Zedd's latest summer hit officially has a music video and we sure are "Happy Now." The DJ and producer's latest feel-good track features rising pop star, Elley Duhé.
When "Happy Now" was released back in July, Zedd revealed it as one of the more organic sounding songs he's created in a long time. It was co-written by Noonie Bao and Sarah Aarons while the 28-year-old produced the fun tune himself.
The collaboration follows his smash hit, "The Middle," featuring Maren Morris which continues to receive praise from all genres. Zedd will continue his Las Vegas residency at the Omnia Nightclub through 2020.
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In 2005, our Region lost two friends and passionate mentors–illustrator Ann Barrow and writer Ruth Landers Glass. This loss inspired the SCBWI New England Executive Board to begin a Memory Fund that now finances several annual scholarships. Donations to the Memory Fund are welcome throughout the year.
We are excited to announce the 2018 Ruth Landers Glass Scholarship for NESCBWI writers. As some of you may know, Ruth Landers Glass was an active member in NESCBWI who nurtured aspiring writers. She was an artist, writer and founding member of two Newton, Massachusetts, critique groups that helped many writers move toward publication. The scholarship provides writers with an opportunity to attend the NESCBWI conference for one day. Read more . . .
NESCBWI will award a scholarship to the 2019 New England conference, in memory of Ann Barrow, a dedicated SCBWI member & teacher, who illustrated over 20 children’s books including Big Blue, published by Charlesbridge in 2004, Butterflies in My Garden, published by Mondo in 2003 and Growing up Abenaki, written by Joseph Bruchac, published by Rigby in 2003. Her career began in 1977 and included book jackets, children’s magazines, greeting cards, giftware and portraiture. She was killed in 2006 in a tragic car accident. The scholarship provides illustrators with an opportunity to attend the NESCBWI conference for one day. Read more . . .
New England SCBWI is glad to offer a new scholarship for a picture book manuscript critique that honors the memory of Peg Davol, a longtime SCBWI member and author of picture books including The Paper Dragon, illustrated by Robert Sabuda, which won the Golden Kite Award. Peg was the mother of grown children and a retired preschool teacher when she began writing most seriously, and then was rarely seen without a yellow pad of paper. The scholarship will be given to two New England SCBWI members each year: one to a published member and one to a pre-published member. Each recipient will receive a critique from a published professional prior to the conference. After working with their professional, the winners will receive a free critique at the NE-SCBWI annual spring conference. Recipients will need to register for at least one day of the NE-SCBWI conference. Read more . . .
NESCBWI will award a scholarship to the 2019 New England conference, in honor of longtime member, Peter Davis. In addition to being a frequent volunteer, he was instrumental in starting our NESCBWI listserve, and another listserve specifically for illustrators. Read more . . .
When attending a meeting last month with the deputy minister in the vice-president’s office responsible for disability affairs, Alexia Manombe Ncube, it came to light that Namibia is very short on programmes to address the welfare of the disabled. People with disabilities still seem to be taken for granted as being just in the background but they need to be viewed and treated equally just as others. Long back many of our people were not vocal on the issue and many were in exile – and disability programmes were not regarded as much as well. However, since our independence countries such as Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Uganda have influenced us to come up with and initiate disability programmes as they felt Namibia was really lagging behind in such programmes to better care for the disabled. The press must also give more coverage of the circumstances in which the disabled live to encourage rehabilitation, social integration and promote equal employment opportunities for our fellow citizens living with disabilities. Programmes are needed to purchase equipment and supplies for carpentry, sewing, welding and handicraft production and on using the equipment – to train women and men for the purpose of developing their skills into a sustainable livelihood. The concerns of people with disabilities are typically overlooked in many countries and Namibia as a developing country is no exception. However, there appears to be the beginning of light at the end of the tunnel with the establishment of the new office for disability affairs in the vice-president’s office. However, there is a long way to go to understand the challenges such citizens face and society needs to better acknowledge their human rights and developmental needs, and help to make a change in their lives. They must also help come up with programmes and strategies to address adequate development and proper interventions, which would lead to a better allocation of resources. The ombudsman has a specific chapter on disabilities and has distributed guidelines on how to adapt particular protocols when it comes to disability affairs. The office of disability affairs should also adapt the issue of health industrialization, peace and stability, productive and sustained natural resources, and regional and international cooperation. A policy from 1997 states that our dignity must be respected together with the inabilities of people. Our Golden Lady Johana Benson is a clear definition that even a disabled person can make a change in his or her own life and society.
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1 June was Day of the Dinosaur in Togo - a red-letter day for that dwindling band of dictators who have held sway over a country for decades but a very bad day for African democracy. On that date Gnassingbé Eyadéma duly recorded his third crushing victory in an 'open' presidential election, having changed the constitution to allow himself to stand for another term only two years after swearing that he would stand down.
In the good old days Eyadéma - who came to power in a coup d'état in 1967 - could present himself as the only candidate and be rewarded, as in 1985, with 99.95 per cent of the vote. These days he has to participate in elections designed to pay lip-service to the inconvenient modern addiction to multi-party ballots. His people, moreover, are so much less grateful than they used to be - his share of the vote was only 57 per cent. Not only that but opposition politicians insist on giving out alternative results that claim he was actually defeated.
International observers stopped short of ruling the election corrupt, though the Francophone group - which was headed by former Senegalese President Abdou Diouf and had the largest number of observers - said the results should be taken with a significant pinch of salt. In the department of Zio protestors destroyed ballot boxes which they said had been stuffed with fictitious votes for the President.
Even if voting itself had been as free and fair as the West African air, critics could point to Eyadéma's 'creative' use of a new ruling that anyone who has not lived continuously in the country for the previous four years cannot run for President. This conveniently ruled out Gilchrist Olympio, who was not only his main rival in the last election in 1998 but is also the son of the country's first President, murdered in 1963 by army officers rumoured to include Eyadéma.
Olympio, currently in Paris, has pledged to form a government of national reconstruction in exile. French President Jacques Chirac, in contrast, has sent Eyadéma his congratulations and his hope that European Union sanctions in place since the fraudulent elections in 1993 can now be lifted. France itself resumed aid as soon as it could, in 1994, and has consistently acted as an apologist for the man who styles himself, in a strange echo of Mao Zedong, The Helmsman or Le Guide. Chirac joined Eyadéma in dismissing as 'manipulation' a 1999 Amnesty International report that described a 'persistent pattern' of extrajudicial executions, 'disappearances', arbitrary arrest and torture.
As this sorry saga suggests, Togo has not realized a fraction of its potential since achieving independence from France in April 1960. The country gave the name of its capital to one of the key agreements in development history - the Lomé Convention which regulated trade and aid between the African, Caribbean and the Pacific group of countries and the former European Economic Community. It is also the world's fourth-largest producer of phosphate, the main component in fertilizer.
Real development that benefits ordinary people has, however, been notable for its absence. In the period when the country has been shunned by the European Union for its humanrights abuses, the main international players in Togo have been the World Bank and the IMF, which both offered structural-adjustment money on condition that a major privatization programme proceeded apace - and among the sell-offs to private and international investors, inevitably, has been part of the Togolese Office of Phosphates.
The Togo charade looks set to continue for the foreseeable future, while its people are the proverbial grass which continues to suffer.
Monetary unit: CFA franc. Main exports: Phosphates (traditionally 40% of the total); cocoa; cotton; coffee. Eyadéma's economic strategy was from the first too dependent on phosphates and was rocked by low international prices. Electricity supply has been a major problem leading sometimes to rationing.
Health: Infant mortality 79 per 1,000 live births (Benin 94, France 6). 54% have access to safe water and 34% to adequate sanitation.
Environment: There is concern about the high level of cadmium in Togolese phosphate rock. The switch from subsistence to export crops in the north may endanger soil fertility. Culture: The main ethnic groups are the Ewe (43%), Kabye (27%) and Gurma (16%). The descendants of formerly enslaved Africans who returned to Togo from Brazil form a caste with great influence. Religion: Traditional African religions 50%; Christian 35%; Muslim 15%. Language: French is the official language but each ethnic group has its own tongue.
The economy shrank by an average 0.6% a year between 1990 and 2001. Structural adjustment and privatization have certainly not benefited the poor.
Togo is usually self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs except in drought years but is heavily dependent on imported fuel and only produces 30% of its own electricity.
Next to no headway in political terms but the economy depends on them: on top of their hidden domestic and subsistence labour they represent 40% of the official workforce. 1986
57%. Education has a surprisingly high share of government spending, though primary enrolment/attendance is still only 63%.
The broadcast media and the main national newspaper are government-controlled. Opposition parties are allowed but circumscribed and Amnesty has significant concerns.
President Eyadéma is the longest-serving leader on the African continent and loves to play the elder statesperson - as with his attempt to play a role in the ongoing crisis in Côte d'Ivoire. But since the overthrow of his own hero, Mobutu of Zaire/Congo - who was offered asylum in Lomé - his dictatorial credentials have been increasingly exposed. Togo may still be under his thumb but its people need and deserve a new deal.