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Annie Get Your Gun was performed at Round Hill School in Beeston between Monday 22nd October and Saturday 27th October 2007.
With music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and the book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, this amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd. Our performance of this show is kindly sponsored by Sponsored by Holtom Consulting Ltd.
The 1999 Broadway Revival version of the classic Annie Get Your Gun will be our show for 2007 – celebrating 40 years since the society's conception.
The Story of Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun concerns the spectacular career of sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her romance with Frank Butler, whom she ousts as the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. When they first meet, Butler finds his position as Champion challenged by this young backwoods girl whose shooting prowess is incredible. In a contest with Butler conceived as a publicity stunt for his act, Annie turns the tables on the star: she beats him and at the same time falls hopelessly in love with him. In order to be near him, Annie accepts a job as Frank's assistant in the Wild West Show. Frank recognizes her talent and, in short, gives her a small spot in the show of her own.The performance of the entire group was outstanding. The set and props were superb too. Well done to all involved.Meanwhile, Buffalo Bill has discovered that his show is going broke because of competition from Pawnee Bill's vastly popular Far East show. To bolster the show and recoup his losses, Buffalo Bill and his manager Charlie Davenport persuade Annie to do a sensational act which overshadows that of her partner and beloved. Frank leaves the show in a fury, and joins rival Pawnee Bill as his star attraction.
Annie is heartbroken but Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux Warrior, tries to console her by adopting her as his daughter and putting up the money to enable the show to continue. The European tour that follows results in a personal triumph for Annie, who returns to the United States with many valuable medals. The show, however, is in financial trouble and when Pawnee Bill invites Buffalo Bill's troupe to a reception welcoming them home, they gladly accept and plan to suggest a merger of the two shows when they meet at the party. Pawnee Bill's show is playing Madison Square Garden with apparent success, but actually he owes money and he too is anxious to combine the two shows.
When Annie and Frank meet again, they declare their love for each other and Frank presents Annie with his medals inscribed "to the sharpshooter of the world!" Annie cannot accept his superiority, and challenges him to a shooting match to decide the title once and for all, pitting her valuable medals against his modest three.
Sitting Bull and Charlie are determined to make her lose the match and thus win Frank. They twist the sights on her guns and she misses each shot. Eventually Annie becomes aware of their scheme and, taking the first step towards reconciliation, concedes the match to him. Frank, realizing that Annie has thrown the match, swallows his own pride and offers Annie a partnership, with her as the star. Frank donates his "victory prize", the medals, to the two Bills to financially start off the combined shows. Annie is happy at last having finally discovered that you can get a man with a gun!
Act 1
Musical Numbers
There's No Business Like Show Business (Frank and Company)
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly (Annie, Kids and Foster Wilson)
The Girl That I Marry (Frank and Annie)
You Can't Get a Man With a Gun (Annie)
There's No Business Like Show Business – reprise (Frank, Buffalo Bill, Charlie and Annie)
I'll Share It All With You (Tommy, Winnie and Company)
Moonshine Lullaby (Annie, Kids and Ensemble Trio)
There's No Business Like Show Business – reprise (Annie)
They Say It's Wonderful (Annie and Frank)
My Defences Are Down (Frank and Young Men)
Finale Act I: You Can't Get a Man With a Gun – reprise (Annie)
Act 2
Musical Numbers
Entr'acte: The European Tour (Annie and Company)
Lost in His Arms (Annie)
Who Do You Love, I Hope (Tommy, Winnie and Company)
I Got the Sun in the Morning (Annie and Company)
An Old Fashioned Wedding (Annie and Frank)
The Girl That I Marry – reprise (Frank)
Anything You Can Do (Annie and Frank)
They Say It's Wonderful – reprise (Annie, Frank and Company)
Finale Ultimo (Company)
The Cast & Crew
The Cast
Frank Butler – Paul Mills
Sleeping Car Porter – Andrew Harrison
Pawnee Bill – John Bush
Queen Victoria – Roma Drinkwater
Tsar Of Russia – Les Davies
King Of Italy – Mick Green
President Of France – Dan Bates
Messenger – Andrew Harrison
Band Leader – Andrew Harrison
Sylvia Potter-Porter – Emma James
Mrs Schyler-Adams – Stephanie Gray-Blest
1st Lady – Cheryl Mills
2nd Lady – Jane Cottee
3rd Lady – Sarah Stockley
4th Lady – Philippa Dean
Dining Car Waiter – Andrew Harrison
Eagle Feather – Cheryl Camm
Buffalo Bill – Martin Holtom
Dolly Tate – Mina Machin
Tommy Keeler – Jouni Soininen
Winnie Tate – Catherine Furber
Charlie Davenport – Jeremy Whiteman
Foster Wilson – Dan Bates
Mac, The Prop Man – David Artiss
Chief Sitting Bull – Louis Ogando
Annie Oakley – Lisa Mills
Jessie Oakley – Philippa Clarke & Becky Nash
Nellie Oakley – Rachel Maddison & Emily Gent
Little Em Oakley – Emily Corner
Little Jake Oakley – Thomas Hough
Running Deer – Lisa Green-Smith
Russian Girl – Jane Cottee
The Chorus
Andrew Harrison, Cheryl Camm, Cheryl Mills, Claire Baker,
Dorothy Woodall, Emma James, Jane Cottee, Jennie Artiss,
Les Davies, Linda Howard, Lisa Green-Smith, Mick Green,
Mollie Harwood, Philippa Dean, Rachel Pinhorn,
Roma Drinkwater, Ruth Maddison, Sarah Stockley,
Stephanie Gray-Blest
Ballroom Dancers
Cheryl Mills, Dan Bates, Jane Cottee, Mick Green, Philippa Dean,
Sarah Stockley
Can-Can Girls
Cheryl Mills, Emma James
Cowboy Dancers (My Defences Are Down)
Cheryl Mills, Dan Bates, Jane Cottee, Les Davies, Linda Howard,
Mick Green, Rachel Pinhorn, Ruth Maddison, Sarah Stockley
Native American Dancers (Native American Transition)
Cheryl Camm, Lisa Green-Smith
Tarantella Girls
Claire Baker, Jennie Artiss
The Cowboy Trio (Moonshine Lullaby)
Dan Bates, Jeremy Whiteman, Martin Holtom
The Orchestra
Bass – John Gamble
Clarinet/Flute/Sax – Vicky Moore
Clarinet/Sax – Sharon Cardwell
Flute/Piccolo – Becky Smith
Horn – Lilla Stennett
Oboe/Flute – Alison Bailey
Percussion – Ben Marples
Piano – Chris Flint
Trombone – Nadine Leeder
Trumpet – Danny Ortiz, Phil Reckless
Violin – Donna Smith
The Production Team
Director – John Maddison
Lighting – Mike Beedham, Margaret Beedham
Props – Erica Coleman
Make-up – Anthea Hinchliffe
Wardrobe – Mina Machin, Violet Pegg
Programme – Catherine Furber
Poster Design – David Artiss
Child Protection Officer – Ruth Maddison
Publicity & Promotions – Catherine Furber
Sound – Jim Rolley-Parnell
Set Construction – David Hinchliffe, Mike Cottee
Musical Director – Gareth Jones
Music Consultant – Lisa Mills
Choreography – Linda Hardy
Choreographers Assistant – Victoria Palmer
Répétiteur – Weifeng Jiang
Production Manager – Stuart Veitch
Assistant Production Manager – David Artiss
Stage Manager – David Artiss
Stage Hand – David Hinchliff
Set Design – Celia Birch
Publicity & Promotions – Kristen Hager


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The Cure For a Crushing Breakup? A Ridiculously-Sized TV
My favorite part of college was always summer. Not just because I hated going to class (although I really hated going to class), but because the southern college town I lived in emptied out and slowed down, leaving the remaining residents to enjoy the local bars and apartment complex pools without much competition. The summer before my senior year, I was excited to spend my last pre-adult summer living alone for the first time—all my roommates in my suite-style dorm were moving back home until fall.
Then I met Ben.
Ben sucked, in that particular way that some men in their thirties suck that reads as charming to 21-year-old women they want to have sex with: He had consumed an extra decade of pop culture and had lots of opinions about it, to which he wanted a young woman to listen. I don't remember how we met, but it was probably at a bar. I was still young enough to feel flattered by the approval of a man so much older and who, at the time, seemed so smart.
Ben had a side gig as a writer, which is what I was hoping to turn myself into one day, and we went to lots of movies, probably so he could tell me about them afterward. I listened dutifully to his observations and advice about the world—mansplaining was not a part of the cultural vernacular just yet, and although he did most of the talking, I was naive enough to still feel special that a man his age wanted to tell me about art and music and life, as though he had judged me smart enough to understand.
Our fling started early in the summer and I quickly started fantasizing about he and I becoming more serious. But by July, Ben had moved on to a different girl of the same age—and I was crushed. I'd gotten used to seeing myself as I imagined he saw me: young but mature, charming, smart beyond my years, special. It never occurred to me that maybe he just liked easy targets, and that a college town full of very young women who'd prefer a slightly more adult alternative to their male classmates gave him plenty of options.
Frankly, I was surprised at how much the split smarted. I had been in multiple long-term relationships by that point, and had never been the type to catch feelings for a fling before properly sussing out the situation. I was also more than a little ashamed for caring as much as I did, about someone who had apparently not cared for me. Our relationship felt like a trick that I had fallen for.
So, as a salve, I bought myself a mammoth new television set.
I know—it sounds nuts. But to my mind back then, this big purchase was the most sensible next step: I had worked after school at Best Buy for a couple years, and my proximity to status technology, combined with my predilection for solving problems by throwing money at them—even when I didn't have money, which I never did; even when the problem couldn't be solved with money, which it never could—meant I'd accumulated a medium-impressive assortment of gadgets and DVDs of movies.
If my feelings for Ben had been the only thing I lost my grip on that summer, I probably would have waited until I had saved up, or at least until I moved off campus to a bigger apartment in the fall. But the week after the breakup, I added injury to insult: I stepped in a hole and a dislocated my ankle, which required me to summon a different ex to take me to the hospital. It was summer, after all, and only a handful of the people I trusted enough to see me in a paper gown were even in town.
Because my retail job required me to stand, healing meant taking unpaid weeks off work. That meant I was not only newly single, but also homebound. I had no roommates to keep me company, nothing to do all day, and no paychecks padding my account. I became deeply depressed as quickly as the human mind can travel; I remember thinking to myself that I understood why someone might abuse their prescriptions. At least chemicals would take the edge off the loneliness that had quickly replaced all of my other thoughts and feelings.
Instead of filling a prescription for painkillers I didn't need—this was 2007, when doctors were giving out opioids like candy—my brain saw an opening to do something far less dangerous but still incredibly stupid, which was to buy that TV to keep me company while I couldn't work. And so, even though I couldn't really afford it, I slapped down my credit card.
In the living room of my dorm suite, on its tacky glass TV stand, my purchase took up a majority of the space and glowed during all hours of the day. If my new roommate was obnoxious, I didn't care: It was beautiful and bright and made the space around me less empty. Plus, that summer was the heyday of VH1 reality show gold: Rock of Love, Flavor of Love and Charm School. I watched for hours, lounging too close to the screen and recording everything on my TiVo, just in case I hit a dry patch in the cable lineup in the middle of the night.
The less time I spent thinking about people having fun without me or the man I was obsessed with who was dating someone new, the better. For weeks, I absorbed the petty squabbles of first-generation reality stars, personally investing myself in the genre's nascent folk heroes. Laid up and heartbroken in a town with only a fraction of its normal population, my giant new TV and the drama playing out within filled both the empty space around me and the endless, empty attention I wanted to be giving to people who weren't there.
Looking back, it seems like the TV served as an escape from more than just my heart and my ankle. Though I was excited to be nearly done with school, especially in that period before the 2008 financial collapse when things still looked promising for young people embarking on new careers—it's unsettling to wait for your life to change. The quotidian disappointments of being grown were starting to press in on me: romantic rejection, the fallibility of the human body, the uncertainty of where I'd be in a year. Everyone uses TV to escape. But usually there is guilt attached to the time spent on the couch, because it means we're not outside, living life. Young adulthood can feel like uncontrollable forward propulsion, and being forced to sit still for a little while was its own kind of gift. With nothing to do but sit and wait, I didn't have to feel bad about binging.
By summer's end, my ankle healed. So did my heart. My friends moved back, my depression lifted. Life went on. Years later, I gave the TV to my parents when I moved from Atlanta to a tiny shared apartment in New York; by then, I had learned some practical lessons about huge televisions in small spaces. When I finally got my first roommate-free Brooklyn apartment last year, though, I bought another giant TV. I have the space to accommodate it now, and you never what fate might be coming around the corner and can only be solved by hours upon hours of Vanderpump Rules.

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8 Life Lessons I Learnt From My Early 20s to My 40s
It feels like people in their 40s should be wise old sages with everything in life figured out. But here I was, in my late 30s, still with no idea what life was supposed to be.
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The people of Auckland are considering how their growing city will manage one of its most fundamental resources – water – so that they will have clean healthy waterways and secure supplies of drinking water into the future.
The community conversation is based on the 'Our Water Future' discussion document, prepared by Auckland Council, Watercare, Auckland Transport and Panuku Development with information and insights from Arup.
It outlines the current situation – that in both urban and rural areas, water quality has declined. Freshwater and marine environments are showing the stress of decades of pressure, and the city is increasingly dependent on the Waikato Region for its water supply.


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Rockstar Games called their shot last week and yeeeeehaw! Did they ever deliver!! This new trailer shows what the Wild West was all about. Cowboys, holdups, trains, and going to Miss Daisy. Oh, and alotta death. Give someone the wrong look? You dead. Thankfully we here at The PlayStation Brahs are much, much more forgiving. Eh. Who am I kidding? You ain't reading this. Watch the trailer.
Red Dead Redemption 2 will be here before you know it at some point in 2018.. hopefully.


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Secure America's Future Economy
For smaller, more focused, less costly government.
Letters to the Editor
Tea party folks have a serious purpose (Whipple)
07/29/2015 Filed in:
News Journal
Some observers see the presidential run of billionaire Donald Trump as bad for the Republican Party, but a recent column by Tina Dupuy offers a different theory: "Trump is not the cause of the GOP's problems – he's the symptom." Her premise is that the last Republican administration promised great things and fell on its face. Some Republicans became independents as a result, but diehards (notably the tea party) warmed to leaders who kept the false prophecies of the Bush years alive. Roll back regulations – cut taxes – fight reckless foreign wars – watch the economy soar. No wonder Donald Trump is outpolling all of the other Republican candidates.
Really? There were some problems during the preceding administration, no doubt of that, but the "blame it on Bush" mantra is growing stale. Anyone who thinks all the country's problems have been fixed in seven years by raising taxes, unleashing a tidal wave of new regulations, and prematurely pulling US forces out of Iraq hasn't been paying attention.
Also, while the writer concedes Trump's frontrunner status is not likely to last long, she overlooks the possibility that people are backing him in early polls because they recognize his name and think he's a hoot. Clever – brassy – not beholden to big money contributors. The tea party folks have a serious purpose, however, and most of them will wind up gravitating to candidates like Cruz, Jindal, Paul, Rubio and Walker.
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2021 Reunions Schedule
Friday, May 21
The Club will be open until midnight for Members and their accompanied guests. There will be no food service, but beer and soft drinks will be available.
A reception for the Women of Ivy will be held in the Lower Library from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Members of the Section of 1971 and their wives or guests are invited to a reception and luncheon in honor of their 50th reunion beginning at noon on Friday in the Club's Great Hall.
Saturday, May 22
Brunch for Members and their guests will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The cost is $15 per person; there is no charge for children under 10.
After the P-rade, food and beverages will be available from approximately 4 to 6 p.m. followed by music from 6 to 8 p.m. Beer and soft drinks will be available throughout the evening.
The Club will close at midnight.
Sunday, May 23
No events are scheduled at the Club.
It is expected that graduate members attending Club events will be in good standing with respect to graduate dues.


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Kant: A Biography
Cambridge University Press, 2001 M03 19
This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated part of Prussia living the life of a typical university professor. This has given rise to the view that Kant was a pure thinker with no life of his own, or at least none worth considering seriously. In this biography, Manfred Kuehn debunks that myth once and for all. Taking account of the most recent scholarship Professor Kuehn allows the reader (whether interested in philosophy, history, politics, German culture, or religion) to follow the same journey that Kant himself took in emerging as a central figure in modern philosophy.
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Cunningham Chances It
Merce Cunningham has been leading dance audiences into uncharted territory for the last fifty years, and the October performances at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) were no different. When Cunningham broke away from Martha Graham and began choreographing his own works, eventually forming a company in the 1950s, he created a more sparse movement vocabulary in which dancers seemed wholly unaware of each other; remote and self-contained. Gone was the narrative that defined most modern dance, and instead, the movement became the central focus. Of course, this was only one of many Cunningham innovations. But perhaps the most revolutionary of his experiments stems from the result of his artistic collaboration with the composer John Cage. The two began to separate music and dance, allowing dance to escape the necessity of music. Just as groundbreaking was Cunningham's application of chance operations to choreography. A toss of the coin or roll of the dice would determine the movement phrase, direction, or number of dancers. Fast forward through a lifetime and artistic career and Cunningham is still working out of these and other innovations.
So it was fitting that for Cunningham's 50th Anniversary Season, the harbinger of chance choreography brought the audience down another route— slyly hinted at in the highway route sign, projected onto an upstage screen, which read "50" and "Merce." But rather than applying chance to just the production of the movement, the theme of chance underscored the entire world premiere of the two-part Split Sides. In a pre-performance ritualized roll of the dice, the costumes, music, set decor, and lighting design were determined. Would Radiohead or Sigur Rós accompany Part A or Part B of the dance? Which lighting design and scenery would be chosen? Which costumes? These were questions that proved elusive to audience members, dancers, and even the choreographer himself. In short, only the dice knew. And thus, we embarked on a performance experience together, seeing where chance would lead.
For the performance I saw, Part A was accompanied by Radiohead's quirky score, filled with technological bleeps and blips and a streaming together of soundbytes. The dancers wore James Hall's neon-colored costumes over which a black web-like patterning ran. The set decor for Part A was eighteen-year old Robert Heishman's bright white and muted green backdrop in front of which a single orb hovered. All these disparate parts congealed to create what was a bold Part A of Split Sides. Cunningham's complicated movement— the jaunty, lightning-quick runs and foot-work, the careful posturing of the torso or the distinctive, attuned bend of an arm or leg— occupied each dancer as they appeared set on their own courses, falling into synch only as if by accident. Part B, set to Sigor Rós's more lyrical, expansive score, resulted in a wholly different aesthetic. Hall's black and white costumes, and Catherine Yaas's serene backdrop of bleeding swaths of pastels, helped to create the more stately mood through which the dancers traversed and patterned.
Also on the program was the New York premiere of Fluid Canvas— another work that displays Cunningham's innovative approach to dance through his embrace of technology. This moody, other-worldly piece, included motion-capture images of Cunningham's hand movements. These digital drawings created by Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar moved with a fluidity and dexterity akin to that of the dancers. And, here, watching Cunningham dancers is a little like walking into a shop full of mobiles. Like a series of mobiles, the dancer's bodies seem to hang from an invisible string from which all movement originates, proffering a different view with each turn of direction. Hall's sea blue and wine-dark purple costumes added a foreboding feel to the dancing.
Cunningham's work is challenging in that, as a kinesthetic experience, one may feel drawn to trying to add up, or make sense of, all the performance's disparate parts. But, as Fluid Canvas and Split Sides illustrate, it is in the disparity of all the performance elements that one can find a kind of beauty. In Split Sides, particularly, Cunningham's love of the fortuitous and divers is apparent. While watching the performance, we are engaged in one possibility, but there is a thrilling delight in knowing that it might never have been so, that if it were some other night, time, or roll of the dice, another possibility would have been the result. (In fact, mathematically, Split Sides has 32 possible renditions). But even more important to note is Cunningham's desire and enthusiasm for navigating new territory— a fact proven by his interest in, and willingness to work with, two experimental rock bands. Though Cunningham, at 84, may be in the twilight of his years, he continues to blaze new paths, dice in hand, ever-ready to roll.
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VANESSA MANKO was the former Dance Editor for the Brooklyn Rail.
Migratory patterns: Sasha Waltz's recent worksBy Ivan Talijancic
NOV 2018 | Dance
It is a brisk late-August day in Berlin and I am at the Radialsystem V, the former water purification plant flanking the banks of the river Spree, which the choreographer Sasha Waltz and her longtime collaborator and partner, the dramaturg Jochen Sandig, converted into a multipurpose art venue a decade or so ago. Though I have visited the space on numerous occasions in the past, the spacious lobby, as well as the expansive performance hall of Radialsystem, seems almost unrecognizable, having been stripped of the usual vestiges of a performance venue. I am here to see EXODOS, a new immersive dance-theater work by Waltz, and to speak with her about her company's upcoming US premiere of Kreatur, which lands at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in early November as part of the Next Wave Festival.
Michael Goldberg End to End: The 1950s & 2000sBy Alfred Mac Adam
MAR 2018 | ArtSeen
Thirty-three works, fifty-seven years of Michael Goldberg's long and rich artistic career. The alpha and the omega of his artistic life: nine paintings from the 1950s (1950-1959) and twenty-four from this century, from 2000 until 2007, the year of his death.
Music: A Subversive HistoryBy George Grella
NOV 2019 | Music
Songs about fucking and killingthat would have also been an appropriate subtitle for this scintillating new book from Ted Gioia. Hes already written three valuable books about the place of music in society and human experience, Healing Songs (2006), Works Songs (2006), and Love Songs: The Hidden history (2015). Music: A Subversive History builds on those by digging down into the fundamental nature of music, how it is made and how it affects us.
Tallinn Music WeekBy Martin Longley
OCT 2020 | Music
There was a pivotal juncture shortly before this years Tallinn Music Week when fortitude bloomed and the organizers threw themselves into realizing 2020s already postponed conference-cum-festivalthe Estonian government giving permission to operate at a reduced venue capacityacross the citys broad range of indoor and outdoor stages. Braving a steady domino-fall of cancellations by visiting international acts, as red-patches proliferated, TMW understandably placed the emphasis on indigenous artists, covering most styles, including rock, jazz, folk, hip hop, electronica, ambient, pop, and modern classical.


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'Riot will always be the best day of my life'
Bristol Riots 2011, against Tescos & eviction of Telepathic Heights squat
Civil Anarchism Zine: Dark Matter Publications
"Bored of the type of anarchism that seems to exist only as a boring routine of endless meetings and crap benefit gigs full of self-important tossers?
Sick of middleclass mummys boys pretending to be proles?
Fed up of being told what the 'class struggle' is and isn't?
We are too and so we put together this booklet about it."
August 2011 Revolt: Anarchy in the UK/Dark Matter Publications
"Since the Bristol Riots" Zine: Person(s) Unknown / Dark Matter Publications
325 #11 – Against the Post-Industrial Consumer Society and the Technological Singularity
Return Fire vol.4 – Autumn 2016
Bang-up & Smash: Women's Prisons, Bail Hostels & Probation
Close Supervision Centres – Torture Units in the UK: ABC Bristol
Elephant Editions
'Rain & Fire' – Statement from a UK FAI sector
How To Make Molotovs
How to Burn Cars
Setting Fires With Electrical Timers- An Earth Liberation Front Guide
Anarchist Guide to Flyposting
Anarchists in Berlin fuck up CCTV
Wild youth get some vengeance against CCTV
Act For Freedom Now!
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Bristol: Vandalism of various prison workers property by Eco-anarchist vandals – FAI/IRF
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Traveling can be such an exhausting experience. So exhaustive that sometimes when we return home, we are glad to get back to normal life. But leading up to a trip can be fun and exciting, filled with a little anticipation and a whole lot of preparation. Here are some things to consider when you are planning on taking your next trip.
A useful tip for travelers is to make certain to have sufficient health insurance in place to cover medical expenses in case of injury or illness while abroad. It is often the case that domestic health insurance policies do not provide extensive coverage for treatment and hospitalization in foreign countries. Therefore, it is important to procure such coverage for the entire duration of your trip.
If you are staying at a hostel or camping while traveling, you may want to scout out other locations to use the restroom. Bathroom facilities at may hostels may be unclean to the point of disgusting, while the bathroom at the fast food joint down the street at least has to maintain a minimum level of sanitation.
If you are traveling with a companion but you do not normally share funds, consider having a joint wallet, for expenses like meals, travel and lodging. You and your companion can add the same amount of money to the joint wallet each day. This way, you aren't constantly splitting bills or exchanging money.
If vacationing in an area you've never visited before, try to find a local to give you some information about the area. Major tourist attractions are always well marked and you'll have no problem finding them, but learning about some local favorites can make your trip much more memorable and personalized.
Taking time to travel to new areas while on the way to an intended travel destination can help one find new places to stay at for the next time they want to take a trip. Side trips can often yield new and exciting places for one to explore either on their trip or to book a separate trip to experience fully.
If you're planning an expensive vacation or trip, you might want to consider purchasing travel insurance. If an emergency comes up or you or your travel companion fall ill, you don't want to be stuck, begging the airline or cruise company to refund your money. If you have good travel insurance, you don't have to worry about spending your hard-earned vacation money, laying around at home with the flu.
To save money on your vacation, don't be afraid of last-minute bookings. When airlines or cruise companies still have tickets available a few days before the departure date, they lower prices because they are desperate to sell. With a last-minute booking, you can take the vacation of your dreams at rock-bottom prices.
If you put these tips into place, you can avoid so many of the frustrations, anxieties, and sleepless nights that come along with planning a trip. Rest assured that you will be ready and prepared come departure day. There is no need to spend so much time worrying.


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Critical data on water quality kept from the public
THE State Opposition is considering whether to formally accuse Queensland Environment Minister Andrew Powell of misleading Parliament, after he described his department as "completely transparent" on water released from coal mines.
On July 19, under questioning from Opposition environment spokeswoman Jackie Trad during Budget Estimates, Mr Powell defended his handling of mine water discharges in Central Queensland saying all necessary information for councils, residents and industry was available on government websites.
"We are completely and utterly transparent and any suggestion we are not is false and misleading," he said.
APN has since learned critical data on water quality was kept from the public, labelled "commercial-in-confidence", a justification questioned by the Opposition and water experts.
The government's record on water was tarnished earlier this year when APN found it failed to advise Banana Shire Council that 500 million litres of mine run-off were released upstream of Biloela's drinking supply.
The state publishes some mine water data online at Fitzroyriver.qld.gov.au, but does not include "electrical conductivity" - the amount of salt in the liquid.
When asked about the data, Minister Powell told APN the figures were not made public because they were "commercially sensitive".
For those treating the water, salinity levels give a clear indication of how suitable it is for human consumption or irrigation.
Arris Water director and CQ University researcher Ben Kele said it was "the most comprehensive measure you can get".
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Mr Kele said he could not see how releasing EC figures could have commercial implications.
Ms Trad said the government may have misled Parliament by saying it was being completely transparent, then revealing some data was kept from the public.
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Ms Trad said she would "weigh up" whether to seek clarification or write to Parliament Speaker Fiona Simpson of her concerns.
Mr Powell said his department was "far more open, transparent and accountable" than the former Labor Government.
He said the government was committed to releasing scientific data reflecting water quality of the receiving environment.


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PM Modi's night in meditation cave fuels rush, Kedarnath to open 4 more
The decision was taken by the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam as the popularity of the first meditation cave opened in Kedarnath soared after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent a night in it during his two-day visit to the shrine in May.india Updated: Jun 25, 2019, 11:58 IST
Four more caves for meditation are likely to be built in Kedarnath, with the second one to be functional from September, according to senior officials at the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN).
The decision was taken as the popularity of the first meditation cave opened in Kedarnath soared after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent a night in it during his two-day visit to the shrine in May.
"Bookings for the meditation cave in Kedarnath have been consistently full since the Prime Minister stayed there. There might be barely two-three days in between for which we do not have bookings," said BL Rana, general manger, GMVN.
Official records of the GMVN show that 20 people from across the country have stayed in the Rudra meditation cave till now. The current meditation cave can be booked for Rs 990 per day and includes facilities like food, call bell, telephone, drinking water and a washroom. The cave also has power supply.
"After we received such a great response from people, we decided to work on opening more caves in the area with similar facilities. We will start the construction work soon. There is a potential of opening up to five caves in that region, so we are trying to make as many as possible. The demand from people to stay in these caves is quite high so we are trying to open the second meditation cave by September," added Rana.
Iva Ashish Srivastava, managing director of GMVN said, "The operation work of the meditation caves is handled by GMVN. There are potential sites where more such meditation caves can be built and the inspection of the spots has also been done."
A record number of over 7,35,032 pilgrims (till June 22) visited Kedarnath shrine in less than two months since the opening of its portals on May 9. This is the maximum number of pilgrims that the shrine has welcomed since the 2013 Kedarnath flash floods. In 2018, 7,31,991 pilgrims had visited the shrine over a span of six months. The footfall has increased despite extreme weather conditions.
Last year, Badrinath had over 10,48,051 pilgrims visiting the shrine in six months. This year, the number has already reached over 7,34,108.


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This Janus v AFSCME ruling is a huge blow to workers everywhere. It's funny that the Republican Party doesn't like judicial activism unless it benefits their interests. Just like the GOP, this current Supreme Court is a shill for corporate America. With the pending retirement of (centrist) Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, it is only going to get worse.
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AFTER being produced and awarded around Australia, The Salt Maiden, the haunting retelling of an ancient story of love between a mermaid and human, returns to the island it began on – the Redlands' own Coochiemudlo Island – this time as a film.
Written by playwright Donna Cameron, of Wellington Point, the play was performed in Brisbane in 2002, Perth in 2005 and Sydney earlier this year.
It also won the 2002 Glen Eira Literacy Award, Victoria, for a short play published in that year.
Following the successful Sydney season, director Beverley Callow returned home to Queensland, where she visited Coochiemudlo Island and decided to film the story on the island it was set on, and where Donna lived while writing it.
The play tells the story of Rana, a mysterious young woman who moves to an island to help conquer her fear of drowning. The island's ferryman falls in love with her and, as Rana rides the ferries, the characters are pulled closer together until memory, myth, past and present merge shockingly into one.
Beverley said she received a Regional Arts Development fund grant to hold a creative workshop on the island with Donna, herself, actors Aaron Davison, Sandra Campbell and SBS East West 101's Renee Lim, AFI award-winning director of photography Randall Wood, and world renowned composer and original instrument inventor Colin Offord, of Macleay Island, which will be held next week.
Actors will perform script reading for members of the public, free of charge, at the Coochiemudlo Community Hall at 2pm on Friday, 22nd July.
Read more. Go to the original article: http://www.baysidebulletin.com.au/news/local/news/general/salt-maiden-filming-comes-to-coochie/2229950.aspx


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Well here we are…. 2 months have passed since Avery was born and only days since Levi was born. They are both healthy, strong and growing so quickly. Avery is already communicating to us and Levi already has big beautiful smiles he shares with us. We are so blessed with all 6 of our grand-kids and look forward to making memories with each of them. Yesterday I spent the entire day outside with Ezra and Thea. It was so nice out and Ezra loves it outside in the dirt. This weekend I look forward to Miley and Jayden spending time with us too.
Life is so short here on earth and I intend to make an impression with these children that God has so blessed us with. Six very different personalities and I love them all so dearly. Breaks my heart when they hurt, brings great joy when they excel in learning and when they get so excited about an accomplishment they have achieved. So much FUN!
My constant prayer for my kids and all the kids of this world is that they all come to know Jesus and the love He has for each of us. Even though sometimes things don't come out the way we think they should, God knows best and will ALWAYS be there for us. Trust in the Living God and He will protect. Proverbs 3:5 KJV says, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Romans 8:28 KJV says, And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - The price for calves is down this week compared to recent weeks.
According to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Center in Overton, most of the market is down compared to recent weeks.
The average price for steer, between five and six-hundred pounds, ended at about $160 for November.
That's down $5 from the month before. Heavier feeder steer, that weigh more than 7 hundred pounds, dropped $12 compared to last year's numbers.
Prices are getting pushed up due to more calves and feeders hitting the market and some higher feed prices.


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Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to public health and infectious diseases.
Born in Zambia in 1955, Sir Alimuddin is known for his subtantial contribution to field of infectious diseases. While working as a junior doctor in London in 1982 he developed crippling meningitis.
But despite the poor prognosis, Sir Alimuddin recovered and went on to make unique and very significant contributions to the fields of TB, TB/HIV co-infection and infectious diseases with epidemic potential. His work has focused on improving the lives and health of poor disadvantaged populations globally.
Sir Alimuddin said: "I am absolutely delighted to be accorded this wonderful honour. It is a great privilege to be on the same list as exceptional people who have distinguished themselves, serving humanity in different ways with great commitment and impact."
"I would like to share this honour with the numerous selfless and committed people across the world, with whom I work on a range of academic, capacity development, advocacy andcharity activities on poverty-related diseases. I am blessed with a very supportive family, excellent research teams and awesome talented friends who have shown 'unity of purpose' for improving the lives and health of disadvantaged populations worldwide."
Sports medicine consultant Mike Loosemore was awarded an MBE for services to sports medicine.
He is lead consultant in sport and exercise medicine at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, where he treats patients with musculoskeletal and sports injuries and is also working to promote exercise as a preventative intervention and treatment in many medical conditions.
He is also known for his work as a physician for elite athletes from a wide range of sports, and currently supports the GB Boxing and British Snow Sports 'Park and Pipe' teams. Earlier this year he was announced as Team GB's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Winter Olympics Games in PyeongChang next year.
Dr Loosemore said: "I am delighted to receive this award, it is a real honour to be recognised in this way and I hope it helps to highlight the speciality of sports medicine and the importance of research to support our sportsmen and women."
Professor Nigel Hunt was awarded an OBE for services to dentistry and to the specialty of orthodontics.
He has been a consultant orthodontist at the Eastman Dental Hospital since 1984 and chairman of the Division of Craniofacial and Developmental Sciences at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute since 1998.
Professor Hunt is best known for his tireless lobbying to get the government, other dentists and the public to acknowledge the appalling state of children's oral health in England. His sub-specialty interest is in the management of children and adults with dentofacial deformity including those with musculoskeletal disorders, taking referrals from all over the UK.
Until recently, he ran one of Europe's largest orthodontic specialist training programmes at the Eastman, before being elected first chairman, then president of the British Orthodontic Society where he was largely responsible for the revision of the national training curriculum for orthodontists.
UCLH chief executive Marcel Levi said he was very glad to learn that the contribution of UCLH staff had been recognised. "I am sure that everyone at UCLH will join me in congratulating Sir Alimuddin, Dr Loosemore and Professor Hunt for their truly well-deserved awards."
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The last session was a presentation given by Dr. Poomporn Thamsatitdej, Director at Mahidol University Business Incubator. Dr. Poomporn shared his experience with Thai organizations in the past decade, where an assessment was made on several ICT projects in Thailand, "Taking the data information gathered, we categorized these organizations into three phrases. The early phase, organizations are more fragmented. In the second phase, we started to see more engagement between businesses and the technical side. This is where we began to see Chief Data Officers, Chief Technology Officers, etc. Yet whether or not these chiefs could actually achieve their goals remain the unanswered question. The third phase is where we started to see the demand for integration. This is where companies are trying to integrate different parts of their organizations together, yet the people in those parts have different levels of digital literacy."
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In TMA's perspective, if we were to establish an understanding and share the knowledge on how ICT can be used to drive organizations, we should start by initiating five different types of projects. The first type of project is focused around the core process. However, the core process of each organization is different. Several years ago, when TMA started this initiative, the challenge was to establish an understanding of whether what they were planning to do serve the organizations' core process or structure. In the first couple of years, nobody participated in the Business Enabler Project. The most attractive projects were innovation projects. At that time, the perceived understanding of the word 'innovation' by organizations are essentially simply doing something new with perhaps minor differences. The fifth type of project were sustainable projects, which also did not pick up much momentum.
In the second phase, where organizations are more engaged, we started to see more interests in organization structure and design. We started to see organizations set up new departments and divisions. This is were we started to see how Thai organizations are struggling to manage the work flow between people due to the lack of openness and lack of upfront communications between different groups of people inside the same organization. Later, we started to see the usage of data and digital systems such as ERP to facilitate better work flows within the organization. And then in the last phase, we started to see the demand for integration. In this phase, we started to see the needs for data analytics and a more integrated data flow and integration.
Dr. Poomporn gave an example of an agricultural company utilizing data analytics, automation and IoT in their operation. With data analytics and data extraction tools, the company is able to extract real-time data of the global price mechanisms, and are able to extract data from farms using automation and IoT tools to generate forecast of crop yields and potential pricing schemes. Yet the major challenge of this company is that they are working with multiple types of modules, which makes it extremely difficult for them to integrate all of these modules together. Yet once integrated, the balance of power between the different modules are also challenged. Therefore, managing this balance of power on the management or leadership level is a challenging task, especially in the Thai Culture, where there is a lack of upfront communication to discuss the benefits and losses of each stakeholder. Dr. Poomporn believed that this cultural factor is one of the major hindrances for transformation progress among Thai organizations.
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On the side of the organization's maturity and project assessment, TMA made the assessment based on several criteria:
- Whether the project serve the main objective of the organization
- Whether you have the right project management mechanism to ensure the successful delivery of the project
- Whether you have the right team for transformation
- How well are you able to prepare the people in your organization to embrace change?
- How well could you handle risk management to mitigate the impact of the project?
- Outcome
- Evaluating whether the achieved outcome serve the initial objective
However recently, we began questioning whether these angles are sufficient to assess the successful delivery of digital transformation projects. This is because we do not have sufficient data on the strategic management and direction of organizations. We also do not focus much on assessing business partnerships.
On digital competency, although there has been many discussions around digital trends, many do not have a clear idea of how the technologies being discussed could actually be implemented to shape those trends. Customer experience and CRM data is also widely discussed, yet no companies placed much importance on decoding their customer journey. On data capturing strategies, many companies realize that capturing data is important, yet most do not know how to generate values to their customers based on these data. And the final discussion around digital competency is if we are to adopt these new technologies, how will this affect our current process designs.
The challenge here is not about digital technologies, but rather, it is about managing the organization, human resource management and human resource development. Yet, Dr. Poomporn shared that after further investigation into several Thai organizations, there is an evident lack of communication between these three departments or divisions in the organization. Therefore, it is important that to drive change or transformation, the head of the organization should be the one driving the initiative.
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TMA generally track an organization on their digital journey for 10 years. In recent years, TMA shifted their focus from ICT Excellence into Digital Transformation. This is because they observed changes in customer behaviors and the ecosystem. People are shifting towards accelerated digital adoption. Therefore, establishing a common understanding of the ecosystem is very essential to the progress of innovative development.
Lastly, on foresights. Many organizations are keen towards producing 10-20 years foresights or 20 Years Plans. The questions that are often raised are questions like, how would our customers' behaviors change with the introduction of a new technology, segregated into different customer segments? For example, the current interest is around the aging society or the elderly customer segment. The question is – how do we define aging society? At what age do we consider our customers to fall into the aging segment? While it is assumed that people aged 60 and above prefers offline shopping, some observed behavior is that a certain group is keen towards online shopping. Therefore, with foresights, companies should generate different scenarios, and then plan for those scenarios and then push towards action. These are the learnings that Dr. Poomporn wanted to share with the audience on behalf of TMA.
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WikiLeaks: GNZ aims to cool expectations for U.S. FTA
WikiLeaks cable: GNZ aims to cool expectations for U.S. FTA
March 24, 2006 GNZ aims to cool expectations for U.S. FTA
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(U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission David R. Burnett. Reasons: 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Summary: The New Zealand government is preparing the public for the likelihood it will not attain free trade negotiations with the United States any time soon. After six years of pressing its case for such a deal, the Labour-led government has turned its attention to agreements in Asia. The government can be expected to attempt to immunize itself against domestic political criticism that its failure to secure an FTA is the result of Labour,s icy relations with Washington. If pushed, Labour will likely trot out any and all rationales for why an FTA is not in the cards to deflect any accusations that it is at fault. End summary.
Into the future --------------- 2. (C) Trade Minister Goff in a March 15 statement implied that, although New Zealand still desired a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, it probably would not get one. Goff pointed to the U.S. &strategy of negotiating with larger economies8 and the limited time before Trade Promotion Authority expires. It is perhaps the first time that the government has shared with the public a realistic appraisal of its chance for FTA talks with Washington. An aide to Goff said the statement reflects the government,s recognition that it needs to lower the public,s expectations ) expectations that the government itself had fed until recently.
3. (C) An FTA with the United States had topped the Labour government,s foreign policy objectives since it came to power in 1999. But officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade have told post recently that they had accepted the fact that an FTA was not in the works.
Why New Zealand wants a deal ---------------------------- 4. (U) Studies predict that, under an FTA, New Zealand,s merchandise exports to the United States ) already New Zealand,s second-largest export market ) would increase 51 percent. The New Zealand government,s competitive envy at seeing Australia sign an FTA with the United States in May 2004 only fueled its desire for a similar pact. Its chief concern was that the U.S.-Australia FTA could draw down New Zealand exports to the United States, as well as draw off U.S. investment in New Zealand.
5. (C) New Zealand,s hopes for improved trade still ride on the success of the Doha Round. (The Uruguay Round pumped an estimated $6 billion into the New Zealand economy through additional export revenue and tariff savings.) But New Zealand is pursuing a &Plan B8 ) bilateral and regional trade agreements ) should the WTO talks fall apart. It has completed free trade deals with Australia, Singapore and Thailand. It has agreed to a four-way partnership with Brunei, Chile and Singapore, and it is negotiating FTAs with China, Malaysia and the ASEAN countries. New Zealand officials had hoped their pursuit of an FTA with China would stimulate U.S. concern and interest in starting talks with New Zealand on a trade deal (ref B).
6. (C) But the Labour government,s desire for an FTA with the United States is now less a matter of economics and more a matter of domestic politics. The lack of an FTA with the United States makes the New Zealand government politically vulnerable to accusations by opposition parties that it has weakened ties with both Australia and the United States. An FTA would show New Zealanders that Americans are not disaffected by the Labour-led government, which is aware that it &soiled the waters8 since President Bush took office, said an international lawyer and former trade negotiator. Ironically, reaching an FTA with China could call the public,s attention to the government,s failure to achieve a U.S. agreement, as well as raise questions on whether New Zealand's economy would become dangerously dependent on a much larger, undemocratic PRC.
7. (C) Over the last six years, the New Zealand government has diligently recruited allies to its quest for an FTA. It rounded up backing in Congress, with 65 members signing up as "Friends of New Zealand8 supporting free trade talks. (Goff's March 15 statement was in response to a letter written by Senators John McCain and John Sununu encouraging the President to launch FTA negotiations with New Zealand.) It lobbied for and won U.S. business endorsement, partly through the United States-New Zealand Council. John Wood, who recently ended his term as New Zealand ambassador to the United States, even made the FTA the defining goal that would mark his success in Washington (and misled his Prime Minister over the likely odds the United States would agree to negotiations). Many New Zealanders consider the government,s contribution of troops in Afghanistan and engineers in Iraq as part of the outreach aimed at bringing the United States into FTA negotiations.
But it has mixed feelings ------------------------- 8. (C) Insiders say that Prime Minister Clark has appeared sometimes testy in private, expressing exasperation over Washington,s failure to agree to FTA talks. The government is sensitive to being perceived as &begging8 and is aware that it has worn out its welcome with U.S. government officials on this issue, according to Goff,s aide.
9. (C) But there may be another reason for that testiness, said a trade economist who has advised the government on its trade policy. Lurking just under the surface is a "schizophrenia8 that comes from Clark,s innate discomfort with free trade and her preference, as a Labour idealist, for a government-interventionist approach to the economy.
10. (C) Moreover, PM Clark and others in her government worry about the concessions New Zealand might need to make to seal a free-trade deal. Among their concerns is a desire to preserve the government-run system for purchasing pharmaceuticals, according to the economist. Because of that desire, Heather Simpson ) the Prime Minister,s chief of staff, close confidante and a former health economist ) opposes the FTA talks. The New Zealand government would be hard-pressed to meet likely U.S. demands that it open the drug-purchasing system to greater competition and choice. That would be costly, and health care expenses already are the largest component of the New Zealand budget (ref A).
11. (C) The government also knows that U.S. dairy interests would defend their turf against New Zealand,s efficient competitors. New Zealand officials acknowledge that they stand to gain more from an FTA than the United States. With very few tariffs, the New Zealand market already is relatively open. Aside from increased access to the drug and telecommunications sectors and possibly a wider ban on parallel imports, the United States has little to gain.
The public,s response --------------------- 12. (C) The New Zealand public accepts as an article of faith that a deal would boost the New Zealand economy. However, after so much talk over so many years, many New Zealanders have become jaded to the prospect, a university business professor said. Most of the domestic pressure for a U.S. FTA comes from a small section of New Zealand business ) notably, the dairy cooperative Fonterra. Most of the country,s businesses are small and rely little on exports. In addition, both the horticulture and meat industries are more frightened by the concessions that New Zealand might make than attracted by the benefits they might reap, an industry leader said. Only a muted public response, if any, is expected to the government,s scuttled hopes for an FTA.
13. (C) And, even if there were political repercussions, the Labour government can always shift the blame to the United States, the international lawyer said. Goff in his March 15 statement said, &The decision to negotiate an FTA however rests with the US Administration.8 The Labour government can blame its anti-nuclear policy and its opposition to the war in Iraq as reasons why the United States will not engage in talks. Such explanations are likely to wash with New Zealand voters, many of whom hold strong anti-nuclear and anti-Iraq war views. (For this reason, EAP A/S Hill's public remarks that the United States will make its FTA decision on economic factors alone were well-timed and very useful.) In any event, the public largely holds the New Zealand government blameless for the lack of FTA negotiations, according to the lawyer. Labour's political opponents also need to tread carefully. The National Party is mindful that it may fare no better in securing an FTA should it win the 2008 election, a former diplomat said.
14. (SBU) However, if Australia reaps large gains from its FTA with the United States, public attitudes could change in New Zealand.
Comment ------- 15. (C) In the near term, New Zealand government officials will continue to press us in private meetings for an FTA, but in a more low-key way. They also will continue to publicly call for FTA negotiations with the United States while at the same time lowering the public,s expectations. Post believes we should stick with our current response, saying that the possibility of negotiations is not foreclosed. Keeping the option open gives us flexibility should circumstances change and make an FTA in our interest ) and deniability should the New Zealand government pin the blame on the United States. McCormick