land-based computer which analysed and fed it into a sound synthesis software program designed to generate music in real time, producing 8 channels of digital audio. These channels were then broadcast back to the reed pods where Sennheiser EK300 stereo receivers, installed in 6 of the pods, received the broadcast signal. These signals were then separated into 2 mono components, fed into 2 adjacent pods and broadcast using amplifiers attached to the reed stems.

The reed pods were designed to blend almost seamlessly with the surrounding environment. Similarly, the music generated by the pods subtly mimicked the kinds of sounds you would expect to hear in this environment. You needed to constantly remind yourself that what you were seeing and hearing was, in fact, artificially constructed. The Botanic Gardens, an artificially constructed “experience” of the natural, are an apt setting for the work, highlighting an important theme of Paine’s work. Reeds allowed the viewer to negotiate a number of tenuous oppositions, such as the distinctions between the natural and the real, the artificial and the virtual.

Reeds, positioned as neither for nature nor against technology, enabled the viewer to experience the symbiosis between the two. The processes enacted by the reed pods were akin to the photosynthetic responses triggered in the surrounding plant-life when they are exposed to the same stimulus. At a time when popular representations of technology tend toward hysterical denunciation and generate fears about its dehumanising properties, Reeds reminds us that the nature/technology dichotomy is itself entirely artificial as is the concept of nature.

The question of where the sound performance of the installation takes place also highlights this blurring of boundaries between the artificial and the real. As Paine points out in the Reeds catalogue, sound literally penetrates the body. In this sense, the presence of the human audience is as necessary a condition for the performance as all of the technologies that drive the installation. We can’t separate the human from the technological—technology is, in fact, a necessary condition of humanity.

Reeds continues Paine’s explorations of the responsive, activated space that began with such works as Ghost in the Machine, Footfall and Map 1. Like these, Reeds is thoughtful, eloquent, evocative and ingeniously executed. The only disappointing aspect of the installation is that it could not remain in the Botanic Gardens permanently. I’m quite sure the swans wouldn’t mind.

Reeds, Interactive Sound Installation by Garth Paine, Melbourne International Festival, Ornamental Lake, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, October 14-November 12. www.activatedspace.com.au/installations (expired)

RealTime issue #40 Dec-Jan 2000 pg. 18

© Lisa Gye; for permission to reproduce apply to realtime@realtimearts.net

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Strategies for a theatre at risk & in decay

Richard Murphet: Theatre @ Risk, Theatre in Decay

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I don’t know any other way apart from convincing people to work with you and getting some work under way, even unpaid, and presenting it to any public—in a cellar, in the back room of a pub, in a hospital ward, in a prison. The energy produced by working is more important than anything else. So don’t let anything stop you from being active, even in the most primitive conditions, rather than wasting time looking for something in better conditions that might not come off. In the end, work attracts work.

So said Peter Brook, trying to answer an enquiry from a hopeful young theatre director.

The problem has always been the same. How to get started, how to continue, how to establish yourself in order to earn a living as an artist whilst not compromising the vision that got you going in the first place. These days, however, the competition is stiff from other media, money is scarce and it is much harder to live on the breadline.

Theatre itself is seriously under threat. The mainstream struggles along with an aging audience and does what it can to attract a younger one, while the non-mainstream has shattered into a thousand directions—all productive, many of them opening up kinds of performance work which would not have been seen in previous generations, but at the same time shattering the audience base and presenting young theatre artists with serious questions of identity in relation to the work they are doing.

Two new theatre companies in Melbourne provide fascinating alternatives to ‘getting some work under way.’ In their names, Theatre @ Risk and Theatre in Decay both directly face the dilemma of the artform. Robert Reid, the founder, writer and director of Theatre In Decay remembered, “When we started in 2000 all I could hear anywhere is that ‘theatre is in decay’ and I felt that I couldn’t work in this industry without acknowledging upfront that is how we are being seen—so what to do about it?” Chris Bendall of Theatre @ Risk admitted that “naming it was tongue in cheek in that we knew we were going into risk in doing it” but asserted, too, that for him and Victor Bizzotto, directors of the company, the only way to save theatre was by taking risks and by challenging their audience to take them—”to go to a deeper level.”

Theatre @ Risk began this year with an ambitious season of works at the recently opened Blackbox Theatre at the Victorian Arts Centre. The first production was a double bill of the thriller, Polygraph, by the French Canadian writer Robert Lepage and the celebration of cultural miscegenation, The B File, by British writer Deborah Levy. Their second production was Louis Nowra’s urban nightmare The Jungle. They were to mount Austrian writer Thomas Bernard’s Histrionics in December until financial considerations caused them to postpone until next year, when they also plan to present a new play by Chilean, Ariel Dorfman, and to develop a show of multi-languages and voices based on the concept of the Tower of Babel. A key focus for the company is what Bendall describes as “trying to find some meeting point between difference, a collision of languages and cultures.”

On an immediate level, this is to do with an interest in performing shows from around the world that would otherwise not be seen in Melbourne, but it was evident too in the collisions between class, gender, race and occupation in The Jungle—the urban chaos of subcultures. The form the company prefers is one that moves fast between various locations and times, a mixture of strong text with bold physical images, judicious use of music and “a pumped up fast and driving techno energy—abrasiveness and rawness.” It is a theatre for a new breed of educated young theatregoer.

The aim nevertheless is to provide an alternative to mainstream theatre from within the body of the beast. The choice of Blackbox as a venue provides a home right in the heart of the Arts Centre. The texts are ones overlooked by other theatre companies but they are recognisable as theatre texts. The shows get reviewed by mainstream as well as alternative press (Helen Thomson of The Age is particularly supportive). Their aim is to develop the company to the point where it can attract government funding. They are in for the long haul. Their productions are minimal and stripped back but they are stylish and as such demand more cost than the still-growing audience numbers can cover. That is their dilemma. All the work so far has been donated free of charge by artists and crew involved. And the directors have outstanding debts to pay. They set themselves this year to get a following and a name. This they have achieved but it has been at enormous cost, physically and financially. For Bizzotto, in his early 40s, the challenge is a critical one:

There is a part of me which wants to continue to be the independent artist out there being invigorated by the challenge and this other part where I get home and it smacks me in the face—it actually frightens me—I have to support my family and I don’t know how I am going to do that.

Robert Reid’s Theatre in Decay is on another path altogether. Since he founded the company in 2000 they have produced 10 plays, nearly all written by Reid and all directed by him. The plays are of various lengths, some monologues, some dialogue, and some grouped together into longer combinations. They play at various venues around the city: fringe theatres, pubs, on the street. The aim is to get stuff out, as much of it as possible and as often as is humanly feasible. It’s like a guerilla theatre—short plays, coming from unexpected angles, happening in different places, in different contexts, about different issues, in different genres—no sense of building up continuity, more a sense of trying to break continuity. When I asked Reid whether the name of the company suggested that they were trying to rescue theatre or to destroy what we have known as theatre, he nodded in amused understanding and quoted Geoffrey Milne’s comment on the company on the ABC: “one wonders whether they are the solution or the problem.” He admitted, “I’m less and less interested in theatre as an idea.” His focus is fully on the relationship of the audience to the performance.

What isn’t being addressed in most theatre that I go to is audience inclusion; everything feels in the same setup—audience/ stalls/darkness/stage/actors/light—audience sit face front, rank-and-file and are expected to not talk not cough not laugh too loudly, in essence pretend we don’t exist, we exist in our own imaginal worlds and any intrusion from outside interrupts it and breaks it—‘the magic of theatre’. It feels to me like that is a brittle, fragile type of theatre, alienating audiences, because people would much rather be a part of an art event than just witness to one. Very often the work of ours that gets the best response is that where the people can move around, talk to their friends, drink, eat, sing along.

In TID actors pretend to be nothing other than actors and to be nowhere other than where they are: ‘‘What you see is what you see; if the actors aren’t pretending to be someone else and somewhere else the audience doesn’t have to pretend to be no-one and nowhere.” The genre that the company prefers to work in feeds that sense of audience stimulation and inclusion—horror, schlock-horror—because “I enjoy it and actors enjoy it and audiences enjoy it and I don’t see it done on stage often coz it’s very difficult to do horror properly.” He cites an example: “All the Damned Zombies culminated in a scene where 14 actors in a pub each grabbed an audience member and ground their crotches into the audience member’s head with confetti flying everywhere and the sound guy picked up a live chainsaw and ran through. Every single night at the end of the scene people burst into applause; it released something deep in them.” This sense of deeper release is another motive for the choice of genre: “what makes it scary is the constant reminder that humans are fragile—a reminder of our own mortality.”

The focus is also on the politics of human interaction: “the stuff I do as a writer is either horror or politics; more often these days both at the same time. New Scum dealt with sweatshop labour and the attitude of the public towards drug use and addicts. The Girl Who Lived in the Coke Sign Above St Kilda Road was a monologue about homelessness and escaping from homelessness but ending up in advertising.”

Unlike Bendall and Bizzotto’s thoroughgoing vision for the future of their company, Reid is far more circumspect: “I don’t know if TID is the kind of company that gets funding—it’s less important for me to have the funding, partially because I believe that if we can buy our way out of a situation we don’t have to think our way out. I think that TID has a relatively short shelf-life and once it has run its length it will evolve into something else.” In his case, the ‘something else’ is 2 plays to be performed by Australian Theatre for Young People, the possibility of a commission from Playbox and works commissioned for The Storeroom.

While Theatre @ Risk are on the lookout around the world for new images, fresh voices, and working tenaciously to keep their vision alive, Robert Reid sits at his job at Telstra with pen and paper at the ready and listens to the wild voices in his head.

Theatre @ Risk: Chris Bendall & Victor Bizzotto (artistic directors), Kirrilly Brentnall (company manager), Amanda Silk, Rob Irwin & Nick Merrylees (design team) and a loose ensemble of actors.

Theatre In Decay: Robert Reid (writer/director), Anniene Stockton (manager) and a loose company of performers including Telia Nevile, Elliot Summers & Robert Reid. Their current play is All Dressed Up and No-one to Blow, 27-31 Munster Tce, Nth Melbourne, September 25-October 13

RealTime issue #45 Oct-Nov 2001 pg. 36

© Richard Murphet; for permission to reproduce apply to realtime@realtimearts.net

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 I was also intrigued as I have already been asked this question once before in an Interview . At first it seems like a normal and easy question which could be simply tackled by saying check environment variable for class path and write javac –version (I’m assuming that you know this) in your command prompt. But what if instead of answering this question bluntly you have to answer this from the point of view of programming. After all you are a programmer and this question is also asked by one.

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'Between the quiet hallways and the empty streets, there is a misleadingly peaceful atmosphere outside, that does not reflect the stress and tragedy happening every day between hospital walls.'

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IK, New York

I have not been in hospitals in my role as a medical student for two weeks, so I can't comment on the situation on the frontlines right now.

I do know that the week before we were pulled out of the hospital, the ICU attending, at the hospital I was at, was upset about his ICU being full before the pandemic had even hit us.

At that time, there were already two COVID-19 patients in the ICU.

I expect there are many more now.

The city definitely feels different.

It is strange to drive down Lexington Avenue and see so many shuttered stores, especially ones like the Chinese takeout restaurants, that you never see closed.

There is very little traffic. A lot of wealthy New Yorkers have fled the city for their vacation homes or rentals.

A friend's family has had to leave their year-round home in East Hampton, because the area has become so crowded they felt it was unsafe to remain there.

On beautiful days, everyone is out at the parks. I haven't seen a lot of large groups, but there definitely are a lot of people.

Everyone is feeling a cramped in their apartments and trying to enjoy the blooming magnolia trees.

I expect we will not be able to enjoy the parks anymore soon enough.

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Uber drivers are stressed out.

They are making less money than usual and assuming risk allowing riders in their car.

One I talked to said he wipes down the entire car in between passengers.

There are very frightening photos of packed subway platforms, because MTA service has been disrupted and there are still many people who must go into work.

Rikers island in the East river, home to the infamous jail, has the highest concentration of COVID-19 cases in the world, and our mayor and governor are dragging their feet on releasing minor offenders.

The poorest people in New York are even more vulnerable and exposed than usual.

The patients I see at our student-run free clinic are undocumented, uninsured, and ineligible for any of the financial relief contained in the $2 trillion bill that was just passed by the federal government.

Many of them required emergency food deliveries from our clinic last weekend because the food pantries ran out of food.

My roommate has been coordinating PPE (personal protective equipment) donations from individuals around the city.

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It is hopeful that people are donating, but the city is in dire need of much, much more PPE than we are receiving.

Residents are very stressed and organising fundraisers to buy themselves masks.

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Most frontline providers are assuming they will be exposed and infected.

Oddly, the hospital hallways and EDs are quiet.

There are much fewer patients coming in, because the risk of entering a hospital is so great.

Between the quiet hallways and the empty streets, there is a misleadingly peaceful atmosphere outside, that does not reflect the stress and tragedy happening every day between hospital walls.

To me, and probably to many people, it does not truly feel like we are in the epicenter of a global pandemic.

I suppose we are now the eye of the storm.

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