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The Central Bank invites Young Academics and Professionals with Enthusiasm, Team Spirit and Leadership Qualities to join its team as Management Trainees (Leading to Staff Class Grade 1)

Citizens of Sri Lanka who possess the following qualifications are eligible to apply for the above post.

Eligibility Criteria

Required Qualifications:

  1. A Special Degree in any of the following subjects/disciplines OR a General Degree including one of the following subjects, with a minimum of 2nd Class (Upper Division) or Grade Point Average (GPA) with a minimum of 3.5 out of a maximum of 4.0 points obtained from a local or foreign university, recognized by the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka;
    • Economics/Agricultural Economics
    • Statistics/Mathematics
    • Accountancy/Banking/Finance
    • Engineering
    • Commerce/Management
    • Computer Science/Information Technology
    • Public/Business Administration
    • Law (with Attorney-at-Law and authority to function as a Notary)

  1. A Post Graduate Degree at Master’s or higher level obtained from a local or foreign university, recognized by the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka, in any of the subjects/disciplines referred to in above.
  2. Age: Below 30 years as at 01.04.2015
  3. Selection Procedure: Through a competitive examination conducted by the Department of Examinations of Sri Lanka and one or more interviews.

Candidates are required to sit for three question papers (General Intelligence, Analytical Writing and General Knowledge) at the competitive examination.

Conditions Terms Relating to the Position

One year training period with an all-inclusive fixed allowance of Rs. 55,000/- per month will be paid.

Trainees will be considered to be absorbed to the permanent cadre as Probationary Staff Officers in Staff Class Grade I on successful completion of the training period.

An attractive remuneration package including usual fringe benefits will be offered upon the absorption to the permanent cadre.

Trainees may also require to serve in Regional Offices of the Central Bank.

Those who possess the above qualifications and wish to apply, can submit their applications through the Central Bank web site (http://www.cbsl.gov.lk) or submit duly filled applications in the prescribed format by registered post to reach the undersigned on or before 01.04.2015.

Applicants are highly encouraged to submit their applications online and refrain from submitting duplicates.

Instructions for Applicants, who are intended to submit applications by post;

  • Prescribed application forms could be downloaded from the Central Bank Website http://www.cbsl.gov.lk
  • It is required to indicate “Application for the Post of Management Trainee” on the top left hand corner of the envelope.
  • Any application not in the prescribed format or received after the deadline will be rejected without any notice.

Applicants who do not possess the required qualifications as at the closing date will not be considered.

Any form of canvassing will be a disqualification.

The Bank reserves the right to decide the number of positions to be filled or postpone/cancel the recruitment.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

#600: Good book/Bad proofreading

If you're a Todd Rundgren fan, or a fan of any of the dozens of albums he's produced 4 a variety of artists over the years, you should check out Paul Myers's A WIZARD/A TRUE STAR: TODD RUNDGREN IN THE STUDIO (2010), an in-depth recap of Todd's lengthy career as recording artist, engineer & producer.
While Todd's hadda handful of hits (he shoulda had MORE) & done some solid albums (SOMETHING/ANYTHING?, ADVENTURES IN UTOPIA), he's almost better known 4 the artists & albums he's produced and/or engineered: Meat Loaf's BAT OUT OF HELL, Hall and Oates, Grand Funk (twice), Cheap Trick, The Band, Patti Smith, New York Dolls (twice), Badfinger, XTC, Sparks, Tubes (twice), Fanny, Steve Hillage, Shaun Cassidy -- plus a dozen albums 4 his band Utopia.
Tho Todd's comments R featured all thru this book, the best thing about it R the Xtensive interviews with the people he's worked with -- the many members of Utopia, Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman, Rick Nielsen & Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick, the Grand Funkers, Patti Smith & Group, David Johansen & Sylvain Sylvain of the Dolls, lotsa Tubes, & XTC.
Not all these people were thrilled with Todd's sometimes-trebly radio-ready hitbound productions of their work. Badfinger was disappointed at the time with Todd's mop-up work on STRAIGHT UP, tho it got them a coupla hits. Patti Smith's WAVE was perceived as a disappointment & a sell-out (I thot the 1st side was pretty great). XTC member Andy Partridge was frustrated by the Xperience recording SKYLARKING, but former member Dave Gregory sez Todd saved their career.
My only real disappointment with the content is there's only 1 paragraph about Todd's production of trailblazing all-girl rock band Fanny's MOTHER'S PRIDE (1973) -- not their best album, but.... & there's barely a namecheck 4 the updating Todd did on Shaun Cassidy's WASP (1980), which Shaun fans at the time called diffrent & Xciting & brave -- & it sank without a trace.
Myers did his homework. It is really neat 2 see folks quoted that you'd normally never hear from -- the backing musicians & engineers & folks behind the scenes who helped make this music happen. Each chapter that focuses on a specific album is like a little documentary -- The Psychedelic Furs come to visit Todd at Utopia Sound, & when he's delayed 4 a couple days they party down & rip-up Woodstock & Bearsville, N.Y., until Todd gets them 2 calm down & start working.
Todd also seems drawn 2 challenges -- both Cheap Trick & XTC were facing pressure from their record labels during their work with Rundgren. Ditto 4 the Tubes' swan-song, LOVE BOMB. Speaking of pressure & uncertainty, turns out Todd basically bankrolled BAT OUT OF HELL & got it finished while Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman worked 2 find a label that would actually RELEASE it....
Along with all this, Myers tracks Todd's ongoing solo career & the various incarnations of Utopia -- all covered in detail. I was happy 2 see so much space given 2 Utopia, who never quite broke thru despite the quality of their more pop-oriented later stuff.
Well worth your time, overall. But....
Nobody who mangles the English language like I do here should complain about this, but....
The folks at Jawbone Press have previously done some really Xcellent music books -- Bill Bruford's AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Jeanette Leech's SEASONS THEY CHANGE, Richie Unterberger's WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN. They were a pleasure 2 read, & were mostly immaculate in terms of typesetting.
Not sure why, but WIZARD has problems in this area. They're minor at 1st -- little misspellings or words dropped out, quotes opened & never closed, minor stuff like that. But they get worse & more numerous as the book goes along.
Don't know why, but the book bottoms out in Chapter 19 -- which deals with the breakup of Utopia, recording Todd's A CAPELLA, & recording the Tubes' LOVE BOMB. Here words R dropped, sentences R mangled, words R transposed & repeated, quotes Rn't finished -- it reads like the composer or proofreader fell asleep, or was hungover -- or only had 2 days 2 get the whole proofreading job done. & when that chapter's done, the rest of the book is back 2 basically pretty-much OK.
Now, if you're writing a book, you use Real English. The inability 2 use Real English in a book format casts doubts on whether the writer knows what he's doing in other areas. Each time a sentence gets mangled or words get dropped out, it jolts the reader out of the Xperience & makes him wonder what's going on behind the scenes.
Clearly, Paul Myers knows what he's doing -- he couldn't have done dozens of interviews & made this 300-page story fit 2gether if he didn't. But the composing or proofreading coulda used more work, 1 more pass B4 the book went 2 press.
Other than that, no major complaints. As with other Jawbone Books, there's a discography & nice period photos. It's a good-looking package, & the info is worth the minor problems you might bump in2. & I'll B looking 4 more Jawbone Books -- there's 1 out there about Arthur Lee & Love that I've bn wanting 2 get ahold of....

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#639: Giving Up on Radio

Of course I've been giving up on radio for YEARS, but this time it's Serious.
After going thru a brief nothing-but-radio phase (because I was bored with my music from home) & a nothing-but-news-&-talk-radio phase, I'm convinced there's nothing in the Seattle area worth tuning-into anymore. Can't remember the last time I was surprised by any music, the news stations just repeat themselves, & the late-nite talk-radio programs ... well, don't get me started. Some people will believe ANYTHING. The BS factor is pretty high.
The weird thing is, the Seattle stations sometimes run commercials about how 2 million people in the greater Seattle area listen 2 at least 2 hours of radio per day -- usually when they're stuck in traffic, I'll bet. With that kind of audience, you'd think there'd B something 4 every1. But there isn't. More & more it seems radio programming is all about AVOIDING surprises, about making sure everything is comfortable & familiar 2 the listener.
When's the last time you heard something surprising on your local radio station? When's the last time they kicked-off the weekend with something fairly high-energy -- say Cheap Trick's "Surrender" or the Easybeats' "Friday on My Mind" or the Bobby Fuller Four's "I Fought the Law," or even Bob Seger's "Hollywood Nights"?
The 1 moderately adventurous Oldies station we had here has gone WAY more mainstream & safe since more people discovered they're around. Now they play the same old worn-out list of 200 publicly-acceptable oldies. It's been a long time since they've played anything as off-the-wall as Small Faces' "Lazy Sunday," or even Jefferson Starship's "Play on Love." Or even Perry Como....
Not everybody likes surprises -- some people might actually B jolted enuf 2 mess-up the traffic flow, or even change 2 another station. & we can't have that.
(My girlfriend assures me Country stations R the same way -- most of them play the current country hits 2 death, & maybe an occasional oldie from as far as 10 years back. But if you want 2 hear any classic country, the formats R so fragmented that you havta find a Classic Country station. Sounds just like the rock&roll situation, don't it?)
So, almost every day when I go 2 work I carry a big bag of about 3-dozen motivational CD's, everything from the Beatles & Fleetwood Mac & the Bangles & the Go-Go's 2 Camel & Caravan. & even tho I'm fairly bored with almost all of them, I know I can come up with a better, more motivational playlist than any of my local music stations.
& I'm sure millions of other folks around the country do something similar -- with CD's or iPods or whatever. No wonder radio's dying -- fewer listeners, smaller pool of $$$ 2 support the format, downward spiral, everything gets tight & conservative, etc....

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Why we need to start rising above the fog of this planet’s farcical, partisan-controlled ‘democracies’.

Why should the story of a singular, dissenting, Canadian citizen have any interest for the citizens of our world?

Why should the disappearance, guided by small-town partisans, of scientific and court-related documents of that citizen become a worrisome signal to those same worldly citizens that our collective silence has allowed a return of this planet to the dangerous conditions which led to the Second World War?

Why should the citizens of this planet awaken from that silence to stand beside one Canadian citizen against the recurring threat of eviction of this writer, in a small, Canadian town in the year 2018?

Why is that recurring threat of eviction, of this persistent, long-winded dissident, defined as a criminal intent of partisans under Canadian and international law after 1948? Why must a Canadian dissident insist, into 2018, that the principles of freed speech and the rights of every human being, to equality in the quality of life, be upheld and protected as Canadian and international laws command? Why must such dissidence face the same threats of eviction and starving-out that dissenters in Europe faced by 1936? Inside ‘democratic Canada’ in 2018?

What is illegal about the fact that scientific and legal documents, related to this dissident’s life-long battle against Canadian partisans of all kinds, were ‘disappeared’ by partisans in Nipigon, Ontario, Canada. Canada? 2016. Not Anne Frank’s 1944 Holland.

What is illegal about the fact that partisans in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada, not war-torn Europe of 1940, moved in 2017 to use partisan-filled Canadian courts to try to force this dissenting citizen from his place of writing because he refused to pay taxes which went to pay partisan ‘judges’ inside Canadian courts? Partisan judges. Who declared that the partisan law of the day was something that could overrule international law? In ‘democratic Canada’ in 2017?

The simple answer to these long questions may lay in the large example of what happens when arrogance and inflated self-importance are allowed to define ‘leadership’ in any nation calling itself ‘democratic’ on this planet. The short answer may be the hypocrisy in our fear that Donald Trump may lead our planet back into nuclear holocaust because the patriotic American is deemed more righteous than the patriotic North Korean or Russian. The long answer may, sadly, fall into the lap of generations yet to come.

Because we choose silence over the legal rights of the individual, dissenting citizen.

By 1939, Hitler’s Germany was full of partisan ‘judges’ who declared that the partisan could make new laws which would make international law irrelevant.

Around this planet, partisans in small towns and big cities insist that partisan ‘judges’ inside our courts give them the right to strip away the rights of the poor and the oppressed and, more ominously, of the dissenting citizen who dares to challenge against any and all of this violation of international law.

We have become a planet of incompetent citizens who blind ourselves to the science of global warming that will force generations-to-come to deal with our collective incompetence to understand that it is CORRUPTED institutions of LAW which allow the truth to be oppressed. We allow a racist Donald Trump (build walls for Mexicans instead of recruiting nations to force Mexico to provide safe haven for all of its citizens) and a religiously intolerant Donald Trump (exclude Muslim immigrants but allow ‘christians’ inside America to continue to define ‘coloureds’ as ‘lesser’ because that is what their ‘god’ has told them is the ‘white right’!) to escape impeachment because too many Democrats and Republicans, and Conservatives and Liberals and ‘socialists’, and every other partisan, subservient label we are told to bow to in nations outside ‘America’, are ensconced into national and international courts.

OUR courts! Courts which should disallow such illegal behaviours in elected places in the first place.

The debate, about what dangers we put our planet and all of humanity into, fails because we allow ourselves to be stifled by fear, lies and complete incompetence to the promises of international law. 1948. Laws. Which came about because of the deplorable circumstances of collective silence which led to 1945.

1945. Circumstances. Fomented primarily because too many stayed silent while the too few, who warned of the imminent dangers of Hitler and his partisan-filled courts, were silenced. By partisans inside institutions of ‘law and justice’’. Partisans, who legalized the silencing of dissent of any kind.

IF you are a citizen of any conscience, of any credible commitment to true democracy, read the long story here. Wend your way through these long, sometimes purposely winding paragraphs and pages, with curves purposely thrown in. Literary curves intended to challenge you to understand why ‘patriotism’ IS defined as racism under 1948 international law and that the most dangerous thing on this planet is partisan-filled courts.

Our collective silence allows the return of partisans to the protection of their personal greed. Into 2018, the individual comforts of the privileged prevail over our legal duty to each other. This leads to a recurring failure to ensure that ALL citizens have a joy of life in a world of peace. We, collectively, neglect our individual responsibilities to ALL mankind, a LEGAL duty that is above our recurrent, sickening, human condition of individual greed.

Come to understand that a nation called Canada had an important legal obligation to the rest of the world by 1948. It was legally obliged to set an example after 1948. After all, it was a Canadian lawyer, under the guidance of American Eleanor Roosevelt and her misfit committee of ‘muslims, christians, atheists and other religions’, who led the drafting of the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Canada has, instead, fallen into the Americanized philosophy of Hitler: that flag-waving patriotism can be used to suppress the real freedoms which the United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights compelled for citizens in all nations on this planet.

Come to recognize that the most important impending event in Canada in 2019 should NOT be another farcical federal ‘vote’, to register ‘a majority will’ while majority silence to injustice prevails. It should be a PEACEFUL Revolution By Pen which strips away the criminality of partisan organizations which have stripped away the protection of independent thought and deliberation inside our institutions of governance.

We are a planet which is back into the dangerous denial of base human rights, in all places.
Change starts outside our own doors. First, change criminalized Canada, in the neighbourhoods where I reside and resided and which you now reside.

Read and then, I hope, sponsor this pending movement for credible, PEACEFUL AND LEGAL change by sponsoring my salute to the citizens who stay silent outside my doors in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Canada. In 2018. Not some ‘backward nation!’ of 1936 pre-war Europe.

When I have finally won justice in my nation. When Canada’s First Nations finally win justice for the harsh violation of principles of equality, first espoused in the treaties with them. Then, one citizen by one citizen, one nation by one nation, we change the world.

To what became our collective legal right in 1948.

Silence to injustice was not defined as a right of any kind after 1948. It is abhorrent behaviour in the measure of any human’s history.

What will history make record of for YOU for the generations yet to come?

That is the most important question for YOU to answer when you finish reading and contemplating these web pages.

In 2019, Canada is scheduled for another ‘federal election’.

This web page documents how, since 1948, partisans inside this nation violated international law. The ‘major parties’ have formed illegal allegiances and made ‘our vote’ irrelevant under those laws.

This site will guide the citizens of, first, Canada and then, hopefully, the world, to how Canada’s ‘constitution’ of 1982 IS in violation of international law and HOW this enabled partisans to design electoral systems which ILLEGALLY shut out the INDEPENDENT voice. The reader should take the time to come to an understanding of how entrenched partisans, yes, of narrowed religious allegiances, also, placed into our courts, even the international ones, have ILLEGALLY protected repetitive violations of international law. And, in so doing, have stripped away accountability under Canada’s own constitutional and criminal code laws.

It is time for all of us to take ‘the masks off’. This repetitive, international waving of placards of protest is a waste of time and energy. NOW is the time to start REAL LEGAL ACTION to STOP this incipient rot of our supposedly ‘democratic’ nations.

The real example, of what all of this partisan manipulation does to human rights and all of our inherent rights, exists in the example of my, Don MacAlpine’s, experiences as a scientist and once-elected official. What I am experiencing now as a legally dissenting citizen is unthinkable, given the emphasis in our halls of ‘democracy’ to the example of what happened to 1945.

What happens to anyone who dares to stand against this CRIMINALIZING of OUR institutions of justice AND democracy is, sadly, exemplified via my personal case. It is also, inherently, and blatantly, amplified in the continuing obstruction of justice for Canada’s First Nations, ‘indigenous people’, as Justin Trudeau would have us label them, inside courts which protect religious rites over international law.

This site will also cite examples which demonstrate that this rot is incipient on an international stage. Hopefully, this site will awaken an international audience to how this rot led to the dangerous return of our planet to the conditions of Adolf Hitler 1929, with people like Donald Trump 2016.

THEREFORE, the PRIMARY GOAL of this web page is to allow the public to educate themselves and to build a movement which will:

1. Publicly register, via formal and brave registration of names of valid citizens (petitions), the LEGAL concerns about the violation of our legal rights when it comes to a valid voting system;
2. Publicly register, via formal and brave registration of names of valid citizens (petitions), the LEGAL intent to launch CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS against partisans who have ignored warnings from Don MacAlpine, and others, to stop the violation of international, and even constitutional and criminal code laws inside Canada’s courts, voting processes and institutions of governance;
3. Organize and collect monetary support to enable the formation of an organization which will:

a. Warn, in formal written form, entrenched partisans to voluntarily admit to their own violations of international law AND the violation of rights in Canada’s 1982 constitution, voting process and courts because of Canada’s sad history of partisan conduct since 1948;
b. Provide warning that persons, aligned via these web pages under a Take Back Democracy, Canada and International movement, will NOT accept any election inside Canada, after 1948, as valid under international law and that the pending federal election MUST BE delayed UNTIL an electoral system, meeting a valid NEW Canadian constitution and the rules of international law, is in place;
c. Set down deadlines for revision of Canada’s constitution so that it meets the standards of equality set down in international law and becomes inclusive instead of the exclusive farce existing in 2018. This will then also require a deadline for providing the people a valid voting system;
d. Prepare for the eventuality that, if entrenched partisans, inside our courts and halls of governance AND policing, do NOT VOLUNTARILY agree to the formal actions against partisan groups, which have violated international law and, ILLEGALLY, denied INDEPENDENT thinking and voice, that the citizens, aligned under this Take Back Democracy, Canada and International organization, will start formal legal proceedings inside Canada’s courts, before an impartial jury of our peers, to force civil and criminal code accountability on these partisans who have returned us, ILLEGALLY, to 1929.

This is a summary of the process to be followed. Please take the time to read this site to understand its real goal. It is not ‘just to sponsor a protest sculpture’. It is to protest AND CHANGE the international world of injustice being forced on us for the sake of greed and personal arrogance of the entrenched and the unaccountable.

IF you believe that you and I deserve a real world of justice for all, participate, supporting as you can via the petitions being constructed here AND/OR through monetary support, if you are able.

Thank you for taking the time,

Don MacAlpine, September 11, 2018

A Generation of Tweeting Twits

Will this be the label for this era if human history does indeed survive? Hitler gained and retained power through the use of posters of propaganda while the citizens could not find the time to educate themselves to what was really happening. Donald Trump? Justin Trudeau? Those new ‘right wing leaders’? … All International ‘leaders’ in our modern world? Gaining power because Tweeting Twits are the new formula for gaining power through ‘the social media’? ‘Citizens’ who see the short flashes of convenient reading on their new phone as indicative of ‘the issues’ important to them and as ‘responsible democracy’?

Will you read the long pages to educate yourself to why we are in a critical stage of justice for all humanity and why lazy, tweeting twits endanger the survival of humanity itself? We will not achieve real democracy if we do not change this behaviour. Read. Heed. And then DO SOMETHING.

Generating Real Democracy: How our ‘democracies’, ‘the vote’ and our institutions of ‘justice’ have been made irrelevant by partisan entrenchment. What we need to do about it.


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LSU is losing another underclassmen to the NFL.

In 2017, Jackson totaled 49 tackles, 10 pass breakups, one interception and one sack, while being named a second-team All-American by The Sporting News, as well as a second-team All-SEC by the leagues's coaches.

A two-year starter for the Tigers, Jackson accumulated 4 career interceptions.

The 5-foot-11, 175-pound Jackson was also a member of LSU's 2017 SEC champion 4x100 relay team.

Jackson joins cornerback Kevin Toliver, outside linebacker/edge rusher Arden Key, and right tackle Toby Weathersby as LSU underclassmen to declare for the 2018 NFL Draft.


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If you’re like me, you’ve spent most of your working life in Catawba County.

I hadn’t thought much about that until I attended docent training at the Museum of History on the Square in Newton. That’s where “The Way We Worked” will be exhibited from Aug. 10-Sept. 18.  I will be one of the volunteers helping to guide visitors through the five rooms of work-related disp “The Way We Worked” will be open Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. In addition to items from the Smithsonian, visitors will view artifacts representing local industries such as agriculture, pottery, furniture, textiles and fiber optics.

As I toured the displays under construction, I thought of my own work career. It all started in 1979 when my husband Tym and I, then newlyweds, arrived in Hickory sight-unseen. He had transferred with Kmart Corp. After settling into our apartment, I scanned the want ads. Soon I was hired at the Hickory Farms store at Valley Hills, the “new mall” as it was then called, a far reach from town, along 64-70. That summer at Hickory Farms I learned how to operate a cash register, ringing up sales of summer sausage, cheese, pepper jelly and sweet hot mustard. Most sales were by cash or check. What few credit card sales there were required a credit card imprinter and a triplicate form with carbon paper.

That September, I landed a P.R. job at Inform Inc., a local ad agency. In those pre-digital days, Inform produced newsletters and other communications pieces for associations including the Catawba Valley Hosiery Association. I had hand-knitted socks before, but I’d never fully considered the mechanized world of commercial hosiery production of its terminology: greige goods, knitters, loopers, boarders, fixers.

At the same time came my introduction to the furniture industry. I learned that the smell of varnish was the smell of money. Furniture I’d seen in stores back home in Illinois had to come from somewhere, and more than likely, the Unifour was the place. Working at Inform, I was able to visit the production floor of furniture plants where I became acquainted with such words as rough end, case goods, spring up and eight-way hand tied.

And I was amazed to learn that local people rented their homes to furniture buyers who descended on Hickory twice a year during market season.

My working life at Inform involved a phone, a typewriter and a light board where employees created pages using scissors, a waxing machine and large pieces of layout paper. Producing photographs involved acetate film, darkroom chemicals and photo paper. No one could imagine desktop computers or a camera existing within a device the size of a Hershey bar.

Three of the women I met at Inform have remained my friends for nearly 40 years. Though we have moved from job to job—and two of us have retired—we have all chosen to remain in the county.

Through the years my employers included, besides Hickory Farms—a book store, two family-run businesses, two large corporations, a public utility, a school system, a public library system, a credit union, two colleges, a United Way agency and myself as a freelance writer. Yes, I did a lot of moving around at a time when most people stayed put, but I consider myself rich in experiences.

When we turned off I-40 back in 1979, we didn’t know a soul in North Carolina, much less Hickory, but we were young and adventurous. We said we’d give Catawba County a try. We had no idea we would retire here.


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Bluebeard Gothic: Jane Eyre and its Progeny by Heta Pyrhönen PDF

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ISBN-10: 144264124X

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'Bluebeard,' the story of a sadistic husband who murders his better halves and locks away their our bodies, has encouraged countless numbers of variations because it first seemed in 1697. In Bluebeard Gothic, Heta Pyrhönen argues that Charlotte Brontë's 1847 vintage Jane Eyre could be visible as one such version, and that even though critics were gradual to achieve the relationship, authors rewriting Brontë's novel have both intuitively or deliberately seized on it.

Pyrhönen starts off by way of constructing that the tale of Jane Eyre is intermingled with the 'Bluebeard' story, as younger Jane strikes among families, each one ruled by way of its personal Bluebeard determine. She then considers rewritings of Jane Eyre, resembling Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Diane Setterfield's The 13th Tale (2006), to check how novelists have interpreted the prestige and which means of 'Bluebeard' in Brontë's novel. utilizing psychoanalysis because the basic version of textual research, Bluebeard Gothic specializes in the conjunction of faith, sacrifice, and scapegoating to supply an unique interpretation of a canonical and frequently-studied text.

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May is the start of wedding season, and in this opening episode of the four-part documentary we catch a glimpse of their most important guest of the season: Meghan Markle. The focus, however, is less on the (then) bride-to-be but the preparations and impact of hosting her and Doria (her mother) the night before the Royal Wedding.

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Identical mirror twins, Berklee (left handed) and Colby (right handed) Vaillancourt, from Derryfield took the courts on Sunday, June 8th hoping to take the title as Girls’s doubles champions, and they were successful! Colby, who is number one on the Derryfield team had a broken left hand at the time of the match, but played anyway with help of her sister Berklee who is ranked number two but who was ranked number one the year before. Talk about trading places!

They had an extremely difficult set of opponents, playing seeded players since the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, the Vaillancourts competed against Ainsworth and Windeler of White Mountain and took the win 6-1, 6-2. The next match for the semifinals had a similar outcome, 6-2, 6-2, playing against Davis and Hankel of Hanover. The final round however, was more challenging. The sisters played against Burbine, the woman’s singles champion and her teammate Milosavljevic, both from Londonderry. The first set the sisters won, 6-3, but the second set wasn’t as easy and they lost 4-6. Playing an additional set to determine which pair would take the title, the Vaillancourts came out on top winning 6-3!

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Most of us aspire to have a lean, well toned body. However, before setting out to achieve this goal, you need to focus on your cardiovascular and respiratory function, commonly referred to CV or aerobic exercise, by developing a rudimentary fitness base and after that you can progress in to body toning and sports specific activity.

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Issues: Divorce; Custody; Best interest factors (b), (d), (e), (f), (i) and (k); Bowers v. Bowers; Fletcher v. Fletcher; Mogle v. Scriver; McCain v. McCain; Treulte v. Treulte; National Waterworks, Inc. v. International Fid. & Sur., Ltd.; Gorelick v. Department of State Hwys.
INGRA LISA MILES,Plaintiff-Appellee,
UNPUBLISHED,October 14, 2008
v No. 283891,Clinton Circuit Court,TIMOTHY D. MILES,
LC No. 06-018951-DM,Defendant-Appellant.
Before: Wilder, P.J., and Markey and Talbot, JJ.,PER CURIAM.
e-Journal Number: 40736

The trial court properly granted judgment for the plaintiff-wife granting her sole physical custody of the parties' three children.

This child custody appeal concerned only two of the children, as the third child was now legally considered an adult.

Although the trial court erred in concluding factor (f) favored neither party, the court held it did not need to overturn the custody determination.

The court concluded the trial court erred in not weighing factor (f) in defendant's favor.

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factor (i) should be considered, and the remaining factors weighed equally.

The court found no error as to those factors. In light of the importance the trial court placed on the children's comments, it could not be said the custody decision was outside the range of principled outcomes even considering the erroneous determination of factor (f). Affirmed.

In this child custody action, defendant appeals by right from a judgment for the plaintiff
granting her sole physical custody of the parties’ three children. This child custody appeal
concerns only two of the children, as the third child is now legally considered an adult. We
Defendant’s argues on appeal that the trial court’s conclusions regarding best interest
factor (b), (d), (e), (f), (i) and (k). The best interest factors are set forth in MCL 722.23:
(a) The love, affection, and other emotional ties existing between the
parties involved and the child.
(b) The capacity and disposition of the parties involved to give the child
love, affection, and guidance and to continue the education and raising of the
child in his or her religion or creed, if any.
(c) The capacity and disposition of the parties involved to provide the
child with food, clothing, medical care or other remedial care recognized and
permitted under the laws of this state in place of medical care, and other material
(d) The length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory
environment, and the desirability of maintaining continuity.
(e) The permanence, as a family unit, of the existing or proposed custodial
home or homes.
(f) The moral fitness of the parties involved.
(g) The mental and physical health of the parties involved.
(h) The home, school, and community record of the child.
(i) The reasonable preference of the child, if the court considers the child
to be of sufficient age to express preference.
(j) The willingness and ability of each of the parties to facilitate and
encourage a close and continuing parent-child relationship between the child and
the other parent or the child and the parents.
(k) Domestic violence, regardless of whether the violence was directed
against or witnessed by the child.
(l) Any other factor considered by the court to be relevant to a particular
child custody dispute. [MCL 722.23(a)-(l).]

"The trial court must consider each of these factors and explicitly state its findings and
conclusions regarding each." Bowers v Bowers, 198 Mich App 320, 328; 497 NW2d 602 (1993).
However, "[b]rief, definite, and pertinent findings and conclusions on the contested matters are
sufficient, without over elaboration of detail or particularization of facts." MCR 2.517(A)(2).

In custody cases, a court is not obliged to "‘comment upon every matter in evidence or declare
acceptance or rejection of every proposition argued.’" Fletcher v Fletcher, 447 Mich 871, 883;
526 NW2d 889 (1994), quoting Baker v Baker, 411 Mich 567, 583; 309 NW2d 532 (1981).
reviewing the trial court’s findings, this Court should defer to the fact-finder’s determination of
credibility. Mogle v Scriver, 241 Mich App 192, 201; 614 NW2d 696 (2000).

Factor (b) (education and religion)

The trial court found that this factor did not favor either party,
reasoning that

1. neither parent seems to have continued the children’s religious training.

The trial court noted that even though
2.defendant testified that he tried to take the family to Mt. Hope Church,

3. plaintiff apparently never shared his enthusiasm for the church’s tenets.

4.Defendant argues that because
plaintiff has decided to stop attending his church, the evidence shows that it is he who will
"continue" their religious education in their "religion or creed."

5.On this point, the following
discussion from McCain v McCain, 229 Mich App 123, 125-126; 580 NW2d 485 (1998) is
5.a In determining factor b, "[t]he capacity and disposition of the parties
involved to give the child love, affection, and guidance and to continue the
education and raising of the child in his or her religion or creed, if any," . . . the
trial court focused on a religious dispute between the parties that, in large part, led
to the dissolution of the marriage.

5.b It was clearly the parties who heavily weighed
this religious dispute, not the court.

5.cThe evidence established that plaintiff
stopped attending the Lutheran church and began worshipping at an alternative
home church before the separation, and that, after that, both children attended
services with her during the marriage, choosing at times to attend with plaintiff
rather than with defendant at Trinity Lutheran. Also, although plaintiff stopped
attending Lutheran services, she testified that she was still practicing the Christian

5.d We note that the trial court stated: "While others might find the
differences between the religious views of these two churches, such as whether
baptism should be as an infant or as an adult, to be not very significant, to Rodger
and Laura McCain these are matters of great significance."

6.In ruling on factor b,
the trial court stated: "Since the parties view the differences between their two
churches as being so major, the Court must also." It was proper for the trial court
to consider the magnitude of the force that drove the parties apart. Its
consequences were not overweighed.
7.Before the religious dispute, this family
attended the Lutheran church. Accordingly, it was reasonable for the trial court to
consider defendant as more prepared to continue the children in their religion and
to give this factor some weight in his favor.
8.Unlike McCain, the parties to the present appeal did not argue below that plaintiff’s decision not to take the children to Mt. Hope Church is a matter of great significance or an underlying cause of the dissolution of the marriage.
In context, defendant raised the issue of his religious beliefs
below to counter assertions about his allegedly bad behavior.
He did not contend that the
differences between the churches the parties attend is of such significance that the court must
consider who is best able to keep the children attending Mt. Hope Church. Accordingly, the
court did not err in weighing factor (b) equally.
Factor (d)
Defendant argues that the trial court incorrectly ruled in plaintiff’s favor on this factor
and that the children had an equally stable, if not more stable, environment with him. The
court’s findings regarding this factor are as follows:
This factor favors plaintiff, regardless of the fact she arbitrarily and
inaccurately accused defendant of engaging in improper conduct with the
children, and regardless of her threat to continue to sabotage defendant’s
relationship with the children.
The court agrees with Dr. Vander Jagt [sic], that the children have a close
relationship with plaintiff, and they have no desire to have their custody removed
from her.
The factor is weighed in plaintiff’s favor not because she has provided a
stable and satisfactory atmosphere, but because regardless of the atmosphere she
has provided, and regardless of her unfortunate attempts to drive a wedge between
defendant and the children, the children are still more comfortable in their current
environment than they would be if they were abruptly placed in defendant’s
The court clearly considered plaintiff’s behavior, including false allegations made against
defendant, and the nature of the children’s custodial environment, but nonetheless determined
that it was desirable to maintain the children’s current environment given VanderJagt’s
observations and the children’s preferences. As the court noted in discussing factor (i), "the
court has taken into serious consideration the comments made to the court by the minor
children." The court’s reasoning is sound and based on the record evidence. The court did
consider the consequences of plaintiff’s action when it addressed factor (j), which it determined
"weighed heavily against plaintiff, for the reasons previously set forth."
Factor (e)
Defendant contends that the trial court erred in looking only at plaintiff’s home since
either party could provide permanence. This is a misunderstanding of the court’s reasoning. The
court stated the following:
The court is satisfied that the children are as comfortable as they can be in
their current circumstances, that plaintiff intends to maintain what for them has
become a stable environment, and while defendant offers a return to the marital
and family home, the level of current comfort with plaintiff maintained by the
children causes this factor to be weighed slightly in plaintiff’s favor.
Again, the court noted in discussing factor (i) that it "has taken into serious consideration
the comments made to the court by the minor children." The court’s analysis of factor (e)
appears to have been significantly impacted by the children’s stated preferences. Considering
the court’s superior position in this regard, its conclusion on factor (e) is not erroneous.
Factor (f)
Whether the court erred on this factor is a close question. The court concluded as
There was no evidence that would permit the court to weigh the moral
fitness of one party favorably as to the other party, at least to the extent morality
relates to one’s conduct.
In terms of which party is better equipped to teach the children right from
wrong, each party comes to that obligation from a different perspective, but
neither perspective can be discounted. This factor is weighed evenly.
This Court recently noted the following with respect to factor (f), the moral fitness of the
[W]ith respect to extramarital affairs . . . [,] a spouse’s "questionable conduct is
relevant to factor f only if it is a type of conduct that necessarily has a significant
influence on how one will function as a parent." Fletcher, supra at 887.
Examples of such conduct include, but are not limited to, "verbal abuse, drinking
problems, driving record, physical or sexual abuse of children, and other illegal or
offensive behaviors." Id. at 877 n 6. Trial courts must "look to the parent-child
relationship and the effect that the conduct at issue will have on that relationship."
Id. at 877. Thus, under factor f, the issue is not who is the morally superior adult,
but rather "the parties’ relative fitness to provide for their child, given the moral
disposition of each party as demonstrated by individual conduct." Id. [Berger v
Berger, 277 Mich App 700, 712-713; 747 NW2d 336 (2008) (emphasis in
Contrary to the court’s observation, there was evidence from which the court could
conclude that defendant’s moral fitness was superior to plaintiff’s. Specifically, as the court
noted, the judge who entered the judgment of divorce had concluded that the allegations that lead
to the suspension of defendant’s parenting time "were not supported by the evidence." Further,
the court observed the following:
The court can think of no greater harm that can be accomplished within a family
unit that has undergone a divorce between the parents than the damage caused by
one parent who refuses to recognize the rights of the other parent, who continually
misrepresents the actions of the other parent, who refuses to cooperate in
providing important information to the other parent, and who promises to do
whatever she can to sabotage the relationship between the other parent and the
minor children.
It is clear from the evidence and the context of the comments in the opinion that plaintiff is the
person described in this paragraph.
Plaintiff’s conduct arguably displays a selfish disposition to lie and manipulate, conduct
not in the interests of the children. This not only impacts the children directly by undermining
their relationship with defendant, but also indirectly: at the very least, after observing such
behavior for a long time, the children might well learn that such behavior is acceptable. Thus,
the court did err in not weighing factor (f) in defendant’s favor.
Factor (i)
Defendant argues that the trial court let the children decide the custody trial and allowed
the children’s preference to outweigh the other best interest factors. Defendant also contends
that the trial court decision to meet the children as a group, instead of individually, is a palpable
abuse of discretion.
Here, the trial court considered more than just the preferences of the children, as
defendant contends. The trial court stated that it took the comments of the minor children into
serious consideration, indicating that the comments were "frank, honest, sincere, and rational,
and worthy of serious consideration." VanderJagt, after evaluating both parents and three
children, also concluded that the children were best suited in plaintiff’s custody. Defendant is
correct that a child’s stated preference does not automatically outweigh the other best interest
factors. Treulte v Treulte, 197 Mich App 690, 694; 495 NW2d 836 (1992). But, it is also true
that a court need not accord all the best interest factors equivalent weight when deciding the
issue of custody. See McCain, supra at 131. It is clear from the record that the court considered
factor (i) significant, but that does not mean it treated it as dispositive.
Further, the assertion that the court erred in not interviewing the children separately is
unsupported by authority. "A party may not merely announce a position and leave it to this
Court to discover and rationalize the basis for the claim." Nat’l Waterworks, Inc v Int’l Fidelity
& Surety, Ltd, 275 Mich App 256, 265; 739 NW2d 121 (2007).
Factor (k)
Defendant argues that the trial court decision to weigh this factor equally was against the
great weight of the evidence. Defendant claims that the trial court failed to evaluate the
credibility of the parties and should have concluded that this factor favored defendant. Although
the trial court noted that the record is replete with allegations that both parties domestically
abused the other, the court discounted the incidents in terms of which party shouldered the
greater amount of the blame. Ultimately, the trial court was obligated to determine the weight
and credibility of the evidence presented, and it did just that. Gorelick v Dep’t of State Hwys,
127 Mich App 324, 333; 339 NW2d 635 (1983).
Although the court erred in concluding that factor (f) favored neither party, we need not
overturn the custody determination. The court determined that factors (d) and (e) favored
plaintiff, that factors (g) and (j) favored defendant, that factor (i) should be considered, and that
the remaining factors weighed equally. In light of the importance that the court placed on the
children’s comments, it cannot be said that the custody decision was outside the range of
principled outcomes even considering the erroneous determination of factor (f).
We affirm.
/s/ Kurtis T. Wilder
/s/ Jane E. Markey
/s/ Michael J. Talbot


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richard pierce

25 February 2014

When you wake
You will be a teenager,
Somewhere between a child
And an adult.
For you, and for me.

A strange thing, growing up.
We think we know who we are,
And forget it just as quickly.
Certainty collapses
From one second to another.
Uncertainty fades with
The blink of an eye,
Usually someone else’s.

It took two hours and ten minutes
For you to be born,
In the middle of a snow storm,
In the middle of the night,
When death stood by my side
Until you chased him away,
A dozen and one years ago,
The last of my children,
The final marker of my age.

All these precious moments you make.

For Alex, on her 13th birthday.

24 February 2014

Back here, in real life, half-term over, and in the last week of February. One sixth of this year gone already, and Christmas still not fully digested, nor finances recovered. And the weather more like summer than what it's supposed to be like - February, the coldest month of the year.

Things change. Time changes. Times change.

And yet I'm feeling strangely in stasis.

I am on alert to take one of the girls to her gymnastics class on what are always frenetic Monday afternoons, as I rush from one delivery of service or child to the next and then off to one of my highlights of the week, my ballroom dancing class where I can at last spend 45 minutes with my arms round my wife. I love the dancing, but not the chaos of these days.

On Friday I gave up on my latest novel, at least in the form it is at the moment, 23,000 words in. It just wasn't working, and I need to try a different tack. That's stasis, too. It doesn't feel as cathartic as it should.

Life is fragmented, like this piece. Time is split into such small segments that each one becomes more difficult to control, that prolonged concentration and advancement (of anything) is almost impossible. And the more fractions of time there are, the quicker it appears to pass.

Of course, something could be happening with the system of time we're all in, without anyone, least of all scientists, noticing. Time could be running more quickly, just like the sand in a tea-timer seems to flow more quickly when it comes to the end. Perhaps that's what's happening - that we're at the end of time, at the end of this time, and what's remaining is falling down through the plugholes of the universe faster and faster, proportionally intact, and we're too out of tune with this universe to be able to notice or measure.

Or I could be making it up, or, even better, just imagining it all.

And other moments move slowly, insufferably slowly and soporifically, and I don't know where to put my hands, my feet, my emotions, myself.

Ah, the human condition. A wonderful thing. Is it? It is. We are.

The days are longer, but no frisson of elation.

Back to Prufrock, I think, to lift my spirits and see something greater than the whole.

14 February 2014

A Gift

Not so much thought
as thoughtlessness. Emptying
my mind to be you, to see
like you, to feel like you,
to find something you might love.

I leave the station, and
follow the scent to Spitalfields
where I have shopped as you before.
The aisles of the market are short,
squat, only two or three stalls,
and then I have to turn again.

Jewellery. No. Too many conflicting
irritating metals, the wrong chemistry
today for your skin. Clothes. Where
would you wear them? I can’t take
you anywhere without a car and
cash, and nights too late.

Hats? I’d love to see you
wear one, a people’s hat, skew whiff
and crushed and messy,
but you wouldn’t. Move on.
Vinyl records made into clocks;
they break my heart, so cruel.

More jewellery, t-shirts that would
not fit your moods, carved
woods you’d hide
under our dust. And it’s nearly the end,
light from the next street of reality,
so I turn back.

I saw these bags in the second aisle,
when I first started,
sumptuous colours and flesh,
the perfume of the real. I am
you, in jeans, in a hurry, looking
for something that lasts.

Here it is.

For Marianne, on Valentine's Day 2014

7 February 2014

The Ice

I thought I could just shrug it off,
from one day to the next,
a story, a place, another quest done,
tick the box, move on.

It's impossible.

I was there, years ago,
steeped in the legend and myth
of endeavour, exploration and dignity,
companionship, friendship, faith.

There are never enough words.

The white, the shades of white,
the inside of a tent, recreated each night now
under the duvet, eyes closed,
a profusion of crosses for the lost.

Men died walking this path,
this incomplete journey,
a century from here.
They watched you yesterday.

And the continent, still hungry,
devours men and women still,
in body and mind.

We are all changed
by The Ice.


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Virgina Woolf, The Years

There's a sun that shines in

Rise! Love is here
Breath! Love is air

Rest in the shells I've designed
Run through the fields I've denied
And stroll upon the years I'm alive

Birds find the wings and wind

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Friday, May 04, 2018

"In the context of the grotesque harm that the law allows humans to inflict on numerous animals, there is something profoundly misguided—even perverse—about suing for the copyright royalties from a monkey selfie."

"Given PETA’s tendency to engage in (frequently misogynistic) publicity stunts, one cannot help but think that the point of the Naruto lawsuit—like the point of much PETA activity—was to call attention to PETA rather than to the plight of crested macaques and members of other free-living species whose habitat is threatened."

Cornell's Michael Dorf on the monkey selfie decision.

More Dorf here, on the judges' "speciesism."


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Saturday, September 15, 2018

"I said, ‘Well you could destroy it, you could sell it, I can send it your other gallery.'" (UPDATED)

Artnet:  Artist Hank Willis Thomas Pulls Work From a South African Art Fair After a Photographer Levels Plagiarism Charges.

UPDATE:  Brian Frye tweets:  "As always, it is amusing to see the tension between photo & artworld norms. Maybe someday photographers will wise up. They always come off as such rubes."


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Busyness needs to go back to the drawing board.

Published on: July 11, 2014

Filled Under: Fringe Kids

Views: 658

By Tessa Hill

The play Busyness is about a very busy business man who stumbles upon an old forest where he meets a fairy. They go on a short adventure together, but finally the man has to leave because he is just too busy and he has been ignoring all of his work. They are both very sad, but the man decides to leave a few of his possessions with the fairy to remind her of him.

Busyness was another play that seemed to have a lot of potential, but instead was disappointing. Upon reading the description of the 45-minute play, I automatically assumed that this would be a great and moving piece. I had recently seen a very good children’s play that used no words, so when reading that Busyness contained no words I assumed that it would go in the same direction. Unfortunately, it didn’t. The actors, instead of words, spoke cheap gibberish with much too obvious hints of real words. In addition, the story was minimal (about half of the play was the business man trying to eat his lunch), the characters were undeveloped, and there were a lot of unexplained happenings in the story. In fact, part way through the show the story was purposely stopped and an out of context janitor character came onstage, cleaned some stuff up, played a gibberish song on a small guitar, and then left. It was quite confusing.

And it wasn’t that the actors in the play were necessarily terrible, the young man playing the business person was okay and he seemed capable of more, but it was clear from the gibberish and other actions that they were not given enough direction.

The other elements of the piece were satisfactory. The set was fine, though there were a few malfunctions throughout the show, and the music was enjoyable and interesting. Overall, so much more could have been done with this piece and it was, unfortunately, quite disappointing.

2 more chances to see Busyness: July 11 at 01:00 PM and July 12 at 04:00 PM. For show info click here. For tix click here.

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Bitter Medicine – a dose of schizophrenia that everyone can learn from

Published on: August 8, 2014

Filled Under: SummerWorks Festival

Views: 716

Based on description alone, BITTER MEDICINE is one of the most interesting shows at this year’s SummerWorks festival. Adapted from their graphic memoir, two brothers explain the impact schizophrenia has had on their family.
I work at CAMH so I may be biased, but this is an endlessly fascinating subject and this show is sure to make you rethink your ideas about mental illness.

1. First of all – congratulations on taking on the often fraught subject of schizophrenia. After you initially tackled it with a graphic memoir, what made you feel the need to turn it into a piece for the theatre?
Creating the book was an exceptionally rewarding experience. It was wonderful working with my brother on this text, the publishers were great, and the public’s reception was very warm. But…not everyone reads books, nor did everyone know about the book, and I felt there was another audience that would appreciate this story. As well, theatre is a medium that has the potential to bring an audience to a more immediate, more dynamic place than a book can.

2. How did you turn it from a static thing into a living performance? What can you bring to a live performance that you couldn’t in the memoir?
I rearranged the structure of the narrative and shortened it. In the book there is a longer and more detailed reflection on the impact of medication, and the ghettoization of mental illness which there wasn’t space to include in the theatre presentation.

3. What’s the creative journey been like for you as a team, as individuals, and also for your fellow family members?
It’s been exciting –  and at times a little intense. Our working schedule has been very, very compressed and we’ve had to utilized every minute that was available to us.

4. What’s your ideal outcome for this play? What do you want it to do for the audience?
The information that the public is exposed to about mental illness is very flawed. I want the public to arrive at a better and more complete understanding what it’s like to live with a mental illness.

As well, I know that there are many, many people living with schizophrenia, who feel completely isolated.  After my brother and I wrote Bitter Medicine, people would contact us and say, “We thought we were the only ones who had experienced that. We didn’t know who to talk to, or where to turn.” Part of the reason for creating this play is to reach out to those folks.

5. What’s the reception been like for the show so far? What’s the plan for it after SummerWorks?
Our intention is to take Bitter Medicine back to Calgary and present it again, perhaps in collaboration with another company, perhaps at another festival.

Bitter Medicine is on at the Lower Ossington Theatre (100 Ossington Ave) as part of the SummerWorks Performance Festival until Aug. 17th. For tix click here.

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