Me leaving the UNITE flat has become a newsitem ;o)
Click to enlarge: Yes, that's right. It is me in the middle!
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Dirty Students
Edinburgh Evening News, Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Me leaving the UNITE flat has become a newsitem ;o)
Click to enlarge: Yes, that's right. It is me in the middle!
Me leaving the UNITE flat has become a newsitem ;o)
Click to enlarge: Yes, that's right. It is me in the middle!
Monday, September 04, 2006
On the move
With a new year of studying ahead, I have decided to change rooms and move to a bigger flat. I share the flat with Chris, my fellow Edinburgh Movie Production Society (EMPS) board member. That allows us to have meetings... in the kitchen ;o)
Kitchen of my new flat
And here is the wonderful and sunny side of my room, including Dutch wooden shoes (clogs) that were a present from my two brothers, the Brave Hearts.
Willem's Room
We have to climb all the way to the fourth floor of Buccleuch Terrace, so after a climb or five with my cardboard boxes next is the shower..
Shower
And if nobody is answering our phone... we might well be occupied
Occupied
For mail, send us a postcard at 1/9 Buccleuch Terrace, EH8 9NB Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
From our flat we have a wonderful view of last nights Edinburgh International Festival Fireworks
Booommm....poooooof....wow!
Quoted from The Scotsman (see http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com):
The Firework Concert has been a regular fixture of the Edinburgh International Festival since 1981, establishing itself as a Festival favourite quicker and more definitely than possibly any other event.
There is no surprise as to the enduring popularity of the concert: Edinburgh's city centre lends itself peculiarly well to the pyrotechnic display. In fact, if you were going to design a city specifically for the purpose of a huge firework display, would it be possible to do much better than the incredible Castle skyline rising out of a natural, bowl-shaped amphitheatre?
The formula has changed a little over the years, but the simple, original concept has proven a winner - a classical music performance punctuated by the cracks and starbursts of fireworks overhead. In more recent years, the date of the concert has been shifted back, so that it now falls on the very last evening of the International Festival, providing a fitting end to the entire summer festivals calendar.
This year the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert takes place on Sunday September 3 at 9pm, with Garry Walker conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra performing excerpts from Provokiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo & Juliet, courtesy http://www.brb.org.uk
The logistics of the firework display always impress: it takes a team of people - 15 this year - several days to set up well over 150 firing sequences with up to 200 fireworks in each sequence, amounting to over 100,000 fireworks in total. When it goes off on Sunday night - the entire batch in 45 minutes - some four-and-a-half tonnes of explosive power create the biggest annual event of its kind in Europe.
Once more, fireworks artists Wilf Scott and Keith Webb are in charge of putting the display together, while competition winner Samantha Mackenzie, age 8 from Dunfermline, will press the button that launches the display.
Kitchen of my new flat
And here is the wonderful and sunny side of my room, including Dutch wooden shoes (clogs) that were a present from my two brothers, the Brave Hearts.
Willem's Room
We have to climb all the way to the fourth floor of Buccleuch Terrace, so after a climb or five with my cardboard boxes next is the shower..
Shower
And if nobody is answering our phone... we might well be occupied
Occupied
For mail, send us a postcard at 1/9 Buccleuch Terrace, EH8 9NB Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
From our flat we have a wonderful view of last nights Edinburgh International Festival Fireworks
Booommm....poooooof....wow!
Quoted from The Scotsman (see http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com):
The Firework Concert has been a regular fixture of the Edinburgh International Festival since 1981, establishing itself as a Festival favourite quicker and more definitely than possibly any other event.
There is no surprise as to the enduring popularity of the concert: Edinburgh's city centre lends itself peculiarly well to the pyrotechnic display. In fact, if you were going to design a city specifically for the purpose of a huge firework display, would it be possible to do much better than the incredible Castle skyline rising out of a natural, bowl-shaped amphitheatre?
The formula has changed a little over the years, but the simple, original concept has proven a winner - a classical music performance punctuated by the cracks and starbursts of fireworks overhead. In more recent years, the date of the concert has been shifted back, so that it now falls on the very last evening of the International Festival, providing a fitting end to the entire summer festivals calendar.
This year the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert takes place on Sunday September 3 at 9pm, with Garry Walker conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra performing excerpts from Provokiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo & Juliet, courtesy http://www.brb.org.uk
The logistics of the firework display always impress: it takes a team of people - 15 this year - several days to set up well over 150 firing sequences with up to 200 fireworks in each sequence, amounting to over 100,000 fireworks in total. When it goes off on Sunday night - the entire batch in 45 minutes - some four-and-a-half tonnes of explosive power create the biggest annual event of its kind in Europe.
Once more, fireworks artists Wilf Scott and Keith Webb are in charge of putting the display together, while competition winner Samantha Mackenzie, age 8 from Dunfermline, will press the button that launches the display.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Death in the Bay: The Cocklepickers' Story
My Tapestry Lecturer Loren Slater's film 'Death in the Bay: The Cocklepickers' Story' is being screened this week on Channel 4. It's part of the 'Otherside' late night series at 12.45am on Thursday 31st August.
Project Manager Loren Slater (right)
It's been pick of the day in a lot of the weekend papers.
Click to enlarge: News item on Death in the Bay
For details visit Shoreline Films
Still from the film
Synopsis:
Death in the Bay is an hour-long documentary investigating the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay and how the aftermath affected the communities surrounding it.
24 March 2006
The Crown Prosecution Service says today's convictions of three people in connection with the drowning of 21 cockle pickers at Morecambe Bay in 2004 is a signal of intent towards employers who risk their employees' lives.
Lancashire Crown Prosecution Service reviewing lawyer Duncan Birrell says: "The victims died because their lives were considered less important than the pursuit of profit.
"This prosecution had two aims. To secure justice for those who died, and to secure justice for the way they were exploited while they were alive.
"Today's convictions send out a powerful warning that the CPS will aggressively pursue anyone who tries to recruit workers illegally into this country and put them to work with no regard for their safety or welfare."
As a result of this prosecution, three people were today convicted at Preston Crown Court.
The main defendant, Lin Liang Ren was convicted on 21 counts of manslaughter.
Lin Liang Ren was also found guilty along with his girlfriend Zhao Xiao Qing of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by trying to conceal who had sent the 21 cockle pickers out to drown in Morecambe Bay.
Lin Liang Ren, his cousin Lin Mu Yong who was also a gangmaster and Zhao Xiao Qing were found guilty of facilitating breaches of the Immigration Act by contributing towards illegal immigrants being put to work. Anthony Eden and his son David who owned the company who bought the cockles from the gangmasters were acquitted of the same charges.
Mr Birrell said: "It is workers who have no employment rights, no choice about the work they do, no rights to contact the authorities to complain about working conditions – indeed the need to avoid the attention of the authorities because of why they came to be in this country – who can be forced into carrying out hazardous work that nobody else wants to do.
"However every person has the same right to justice, whether they are an illegal immigrant or a UK citizen. I am particularly anxious that the victims' families should know this. Although England is so far away from their homes, our thoughts, sympathies and best wishes are with them at this time."
This case was so complicated and wide ranging that it took 18 months to prepare and the trial itself lasted six months.
Project Manager Loren Slater (right)
It's been pick of the day in a lot of the weekend papers.
Click to enlarge: News item on Death in the Bay
For details visit Shoreline Films
Still from the film
Synopsis:
Death in the Bay is an hour-long documentary investigating the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay and how the aftermath affected the communities surrounding it.
24 March 2006
The Crown Prosecution Service says today's convictions of three people in connection with the drowning of 21 cockle pickers at Morecambe Bay in 2004 is a signal of intent towards employers who risk their employees' lives.
Lancashire Crown Prosecution Service reviewing lawyer Duncan Birrell says: "The victims died because their lives were considered less important than the pursuit of profit.
"This prosecution had two aims. To secure justice for those who died, and to secure justice for the way they were exploited while they were alive.
"Today's convictions send out a powerful warning that the CPS will aggressively pursue anyone who tries to recruit workers illegally into this country and put them to work with no regard for their safety or welfare."
As a result of this prosecution, three people were today convicted at Preston Crown Court.
The main defendant, Lin Liang Ren was convicted on 21 counts of manslaughter.
Lin Liang Ren was also found guilty along with his girlfriend Zhao Xiao Qing of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by trying to conceal who had sent the 21 cockle pickers out to drown in Morecambe Bay.
Lin Liang Ren, his cousin Lin Mu Yong who was also a gangmaster and Zhao Xiao Qing were found guilty of facilitating breaches of the Immigration Act by contributing towards illegal immigrants being put to work. Anthony Eden and his son David who owned the company who bought the cockles from the gangmasters were acquitted of the same charges.
Mr Birrell said: "It is workers who have no employment rights, no choice about the work they do, no rights to contact the authorities to complain about working conditions – indeed the need to avoid the attention of the authorities because of why they came to be in this country – who can be forced into carrying out hazardous work that nobody else wants to do.
"However every person has the same right to justice, whether they are an illegal immigrant or a UK citizen. I am particularly anxious that the victims' families should know this. Although England is so far away from their homes, our thoughts, sympathies and best wishes are with them at this time."
This case was so complicated and wide ranging that it took 18 months to prepare and the trial itself lasted six months.
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