Davie Village (also known as Davie District or simply Davie Street) is a neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city’s gay subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or gaybourhood. Davie Village is centred on Davie Street and roughly includes the area between Burrard and Jervis streets. Davie Street—and, by extension, the Village—is named in honour of A.E.B. Davie, eighth Premier of British Columbia from 1887 to 1889; A.E.B’s brother Theodore was also Premier, from 1892 to 1895.

Along Davie Street are a variety of shops, restaurants, services, and hotels catering to a variety of customers, in addition to private residences. The business with the most notoriety is Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium (“Little Sister’s”), a gay and lesbian bookstore, because of its ongoing legal battles with Canada Customs that have received extensive national media coverage. Many businesses and residents along Davie Street and in the West End generally also fly rainbow flags as a symbol of gay pride, and many of the covered bus stop benches and garbage cans along Davie Street are painted bright pink.

The Village hosts a variety of events during the year, including the Davie Street Pride Festival which runs in conjunction with Vancouver’s annual Gay Pride Parade, during which sections of the street are closed to motor traffic.

Davie Day is also held each year in early September, to celebrate local businesses and the community itself. This Day is designed to build awareness and promote the surrounding businesses, and is focused around Jervis to Burrard Street.

The Davie Street Business Association coined the name “Davie Village” in 1999 and also commissioned banners from local artist Joe Average, which fly from lampposts in the district. The two-sided banners depict a rainbow flag on one side and a sun design by Average on the other.

Davie Village is also home to the offices of Xtra! West, a biweekly LGBT newspaper, Qmunity (formerly the Gay and Lesbian Centre) which provides a variety of services for the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents, and the Vancouver Pride Society, which puts on the annual Pride Parade and Festival.

The Siberian city of Norilsk, located just above the Arctic Circle, is currently in a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of oil spilled in the Ambarnaya River, according to CNN. A fuel tank at a power plant, which is owned by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, completely collapsed, which ultimately turned the body of water bright red, and contaminated a total of 135 square miles of water.

“The incident led to catastrophic consequences and we will be seeing the repercussions for years to come… We are talking about dead fish, polluted plumage of birds, and poisoned animals,” Sergey Verkhovets, coordinator of Arctic projects of Russia’s WWF branch, said in a statement. Needless to say, the environmental affects of Russia’s latest oil spill will be totally destructive.

When the plant’s storage tank collapsed due to “unexplained compression” on Friday, May 29, the plant, which is owned by Norilsk Nickel, chose not to report it right away, according to Eco Watch. They attempted to contain the spill themselves, and President Vladimir Putin didn’t find out about it until Monday, June 1, when the region’s governor, Alexander Uss, had seen disturbing photos of the mess on social media.

“Why did government agencies only find out about this two days after the fact? Are we going to learn about emergency situations from social media? Are you quite healthy over there?” Putin asked Sergei Lipin, the head of NTEK, which is the subsidiary that owns the plant. After learning of the spill, Putin declared a state of emergency, and hired outside aid to help with the clean-up process. The plant’s director, Vyacheslav Starostin, is also in custody through July 31.

Between the obscene amounts of oil that leaked, combined with the time it took to respond to the issue, and due to the sparse roads surrounding the river, cleaning the river will be an extremely difficult task. According to The BBC, it could take between five and 10 years to fully clean, and could cost up to $1.5 billion. Russian environmentalist Oleg Mitvol reportedly said there had “never been such an accident in the Arctic zone.”

The Russian Investigative Committee (SK) has deemed this a “criminal case,” based on the amount of pollution that stemmed from the spill, as well as the alleged negligence in terms of informing authorities of the spill.

Although this may be the second largest oil spill in Russian history, oil spills unfortunately occur on a regular basis in the Eastern European country. According to The Seattle Times, the Russian Economic Development Ministry once estimated that a total of 20 million tons of oil are spilled every year.

The last major oil spill in Russia took place in 1994, and wiped out tremendous amount of plant life, animals, and fish. Respiratory disease skyrocketed among surrounding residents in local villages by about 28 percent in the following year, and although the effects of this recent oil spill haven’t been determined yet, they’re bound to be equally astronomical.

Russia’s oil spill is seriously devastating, but hopefully, justice will be served to the allegedly negligent parties involved.

Russian revolutions of 1917. Overview of life in imperial Russia and of consequences of war. Food revolts lead to February Revolution, the Czar abdicates. The Provisional Government continues the war, Germany helps Vladimir Lenin return to Petrograd. Failure of Kerensky Offensive, widespread desertions, October Revolution. Germany supports independence of Ukraine and Finland, forces the punitive Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on the Bolsheviks.

The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The narrator was Michael Redgrave, with readings by Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw and Emlyn Williams. Each episode is c. 40 minutes long.

Looking at why Bloober Team doesn’t understand the original Silent Hill 2’s aesthetic, cinematic atmosphere or gameplay.

Either because of sheer incompetence or through trying to undermine the artistic merit of the original, SH2R feels like a streamer miniseries. Thanks for watching.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
01:04 OG Silent Hill 2 and Remakes Overall Feel
04:34 Silent Hill 2 Remake Full Analysis and Comparisons
10:04 Closing Thoughts