Happy Valentine's Day... Throwback Thursday (82/365)

Happy Valentine's Day to all my readers...

I thought it would be a bit of fun to revisit some of the Valentine's Day messages from Russell Crowe, Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Michael Buie and Allan Hawco on social media that were exchanged between each other and their fans via their official social media accounts over the years.

It was very difficult to pick a favourite. There were simple but sweet messages for fans to humour shared between old friends. However, my two favourites go to Alan Doyle in 2016 for his heart shaped pancake made with love and the 'happy Valentine's Day' message from his gorgeous dog Spencer. 

The screen shots are from the official Twitter accounts of Russell Crowe, Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes and Allan Hawco. No copyright infringement intended.

Happy Valentine's Day and Winter's Tale... Friday 14 February, 2014. Throwback Thursday (81/365)

On the 13 February, 2014 the movie Winter's Tale was released in Australia. The movie starred Russell Crowe, Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durand also known as the band of merry men in the movie Robin Hood.

This Valentine's Day will be a great opportunity to bring out the popcorn and enjoy this movie with good friends...

I wrote a post titled 'Happy Valentine's Day and Winter's Tale' posted on Friday 14 February, 2014. I have copied the post below for those interested fans. 

The photographs are from the Internet. Please note Alan Doyle on the far right in the bowler hat and a wicked moustache.  No copyright infringement intended.








Happy Valentine's Day and Winter's Tale...Friday 14 February, 2014.

“Winter’s Tale teaches us that everyone is destined to share a miracle with someone special—that magic from the heart can accomplish the impossible” Jaime Lubin Huffington Post.

Okay, so I admit it. I can’t wait for Valentine’s Day this year. Not because I am madly, passionately in love with the man of my dreams and it is the most romantic day of the year, but because I get to spend it with some best girlfriends, a bunch of my favourite fellas, a box of popcorn and a good old fashion romantic fairytale at the movies. The movie is Winter’s Tale.

For many fans the reunion of the cast from Robin Hood on the big screen with Russell Crowe, Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durand has been a long time coming. While many of us would have probably preferred Robin Hood 2 or have attended an Indoor Garden Party somewhere in the world, Winter’s Tale is perhaps the next best thing. We have followed the making of the movie on social media and the moment is finally here to see it. Happy Valentine’s Day to all the fans watching this beautiful romantic movie today or tomorrow, where ever you may be.

The information available tells me Winter’s Tale is a love story set in New York City that transcends time. To find out a bit more about the plot and making of the movie I watched the official trailers and visited the official Winter’s Tale webpage. The webpage provides visitors with a synopsis of the story, the cast list and some of the most beautiful images. I could even construct and send a Valentine’s Day card. If I was in New York City and needed anything for Valentine’s Day it was all there. While all this is totally delightful and exquisite, there isn’t much about our favourite boys Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durand (Russell Crowe being the actor he is has his own little blurb).

So I checked out the information on the movie site IMDb film. This movie site provides an extensive range of information from plot synopsis, photographs, technical film credits, reviews and a cast list. According to this site there are 114 people in the cast of Winter’s Tale. While the Hollywood heavy weights like Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Connelly and Will Smith are mentioned, so are our boys and their characters, Alan Doyle as Dingy Worthington, Scott Grimes as a carriage driver and Kevin Durand as Ceasar Tan. In the critical review section there were only three out of ten reviews available in English. None of them it seems has seen the movie and were waiting for opening day.

The director Akiva Goldsman has given many fine interviews in the media recently describing the joys and difficulties of transforming the book into a movie and making the movie in a place like New York City. Jaime Lubin, a regular Russell Crowe Indoor Garden Party and Alan Doyle concert goer and reviewer from the Huffington Post has written a wonderful review. After reading some of these interviews I am finding Goldsman as much a star of this movie as any of the cast. There is this fine quote from Goldsman on the need for adult fairytales in modern life “My affection for grown-up fairytales is real. I tried to tell the story out of my own hope that everything happens for a reason, that the loss you experience today you may one day understand was a gain somewhere else…I think love stories are what has led us on to continue in the face of adversity…”

Jaime then goes onto to discuss Goldsman's ideas “We need adult fairytales, we need them presented in just this way, to remind us that the intangible wonders are absolutely plausible, because in the most fantastic of stories there is always some basic truth about human nature. So whether you are in New York or finding a path through another city of dreams, remember:love may be “impossible to find”—but once found is worth travelling to hell and back for”.

I am off to see Winter’s Tale tonight. I have included a copy of this review to remind me of a wonderful movie, the words of Goldsman and why we need modern day fairytales in our lives. (No copyright infringement intended).

Winter's Tale : The Lovers, The Dreamer's, and Mythical New York. by Jaime Lubin posted 12 February 2014 for the Huffington Post.

It takes a brilliant wordsmith and fantasist to adapt Mark Helprin's epic novel Winter's Tale for the screen, and luckily Akiva Goldsman is both. But the Oscar-winning screenwriter (A Beautiful Mind) has added another element that transforms his feature directorial debut into a story for the ages: A steadfast belief in true love.

A passion project years in the making, Winter's Tale teaches us that everyone is destined to share a miracle with someone special -- that magic from the heart can accomplish the impossible.

Set in a mythical 1916 New York, Winter's Tale follows the unusual journey of a thief named Peter Lake (Colin Farrell) who falls in love with the wealthy and ethereal Beverly Penn (a radiant Jessica Brown Findlay) after a botched attempt to burglarize her house. The couple quickly realize their happiness will be brief -- she is dying from consumption, while he has a price on his head, courtesy of the demonic Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe) and his Short Tail gang. When Pearly, Peter's former mentor, determines to destroy his protege once and for all, fate intervenes to send Peter Lake across centuries. Transported to the present day, Peter finds himself still enmeshed in the deadly battle between good and evil; only time will tell if his efforts to protect Beverly can prevail.

Though fans of Helprin's 800-page chef d'ouevre will note some major departures from the book, Goldsman has done a masterful job of distilling the winding, somewhat ambiguous narrative into a resolute and rapturously beautiful film. From the grand, sweeping shots of New York's skyline (accompanied by Hans Zimmer's triumphantly affecting score) to the most intimate vignettes between Peter and Beverly where nothing else seems to matter but their divine connection, Goldsman has created a feast for the senses. His detailed dedication results in a world presented so exquisitely that one hopes to crack the screen open and crawl around in its deliciousness. Outstanding credit goes to production designer Naomi Shohan and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel for creating a three-dimensional universe that doesn't need the bells and whistles of commercial 3-D. This is what movies are supposed to be.

Goldsman says: "My affection for grown-up fairytales is real. I tried to tell the story out of my own hope that everything happens for a reason, that the loss you experience today you may one day understand was a gain somewhere else...I think love stories are what has led us on to continue in the face of adversity".

That idea of predestination regarding loss and love cuts deeply for Goldsman (one can see hints of his personal struggle borne out in Peter Lake's experience), but the cast gathered for Winter's Tale celebrates a different kind of affection just as powerful -- friendship. The film enabled Goldsman to reunite with such former collaborators as Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind), while rounding out the ensemble with stars galore: William Hurt, Eva Marie Saint, and Matt Bomer all appear in pivotal roles. Sharp-eyed viewers can also spot quite a few colleagues of Crowe and Goldsman's in blink-and-you'll-miss-it parts.

"It was a beautiful collision of actors and actors' souls," Goldman notes.

"Everybody loves Akiva," producer Michael Tadross (Sherlock Holmes) comments. "They all came to work with Akiva. His script was one of the greatest I've ever read, and his vision for it was so clear, his enthusiasm so evident, and that made it such a pleasure for all of us."

Naturally a great deal of the movie's magic lies in the setting, New York City. Whether in 1916 or 2014, Goldsman gives us the City That Never Sleeps as we wish it were, full of guardian angels and all-revealing light. Still, because production took place in and around the city itself -- controversially not long after Hurricane Sandy -- every location retains complete realism (I found myself finger-counting places: "I've been there, I've been there, I was just there yesterday...").

Goldsman confirms, "The story blends a reality-based environment with the unexplained that exists behind the world we see. It's a straightforward emotional narrative, yet within that naturalistic world is a world where magic happens and people live for centuries."

Indeed, where in our world is there a more liminal space -- liminal meaning "transitional" or "crossing a threshold" -- than the Big Apple? This enchanted island, where we walk around cloaked in our own and others' history, has always been the primary destination for the Earth's dreamers. No wonder that Goldsman chose such a site for the ultimate war between angels and demons. (And of course, New York becomes my own city of miracles all the time, for where else could I have gotten the inside scoop on the production from the Short Tails themselves ?)

Though Winter's Tale seems at the surface a black-and-white morality story, each character is nuanced enough to provide spellbinding shades of gray. Take Farrell's Peter Lake, who steals objects without any compunction but repeatedly risks his life to save the innocent. Or the angel Gabriel (Finn Wittrock), who has voluntarily fallen from grace to stay on an imperfect Earth. If you enjoy rooting for the villain, as I often do, you will find no better entertainment than Russell Crowe as Pearly Soames. The agent of chaos is bad to the bone, but even his rage-fueled obsession with Peter Lake is understandable from a certain point of view.

Goldsman compares the onscreen showdowns between Farrell and Crowe to a ballet: "A fight is like a dance for them, the way they learn the steps and execute them as if they've known them their whole lives. It was pretty awesome, what these two men could do with their fists".

The tide of moviemaking appears to be turning toward Goldsman's brand of magical realism; films like Winter's Tale give us a reason to hope that we can surmount any odds as long as our heart is in the task. We need adult fairytales; we need them presented in just this way, to remind us that the intangible wonders are absolutely plausible, because in the most fantastic of stories there is always some basic truth about human nature. So whether you are in New York or finding a path through another city of dreams, remember: Love may be "impossible to find" -- but once found it is worth traveling to hell and back.

Alan Doyle At The Holy Heart Theatre 2015...Throwback Thursday (80/365).

This time four years ago I was on my way to St. John's to see Alan Doyle and the Beautiful, Beautiful Band at the Holy Heart Theatre in St. John's, Newfoundland.

There are not many photographs from that concert on social media and my camera failed me unfortunately at this event. So I have included a photograph of the setlist from the concert and one of Alan Doyle and Carolann Fowler a St. John's local singer who he asked up on stage to sing the Great Big Sea song 'Fast As I Can' with him. The performance was bootlegged by the usual sources and is available on YouTube. What a night that was. 

It has been a long time since Alan Doyle and the Beautiful, Beautiful Band did a regular allocated seat sit down concert in his home town for those of us unable to stand for long periods of time at festival type concerts. Maybe it is time for another one. 

No copyright infringement intended. 







I have also included a post I wrote about the concert published just after the concert.

'Alan Doyle And The So Let's Go Tour Hits St. John's' published 23 February, 2015.

Last Saturday night I was lucky enough to attend Alan Doyle’s concert at the Holy Heart Theatre in St. John’s, Newfoundland. There is always something special about attending an Alan Doyle or Great Big Sea concert in front of their home crowd in St. Johns, Newfoundland or where they belong to. And this concert did not disappoint.

There was a brilliant combination of songs from his Boy on Bridge (I Have Seen A Little, Where The Nightingale Sings, Testify, My Day) and the new So Let’s Go album (So Lets Go, Can’t Dance, My Kingdom, Shine On, Sins of Saturday Night, 1 2 3 4) and of course some favourite Great Big Sea songs (When I’m Up, Ordinary Day, Lukey’s Boat, Old Black Rum, Sea Of No Cares, ) all which got the crowd up and dancing on their feet. I really loved Alan Doyle’s cover of John Mellencamp’s Paper and Fire.

One of the highlights of the concerts was when Alan Doyle invited local Carol Anne Fowler up on stage to sing as Fast As I Can. Alan kindly stepped aside and let her take centre stage accompanying her beautifully with Stickman and on vocals. The performance brought the crowd to their feet. As social media was all abuzz with the performance Carol Anne did an interview with the local St. John’s radio where she stated the opportunity changed her life and was a dream come true. It was wonderful to see fans realising their dreams to sing their favourite songs with their favourite musicians in front of their family and friends and community.

The Holy Heart Theatre was the perfect venue for a home coming concert for the So Let’s Go tour, small and intimate. The concert attracted the Great Big Sea fans as well as the Alan Doyle fans. I really enjoyed this concert as was more about the music of Alan Doyle than Great Big Sea. This was also the first time I had heard the songs from the new album played live, in particular So Let’s Go, Sins of Saturday Night and 1 2 3 4 which transferred beautifully from a recorded CD to a live concert. The band that supported Alan Doyle (Kendal Carson, Corey Tetford, Shehab Ilyas, Todd Lumley and Kris McFarlane were brilliant). Alan Doyle seems to have a wonderful time with with the band and home crowd sharing funny stories about his youth and gladly showed their appreciation.

After the show a number of fans waited patiently for Alan and were lucky enough to meet him. He generously gave his time to have a chat and sign things. Earlier that day I was lucky enough to meet Alan Doyle (as many fans do) at Pearson International Airport on a flight to St. John’s and he graciously signed my CD’s. Newfoundland has been place for many of my dreams to come true.

On the way out I was lucky enough to spot and say hello to the totally gorgeous Allan Hawco who was generous and gracious. What a thrill it was and a dream come true for me to meet him. I love my television and I truly admire anyone who can come up with an idea for a television series unique as the Republic of Doyle and turn it into a reality. This television series showcased St. John’s and Newfoundland and its people to mainland Canada and the world to see on the best days of the year.

The below article was circulated on social media about Carol Anne’s appearance on stage with Alan Doyle and an interview on VOCM radio. Fan videos were posted on YouTube and collected thousands of hits much to the excitement of Carol Anne and Alan Doyle.

“Local Fan Shares Impromptu Duet with Alan” in VOCM Local News Story Doyle February 9 2015

It was a dream come true for a local Alan Doyle fan: Carol Anne Fowler was invited to join Alan Doyle on stage on Saturday night for an impromptu duet. Doyle was home in St John’s as part of a tour for his new album “So Let’s Go.”

Fowler says “she got brave” and made a song request to Doyle via Twitter, asking if she could join him for “Fast As I Can. She didn’t think anything would come of the request, but to her surprise, Doyle invited her on stage at Holy Heart Theatre".

Australian Sport And Professional Fan Cheer Squads...A fan responds (An update) (79/365)

Totally awesome news from the US NFL Superbowl and cheerleading profession recently. The Los Angeles Rams have made history and included two professional male dancers in their cheerleading squad for the big game. 

After looking at some short videos online I had difficulty seeing the male dancers at the back and amongst all the pom poms. But from what I could see the men definitely looked like they are very talented professional dancers so I hope they get a greater role in the future. 

I found a great article in the Huffington Post titled 'The L.A. Rams' Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies are about to make history this Sunday as the first male cheerleaders at the Super Bowl.' by Sanjana Karant  published on the 31 January, 2019 about the inclusion and the history of the inclusion of males in professional US football. 

As an Australian female sports fan I have never liked cheerleaders in any sport. Last year I wrote this post in response to the dumping of grid girls by Formula One racing and the objectifying of women for male sports fans.

I hope Australian sports if they are to retain cheerleaders follow the US lead and become more inclusive not just of talented male dancers but of all people from different walks of life.  

I have included this photograph from the official LA Rams Cheerleaders Twitter site that included the new male dancers. No copyright infringement intended. 





Australian Sport And Professional Fan Cheer Squads...A fan responds published 9 February, 2018.

"We found it hard to work out a positive about it. There was a grey area to it. It makes women uncomfortable and it makes blokes who take their son to the football also uncomfortable..." Russell Crowe on South Sydney Rugby League Club's decision not use cheerleaders in 2009.

Recently traditional news sources and social media were alive with the story that the Formula One Grand Prix competition had axed their grid girls or the use of models. I have to say I don't know anything about Formula One or the tradition of grid girls except what I had seen on the sports news on television.

From the news articles I have read I gather grid girls were added to Formula One during the 1960's to add some glamour to the motor car sport. Being a grid girl involved walking around the stadium interacting with the fans, having their photograph taken with the drivers and being showered in campaign on the winner's podium. But obviously there was a bit more to it that included wearing the sponsor's clothes, appearing on the track before the event and lining the halls before the drivers got onto the podium (Wheatsone, 2018).

At the end of January, 2018 Formula One issued a statement "While the practise of employing grid girls has been a staple at Formula One Grand Prix for decades, we feel this custom is at odds with modern day societal norms...we don't believe the practise is appropriate or relevant to Formula One and its fans, old and new across the world." (News Corporation Australia, 2018).

As a female sport's fan in Australia (but not of Formula One) who is interested in the role and inclusion of women fans in Australian sport I welcomed the decision. And yes I agree with Formula One that the idea of grid girls 'are at odds with modern day societal norms'. As a sport's fan I don't really believe grid girls (like cheerleaders) added anything to an exciting sport where men are the stars. Women are often objectified and seem nothing more than eye candy for male supporters. Grid girls and cheerleaders definitely send the wrong message to those women wanting to participate in sport on equal terms with men including motor sport (Ormonde, 2012, Emery, 2018).

I doubt those journalists and columnists in the Australian media who supported grid girls have been to a Formula One Grand Prix event in Australia or overseas or any sporting event where young women perform to entertain the supporters and support men playing the game on the field. Many stated that the presence of grid girls (or cheerleaders) at events didn't bother them. 

It is easy to support a group of people you personally have no contact with and are not a regular feature of you or your families life such as going to a rugby league game. These women argue that young women have a right use their physical beauty to earn money, wear what they want and to engage in any employment of their choice to earn a living at what they love. Which is true in Australia. One journalist told me 'how dare I tell another woman what values they should have' when I expressed my objection.

I was 'told how dare you tell another woman what values they should have' at the same time they ignored me and my feelings and the right to express my opinion. In fact no where in anything I read did journalists or columnists talk to a female fan about how grid girls or cheerleaders made fans feel at games and events and that was uncomfortable. 

To be honest I didn't like cheerleader's routines and costumes. The only person I read interested in the position of the female fans and cheerleaders was Russell Crowe back in 2009 when he made the decision to axe cheerleaders at South Sydney.

American cheerleading and the role of women in this sport is different in America than Australia. I have read where many academics, people pro grid girls and cheerleaders argue that the girls are often using these experiences to put themselves through university (Back, 2017). I have also read about cheerleading as a sport in its own right not as an addition to a male game which is a completely different thing. "What I love about cheerleading is that it is for everyone. Just like other sports, cheerleading has positions (flyers, bases, back bases, tumblers, dancers) that require athletes of various shapes, sizes and skill sets to fill them. Tall, short, solid, skinny, blond, brunette -it takes them all to make a perfect routine..."(Mihalopolos, 2014). If this was true in Australian sport about cheerleaders as crowd entertainment then there would be more diversity in those selected to perform in the squads.

I am a female Australian rugby union fan. Australian rugby union has never had cheerleaders as a number of Australian sports. I have been interested in rugby union and women in sport for over thirteen years. During that time I have seen major sporting league teams in Australian actively encourage women to participate in all levels of sport from being a fan, member, player, referee, employed in teams in a range of positions through the media, as health professionals, in team management and on boards. Many rugby union clubs have had special memberships and events including 'Ladies Day' for women fans. The head of Australian rugby union is a woman.

During doing research for the post I read quite a few articles but not in one did I read where someone had asked a female fan of Formula One what they thought (they spoke to the grid girls, drivers and management of Formula One, female academics and females in the sport but not the fans). The only time I have seen cheerleading at an Australian sporting event was when I lived in Canberra and I went to watch Australian rugby league teams South Sydney v Canberra. To me the men were the stars of the show and showed great skills at playing the game. When I went to these games South Sydney had already axed their cheerleaders.

In 2009 Russell Crowe as the new owner of South Sydney decided not to use cheerleaders as they made fans feel uncomfortable. He stated that the focus should be on football and replaced them with other forms of entertainment that were later disbanded. The move was seen as progressive at the time. To be honest Russell Crowe's words rang true at the games in Canberra and I did feel uncomfortable with cheerleaders and their type of entertainment. Several years on from my experiences in Canberra, the rugby league team the Canberra Raiders have decided not to renew their female cheerleading squad. The reason given was that this would distinguish their team from other teams and to 'create more opportunities for women and men and children to get involved.' (Back, 2017).

In 2016 Australia provided the American college football season with a match in Sydney between the California Golden Bears and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors at ANZ stadium. This was the first American college football game ever played in Australia. Along with that game came all the razzle dazzle of American football including female cheerleading squads and marching bands. The social media section at ANZ stadium were sending out a large amount of tweets to promote the game using tweets with photographs of cheerleaders who seemed to be included in every promotional opportunity available rather than the players.

I don't have a problem with American college football or any American sports playing in Australia during their regular or off season but I do have a problem with cheerleaders who don't play the game in any capacity being used to promote the sport here. If Americans are going to promote their sport here I would rather see and hear from the players and administrators. When I complained to ANZ stadium on Twitter they blocked me for speaking up for what I considered sexist behaviour.

Many journalists and sports fans will probably believe the decision to axe grid girls comes in the wake of the #MeToo campaign in 'which has brought sexual harassment and objectification of women into the spotlight' (Emery, 2018). I believe it probably has influenced many professional sports and the role women play within them. But in Australian sport the decision to make sport more inclusive of women and for equal rights has been ongoing for many years. For example, late last year Australian sporting codes Australian Rugby Union, Australian Rugby League, Australian Football League and Australian Netball League joined forces to encourage Australian sport's fans to be more than a spectator and challenge sexist attitudes and behaviours, where ever and when they see them.

So what happens when women sport's fans speak up about sexist attitudes and behaviours in particular in sport around Australia. It seems grid girls, cheerleaders and their supporters are quick to shut those women down. I was told by one journalist on Twitter 'what right do men have to tell women what to do' as I tried to explain the role of women in sport including motor sport and their sponsors and this decision was perhaps not confined to men. Since then other articles have been written and the down fall of the grid girl has been blamed on the middle class well to do women telling working class women what they can and can't do. The grid girls blame women feminists for the lost of a job they loved (SBS, 2018, ABC, 2018).

Regardless of who made the decision to axe the grid girls it seems that those who run a business (either male or female) like the Formula One and their sponsors and fans can't make a decision about what is best for their business. Chan & Walters (2018) stated Formula One paid grid girls in the United Kingdom 300 pounds a day plus all their costs including food, hotels, makeup and travel. The total cost of grid girls ads up to a lot of money and savings if made redundant or replace with a more inclusive model. The axing of grid girls, cheerleaders and other walk on roles for models in professional darts and Australian cycling does reflect current societal norms but also to ensure the future of their sport as they compete for limited sponsorship funding. The money certainly can be used to promote more inclusive women's roles at all levels of the professional sport. What ever the reasons it is a move in the right direction.

References

Back, A. 2017. 'Canberra Raiders drop cheerleaders in 2017' published in The Canberra Times on 9 January, 2017.

Chan, E & Walters, I. 2018. 'It didn't feel sexist': Former grid girls have THEIR say on the controversial Formula One ban but Melinda Messenger says it's the right move' published in the DailyMail.co.uk on 1 February, 2018.

Emery, K. 2018. 'Grid girls are a notion that has had its day' published in The West Australian on 2 February, 2018.

McMahon, A. 2018. 'Formula One axes grid girls from races to keep up with 'modern day societal norms' published on abc.net.au on 1 February, 2018.

Mihalopoulos, S. 'Everything you know about cheerleading is wrong' published in mamamia.com.au on 10 August, 2014.

Musovic, S, (2017), 'Sports stars urge fans to challenge sexism by being #morethanaspectator' published in ourwatch.org.au on 24 November, 2017.

News Corporation Australia, 2018. 'Formula One axes 'grid girls' starting at the Australian Grand prix in March' published in news.com.au on 1 February, 2018.

Ormonde, L. 2018, 'Do you support woman's right to cheer?' published in mamamia.com.au on the 1 May, 2012.

Poulson, J, 2018. 'Broncos say cheerleaders here to stay after Formula One axes grid girls' published in The Courier Mail on February, 2018.

Ritchie, D. & Charnock, C. 2009, 'Cheerleaders axed at Souths' published in the Daily Telegraph on the 17 March, 2009.

SBS, 2018. 'F1 grid girls push back against 'well of women' telling others what to do'.SBS News published on 7 February, 2017.

Wheatstone, R. 2018. 'Grid Grief. What are grid girls, how much do they get paid and who are the grid kids to replace them' published in thesun.co.uk on 6 February, 2018.