Tatau e 'ahu ... tatouage et tapa ... tattoo and tapa - two traditional artforms of the Pacific
Article in the Cologne daily newspaper celebrating the 225th Anniversary of Bounty Mutiny
A new Bounty film in the making ...
Another bonus to my trip to Cologne was meeting Madzia Bryll, Simon Quintal and Levi Carthew.
Madzia, Pauline, Simon
Madzia and Simon are working on a very interesting project. A new Bounty film with the working title of 'Huzzah for Otaheite' will be the first documentary to be made about the women of the Bounty. They asked me to work as a consultant on their film, and after spending 5 days together, I have to say their dedication to this story is exemplary. If I can help them present a picture of those women is based on fact and help remove the 'dusky damsel' status these women have attained in the Bounty narrative, then I will be very happy.
I was tickled pink that they came to meet me and conduct interviews. What's more, it's much more fun to discover a new city in the company of new friends than discovering it alone.
Simon is a talented young Danish-Australian filmmaker, and Madzia is a Polish animator, teacher, and artist extraordinaire. She has long had a fascination with the Bounty story and tall ships - which led her to work for six months as a deckhand on that wonderful replica before it was lost. Simon and Levi are both descendants - Levi is Rowan Metcalfe's nephew - who wrote the historical novel 'The Transit of Venus', about Mauatua. Rowan's 'Transit of Venus'
by Madzia Bryll
If you read the German press then you will find my interview with a young journalist taken amongst the exhibition. Simon then began filming and Madzia and Levi began the interviews. This was a long day for me, as afterwards I presented my paper to a sitting audience, and continued with a walk through the gallery and a talk about the tapa in the exhibition. However, it was exciting to share the work I have done so far, piecing together the lives of the Bounty women and their daughters through the material heritage they left behind.
by Levi Carthew
'Made in Oceania' exhibition at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany
Last week, I was in Germany. I had been invited to present a paper at the 'Made in Oceania' exhibition at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne.
This exhibition finishes on the 27th of April 2014 ... so if you are in Europe, and are interested in all things Pacific - this is a magnificent exhibition: www.made-in-oceania.com
My presentation was scheduled straight after the symposium 'Made in Oceania, Social and Cultural Meaning, Conservation and Presentation of Oceanic Tapa'. I was delighted to reconnect with curators and collectors that I had been in contact with over the years. Mark Nesbitt from Kew Gardens, Julie Adams who is now at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, Adrienne Kaeppler of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and the collector Mark Blackburn. By coincidence, we have even been able to identify another Pitcairn tapa in Germany ...
The previous post shows a YouTube video filmed by Simon Quintal of my presentation which was followed by a gallery talk at the area reserved for the Pitcairn tapa which was accompanied by the lovely video made by Arthur and James Baysting, which was continually showed during the day.
The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum exhibited the Pitcairn tapa cloths in a Pacific context - where the Bounty narrative is usually placed in a European context. Reworking this narrative in this way is an important step forward ...
Location: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cäcilienstraße 29-33, 50667 Cologne, Germany
Tapa, and the women of Bounty
Meralda Warren - tapa artworks exhibition on Norfolk Island
At Norfolk Island Museum - Royal Engineers Office, Kingston 28 June 2011
Meralda Warren has become Pitcairn Island's most original artist. In 2007 Meralda decided to learn and revive the art of tapa making there and exhibited for the first time in 2008 in Tahiti during the Tahiti Bounty Day festivities and here on Norfolk Island in 2009 with the 'Ahu Sistas Jean Clarkson, Sue Pearson and Pauline Reynolds. Since then she has developed her practice even further and her tapa paintings are now held in collections all over the world.
Her latest tapa paintings were recently on display at the Te Papa Museum Maori and Pacific Textiles Symposium where she was the keynote speaker along with Pauline Reynolds. They were also exhibited at the British High Commissioner's Residence during a Showcase Event built around Meralda's presence in Wellington. This event focused on a 'Positive Pitcairn' and many of New Zealand's important tourism movers and shakers were present. Norfolk Island Museum is delighted to host Meralda's new works with an opening this Tuesday.
Mauatua and Pauline making tapa
Making tapa is one of the most difficult things I have ever done ... it requires strength, skill, patience ...
Te Papa Museum Wellington, New Zealand
Meralda Warren, Keynote Speaker for the Pacific
Te Papa Museum's Maori and Pacific Textile Symposium
as published in Norfolk on Line Friday 17 June, 2011
Sunday 5 June, three days before Bounty Day, I flew out of Norfolk for Auckland with Margaret Adams to meet up with my 'Ahu Sistas Jean Clarkson and Meralda Warren who had just arrived from Pitcairn. It's hard for us to comprehend the commitment a Pitcairner must have to a project to travel at any time. As Meralda says with a wink, 'it only takes a quad ride, a 2 day boat ride aboard a cargo vessel to Mangareva (Gambier Islands), a plane trip from Mangareva to Tahiti and finally another plane from Tahiti to Auckland.
When Meralda and I were asked to present papers at New Zealand's national Te Papa Museum for the first Maori and Pacific Textiles Symposium, she had to think long and hard about the travel and the time she would be away from family and her business Maimiti Haven. She applied for a Commonwealth Connections International Art Residency and received word of her success just hours before her departure from Pitcairn. Meralda is Pitcairn Island's first recipient of this coveted award.
It all began last year when I was on my way around the world for my Churchill Scholarship to study barkcloths made by our foremothers, (the Polynesian women of the Bounty) today held in museums. Te Papa was my first port of call along with New Zealand's national Turnbull Library. With Jean Clarkson and Sue Pearson I was lucky to visit the museum's Pacific curators and their collections. In passing I mentioned whalebone beaters, and surprise surprise, there was one in their stores, vaguely associated with Fiji. We have since identified the beater to be from Pitcairn and it is now on public display and attributed to Pitcairn Island. It is the only Pitcairn whalebone beater on exhibit in the world.
Since then, and with this wonderful discovery under my belt, I continued on my trip and kept in contact with the Te Papa curators. Unbeknownst to me, they had begun planning a textiles symposium and some months later asked if Meralda and I would like to present a paper. It was decided Meralda would be the Pacific's Keynote Speaker and I would follow her up. How exciting to showcase our history in this context.
Back in Auckland this past week, we were joined by Sue Pearson and celebrated Bounty Day by having a feast at a nearby Foodcourt filled to the brim with exciting and colourful international food stalls and even bumped into Lizzy Tagg's sister.
Early the next morning we left Auckland and arrived in Wellington just before a ruby sun rose over the horizon. In the airports and along the road people stopped us exclaiming 'nice hats!' as we had been told to bring our national costume, and dressed in our Bounty Day gear we met the other delegates at Te Papa Museum. The official opening of the Symposium - a beautiful ceremonial 'Powhiri' on the museum's interior marae had us spellbound. We were then led to the Maori and Pacific stores where we were shown the treasures of the museum. In the Maori section, feather capes hundreds of years old are held in large draws which we were able to view at our leisure, and in the Pacific section huge rolls of enormous bales of tapa, spears and modern collections of tivaevae were on display.
Pauline Reynolds - speaker for the Pacific
The following day was our big day. Meralda, as the Keynote speaker for the Pacific, was first up and delivered a wonderful presentation split in two sections – the first devoted to her mum's weaving practice and the second to Meralda's speciality – the making of tapa cloth. She detailed her knowledge of Pitcairn's unique weaving and gathering of materials, and her hands-on approach to making tapa. Meralda completely taught herself and this brought her resounding respect from those knowledgeable people attending the conference. Next I delivered my own paper called the Forgotten Women of the Bounty and their Material Heritage. It was a humbling experience to tell these Pacific peoples about our foremothers and the legacy they left for us. I was absolutely honoured by the appreciation shown to us by the attendees.
Attending events centred on the areas of one's passion is never a waste of time. It's a special opportunity to make contacts with others with similar interests and can often lead to new prospects and projects.
Pauline - speaker for the Pacific
The rest of the symposium was so interesting that one of the speakers sitting next to me later said, 'It's like going to university'. We were treated with talks about the Cook collections of tapa from the Southern Hemisphere, the origins of tapa cloth, the identification of feathers and plant materials in Maori textiles, Micronesian textile traditions, the bilum bags of Papua New Guinea and research and artistic methods.
That night the Governor of the Pitcairn Islands, her Excellency Vicki Treadell held an event to showcase Pitcairn Island's art and culture, trade and tourism at Homewood, the British High Commissioner's Residence. The occasion was built around Meralda's presence in Wellington for the. Long tables lined the rooms of the beautiful building and were loaded with tapa cloth, weaving, beautifully made carvings of longboats, dolphins, turtles, platters and bowls accompanied by coin collections, jewellery and the iconic Pitcairn honey. Pitcairn dishes such as bread sticks, green plun fritters, coconut bread with pineapple were offered throughout the night. Many tour operators, interested parties and Pitcairn Islanders living locally came and enjoyed the marvellous hospitality of the new Governor, who in her opening address totally won us all over with her gracious and passionate speech about building a new 'positive Pitcairn' and supporting the fragile economy. There is no doubt that Vicki Treadell appears firmly committed to making this happen, and highlighted the importance of Meralda's presence.
Saturday was the last day of the Symposium and we were treated to presentations by Maori, Samoan, Fijian and Microneasian weavers, artists, and academics, and papers such as, 'Textiles as Tellers of Tales', the 'Patu of the Pacific and Maori', wonderful presentations by Te Papa staff on Cook Island Tivaevae and conservation of Maori and Pacific textiles.
The Symposium was actually part of a bigger festival celebrating the Maori new year called Matariki after the rising of the Pleiades. We were lucky to witness fashion shows, special exhibitions and Signs of a Nation with a Maori and Pacific Arts and Crafts Market where Leona Hermans had a beautiful display of her superb woven baskets.
The next day I took a plane out of Wellington long before the crack of dawn to Auckland and back home to Norfolk. After all this, I have realised how important it is to follow our dreams, our passions, no matter how isolated we might find ourselves (or how eccentric others might find us). Especially so if it is a positive journey not only for ourselves but one which might benefit those around us, especially the younger generation. I also firmly believe the importance of remembering that we are a Pacific community, and no matter where our future may lead, it is up to each of us as individuals to remember our history and culture. Each one of us represents our island everytime we travel and are asked, 'where are you from?' We can all make a difference
The Bounty Dance (article written for Norfolk on Line)
VAEA BENNETT-CAMPIGNON
Last week Wally interviewed Vaea and Alain from French Polynesia, a charming and elegant couple that came to Norfolk Island for a week's holiday recently. They had only planned to come here for a week, but after enjoying themselves so much, decided to stay an extra week.
On their arrival, Tihoti and Oihanu went to meet them and a friendship was sealed – Vaea and Alain could hardly believe their eyes when a couple of Tahitians rolled up on their doorstep on this little Pacific island … hardly what they had expected.
And the surprises kept coming, both ways! It turned out that Vaea had had a role in the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando. She was given the role of Teraura, Ed Young's first wife. Vaea was only 16 years old at the time, about the same age as Teraura was when she joined the Bounty. For Vaea and her friends, playing in the movie was an eye-opening experience – she had been raised in a strict Adventist home.
But Vaea's favourite memory isn't of movie stars or their antics, but of the shooting of the arrival of Bounty at Matavai Bay as hundreds of cast paddled out in traditional va'a outriggers to greet the especially made vessel. A grand part of the population was employed for making this movie, and gave considerable income to many families during the filming in Tahiti. Later, some of the filming was moved to Hollywood studios where Vaea and several other women travelled to complete the film. Certainly, despite what the film critics might say, the film put Tahiti firmly on the American holiday map.
Later in her carrier she became runner up to Miss Tahiti, and actually represented Tahiti carrying the crown to international events during the year. She later pursued a career as a model working for the top agencies in France.
But before anything else, Vaea is a dancer. She had learned to dance with Madeleine Moua - the woman who resurrected Tahitian dance in 1956 with her group Heiva Tahiti. In times of old, dance depicted many sacred events, but the voyaging Europeans of the 1700s popularised a half-truth of bare-breasted women with little understanding of the dance or its meaning. What was once the rhapsody of Joseph Banks' journals with his misunderstandings of so many events during his Tahiti days (and which would perhaps lead to the HMS Bounty to being manned by 46 volunteers - something unheard of in the times of conscription), would later become the despair of the first English missionaries who arrived in 1797, only eight years after Bounty's departure.
By 1819, the missionaries had such a hold over Tahiti that they had outlawed what they described as the 'lascivious' dancing. Dancers still performed, but clothed head-to-toe in white garments so as not to 'offend' visitors.
Tahiti owes a great deal to the legendary Madeleine Moua who brought back a sense of nobility to the dance reminding us of its sacred and noble beginnings rather than merely an act of seduction – an untruth that goes back to those first contact days with the Europeans.
Vaea remembers with happiness her days of dancing with the legendary 'Madame Moua'. She vividly remembers her strict teaching style which brought out the best in the girls. Vaea was one of her front-row dancers.
So what is it that makes the love of dance greater than having walked the high fashion catwalks of Paris, or acting alongside the likes of Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Tarita Teriipaia? Vaea says that within Ori Tahiti or Tahitian dance, you can lose yourself. Lose your worries and leave everything behind, and that dance is symbolic of liberation, emancipation, of being free.
During her holiday, she spent some time with the young Baunti Beauties who have been working hard on their technique with a view to going to Tahiti in April next year for a 2 week dance intensive with Heipua Lehartel.
On Pitcairn, our foremothers would occasionally dance for sailors of passing ships in the early 1800s, and had a fabulous percussion technique. Over time however, dance was practiced less and less … but revivals would happen in pockets. There were the girls in Sydney who would dance at the Polynesian Club, and then Maeve Hitch and Karlene Christian taught us girls for the Pacific Arts Festival. When I lived in Tahiti, Tihoti and I would line up professional dance teachers to travel to Norfolk Island to teach for the Community Arts Society. So far, Heipua Lehartel, Lovina Lependu, Marietta and Atea Tefaataumarama have travelled from Tahiti and Huahine for stints of dancing. Each teacher has brought with them a different teaching method, each one unique and enriching our understanding of this artform. It was heart-warming see this master of dance, one who had learned with the greatest of all Tahitian dance teachers, giving pointers to our young girls.
We look forward to Vaea and Alain's return sometime early next year for another round of fun, laughter, and of course, dance!
written by Pauline Reynolds all photos copyright
Norfolk Island Wa'a Club (article written for Norfolk On Line)
Sunday the 7th of November. The day started off cloudy and grey, showers and wind whipping the island. Typically for this time of year and the changing seasons, the skies had cleared by the early afterno
on, just as it had done the previous weekend. A heavenly blessing for the launch of Norfolk Island's new outrigger canoe (in our language called wa'a).
The members of the Wa'a Club had gathered and set up gazebos, a BBQ for the snags, drinks, caps, and raffle tickets for an art prize. The wa'a was carried from where it had been kept in the grassy coverage of the middle of Emily Bay's sand dunes to the area opposite the ancient Polynesian marae. Flowers were spread around the peripheries of the wa'a in tribute.
The ceremony began with Tihoti and John Christian, the founders of the club. John addressed the 200 strong crowd of locals and tourists in English, explaining the significance of the ceremony, the short history of the club and thanking those who have been so kind with their donations (of special note was the Norfolk Island Government and the Minister for Sports) and the builder, Jason Chubb. The club is also thankful to Slick and Joel for their generous donations for the BBQ.
Tihoti then began the Fa'ainura'a Ceremony. This ancient ceremony is conducted for every new canoe of importance in Tahiti to show respect for the ocean, the elements and to ask the gods for protection - for the wa'a and the people paddling her.
With the sounding of the conch shell and his children Oihanu and Mauatua standing sentry, he began his oratory,
O great Ocean! Welcome! O divinities of the ocean – welcome! O great sun! Welcome! O divinities of the sun – welcome! O wind of all directions! Welcome! O divinities of the winds – welcome! To the sky, the land, welcome!
Taaroa, founder of the world, of the thousand skies! Welcome to you! You are the lord of the sky and the land. You are the ancestor of all the divinities, You are the great creator. O Taaroa – welcome!
-Second sounding of the conch-
O Tane! Welcome! Tane the patron saint of all master canoe builders – divine Tane! Here is our wa'a, here is TEFAUROA! Here is our wa'a! Here is TEFAUROA! O divine Tane! Come and cast your spell on Tefauroa! Make Tefauroa auspicious! Oh Tane – welcome!
-Tihoti sprinkles water from the bamboo held by Oihanu-
O Tefauroa! Here is the ocean water, here is the water of the great ocean. Here is the water from the greatest marae of all! Tefauroa, here is the seawater to baptise and bless you, to make you propitious.
-Mauatua 'faahei' the wa'a by placing the flowers on the front and the back-
O Tefauroa, here is a necklace of flowers from this land! Here is the beauty that decorates this island! The beauty of this island! O Tefauroa! We crown you today with these flowers. O Tefauroa, you are our pride and joy today.
O Tefauroa! Welcome!
-Then came the Baunti Beauties (thank you Claudia, Kaitlin, Emily, Ashley, Mikiela, Tiffany) who danced so beautifully to the Norfolk Island ballads played by the Bumboras Band led by Don Reynolds.
During the ceremony, Kath King heard the call of a single red-tailed tropic bird, flying over the ceremony, watching from above. For Tahitians, this is significative of the presence of the gods, that they have heard the impassioned prayers.
Once the ceremony closed, members of the club carried the newly baptised vessel to Emily Bay and she was launched into the calm waters paddled by Tihoti, Tarn, Phil and Matt. There she stayed, paddled around and around the bay with many young and old having a go! What a wonderful day it was!
So why does a wa'a need to be blessed with this thousand year old ceremony? As Tihoti explains, the wa'a is a symbol for all Polynesian people - a symbol of transport and communication between islands, of nourishment, the link between populations, sport, voyage and migration; and then there is the metaphysical symbolism …
All Tahitians know this allegory - it is used in sport, in schools, and by politicians and by everyone in their day-to-day lives. If you have seen the Tahitian flag, you will know that it is dominated by a great voyaging wa'a (or va'a in Tahitian).
In life, there is the past, the present, and the future. You are alone on your wa'a - the future ahead and the past behind. There are three seats. When you sit at the front (in the future) the wa'a is difficult to paddle. You can hardly move forward. You change to the second seat, the present. Although it's better, it's still hard to manoeuvre the wa'a. So you sit at the back, looking forward from the past. From there you are better able to find your direction, the wa'a is easy to paddle and you are able to advance.
So it is in life, when we are in the present, look behind; study your history so that you might find the lessons and guidance to know how to go ahead at this moment and into the future. Today many people are in the first chair. Look to the past to understand the present and navigate through the future.
It is the club's aim to purchase more canoes and that more Norfolk Island women and men will join, and that the junior ranks will swell. What a wonderful opportunity for our youth to learn this sport of their ancestors and perhaps one day participate in international competitions against our Pacific cousins - affirmation of our undeniable connection to other Pacific Island communities.
Good luck Tefauroa!
photos copyright Pauline Reynolds
Druids and stone circles ...
Moorland Close Part One - Castlerigg
Article written for Norfolk on Line: www.norfolkonlinenews.com
MOORLAND CLOSE (Part One)
During my recent trip to the UK on my quest to visit museums holding barkcloths made by the Polynesian women of HMS Bounty (see earlier editions of Norfolk on Line), I found myself drawn to exploring the places some of the mutineers lived. I was surprised because I have always resonated to the untold women's story, having lived in Polynesia for so long. What a rounding experience this was for me.
I have some good friends in England, Chris Gaskell and Bernadette Kilroy, who are confirmed Bounty buffs. We met during their cruise years ago which included stops at Tahiti and Huahine, and we've been in contact ever since. They were kind enough to take me to my appointment with the curator at Liverpool World Museum. The next day we went on a discovery tour of The Lake District and to the town of Cockermouth where Fletcher Christian lived in his youth. Unbeknownst to me, this would end up being the highlight of my stay in England.
We left Chris and Bernadette's house at the crack of dawn and drove north for a couple of hours on the M6 highway toward Penrith. We skirted the south west area of The Lake District and turned onto the A66 where the landscape folds gently into rounded fluorescent green and rust coloured fells (hills) dissected by ancient stone walls.
Heading toward Keswick, I saw a small and discreet road sign 'Castlerigg Stone Circle'. I was blown away. I've always been fascinated by these structures, and had hoped one day to see this particular one. I excitedly asked Chris if it was too far out of his way. He chuckled, 'you should have told me you wanted to see it' in his broad accent. We turned down an empty narrow road and not five minutes further along, arrived at the Circle. Given the many tours a tourist can take to the impressive Stonehenge, (which one can hardly approach, let alone touch or photograph alone), Castlerigg Stone Circle is amazingly accessible. We were the only car to pull up on the side of the quiet road, alone apart from some young campers in the next paddock strumming guitars.
For such an inconspicuously marked area, the circle is vastly impressive. Positioned on the plateau of Chestnut Hill it is cradled in an amphitheatre of surrounding fells and the highest peaks of the area of Cumbria. The circle itself is made up of 40 principal stones, probably erected around 3200 BC. Much like the marae of Polynesia, the stones are aligned to the sunrise during different times of the year and lunar positions.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge visited Castlerigg with William Wordsworth in 1799 and he wrote,
… a Druidical circle [where] the mountains stand one behind the other, in orderly array as if evoked by and attentive to the assembly of white-vested wizards …
And who are we to know exactly what took place over the years in this fabulously mystical place?
The reason I write about it here, is its proximity to Moorland Close, the birthplace and childhood home of Fletcher Christian. Breathing in the extraordinary beauty of the place, I began to think about him. He would certainly have visited this place, in all its glory long before the swinging gate and laminated explanation board were erected.
In this ancient place time seemed to stop for a moment … if this stone circle was built in 3200 BC, then the 246 years since Fletcher was born at Moorland Close are infinitesimal speck in the grand expanse of time …
The story continues making our way to Moorland Close next week …
Beautiful barkcloth at the British Museum
A wonderful visit with Mark Nesbitt at Kew ... quoted from the Kew blog:
http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/Tapa-cloth-and-the-forgotten-women-of-the-Bounty-mutiny.htm
Economic Botany Collection
Tapa cloth and the forgotten women of the Bounty mutiny
By: Mark Nesbitt - 30/09/2010
A visitor to Kew sheds light on tapa cloth made 170 years ago by her Polynesian forebears.
One of the most colourful elements of Kew's Economic Botany Collection is the tapa cloth. We care for at least 60 pieces from across the Pacific, made by pounding inner bark from the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) and other trees.
Tapa cloth in Kew's Economic Botany Collection
These plain, off-white fragments from Pitcairn Island appear subdued by comparison. However, I've long been aware of their historical link to the Bounty mutiny, one of the best-known and most controversial episodes in British history. In 1789 Captain William Bligh left Tahiti with more than 1000 breadfruit plants, bound for the Caribbean as a new food source for the slave plantations. Three weeks later Fletcher Christian, George Stewart, Peter Heywood and other crew mutinied, setting Bligh and eighteen men adrift in the ship's launch. Today many descendants of the mutineers live on Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island.
Many of the mutineers had Tahitian partners, often the daughters of Tahitian Chiefs. The Polynesian heritage of the Bounty descendants can be traced directly to these women, but has been little explored. Pauline Reynolds, a descendant of Fletcher Christian and resident of Norfolk Island, is tracing the material culture of the Bounty women in European museums on a Churchill Fellowship. She kindly spent a day at Kew sharing her insights into the collections. Pauline's visit shows how reconnecting with source communities can deepen understanding of the human stories behind our specimens.
Pauline Reynolds is researching tapa cloth in Kew's Economic Botany Collection
The largest piece, seen in the middle of the table, was of special significance to Pauline as it was made by Mauatua (wife of Christian Fletcher) her 5x great grandmother. She pointed out its extraordinarily thin and even texture, typical of the finest tapa cloth from very experienced makers. The piece seen on the left of the table was made by Peggy, daughter of George Stewart and is a little thicker; that on the right was made by Mauatua, and Teraura, wife of Ned Young. Pauline explained that the very plainness of these pieces is an indication of their quality: decoration would take away from appreciation of the work.
One odd feature of the tapa is that it has been cut into small pieces. In Polynesian cultures it would be very unusual to cut a large sheet into small pieces. Pauline immediately recognised that the donor's name might be a clue. The tapa cloths were given to Kew in 1858 by Frances Heywood, who turns out to be the widow of Peter Heywood, a mutineer who was pardoned and went on to have a successful naval career.
A quick trip to Kew's rare books room produced the Rev. Thos. Murray's Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor (1860), which tells us:
"The women also manufacture tappa or native cloth, from the bark of the "Anti" or paper-mulberry, which is rolled up, and soaked in water, and then beaten out with wooden mallets, and spread forth to dry. The author has in his possession a piece of beautifully wrought white tappa, given him by Mrs. Heywood… it was made by the wife of Fletcher Christian [Mauatua], from the bark of the paper-mulberry-tree. The piece from which this portion was taken, was entrusted by her, when at a very advanced age, to Captain Jenkin Jones, when he visited the island, in her Majesty's ship Curacoa, in 1841; he having been desired to give it to Peter's wife."
I find it extraordinary - and moving - that the bonds of friendship between Mauatua and Frances Heywood, connected only by their love of two Bounty mutineers, should hold so strong over 50 years and 9000 miles.
Three years before her death in 1861, Frances Heywood evidently cut up and distributed pieces of the tapa cloths among her friends – and Kew. Perhaps more pieces are to be found elsewhere?
- Mark -
THINKING ABOUT THE PACIFIC IN THE UK
For a woman who has spent all of her life in the Pacific, it has been a
revelation to travel to the UK … I'm glad for the itinerary that led me
gently out of the Pacific from Norfolk Island via New Zealand and
Hawai'i before flying into Los Angeles and Heathrow.
I am presently in the UK studying the material culture left by our
Polynesian foremothers who boarded the HMS Bounty in 1789 bound
for Pitcairn. These women gifted many barkcloths to passing captains
that eventually made their way into European museums. Now I find
myself making my way to them – something like joining the dots on a
vast museum map working my way from London to Scotland and
across to Norway.
I"m surprised and frankly disappointed at the lack of Pacific
representation in British museum displays in general. In that light, it is
a sweet thing indeed to have seen two particular barkcloths on display
in public galleries: one in the British Museum (in the Enlightenment
Gallery - a tiny piece by Mauatua, Fletcher Christian's sweetheart)
and the other at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (a lovely patterned
poncho). I"ve received a resoundingly kind and enthusiastic reception
at each of the museums I"ve visited by the hard-working curators of
huge out-of-sight collections.
Behind archive doors there have been more, so many more, pieces of
beautiful barkcloth to study. Some white and finely made - others a
patchwork of colours.
It's important to highlight the significance of the barkcloths (and
Pacific culture in general) within the institutions I'm visiting.
Recently I spent a day with Dr Mark Nesbitt at Kew Gardens who has
since written a blog post about the day we spent talking about the
pieces in their collections. Dr Nesbitt generously shared his time
looking through museum notes and archives and we were able to
piece together the history of the barkcloths and how they came to
Kew. It was great fun and a valuable exercise.
Holding these pieces of cloth has been a deeply moving experience
for me. As a people we are in a unique position, because often times
we can name the maker of many of these pieces. What this means is
that those of us of Bounty descent can trace our heritage back to a
particular piece and say, "my great great great great great grandmother
made this". With this knowledge comes the responsibility of
protecting the pieces and assuring museums do too.
Over the years I have been pleased to communicate with the curators,
and now meeting them face-to-face perhaps opens a window of
understanding for them too, which is more than I might have hoped
for. They understand the importance of representing material culture
in a way that guards its historical integrity, and working together, we
can come to an understanding of these valuable pieces that are an
important part of our Bounty history.
Pauline recently received a
scholarship to travel to NZ,
Hawai'i, the UK and Norway
to study the material culture
left by the Bounty women
who settled on Pitcairn Island
in 1790. Pauline lived for 15 years
on Huahine, Tahiti, and presently
lives on Norfolk Island with her
Tahitian husband, Tihoti, and their
children Oihanu and Mauatua.
Around the World in 6 weeks - 3rd update
LAST STOP: NORWAY
By the time this article is published, my 6 week Round-the-World scholarship will have come to an end … I'll be home and wondering, 'did it all happen to me?'.
Firstly, I wish to encourage anyone who has a worthwhile project of benefit to our island and/or our culture, to apply for a Churchill Fellowship. What a wonderful opportunity to broaden one's horizons and on return give back to the community.
Sir Winston Churchill is famously quoted as saying, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." His life is awe inspiring, and what better way to assure his memory lives on than these Memorial Fellowships?
The fellowship has allowed me to see around 40 pieces of Pitcairn barkcloth and some of the beaters that were used to make them. This data will provide valuable information about the makers - the Bounty women and their daughters.
Whilst the studying of barkcloth in itself is fascinating, the stories related to each piece make the Pitcairn barkcloths even more interesting. The curators have been equally eager to know more about them, so it really has been a two way street.
It has been a moving experience touching these pieces, knowing they were made by my foremothers (and the foremothers of many of you reading this article now). Whilst they were creating this fibre to clothe themselves and their children, they were also creating the fabric of the new society on Pitcairn. They truly were pioneering women, and deserve much more than the historical fiction that has been written about them to date and that I am sure will continue to be written. It is my mission to find as much historical factual data as possible about them - it just requires digging and an open mind. The mythic, sometimes sensational, movie drama story has seen its day: our history is fascinating, but only half told as far as I am concerned.
At the time of writing I am in Norway waiting for my appointment with the Kon-Tiki Museum's curator whom I met during an archaeological dig near our house on Huahine, Tahiti many years ago. I'm looking forward to seeing the lovely finely made barkcloth and beaters they have in their collection. By looking at the fabric itself, and the collection data, I might be able to determine the maker of the piece and the tree it was made from. The beaters are also extremely interesting – in the Norfolk Island Museum there is a beater that has always been associated with the Melanesian Mission, however, I believe it came from Pitcairn to Norfolk on the Morayshire in 1856, and so I'll be doing some comparisons.
Some museums have asked me to contribute thoughts and some writing for future exhibitions including Pitcairn tapa-cloths. I hope now that our material heritage might continue to be featured, even if in small ways, in exhibitions around the world. I broached the idea of the possible loan of some of these items to our own museum on Norfolk and have received some positive responses.
There is another guideline highlighted by the Churchill Trust - and that is to make the most of one's travel, to watch local news and really breathe in the local culture. With my appointments attended, I've tried to pack in quick visits to meaningful areas and cities surrounding the museums.
The most memorable visit was after my appointment at the Liverpool World Museum. I had met up with friends who took me to Moorland Close (Fletcher Christian's birthplace and childhood home), Cockermouth (the nearby village) and St Bridget's Church (where the Christian family is buried and where they sought solace during their lives). This area forms part of The Lake District and a place I feel we all need to visit! I felt a real resonance with this beautiful area, which is much like the Gloucester district of NSW Australia.
So the Fellowship has taken me to the following cities: Wellington in New Zealand; Honolulu in Hawai'i; London, Kew, Cambridge, Oxford and Liverpool in England; Edinburgh and Aberdeen in Scotland; and finally Oslo in Norway. This has been one of the most empowering, lonely, inspiring and enriching experiences of my life and I know that this will benefit our culture and people.
I'd like to give thanks to the Churchill Trust, those who had a hand in my selection, to Lisa Richards and Rhonda Griffiths, to those of you who have sent me messages of encouragement, my wonderful family who let me go, and all the museum curators and friends met along the way. It's been an amazing trip and I look forward to putting pen to paper to continue writing about the forgotten women of the Bounty.
Pauline in the archives at the Royal Scottish Museum
Moorland Close Homestead
You may wonder why we called this blog 'Tattoo and Tapa'. Tihoti's passion is design using the ancient symbols used by his tupuna or ancestors. Mine is the same, but applied on a different surface.
The designs used by Tahitians in 'tatau' (tattoo) often crossed over into the designs used in 'ahu (tapa) decoration. Some of the deep symbolism used in tatau today in Tahiti is lost, although Tihoti feels that by using nature as our inspiration we can come to understand these designs again, and from there evolve those designs beyond our misunderstandings. But that understanding has to come from a Polynesian perspective.
I am fascinated by the designs and colours used in the ancient 'ahu - everything was symbolic. Much of this knowledge is forgotten today: but not entirely. For me it has become an exhilarating adventure of rediscovery.
Pitcairn Tapa: 'Ahu no Hitiaurevareva
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Churchill Fellowship Travel (2)
Cologne Germany (1)
Dem Tull article (1)
Druids and stone circles (1)
Exhibition at le Mairie de Arue (1)
Exhibition at the town hall of Arue (1)
Huahine (1)
Huzzah for Otaheite (1)
Levi Carthew (1)
Made-in-Oceania (1)
Madzia Bryll (1)
Maimiti en Mauatua (1)
Making tapa on Norfolk Island (1)
Maori and Pacific Textiles Symposium (1)
Matari'i ni'a (1)
Matarii Aotearoa (1)
Meralda exhibition on Norfolk (1)
Norfolk on Line (1)
outrigger club (1)
Pitcairn tapa (1)
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (2)
Rowan Metcalfe (1)
Simon Quintal (1)
Sydney Tattoo and Body Art Expo (1)
Tahiti Bounty Day 2008 (1)
Tatau conventions (1)
Tatau e 'ahu (1)
Tihoti at the marae in Maeva (1)
vernissage Toofaiti (1)
Wa'a (1)
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Episode 5: How to Manage Parkinson's "Off" Time
Parkinson's can be unpredictable – symptoms can come and go or get better and worse throughout the day. These so-called "on-off" fluctuations (also called motor fluctuations) and dyskinesias can be troubling, but movement disorder specialists can help with the choice of medication, dosages, and timing. Dr. Irene Malaty explains more about what causes these changes and how you can work with your doctor to manage them. Download
Managing Parkinson's Mid-Stride: A Treatment Guide to Parkinson's
Managing Parkinson's: What Are "On-Off" Fluctuations?
Your Neurologist and You: How to Prepare for Your Parkinson's Visit
Irene Malaty, MD
Dr. Malaty is a fellowship-trained movement disorder specialist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She is the director of the Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence at UF and is site primary investigator of the Parkinson's Outcomes Project. Additionally, Dr. Malaty is co-director of the Tourette Association of America Southeast Regional Center of Excellence and runs the interdisciplinary Tourette and tic disorders clinic for children and adults. In all these initiatives, Dr. Malaty cares for patients, coordinates team-based care, and promotes clinical research. Dr. Malaty is the director of industry-sponsored trials at UF movement disorders.
Dr. Malaty serves on the executive board of the Florida Society of Neurology, on the executive committee of the American Academy of Neurology Neuroendocrinology Section, as the Movement Disorder Subsection Chair, and on the Tourette Association of America Medical Advisory Board. She has specific interests in the non-motor aspects of Parkinson's disease and Tourette's syndrome and in using botulinum toxin to treat neurological conditions. She has written many peer-reviewed articles, is involved in numerous clinical trials in movement disorders, and enjoys lecturing on Parkinson's disease, Tourette, botulinum toxin administration, dystonia, and other movement disorders.
She studied microbiology and psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, and attended Indiana University School of Medicine. After completing a transitional year of medicine at St. Vincent's hospital in Indianapolis, she moved to Gainesville for neurology residency and served as chief resident. She completed a fellowship in movement disorders at the University of Florida and joined the faculty thereafter.


21st Century New Jersey Farmland
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By AKpilotEMT @ 2010-10-02 08:43:31
Holmdel, New Jersey (NJ), US
The flickr image linked below
shows how this family farm has changed since 1995...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/5043977283_18e058e463_z.jpg
Will this be the fate of all of New Jersey's farmland someday?
(from 2003)
Hop Brook subdivision hearing Dec. 2
BY PAT MILLER
HOLMDEL — A public hearing on the Hop Brook Farm Estates application has been carried to the Dec. 2 Planning Board meeting.
The developer, Evaristo Cruz, wants to subdivide the 63.9-acre site on Holmdel Road into 13 building lots.
The lots will be used for new single-family homes, said Sal Alfieri, a Matawan attorney who represents Cruz.
The size of the homes and the price range has not yet been determined, Alfieri said.
The plans call for using the township's lot averaging development option, which allows developers to build on smaller lots so a large open space can be preserved, he said.
The option requires that 60 percent of the lots have lot areas ranging from 2.5 acres to 3.5 acres.
The tract is located on the east side of Holmdel Road, north of Spring Valley Drive. The property is currently a working farm, Alfieri said.
The developer is proposing to subdivide the tract into 11 lots ranging from 2.5 to 3.5 acres, one lot with 6 acres, and a 24.3-acre lot, which contains the existing dwelling.
In the current (Oct 2010) Google imagery, you can clearly see a left to right grass runway that was the farm's private landing strip.
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MainAll NewsInside Israel'Bomb threat suspect didn't know what he was doing'
'Bomb threat suspect didn't know what he was doing'
Mother of teenage suspect in waves of bomb threats against US Jewish institutions says son suffers from autism, brain tumor.
JTA, 02/04/17 19:26
US-Israeli citizen suspected of threatening Jewish centers
JTA - The mother of the Israeli-American teenager arrested on suspicion of calling in more than 100 bomb threats to JCCs and other Jewish institutions said that her son has diagnosed autism as well as a tumor in his brain that affects his behavior.
The woman, whose identity was disguised with digital imagery, was interviewed on Saturday night on Israel's Channel 2. The identity of the suspect, 18, is under a gag order in Israel, though he has been identified in reports in other countries. He was called "M" in the Channel 2 report.
The teen's mother said he was home-schooled for his entire life after he was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum and it became clear the he could not function within a formal school framework. He is very intelligent, however, she said. She stopped working as a biochemist in order to teach her son.
The teen was born in the United States, and the family moved to Israel when he was 6.
The teen's mother said she was "shocked" when she found out that her son was suspected of making the threats against the JCCs and other Jewish institutions in the U.S. She said she did not know how much time he spent on his computer because she works nights and was not home. She also said that he rarely left home and had no friends.
She said she had spoken to her son about the JCC bomb threats before his arrest and that he joined her in expressing concern about their Jewish friends in the United States.
She asserted that the threats were not her son's fault because he cannot control his behavior, saying: "It's the tumor. It could happen to anyone with a tumor in his head. He's autistic, he can't control it, he can't think straight. He needs medical help."
Curing a court hearing last week the teen's attorney presented photographs and medical imaging of a non-malignant brain tumor that the defense says affects his behavior.
The teenage suspect was arrested on March 23 at his home in Ashkelon following a months-long undercover investigation by Israel's anti-fraud unit, as well as the FBI in the United States and law enforcement in other countries.
He also is accused of a series of threats made in Israel, Europe, Australia and New Zealand in the past six months and of making a threatening call to Delta Airlines, leading to the emergency landing of at least one plane.
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The German Foreign Minister will visit Turkey early next week
Thousands of people protested in Vienna against the Corona restrictions
France: More than 413,000 people were vaccinated against Corona
Mohammed bin Zayed receives the Jordanian monarch
OPPO announces one of the cheapest 5G phones
Doctors kept close eye on Trump's use of malaria drug
The White House medical team kept a close eye on President Donald Trump's heart rhythms, including at least one electrocardiogram, to watch for potential side effects when he took a two-week course of a malaria drug to try to prevent the coronavirus, his doctor reported Wednesday.
"The President completed the regimen safely and without side effects," Dr. Sean Conley wrote in a report on Trump's latest physical and his treatment with hydroxychloroquine.
Overall, Conley said, Trump showed little change in basic health measurements from 16 months ago. On the negative side, he gained a pound. But on the plus side, his cholesterol level continued to fall.
"The data indicates the President remains healthy," Conley concluded.
Trump recently took a two-week course of hydroxychloroquine after two White House staffers tested positive for COVID-19.
Conley said it was done in consultation with "appropriate care team members and close monitoring of the electrocardiogram (EKG)," indicating that doctors were looking for changes in his heartbeat because abnormal heart rhythms are one of the dangerous side effects that have been found in studies of the drug.
The drug proved ineffective for preventing COVID-19 in the first large, high-quality study to test it in people in close contact with someone with the disease. Results published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine show that hydroxychloroquine was no better than placebo pills at preventing illness from the coronavirus. The drug did not seem to cause serious harm, though -- about 40% on it had side effects, mostly mild stomach problems.
Trump has frequently has cited anecdotal reports and seemed determined to prove the naysayers wrong.
Trump's weight came in a 244 pounds. That gives him a Body Mass Index of 30.5, based on his 6-foot, 3-inch frame. An index rating of 30 is the level at which doctors consider someone to be obese. About 40 percent of Americans are obese.
Trump was evaluated twice for the physical, first in November 2019 and then in April. He has a resting heart rate of 63 beats per minute. A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute, and generally, a lower rate implies better cardiovascular fitness.
His blood pressure came in at 121 over 79. The American Heart Association says an elevated blood pressure range is when a reading for the upper number consistently ranges from 120-129 and less than 80 for the lower number. People with elevated blood pressure are likely to develop high blood pressure unless steps are taken to control the condition.
Trump has shown marked improvement in his cholesterol levels during his presidency, helped by medication. At his physical in January 2018, his total cholesterol was 223. In early 2019, the reading came in at 196. It now stands at 167. The president takes rosuvastatin to help lower his bad cholesterol, known as LDL, and to raise his good cholesterol, or HDL. Ideally, total cholesterol should be less than 200.
Trump also takes aspirin daily and finasteride, a drug to treat enlargement of the prostate and male pattern hair loss. Aspirin reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke in people at high risk for them.
Biden to unveil coronavirus vaccine distribution plan as cases soar
Turkey sends 20,000 doses of vaccine to Northern Cyprus


Cybercriminals attack users with 400,000 malicious files daily, up 5% from 2021
Woburn, MA – December 1, 2022 – In 2022, Kaspersky's detection systems discovered an average of 403,000 malicious files distributed every day, a 5% increase compared to 2021. The ransomware category grew significantly, seeing a 181% increase as a proportion of files. These and other findings are part of the Number of the Year report, part of the Kaspersky Security Bulletin (KSB), an annual series of predictions and analytical reports on key shifts within the cybersecurity world.
Kaspersky's detection systems discovered an average of 400,000 new malicious files daily over the first 10 months of the year. By comparison, about 380,000 of these files were detected every day in 2021. In total, Kaspersky's systems detected approximately 122 million malicious files in 2022, 6 million more than last year.
Average daily number of malicious files detected by Kaspersky security solutions from 2019 to 2022 (January 1st – October 31st)
Kaspersky's researchers discovered that the share of ransomware encountered daily increased by 181% compared to 2021, reaching 9,500 encrypting files per day. Among other threats, Kaspersky security solutions also detected a 142% growth in the share of downloaders – malicious programs that install new versions of malware or unwanted applications on infected devices.
Windows continued to be the prime target of attacks among all platforms where threat families were spread. In 2022, Kaspersky experts discovered an average of nearly 320,000 malicious files attacking Windows devices, accounting for 85% of all malicious files. Meanwhile, Kaspersky's detection systems also discovered that the share of malicious files in Microsoft Office formats distributed daily doubled (236% growth).
In 2022, Kaspersky experts also identified a 10% increase in the share of malicious files targeting the Android platform each day. The infamous 2022 campaigns the Harly and Triada Trojans, which ambushed thousands of Android users around the world, are prime examples of this trend.
"Considering how quickly the threat landscape is expanding its boundaries and the number of new devices appearing in users' daily lives, it's quite possible that next year we'll be detecting not 400,000 malicious files per day, but half a million!" said Vladimir Kuskov, head of anti-malware research at Kaspersky. "Even more dangerous is that, with the development of Malware-as-a-Service, any novice fraudster can now attack devices without any technical knowledge in programming. Becoming a cybercriminal has never been so easy. It is essential not only for large organizations but also for every ordinary user to employ reliable security solutions, thus avoid becoming a victim of cybercriminals. Kaspersky experts, in turn, will do their best to protect against these threats and save users from losses so that their daily online experience is completely safe."
To learn more about the growth of malicious activity, read the full analytical report on Statistics of the Year at Securelist.com.
These findings are part of Kaspersky Security Bulletin (KSB) – an annual series of predictions and analytical reports on key shifts within the cybersecurity world. Follow this link to read other KSB pieces.
To stay protected, Kaspersky also recommends the following to users:
· Do not download and install applications from untrusted sources
· Do not click on any links from unknown sources or suspicious online advertisements
· Create strong and unique passwords, including a mix of lower-case and upper-case letters, numbers, and punctuation, as well as activating two-factor authentication
· Always install updates. Some of them may contain critical security issue fixes
· Ignore messages asking to disable security systems for office or cybersecurity software
· Use a robust security solution appropriate to your system type and devices, such as Kaspersky Premium. It will tell you which sites shouldn't be open and protect you from malware
To stay safe, Kaspersky recommends the following to organizations:
· Always keep software updated on all the devices you use to prevent attackers from infiltrating your network by exploiting vulnerabilities.
· Establish the practice of using strong passwords to access corporate services. Use multi-factor authentication for access to remote services.
· Choose a proven endpoint security solution such as Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business that is equipped with behavior-based detection and anomaly control capabilities for effective protection against known and unknown threats.
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Advancing Best Practices for Aversion Conditioning (Humane Hazing) to Mitigate Human–Coyote Conflicts in Urban Areas
Lesley Sampson, Coyote Watch Canada
Lauren Van Patter, Queen's University, Kingston, CanadaFollow
Coyotes (Canis latrans) are now recognized as a permanent feature in urban environments across much of North America. Behavioral aversion conditioning, or humane hazing, is increasingly advocated as an effective and compassionate alternative to wildlife management strategies, such as trap and removal. Given a growing public interest in humane hazing, there is a need to synthesize the science regarding methods, outcomes, efficacy, and other relevant considerations to better manage human–coyote conflicts in urban areas. This paper was prepared as an outcome of a workshop held in July 2019 by Coyote Watch Canada (CWC) to synthesize the literature on aversion conditioning. The paper also includes the deployment experiences of members of the CWC Canid Response Team. Herein, we propose best practices to enhance the efficacy of aversion conditioning for the management of urban wildlife, particularly coyotes. We detail recommendations concerning: the importance of consistency, adaptability, humaneness, and clear goals; training and proactive implementation; and the need for a comprehensive wildlife coexistence program. We further detail additional considerations surrounding domestic dogs (C. lupus familiaris), public perceptions, and defining behavior and conflict. We hope this synthesis will assist wildlife managers and local governments in identifying and deploying nonlethal human–coyote conflict mitigation strategies that are effective, humane, and community supported.
Sampson, Lesley and Van Patter, Lauren (2020) "Advancing Best Practices for Aversion Conditioning (Humane Hazing) to Mitigate Human–Coyote Conflicts in Urban Areas," Human–Wildlife Interactions: Vol. 14 : Iss. 2 , Article 7.
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Contig
Contig
A contig (as related to genomic studies; derived from the word "contiguous") is a set of DNA segments or sequences that overlap in a way that provides a contiguous representation of a genomic region. For example, a clone contig provides a physical map of a set of cloned segments of DNA across a genomic region, while a sequence contig provides the actual DNA sequence of a genomic region.
A genome is typically studied by breaking down its DNA into pieces, analyzing those pieces in the laboratory, and then computationally putting those pieces back together in a conceptual way. Years ago, before genome sequencing became routine, the pieces of DNA would first be cloned and then individual clones would be analyzed to determine which clones overlapped which other clones. A set of overlapping clones that together contain a 'contiguous' region of a genome is called a contig – or in this case a clone contig. Genome sequencing uses the concept of a contig, but in a different way. For genome sequencing, the pieces are not actually physical segments of DNA but rather are stretches of generated DNA sequence (often called a sequence read). By establishing the overlaps among a set of sequence reads, one can assemble a sequence contig, from which the actual sequence of the genomic region can be deduced.
Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D.
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Interview: Bad Wolves' Doc Coyle
Written by Celeste Adams
After forming only last year, heavy metal supergroup Bad Wolves bring their first album Disobey to stages across Europe and the UK supporting Three Days Grace on tour. SlantedPress spoke to Bad Wolves' guitarist Doc Coyle ahead of their Nottingham show to talk about Disobey, their UK/EU tour and life on the road.
Even though this is the band's first-time touring in their current set up, all of the members came from other projects. Doc tells me that he played the UK 15 times before with his previous band God Forbid, so I ask if he has any favourite places to play in the UK. "I love Wales, no offence, Wales is always awesome. Manchester's always great, and Glasgow, obviously they're really great fans there. I was very lucky, the first time I came to the UK was in 2001 and my old band was supporting this band called Stamping Ground, a UK hardcore band. We did three weeks [touring] just in the UK. We got to go to a lot of different places. At the time I didn't realise that it was fairly unique for foreign bands to do that… Yeah, I got to go all over the country. I love it."
Bad Wolves' fame began to rapidly escalate with the release of their third single, a cover of iconic rock song 'Zombie', originally released by The Cranberries in 1994. Dolores O'Riordan was lined up to perform the song with Bad Wolves, but passed away before they could record together. Because of their cover's Billboard success, I ask Doc if the band intends to do any more cover songs in the future. "The short answer is yes. I know Tommy [Tommy Vext, lead singer] has another cover he's working on and we're behind the scenes on another one. I think it's fun. Tommy and myself had a cover band called Rebel Noise Group and we would do 90s and 2000s era, so we'd do System of a Down and Filter and Soundgarden, stuff like that. In some ways I almost feel like that experience influenced the idea of doing a cover in that era. We love playing covers."
Although the band didn't get to collaborate with Dolores O'Riordan, they have collaborated with DIAMANTE on the track 'Hear Me Now'. I ask Doc if there are any other artists that he would like to collaborate with in the future. "I think between me and Tommy one of our favourite rappers is Busta Rhymes because he raps really fast. I think that's like our dream trying to see if we can somehow get Busta Rhymes on a song. I don't think we can afford him, or, collectively, if we could get Huey Lewis or Phil Collins to do a track. I bet these people would not even return our phone calls, but I think for the whole band, if we could get Huey Lewis on a song that would be great."
With the band's first album bearing the simplistic title 'Disobey', giving an air of mystery to the band's music, I ask what the thought process behind the title was. "We were brainstorming artwork ideas for the album and I suggested some kind of propaganda inspired artwork from the film 'They Live'. The guy that started that [Shepard Fairey], he did the Obama poster and stuff. He came up with that whole 'Obey' thing. 'Obey' is actually from 'They Live' and it's essentially you put on these glasses and the aliens took over. You'd see a Coca-Cola billboard and when you put the glasses on it would say 'Obey', or it would say 'Conform'. So, when looking at artwork for that, Tom was like 'Disobey'. It's one of those things that's so obvious, it was hiding in plain sight… and I think it's perfect. I love titles that have simplicity."
With the band just beginning their European tour with Three Days Grace at the time of the interview, I ask Doc what his favourite things to do to keep occupied on the road are. "So right now, we're in Europe and the UK, you know it takes you a couple of days to get adjusted and it's a lot of downtime. We were playing table tennis and I was catching up on television, I also have a book I need to finish." Intrigued by what kind of books the metal musician would be interested in, I ask Doc what he's reading at the moment. "Anthony Bourdain's first book Kitchen Confidential, it's really good, but I've been slacking with it… I've been a very terrible reader for the last few years or so. I think it's also our brains have changed from using social media." He clicks his fingers to explain how our attention spans have shortened. "There's so many entertainment options available to you. I think just longform reading is harder for our brains than looking at a phone. It's working out for your mind."
Speaking of changes in modern life, a lot of the tracks on Disobey focus on political and social unrest. I ask Doc if he thinks it's important for artists to explore these topics in their music. "I think, for artists it's about kind of being true to what you're about. Like, if you're generally not really political or it's not something that interests you, then I don't think there's really any responsibility [to include it] whereas, if that's something that you really care about and it's reflected in your art and in your work then yeah… When you're putting this music together and you have to write lyrics, you have to focus on the things that you're passionate about. I was not really involved lyrically with the record, but I know the stuff that is a little more politically edged is stuff that Tommy is really passionate about." As a very energetic and muscular band, I ask Doc how the band keeps up with working out on tour. "On the last tour, Tommy bought like this big gym so we had that and I had like a bike but the hardest thing is just finding space to stretch. I have really, really bad back problems, so I have to do all these stretching and core exercises, and for lots you just have to have space. I didn't bring actual workout shoes…" He indicates to his Air Jordans. "These are technically basketball shoes. They'll do, but then you'll get them all funky." Seeing the band members walking around, it's clear that they all take pride in their kicks. "This is our band thing, Air Jordan 1's. If you see any of the band we'll all be wearing different varieties of these shoes."
It's encouraging to see that the band have already got their own 'thing', especially since they've all come from fairly big bands in the past. I ask Doc how the new dynamic of Bad Wolves feels compared to his previous project. "I think that the main thing that makes it different is that we have several people in the band that have more or less been the band leader. Or been you know, type A personalities. I think that creates its own kind of tension in good and bad ways. We're learning how to modulate the functionality of the band because everyone can't all be the ringleader. So, for myself it's about kind of picking spots to be at the head of something and also know when to support. It's really learning different types of teamwork."
With friendships between the band members building since their formation only last year, I ask Doc if there's anything he misses from home when he's travelling. "I have a girlfriend at home and the time is off so you're trying to coordinate when you can call, so the distance is definitely relevant. I also think the days feel a little longer. A week here, you feel like you've been gone for two weeks. Maybe vice versa too if you're from Europe and you go to the US. The thing is, I love variety in life, I think that just staying in your comfort zone is not healthy. Some things here aren't as comfortable, like the tour buses. I'm too big, they don't fit me. Like, I don't fit in the bathroom, my head touches the ceiling. Little things like that you think oh, I wish it was kind of like this but I think that's okay, it's alright to challenge yourself. In that regard, just wanting everything to be comfortable all the time is not the best way to go in my opinion." Shortly after the Nottingham gig, singer of Bad Wolves Tommy Vext was taken to Queen's Medical Centre to receive treatment for a 'severe bronchial infection'. Subsequent tour dates have featured the guest vocals of Stars from Bang Bang Romeo and Austin Dickinson from As Lions and Tommy re-joined the tour as of the 5th of October.
The band's dedication to their first UK/EU tour together is admirable, and refusing to cancel their tour proves that Bad Wolves will be one to watch in the heavy metal scene for years to come.
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Former UK ambassador: CIA Sent People to be 'Raped with Broken Bottles' : Information Clearing House - ICH
"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on."
Suspects in Uzbekistan's gulags "were being told to confess to membership in Al Qaeda. They were told to confess they'd been in training camps in Afghanistan. They were told to confess they had met Osama bin Laden in person. And the CIA intelligence constantly echoed these themes."
"I was absolutely stunned -- it changed my whole world view in an instant -- to be told that London knew coming from torture, that it was not illegal because our legal advisers had decided that under the United Nations convention against torture, it is not illegal to obtain or use intelligence gained from torture as long as we didn't do the torture ourselves," Murray said.
And htis is why the American government says ..." who us? We didn't do it somebody else did " .................:yh_wait:yh_wait
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Ackquille Jean Pollard aka Bobby Shmurda, an American rap super-star, was arrested on December 17, 2014 and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, reckless endangerment, and gun possession. Fourteen others were arrested alongside Shmurda with similar charges laid out against them, along with assault and drug dealing as well. Shmurda plead not guilty and was held on $2 million bail. Shmurda... rhymes with murder.
UPDATE: It's been 15 months since his arrest and Bobby Shmurda has claimed the police have it in for him. D'ya think? Bobby's claim in new court docs alleges the cops are out to get him because of his anti-police raps ... adding the very same officers who arrested him in 2014 harassed him and his friends before. The court disagrees and has denied his requests for police disciplinary records. Nice try Bobby.
Police have labled Shmurda as the "driving force" in a gang known as GS9 (also the name of his record label.) The gang had been investigated by police for some time, even before Shmurda rose to fame. It was believed that Shmurda perpetuated the crack dealing and the ongoing battles waged against rival gangs. He faces a maximum sentence of 8-25 years.
The head of the NYPD unit, James Essig, said that Shmurda's songs and music videos were "almost like a real-life documentary of what they were doing on the street." Although let us remind Mr. Essig that we're pretty sure all rap songs are a documentation of what life was like on the streets -- or in some instances what they "wanted" their life to be like on the streets. At least so there would be something to rap about.
Check out the video below of Bobby Shmurda's hit song "Hot N*gga" and we think it'll all make sense.
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Richey Suncoast announces changes, 2018-19 seasons
NEW PORT RICHEY — Richey Suncoast Theatre has announced major changes for the 2018-19 season at its Grand Boulevard venue, as well as the return of a four-show season geared toward mature audiences in an intimate Black Box Theatre setting.
The most obvious change is that each regular season show will be presented seven times, down from 10. Instead of opening on a Thursday and continuing for three subsequent weekends, the theater will open on a Thursday and continue the next two weekends. Third-weekend season ticket holders will have to choose seats during the shortened run of a show.
The hope is to have larger audiences at fewer shows, reducing the cost of performance rights and saving the theater a considerable amount of money, according to Marie Skelton, executive director. The season consists of three musicals and two comedies.
Season and individual ticket prices for the regular-season shows remains the same as this year: $18 for individual shows, $70 for all five, a savings of $20. Curtain times remain at 8 p.m., except Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Season tickets are on sale; current ticket holders have until May 27 to keep their seats.
Tickets also will have a new form. Instead of the red, white or blue punch cards, individual show tickets will have a bar code that can be scanned, and once scanned, not re-used.
A children's holiday show will run Nov. 23-25, Skelton said. Tickets for that event will be $5.
The schedule change also allows time for the return of Black Box shows on the Richey Suncoast Stage, Skelton said.
"Only this time, we will have comfortable padded chairs, instead of those folding chairs," she said. Patrons can purchase tickets at the box office and climb the stairs onto the stage or enter through the side stage door, with no steps to climb.
The Black Box Theatre was launched two years ago, with hopes of having its own venue in the former Jimmy Ferraro Studio Theatre on Main Street. Several construction issues arose during the reconfiguration of the theater, so that idea was nixed. Instead, shows were presented on the stage of Richey Suncoast Theatre. When the construction issues couldn't be resolved, Richey Suncoast's board of directors decided to abandon the idea of a separate theater and continue the Black Box shows at the main theater for now.
"We'll do the Black Box shows with just props, no sets," Skelton said.
Because there will be only 30 seats, ticket prices will be slightly higher, she said. Individual shows are $25 and available the night of the show; season tickets are $80 and on sale now. The shows will run for one weekend: 8 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 2:30 Sunday.
Both seasons (nine shows) will cost $140, a savings of $50 over individual purchases. Season tickets are available at the box office in the theater lobby, 6237 Grand Blvd., from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and 1 to 6 p.m. Fridays until May 27. Cash or check is preferred. A service charge will be added for credit card sales.
Richey Suncoast Theatre season
Sept. 6-16: Hands on a Hardbody, a musical based on a documentary about a contest in Longview, Texas, where contestants put their hands on a pickup truck and the last one to remove his or her hand wins the truck. The musical is about the lives and loves of the contestants.
Oct. 25-Nov. 4: Unnecessary Farce, a comedy/farce about a philandering mayor and the cops who try to videotape him during a tryst.
Jan. 17-27: The Fox on the Fairway, a comedy by Ken Ludwig (Leading Ladies, Moon Over Buffalo, Shakespeare in Hollywood) about the sports and sexual shenanigans during a golf tournament at a fancy country club.
March 7-17: Dogfight, a poignant musical set around the time of the war in Vietnam. The "dogfight" is a contest among soldiers on the night before they ship out to see who can bring the ugliest woman — the "dog" — to a late-night party. One soldier feels guilty about the cruelty of the game and seeks his date out after he returns from the war.
May 9-19, 2019: Sister Act, a musical based on the 1992 film, when the female witness to a gangland murder hides out in a convent with a lively group of nuns and becomes the director of a wildly successful choir there.
Black Box Theatre
Nov. 9-11: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a dramedy about a petty criminal who pretends to be insane so he can spend his jail time in the relative luxury of a mental institution, rather than on a work farm.
Feb. 1-3: Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, a comedy about a St. Pete Beach widow who hires a teacher from a local dance school to come to her apartment to teach her to dance.
May 31-June 2: Almost Maine, a comedy about love and romance under the Northern Lights in a remote town in Maine.
Aug. 2-4: Night Mother, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a young woman who vows to commit suicide, despite the pleadings of her mother.
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Comics - The Art of Dina M
Here are my comics… some of them are only one panel and some are several pages, because why limit yourself to just one length when it comes to comics? Especially when they're on the web?
I've split the comics into four categories: The Chibi-Dina Chronicles (starring me!), Erotic Adventures in Faerie (comics centering around the Fae characters, most notably Lady Vidia and Sovanna), Chibi-Style Adventures (miscellaneous comics drawn in the chibi-style), and Regular Escapades (miscellaneous comics drawn in the regular style).
Not all of these comics are actually all that adult-rated… a few of them are even directly tame. But I decided to slap an 18+ on this section anyway, because the overall tone and feel of the comics is just slightly less than family-friendly. Most of them have a hypno-theme, a lot of them feature full-frontal nudity and sexy stuff, and some of them even get just a tiiiny bit explicit.
The Chibi-Dina
The Erotic Adventures
of Lady Vidia
Chibi-style
The Chibi-Dina Chronicles
These are the comics starring me… or at least the cuter, fictionalized version of me whom I've named "Chibi-Dina." A couple of these comics are loosely (VERY loosely) based on real events, but most are pure fantasy.
Don't be fooled by the deceptively cute style; these comics contain nudity, sexual situations and quite a bit of hypnofetishy stuff. As Chibi-Dina, I tend to end up hypnotized and naked a number of times… as do the people around me…
The first Chibi-Dina comic!
An exploration of "hypnotized" looks.
Semi-sequel to Chibi-Dina's Hypno-Presentation-
I did the Solaris meme and turned it into a musical.
Based on a somewhat surreal and very erotic dream I had.
Various one- and two-panel comics featuring Chibi-Dina.
CHIBI- DINA'S NEW OUTFIT
Time for an updated look...
CHIBI-DINA'S HYPNOWEEN
It's a Halloween special, with games, hypno and Chibi-Dina!
More one- and two-panel comics with Chibi-Dina!
CHIBI-DINA'S SLEEPY TIME
Chlorofom or ether, that's the question?
Sometimes you just need a break...
CHIBI-DINA'S HYPNOWEEN II
Another hypno-themed Halloween special!
KNIGHTS OF THE DINA TABLE
Tabletop roleplaying gets a little out of hand.
Erotic Adventures in Faerie
Faerie is a land of hedonism and pleasure, but also of great dangers and big retributions. People who only view fairies as the cute little winged girls with the flower fixation really have a culture shock waiting for them… the Fae are an ancient, proud and often untrustworthy people. Not necessarily evil, but their morality is not morality such as we humans know it.
Lady Vidia of the Spring Court is one of the kinder and more understanding Fae, and her two daughters Jenny and Sovanna are downright sweet-natured… but that doesn't mean they don't occasionally decide it's fun to toy a little with unsuspecting mortals. In these comics, drawn in both the regular style and the chibi-style, we follow these three on their various adventures… sometimes meta, sometimes silly, and often erotic… and disturbingly often discussing or parodying classic Disney characters and tropes…
An introduction comic to Lady Vidia, her daughters, and her hypnotic powers...
One- and two-panel comics featuring Lady Vidia and various hypno-victims.
KAA'S COMPLAINT
A parody of your classic "Kaa hypno-comic," featuring Chibi-Sovanna and twilight the catgirl.
SOVANNA'S LECTURE
Chibi-Sovanna talks about Disney characters.
Sovanna has a few tips for Jenny,,,
LADY VIDIA'S DISNEY CAVALCADE
Lady Vidia takes inspiration from Disney movies...
Chibi-Style Adventures
My chibi-style is quicker and easier than my regular style, and so it's easier to use it for comics. Here is a gathering of chibi-style comics; some longer and some shorter, some with sex and/or nudity, some completely innocent.
The only thing these comics have in common is that none of them feature Chibi-Dina.
It's not REALLY fan art of Scandinavia and the World, but I can see how you might think so.
Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning.
I OBEY... I OBEY THE MESMERIZER
Selling hypno-devices for fun and profit.
Comics and stories from SevenStars Incorporated. (A few of these are in the regular style and not the chibi-style)
A wordless, one-page comic about... well, love and hypnosis. In a bathroom.
Six panel comic commission with four friends playing... well, hypno-games.
Regular Escacades
Same deal as the Chibi-Style Adventures, really (mostly standalone comics) but the comics here tend to be more detailed and complex… not only in drawing style, but in story and structure too. I mean, the regular style takes more time and effort to draw than the chibi-style, and yet the longest and plottiest comics I do tend to be regular style comics. I suppose a slightly more complex style lends itself to slightly more complex ideas?
Oh, and there's definitely more explicit sex here than in the chibi-style comics. Cause there's still a lot of erotic mind control.
One-page fan comic for the movie Hocus Pocus, minus dialogue but plus hypno and oral sex.
Entering the Temple of Solaris can change a person!
In a different world where punishments for minor crimes are... a little harsher...
HYPNOTIC RADIOWAVES
The longest comic I've made so far; thirteen pages and set in an alternate history.
One page, six panels, and for once no nudity or sex.
One-panel and two-panel comics. often with a hypno-twist.
Adaptation of a scene from a story by Madcap.
Remember Jem and the Holograms? The Misfits wish you wouldn't.
LYNESSA'S HYPNOTIC EXPERIENCES
Shapeshifting dragons aren't immune to mind control.
Not all ad campaigns make 100% sense.


Updated: Tuesday January 14, 2014/AthThulatha Rabi' Awwal 13, 1435/Mangalavara Pausa 24, 1935, at 09:18:21 AM
The Allopathic System (Prevention of Misuse) Ordinance, 1962
ORDINANCE LXV OF 1962
An Ordinance to prevent the misuse of the allopathic system of medicine and to provide for matters connected therewith
[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, 7th June 1962]
Whereas it is expedient to prevent the misuse of the allopathic system of medicine and to provide for matters connected therewith;
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the Proclamation of the seventh day of October, 1958, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the President is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:---
1.Short title, extent and commencement.-(1) This Ordinance may be called the Allopathic System (Prevention of Misuse) Ordinance, 1962.
(2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definition.-In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, "registered medical practitioner" means a person registered under the Medical Council's Ordinance, 1962 (XXXII of 1962).
3. Prohibition of the use of the word "doctor" and its variations, etc.-No person practising the allopathic, homoeopathic, ayurvedic, unani or any other system of medicine shall use with his name or address or with the name or address of his business the word "doctor" or any of its grammatical variations, cognate expressions or abbreviations so as to give out that he is entitled to practise medicine unless he is a registered medical practitioner,---
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person on whom a Doctor's degree other than medical degree has been conferred by any university in or outside Pakistan.
4. Prohibition of the use of medical degrees or diplomas.-No person shall use a medical degree or a medical diploma to give out that he is a qualified medical practitioner or for any purpose connected with medical practice, unless such degree or diploma has been conferred or awarded by a university or institution in or outside Pakistan recognized under the Medical Council's Ordinance, 1962 (XXXII of 1962).
5. Prohibition of performing surgical operations by unqualified persons---.No person other than a registered medical practitioner shall perform any surgical operation other than circumcision, incision of boils and administration of injections.
6. Prohibition for prescribing certain drugs.-No person other than a registered medical practitioner or a person authorized in this behalf by the Government shall prescribe any antibiotic or dangerous drug specified in the rules made under this Ordinance.
7. Restriction on the sale of patent and proprietary medicines.-No person shall sell in the market any patent or proprietary medicine of the unani, ayurvedic, homoeopathic or biochemic system of medicine, unless there is displayed, in a conspicuous and readily intelligible manner, on the label or container thereof and also on the outer cover of the container (other than ordinary wrapper), the true formula of the medicine contained in it.
8. Rule-making powers of the Central Government.-The Central Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
9. Penalty.-Whoever contravenes the provisions of section 3 or section 4 or section 5 or section 6 or section 7 shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year or with fine not exceeding two thousand rupees, or with both.
10. Jurisdiction.-(1) No prosecution shall be instituted under this Ordinance except by an Inspector appointed under the Drugs Act, 1940 (XXIII of 1940), or by a person specially empowered by the Central Government in this behalf.
(2) No Court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the first class shall try an offence punishable under this Ordinance, and notwithstanding anything contained in section 32 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to pass any sentence of fine to the extent provided for by this Ordinance in excess of his powers under the said section 32.
11. Protection.-No suit or proceeding shall lie against any Inspector or person acting in good faith under section 10 of this Ordinance.
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NHC increases chance of formation to 50 percent for tropical wave
The National Hurricane Center has begun monitoring a tropical wave off the coast of Africa. It's moving westward and could develop into a tropical depression within the next 5 days.
A tropical wave off the coast of Africa now has a 50 percent chance of formation through the next five days, the National Hurricane Center said in an update.The center began monitoring the tropical wave, which is moving west-northwest at about 10 to 15 mph, a few hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands.The disturbance initially had a 30 percent chance of formation through the next five days, but the forecast was updated Monday afternoon.Forecasters said it has a 50 percent chance over the next five days, and a 40 percent chance through the next 48 hours.The tropical wave is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms, the center said. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development over the next few days before conditions become less favorable later this week.Link: Download Hurricane Central appWDSU meteorologist Kweilyn Murphy said the disturbance will move toward the eastern and central tropical Atlantic Ocean this week. She said some of the factors that might slow down development include high pressure over the Atlantic and dry air.Updates are expected this week.Stay with WDSU.com for more information.Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here.Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!
A tropical wave off the coast of Africa now has a 50 percent chance of formation through the next five days, the National Hurricane Center said in an update.
The center began monitoring the tropical wave, which is moving west-northwest at about 10 to 15 mph, a few hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands.
The disturbance initially had a 30 percent chance of formation through the next five days, but the forecast was updated Monday afternoon.
Forecasters said it has a 50 percent chance over the next five days, and a 40 percent chance through the next 48 hours.
The tropical wave is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms, the center said. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development over the next few days before conditions become less favorable later this week.
Link: Download Hurricane Central app
WDSU meteorologist Kweilyn Murphy said the disturbance will move toward the eastern and central tropical Atlantic Ocean this week. She said some of the factors that might slow down development include high pressure over the Atlantic and dry air.
Updates are expected this week.
Stay with WDSU.com for more information.
Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here.