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Mobile Exclusive
Google’s 2017 Pixel forgoes increasingly common flagship features
Evan Blass@evleaks August 4, 2017 9:01 AM
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Although still months away from an official unveiling, Google’s followups to its debut Pixel handsets of last year are starting to come into focus. While several leaked renders have suggested that the larger of the two devices — codenamed Taimen — will include smaller top and bottom bezels than its predecessor (the Pixel XL), a photo of this year’s Pixel successor shared with VentureBeat indicates that it won’t also be adopting this increasingly common design element.
What’s more, neither Taimen nor the device pictured here, codenamed Walleye, are opting for a dual rear camera configuration. The choice was odd last year, but looks even more bizarre in the face of the industry trend to move away from singular cameras by phone manufacturers like Apple (iPhone 7 Plus), LG (G6), Samsung (Note8), and Huawei (P10, among others).
Instead, Google seems to have directed manufacturing partner HTC to make only iterative design changes to the smaller of its own-branded phones. Unlike last year, when HTC made both the Pixel and the Pixel XL, this time around LG has been tasked with producing the larger device.
While HTC has yet to introduce a handset with significantly reduced “forehead and chin,” LG’s G6 and Q6 both include so-called FullVision displays, whose 18:9 screens cover the vast majority of the products’ faces. Samsung is also heavily invested in bezel minimization this year, with its Galaxy S8 and Note8 flagships, along with Apple and what is shaping up to be an iconic iPhone.
HTC is, however, bringing its expertise to bear in two other aspects of both 2017 Pixels: front-facing stereo speakers, which it made popular with its BoomSound branding, and squeeze-sensitive frames, embodied in the Edge Sense feature found on this year’s U11 flagship.
There is one area in which Google is closely following the lead of other phone makers with respect to flagship feature sets, but it involves the omission, rather than the inclusion, of a once-standard component. VentureBeat can confidently report that, like Apple, HTC, and Lenovo, Google has opted to do away with 3.5-millimeter headphone jacks on its offerings this year.
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UK Trade Minister to apologize to Ivanka Trump for leaked memos
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Britain’s Minister of Trade Liam Fox said Monday that he would apologize for comments of the UK ambassador calling the US President Donald Trump and his administration “inept” and “dysfunctional,” reported Reuters.
Mr. Fox is to meet President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump during his trip to Washington. “I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way,” he said.
“Malicious leaks of this nature are unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic and can actually lead to a damage to that relationship which can therefore affect our wider security interest.”
British Ambassador in Washington Kim Darroch, whose confidential diplomatic memos leaked to the public, said: “We don’t really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.”
Britain’s former Minister of Defense Michael Fallon commented on the matter and said that this would be the end of Darroch’s term as an ambassador. “It’s obviously damaging to any relationship when this sort of stuff gets published,” he said.
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Virginia rally: thousands expected to protest against gun control bills
By Lois Beckett Tens of thousands of gun rights activists
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Windows Azure Is No More
cloud computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows, Satya Nadella, Windows, Windows Azure, ZDNet
As expected Microsoft today announced that its Windows Azure product will be no more after April 3. But don’t worry, it’s simply a name change. In a move that sees the product named more accurately for what it actually…
Oracle and Engine Yard Up a Tree, P-A-A-S-I-N-G
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When Engine Yard announced awhile back a strategic investment from Oracle – it kind of felt like a Hail Mary pass. Engine Yard, which a solid and reliable platform, has lost much of its shine as its competitors get…
Jaspersoft and Co-Opetition with AWS
Asia, AWS, Business intelligence, Cognos, Data Warehousing, Jaspersoft, Redshift, Windows Azure
Last year, when AWS announced its Data Warehousing service, RedShift, there was much interest from the punditry as to what it meant for the existing companies offering similar services built on top of AWS infrastructure. One of those vendors,…
Engine Yard on Windows Azure? Yup, You Read that Right
azure, Engine Yard, Heroku, Microsoft, netsuite, Open source, Platform as a service, Windows Azure
Lost in the outpouring of interest about last week’s announcements between Oracle and sometime enemies Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce was an interesting piece of news – that Engine Yard was going to begin supporting Windows Azure. This is kind…
SOA Announced API Management for Microsoft Azure
Application programming interface, azure, Microsoft, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft SQL Server, SOA Software, Steven Willmott, Windows Azure
Modern applications owe their flexibility and ease of use to the rise of the API economy Essentially the API is the base component that allows applications and data sources to talk to each other. The massive rise in importance…
Microsoft’s Cloud OS Play–A Logical Converged Cloud Offering
Azure Services Platform, cloud computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Servers, Microsoft Windows, Windows Azure, Windows Intune, Windows Server
A week or two ago, Microsoft made a slew of announcements all aimed at creating a consistent story around hybrid cloud services. It’s a compelling product launch, and one which, frankly, takes Microsoft which was only a year or…
Apprenda and Appfog Power Hybrid .NET
.NET Framework, AppFog, Application programming interface, Apprenda, Cloudfoundry, Heroku, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Platform as a service, Quest Software, Sinclair Schuller, Windows Azure
I’ve always had a soft spot for .NET PaaS provider Apprenda, they were one of the very first PaaS providers, their CEO Sinclair Schuller is a thought leader around PaaS and Cloud more generally and they display a laser…
Greenbutton Nabs Microsoft, Swiftpoint Nabs Costco
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Earlier this year the Country music duo Montgomery Gentry lost Troy Gentry when he died in a helicopter crash.
Next year the band celebrates 20 years of making music.
On February 2 the band will release a new album – “Here’s to You”. The band starts off the new year with a tour to support the album. It will mark the first time that Montgomery Gentry will perform without Troy Gentry.
Jan 19 at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, SD
Jan 20 at The Family Arena in St. Charles, MO
Feb 9 at The Blue Note in Columbia, MO
Feb 10 at Boondocks in Springfield, IL
Feb 23 at the 8 Seconds Saloon in Indianapolis, IN
March 2 at the Upstate Concert Hall in Clifton Park, NY
March 3 at Phase 2 in Lynchburg, VA
March 9 at Kegs Canalside in Jordan, NY
March 10 at Jergel’s in Warrendale, PA
March 16 at the Thirsty Cowboy in Medina, OH
March 17 at The Bluestone in Columbus, OH
March 22 at the Country Club Dance Hall and Saloon in Augusta, GA
March 23 at Iron City in Birmingham, AL
June 2 at the Chingawassa Days Festival in Marion, KS
July 6 at the Country Concert at Hickory Hill Lakes in Ft. Loramie, OH
July 13 at the ND Country Fest in New Salem ND
July 14 at the Pierz Freedom Fest in Pierz, MN
July 20 at the Jefferson County Fair in Hillsboro, MO
July 21 at The Boogie in Springville, IN
July 27 at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, CT
July 28 at the Criterion Theater in Bar Harbor, ME
Aug 2 at the Wisconsin State Fair in East Allis, WI
Aug 17 at the Muskingum County Fair in Zanesville, OH
Sept 8 at the Little River Casino in Manistee, MI
Sept 15 at Boots and Brews in Ventura, CA
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Posts Tagged ‘Justin Young Interview’
Where In Hawaii is Edward Sugimoto? – April 1, 2009
Yeah, I know it’s Wednesday and the millions 10 of you reading this blog errry week are dying to guess this week’s Where In Hawaii contest, but we’re gonna switch it up a bit this week. Today we’re gonna let our emotions go while sharing our deepest, darkest secrets with one another around the virtual camp fire…
APRIL FOOLS!
You’ve gots ta be kiddin’… Wednesdays = Where In Hawaii Wednesdays and I sure as heck can’t let all 10 of you down, naw-mean!? 😛
Last week, sistah snow got back to her winning ways by correctly guessing Zippy’s. She even scooped on the bonus points by guessing Zip Min too. Sheez, “Next Stop” expert eh snow? 😉
I’m pretty sure this week is another easy one, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see right? Go getum!
Hint: If necessary…
Da “Where In Hawaii” Winnahz Circle!
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – March 25, 2009: snow (Zippy’s Restaurant, Honolulu)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – March 18, 2009: Takeshi (Little Seoul Korean Restaurant, Honolulu)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – March 11, 2009: jack (Mai Tai Bar, Honolulu)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – March 4, 2009: frankie (Coffee or Tea, Honolulu)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – February 25, 2009: skycastles (California Pizza Kitchen, Honolulu)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – February 18, 2009: Ynaku (Shokudo Restaurant, Honolulu)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – February 11, 2009: Paco (Mililani Restaurant, Mililani)
Where In Hawaii Vegas Is Edward Sugimoto – February 4, 2009: Takeshi (Garden Court at the Main Street Station Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 28, 2009: Coconut Willy (Princeville Resort, Princeville, Kauai)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 21, 2009: Paco (Taiyo Ramen, Honolulu)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 14, 2009: Paco (Spaghettini, Haleiwa)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 7, 2009: Coconut Willy (Island Snow, Kailua)
Where In Hawaii Japan Is Edward Sugimoto – December 17, 2008: Rodney (Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – December 10, 2008: HNL2LAS (International Marketplace)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – November 19, 2008: Coconut Willy with credit to che for the hints (Lanikuhonua)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – November 12, 2008: snow (Duke Kahanamoku Statue, Waikiki)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – November 5, 2008: snow (Big Kahuna’s Marketplace in the Waikiki Shopping Plaza)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – October 29, 2008: jr. (Waiola Store)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – October 22, 2008: Coconut Willy (Gina’s Bar-B-Q)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – October 15, 2008: HNL2LAS (Jurison’s Inn)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – October 8, 2008: jr. (Makapu`u Lighthouse Trail)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – October 1, 2008: HNL2LAS (Dole Plantation)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – September 24, 2008: teej (M Matsumoto Grocery Store or Matsumoto’s Shave Ice Sign)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – September 17, 2008: M (Tree Tunnel on Highway 520 (Maluhia Road) in Kauai)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – September 10, 2008: snow (Tasaka Guri Guri, Maui)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – September 3, 2008: M with props to Rodney (Laie Point State Wayside)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – August 27, 2008: nobody!, but dsosa was close (Camp Erdman)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – August 20, 2008: BarbieQ! (Old Koloa Town)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – August 6, 2008: kako mochi (Kincaid’s)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – July 30, 2008: ijiwarui (Dave & Buster’s)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – July 23, 2008: MoOgooGuypAN and Coconut Willy’s wifey (La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – June 27, 2008: GumbysHorse (White Plains Beach, Barber’s Point)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – May 19, 2008: nobody! (the mall fronting Kekaulike Market in Chinatown)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – May 7, 2008: nobody!, but 1dble was pretty dang close (Ward area, more specifically, right in front of the Starbucks/Big City Diner area)
* Who’s toast this week for American Idol?
Check out my latest AroundHawaii.com article… an Interview with Bruddah Justin Young! Let me know what you think man!
Just In Time – A Conversation With Justin Young, Superstar In the Making
Happy Hump Day Where In Hawaii Wednesday y’all. 🙂
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I still remember it like it was yesterday. The year was 1995. The place was Tower Records Kahala (R.I.P). I was with my boy Grant, vibin’ on the new “Hawaiian” releases on Tower’s listening stations, and came across a new fella by the name of “Justin.”
The album was “No Better Time Than Now” and featured a young dude in a white tank, crouching on a sandy beach, holding a uke. I was like, “Oh, I gotsta see what this bad boy is all about!”
Justin Young’s debut album – No Better Time Than Now
One by one, bruddah impressed me with his soulful, unique tone, mature beyond his appearance (he looked 12 on the cover). I loved the way he infused his R&B/Soul inflection into every one of these otherwise local kine jams… And then, I got to track 7: Ikona. ‘Scuse the French, but hooooly crap! Bruddah can SANG!
I was sold. This boy’s gonna get some airtime in my Civic hatchback on the way home and Grant was gonna like it.
Weeks later, I was still boomin’ it in the big red machine and I told myself that I needs ta get a hold of him to get him on the Internet. He’s got way too much talent to keep cooped up locally. The world, beyond Hawaii, has got to find out about this gifted brutha, and I wanted to be the guy to help him out.
Eventually, I was able to contact him and find out that he was down for a lil’ WWW action as well. We met up, talked about stuffs, and a new www.justinsmusic.com web site (and friendship) was born.
Justin and the author, back in the day
As expected, thanks to local airplay, his notoriety in the islands exploded with hit songs like “No Better Time Than Now,” “Crazy Love,” “Soothe You,” “Streets of Waiks,” “Never Forget Where I’m From,” “My Eyes Adore You,” “Leaving On a Jet Plane,” “Gonna Meet the Clouds,” “More Than Words, ” and “Shake Me.”
After a successful career in the 808, it was time for Justin to try and parlay that into success in Hollywood. He made the move to L.A. in the early 2000s and has been slowly but surely making headway in his goal of “making it.” He changed his hair cut ( 😛 ), has been gigging regularly, released several self-produced albums, had songs featured on feature films, and is now recording and touring with national recording phenomenon (and local girl) Colbie Caillat.
Here’s his story…
Edward Sugimoto) Give us a little Justin history (Were you a rascal? Good student? Girl Crazy?) and were you always interested in music from small kid time?
Justin Young) I’d say I was a good kid and I THINK my mom would agree. My mom did a good job of shaping me into one of those kids that wants to be good because that’s the right thing to do, and not because I was afraid of getting caught. I can’t say that I ever liked school, but I was always a good student. I was always pretty shy and on the quiet side in school though. Ha! Never girl “crazy”. I was always quietly pining away for a girl who I was too scared to talk to or who wasn’t reciprocating the crush. I’d just stay home and try and write a song to win her over…Maybe if they had been crazy for me I could have been girl crazy. Don’t think that was ever an option. I have always loved music. I used to sing songs from The Sound of Music and Annie to the neighbor’s cats and dog when I was like 3. I played in bands in high school, so it’s always been there.
Little Justin
Edward Sugimoto) Your mom has been an inspiration for you in your life. Describe your relationship with her.
Justin Young) My mom is great. It has always just been me and her growing up- so we have a special relationship. Although she was a single parent, she never looked at our situation as anything less than a blessing, even through financial struggles. Besides being a good parent, she was a volunteer in the Peace Corp and has dedicated most of her life as a teacher to helping children. She’s teaching overseas right now and I miss having her in Hawai’i when I’m back home.
Justin and his mama
Edward Sugimoto) Hobbies, other than music?
Justin Young) Being a Chicago Bears fan, playing basketball, watching football, watching documentary films, checking out live music, listening to public radio.
Edward Sugimoto) Do you have a day job or is music what pays the bills?
Justin Young) I used to joke that my day job was doing those four hour bar gigs playing cover songs all night. But no, no day job. I haven’t had a “real” job since high school when I worked for my friend’s janitorial service. Yes, I worked part-time in high school as a janitor. I mean, those urinals weren’t going to clean themselves! Glad the music thing has worked out…So far.
Having fun in the studio in August, 2003
Edward Sugimoto) What is a typical day in the life of Justin Young?
Justin Young) That’s a tough one because there is no typical day really. I guess when I’m off the road and there’s nothing going on- it starts with cereal and almond milk, and at some point there is coffee, some emailing, some guitar time and some exercise. Recently I’ve been wasting an hour of my life everyday playing Madden on my PSP.
Edward Sugimoto) I know you’re a hardcore Bears fan? It was close in ’05 and ’06 and even ’01, but how tough has the last couple of decades been? *grin*
Justin Young) Oh boy, it has been rough. When I was a kid I used to try to stay home from school on Mondays after losses. It has gotten easier in some ways though. I try and just enjoy watching the games and to not be so attached to the outcome. The whole thing is a zen lesson for me. And it is true- losses DO help you appreciate the wins. Now when I do get tied up in knots over a game, I listen to the Chicago radio stations’ post-game shows online. I call it my “therapy”. People rant and rave about the Bears and somehow- I feel better knowing that I’m not alone in my pain.
Da Bears! [Photo Courtesy Justin’s MySpace]
Edward Sugimoto) How would you describe your music to a first time listener?
Justin Young) Oh crap, I should be able to answer this…Um, acoustic based, island influenced, soulful, pop music? Or something. I love the sound of soulful songwriters like Amos Lee and David Ryan Harris.
Edward Sugimoto) Though your voice is still as unreal as I remember, your sound is very different from your days in Hawaii. Describe the evolution of Justin starting with your days here (in Hawaii) to now.
Justin Young) Well, I recorded my first record 12 years ago. (Whoa!) Didn’t have much experience performing or recording and the first songs I wrote ended up on that album. I think just experience – musically and living life – has had as much to do with it as anything. I’m glad I haven’t stayed exactly the same after 12 years.
Justin gigging at The Living Room in New York City [Photo Courtesy Justin’s MySpace]
Edward Sugimoto) When did you first realize that music was your calling?
Justin Young) I guess 8th grade is when I realized I wanted to do music. I just LOVED it. I’d spend hours after school arranging harmony parts and learning songs by ear. When you’re young you don’t realize that becoming a famous singer is pretty farfetched. I just believed that I could make it happen.
Justin takes aim at a career in music [Photo Courtesy Justin’s MySpace]
Edward Sugimoto) Who are your musical influences/heroes?
Justin Young) Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Donny Hathaway, Boyz II Men, A Tribe Called Quest…That’s a good place to start. Those are the people who first made me want to do what they do SO badly.
Edward Sugimoto) If you could work with anyone in the music industry who would it be and why?
Justin Young) I STILL want to work with Boyz II Men. That’s one of those childhood dreams that will always be there. I would also love to work with Amel Larrieux. She has one of my favorite voices of all time and seems like such a cool chick.
Edward Sugimoto) If you could emulate anyone’s career in the music industry, who would it be and why?
Justin Young) I have to say that Jack Johnson seems to do it right. He has been extremely successful without compromising who he is and what’s important to him. He balances his career and family and has furthered philanthropic causes that he’s passionate about through his music, really making a difference- but never being preachy. Can’t draw it up any better than that, I’d say. Kudos!
Justin and Jack Johnson at the 27th Annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 2004
Edward Sugimoto) What is your fantasy concert scenario?
Justin Young) Man, I’ve gotten to be on stage with some amazing musicians. Half of the time I feel like Forest Gump, somehow ending up in the middle of all this great stuff happening. So I’m content. I have to say that one of the coolest things that happened to me on tour was when we performed on a TV show in Paris. We had flown over night from Mexico (DON’T DRINK THE WATER!!!) and sick with no sleep we went straight to tape this show. When we got there we found out it was hosted by Manu Katche, world renowned drummer. I found a dark hallway to warm up in (as to not bother anyone) and I started singing a new song I wrote. About a minute into it walks out Pino Palladino. He is one of the funkiest bass players ever and someone I had recently become slightly obsessed with because of his work with D’angelo- live and on the VooDoo album. He strolls out with his wife and tells me they had to come out and see who was playing and they were so encouraging and complementary. That was a moment!
Edward Sugimoto) What is your ultimate goal musically?
Justin Young) Honestly, I just want to do something great. I appreciate a “good” song or performance, but greatness…That’s special. I want to someday- as Bruce Spingsteen has put it- “make 1 +1= 3.”
Justin at Pakele Lounge in 2007
Edward Sugimoto) Whether it be in your music, or your clothes (slippers), or stickers (of the Hawaiian Islands, etc.) you put on your guitar, or never forgetting your friends from back in the day, you seem to always remember your roots and where you came from. I’ve always admired that about you. Put this into words if you can. Is reppin’ Hawaii important to you?
Justin Young) It’s really not so much a conscious choice, it’s just part of me and a part of the way I express myself. But, yes I am very proud of where I’m from. Especially living away from home, I cherish where I came from.
Justin – never forgetting where he’s from [Photo Courtesy Justin’s MySpace]
Edward Sugimoto) You’ve been touring with Colbie Caillat for some time now, and you’ve even got a duet with her (“Turn Your Lights Down Low”) on the radio now. How has that experience been so far?
Justin Young) Amazing. The experience of touring the world with a hit record is rare. I’m just happy I got to go along for the ride. We could do a whole interview just about this, but to sum it up- touring was wonderful and exhausting. Colbie is great! Just as sweet and talented as you’d hope. I love everyone on that tour and made lifelong friends. I feel grateful for the past year and a half.
Justin on stage with Colbie Caillat [Photo Courtesy Justin’s MySpace]
Edward Sugimoto) Be honest, it must be nice standing across the stage and hearing Colbie sing “I wanna give you some good good lovin'” to you. 😛
Justin Young) No complaint here! It’s nice hearing Colbs sing anything to you. She has such a special gift. Her voice and her instincts as a singer are incredible. She also has one of my favorite voices of all time. Girl can sang! She still trips me out. We do show after show and if I am ever not feeling into it that night, I just focus in and listen to her singing and it takes me to where I need to be. What a job I have!
Edward Sugimoto) Is it nice to finally get the recognition that you’ve fought so hard for and no doubt deserve/earned?
Justin Young) Well, it’s interesting. I mean, the better part of me hopes I don’t need recognition. But yeah, it has given me a sense of validation as a musician that I had lost as the background music/bar guy I became for a while in LA. But on the other hand, all the things we’re doing, I can’t really take credit for. It’s Colbie’s accomplishments and I’m just a lucky spoke in the wheel.
Edward Sugimoto) Where would your life be if it wasn’t for music?
Justin Young) I’d probably be in jail or on the streets. Haha… Nah, isn’t that what people usually say? I’d love to be a documentary filmmaker.
Edward Sugimoto) What is the most exciting/rewarding part of doing music?
Justin Young) There isn’t one particular part for me that stands out. I guess the best part is just the fulfillment that anyone gets when they are doing what they are passionate about and they’re called to do. That’s how it should be and what I wish for everyone to find and have the courage and faith to follow.
Passionate about his music [Photo Courtesy Justin’s MySpace]
Edward Sugimoto) What’s next for you?
Justin Young) Right now I’m doing some work on Colbie’s new record with some serious musicians. Again, feeling like Forest Gump. I’m also really excited to record a new album of my own with a producer/engineer friend out here in LA. Gonna get into a real studio this time and have a pro turning the knobs. Then I’ll be out touring again with Colbs and sneaking in my own shows when I can. Oh, and of course impatiently waiting for my Bears to start the next football season.
Edward Sugimoto) Anything else to add to your friend/fans out there?
Justin Young) I gotta give a shout out to a guy that was very instrumental in helping my career. Back when I was on 56k dial-up, he approached me about putting together this crazy new thing called a “website” on the world wide interweb…Hehe. He’s been a huge help and a great supporter and friend. Ed Sugimoto, wherever you are, take a bow!
Coming full circle: Justin being as generous and giving as always. He flew down, performed at, and totally legitimized my wedding [Photo Courtesy Kiman Wong]
I look forward to the day when Justin does make it. He’s as genuine as they come and it can’t happen to a better person. I cross my fingers on the regular and hope that some label or record producer would one day give him a chance. It would be a true, inspirational story that shows that hard work and persistence pays off. An end (or beginning?) of a long journey that started back in ’95. When will it happen?
No better time than now.
Justin Young [Photo Courtesy Justin’s MySpace]
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Windows on Worlds
Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings
Category: The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019
Born Bone Born (洗骨, Toshiyuki Teruya, 2018)
February 13, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon Leave a comment
“Is this really Japan?!” asks the bemused boyfriend of the protagonist of Born Bone Born (洗骨, Senkotsu), only to be met with the reply “on paper, at least”. Comedian Toshiyuki Teruya, better known as Gori, returns to his native Okinawa for his second feature but to an island culture of which he was completely unaware. Aguni is one of the last on which the ancient ritual of “Senkotsu” or “bone washing” still takes place.
Beloved matriarch Emiko (Mariko Tsutsui) died four years ago. Now the time for her “senkotsu” is approaching. Daughter Yuko (Ayame Misaki) has come home, but with a secret. She is heavily pregnant and as yet unmarried, a fact she knows will scandalise the still conservative island community. Meanwhile, her her father Nobutsuna (Eiji Okuda) has retreated into drunken reverie, unable to accept his wife’s death or the many disappointments of his life. Yuko is waiting for her brother, Tsuyoshi (Michitaka Tsutsui), to arrive before explaining any further about the baby, but he even he is much less supportive than she hoped he might be and seems to be dealing with some troubles of his own which might explain why his wife and daughter have not accompanied him on this very difficult family occasion.
The island of Aguni practices open air burial, which is to say the bodies are enclosed in a wooden coffin and entombed in cave. Four years later the relatives return, retrieve the body and wash the bones before re-enclosing them in a smaller casket which will then be interred on the island’s “other world”. It is, of course, a difficult and frightening prospect to consider seeing one’s loved ones in such an altered state – so much so that many cannot bear to do it without getting roaring drunk which at least ameliorates the solemnity of the occasion. The human terror is in a sense the point as an exercise not only in memento mori but in acceptance of total loss and the finality of the physical.
Before all that, however, you still have to live and the Shinjos are having a fairly hard time of it. A small island somewhat trapped in the past, Aguni is intensely conservative and so the local old ladies can’t get their heads around Yuko’s unwed pregnancy. Yuko of course knew this would be the case but could hardly refuse to come and has braced herself for the worst of it. However, after the initial shock has worn off, she finds an unexpected ally in her stern aunt Nobuko (Yoko Ohshima) who assures her that if she finds it hard to raise the child on her own she can always come back to the island where she and Nobuko’s daughter will help if needed. Her father Nobutsuna, in boozy fog as he is, is also broadly supportive even if her brother shows little sign of coming round, engaging in unexpected small town conservatism as he accuses his little sister not only of shaming the family but of becoming a burden on it too.
In a motif that will be repeated, it’s the men who struggle to cope with loss while the women get on with life with stoicism and fortitude. Nobutsuna has remained unable to come to terms with Emiko’s death, drinking himself into oblivion while blaming himself for placing undue strain on her after their family business went bust. Nevertheless he is a good hearted man who wants the best for everyone even if his mild-mannered deference has Tsuyoshi sniping at the sidelines for his supposed fecklessness. He too blames his father for his mother’s death, but is also struggling with the elders’ expectation that he will return home to the island to take over as head of the family while there is evidently something else going on in his life which has left him irritable and judgemental.
If nothing else the Senkotsu ritual forces each of them to accept the fact of Emiko’s death, but also of her life and their own place within a great chain of humanity stretching both forward and back. In a sense, as Tsuyoshi puts it, it’s their own bones they’re washing in honour of the undying part of Emiko that exists in all of them and something of her kindly spirit certainly seems to be present on the beach that day as the family slowly repairs itself, emerging from their deep seated grief back to the friendly island solidarity as they resolve to treasure what they have in acknowledgement of what is to come.
Born Bone Born was screened as part of the 2019 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
Original trailer (no subtitles)
Posted in Japan, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019Tagged 2010s, 2018, Akira Fukuhara, Akira Sakamoto, Ayame Misaki, Eiji Okuda, Eri Maehara, Japan, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019, Kanako Fukuda, Kokoa Hokama, Mariko Tsutsui, Michitaka Tsutsui, Misako Koja, Okinawa, Qtaro Suzuki, Tomoji Yamashiro, Toshiyuki Teruya, Yoko Oshima, Yuji Shiruma
Good Stripes (グッド・ストライプス, Yukiko Sode, 2015)
February 12, 2019 February 12, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon Leave a comment
The international media has become somewhat obsessed with the idea of Japan as a land of wilfully lonely singletons who’ve rejected the idea of home and family either in favour of the easier pleasures of one way virtual romance, or simply because a series of economic and social problems have made married life an unaffordable luxury. This is of course an exaggeration, but it is true enough that younger people have more choices which can, in some cases, lead to more worries and confusion. The young couple at the centre of Yukiko Sode’s Good Stripes (グッド・ストライプス) are in this sense a perfect encapsulation of their generation as they find themselves vacillating in the face of an unexpected crisis.
Midori (Akiko Kikuchi) and Masao (Ayumu Nakajima) have been together four years and truth be told the relationship seems to have run its course. Masao is about to jet off to India for three whole months yet Midori hardly seems bothered. While he’s away she stops responding to his messages, leaving him feeling even more isolated and alone so far away from home. Just when it seems the time has come to part, Midori realises she is pregnant, and as she’s already five months gone the most important decision has already been made for them. Wanting to do the “right” thing, Midori and Masao decide to marry and raise their baby in the conventional fashion yet they do so rather reluctantly and with a degree of mutual resentment.
The more we see of Midori and Masao, the more difficult it becomes to figure out how they got together in the first place. He is a typical middle class boy from a professional home (albeit a somewhat atypical one) and she a free spirit who grew up in the countryside. Midori doesn’t fit with Masao’s supercilious friends, one of whom is extremely rude and often makes a point of making fun of her while Masao eventually joins in rather than defend his girlfriend from what is really a little bit more than good natured banter. Reaching their late twenties they’re at the age where most of their friends are settling down, but they remain somewhat diffident, apparently not planning to stay together forever but not quite getting round to breaking up.
Things being the way they are, it’s all a little unplanned which is perhaps why Masao bristles when Midori finally moves into his well appointed apartment. He doesn’t have anywhere to put her things and is unwilling to shift any of his own, claiming putting up additional shelving would disrupt the balance of the room. Inviting someone else into your life must necessarily unbalance it, requiring at least a period of recalibration until a new equilibrium is reached, but Masao’s brief moment of resentment is perhaps understandable as he wrestles with being railroaded into a decision he isn’t sure he wanted to make.
Nevertheless, he tries to make the best of things by keeping quiet to keep the peace. Later when we meet Masao’s strangely “cute” doctor mother, she wonders if she made a mistake in the way that she chose to raise him. Having left Masao’s father when he was only five, she vowed to raise her son to be chivalrous – always carry the bags, be the first to apologise after a fight etc, but now wonders if she taught him to be superficially polite while inwardly seething with repressed anger and terrified of confrontation. Supportive to a point, Masao’s mother is also perhaps a little exasperated by the youngsters’ halfhearted attempt to embrace responsibility while quietly doubtful if they can really stay the course.
A meeting with Midori’s rowdy country family including her “difficult” spinster older sister and the equally free spirited younger one who makes fireworks for a living, proves eye opening for Masao as the only child of a sophisticated home but it’s an unexpected reunion with his own long absent father which eventually sets him on a course towards addressing his feelings of rootlessness and issues with intimacy. Resentful of his circumstances he begins having an affair with a pretty college friend only to come to hate himself during a torrid night in a hotel in which he suddenly realises what he’s getting up to is “all a bit animalistic”. Reconnecting with his father and realising that while they share certain similarities with each other they are all but strangers perhaps allows him to let go of his longstanding issues of abandonment and pursue his own desires which he’s fond of claiming to have abandoned altogether after discovering in childhood that nothing turned out the way he expected.
Midori and Masao may be two people railroaded into a future neither of them is quite sure they wanted, but in the end being forced to deal with a shared crisis does eventually bring them closer together if only in being forced to address their very separate issues both independently and as a couple. “Why take it out on me?” Midori snaps by accident, sensing Masao’s discomfort in dealing with some surprising revelations from his father, before thinking better of it and reverting to a more supportive position but her words do perhaps get through to her conflicted boyfriend even if he only really comes to accept his responsibility when forced to fish her out of a drainage ditch, reassured by her claims that there’s no need to worry because she’s the 100% boring sort of person that nothing ever really happens to. Giggling at the strangeness of it all, the pair vow their commitment to each other in the presence of the god of overcoming obstacles, together at last just as they prepare for their lives to be “unbalanced” all over again.
Good Stripes was screened as part of the 2019 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
Posted in Japan, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019Tagged 2010s, 2015, Akiko Kikuchi, Asami Usuda, Ayumu Nakajima, Itsuki Sagara, Japan, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019, Japanese, Juri Ihata, Kyoko, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Yasuyuki Sasaki, Yukiko Sode, Yuko Nakamura, Yuko Yamamoto, Yuri Miyauchi, Yuya Sekiguchi
Three Stories of Love (恋人たち, Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2015)
Ryosuke Hashiguchi began his career with a collection of sometimes melancholy but ultimately hopeful tales of gay life in contemporary Japan. In 2008 he branched out with the finely tuned emotional drama All Around Us which followed an ordinary couple’s attempt to come to terms with the loss of a child. Three Stories of Love (恋人たち, Koibitotachi) finds him in much the same territory as he takes three very different yet equally burdened romantics and sets them on a path towards a kind of acceptance while suffering inside a system where everyone seems to be intent on exploiting other people’s unhappiness.
The first of our heroes, Atsushi (Atsushi Shinohara), is a bridge inspector whose wife was murdered in a random street attack three years previously. Ever since then he’s suffered with depression and found it difficult to hold down a job or a life and has become obsessed with getting personal revenge on the killer who pleaded the insanity defence and was committed to psychiatric care rather than to prison. Meanwhile, across town, listless housewife Toko (Toko Narushima) is trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering husband and living with her snooty mother-in-law. Toko’s only outlet is compulsively rewatching a shaky video of the time she and her friends witnessed Princess Masako briefly exit a building. The third of our heroes, Shinomiya (Ryo Ikeda), is a self involved lawyer with a longstanding crush on his straight best friend from college who has since married and had a young son.
The three strands are only loosely interconnected, occurring as they do in the same city at the same time, though they do each share a sense of defeat and impossibility as each of our heroes struggles either to escape from or come to terms with their difficult circumstances. Atsushi’s case is perhaps the most extreme as he deals not only with his grief and anger but with the persistent stigma of being involved with violent crime. Visited by his bubbly sister-in-law he idly remembers to ask after the man she was about to marry last time they met only to be told that he abruptly dumped her after her sister’s death and not only that, all her friends abandoned her too. Getting revenge has become Atsushi’s only reason for living – he stopped paying his health insurance to get money together for fancy lawyers like Shinomiya who convinced him he could lodge a civil case but were only ever stringing him along to fleece him of money he never really had.
Shinomiya is, in a sense, our villain. He listens dispassionately to his wealthy clients – including one woman seeking a divorce (Chika Uchida) because her husband forgot to tell her he was burakumin until after they were married, but privately mocks them and is so unpleasant to his colleagues that someone eventually pushes him down a flight of stairs, breaking his leg. Intensely self-involved, he cares little for other people’s feelings save for those of his forlorn love Satoshi (So Yamanaka). Satoshi’s wife Etsuko, originally friendly and understanding, eventually takes against Shinomiya either because she doesn’t like the way he fiddled with her son’s ears or resents the two men cooing over the child and accidentally making her feel like an unwelcome outsider. Introducing his much younger boyfriend only seems to make matters worse, though the relationship does seem to have its problematic dimensions even if not in the way Etsuko decides to interpret them as Shinomiya takes pains to run down his partner in public and berate him at home. It’s difficult to resist the interpretation that Shinomiya prefers younger lovers because he can boss them around and, in truth, he doesn’t even seem very attached to this one, but he’s about to get a very rude awakening when it comes to learning that he’s not as permanent a part of everyone else’s lives as he seems to think.
Atsushi is fleeced by the Shinomiyas of the world and his heartless health insurers, but he’s wily enough to spot the obvious scam in the lovelorn office boy’s sudden enthusiasm for magical beautifying water which turns out to be part of a bar lady’s (Tamae Ando) nefarious scheme to resell the tapped variety with some of her own glamour shots attached to the front. Toko is wily enough to see it too, though she eventually succumbs when would-be-chicken-farmer Fujita (Ken Mitsuishi), whom she met at work during a difficult moment with her boss, delivers her some on spec. Lonely and insecure, Toko appreciates the unexpected interest but Fujita is not the white knight she first assumes him to be and is eventually exposed as yet another scam artist gunning for the little money she might have been able to hide away in her rabidly penny pinching home.
Shinomiya might feel himself proud to be among the fleecers rather than the fleeced, but he soon gets a comeuppance in realising he has wilfully pulled the wool over his own eyes, blinded in a sense by love. Toko, meanwhile, has learned to accept the latent feudalism of the modern society in her obsession with royalty though a brief attempt to transcend her feelings of innate inferiority seems destined to end in failure if perhaps engineering a mild improvement in her familial circumstances. Atsushi alone, a man whose job it is to assess the foundations, begins to find a degree of equilibrium thanks largely to nothing more than a good friend willing to listen and share his own suffering. Exploitation of others’ misfortunes and a series of social prejudices conspire against our three lovers but perhaps there is something to be said for learning to find the blue sky from whichever vantage point you happen to be occupying no matter how small and distant it may be.
Three Stories of Love was screened as part of the 2019 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
Posted in Japan, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019Tagged 2010s, 2015, Atsushi Shinohara, Chika Uchida, Daisuke Kuroda, Hana Kino, Japan, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019, Japanese, Ken Mitsuishi, Lily Franky, Ryo Ikeda, Ryosuke Hashiguchi, So Yamanaka, Takashi Yamanaka, Tamae Ando, Toko Narushima
Tonight, at the Movies (今夜、ロマンス劇場で, Hideki Takeuchi, 2018)
February 10, 2019 February 10, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon 1 Comment
The romance of the silver screen is one that never fades. Cinema has long been in love with itself, wilfully trapped inside the nostalgia of its own origins and youthful glory days. Nevertheless, we love it too and it’s a rare film fan who can resist the allure of the golden age backlot. With Tonight, at the Movies (今夜、ロマンス劇場で, Konya, Romansu Gekijo de, AKA Color Me True) Hideki Takeuchi becomes the latest in a long line of directors including Koki Mitani and Yoji Yamada to pay homage to world of classic Japanese cinema only this time he opts for a double rainbow as his eternal dreamer hero laments the loss of ‘30s glamour in the declining movie world of 1960 while his older self looks back on the bygone pleasures of his youth.
In 1960, Kenji (Kentaro Sakaguchi) is an assistant director at Kyoei film studios. Well, AD is what it says on his payslip, but Kenji is a mild mannered sort who mostly ends up doing odd jobs like ferrying props around and painting backdrops, mostly because he’s too much of a soft touch to push for anything else. The shy and beautiful daughter of the studio chief, Toko Naruse (Tsubasa Honda) – note the name, has fallen for him, but Kenji only has eyes for the silver screen. He spends his evenings at the local rep cinema “Romance Theatre” where he watches the daily programme and then bribes the owner (Akira Emoto) to make use of the projection booth after hours to watch his favourite forgotten classic, “The Tomboy Princess and the Jolly Beasts”. After a freak lightning strike and power outage, Kenji is shocked to discover that Miyuki (Haruka Ayase), the Tomboy Princess herself, has escaped from the silver screen and ventured into the Technicolor world.
After opening within the world of the film within the film, Takeuchi hops us forward to the contemporary era of cellphones and an ageing society as a kindly nurse laments that no one ever seems to come and see her favourite patient, Mr. Makino (Go Kato), except his granddaughter who everyone agrees is unnecessarily cold towards him. Makino is something of a key name in Japanese movie history having belonged to Shozo Makino who is often regarded as the father of Japanese cinema, and to his son Masahiro who was best known for his jidaigeki but also for his love of song and dance as seen in such cheerful hits as Singing Lovebirds which seems to have in part inspired the brief musical number in The Tomboy Princess sung by her Jolly Beasts in true ‘30s style. As we assume, Mr. Makino is Kenji 50 years later though we quickly realise that he was not able to live up to the promise of his name and never became the top film director of his dreams.
This is (partly) because we meet Kenji at what is really the beginning of an end. By 1960, the golden age was drawing to a close and studios were beginning to feel the heat from the growing popularity of television. In 10 years time, Kenji’s studio will no longer exist and the industry will have undergone a series of seismic shifts that will forever change the cinematic landscape. Yet even now Kenji is looking back rather than forwards – he worships the world of twenty years previously with its cheerful if nonsensical musical adventures and most particularly that of the Tomboy Princess who dares to rebel against her destiny by leaving her life of comfort behind to seek adventure in a foreign land, ours.
As the voice over from the melancholy rep cinema manager reminds us, film is fleeting but even forgotten films have the magical power to bring colour to someone’s heart. Both Kenji and the cinema manager have a deep seated reverence for movie making and feel almost sorry for the myriad films lying dormant in rusty cans waiting for someone to find them. The heroine of just such a film, Miyuki in turn is a lonely cinema ghost whose era has long since passed.
In Kenji she has finally found an adoring audience though the pair remain separated by an invisible screen even as their fated romance proceeds along the expected lines. Taken as metaphor, Kenji’s all encompassing obsession with a character from an old movie is not especially healthy and later leads him to reject the possibility of a full and conventional romance with a woman who loves him as well as give up on his dreams of movie making. He has, in a sense, decided to marry “cinema” with all the questionable aspects of that decision. In this case, however, “cinema” has taken real physical form even if that form is not available to him physically. Kenji and Miyuki remain on two sides of an invisible screen, but it is clear that the love flows both ways and, perhaps crucially, causes them both pain in their inability to exist fully within the same physical space.
Filled with a wealth of references to cinema classics from Japan and beyond, Tonight, at the Movies is a beautiful fairytale romance well worthy of its cinematic pedigree. Cinema is a theoretical paradox where permanence and impermanence meet thanks to the magic of the movies. Nostalgia may be a trap, but it’s a beautiful one to fall into.
Tonight, at the Movies was screened as part of the 2019 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
Posted in Japan, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019Tagged Akira Emoto, Akiyoshi Nakao, Anna Ishibashi, Go Kato, Haruka Ayase, Hideki Takeuchi, Japan, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019, Japanese, Kazuki Kitamura, Keisuke Uyama, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Mitsuhiro Tada, Norihito Sumitomo, Tokuma Nishioka, Tsubasa Honda
Thicker than Water (犬猿, Keisuke Yoshida, 2018)
February 9, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon Leave a comment
In the long history of the Japanese family drama, the tensions are generally vertical rather than horizontal. Siblings are often engaged in trying to broker the peace or snatch a little bit of independent living away from an all consuming family environment. Then again, we meet most families when the kids are gown up and struggling with their approaching transition into other families or other lives. Kids fight, but grown up brothers and sisters are supposed to find a degree of civility at least even if the petty resentments of childhood never quite go away. For the parallel pairs of mismatched siblings at the centre of Thicker than Water (犬猿, Kenen), however, the reverse is true.
Older sister Yuria (Keiko Enoue) has taken over the family print shop now that her father is bedridden while her younger, prettier sister Mako (Miwako Kakei) is struggling to make it as an actress. Often resentful of her sister’s domineering, business-like attitude, Mako wilfully targets her weaknesses by making barbed comments about her weight and appearance of which she knows Yuria is insecure. Yuria, meanwhile, treats her sister as a foolish child, immediately taking over rather than let Mako do something “wrong” and thereby chipping into her insecurities about a lack of intelligence.
The spiky dynamic between the two sisters intensifies when Yuria develops a crush on a handsome young salaryman who makes regular visits to the shop to get his posters printed. Kazunari (Masataka Kubota), however, predictably falls for Mako (who is only interested in him as a way of annoying her sister). Meanwhile, he has sibling drama of his own in that his no good, thuggish older brother Takuji (Hirofumi Arai) has just been released from prison and made an unwelcome reappearance in his life.
What exists between the siblings isn’t quite “rivalry”, mostly they aren’t fighting over parental affection or esteem so much reacting against their obviously complimentary characteristics. Yuria envies Mako’s beauty, while Mako secretly envies her sister’s intellectual confidence even if she also resents her bossiness and affectation of superiority in order to mask her insecurity. Kazunari makes a show of his earnestness, that he’s doing everything “properly” – working hard, living within his means, paying off his parents’ debts and saving for his retirement, while underneath it all he envies his brother’s non-conformity even if its risks terrify him. Thus they snipe at each other. The thing about family is they know where all the buttons are and find pressing them extremely hard to resist.
That said, the familial bond is a strong one and perhaps they can snipe cruelly at each other precisely because it is unlikely to break. Nevertheless, when pettiness and cruelty intensify there can hardly be a positive outcome save perhaps to hit the reset button and send our warring siblings back to their idyllic childhoods in which they played together happily free from their adult resentments. Like children fighting over toys, each wants what the other has and seethes over the injustice of not being the one to have it. An extreme situation might seem to clear the air, repair the relationships and restore them to their original condition with each reaching an understanding of themselves and their opposite number, but old habits are hard to break and any thaw in relations is likely to be extremely temporary.
No stranger to extremes, Yoshida opens with a humorous sequence spoofing a trailer for a cheesy Japanese teen romance which is enthusiastically recommended by a series of vox pop champions, not least among them Mako who who somewhat unethically plays the part of a lovestruck young woman who over identifies with the movie’s themes. The trailer promises a “parallel love story” which, in truly Yoshida-esque irony, is more or less what we get as we witness the symmetrical tales of our two sets of warring siblings whose animosity almost tips over into co-dependency. Mirrors of each other, they love and loathe but remain unable to reconcile themselves to the various faults they see reflected in their opposing number and therefore unable to break free from the petty jealousies and resentments which define family life. There may be no escape from the intense self loathing unfairly projected onto an equally burdened sibling, but perhaps there is faint hope in the enduring continuity of their quietly simmering warfare even as it binds them in mutual misery.
Thicker than Water was screened as part of the 2019 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
Original trailer (English subtitles)
Posted in Japan, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019Tagged 2010s, 2018, Aisa Takeuchi, Alisa Takeuchi, Hirofumi Arai, Japan, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019, Japanese, Keiko Enoue, Keisuke Yoshida, Kentaro Ito, Masataka Kubota, Miwako Kakei, Yutaka Mishima
My Friend “A” (友罪, Takahisa Zeze, 2018)
February 8, 2019 by Hayley Scanlon 1 Comment
The Japanese justice system is founded on the idea of confession and atonement, that if you admit your crime and show remorse you will be forgiven. The truth, however, is much more complex and those whose lives have been tainted by transgression are often rejected by a still unforgiving society. Director Takahisa Zeze describes his adaptation of Gaku Yakumaru’s novel My Friend “A” (友罪, Yuzai) as a picture of the world he longs to see at the end of the Heisei era, one which is less judgemental and more compassionate where the bonds between people can perhaps overcome the traumatic past.
In the present day, two very different men – failed journalist Masuda (Toma Ikuta) and the sullen and mysterious Suzuki (Eita), are inducted as probationary workers at a small factory. Suzuki’s determination to keep himself to himself does not endear him to the other workers who become convinced that he is hiding something from them. Suzuki is indeed hiding something, though his reasons for avoiding human contact are various and complex. When a young child is found murdered nearby in a method which echoes a notorious killing from 17 years previously, Masuda is contacted by an old colleague (Mizuki Yamamoto) investigating the case and begins to wonder if the secret Suzuki seems to be burdened by might have something to do with one crime or both.
In actuality, Masuda does not seem to believe that Suzuki is involved with the recent killing even if he comes to the conclusion that he is almost certainly the teenager convicted of the earlier crime. Nevertheless, he develops an awkward “friendship” with him which is partly exploitative as he ponders writing an exposé on the injustice that allows someone who committed such heinous acts, even in childhood, to start again with a new identity. “Injustice” becomes a persistent theme as seen in the melancholy tale of taxi driver Yamauchi (Koichi Sato) who is carrying the heavy burden of being the father of a son (Hoshi Ishida) who killed three children as a joy riding delinquent. Hounded by one parent, and accidentally harassing the others through his relentless attempts to apologise for his son’s transgression, Yamauchi has ruined his family through his own need for personal atonement. Having divorced his wife and lost touch with his son, he is enraged to learn that he plans to marry and will soon be a father. Even if his wife-to-be knows of his past and accepts it, Yamauchi believes his son has lost the right to live as other people live and finds it extraordinarily offensive that a man who took the lives of children would have a child of his own.
Yamauchi seems to want to put his family back together but only succeeds in tearing it apart. Corrupted families loom large from the mysterious photograph of the smiling boy surrounded by the scratched out faces of his parents and sibling found among Suzuki’s belongings, to the reform school boy taunted with the accusation that he might not have turned to drugs if only his parents had loved him more. Suzuki fixates on his reform school teacher Shiraishi (Yasuko Tomita), but she in turn has neglected her own daughter in her fierce desire to save the souls of these violent young men many of whom have become the way they are because they believe that they are worthless and no one cares about them. Meanwhile, Miyoko (Kaho) – a young woman drawn to Suzuki’s silent solidarity, struggles to escape her own traumatic past partly because she was shamed in front of her family who then were also shamed by her inescapable transgression.
Unlike Suzuki, Miyoko has committed no crime but is haunted just the same. As is Masuda though his guilt is real enough if of a more spiritual kind as he struggles to accept his role in the death of a friend who committed suicide when they were just children. Then again, Masuda’s struggle, like Yamauchi’s, is perhaps a solipsistic one in which what he is really mourning is not his friend but the vision of his idealised self. On visiting his late friend’s mother, Masuda bristles when she talks about his journalistic career and her hope that he is still “strong and just” like the teenage boy she believes stood alongside her lonely son when the truth is that he abandoned his friend when he needed him most because he was too cowardly to risk becoming a target himself. Despite his high ideals, Masuda had been working at a scandal rag and his only real piece of ethical journalism was a confessional about the destructive effects of high school bullying. He remains conflicted in his friendship with Suzuki not quite because he fears his dark past but because he fears his own moral cowardice – something he is reminded of when a housemate points out that no-one likes Suzuki and that if Masuda sides with him, no one will like him either.
The question that is asked is whether discovering someone’s dark secret necessarily changes who they are now and if it is ever really possible for those who have in some way transgressed to return to society. As Suzuki puts it to Masuda in reflecting on their unavoidable commonality, they’re each men who rarely unpack their suitcases, always on the run from an unforgiving present. Yet there is perhaps hope despite Masuda’s ongoing diffidence in his eventual (self) confession and belated solidarity with a man he later recognises as a “friend” in acknowledgement of the unconditional bonds of genuine friendship.
My Friend “A” was screened as part of the 2019 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
International trailer (English subtitles)
Posted in Japan, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019Tagged Ai Kitaura, book to film, Eita Okuno, Gaku Yakumaru, Hoshi Ishida, Japan, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019, Japanese, Jun Murakami, Kaho, Kanji Furutachi, Kaoru Iida, Ken Mitsuishi, Kenichi Yajima, Koichi Sato, Maki Sakai, Makiko Watanabe, Mantaro Koichi, Mizuki Yamamoto, Munetaka Aoki, Naomi Nishida, Nobumitsu Onishi, Reiko Kataoka, Shohei Uno, Shugo Oshinari, Takahisa Zeze, Toma Ikuta, Yasuko Tomita
Blindly in Love (箱入り息子の恋, Masahide Ichii, 2013)
Post-war Japanese cinema was intent on investigating whether father really did know best while his children strived to find their place in a changing society. Contemporary Japanese cinema may feel as if the question has been more than well enough answered already but then again Japanese society remains conformist in the extreme and arranged marriage still an option for those who find it difficult to find a match on their own (remaining single, it seems, is still an option requiring intense justification). The protagonists of Blindly in Love (箱入り息子の恋, Hakoiri Musuko no Koi) find themselves in just this position as their well meaning (to a point) parents attempt to railroad them into the futures they feel are most appropriate while perhaps failing to deal with the various ways their own behaviour has adversely affected their children’s ability to function independently.
Kentaro (Gen Hoshino) is 35. He has a steady job as a civil servant and still lives at home with his parents which is hardly an unusual situation in contemporary Japan save for the fact he is not married and seems to have no interest in dating. Rather than eat with his colleagues, Kentaro comes home for lunch every day and returns straight after work, retreating into his bedroom to spend quality time with his pet frog and play video games. His parents, worrying that he may be lonely when they are gone, decide to find him a wife by effectively going speed dating on his behalf with a host of other parents in a similar position.
There they meet the Imais who are keen to marry off their 23-year-old daughter Naoko (Kaho). The elephant in the room is that everyone at this meeting is there because they believe there is something “wrong” with their children that makes them difficult prospects for marriage. Consequently, the Imais have decided not to disclose the fact that Naoko is blind until later in the negotiations.
The Imais’ ambivalent feelings towards their daughter’s disability speak to a persistent social prejudice which views those who have different needs as somehow less. Mr. Imai is a high flying company CEO who puts on a show of only wanting the best for his little girl, but he’s also a snob and a bully. He keeps trying to set Naoko up with “elites” like him, but those elites will also share his own prejudices in feeling that his daughter is “imperfect” and therefore not a prime match in the arranged marriage stakes. Kentaro, who unbeknownst to everyone except Mrs. Imai has already enjoyed a love at first sight meet cute with Naoko, is the only one brave enough to call Mr. Imai out on his hypocrisy when he accuses him of neglecting his daughter’s feelings in favour of asserting his own paternal authority. As you can imagine, Mr. Imai is not happy to have his faults read back to him.
Making the accusation at all is extremely hard for Kentaro who has just spent the last ten minutes getting a dressing down from Mr. Imai who has read out a list of his perceived imperfections from his unbreakable introversion to his lack of career success. Mr. Imai wants to know if a man like Kentaro who has basically been the office coffee boy for the last 13 years can keep his daughter in the manner to which she’s been accustomed. Kentaro has to admit that he probably can’t and that Imai has a point, but unlike Imai he is thinking of Naoko’s happiness. He sees her disability but only as a part of her personality and respects her right to a fully independent life which is something her father seems to want to deny her, not out of a paternalistic (or patronising) worry for her safety but simply as a means of control.
Conversely, Kentaro is attracted to Naoko precisely because he feels as if she might be able to see him in greater clarity in being unable to judge him solely on appearance. In a rare moment of opening up as part of his defence against Mr. Imai, Kentaro reveals the pain and suffering that have led him to withdraw from the world, admitting that after years of being taunted or ignored, branded an oddball and mocked for his rather robotic physicality he simply decided it was easier to be alone. It might be safe to say that Kentaro’s parents are being overly intrusive, that they are trying to impose their idea of a “normal” life on their son who may be perfectly happy playing video games alone for the rest of his days. Kentaro, however, is not quite happy and as is later pointed out to him had merely given up on the idea of any other kind of existence as an unattainable dream.
Giving up has been Kentaro’s problem and one that recurs throughout his awkward courtship. Like his pet frog, Kentaro has been perfectly contained within his own tank and somewhat fearful to crawl outside but is slowly finding the strength thanks to his bond with Naoko who struggles to overcome her conservative patriarchal upbringing and escape her father’s control. Yet it isn’t only the youngsters who have to learn to leave the nest but the parents who have to learn to let them go. Kentaro’s mum and dad have perhaps enabled his sense of disconnectedness by keeping him at home with them as a treasured only son, while the Imais’ problems run deeper and hint at a deeply dysfunctional household with a father who is controlling and eventually violent while Mrs. Imai tries to effect her daughter’s escape from the same patriarchal conservatism which has succeeded in trapping her. Blindly in Love refuses either of the conventional endings to its unconventional romance but edges towards something positive in affirming its protagonists’ continued determination to fight for their own happiness even if opposed at every turn.
Blindly in Love was screened as part of the 2019 Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme.
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Archive for March 8th, 2016
Survey out about Princeton Elementary building needs
What is the future of our elementary schools? That’s the question being asked in Princeton.
School officials are hosting a community outreach meeting Tuesday, March 22nd at Logan Jr. High School. There will be tours of the school starting 5 and then a discussion at 6.
The district has put together a short survey hoping to get feedback of facility and other suggestions. You can find the survey by clicking Princeton Elementary Survey
Peru picks Indiana company for fireworks display
If you’ve seen fireworks at Navy Pier in Chicago and came away impressed than you’re sure to be a fan of Peru’s display.
The Peru Recreation Board is paying Melrose Pyrotechnics $20,000 to put on a fireworks display west of the Peru Mall on July 3rd. Melrose is out Indiana and was picked out of three bidders who only differed in price by seven dollars.
The company has done Peru’s fireworks in the past and is known for their display at Navy Pier. They’ve been around since for over 50 years.
The $20,000 for the display is the maximum the city budgets for fireworks. Since they didn’t have a display last year, money that would’ve been spent on fireworks is going to new playground equipment.
State Senator Says Chicago Public School Problems Could Impact Illinois Valley Schools
You’ve probably heard about the financial troubles of Chicago Public Schools. But you probably haven’t heard about those problems possibly hurting schools in the Illinois Valley.
Republican Sue Rezin says Chicago is “leading the discussion” about state money for schools. The State Senator says her party is trying to work on funding for all schools, but other lawmakers insist on fixing CPS before funding schools outside of the city.
Rezin is a co-sponsor of a bill she says will provide schools with the full funding that is owed to them according to a state formula. She says if that bill passes, it would give most schools more state money than they have received in the past 7 years.
Dimmick board approves consolidation ballot question
If enough voters say yes, the Cherry and Dimmick school districts will formally be merged starting next year.
The Dimmick School Board approved a petition allowing them to combine with Cherry. School board members believe the move would be good for both schools, and one that could result in lower taxes in both districts. They also said any staff changes that would come from the move have already been made.
Class sizes at Dimmick are already smaller than the average statewide, so the school board says increased class sizes in the future are “not an issue they’ll have to contend with.”
Two crashes within minutes of each other in Peru
Two ambulances were called out to a late morning crash on the west side of Peru.
A truck and another vehicle collided near Steinberg’s Furniture just before 11:30 Tuesday morning. Peru Police were able to get the stretch of road back open to traffic within about 10 minutes.
While they were responding to the Route 6 crash, Peru Police were called about a minor fender bender with no injuries on Progress Boulevard.
Flu outbreak has OSF limiting visitors at Ottawa hospital
What a difference 24 hours can make!
After saying Monday that their flu numbers have been low, Brianne Riley with OSF Healthcare in Ottawa and Streator says they had a jump in flu cases overnight. Because of the flu outbreak, visitors to all OSF clinics in Ottawa, Streator and Marseilles are now being restricted.
You now have to be at least 18 to visit OSF clinics and wear a mask if you have a cough. Make sure to wash your hands when going into and leaving rooms. The most obvious reason to stay away is if you’re sick.
In Peru Gene Vogelgesang says they haven’t noticed any unusual flu activity at Illinois Valley Community Hospital. So they have no plans to restrict visitors.
Alcohol distillery planned for Mendota
With the new brewery in Ottawa being all the rage, a new distillery is in the works for Mendota.
According to the NewsTribune, former police officer Ken Haun and his son Pete are trying to get the needed permits to open a whiskey, rum and vodka distillery this summer near the Amtrak station. The business would be called Kindred Spirits and include a tasting room.
The planning commission in Mendota will talk about their need for a zoning change or variance later this month.
Spring Valley alderman facing a battery charge
A Spring Valley alderman was arrested after an apparent bar dust up.
According to the NewsTribune, 56-year-old Chuck Hansen was arrested for battery Sunday night. He’s accused of kicking a man from Peru after a verbal spat that started in a Spring Valley tavern.
Hansen was released with a court date.
High school and college students pledge to end the “R word”
Do you ever catch yourself using the “R word”? Students with L-P High School and Illinois Valley Community College are joining a nationwide movement to end the use of retarded.
The students on March 23rd and 24th will meet in the IVCC student center to ask students and faculty to sign a pledge banner to stop using the “R word”. Its part of a movement called the Respect Campaign.
The Respect Campaign was started by the Special Olympics.
Big donation towards building all-inclusive playground in Ottawa
With spring right around the corner, kids will be outside looking for places to play. Thanks to an Illinois Valley healthcare provider and a volunteer organization, Ottawa kids may not have to look as hard.
The Ottawa Kiwanis is hoping to raise $250,000 for their Project Inclusive Playground. They’re much closer to that goal after OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Illinois made a $25,000 donation.
The first phase of the playground where any child regardless of their disability can play is expected to be done by June. The playground is going in at Lincoln-Douglas Park.
Last year, the playground project won a $25,000 national grant. More than $110,000 has now been raised for the playground.
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International Merchandise Trade
National Regional Profile (Feature Article)
ESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION
The estimated resident population (ERP) for South Australia was 1,640,700 at 31 March 2010, an increase of about 21,000 persons (1.3%) since 31 March 2009. Nationally, the ERP was 22,271,900 at 31 March 2010, an increase of about 403,100 persons (1.8%) since 31 March 2009.
ESTIMATED RESIDENT POPULATION, Preliminary data
Population at end March quarter 2010
Change over previous year
Australia(a)
(a) Includes Other Territories comprising Jervis Bay Territory, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Source: Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0).
In 2008-09, the South Australian Statistical Division (SD) with the largest percentage increase in ERP was Outer Adelaide (1.9%) followed by Yorke and Lower North (1.4%).
Estimated Resident Population(a), By Statistical Division - South Australia
Population at 30 June
Outer Adelaide
Yorke and Lower North
Murray Lands
(a) Estimates for 2008 are revised to align with new 2008 state and territory totals and estimates for 2009 are preliminary.
Source: Regional Population Growth, Australia 2008-09 (cat. no. 3218.0)
Map of South Australia's Statistical Divisions (PDF 3.083MB)
COMPONENTS OF POPULATION CHANGE
For the year ended 31 March 2010, South Australia recorded a natural increase (i.e. the net of births and deaths) of 7,678 persons. Net overseas migration provided a gain of 16,376 persons in the same period while net interstate migration realised a loss of 3,012 persons.
For the year ended 31 March 2010, Australia recorded a natural increase in population of 161,730 persons; net overseas migration resulted in a gain of 241,352 people.
POPULATION GROWTH, South Australia - Year ended March 2010
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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
The Invisible Hand of the Government: Moral Suasion during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Steven Ongena
Neeltje Van Horen
vol. 11, no. 4, October 2019
Using proprietary data on banks' monthly securities holdings, we show that during the European sovereign debt crisis, domestic banks in fiscally stressed countries were considerably more likely than foreign banks to increase their holdings of domestic sovereign bonds during months when the government needed to roll over a relatively large amount of maturing debt. This result cannot be explained by risk shifting, carry trading, or regulatory compliance. Domestic banks that received government support, are small, or with weaker balance sheets were particularly susceptible to "moral suasion," while governance of banks played less of a role.
Ongena, Steven, Alexander Popov, and Neeltje Van Horen. 2019. "The Invisible Hand of the Government: Moral Suasion during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 11 (4): 346-79. DOI: 10.1257/mac.20160377
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E62 Fiscal Policy
G21 Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
G28 Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
H11 Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H63 National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
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History of Solo Performance &
Solo Broadway Catalog
Solo performance has existed in some form or another for thousands of years, and is perhaps the oldest form of storytelling. In the time before written history existed, oral storytelling was the main way that people passed information from one generation to the next. As such, the storytelling needed to be both educational and engaging, so that audiences would pay close attention.
Over time, early human tribes saw the rise of shamans whose job it was to retell oral histories. These shamans were often given special status, even mystical status, as the sacred holders of knowledge. And because so much primitive culture revolved around myths, the stories often included supernatural elements. In many cases, these myths were also allegorical or in some other way symbolic, so that they could teach important lessons while also entertaining younger listeners.
As human civilizations became more organized, so too did storytelling. Mystic shamans slowly gave way to professional bards. These bards continued to blend education with entertainment, often incorporating music and character acting when they retold ancient stories.
Eventually, society progressed to the point where history became regularly written down. When this era arrived, storytelling developed more creative elements, because it was no longer a necessary way of passing down tribal histories. Stories still sought to educate the audience, but there was more room for symbolism and showmanship: The tales served more to remind people about key lessons than to pass along an exact account of what had actually happened long ago. Hence, storytelling became more of a form of art and entertainment, and so theater began in earnest.
The Greeks and Romans pioneered many aspects of the theater that we are familiar with today. With particular regard to solo theater, they pioneered dramatic monologues. These monologues were again a combination of education and entertainment: They told citizens the mythical history of the civilization, but also used dramatic elements like fast-paced action and dynamic delivery to keep audiences engaged. In some cases, playwrights in antiquity even gave their plays very different endings from the traditional myths, perhaps for added dramatic effect. The trend in storytelling moved more and more toward putting on an engaging performance that conveyed a message, rather than staying entirely true to the original historical account.
Between the fall of the Greek and Roman civilizations and the burgeoning of the European ones, there was apparently a lull in solo performance. Greeks and Romans had found a religious catharsis in theater, which took a while to catch on in Christianity. Also, during the Dark Ages there simply hadn’t been a European society stable enough to organize theater in any substantial way. Other civilizations flourished in the Middle East during this time period, but very little is documented about theatrical performance. (These civilizations were driven by the rise of Islam, and so most historical documentation concerns religious doctrine and military conquests.)
In later eras, Medieval England and France saw a healthy presence of solo performers. In England these performers were minstrels, and France they were Troubadours. Both countries’ solo performers were essentially bards who told narrative stories or lyric poetry, often accompanied by music. Again, the stories combined educational and entertaining elements, by conveying important lessons in engaging ways.
The printing press rose to prominence in Europe in the 1450s. This invention allowed plays to flourish for two reasons. First, the plays themselves could be recorded in writing, and so they could be revived and readapted any number of times. And second, history could be recorded much more easily, meaning that oral storytelling was even less crucial in preserving past tales. As such, theater became even more concerned with entertainment: While plays still sought to tell meaningful stories and convey important messages, performers had more freedom to write creative tales, and/or tell personal stories instead of society-wide histories.
By the 1800s, solo performance had more commonly become an outlet for playwrights and performers to tell deeply personal stories that mattered to them. Families would often gather around a fireplace and read popular stories aloud, such as tales by Charles Dickens or Edgar Allan Poe. They also read from the Bible or from older writers like Shakespeare. So again, the readings were often educational, using performance as an engaging way of conveying information. Without TV or movies, people depended on engaging storytelling for entertainment; so, even these fireplace storytelling sessions could get quite elaborate.
Charles Dickens and Mark Twain were both prolific solo performers. Dickens was an immensely popular actor who would often read his own work aloud for audiences (though he is mostly known now for his writing by itself). His performances drew an incredibly fervent crowd, almost like rock concerts today: Spectators often fought tooth and nail for a chance to see him perform. Similarly, Mark Twain was a very popular lecturer/monologist. Sometimes his performances were straightforward speeches, and other times he delivered his monologues as a character or incorporated other dramatic elements. These two writers further popularized the genre of one-person storytelling, in their respective societies.
By the early 20th century, solo theater had come very close to its present form. Multiple socioeconomic factors made theater more popular: First, society was stable and wealthy enough to afford widespread providers of commercial theater; second, the increased ease of printing made stories more widely diffused; and third, theater had a kind of elite status among forms of entertainment because it was the most interactive and cutting-edge technology available. (Films and TV were available in crude forms, but early films were silent and in black and white, so theater provided a more realistic and engrossing medium.) In regard to solo theater specifically, reenactments of Mark Twain’s monologues and other popular stories remained reasonably popular. Then in the late 20th century, major solo theater figureheads like Spalding Gray spearheaded the one-person art form.
Modern solo theater comes in many different forms. Some shows are autobiographical, since the solo medium is a very intimate opportunity for the performer to tell a personal story. Other shows are biographical tributes to famous figures, living or dead. In other cases, performers adapt pre-existing novels or non-solo plays to work with one actor. Modern solo theater has also historically been popular among comedians and poets, due to similarities with stand-up comedy and slam poetry. However, solo theater differentiates itself from stand-up comedy and slam poetry because it incorporates a plot or other type of storyline. Moreover, all of the above types of shows can incorporate multimedia, such as projections of still images or video clips.
There are several well-known educators who specialize in teaching one-person theater performance. These educators include Deb Margolin and Matt Hoverman, both of whom serve on AFO’s Advisory Board. Deb Margolin is an Associate Professor in Yale University’s undergraduate Theater Studies program, a founding member of Split Britches Theater Company, and a playwright and performer of solo work. Matt Hoverman is an award-winning playwright, actor, and extremely prominent solo show coach in NYC; his immensely popular “Create Your Own Solo Show” workshops have helped develop over 100 solo shows that have been produced all over the world. Several prestigious universities also offer classes on solo performance, including Brown, University of Chicago, and of course Deb Margolin’s class at Yale.
If you love solo performance, and really want to experience an awe-inspiring collection of immortalized masterpieces, the New York Public Library has a special archive called TOFT, or “Theater On Film and Tape.” Established in 1970, TOFT was the first archive of its kind in the world, and remains the largest, with over 7,700 recordings comprising live performance, interviews, documentary films, television programs, and other theater-related video recordings. The National Video Archive of Performance in London, as well as the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive in Washington, D.C., were both modeled specifically on TOFT. The Archive maintains an active original documentation program, recording between 50 – 60 productions each year. Thousands of theater pieces are currently recorded there, where students, theater professionals, or researchers can watch them for free. So many solo actor legends reside there, such as Lynn Redgrave and Julie Harris. For no trouble at all, they’ll give a one-on-one special presentation just for you.
The New York Public Library has several different building locations. The TOFT archive is in the building at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, at the corner of 65th and Amsterdam, near the Lincoln Center 1 Train stop. It’s on the third floor, in back right area relative to the elevators. To start viewing shows, you call in advance to make an appointment, and tell the librarian which shows you’d like to see. Then, when you arrive for your appointment, the librarian assigns you to a TV screen where your shows have been pre-loaded. Somewhere else in the library, another librarian is physically putting the DVDs into a player for you, and you’re watching them remotely on your screen. You can communicate with the DVD-loading librarian by using a small computer screen next to your TV, sending simple messages like, “Load next selection please” or “Wrong video” or “Thanks, I’m finished for today.” You can also use the computer screen to play, pause, rewind, or fast-forward your selection. The viewing room has dozens of screens arranged like carrels, so you’ll likely see some other people nearby watching different shows.
On my venture into the archive, I decided to watch three different solo shows: The Belle of Amherst, Shakespeare for My Father, and Rob Becker’s Defending the Caveman. The Bell of Amherst was on DVD, or at least I deduced that by the way that I could fast-forward and rewind by chapter or go back to a menu screen. Shakespeare for My Father, on the other hand, was on VHS, judging from the way it fast-forwarded and rewound like a tape. Defending the Caveman was on DVD as well. I chose these three pieces because they were all popular and critically acclaimed pieces, and they offered a range of styles of solo performance. The Belle of Amherst is a biographical play about the poet Emily Dickinson, where the actress portrays Emily for the entire show. By contrast, in Shakespeare for My Father, the actress is playing herself, describing her own life and her relationship with her family; this second play also incorporates singing. Lastly, Defending the Caveman is close to stand-up comedy: It has a loose narrative, largely consisting of jokes that all fit along a common theme.
The Belle of Amherst came on first. It was definitely my favorite of the 3 shows that I watched. I personally love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, and I enjoyed peeking into the life of the poem. Julie Harris gave a great performance, provoking lots of laughs from her audience. The Belle of Amherst was also the most immersive show that I watched: It had an elaborate set that really made me feel like I was in an old house, with tables and desks and dressers covered in everyday items like books and silverware. Moreover, Harris interacted with the set a lot, such as by putting on clothes that were hanging from various hooks or sitting down in different chairs. She played no other characters besides Dickinson–instead, she acknowledged the presence of other characters by having conversations with them. While we could only hear her side of the conversations, her replies made it clear with that other person had said. She spoke to the audience like an intimate confidant, a trusted guest visiting her home. Dickinson’s poetry was also woven into the story, sometimes through a passing reference and sometimes through a direct reading or recitation. The use of lighting was also excellent: At times when Dickinson’s life was sad or waning, the set would grow dark, so that only a thin beam of light meagerly illuminated the actress. This play did a great job of drawing me in and holding my attention.
Next came Shakespeare for My Father. This particular recording was actually from a workshop. (With so many shows getting converted to DVD, the selection of solo theater pieces was temporarily slim.) The set was very minimal, as I would have expected from a workshop: There was just Lynn Redgrave speaking directly to the audience, with a few items in the background. The play consisted of numerous Shakespearean or Shakespearean-style monologues, intercut with autobiographical information from Redgrave’s life. Redgrave went through many shifts in tone during the play, ranging from comedic to austere.
Finally, Rob Becker’s Defending the Caveman was just a few minutes of funny clips, all of which were quite enjoyable. At first the librarian loaded the wrong DVD, so I got to use the “Wrong Video” button that I’d been so curious about. The librarian who was loading the DVDs had to call the librarian who supervised the viewing room, to check which shows I’d reserved and correct the mistake. After a couple minutes, I was back on track. Rob Becker’s piece had a fairly elaborate set, laid out like the living room of a caveman’s house: There was a TV made out of a giant rock, some furniture made out of even more rocks, and so on. His performance was less about a narrative and more about interrelated jokes, but it offered quite a lot of social commentary.
Overall, I left the library feeling happy that there is a massive reservoir of past theater pieces preserved there. Solo artists (and other people interested in exploring solo work) can immerse themselves in any manner of excellent one-person pieces. There is so much opportunity to learn from great artists, or simply admire them. In the end, the TOFT archive is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in solo theater, whether you’re an actor, director, producer, or theatergoer. All For One highly recommends exploring this resource, as a great way to experience superb one-person theater pieces. As All For One continues to grow, it is important to preserve the past so that we can look at the entire history of solo performance: Its mythical origins, its Broadway triumphs, and its golden future.
-Michael Wolk
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Yale University. Staff Directory, 2015.
Catalog Of All Solo Shows Produced on Broadway
1. 700 Sundays [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Dec 5, 2004
Closing: Jun 12, 2005
Performance Count: 163
4. A Christmas Carol [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Dec 19, 1991
Closing: Dec 29, 1991
Performance Count: 14
7. A Christmas Carol [Revival] Play, Solo
Performance Count: 8
10. A Mom’s Life [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Oct 19, 1998
Closing: Nov 2, 1998
13. Ages of Man [Revival] Play, Solo, Drama
Opening: Apr 14, 1963
Closing: Apr 21, 1963
16. An Evening With Mario Cantone [Original] Special, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
Opening: May 19, 2002
19. An Evening With Yves Montand [Original] Special, Solo
22. As Long As We Both Shall Laugh [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
Opening: Apr 7, 2003
Closing: May 26, 2003
25. Banjo Dancing [Original] Play, Solo
Closing: Nov 30, 1980
28. Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs [Original] Play, Concert, Solo
Opening: Oct 4, 1954
Closing: Oct 16, 1954
31. Brief Lives [Original] Play, Solo
Closing: Dec 1, 1974
34. Buttons On Broadway [Original] Special, Solo, Stand-up
Opening: Jun 8, 1995
Closing: Jul 16, 1995
37. Characters and Caricatures [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Mar 1, 1937
40. Clarence Darrow [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Mar 26, 1974
43. Colin Quinn: Long Story Short [Original] Play, Comedy, Solo
Opening: Nov 9, 2010
Closing: Mar 5, 2011
46. Conscience [Original] Play, Drama, Solo
49. Diversions and Delights [Original] Play, Solo
52. Edna His Wife [Original] Play, Solo
Closing: Jan, 1938
55. Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Feb 4, 1952
Closing: Mar 15, 1952
58. Empress Eugenie [Original] Play, Solo
61. Ghetto Klown [Original] Play, Solo
64. Golda’s Balcony [Original] Play, Solo, Drama
Closing: Jan 2, 2005
68. Here Are Ladies [Original] Play, Solo
71. I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers [Original] Play, Solo
74. Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare [Revival] Play, Solo
Opening: Jan 19, 1984
Closing: Feb 19, 1984
77. In County Kerry [Original] Play, Solo
Closing: Dec, 1936
80. It’s a Slippery Slope [Original] Special, One Act, Solo
Opening: Nov 10, 1996
83. Jackie Mason’s The World According to Me! [Original] Special, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
Opening: May 2, 1988
86. Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect [Original] Special, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
Closing: Jun 4, 1995
89. Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony [Original] Special, Comedy, Solo
92. Laugh Whore [Original] Special, Comedy, Solo
95. Love in the Balkans [Original] Play, Solo
98. Lucifer’s Child [Original] Play, Solo
101. Mansion on the Hudson [Revival] Play, Solo
Closing: Apr 4, 1937
104. Mark Twain Tonight! [Original] Play, Solo
107. Men are from Mars, Women are From Venus [Original] Special, Lecture, Solo
Closing: Feb 1, 1997
110. Miss Margarida’s Way [Revival] Play, Solo
Opening: Feb 15, 1990
113. Morning, Noon and Night [Original] Play, Solo
Closing: Jan 10, 2000
116. Neil Diamond: One Man Show [Original] Special, Concert, Solo
119. Paris ’90 [Original] Play, Solo, Comedy, Monologue
122. Paul Robeson [Original] Play, Solo, Play with music
125. Primo [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Jul 11, 2005
Closing: Aug 14, 2005
128. Quick Change [Original] Play, Solo
131. Rose [Original] Play, Solo
134. Say Goodnight Gracie [Original] Play, Solo, Comedy
137. Shakespeare for My Father [Original] Play, Solo
140. Shirley MacLaine [Original] Special, Solo, Revue
Opening: Jul 9, 1976
143. St. Mark’s Gospel [Original] Play, Solo
146. The Belle of Amherst [Original] Play, Solo
Closing: Aug 8, 1976
149. The Importance Of Being Oscar [Original] Play, Solo
152. The Miner’s Wife [Original] Play, Solo
155. The Mystery of Theodosia Burr [Original] Play, Solo
158. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe [Revival] Play, Solo
161. The World of Charles Aznavour [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
164. Tru [Original] Play, Solo
Closing: Sep 1, 1990
167. Whoopi [Original] Play, Solo
170. Wishful Drinking [Original] Play, Solo
8. A Condition of Shadows [Original] Play, Solo
11. A Woman of Independent Means [Original] Play, Solo
14. An Almost Holy Picture [Original] Play, Solo, Drama
17. An Evening with Robert Klein [Original] Special, Solo
Opening: Jun 19, 1988
20. Ann [Original] Play, Solo
23. Aznavour [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
26. Bea Arthur on Broadway [Original] Special, Comedy,Solo
29. Bridge & Tunnel [Original] Play, Solo
32. Bruce Forsyth on Broadway! [Original] Special, Solo
35. By George [Original] Play, Solo
38. Charles Aznavour [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
44. Comedy in Music [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy, Concert
47. Dame Edna: The Royal Tour [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
Closing: Jul 2, 2000
50. Dorothy Sands [Original] Special, Solo
53. Elaine Stritch At Liberty [Original] Special, Solo, Play with music
56. Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens [Revival] Play, Solo
Closing: May 9, 1953
59. Freak [Original] Play, Solo, Comedy
62. Gilbert Becaud on Broadway [Original] Special, Solo
66. Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway [Original] Special, Concert, Solo
69. Herman Van Veen: All of Him [Original] Special, Solo
72. I’m Still Here…Damn It! [Original] Play, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
75. In a Church in Italy [Original] Play, Solo
Opening: Jan 1, 1937
81. Jack: A Night on the Town with John Barrymore [Original] Play, Solo
84. Jackie Mason: Brand New [Original] Special, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
87. Jay Johnson: The Two and Only [Original] Play, Puppets, Solo
Opening: Sep 28, 2006
90. Kenny Loggins on Broadway [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
93. Lillian [Original] Play, Solo
99. Mandy Patinkin in Concert [Original] Special, Concert, Solo
Closing: Sep 10, 2001
105. Matters of the Heart [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
108. Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth [Original] Special, Solo
Opening: Aug 2, 2012
111. Mister Lincoln [Original] Play, Solo
114. Mostly Sondheim [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
117. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All [Original] Play, Solo
120. Passionate Ladies [Original] Play, Solo
123. Paul Robeson [Revival] Play, Solo, Play with music
Closing: Oct 9, 1988
126. Prune Danish [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
129. Rob Becker’s Defending the Caveman [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
132. Running On Empty [Original] Special, Solo
135. Sexaholix [Original] Play, Solo, Comedy
138. Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It [Original] Special, Solo
141. Shirley Valentine [Original] Play, Solo
147. The Big Love [Original] Play, Solo
150. The Loves of Charles II [Original] Play, Solo, Sketches, Solo
156. The Playboy of the Weekend World [Original] Play, Solo
159. The Wives of Henry VIII [Original] Play, Solo
162. The World’s a Stage [Original] Special, Solo, Hypnotism
165. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 [Original] Play, Solo
168. Whoopi Goldberg [Original] Play, Solo
171. Yanni [Original] Special, Solo
3. A Bronx Tale [Original] Special, Solo
9. A Lovely Light [Original] Play, Solo
12. Ages of Man [Original] Play, Solo, Drama
15. An Evening With Dave Allen [Original] Special, Solo, Stand-up
21. Appearing Nitely [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
27. Bill Maher: Victory Begins At Home [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
33. Bully [Original] Play, Solo
36. Casey at the Bat [Original] Special, Poem, Solo
Opening: Aug 14, 1888
39. Charles Aznavour on Broadway [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
42. Colin Quinn — An Irish Wake [Original] Play, Solo
45. Comedy in Music Opus 2 [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy, Concert
48. Danny Gans on Broadway: The Man of Many Voices [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy, Impersonations
51. Edmund Kean [Original] Play, Solo
54. Elsie Janis [Original] Special, Drama, Solo
60. George Gershwin Alone [Original] Play, Play with music, Solo, One Act
63. Gilbert Becaud Sings Love [Original] Special, Solo, Concert
67. Helen Waren [Original] Play, Solo
70. Hizzoner! [Original] Play, Solo
73. Ian McKellen: A Knight Out at the Lyceum [Original] Special, Solo
79. Insideoutsideandallaround with Shelley Berman [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
85. Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed [Original] Play, Solo
88. Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” [Original] Play, Solo
91. Kipling [Original] Play, Solo
94. Liza’s at the Palace…. [Original] Special, Concert, Solo
97. Love Thy Neighbor [Original] Special, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
100. Mandy Patinkin in Concert: “Dress Casual” [Original] Special, Concert, Solo
106. Mei Lan-fang [Original] Play, Solo
109. Miss Margarida’s Way [Original] Play, Solo
112. Monster in a Box [Original] Play, Solo
115. Much Ado About Everything [Original] Special, Solo, Comedy
118. Opium [Original] Play, Solo
121. Patti LuPone on Broadway [Original] Special, Concert, Solo
127. QED [Original] Play, Solo, Drama
130. Robert Klein on Broadway [Original] Special, Stand-up, Comedy, Solo
133. Ruth Draper [Original] Play, Solo
142. Solitary Confinement [Original] Play, Solo
145. The Babe [Original] Play, Solo
148. The Good Body [Original] Play, Solo
151. The Loves of Charles II [Revival] Play, Solo, Sketches, Solo
154. The Mystery of Charles Dickens [Original] Play, Comedy, Solo, Monologue
157. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe [Original] Play, Solo
160. The Wives of Henry VIII [Revival] Play, Solo
163. Thurgood [Original] Play, Drama, Solo
166. Via Dolorosa [Original] Play, Solo
169. Will Rogers’ USA [Original] Play, Solo
172. You’re Welcome America [Original] Special, Comedy, Solo
Top 30 Solo Shows by Number of Performances
Comedy in Music [Victor Borge] Special, Solo, Comedy, Concert
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe [Lily Tomlin] Play, Solo
Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect
Special, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
Tru [Robert Morse] Play, Solo
Jackie Mason: Brand New
Comedy in Music Opus 2 [Victor Borge] Special, Solo, Comedy, Concert
Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed
Play, Solo
Freak [John Leguizamo] Play, Solo, Comedy
Thurgood [Laurence Fishbourne] Play, Drama, Solo
A Bronx Tale [Chazz Palminteri] Special, Solo
Rob Becker’s Defending the Caveman
Special, Solo, Comedy
Jackie Mason’s The World According to Me!
Shirley Valentine [Pauline Collins] Play, Solo
Shakespeare for My Father [Lynn Redgrave] Play, Solo
Bridge & Tunnel [Sarah Jones] Play, Solo
Much Ado About Everything [Jackie Mason] Special, Solo, Comedy
700 Sundays [Billy Crystal] Play, Solo
Colin Quinn: Long Story Short
Play, Comedy, Solo
Wishful Drinking [Carrie Fisher] Play, Solo
Via Dolorosa [David Hare] Play, Solo
Golda’s Balcony [Tovah Feldshuh] Play, Solo, Drama
Say Goodnight Gracie [Frank Gorshin] Play, Solo, Comedy
Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
Love Thy Neighbor [Jackie Mason] Special, Solo, Stand-up, Comedy
Ann [Holland Taylor] Play, Solo
The Belle of Amherst [Julie Harris] Play, Solo
Miss Margarida’s Way [Estelle Parsons] Play, Solo
1. Jerry Seinfeld: Live On Broadway [Original] Play, Solo, Benefit
2. Mandy Patinkin in Concert [Original] Special, Benefit, Concert, Solo
3. Mandy Patinkin on Broadway [Original] Special, Benefit, Concert, Solo
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Brantley Gilbert, his wife Amber Gilbert and their son Barrett are now a family of four! The couple welcomed their baby girl on Monday (Sept. 9).
People reports that Braylen Hendrix Gilbert made her entree into the world at 1:18PM at Piedmont Hospital in Athens, Ga. She weighed 6 lbs., 7 oz., and measured 19.5 inches long when she was born.
"It's such a blessing for us to welcome Braylen," Gilbert says, "and both momma and baby girl are doing great."
The couple’s first child, son Barrett Hardy-Clay Gilbert, was born on Nov. 11, 2017. The family shared that they'd be welcoming a new member in late March.
"Surprise! Finally, I can share a big secret," Amber wrote on Instagram in a March 26 post. "Barrett will be a big brother to a baby sister in September."
"It's been so hard to keep this under wraps, so thanks for being patient and waiting on me to share when we were ready," she added. "Bring on all the bows and pink! #babygirl #15weeks #girlsreallydomakeyoumoresick."
During the ACM Awards red carpet in April, Gilbert talked to People about raising a little girl and dealing with future suitors, joking that he’s “got 15, 16 years before I go to prison.”
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Pope gunman wants to visit Fatima shrine
Mehmet Ali Ağca, who shot Pope John Paul II, wants to attend annual ceremonies at Portugal’s Fatima shrine and meet with Pope Benedict XVI, who is also scheduled to attend, his lawyer said on Thursday.
Lawyer Hacı Ali Özhan told the Associated Press he has written to Portugal’s president and prime minister seeking permission for Ağca to travel there for the May 13 event. A letter was also sent to the Vatican, requesting a meeting between Benedict and Ağca at Fatima, Özhan said. Neither Lisbon or the Vatican have replied to the March 16 letters, which were made available to the AP. Ağca was released from prison in January after completing a sentence for the 1979 killing of Turkish newspaper editor Abdi İpekçi. Ağca shot John Paul II on May 13, 1981, as the pope rode in an open car in St. Peter’s Square, during a period in which he had escaped from prison. The pontiff was hit in the abdomen, left hand and right arm. The motive for the attack remains a mystery.
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SPOILER Main Finn/John Boyega Episode IX Thread
Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' started by DailyPlunge, Jan 1, 2018.
fn-2187
Where will Finn be at the start of Episode IX
Poll closed Dec 21, 2019.
A grunt for the Resistance
A leader of the Resistance
A spy
A Jedi student
O.G.NEPTUNE Rebel Trooper
+79 / 1 / -0
Rumors of a new trailer coming soon I think. Rumors say it will start to get into the real story. I’m curious to see what shots they give Finn and if it confirms the leaks I’ve come across.
#441 O.G.NEPTUNE, Oct 14, 2019
Hopeful x 1
Trooper212 Rebel General
+1,096 / 40 / -10
O.G.NEPTUNE said: ↑
I hope not because the leaks suggest another underwhelming outing for Finn.
#442 Trooper212, Oct 14, 2019
Yeah. True. I’m finding it harder and harder to be positive or optimistic. Again this isn’t aimed at anyone. But me personally I’ve humbly had my share of hopes on Finn dashed. Been heart broken twice over. Maybe it’s time to just move on. I don’t feel like anyone actually at Lucas’s film cares about Finn so why should I? And this time I don’t have a retort for that.
--- Double Post Merged, Oct 15, 2019, Original Post Date: Oct 15, 2019 ---
Sorry if I’m bringing anyone down just generally disappointed in the status quo as usual. I’ll support Finn, but I can’t say that’s the same as me caring anymore.
--- Double Post Merged, Oct 15, 2019 ---
And again My fellow forum goers I just won’t to reiterate that this isn’t aimed at anyone or meant to bring this forum down. I’ve always tried to infuse some positivity because to me some discussion on Finn was better than nothing. Even if we disagreed I loved that we were at least talking to each other. I miss that. And I will always LOVE Star Wars. But at this point as a black fan, I don’t know how else to put it but to say I’m heart broken.
Trooper Rebelscum
+317 / 9 / -6
Finn's a lost cause, but I love that Black fans and Black communities are demanding more and refuse to be satisfied with minstrel stereotypes. It makes my heart warm.
#444 Trooper, Oct 15, 2019
Last edited by a moderator: Oct 15, 2019
Disagree x 1
I agree fully on the first part, but I don’t consider Finn a minstrel stereotype at all, just 1/3 of what he could be.
The janitor thing would’ve been fine if they balanced out his narrative by showing us just as much as the book did that he was a talented soldier. That doesn’t mean he needs to be Chuck Norris. Just some form of a balance. He can fail and I love that he did in the force awakens because it gave him so much room to build on for TLJ and his come up would’ve been so well built but instead they dashed that. That’s my pain. We could have had one thing and it ultimately feels like they took the safe route wether consciously or unconsciously.
This whole trilogy took the safe route.
They didn’t let him emotionally, physically, or narratively develop. That’s whats frustrating.
And consequently leaves a lot of fans of color suspicious.
On a honestly positive note we are talking about Finn at least!
Great Post x 1
cassidy Rebel General
+1,218 / 146 / -27
Finn had an excellent opportunity to be a super cool important figure in TLJ... but NOPE. His character was to be thrown away. Finn held a lightsaber on multiple occasions and received critical wounds to his spine for no reason!
MOD EDIT
#446 cassidy, Oct 16, 2019
That’s my pain. We could have had one thing and it ultimately feels like they took the safe route wether consciously or unconsciously.
To me it's that they could have given us multiple things that would have us in a better position as fans and Finn a better position as a character. Instead they go the most disappointing route it seems they can think of
Does anybody else here feel ( and I don’t mean this insensitively I just can’t find a better word) bipolar about It all. Like one moment your down then the next your hopeful and so on and on? Even now in 2019
Rayjefury Force Sensitive
The word I would use here is ambivalent, and I think it's natural to feel that way. Your pessimism and optimism are at war with one another. You can't forget what you've seen and been shown already, but you also don't want to concede defeat and give up hope. Your pessimism says your hope is unwarranted. You optimism says your pessimism is unwarranted given that there's a whole new movie coming out.
Tough place to be in.
#449 Rayjefury, Oct 16, 2019
Rayjefury said: ↑
You hit the nail right on the head with that. So true. I’m a Star Wars fan for life but I’m also a little disheartened. This trilogy’s been rough on me lol. TFA is my second favorite Star Wars film of all time and part of the reason I give such high marks is the balancing act that JJ and Lucas Film had because we all know where the fandom was post prequels (loved the prequels by the way, their not perfect but they do grow on you) so for them to play it so smart and give us all the old tricks that Star Wars fandom could want while setting up mystery boxes for us moving forward not to mention at 24 it’s litratlly my generations Star Wars so add that to the list. I missed the prequels as I was too young and could only cognitively engage at Revenge of The Sith in fifth grade
Then to go to The Last jedi ( and again no hate to anyone who enjoyed or loved it, I’ve got posts giving it both equal praise and criticism) it’s been a roller coaster ride my fellow forum goers. Roller freaking coaster ride!
Rogues1138 Jedi General
+29,264 / 67 / -29
We should focus on the positive. Finn has his own cloths now. He's not borrowing Poe's jacket anymore. He's a full blown Resistance Freedom Fighter. He is no longer a part of the First Order. Finn turned his back on the Dark and he is in the light. Finn has found his family and a home. The future looks bright for Finn even though he may not be a Jedi. Finn maybe Force sensitive, the Force is in all of us, remember Chirrut Imwe, he did not die in vain but for a cause. The Force is in all of us... whether we wield a Lightsaber or not.
#451 Rogues1138, Oct 16, 2019
Wise x 1
p03 Force Sensitive
+7,340 / 182 / -113
To be honest am getting a bit peeved with the lack of Finn spoilers. The one that that dropped today about Rose having to pack Finn's backpack? WTF? Gone from run away stormtrooper to Mr and Mrs Potato Head, is completely embarrassing. John I am so sorry, you deserve better. I got to admit I didn't see what a lot of detractors saw, I didn't quite understand the upset, of previous films, I do now after five years of this. I know its only a three year contract for the movies but its effectively a five year contract. The crew have been treated like race horses and worked to death. It's hard to be positive, I wish I could be. I want only for the best but it just seems shallow and its the last freaking film. Am praying for a better outcome than him being juveniled again. Come on JJ, You hired John, give him something tasty to do.
#452 p03, Oct 16, 2019
Rogues1138 said: ↑
I’m with you. I’ve been positive and trying to keep the forum positive like others. But Finn getting a lot of those things should have been basic character development. It’s hard when all you have to root for is Finn getting his own clothes and becoming a resistance fighter which fades him more into the narrative background. Your words are beautiful, and I identify with your hope deeply. But The bar feels so low that three films in he gets an outfit and a c story role.
I don’t want it to come off like I’m being hard on you or anyone other who feels that way I’m actually really happy to see positivity on this forum but I also get why the optimism is low. Me and other forum goers like Rayjefury have done this thing so many times it starts to feel like a Mary-go-round and a low bar of accepting anything
I don’t know if we’ve talked about this either but what do y’all think is going on with Finn and Jannah? Siblings, love interest, just platonic resistance soldiers/sympathizers
Jedi MD Jedi Commander
+11,091 / 60 / -6
p03 said: ↑
The one that that dropped today about Rose having to pack Finn's backpack?
#454 Jedi MD, Oct 17, 2019
Jase Windu Rebel General
Where did thos spoiler come from...on one hand why??? Of all the things. On the other hand that's probably one of those moments in the film where they are "exploring" his relationship with Rose in a lighthearted way. Boyfriend getting annoyed his girlfriend is in his stuff type of thing.
#455 Jase Windu, Oct 17, 2019
They will float siblings (they won't be), They could've been love interest if they had introduced her character last movie (as it is they introduced Rose last movie and don't have enough narrative time for a Finn and Rose love story). What they will be is two children who escaped the First Order who will team up to fight them and find that common ground.
I don't think you are under any obligation to be theatrically positive. I mean if it's genuine and organic and you make a choice to focus on the positive, more power to you. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. If you go the opposite direction, still, more power to you. I think at this point what's probably most useful is to:
1. Be true to your authentic feelings understanding they may change
2. Allow space for others to hold a different view without policing how they can respond or trying to legislate their commentary
3. Take the marketing at face value
There hasn't been much spectacular or breathtaking for Finn thus far in the trailers, assume that is an accurate read for the content of the movie. If it turns out to be better, you're pleasantly surprised. If it doesn't turn out better, you were prepared for that contingency.
On the plus side, I'd say the bar is pretty low at this point, so the chances that they can and do exceed it, are pretty good. By how much? We'll have to wait and see.
I do really appreciate anybody who can still be that positive despite everything we’ve gotten this far in. I’m at the point where I’m hoping for something extraordinary but won’t be surprised or hurt if we get everything leaks and trailers are suggesting when it comes to Finn.
If Janna and Finn are both escaped former child soldiers of the first order then I really wish we had more time to explore that. Imagine two plots. Other than the force plot you’ve got Finn and Jannah spreading the gospel on the first Order and fighting socially just as much as physically. I think this trilogy needs a little bit of politics in terms of having a senate, moral investigations, etc. something that would explain better all the questions we had about the first order their ultimate goal, the resistance, how does the rest of the galaxy feel about the war, do they know about first order abdicating children, is there any trace of a republic left at all, something other than just a force plot.
*abducting*
Jedi MD said: ↑
It's in JW recent interview with The Den of Nerds
Den of Nerds asks about the FOOSLS leaks from way back in April (not mentioned by name, just referred to as the leak about a Star Forge, and about Rey and Ben having a child through the Force). Note: This is a thing I only mention because I still see people wondering about it in the comments off and on. Jason says not only has he heard nothing like that but that he would not bet on it.
There's a scene before Finn and Poe meet with Boolio (asteroid planet) where they play holochess with Chewie.
Kylo's scene where he gets the mask is still in the movie as far as anyone knows.
Leia's last words to Rey before she departs may be "Tell me when you get back."
There is an alley on Kijimi, and Babu Frik brings them through this back alley and little bar in order to get to the droid ship.
Jason seems to misspeak here, given the persons involved, but he says that during the Kijimi force bond where Kylo realizes Rey is on his ship, the Vader helmet is transferred from whoever is near it to the person who is on planet through the force bond. This happens due to the fight they are having, when the lightsaber strikes the helmet. (Personal note: This marks two times in the film where physical objects have been teleported through the bond. Den of Nerds also seems to note this, and suggests this may be how the lightsaber travels from Rey to Ben during the KOR fight later on.)
Jason does not believe Han is a force ghost, but that he is a vision. He thinks it may be unclear, and does point out that while originally Rey's parents were ghosts at the end of the film, they seem to have been pulled. (Personal note: I would argue that the removal of Rey's parents may partly be to make this unclear, particularly given that China has certain rules about the presence of ghosts in films.)
The kiss that Jason knows about in this film is between two unnamed female Resistance fighters. "It's not a big deal. It happens, and it's just there." He also indicates that if people are hoping for a big reylo kiss, he doesn't know, which suggests that it's less that Jason's been told this is 100% the only kiss of the film. More that the only one sources indicate right now is this one. (Personal note: That said, it may well be the case that it is the only one.)
Jason refers to a recent finnrey rumor he heard, where Finn kept trying to say something to Rey and plot kept getting in his way. Jason's wording seems to imply it was the source's opinion that Finn was trying to express personal feelings to Rey, per the rumor as we last heard it. Jason now says that the source says what has changed in the reshoots is that Finnrose is indeed a thing, and that she does lots of small gestures in the film in order to suggest they're a couple (eg. packing his bag for him before he leaves). (Personal note: I had heard during filming that finnrose were basically an established fact. Jason doesn't bring it up here, but previous MSW reports indicate he heard the same. I believe it's much more likely that the source Jason is referring to simply is assigning a change to reshoots when the fact is they were always misinterpreting based on limited info, and now they have more.)
Jason also thinks Rose has bigger stuff back at the base that we just haven't heard yet.
Luke and Leia seem to be back as force ghosts on Tatooine.
Jason contrary to rumors reiterates that he does not think "and never seen again" is going to be an accurate reflection of Ben's death. Den of Nerds suggests that because of their bond Kylo may be a ghost somewhere between living and dead. Jason says it seems plausible to him, and refers to the original ROTJ ending where Anakin is essentially brought back to life by Obi Wan right before he enters the nether realm. He also later just points out the obvious: No one who has just fallen into a hole in SW has ever been dead.
Den of Nerds refers to the way the Paxis leaks have been reported, which seem to paint a very villainous Kylo up until his turn, and none of the romantic subtext of TLJ. He asks if Jason thinks this is accurate. Jason says not very. He discusses how Kylo clearly continues to be very attached to Rey--"he has no one else." He is a "prodigy" and Rey is the only person he's met like him. Jason repeats that for a SW film, which is very non-sexual, he finds it to be very intensely reylo/romantic that Kylo enters a situation with no hope of living, no plan, no weapon, simply to save someone he cares about deeply. He mentions the Irvin Kirshner quote that a kiss in SW is basically a sex scene, and suggests that a gesture on this level may be basically a kiss. (Though he also says that of course love does not have to be only romantic.)
(Personal note: Jason talks, as he has talked throughout the past several podcasts, that he feels like he is on the reylo side. He and Den of Nerds talk a lot about how the reylo community is pretty overall good, and that they have been treated very unfairly.)
(Sounds worse in the interview, Jason is basically taking the piss)
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New Icons for Windows 10: Stock Apps are Being Developed by Microsoft
Posted On : September 12, 2019 Published By : William J. Patterson
Microsoft is reportedly working on some new icons for its stock apps. They have started to update different logos of the Office apps and the OneDrive. These new designs give the icons a more aesthetic look. The new icons might be coming to many of the first-party apps of Windows 10.
Microsoft is building and examining the new icons for Mail, Calendar, File Explorer, Movies & TV, Microsoft Solitaire and Groove Music. This new design pattern of the icons uses various shades of blue and many different colors in a very subtle manner. The new design looks very sharp and matches perfectly with the newly redesigned office apps icon.
It is also possible that Microsoft might be designing these icons for the Windows Lite’s Start menu. However, they might also provide a redesign for other versions of the Windows 10 also.
Windows Apps Icons
Windows app icons are the pictorial representation of the application. It should convey a clear meaning to the users so that they can understand it immediately. A new style of iconography was introduced by Windows Vista. This iconography introduced new details to the Windows.
Concept of Designing
The user experience of Window Vista was named Aero, which represented both the values in design and the user interface (UI). The full form Aero is – authentic, energetic, reflective and open. Its main goal is to create a design that is both beautiful and professional.
Aero helped to build a elegant and quality experience that improves the productivity of the users and also urges an emotional response.
The icons of the Windows Vista was different from that of Windows XP in the given ways:
1. The icons were realistic rather than being illustrative, however, it was not exactly photorealistic. Icons are meant to symbolize the applications, and hence they don’t have to be photorealistic.
2. The maximum size of the icons is 256×256 pixels. This made them perfect for high-dpi (dots per inch) displays. In addition, this provided for high-quality visuals for these icons.
3. At places that were practical for the fixed document icons to be replaced with thumbnails of the content. This made the documents simpler and easy to recognize.
4. The icons of the Toolbar had fewer details and it had no perspective. This was done for making them smaller in size and to make them distinctive.
Now let’s see what can be achieved by making the design of an icon better:
1. It will help you to increase the visual communication of your program.
2. Then, it also makes the users form a good opinion about your program. A good visual design is always appreciated by users.
3. It will help you to increase the usability of your objects, programs, and actions simpler to identify, understand and find.
New Icons for Windows 10
Microsoft is designing a new Start Menu for the Windows Lite version. In a recent leaked Windows 10 20H1 update, we got a quick look at what Microsoft is testing for the Start Menu.
As seen in the leak, the start menu will be changing the live tiles for more colorful icons. The menu will also have a profile picture of the user at the top.
It is still not confirmed whether these new designs will be introduced to the Windows 10 desktop version.
Windows 10 20H1 Update
This update was an accidental release by Microsoft. It was an untested version of the Windows 10 update for the insiders. However, it showed a new Start Menu. This new Start Menu contains no Live Tiles. It could be for the Windows Lite version, a more lightweight and stripped-down version.
This new Start Menu was launched only for the employees of Microsoft for the Windows 10 Build 18947. But, accidentally Microsoft pushed this out to some of the employees in Slow, Fast, and Release Preview Rings.
The Redesigned Start Menu
Windows 10 Build 18947 contains two Start Menus; one is the Classic start and another is Start Insiders. The first option is the traditional Windows 10 Start menu. And the next option has the stripped-back Start menu, this version has no live tiles and has the icons are in the design of a regular grid icon.
The current Start Menu is very basic and is only capable of opening apps and searching the browser. There is a search bar at the top of the menu for searching the apps also browse the web. Eg- search result for the Notepad will show you the list of apps and also the web links. Under the search bar, you will notice a list of apps, which you have used recently, and at the top of this section, “Suggested” is written.
This “Suggested” section contains not just your most-used apps, but also your most visited sites. By right-clicking on the apps you can pin them in the taskbar, uninstall them, and customize their settings.
When you are using a tablet, you will notice that the Start Menu is placed in the centre with a transparent background.
When these new icons for Windows 10 will arrive on the desktop version, it will give a fresh look to it. A visual representation is very important for a window to make it look good. This will make users more interested in using Windows stock apps.
Now we have to wait and see when Microsoft will make these new icons available to us.
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Hickory Run State Park
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About Hickory Run State Park
Are you daring enough to hike the Shades of Death Trail? This is just one of the hiking trails available to visitors at Hickory Run State Park. Not to worry though, the trail is not nearly as ominous as its name. Hickory Run was established as a state park in 1945 following a long and storied history of devastation and restoration. The first settlements in the area occurred following the American Revolution, when landowners began building mills on the local creeks. By the mid-1800s, the area was clearcut, then experienced several incidents of fire and flooding. In 1935 the area was purchased by the National Park Service (NPS) for use as a recreation area, and many of the roads, campgrounds and trails were developed. Ten years later, the NPS transferred the land to the state of Pennsylvania for use as a state park.
Just 30 miles south of Scranton, Hickory Run State Park is a 16,000-acre natural area in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains. The area features numerous trout streams, boulder fields, wetlands and restored forests. The area is also home to a variety of wildlife, from birds to black bears. The park’s large campground features more than 300 tent, trailer and RV sites, as well as a few walk-in sites and camping cottages. Some campsites are ADA accessible. Park facilities include restrooms with showers, drinking water, two playgrounds, amphitheater, fishing pier, dog-walking area, and a camp store. There’s also recycling and dump stations. The Shades of Death and Beach trails are accessible right from the campground. Campsite rates range from $15–$40/night; cabins and cottages range from $38–$105/night.
There is no shortage of outdoor play to be enjoyed on your visit to Hickory Run. On warm days, cool off with a dip in Sand Spring Lake, or go wading below Hawk Falls; cast a line for brook and brown trout in Hickory Run or Mud Run; or test your precision at the park’s disc golf course. There are also several geocaches hidden in the park if you’re up for a little treasure hunting. If you’re packing hiking boots, you have 44 miles of trails to wander. Choose from short, family-friendly nature and wildlife-watching trails, to the more strenuous Boulder Field Trail, which traverses a 16.5-acre field of sandstone boulders that predate several of North America’s ice ages. In winter, many of the park’s trails are open for snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling.
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Meag F.
PA Beauty and many camping options
Great place to picnic and spend some time on the sandy beach. We always have a blast going through the campgrounds on walks to see all the rigs and tents and Hickory Run has many different accommodations available from cabins to areas with only tents. They also have fun environmental programs that they run during the normal season that are very informative.
Reviewed July 29th, 2016
Quintessential Pennsylvania beauty
The Boulder Fields are one of the coolest places I've ever visited, partially because they were so unexpected. Don't twist an ankle, but you can play hide and seek to an extent as there are small depressions in the fields. Also lots of spiders :) The park has tons of hiking trails, some great views, loads of waterfalls, some swimming. All around a wonderful place to visit for the day or to camp for a few. Great any time of year (frozen waterfalls, fall leaves, wildflowers). Campground is lovely, nice and simple, not too crowded despite being big. Some sites are close to the water, most are not. There are some cabins too, including accessible ones. Follow the bear rules!
Reviewed July 1st, 2016
Melanie W.
Boulders, Beach and Bears
After many, varied experiences camping at state parks, Hickory Run remains high on the list. My first camping experience as a single mom with a five year old was ten years ago at this park. We have been back as a family, brought friends, and boy scouts. The Boulder Field is a unique must to trek with many trails traipsing in and around the many acres. There is a beach for swimming, catching frogs and just enjoying the updated amenities. In September I am excited to run the ultra sponsored at this park with gnarled roots, rocky outcroppings and pine needled trials.
Reviewed June 15th, 2016
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Dinosaur Jr. Prove They Are No Slackers with May 2010 UK/ Ireland Tour Dates
Posted: 24th February 2010
Picture the scene - I'm sweating like a pig (a small pig but a damp and heated swine, nonetheless), waiting for J Mascis to walk back on stage with his pair of noisy mates at the Plymouth leg of the UK Rollercoaster tour in 1992 (just after the awful My Bloody Valentine and just before either Blur or Jesus and Mary Chain). Dinosaur Jr. have just played a rib-cage rendering version of their then hit, 'Start Choppin'' and the entire hall seriously DOESN'T want to let them go home without one more song. My ears are oozing blood (hypothetically speaking) and my eyes are full of sweat from leaping up and down like a twat for 40 minutes to the man Mascis - one more song. Just one.
The bastards never came back on and I ordered a double-stiff one thereafter. But what a gig.
Leap forward 18 years and you can now get to experience exactly what my poor lugs were being pummeled with because Dinosaur Jr. are back in the UK for half a dozen gotta-go-gigs in May. They start in Oxford on the 8th and continue to Liverpool (9th), across the Irish sea to Galway's Black Box on 10th and Vicar Street in Dublin on 11th, then back to the UK for Glasgow's ABC 2 (13th), Newcastle (14th), Leeds (15th), Birmingham (16th), Cambridge (17th) and the lovely Shepherd's Bush Empire on the 18th. Idaho's Built to Spill play support on the UK (and possibly Irish) leg of the tour.
Tickets start from £18 and go on sale in the morning (Thursday 25th Feb - Friday for the London date) and I wouldn't hang around to be frank.
Their last album, 'Farm', was a beautiful set of fiercely-loud anthems that ranked quite high up in many 'end-of-year' 2009 round-ups (including mine) yet an interesting problem occurred with the actual CD pressing causing no end of ironic confusion upon its release. Basically the first batch were incorrectly mastered and ended up being 3 decibels LOUDER than they should have been.
I therefore still ask the question - "...And the problem is what, exactly?".
It sure sounds crap on iTunes (what doesn't) but coming out of a pair of Bose, well I can't hear any difference - it sounds like a normal Dinosaur Jr. CD!
Happy clicking in the morning!
Paul Pledger
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Review Article - Journal Clinical Psychiatry and Cognitive Psychology (2019) Volume 3, Issue 1
Review of Screening and Monitoring Treatment of ADHD in Adults with Processing-Speed
Nielsen NP1, Wiig EH2*
1Department of Psychiatry, Västervik Hospital, Västervik, Sweden
2Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Boston University, Knowledge Research Institute , Arlington, Texas, USA
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Accepted on February 06, 2019
Citation: Nielsen NP, Wiig EH. Review of screening and monitoring treatment of ADHD in adults with processing-speed. J Clin Psychiatry Cog Psychol. 2019;3(1):11-20.
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The review objective was to examine characteristics and clinical uses of processing-speed measures in the management of adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Normative and clinical data indicate no gender bias, high test-retest reliability, and acceptable levels of concurrent validity required for neuropsychological assessment. Recurring patterns in color-form naming and overhead values for adults with ADHD differ from those of healthy adults and adults with depression without ADHD or with dementia. The processing-speed profiles indicate average-normal response times for single-dimension colors and forms, longer-than-average response times for color-form combinations, and larger-than-average overhead values. Independent studies that monitored methylphenidate dose effects in medication-naïve and previously-medicated adults with ADHD and ADHD substance use disorder indicate statistical differences between color-form naming times and overhead measures at baseline without medication and at endpoint with stimulant medication. Results suggest that the measures may complement observational ratings of ADHD symptomatology in screening and monitoring stimulant-medication effects.
ADHD, Adults, Screening, Treatment, Stimulant medication, Dose optimization.
In daily primary care or psychiatric practice for adults, it can be difficult to administer complex neuropsychological tests for initial screening for Attention-Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD) or for monitoring the effects of pharmacological treatment. Clinical research suggests that the processing-speed and overhead (shift cost) measures obtained with A Quick Test of Cognitive Speed (AQT) [1,2] may prove useful as complementary clinical tools to screen and monitor the effects of treatment with methylphenidate in adults with suspected ADHD. Several factors seem to contribute to the potential clinical usefulness of the tests, some of which are inherent to the design and statistical characteristics of AQT. Other factors relate to the response profiles that appear able to differentiate between adults with Attention-Deficit Disorders with Hyperactivity (ADHD) and other neuropsychiatric disorders without ADHD. A third factor relates to observations that the AQT processing-speed and shift-cost measures appear to be able to quantify the effects of methylphenidate and define stabilization with medication in adults with ADHD.
In the general adult population, the prevalence of ADHD has been estimated to be between 2 and 3 per cent [3]. However, as many as 80% of adults with ADHD may present with one or more comorbid neuro-psychiatric disorders [4] among comorbidities that are commonly associated with ADHD are:
a) Depression, estimated to occur in between 20% and 50% of cases
b) Bipolar disorder estimated in from 5% to 47%
c) Anxiety or personality disorders estimated in about 50% of patients [3].
In addition, Substance Use Disorder (SUD) appears to occur twice as often in adults with ADHD as in the general population of adults [4]. The overlapping and sometimes potentially additive effects of ADHD and neuro-psychiatric comorbidities have led to proposals for using a dimensional, rather than a categorical, approach when diagnosing ADHD [4,5]. It may also be difficult to separate which functional domains may be affected by the attention, working memory and set-shifting deficits that are hallmarks of the symptomatology in ADHD, and which symptoms may be the result of an existing comorbidities or other factors. It is in this context that the AQT measures may be applicable to serve as complements to behavioral ratings and other qualitative observations.
We first noticed a recurring pattern in the AQT processingspeed and overhead (shift-cost) measures of adults with an ADHD diagnosis in daily psychiatric practice. The pattern that emerged was that the AQT color and form naming times, which primarily reflect reaction, retrieval and response time, tended to be within the average-normal range compared to norms for healthy adults [1,2]. In contrast, the naming times for color-form combinations, which add requirements for co-articulation and set shifting, tended to be in the slower-than-normal (>+1SD) or atypical (>+2SD) ranges compared to healthy adults in the same age range [1,2]. This caught our attention, because research of adults with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type reported naming times for color, form, and color-form that were in the slowerthan- normal range in the mild-to-moderate disease stages and then showed a slowing of the rate of naming with the disease progression [6-8]. This indicated that both the perceptual (color, form) and cognitive speed (color-form) were affected negatively in adults with dementia and contrasted with our observations of average perceptual speed values for adults with ADHD.
The aims of this review are to:
a) Describe the design and statistical characteristics of AQT
b) Differentiate the processing- and naming-speed profiles observed in diagnostic groups with ADHD with and without depression, ADHD with comorbid Substance Use Disorder (SUD), and depression without ADHD
c) Explore patterns in outcomes after optimum treatment of adults with ADHD diagnoses with stimulant medication.
AQT Design and Statistical Characteristics
The AQT design is simple and easy to administer and interpret, and its closest parallel is the Color-Word Test (CWT) [9]. AQT features three test plates, each with 40 highly familiar visual stimuli, designed to elicit Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) [1,2]. The first test plate (Test A) shows four familiar colors (black, blue, red, yellow), presented as circles in randomized order. The second (Test B) shows four familiar geometrical forms (circle line, triangle, square), presented randomly in black. The third test plate (Test C) features 40 combinations of the colors and forms (e.g., yellow circle) in randomized order. The total naming time (s) for each test is measured digitally, beginning at voice onset and ending after articulation of the last item. The two single-dimension naming tests (color, form) measure reactive attention and reflect a combination of reaction, retrieval and response time. The two-dimensional naming test (color-form) measures active attention, which also reflects increased demands on attention, working memory and cognitive control. Rapid naming of the color-form stimuli is associated with bilateral activation of the posterior regions of the temporal and parietal lobes and the occipital lobes, as indicated by rCBF [1,2] and by sagittal and coronal f-MRI images obtained at the Malmö University Hospital Brain Center. The cortical areas, activated during color-form naming, have been associated with central executive functions (attention-memory) and cognitive control (set shifting) [10-12]. This design allows for the calculation of overhead (shift cost) by using the formula [color-form time (s)-(color+form) time (s)], resulting in either a positive or negative value (+/-) and this measure is considered to account for the added co-articulation time and demands on executive functions and cognitive control [13].
The color, form and color-form combination naming time and overhead (shift cost) measures were norm and criterionreferenced for healthy speakers of American-English, Danish and Swedish, ranging in age between 18 and 85 years [1,2,13- 15]. AQT shows a high degree of test-retest reliability in healthy adolescents and adults with correlations (r) of 0.91 for color, 0.92 for form, and 0.95 for color-form naming [1,2]. The tests show no gender bias or educational bias after literacy has been achieved with formal education (Grade 8) [1,2,14]. Over the age span between 15 and 60 years, color-form naming times are reported to increase about 1 s/decade and after age 60 by 1 s/ seven years [14]. There is no evidence of learning or habituation in healthy adults during a period of 10 min repeated trials and the tests can therefore be re-administered with short time intervals [1,2]. The simple design allows for the test to be used across languages and cultures, and it has been norm-referenced with samples of adult speakers of other languages other than English and Danish/Norwegian/Swedish, among them, Italian, and Spanish [16,17]. The three processing-speed tests can be administered in person, using the printed test plates, or on a PC-format tablet being finalized, which records naming times and calculates overhead (shift cost) (AQT Assessment ApS, Denmark <[email protected]>).
Concurrent validity
The processing-speed tests and measures have been tested for concurrent validity with several commonly-used tests of cognitive functions. The outcomes indicate that the dualdimension color-form naming test shows moderate levels of validity as a neuropsychological test and that the underlying construct differs from that of other commonly used tests. As examples, the dual-dimension naming measure correlates negatively with WAIS-IV Performance IQ (r=-0.61), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) (r=-0.59) and MMSE (r=- 0.72) scores (p>0.01) and the effect sizes are large [18,19]. The association between AQT color-form naming and Stroop interference T-scores is relatively low (r=-0.31; p=0.049). This finding points to considerable differences in the underlying constructs for the AQT cognitive speed and the Stroop inhibition measures [19].
Test-retest reliability
Whereas AQT shows a high degree of test-retest reliability in healthy adolescents and adults that may not apply to adults with ADHD. For this review, we evaluated the test-retest reliability of the color-form naming measure, which has been found to be sensitive to the ADHD symptomatology in adults [20-22]. Thirty-two previously-medicated adults with ADHD diagnoses, who participated in a methylphenidate dose-effect study, were used to establish test-retest reliability without medication and with methylphenidate [21]. The first test-retest administration occurred in the morning after two days without medication to obtain baseline measures. The tests were re-administered later in the day, approximately 1 hour after the ingestion of a maximum dose of methylphenidate IR, equivalent to 17.39/34.78 mg. At baseline, the test-retest means for color-form naming were 57.81s (SD=11.93) and 59.63s (SD=15.19) and with maximum methylphenidate the color-form means were 53.60s (SD=12.09) and 53.23s (SD=12.30), respectively. After lognormal (ln) transformation of naming times, the test-retest correlation at baseline without medication was r=0.89 (p<0.001). After stabilization with methylphenidate, the correlation increased to r=0.94 (p<0.001), a test-retest correlation that is similar to that of 95 reported for healthy adults [1,2]. The difference between the coefficients at baseline and endpoint (q=0.32) proved of medium effect size and is therefore considered to be clinically relevant.
Among healthy adults, AQT has shown no gender bias but this might not be the case for adults with ADHD, as research has indicated gender differences in ADHD symptomatology in the direction that males show higher levels of impulsivity than females [23,24]. For this review, we explored potential gender differences in the AQT color, form and color-form naming times and overhead (shift cost) in 41 males and 19 females with ADHD diagnoses, who participated in studies that monitored the effects of two equal doses of methylphenidate IR [21,22]. The mean age for males was 33.90 (SD=13.07) and for females 31.47 years. (SD=12.92) and the groups did not differ in age (t56=1.20; p=0.24). The descriptive statistics for the processingspeed measures and overhead (shift cost) by males and females are shown in Table 1. The baseline and endpoint measures, after the ingestion of the maximum dose of methylphenidate IR (17.39/34.78mg) were used to compare the effects of gender before and after stimulant medication.
Color-Form
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
No medication 25.63 -6.67 28.51 -9.28 59.17 -15.36 6.88 -5.4
High-dose 21 -3.67 23 -4.06 44.9 -7.07 3.59 -3.26
No medication 23.11 -5.17 27.53 -6.46 57.84 -10.68 8.57 -7.23
High dose 19.58 -3.7 21.84 -4.5 44.26 -8.84 3.68 -3.71
Table 1. Means and standard deviations for color, form and color-form naming and overhead (shift cost) (overhead (shift cost) (shift cost)) (s) without medication and with high-dose medication for 41 males and 19 females with ADHD.
One-way ANOVA, after acceptance of normality, indicated statistical between-group effects for color (F3, 116=8.37; p=0.00004; η2=0.18), form (F3, 116=7.11;p=0.0002; η2=0.16), color-form (F3,116=15.44; p<0.0001; η2=0.29) and overhead (shift cost) (F3,116=6.56; p=0.0004; η2=0.15). However, post hoc analyses (Scheffe) indicated no statistical differences (p>0.05) in color, form or color-form naming times or in overhead between males and females either at baseline or at endpoint. As expected, males and females used longer colorform naming times and had larger overhead (shift cost) at baseline than at endpoint, indicating positive treatment effects. Taking into account that the sample was biased in favor of males, the preliminary findings suggest that possible gender differences in impulsivity among previously-medicated adults with ADHD did not influence the executive functions assessed by the perceptual-(color, form) or cognitive-speed (color-form) or overhead (shift cost) measures.
Response-Time Profiles
In two early clinical studies of stimulant-naïve adults with ADHD, ages 17-55 years, we used cut-off time criteria of <60s for the average range (<+1SD) for color-form naming and of <+/-6s for the average overhead (Shift cost) range (<+/-1SD) to explore if these measures differed from those observed in healthy adults [20,25]. At baseline without medication, 91% and 89% of the patients with ADHD in those studies were identified to exhibit longer-than-average form (>30s) or color-form naming times (>60s) and larger-than-average overhead (shift cost) (>+/-6s), when using the original norms as criteria [1,2].
With additional response-time profiles from younger adults with ADHD, in the age range from 17 to 55 years, it seemed relevant to re-analyse the accumulated normative data for healthy adults to validate the cut-off time criteria, we had used in earlier studies [20,25]. We analysed the color-form response-time and overhead (shift cost) of 180 healthy adults in two age cohorts, ages 18-34 years and 35-55 years, each with 90 adults [13,15]. One-way ANOVA, using ln values, indicated no statistical differences in color -form naming times or overhead (shift cost) values between the age cohorts. The upper limit of the average range for color-form, rounded to the nearest 5s, proved to be 55s (+1SD), slightly lower than earlier criterion of 60s, and the average range for overhead of +/-5s (+/-1SD) was slightly less than set earlier.
For this review we applied the lower cut-off time criterion (55s) for color-form and overhead (+/-5s) to the results from two studies that focused on the effects of controlled-dose methylphenidate treatment of patients with ADHD diagnoses, who were previously-medicated for 6 months or longer [21,22]. We combined the patient groups (n=40 and 21), since identical methods and procedures were used to monitor the effects of methylphenidate IR. Patients in the combined group (n=61) were off medication for two days before the tests were administered to obtain a baseline measure. In this group and with the revised criteria, 84% of patients were identified to have longer-thanaverage color-form (>55s) and/or larger-than-average overhead (>+/-5s) at baseline without medication.
To delineate possible differences in the response profiles of medication-naïve and previously-medicated adults with ADHD, who responded to stimulant medication, we compared namingtime and overhead (shift cost) measures at baseline and endpoint after optimum treatment with methylphenidate [20-22]. For the 64 medication-naïve adults with ADHD, who responded to medication, the baseline means were 24.63s (SD=4.45) for color, 29.50s (SD=6.09) for form, 66.69s (SD=11.12) for color-form, and 13.00s (SD=7.93) for overhead (shift cost). At endpoint the respective values were 19.95s (SD=3.21), 22.48s (SD=3.72), 45.84s (SD=7.46), and 3.4s (SD=3.84). In contrast, the baseline means for the previously-medicated adults (n=53) were 25.49s (SD 6.17) for color, 29.38s (SD 6.55) for form, 59.89s (SD=13.91) for color-form, and 4.77s (SD=8.84) for overhead (shift cost). At endpoint, the means were 20.81s (SD=3.74), 22.75s (SD=4.12), 45.28s (SD=7.60), and 1.81s (SD=3.09), respectively.
One-way ANOVA with ln values indicated no statistical differences between groups for color and form naming either at baseline or endpoint (p>0.05). In contrast, there were statistical between-group effects at baseline for color-form (F3, 230=50.63; p<0.0001; η2=0.40) and overhead (shift cost) values (F3,230=38.83; p<0.0001; η2=0.34) and the effect size was large. Post-hoc analysis at baseline, indicated that colorform naming times were longer (Scheffe=4.29; p=0.0005) and overhead values (shift) larger (Scheffe5.67; p<0.0001) for the stimulant-naïve than for the previously-medicated adults with ADHD. There was no statistical difference between the groups at endpoint, after a maximum dose of methylphenidate, for either color-form (Scheffe0.007; p=1.00) or overhead (shift cost) values (Scheffe=0.35; p=0.99). Rank-order correlations between the baseline and endpoint measures proved lower for the medication-naïve adults (Rho=0.62; t=6.24; p<0.01) than for the previously-medicated patients (Rho=0.83; t=10.43; p<001), indicating greater predictive efficiency in the latter group. Plots of individual color-form naming times, with linear regression lines, ranked on the basis of endpoint measures, are shown for the medication-naïve adults (n=64) and the previouslymedicated adults (n=53) in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Plots of individual naming times for 64 medication-naïve and 53 previously-medicated adults with ADHD at baseline without medication and at endpoint after treatment with stimulant medication.
In a later study of 28 patients with ADHD and comorbid SUD, the AQT tests identified reductions of considerable magnitude in the color-form and overhead (shift cost) time measures [26]. At baseline without medication, the means for color (M=31.54s; SD=7.92) and form naming (39.08s; SD=10.19) were in the larger-than-average range (>25s and >30s, respectively) [2]. The mean for color-form (M=75.31s; SD=17.38) was in the atypical range (>55s/+1SD), based on the revised criteria, and 64% used longer than 70s (>+2SD) to complete the cognitive-speed task. The average overhead (shift cost) at baseline (M=10.15s; SD=6.97) approached the atypical range (>11s or >+2SD) for healthy adults, based on revised criteria. Among adults with ADHD and SUD, 92.31% responded with longer-than-normal color-form naming times (>55s) and/or larger-than-normal overhead (shift cost) values (>5s) at baseline, when compared to healthy adults in the same age range.
We also compared the AQT color, form and color-form naming and overhead (shift cost) profiles in 42 adults with moderate-tosevere depression and 42 adults with ADHD without depression, selected from among the responders in previously published studies [21,22]. Patients with depression were included in a previously published, double-blind study of the effects of active or sham low-intensity transcranial application of Pulsed Electro Magnetic Fields (T-PEMF) on depression ratings [27,28]. The AQT processing-speed tests were included as T-PEMF outcome measures, but were not reported, and this allowed using the data for comparing response profiles in patients with depression and ADHD without depression. The descriptive statistics for the two diagnostic groups are shown in Table 2.
M (SD) MSE M (SD) MSE M (SD) MSE M (SD) MSE
Baseline 25.38 (5.31) 0.82 29.52 (5.20) 0.80 55.81(10.21) 1.58 1.31 (7.10) 1.10
Endpoint 23.86 (4.71) 0.73 27.48 (4.41) 0.68 52.02 (8.50) 1.31 1.29 (7.26) 1.12
Endpoint 20.81 (3.83) 0.59 23.19(4.21) 0.65 45.19 (6.88) 1.06 1.24 (4.32) 0.68
Table 2. AQT means, standard deviations, and mean standard error for 42 adults with depression and 42 adults with ADHD without depression pre- and post-treatment.
One-way ANOVA compared processing-speed measures at baseline, before the respective treatments (T-PEMF or methylphenidate), and at endpoint (ln), as criteria for normality were rejected. The analyses indicated statistical between-group effects for color (F3, 164=11.37, p<0.0001, η2=0.17), form (F3, 164=20.25, p<0.0001, η2=0.27), color-form (F3, 164=26.85, p<0.001, η2=0.33) and effect sizes were medium. There was also a statistical difference in overhead (shift cost) times (F 3, 164=4.54; p=0.004; η2=0.08). At baseline before treatment, post hoc analyses showed that color-form naming times were longer (Scheffe=4.36; p=0.000) and overhead (shift cost) larger (Scheffe=3.14; p=0.022) in the ADHD than in the depression group. More importantly, overhead (shift cost) values were larger at baseline than at endpoint for the ADHD group (Scheffe=3.14; p=0.022). There was no statistical difference in overhead (shift cost) between baseline and endpoint in the depression group.
Monitoring Methylphenidate Dose Effects
The first study that used the color, form and color-form naming test to obtain quantitative measures of the effects of stimulant medication included 69 medication-naïve adult referrals with probable ADHD [20]. Sixty-four patients, ranging in age from 17 to 55 years, completed the pharmacological treatment and responded to medication. At baseline without medication, the naming time means for color (24.63s) and form (29.50s) were within the average range for healthy adults (<25 s, <30 s, respectively) [2,14,15]. In contrast, the mean for color-form naming (66.69 s) was in the longer-than-average range (>55 s) and overhead (shift cost) (13.00 s) was in the atypical range (>5 s) compared to healthy adults ages 18-55. After treatment, the means for color-form (45.84s) and overhead (shift cost) (3.41 s) were well within the average range (<55 s and <+/-5 s), as compared to healthy adults in the same age range. Oneway ANOVA, using ln values, indicated statistical difference between the naming times at intake without medication (baseline) and after treatment with stimulant medication (endpoint) for all measures. Effect sizes ranged from medium to large and the average naming time for completing the colorform task was reduced by 31%. The reduction in the overhead (shift cost) also proved significant (t1, 91=8.71; p<0.0000; η2=0.45) and the average overhead was reduced by 73%. The observed improvements in cognitive speed (color-form) and processing efficiency (overhead) suggested the need for further controlled dose-effect studies in adults with ADHD with the AQT processing-speed tests.
Independent regional studies that used identical methods and procedures monitored the effects of controlled, incremental doses of methylphenidate IR on the AQT processing-speed and overhead (shift cost) measures in 60 patients [21,22]. When the samples in the two studies were combined, 53 patients (88.3%) responded to treatment with methylphenidate. The first test administration (baseline) occurred in the morning, after two days without medication and the second occurred within onehour after ingesting 8.65/17.39 mg methylphenidate IR (lowdose). The tests were re-administered about 1 hour after the ingestion of a second dose of 8.65/17.39 mg methylphenidate IR (high-dose). Descriptive statistics for the 53 previouslymedicated responders to methylphenidate for each test variable and treatment condition are shown in Table 2. At baseline, the means for color, form, and color-form were at the upper limits of the average range (<25, <30, and <55 s, respectively). The mean for the overhead (shift-cost) was also in the average range (<5s) at baseline but the inter-individual variability (SD=8.40) was larger than for healthy adults ages 18-70 (M=2.85; SD=5.52) [15]. With low-dose methylphenidate, the means for color, form, color-form, and overhead (shift cost) were within the average range but the inter-individual variability remained high. At endpoint with high-dose methylphenidate IR, the means for color, form, color-form, and overhead (shift cost) were well within the average range, compared to healthy adults in the same age range and based on the updated criteria (Table 3).
No medication 25.49 (6.17) 29.38 (8.91) 59.89 (13.91) 4.77 (8.40)
Low-dose 22.23 (5.44) 24.91 (6.55) 51.51 (11.75) 4.00 (8.84)
High-dose 20.81 (3.74) 22.75 (4.12) 45.38 (7.60) 1.81 (3.09)
Table 3. Means and standard deviations for color, form and color form naming times and overhead (shift cost) values for methylphenidate treatment effects by 53 previously-medicated adults with ADHD.
One-way ANOVA indicated significant treatment effects for color (F2, 156=5.08;p<0.007; η2=0.06), form (F2,156=8.36;p=0.0004; η2=0.10), and color-form naming (F2, 156=11.20;p=0.00003; η2=0.13), with effect sizes in the low range. Post hoc analysis for color naming indicated significantly longer naming times without medication than with high-dose methylphenidate (Scheffe=2.98; p<0.01). For form naming, times proved longer without medication than with low-dose (Scheffe=2.93; p=0.02) or high-dose methylphenidate (Scheffe3.93; p=0.0006). For colorform combinations, naming times were also significantly longer without medication than with low-dose (Scheffe=2.90; p<0.02) or high-dose methylphenidate (Scheffe=4.71; p=0.00003). Nonparametric analysis of overhead (shift-cost) values, Chi-Square corrected for ties, also indicated statistical differences between treatment conditions (Chi-Square=11.94; p=0.003). The largest overhead values occurred without medication (baseline), second largest with low-dose, and smallest with high-dose methylphenidate IR (endpoint). Twenty-one responders to medication (39.6%) reached maximum treatment effects with low-dose methylphenidate, based on conservatively set criteria that the difference between the color-form naming times for the low-dose and high-dose conditions would be +/-3s or less. At endpoint, overhead (shift cost) values were in the average range (<5s) for the majority of the responders (89%). Individual color-form naming times and linear regression lines for the no medication (baseline), low-dose and high-dose methylphenidate (endpoint) conditions, ranked based on the endpoint measures, are shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Plots of individual color-form naming times for 53 previously-medicated adults with ADHD at baseline without medication, with low-dose methylphenidate, and at endpoint with high-dose methylphenidate.
The AQT processing speed measures have also been used for monitoring the pharmacological treatment of 28 adults with ADHD and Substance Use Disorder (SUD), of which 26 responded to medication [26]. Patients were evaluated in the morning before ingestion of a morning dose of methylphenidate (baseline) and two-three hours later after the ingestion of methylphenidate IR/MR in varying doses ranging from 20 to 216 mg (M=101.43mg), as prescribed by their physicians and approved by medical authorities. At baseline, the means were 31.54s (SD=7.92) for color, 39.08s (SD=10.19) for form, 75.31s (SD=17.38) for color-form, and 10.15s (SD=6.97) for overhead (shift cost) and all measures were in longer-/larger-than-average range. After ingesting methylphenidate, the corresponding means for color 25.00s (SD=5.66) and form 30.23s (SD=7.37) were reduced to the average-normal range. The means for color-form 62.62s (SD=13.97) and overhead (shift cost) 10.50s (SD=9.28) remained in the larger-than average ranges at endpoint. One way ANOVA indicated statistical treatment effects for all measures: color (F1,50=12.82;p=0.001; η(2)=0.20), form (F1,50=13.54; p=0.001; η (2)=0.21), and (F1,50=8.15;p=0.01; η (2)=0.14) but not for overhead (shift cost) (F1,50=0.31; p=0.58). Correlations between measures at baseline and after ingestion of methylphenidate dose (mg) (Spearman’s Rho) proved non-significant for color, form and color-form (p>0.05) and methylphenidate dose accounted for less the 1% of the variance in outcomes. In this clinical group, 92% exhibited longer- or larger-than-average or atypical values for two or more of the measures at baseline.
As an introduction, we acknowledge that the AQT processingspeed measures have been used primarily in clinical studies of adults with ADHD that were conducted in Scandinavia. The clinical studies were approved by regional authorities in Denmark and Sweden and were carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the EU directive of Good Clinical Practice [29]. The normative data, used as references for the studies reviewed and updated for this review, were first collected in the US with healthy adult speakers of American- English and in Denmark and Sweden with healthy adults in the same age range [1,2]. It is important in this context that no statistical differences have emerged in comparisons of the normative data for English and the Scandinavian languages referenced [1,2]. The similarity in the processing and response measures for color, form and color-form combinations can be attributed to the fact that these languages are of Anglo- Germanic origin and that the syllable lengths are identical in the three languages, with the exception of the multi-syllabic label ‘yellow’ used in English [1,2].
In daily practice, the time used for testing, the ease of training allied-health professionals in test administration, and the patient’s reactions to the test are important subjective choice factors. The AQT three processing-speed tests can be administered within a short time period of from 5 to 8 minutes and allied-health professionals can readily be trained to administer and record test results. Feedback from patients indicates that they are minimally stressed by responding to the tests after the initial familiarization trial. The statistical characteristics of a test, such as absence of gender bias and acceptable or high testretest reliability, are among objective factors of importance to clinicians and researchers.
With regard to gender, we have not observed any bias in the responses of healthy adult males and females [1,2,14]. In reports of symptoms associated with ADHD, there have been indications of gender differences, as males appear to exhibit greater levels of impulsivity than females [23,24]. We hypothesized that any gender differences associated with ADHD would occur without medication and that there would be no gender differences after appropriate medication with methylphenidate. In the gender comparison, presented in this review, we observed no statistical differences in cognitive speed (color-form) or efficiency (overhead) at baseline without medication or at endpoint between previously-medicated males and females with ADHD, who participated in published dose-effect studies [21,22]. Because the clinical sample was relatively small and biased in favor of males, we acknowledge that the findings cannot be generalized medication-naïve adults or patients with ADHD symptomatology associated with major comorbidities such as SUD.
In healthy adults, the AQT processing speed measures are associated with high levels of test-retest reliability [1,2]. Among adults with ADHD, the reliability of the color, form and colorform processing-speed measures were not previously tested without medication or after treatment with methylphenidate. For this review, we established the stability of the AQT measures in previously-medicated adults with ADHD, who participated in published, independent studies [21,22]. After treatment with a maximum dose of methylphenidate, the correlation between test-retest measures proved high and similar to that observed in healthy adults [1,2]. Without medication, the testretest correlations were still in the acceptably high range but they were slightly lower, indicating greater intra-individual response variability. More importantly, the difference between the coefficients of correlation (r) at baseline and endpoint of treatment proved of medium effect size and this is considered to indicate less variability in responding with stimulant medication than without medication. The lower measure of association for the unmedicated condition in adults with ADHD is in line with reports of slower processing speed and increased response variability in children with ADHD [30-32]. The improved stability in responding is considered of clinical and everydayfunctional relevance. The response variability in children has been reported to contribute to 17% of the reductions in reading fluency [32] and similar effects on vocational or professional tasks that involve reading should be observable in adults with ADHD.
The pattern of generally longer color-form naming times and larger overhead (shift cost) in adults with ADHD than in healthy age peers was first observed in studies with medication-naïve adults with ADHD from an urban setting in Denmark [20]. This pattern was also found to differentiate healthy adults and adults with ADHD and adult psychiatric referrals with and without ADHD in the same setting [25,33]. Recently, the same processing-speed and overhead pattern was observed in independent studies in Sweden of previously-medicated adults with ADHD and adults ADHD with SUD [21,22,26]. The pattern also differentiated adults with ADHD without depression and adults with depression without ADHD, as reported in this review.
The strength, with which the combination of average color and form naming times and longer/larger-than-average colorform and overhead (shift cost) times (s) differentiates between clinical groups with ADHD diagnoses, is not uniform. It seems to vary depending on factors related to the number and types of comorbidities and whether patients were medication-naïve or previously medicated. The sensitivity of the differentiating characteristics in the cognitive speed (color-form) and processing efficiency (overhead) profiles of adults with ADHD appears highest in adults with ADHD and comorbid SUD (92%) and only slightly lower in medication-naïve adults with ADHD (91% and 89%) [25,26]. The characteristic response profile shows slightly lower but acceptable levels of sensitivity for previously-medicated adults with ADHD (85% and 83 %) [21,22]. The observation that the sensitivity of using the AQT response profiles as indices of ADHD was lowest in previouslymedicated adults with ADHD agrees with results from research that compared cortical-activation patterns in stimulant-naïve and previously-medicated children and adults [34]. During the performance of tasks that focus on attention and interference control, all but one study reviewed reported attenuation of abnormal activation in cortical areas after long-term stimulant medication. The regions, in which attenuation occurred, included the prefrontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital regions of the cortex [32]. Of these, the temporal-parietal and occipital regions were shown to be activated bilaterally, with concurrent deactivation of the prefrontal regions, during the performance of the color-form naming task in rCBF [1,2] and f-MRI.
When comparing the processing-speed profiles of adults with ADHD, who are medication naïve or who have received stimulant medication long-term, there appear to be remarkable differences [20-22]. Comparison of the average times reported for the two groups for the perceptual-speed measures, 24.63s and 25.49 s for color and 29.50 s and 29.38 s, indicate no differences between groups at baseline without medication. In contrast, the average times for the color-form measures at baseline (66.69s and 59.89s, respectively) indicate that naming times are about 6s (+1SD) longer for the medication-naïve than for the previously-medicated adults with ADHD. At baseline, shift costs were also larger for the medication-naïve than for the previously-medicated group (13.00 s and 7.43 s, respectively) and differed by more than +/-6s (+/-1SD). The lower baseline values for cognitive speed (color-form) and processing efficiency (shift cost) for adults with ADHD after prolonged use of methylphenidate, are in line with observations from functional f-MRI studies of children and adolescents after stimulant medication use [32]. Several of the studies reviewed by the authors found that stimulant medication reduced the levels of abnormal activation in the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes, that is, the same cortical regions of bilateral activation in adults with ADHD during the performance of color-form naming [1,2]. The average processing-speed times reported for the medication-naïve and previously-medicated adults with ADHD at endpoint, after stabilization with stimulant medication, did not differ for any of the measures, suggesting that the groups were equally responsive to treatment with methylphenidate. The findings suggest that the processingspeed measures (color, form and color-form) and the calculated overhead (shift cost) may be relevant for use in daily psychiatric or primary practice. For both medication-naïve and previouslymedicated adults with ADHD, these quantitative measures may complement behavioral ratings or screening tests used at intake or to quantify the effects of receiving stimulant medication.
We acknowledge that heterogeneity in genetic, environmental, and neuropsychiatric factors may have influenced the lack of gender bias and the sensitivity and reliability levels of the processing-speed and overhead measures, as reported here. The currently available evidence of differential AQT perceptual- (color, form) and cognitive-speed (color-form) and efficiency (overhead) response patterns, however, appears to support the use of the measures during the initial screening of adults with probable ADHD. This seems to be the case especially for screening medication-naïve adults with suspected ADHD or adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and therefore potentially with ADHD.
When we evaluated the ability of the AQT measures to monitor the effects of controlled, incremental doses of methylphenidate, the outcomes of the independently-conducted clinical studies proved similar [21,22]. For this review, we combined the results of the two studies and observed statistical differences in perceptual and cognitive speed and overhead (shift cost) between the no-medication, low dose and high-dose methylphenidate IR conditions. For the perceptual-speed measures (color, form), the statistical treatment effects occurred only between the nomedication and high-dose methylphenidate conditions. For the measures of cognitive speed (color-form), there was an increase in speed between the no-medication and the low-dose methylphenidate and between the no-medication and high-dose methylphenidate conditions. The fact that dose-optimization seemed to be established with low-dose methylphenidate for 21 of the patients with ADHD (39.6%) appears of greater relevance. This finding suggests that the measures can establish a minimum, but optimum, level of medication at which a larger dose would not results in substantial changes in processing speed or efficiency. In summary, the findings suggest that the AQT processing-speed and overhead measures may prove clinically useful to:
a) Monitor responsiveness to stimulant or alternative medication in adults with ADHD
b) Identify non-responders to the specific medication
c) Establish optimum dose levels
d) Determining whether medication may be safely discontinued after long-term use and without recurrence of the ADHD symptomatology.
Within the limitations stated above, and discussed in the published studies, the statistical characteristics of the AQT processing-speed and efficiency measures, when used for adults with probable or established ADHD, indicate adequate concurrent validity with commonly used neuropsychological tests [18,19]. The test-retest reliability in adults with ADHD appears lower without medication, indicating intra-individual response variability, and higher after treatment with stimulant medication, when responses have become more stable. In healthy adults, there are minimal effects of aging on processing speed and there is no evidence of gender bias [1,2]. The preliminary comparison of gender differences, reported in this review, suggests no differences between male and female adults with ADHD either without medication or after treatment with optimum doses of methylphenidate. Patterns in the processing-speed and overhead measures indicate that longerthan- average naming times and larger-than-average overhead can differentiate healthy adults and adults with ADHD and adults with ADHD without and with substance use disorder or with depression, as reported here. This pattern appears to show the highest sensitivity in adults with ADHD and comorbid substance disorder and to show slightly lower sensitivity levels with decreases in the severity of the ADHD symptomatology and after long-term stimulant medication. The studies reviewed also indicate that the processing-speed and overhead (shift cost) time values decreased incrementally with controlled doses of methylphenidate and were within the average range at dose optimization for both medication-naïve and previouslymedicated adults with ADHD. The gains in cognitive speed (color-form) and overhead values (shift cost) with stimulant medication were similar for stimulant-medication naïve and previously-medicated adults with ADHD and more limited for adults with ADHD and substance abuse disorder. We acknowledge that the findings, reported in this review, would benefit from independent clinical validation with adults with ADHD, who are diagnosed and treated within different medical systems and cultures and who speak languages other than Danish and Swedish.
We gratefully acknowledge Michel Arvidsson MD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, for collaboration in the study of adults with ADHD and substance use disorder, and Klaus Martiny MD, PhD, Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark for sharing similar data obtained in the study of treatment effects in adults with moderate-to-severe depression. We also express our gratitude to Jonas Svensson, PhD, Department of Radiation, Malmö University Hospital, Sweden for sharing fMRI images that support earlier rCBF studies with Professor Lennart Minthon, MD, PhD, Brain Center, Malmö University Hospital, University of Lund, Sweden. Last, but not least, we thank all the patients, who willingly signed their consent to participate in the studies reviewed.
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Two workers injured at construction site on Beatrice SCC campus
Construction accident injures two on Beatrice Campus of SCC. (Source: News Channel Nebraska)
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Updated: Fri 3:08 PM, Oct 04, 2019
BEATRICE, Neb. - Two construction workers have been injured on the site of a building project at the Beatrice Campus of Southeast Community College.
The two men were taken by separate Beatrice Fire and Rescue vehicles to Beatrice Community Hospital from the site of the new general purpose classroom building being constructed on the middle of the local campus.
Beatrice Fire and Rescue Chief Brian Daake said the injuries were serious, though not believed to be life-threatening.
One man was taken on stretcher from the scene and transported in an ambulance to the hospital. A second man was observed being helped by two paramedics from the scene with what appeared to be a leg injury.
Daake said the workers suffered broken bones and a possible head injury.
Both men were alert, at the scene, and talking with paramedics.
Hausmann Construction is the contractor building the new classroom structure on the Beatrice Campus. Details of what caused the accident were not immediately known. Walls on the classroom building were just starting to be put in place. The project has been hampered somewhat, by wet weather this summer and early fall.
At the scene today, Beatrice Police officers were investigating the accident and were observed speaking with construction company officials or those who witnessed the accident. Southeast Communications radio transmissions initially indicated that an object fell and that one person suffered a fractured ankle and the other man suffered a possible fractured leg and head injury.
An emergency dispatch indicated an object weighing about fifteen hundred pounds had fallen.
The identities of the injured men are not known, at this time.
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Life in the 'superstate': Pensioner in Russia cold-bloodedly slaughtered a man for 30 rubles grabbed in coins
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As the media reports, three metallic 10-ruble coins were accidentally dropped by a 70-year-old Mikhail Gadukovich. At the same place, a 53-year-old Aleksandr Gubert, who was standing on porch of the building, quickly picked the coins up and refused to give them back to the owner. Besides that, he accused the pensioner of passing information concerning other residents of the administration.
Within the next two hours, the men repeatedly created a melee, followed by verbal exchanges. Each time, the guards had to set them apart.
Eventually, Gadukovich started threatening Gubert with a knife. The latter decided to go away from the armed “victim”, but he unexpectedly fell on his back.
Gadukovich quickly approached his offender and stabbed him in his heart with the knife, whereupon he attempted to escape the scene of the crime.
According to senior investigator of the Investigative Committee in the Kirov district Svetlana Klishyna, Gadukovich admitted his guilt in felonious homicide. In accordance with the law, he has to face up to 15 years imprisonment.
It is important to mention that it is not the first criminal charge against the man. Before the last incident, he was convicted of severe beating of a citizen, as a result of which the victim died.
Crime investigators also cannot understand how one of the residents with criminal records could freely walk around the building with a knife in his pocket. Law enforcement officers are currently investigating the details of the lethal incident.
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Saliva sample and biobanking. To use our genetic testing services, you must purchase, or receive as a gift, a 23andMe Personal Genetic Service testing kit, create an online account and register your kit, and ship your saliva sample to our third party laboratory. Our laboratory will extract your DNA from your saliva sample for analysis. During kit registration you are asked to review our Consent Document for Sample Storage and Additional Genetic Analyses. Unless you consent to sample storage (“Biobanking”) and additional analyses, your saliva sample and DNA are destroyed after the laboratory completes its work, subject to the laboratory's legal and regulatory requirements. You can update your sample storage preference to discard a stored sample within your Account Settings once your sample has completed processing.
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We continuously work to enhance our Services with new products, applications and features that may result in the collection of new and different types of information. We will update our Privacy Statement and/or obtain your prior consent to new processing, as needed.
23andMe will use and share your Personal Information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Statement.
We use the information described above in Section 2 to operate, provide, analyze and improve our Services. These activities may include, among other things, using your information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Statement to:
open your account, enable purchases and process payments, communicate with you, and implement your requests (e.g., referrals);
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contact you about your account, and any relevant information about our Services (e.g. policy changes, security updates or issues, etc.);
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perform research & development activities, which may include, for example, conducting data analysis and research in order to develop new or improve existing products and services, and performing quality control activities.
For individuals located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom, or Switzerland (collectively the “Designated Countries”): We process your Personal Information in this way to provide our Services to you in accordance with our Terms of Service.
As described above, to receive results through the Personal Genetic Service, you must create a 23andMe account, register your kit, and submit your saliva sample to our contracted genotyping laboratory, which processes and analyzes your sample to provide us with your raw Genetic Information. Once we receive your raw Genetic Information from the laboratory, we further analyze it to provide you with our health and/or ancestry reports, dependent on the Service purchased. 23andMe continuously works to improve our Services based on our research and product development, and genetic associations identified in scientific literature. If you are eligible to receive additional reports or updates in the future, you may be notified of or may directly access these updates.
For individuals located in the Designated Countries: Our legal basis for processing your Sensitive Information for the purposes described above is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by deleting your Account via your Account Settings, however, the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
23andMe gives you the ability to share information, including Personal Information, through the Services. You have the option to share directly with individuals with 23andMe accounts through (i) our Forums, (ii) relative finding features (e.g., "DNA Relatives"), (iii) other sharing features and tools. You may also have the ability to share information directly with individuals who have not participated in our Service via a unique, shareable URL or through a social media platform (such information is "User Content"). Some sharing features, including receiving sharing invitations, may require that you opt-out, however you will always be required to take a positive action, such as opting in, to share sensitive data.
For individuals located in the Designated Countries: Our legal basis for processing your Personal Information for the purpose described above is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time, however, the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
To allow you to share your Personal Information for 23andMe Research purposes
You have the choice to participate in 23andMe Research by providing your consent. "23andMe Research" refers to research aimed at publication in peer-reviewed journals and other research funded by the federal government (such as the National Institutes of Health - NIH) conducted by 23andMe.
23andMe Research may be sponsored by, conducted on behalf of, or in collaboration with third parties, such as non-profit foundations, academic institutions or pharmaceutical companies. 23andMe Research may study a specific group or population, identify potential areas or targets for therapeutics development, conduct or support the development of drugs, diagnostics or devices to diagnose, predict or treat medical or other health conditions, work with public, private and/or non-profit entities on genetic research initiatives, or otherwise create, commercialize, and apply this new knowledge to improve health care. 23andMe Research uses Aggregate and/or Individual-level Genetic Information and Self-Reported Information as specified in the appropriate Consent Document(s), as explained in greater detail below.
Your De-identified Genetic and Self-Reported Information may be used for 23andMe Research only if you have consented to this use by completing a Consent Document. If you have completed the Main Research Consent Document:
Your Genetic Information and/or Self-Reported Information will be used for research purposes, but it will be de-identified and will not be linked to your Registration Information.
23andMe may use individual-level Genetic Information and Self-Reported Information internally at 23andMe for research purposes.
23andMe may share summary statistics, which do not identify any particular individual or contain individual-level information, with our qualified research collaborators.
If you have completed the Individual Level Data Sharing Consent, or additional consent agreement, in addition to the uses above under the Main Consent Document, 23andMe may share De-identified Individual-level Genetic Information and Self-Reported Information with select third party research collaborators for 23andMe Research purposes.
Withdrawing your Consent. You may withdraw your consent to participate in 23andMe Research at any time by changing your consent status within your Account Settings. If you experience difficulties changing your consent status, contact the Human Protections Administrator at hpa@23andMe.com. 23andMe will not include your Genetic Information or Self-Reported Information in studies that start more than 30 days after you withdraw (it may take up to 30 days to withdraw your information after you withdraw your consent). Any research involving your data that has already been performed or published prior to your withdrawal from 23andMe Research will not be reversed, undone, or withdrawn. You may also discontinue your participation in 23andMe Research by deleting your 23andMe account (as described in section 5.d).
What happens if you do NOT consent to 23andMe Research? If you choose not to complete a Consent Document or any additional agreement with 23andMe, your Personal Information will not be used for 23andMe Research. However, your Genetic Information and Self-Reported Information may still be used by us and shared with our third party service providers to as outlined in this Privacy Statement.
For individuals located in the Designated Countries: Our legal basis for processing your Sensitive Information for the purpose described above is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time, however, the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Research is an important aspect of 23andMe’s Services and we want to ensure interested participants are aware of additional opportunities to contribute to interesting, novel scientific research conducted by academic institutions, healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and other groups. If you have chosen to participate in 23andMe Research, from time to time we may inform you of third party research opportunities for which you may be eligible. For example, if a university tells us about a new cancer research project, we may send an email to 23andMe research participants who potentially fit the relevant eligibility criteria based on their Self-Reported Information to make them aware of the research project and provide a link to participate with the research organization conducting the study. However we will not share Individual-level Genetic Information or Self-Reported Information with any third party without your consent. If you do not wish to receive these notifications, you can manage them by editing your preferences in your Account Settings.
When you contact Customer Care, we may use or request Personal Information, including Sensitive Information, as necessary to answer your questions, resolve disputes, and/or investigate and troubleshoot problems or complaints. In some instances, we may be required to process one customer’s Personal Information to resolve another customer’s dispute or request. For example, if a customer reports behavior that violates our Terms of Service, we will separately process both customers’ Personal Information and respond separately to each individual as appropriate. We will not share your Personal Information with another customer without your consent.
For individuals located in the Designated Countries: Our legal basis for processing your Personal Information for the purpose described above depends on the nature of the customer support request. Our legal basis can be to satisfy our contractual or legal obligations and/or our legitimate interest to improve our Services.
We value your feedback and may send you surveys, polls, or requests for testimonials to improve and optimize our Services. You are in control of the information you would like to share with us. If you do not wish to receive these requests, you can manage them in your Account Settings.
For individuals located in the Designated Countries: Our legal basis for processing your Personal Information for the purpose described above is based on our legitimate interest. We think it is important to continue improving our Services to ensure your continued enjoyment.
By creating a 23andMe account, you are agreeing that we may send you product and promotional emails or notifications about our Services, and offers on new products, services, promotions or contests. You can unsubscribe from receiving these marketing communications at any time. To unsubscribe, click the email footer “unsubscribe” link or go to the “Preferences” section of your Account Settings to edit your email notification preferences. You may not opt-out of receiving non-promotional messages regarding your account, such as technical notices, purchase confirmations, or Service-related emails.
Individuals located in Designated Countries should review Section 9.d. to understand our marketing practices in relation to the Designated Countries.
4. Information we share with third parties
General service providers.
We share the information described above in Section 2 with our third party service providers, as necessary for them to provide their services to us and help us perform our contract with you. Service providers are third parties (other companies or individuals) that help us to provide, analyze and improve our Services. While 23andMe directly conducts the majority of data processing activities required to provide our Services to you, we engage some third party service providers to assist in supporting our Services, including in the following areas:
Order fulfillment and shipping. Our payment processor processes certain Registration Information, such as your billing address and credit card information, as necessary to enable you to purchase a 23andMe kit from the 23andMe.com online store. Our distribution centers ship your kit(s) to you, and in some cases help return your kit safely to our third party laboratory so your sample can be processed.
Our CLIA-certified genotyping lab. To use our genetic testing services, you must purchase, or receive as a gift, a 23andMe Personal Genetic Service testing kit, and ship your saliva sample to our third party laboratory. Once delivered, receiving personnel at the laboratory remove and discard kit packaging, which in some cases may contain "sender information" (e.g., name, address), before testing personnel receive the samples for processing. Receiving personnel do not perform testing, and testing personnel handle saliva samples that are only identified by a unique barcode. When the laboratory has completed their analysis, they securely send the resulting Genetic Information to us identified by your unique barcode.
During kit registration, you are asked to review our Consent Document for Sample Storage and Additional Genetic Analyses. Unless you consent to Biobanking and additional analyses, your saliva sample and DNA are destroyed after the laboratory completes its work, subject to the laboratory's legal and regulatory requirements. Should you wish to update your sample storage preference to discard a stored sample, you can do so within your Account Settings once your sample has completed processing. As detailed further in Section 5.d. (Account Deletion) our contracted genotyping laboratory will retain certain information as necessary to comply with applicable regulatory and legal obligations.
Customer Care support. Our Customer Care team uses a number of tools to help organize and manage the requests we receive. These tools help to ensure we provide timely, high quality support.
Cloud storage, IT, and Security. Our cloud storage providers provide secure storage for information in 23andMe databases, ensure that our infrastructure can support continued use of our Services by 23andMe customers, and protect data in the event of a natural disaster or other disruption to the Service. Our IT and security providers assist with intrusion detection and prevention measures to stop any potential attacks against our networks. We have these third party experts perform regular penetration tests and periodically audit 23andMe’s security controls.
Marketing and analytics. When you use our Services, including our website or mobile app(s), our third party service providers may collect Web-Behavior Information about your visit, such as the links you clicked on, the duration of your visit, and the URLs you visited. This information can help us improve site navigability and assess our Marketing campaigns. Per applicable data protection regulations, our EU, UK, and International websites present visitors with a cookie opt in to allow the processing described above via Functionality and Advertising Cookies.
NOTE: Our service providers act on 23andMe's behalf. We implement procedures and maintain contractual terms with each service provider to protect the confidentiality and security of your information. However, we cannot guarantee the confidentiality and security of your information due to the inherent risks associated with storing and transmitting data electronically.
We permit third party advertising networks and providers to collect Web-Behavior Information regarding the use of our Services to help us to deliver targeted online advertisements ("ads") to you. They use cookies and similar technologies, to gather information about your browser's or device's visits and usage patterns on our Services and on other websites over time, which helps to better personalize ads to match your interests, and to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. For more information about our marketing practices, please review our Cookie Policy.
We may share Aggregate Information, which is information that has been stripped of your name and contact information and combined with information of others so that you cannot reasonably be identified as an individual, with third parties. This Information is different from "Individual-level" information and is not Personal Information because it does not identify any particular individual or disclose any particular individual’s data. For example, Aggregate Information may include a statement that "30% of our female users share a particular genetic trait," without providing any data or testing results specific to any individual user. In contrast, Individual-level Genetic Information or Self-Reported Information consists of data about a single individual's genotypes, diseases or other traits/characteristics information and could reveal whether a specific user has a particular genetic trait, or consist of all of the Genetic Information about that user. 23andMe will ask for your consent to share Individual-level Genetic Information or Self-Reported Information with any third party, other than our service providers as necessary for us to provide the Services to you.
We may share some or all of your Personal Information with other companies under common ownership or control of 23andMe, which may include our subsidiaries, our corporate parent, or any other subsidiaries owned by our corporate parent in order to provide you better service and improve user experience. Generally, sharing such information is necessary for us to perform on our contract with you. We may provide additional notice and ask for your prior consent if we wish to share your Personal Information with our commonly owned entities in a materially different way than discussed in this Privacy Statement.
Under certain circumstances your Personal Information may be subject to processing pursuant to laws, regulations, judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders. For example, we may be required to disclose Personal Information in coordination with regulatory authorities in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. 23andMe will preserve and disclose any and all information to law enforcement agencies or others if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal or regulatory process (such as a judicial proceeding, court order, or government inquiry) or obligations that 23andMe may owe pursuant to ethical and other professional rules, laws, and regulations; (b) enforce the 23andMe Terms of Service and other policies; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of 23andMe, its employees, its users, its clients, and the public. View our Transparency Report for more information.
NOTE: If you are participating in 23andMe Research, 23andMe will withhold disclosure of your Personal Information involved in such Research in response to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants or orders in accordance with any applicable Certificate of Confidentiality that 23andMe has obtained from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There are limits to what the Certificate of Confidentiality covers so please visit the Certificates of Confidentiality Kiosk.
In the event that 23andMe goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Statement.
5. Your choices
We provide access to your 23andMe data within your 23andMe account. You can access and download data processed by 23andMe within your Account Settings and within applicable Reports, Tools, and features. If you lose access to your 23andMe account or account email address, please contact Customer Care for assistance. If you lose access to your 23andMe account, in certain circumstances, we may require that you submit additional information sufficient to verify your identity before providing access or otherwise releasing information to you. If you choose not to submit the required documentation, or the information provided is not sufficient for the purposes sought, 23andMe will not be able to sufficiently verify your identity in order to complete your request.
You may access, correct or update most of your Registration Information on your own within your Account Settings. You may also review and update your consent to 23andMe Research and Biobanking. You may be able to correct Self-Reported Information entered into a survey, form, or feature within your account, such as on the surveys page, by clicking “Edit your answers here.” Please note that you may not be able to delete User Content that has been shared with others through the Service and that you may not be able to delete information that has been shared with third parties.
Individuals located in Designated Countries should review Section 9.e. to understand their rights to access Personal Information.
As noted in Section 3.h. you may be asked to opt-in to receive product and promotional emails or notifications when creating your 23andMe account depending on where you are located. Otherwise, you may view or update your email notification preferences by visiting your Account Settings or by contacting our Privacy Administrator at privacy@23andMe.com. You can also click the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of promotional email communications.
You may decide to share your Personal Information with friends and/or family members, doctors or other health care professionals, and/or other individuals outside of our Services, including through third party services such as social networks and third party apps that connect to our website and mobile apps through our application programming interface ("API"). These third parties may use your Personal Information differently than we do under this Privacy Statement. Please make such choices carefully and review the privacy statements of all other third parties involved in the transaction. 23andMe does not endorse or sponsor any API applications, and does not affirm the accuracy or validity of any interpretations made by third party API applications.
In general, it can be difficult to contain or retrieve Personal Information once it has been shared or disclosed. 23andMe will have no responsibility or liability for any consequences that may result because you have released or shared Personal Information with others. Likewise, if you are reading this because you have access to the Personal Information of a 23andMe customer through a multi-profile account, we urge you to recognize your responsibility to protect the privacy of each person within that account. Users with multi-profile accounts (i.e., where multiple family members register their kits to one account) should use caution in setting profile-level privacy settings.
If you no longer wish to participate in our Services, or no longer wish to have your Personal Information be processed, you may delete your 23andMe account and Personal Information within your Account Settings. Once you submit your request, we will send an email to the email address linked to your 23andMe account detailing our account deletion policy and requesting that you to confirm your deletion request. Once you confirm your request to delete your account and data, your account will no longer be accessible while we process your request. Once you confirm your request, this process cannot be cancelled, undone, withdrawn, or reversed. When your account is deleted, all associated Personal Information is deleted and any stored samples are discarded, subject to the following limitations:
Information previously included in 23andMe Research. As stated in any applicable Consent Document, Genetic Information and/or Self-Reported Information that you have previously provided and for which you have given consent to use in 23andMe Research cannot be removed from completed studies that use that information. Your data will not be included in studies that start more than 30 days after your account is closed (it may take up to 30 days to withdraw your information after your account is closed).
Legal Retention Requirements. 23andMe and our third party genotyping laboratory will retain your Genetic Information, date of birth, and sex as required for compliance with applicable legal obligations, including the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and CA Business and Professional Code Section 1265 and CAP accreditation requirements. 23andMe will also retain limited information related to your account and data deletion request, including but not limited to, your email address, account deletion request identifier, and record of legal agreements for a limited period of time as required by contractual obligations, and/or as necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and for audit and compliance purposes.
23andMe takes seriously the trust you place in us. 23andMe implements physical, technical, and administrative measures to prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of your information, to maintain data accuracy, to ensure the appropriate use of information, and otherwise safeguard your Personal Information.
23andMe produces secure applications by design. 23andMe incorporates explicit security reviews in the software development lifecycle, quality assurance testing and operational deployment.
De-identification/Pseudonymization. Registration Information is stripped from Sensitive Information, including Genetic and Self-Reported Information. This data is then assigned a randomly generated ID so an individual cannot reasonably be identified.
Encryption. 23andMe uses industry standard security measures to encrypt Sensitive Information both at rest and in transit.
Separation of Environments. 23andMe ensures processing, production, and research environments are separated and access is restricted. Data, including Registration Information, Genetic Information, and Self-Reported Information are segmented across logical database systems to further prevent re-identifiability.
Limiting access to essential personnel. We limit access to Personal Information to authorized personnel, based on job function and role. 23andMe access controls include multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and strict least-privileged authorization policy.
Detecting threats and managing vulnerabilities. 23andMe uses state of the art intrusion detection and prevention measures to stop any potential attacks against its networks. We have integrated continuous vulnerability scanning in our processes and regularly engage third party security experts to conduct penetration tests.
Incident Management. 23andMe maintains a formal incident management program designed to ensure the secure, continuous delivery of its Services. 23andMe has implemented an incident management program using industry best practices, including guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Managing third party service providers. 23andMe requires service providers to implement and maintain accepted industry standard administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect Personal Information.
Your Responsibility. Please recognize that protecting your Personal Information is also your responsibility. We ask you to be responsible for safeguarding your password, secret questions and answers, and other authentication information you use to access our Services. You should not disclose your authentication information to any third party and should immediately notify 23andMe of any unauthorized use of your password. 23andMe cannot secure Personal Information that you release on your own or that you request us to release.
Your information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which 23andMe or its subsidiaries, affiliates or service providers maintain facilities and, therefore, your information may be subject to the laws of those other jurisdictions which may be different from the laws of your country of residence.
7. Children's privacy
23andMe is committed to protecting the privacy of children as well as adults. Neither 23andMe nor any of its Services are designed for, intended to attract, or directed toward children under the age of 18. A parent or guardian, however, may collect a saliva sample from, create an account for, and provide information related to, his or her child who is under the age of 18. The parent or guardian assumes full responsibility for ensuring that the information that he/she provides to 23andMe about his or her child is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate.
8. Linked websites
23andMe provides links to third party websites operated by organizations not affiliated with 23andMe. 23andMe does not disclose your information to organizations operating such linked third party websites. 23andMe does not review or endorse, and is not responsible for, the privacy practices of these organizations. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that you visit. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by 23andMe and our service providers on our behalf.
9. Information for Customers in Designated Countries
Section 9 only applies to individuals located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom, or Switzerland (the “Designated Countries”).
23andMe participates in and has certified its compliance with both the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Information transferred from the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland to the United States, respectively. 23andMe is committed to subjecting all Personal Information received from the EU member countries, EEA and Switzerland, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Frameworks, to the Framework's applicable Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Statement and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit U.S. Department of Commerce's Privacy Shield List.
23andMe is responsible for the processing of Personal Information it receives, under the Privacy Shield Frameworks, or subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. 23andMe complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of Personal Information from the EU, EEA and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.
With respect to Personal Information received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, 23andMe is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, 23andMe may be required to disclose Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
We are the “controller” with respect to your Personal Information because we determine the means and purposes of processing your information when using our Services.
We describe how we process your Personal Information in Sections 2 through 4 of this Privacy Statement. We may process your Personal Information if you consent to the processing, to satisfy our legal obligations, if it is necessary to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts we entered with you or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you, or for our legitimate interests to protect our property, rights or safety of 23andMe, our customers or others.
We will obtain your consent where required to send you marketing communications using electronic means. You may withdraw your consent at any time within your Account Settings or by emailing privacy@23andme.com We will only contact you by electronic means (email, push notification, SMS, etc.) with information about our Services that are similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you.
We will only share your Personal Information with third parties for marketing purposes with your explicit consent. If you do not want us to use your Personal Information in this way, please review and update your Account Settings as necessary or contact us at privacy@23andme.com. You may raise such objection with regard to initial or further processing for purposes of direct marketing at any time and free of charge. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Other marketing activities will happen based on the legitimate interests of 23andMe. E.g., where we tailor marketing communications or send targeted marketing messages via post, phone or social media and other third party platforms; and in providing existing customers with information (via email or other channels) about similar products and services.
You can exercise your privacy rights by following the instructions below or contacting us at privacy@23andMe.com. We will handle your request under applicable law. When you make a request, we may verify your identity to protect your privacy and security.
Right to withdraw consent. To the extent 23andMe requests and you provide your consent to the processing of your Personal Information, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of our processing based on consent before your withdrawal.
Right of access to and rectification of your Personal Information. Our site allows you to access and rectify certain Registration Information within your Account Settings, and your Self-Reported Information by going to the surveys page. You can download your raw Genetic Information within your Account Settings or by going to the applicable tool in “Tools.” If you would like to access or rectify any other information, contact Customer Care and we will do our best to assist you without undue delay. We may reject part or all of your request if responding to your request could adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
Right to erasure (or, “Right to be Forgotten”). As explained under Section 5.d. (“Account Deletion”), we allow our customers to delete theiraccounts at any time. You can request erasure of Personal Information that: (a) is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; (b) was collected in relation to processing to which you previously consented, but later withdrew such consent; or (c) was collected in relation to processing activities to which you object, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for our processing. If we have made your Personal Information public and we are required to erase such Personal Information, we will take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers that are processing any links to or copies or replications of your Personal Information of your erasure request. Our assistance with your request for erasure is subject to limitations by relevant data protection laws, available technology and the cost of implementation.
Right to data portability. If we process your Personal Information based on a contract with you or based on your consent, or the processing is carried out by automated means, you may request to receive your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have us transfer your Personal Information directly to another controller, where technically feasible, unless exercise of this right adversely affects the rights and freedoms of others. A “controller” is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of your Personal Information.
Right to restriction of our processing. You can restrict our processing of your Personal Information where one of the following applies: (a) you dispute the accuracy of Personal Information processed by 23andMe (for a period enabling us to verify its accuracy); (b) the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the Personal Information and request the restriction of its use instead; (c) 23andMe no longer needs the Personal Information for the purposes of the processing, but it is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and (d) you have objected to certain processing relying on legitimate interest, pending the verification whether 23andMe’s legitimate grounds override your rights. Restricted Personal Information shall only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest. We will notify you if the restriction is lifted.
Notification of erasure, rectification and restriction. We will provide notice to each recipient that we disclosed your Personal Information to regarding any rectification or erasure of Personal Information or restriction of processing, unless you initiated the disclosure or providing notice proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Upon your request, we will share the list of recipients with you.
Right to object to processing. Where the processing of your Personal Information is based on consent, contract, or legitimate interests described under the Legal Bases for Processing heading above, you may restrict or object, at any time, to the processing of your Personal Information as permitted by applicable law. We may continue to process your Personal Information if it is necessary for the defense of legal claims, or for any other exceptions permitted by applicable law.
Automated individual decision-making, including profiling. You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects on you, except as allowed under applicable data protection laws.
Retention of your Personal Information. Unless you make a request for us to delete your account or delete certain Personal Information (i.e., User Content, etc.), we will store your Personal Information as long as your account is open. If you request to delete your account, we will take the steps described under “Your Choices – Account Deletion” and delete all your Personal Information, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
The rights described above may be limited by local laws. Further, your right of access and deletion is not absolute and may not be available if fulfillment of such right would, among other things:
cause interference with execution and enforcement of the law and legal private rights (such as in the case of the investigation or detection of legal claims or the right to a fair trial);
breach or prejudice the rights of confidentiality and security of others;
prejudice security or grievance investigations, corporate re-organizations, future and ongoing negotiations with third parties, the compliance with regulatory requirements relating to economic and financial management; or
otherwise violate the interests of others or where the burden or cost of providing access would be disproportionate.
If you believe that we have infringed your rights, we encourage you to contact us so that we can try to address your concerns or dispute informally. Our contact information is:
Global Privacy Officer, 23andMe, Inc.,
899 West Evelyn Avenue,
1.800.239.5230,
privacy@23andme.com
Alternatively, you may contact 23andMe’s EU member representative, DPR Group, at https://www.dpr.eu.com/23andme.
23andMe’s commitment to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks entitle you to lodge a complaint via our Privacy Shield independent dispute resolution mechanism. To send your privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield Principles, please contact the BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit https://www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information and/or to file a complaint.
As a last resort and under limited circumstances, EU, EEA and Swiss individuals with residual privacy complaints may invoke a binding arbitration option before the Privacy Shield Panel.
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority situated in a Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of alleged infringement. You can find the relevant supervisory authority name and contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/what-are-data-protection-authorities-dpas_en.
10. Changes to this Privacy Statement
Whenever this Privacy Statement is changed in a material way, a notice will be posted as part of this Privacy Statement and on our website for 30 days. After 30 days the changes will become effective. In addition, all customers will receive an email with notification of the changes prior to the change becoming effective. 23andMe may provide additional "just-in-time" disclosures or additional information about the data collection, use and sharing practices of specific Services. Such notices may supplement or clarify 23andMe’s privacy practices or may provide you with additional choices about how 23andMe processes your Personal Information.
If you have questions about this Privacy Statement, or wish to submit a complaint, please email 23andMe's Privacy Administrator at privacy@23andme.com, or send a letter to:
Privacy Administrator
23andMe, Inc.
899 West Evelyn Avenue
*This Privacy Statement was last updated on July 17, 2018.
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Defiant Chamisa Gets SONA Clearance
A Reflection On January 14 Protests, One Year On
By Kudzanai Gerede Last updated Jan 15, 2020
It has been a difficult 12 months since Simon Sithole (38) lost his business to prowling youths on a dreadful January morning around Mbudzi Roundabout- a business hive, binding the sprawling leafy suburb of Waterfalls to the adjacent high residential neighborhoods of Highfields to the north and Hopley to the west.
On that day, hundreds of youths converged close to his shop; a well-stocked small business enterprise trading in various food stuffs and within minutes it had been broken into, looted to dust and the wooden doors and iron sheet walls dislodged and dragged to block traffic and set ablaze.
Sithole had suddenly fallen victim to a political revolution which he admittedly had initially been in favored of.
“They broke into my shop and took everything and I had to run away for dear life,” narrates Sithole.
“This was a mass demonstration which had nothing to do with some of us but some criminals took advantage of the situation and looted,” added Sithole who somehow managed to get back on his feet several months later and just opened another shop.
But Sithole had been warned earlier via Whatsapp messages that widely circulated the previous day threatening unspecified action on those who dared go to work or take part in any economic activity.
Harare was burning and so did other major cities such as Bulawayo, Gweru, Mutare and Masvingo.
Grotesque images of protesters burning infrastructure, blocked roads and violent clashes between the police force and protesters went viral on various social media platforms.
To a greater extent, these images fueled protesters ‘resolve before government sent military troops to quell the situation.
The internet was shut down the following day to further dampen the spirit of the revolution.
By this time, losses had already been suffered, and they were enormous.
The country’s industry watchdog, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries said business worth US$ 300 million had been lost during this period and government estimated the loss in infrastructure to be over US$ 10 million.
In the meantime a massive crackdown on suspected orchestrators of the protests was undertaken which has been described by analysts as unjustifiably ruthless on the ordinary civilians.
Allegations of rape, physical assaults and murder by security enforcement agents during this period went abuzz with limited cases officially reported to authorities due to fear of persecution.
This was also worsened by the absence of the internet, a vital tool protestors had used to disseminate information.
An impromptu announcement on the 13th of January 2019 by the President, Emmerson Mngangagwa had been aired on television of a 130 percent increase on the price of fuel had sparked this civil uproar.
Price of diesel went up from US$ 1.24 to US$ 3.11 while that of petrol ascended from US$ 1.32 to US$ 3.31.
“The country was in a state of martial-law. We spent the entire week confined in our homes. Soldiers were here all week in the bars, in the streets just everywhere. It was a really intimidating time,” one Hopely resident who preferred to be known as Wasu said.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) who had called for a three-day strike in protest of the fuel hike distanced itself from the violence that had unfolded.
Many political activists and members of the opposition party, MDC were arrested in connection to the protest while many who had looted in shops and committed other crimes during the chaos were sent to prison.
To this day, some senior MDC officials still have cases pending in connection to the January events.
“Yes we still have our national executive members Hon Hwende, our member of parliament hon Sithole are still being persecuted in relation to the events of January 14 2019,” MDC Youth Secretary general, Ostallos Siziba told 263Chat in an interview.
“We want to salute fellow compatriots who were killed may their souls rest in power. The position of us as the MDC, is that we commemorate the lives of the fellow fighters who were killed exactly this time a year ago and our only task is to ensure that we take the struggle of democracy forward,’ he added.
To this day, no member of the opposition party had been successfully convicted over the events of January 14 despite many having spent some days in detention.
To the communities held captive by the military, a physiological effect remains engulfed one year on while those allegedly raped remain with heavy scars engraved in the darkest cocoons of their memories with lost hope for justice.
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Zhu Family Garden, which was built in the combination of residence and ancestral shrine with ancient QING dynasty architectures, is now operating for both visiting and accommodation.
The arrangement of Zhu Family Garden shows the elegance of the whole architectural complex. With the upturned eaves, the vivid paintings and exquisite carvings on the roof beams, also the structure of the courtyard, they all help reflecting how the Zhu Family’s life was in the past.
Zhu Family has almost 100 years of history. In 1990, Government in Jianshui invested 1.8 million RMB for a fully maintenance. After then in October 1998, more than eight million were spent for fixing up the backyard.
There are 28 guest rooms opened for accommodation, most of them are named base on the plants like “Plum Blossom”, “Orchid”, “Bamboo” and “chrysanthemum” etc. Furniture in the chambers are mainly made with wood that represent the designs in Qing dynasty style.
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FILM: Hishaam Sheikh met Shahid Kapoor on set in Leeds as they filmed for the upcoming film, Shaandaar
A University of Leeds student swapped his textbooks and lecture halls for costumes and film sets last year after landing a role in an upcoming Bollywood movie.
24-year-old Hishaam Sheikh, was selected to be one of the background dancers in the soon-to-be released film, Shaandaar.
Starring A-list names such as Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, scenes from the movie will include musical numbers shot right here in Leeds, with Temple Newsam acting as a backdrop.
Hishaam, who is in his fourth year of studying for a Medicine degree, filmed for a total of six days, after first hearing about the roles through Leeds Bhangra Society.
Members of the local group were approached by the production team prior to filming as extras were needed for one scene, lasting just one day.
Upon completion, Hishaam and other members of the group applied to be involved in a musical number, and landed the parts as dancers.
Dressed as a wedding singer, the local academic, originally from Enfield, London, can be seen alongside lead actress, Alia Bhatt, during the song ‘Gulaabo’.
ACTOR: Whilst studying medicine at the University of Leeds, Hishaam is also a member of the Leeds Bhangra Society
Meeting the crew and working on set was a new experience for Hishaam, and one he says he would love to do again.
“It was an amazing experience from the start to the finish,” he said. “When working on the song, we were doing five 12 hour shifts, from 4pm to 4am, but we were well looked after.
“I was able to speak at length with Shahid Kapoor and we spoke about Leeds, London and filming.
“I can’t say too much about the film but it was a great thing to be a part of, especially with the Leeds Bhangra Society.”
Since filming Shaandaar, Hishaam has spent three days working on a separate movie, partially filmed in Dorset, for another future Indian film – House Full Three.
Once again meeting star names, such as Jacqueline Fernandez, Akshay Kumar and Ritesh Deshmukh, the filming took place last month for three days.
“I’ve really enjoyed my two experiences of working on-screen,” he said. “No one in my family has done anything like this before so it is all new but very exciting.
“I would say to anyone who has the chance to get involved in such a project to jump at the opportunity as they don’t come around that often.”
Hishaam says he now wants to finish his medicine degree in Leeds whilst keeping his eye out for more work on-screen to add to his growing portfolio.
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The regional implications of ‘Peak Japan’
31 Mar 2016|Brad Glosserman
Recent changes in Japanese security policy have been applauded as ‘the biggest revisions in the country’s defense policy since adoption of the 1947 constitution’. There is a new National Security Council, a National Security Strategy, a National Secrecy Law, new National Defense Program Guidelines, reinterpretation of the Constitution to permit Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense, new US-Japan bilateral defense guidelines, and security legislation that turns those documents into deliverables. That legislation took effect this week.
Alarmists worry about a resuscitation of Japanese militarism. More sensible and discerning assessments point out that these changes are evolutionary and adaptations to changing circumstances, ‘a small, yet essential, step for Japan as it travels the path of a normal security policy’. Amidst the handwringing and back slapping, little attention is being paid to structural factors that conspire to limit Japan’s capacity to sustain a higher and more expansive hard-security profile. Japan’s demographic trajectory and the inability of Abenomics to gain traction mean that Tokyo’s international influence is likely to be at its apogee, and will level off and eventually decline. Tokyo won’t be irrelevant, but we may well be witnessing ‘Peak Japan’.
When he returned to the Prime Minister’s Office in 2013, Shinzo Abe made clear that he understood that the future of his administration and his Liberal Democratic Party, along with Japan’s international status and standing, rested on economic recovery. He developed a radical program, dubbed ‘Abenomics’ that would provide the foundation for assertive diplomacy and forward-leaning security policy. Three years on, the verdict is mixed: Abenomics’ targets haven’t been hit and economists fear they remain well beyond reach. Growth is stagnant or slow, productivity gains limited and debt continues to expand.
More worrisome is Japan’s demographics: the ‘greyest’ country in the world will continue to age and its population is set to shrink from the current 127 million to 100 million just before 2050; by 2060 population it’ll have shrunk to 86.74 million and nearly 40 percent will be age 65 or older. More ominous still, the workforce, which was 65.77 million in 2013, will plummet 42% by 2060, to 37.95 million. The economic implications of that trajectory are profound: Japanese productivity and economic dynamism will fall, budget choices will become tougher and the resources and energy for security and foreign policy activism will be harder to find.
This future isn’t guaranteed—Japan could open its doors to foreigners, or it could finally unleash the productive power of women (a largely underutilized resource)—but if the past is prologue, it’s a near certainty. If so, then Japan and its friends and allies should act now to mitigate the negative consequences.
First, Japan should maximize the leverage it has now to deal with longstanding issues that impede constructive relations with partners and neighbors. Deals should be struck, relationships consolidated and institutional infrastructure strengthened so that Japan’s position within the region is supported and sustained by a variety of sources. It can’t depend solely on Tokyo’s initiative and energy. (Even the Abe era must end and there’s no guarantee—and little likelihood—that his successor will continue his policies or possess his outlook.)
Second, partners and allies must work with Tokyo to ensure that Japan stays engaged despite the many forces—more than just economic; social and legal pressures are equally powerful—that push it away from regional affairs and turn its focus inward. Tokyo must be drawn out, given a stake in regional outcomes and pushed to play as prominent a security role as possible. One way to do this is to conceptualise security broadly and to identify ways for Japan to contribute that don’t focus on purely military means. Japan has championed comprehensive security for over three decades; this should provide a framework for efforts that are congenial to Japanese resources, capabilities and thinking. Calibrating this tension is essential. Japan must be pushed to do more, even while its partners remain conscious of the domestic circumstances that create resistance to such initiatives.
Australia will be central in this effort. Canberra has emerged as Tokyo’s preferred security partner (after the US). The two governments have overcome a bitter and difficult history to forge a ‘special strategic partnership’ that reflects shared values and interests. It includes an expanding institutional infrastructure with regular leadership meetings, an array of security instruments and coordination with their mutual alliance partner, the US. Australia should continue to press Japan to work with it across a spectrum of security and foreign policy issues. There should be diplomatic coordination bilaterally and in regional and international forums. Of special importance is outreach to third parties throughout East Asia to press for respect for the rule of law, human dignity and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Australia and Japan should be planning, along with the US, for regional contingencies, as well as expanding cooperation, including joint exercises.
While its alliance with the US will remain the cornerstone of Japanese security policy, the real focus of its diplomacy and foreign policy in years to come should be Asia. Forging a new, forward-looking and constructive partnership with all its Asian partners, and fending off the urge to reduce those relations to zero-sum calculations, will consume Japanese diplomats and politicians. Commitment and creativity will be a premium. It is a lot to ask, but Japan should be up to the challenge.
Brad Glosserman is executive director of the Pacific Forum CSIS. This post is drawn from his recent ASPI Special Report, Peak Japan and its Implications for Regional Security. He is the author, with Scott Snyder, of The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States (Columbia University Press, 2015).
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Barktoberfest: A festival for dogs
Friends for Life Animal Rescue is hosting its 15th annual free Barktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Gilbert Civic Center.
Barktoberfest: A festival for dogs Friends for Life Animal Rescue is hosting its 15th annual free Barktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Gilbert Civic Center. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1xutzZW
Special for The Republic | azcentral.com Published 12:05 p.m. MT Oct. 9, 2014 | Updated 12:27 p.m. MT Oct. 9, 2014
Barktoberfest in Gilbert
One of the puppies available for adoption at the 2010 Barktoberfest. Jill Flynn/Friends for Life Animal Rescue
Cookie, owned by Dan and Paula Kelly of Gilbert, took first place as a turkey at the 2004 Barktoberfest. Cori Takemoto Williams/The Republic
Bear, 2, of Surprise dressed as Superman at the 2009 Barktoberfest in Gilbert. Tatiana Hensley/The Republic
Dogs and their owners at the 2011 Barktoberfest in Gilbert. Cathy Bruegger/The Republic
Onyx wears a bee costume to the 2011 Barktoberfest in Gilbert. Cathy Bruegger/The Republic
Celebrate with your dog at the annual Barktoberfest party in Gilbert. Erica Wellman/Friends for Life
A dachshund lives up to the “wiener dog” nickname at the 2011 Barktoberfest. Cathy Bruegger/The Republic
A weiner dog dressed up for Oktoberfest.(Photo: The Republic)
Dogs will be on-site ready for adoption
There is a bobbing for bones contest, canine idol contest, best-dressed dog contest and best trick contest
Friends for Life Animal Rescue is hosting its 15th annual free Barktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Gilbert Civic Center. Celebrate with your furry friend with dog activities, a look-alike contest, best trick and costume contests, dog art, food, a lure course and shopping.
The festival entertains more than 2,500 people and dogs.
"It's really an event for the community to come out with their families and four-legged family members and have fun," Friends for Life volunteer Public Relations Director Kelly Mixer said.
Dogs will be on-site ready for adoption and can be seen in the Adoption Parade at noon. At 12:30 p.m., those pets who have been adopted from Friends for Life will participate in the Alumni Parade with their owners.
Throughout the day, dogs and their owners can take part in a variety of contests like the dog and balloon contest. Owners balance a water balloon on a spoon while they walk their dogs along a path without dropping the balloon. In this competition, the best time wins.
Each contest has an entry fee of $1, which will go to saving homeless dogs and cats in the community. The lure course allows dogs to chase a fake animal along a designated path.
"The lure course is really fun," Mixer said. "It's one of our most popular events and a great photo opportunity."
There is also a bobbing for bones contest, canine idol contest, best-dressed dog contest and best trick contest. Winners will receive prizes from Natural Balance dog food.
About 50 vendors will be selling everything from arts and crafts to pet items and food.
The Gilbert Police Department K-9 Unit will do demonstrations starting at 1 p.m..
Gilbert Dogs 24/7, a kennel-free dog day care and boarding facility that is open and staffed 24/7 in Gilbert, has been a sponsor of this event for the past six years.
Owner Stephen Biles adopted a dachshund from Friends for Life.
"As far as community dog events go, I've been to quite a few. Barktoberfest is the best one I've seen. It's a great community event with a DJ," Biles said. "It's based around Friends for Life and their rescue efforts."
Raffle tickets are available (three for $7, seven for $10 or 15 for $20). Winners will be announced at the end of the event. Prizes include items such as massages, dinner and movie gift cards or pet-related baskets. The Phoenician golf-and-lunch-for-four package ($1,100 value) is a separate raffle and tickets cost $5 each or five tickets for $20.
Barktoberfest
When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11.
Where: Gilbert Civic Center, 50 E. Civic Center Drive, Gilbert.
Admission: Free.
Details: 480-497-8296, azfriends.org/azfriends2/home/Events/Barktoberfest.aspx.
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9 Things All Strava Users Do—But Would Never Admit to Doing
Because it’s hard to ride like no one’s watching when all your friends are watching
By selene yeager
Heather Harvey via Flickr
Strava is more than a training and tracking app. It’s a social network where you and your fellow riders can see and be seen, amassing kudos, crowns, badges, and the like. And let’s face it: We all want our feeds to impress our friends, which leads us to some, let’s say "quirky" behaviors we’d likely never do if someone was watching us ride... and would never admit to, if they were.
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You don’t have to be a Strava doper to be "guilty" of a few of these. (Subscribe to Bicycling to learn more about the strangest, greatest, and most awe-inspiring cycling habits worldwide.)
1. Circling (and circling) the neighborhood. Because 49.2 miles is just not 50.
2. Stalking. You’d never pick up and leaf through a buddy’s training log, even if it was sitting open on his dining room table. But scrolling his Strava feed? All’s fair in the race for the most miles ridden.
3. Leaving the Garmin home because you know, no big deal. But then surreptitiously pushing record on your smartphone Strava app before slipping the device into your jersey pocket. It’s cool to look like you don’t care... but hey, you care!
4. Dying a little when your GPS conks out before the ride ends. Don’t worry, we understand.
5. “Strava-ing” that trip to the post office. Sure it’s only 2.45 miles there and back. But that’s 5 more miles you’ll get to tally up this week... if you circle around the house once or twice.
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6. Taking the long way to and from the ride. Because bonus miles count double when everyone can see them.
7. Starting at the back. You don’t want to be “that guy” or “that gal” who charges off the front each and every hill. But maybe you can go just as fast (and perhaps nab a trophy) if you start in the back of the bunch and “casually” work your way up to the front as the climb goes on.
8. Going crown hunting. You intentionally plan a short ride on a day you’ll be fresh; slug down a bottle of beet juice; pop a few SportLegs; head straight to a segment you’ve had your sights on; and drill it.
9. Using the force(s). Riding in windy conditions is challenging... until you're getting 20mph gales at your back up the most hotly contended segment in town. Score!
Cyclists have a lot of quirky habits, some of which you can only do on a ride:
selene yeager “The Fit Chick” Selene Yeager is a top-selling professional health and fitness writer who lives what she writes as a NASM certified personal trainer, USA Cycling certified coach, pro licensed mountain bike racer, and All-American Ironman triathlete.
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Boys and Girls Club of Binghamton secures funding
by: Dylan Kuhn
Posted: Sep 10, 2019 / 09:46 PM UTC / Updated: Sep 11, 2019 / 08:57 PM UTC
BINGHAMTON N.Y -The City of Binghamton is stepping up with funding to make certain the Boys and Girls Club on Clinton Street remains financially secure.
Mayor Rich David joined the club’s Executive Director Marybeth Smith to detail nearly 100 thousand dollars in program funding for next year.
The largest portion is $50,000 toward the club’s teen after hours program where kids take part in a variety of activities such as sports, games, cooking, movies and more.
Free transportation is provided and the center stays open until 11 on Friday and Saturday as opposed to it’s normal close time of 7.
The funding will also support the teen center, summer program membership and building security upgrades.
Smith says the money is essential to providing crucial services for the kids.
“They need us and they count on us. They count on us to be here everyday to provide services and programs and a meal each night. To know that for 2020 we’re already there is wonderful,” Smith says.
The City is using Community Development Block Grant money for the programs.
When talking about the closure of the Boys and Girls Club in Endicott, Smith says their doors are open to kids from all parts of the area in need of their services.
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Heterotopic ossification in patients with traumatic head and spinal cord injury (SCI)
Heterotopic ossification in patients with traumatic head
Heterotope Ossifikation bei Patienten mit Kopf-und Rückenmarksverletzungen (SCI)
Osificación heterotópica
Ossificazione eterotopica
Kostnienie heterotopowe
Low-frequency pulsed magnetic therapy effects as a prophylaxis
A. Durovic, D. Miljkovic, Z. Brdareski, A. Plavšic, M. Jevtic, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is an important complication of head and spinal cord injuries (SCI). Low-frequency pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF) increases blood flow to the site of pain or inflammation = Inflammations and magnetic therapy, bringing more oxygen to that area and helping to remove toxic substances. The aim of this trial was to determine the effect of PEMF therapy as a prophylaxis of HO in patients with SCI. This clinical trial included 29 patients with traumatic SCI. The patients were randomly divided into an experimental (n = 14) and control group (n = 15). The patients in the experimental group, besides exercise and a range of motion therapy, were treated with PEMF therapy with the following characteristics: induction of 10 mT, frequency of 25 Hz and duration of 30 min.
The therapy started in the 7th week after the injury and lasted 4 weeks. The presence or absence of HO around the patients’ hips was checked by plane radiography and Brookers classification. Functional abilities and motor impairment were checked by the Functional Independent Measure (FIM), Barthel index and American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment class. Statistical analysis included the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Shapiro-Wilk test, Mann Whitney Exact test, Exact Wilcoxon signed rank test and the Fischer Exact test. Statistical significance was set up to p < 0.05. Results: At the end of the trial treatment no patient from the experimental group had HO. In the control group, five patients (33.3 %) had HO. At the end of the treatment, the majority of patients from the experimental group (57.14 %) moved from the ASIA-A to ASIA-B class.
Conclusion: Low-frequency pulsed magnetic therapy helps as a prophylaxis of HO in patients with traumatic SCI.
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LinkedIn’s job search feature gets smart
February 20, 2019, 1:49 a.m. EST
LinkedIn plans to simplify the process of finding and hiring talent through upgraded recruitment features this summer.
The career platform will consolidate its LinkedIn Recruiter, Jobs and Pipeline Builder products into one service — the Intelligent Hiring Experience — to streamline the recruitment process for its corporate customers. Artificial intelligence algorithms will help talent recruiters find the most suitable candidates for open positions.
“[The] update is about how we can make those tools work even better by fostering collaboration and more efficient sourcing,” says John Jersin, vice president of Product for LinkedIn Talent Solutions and Careers. “We’ve started along this path by bringing more intelligence into our platforms, to ensure our products are working together optimally, and helping both companies and job seekers more easily zero in on the best opportunities.”
With the upgrade, messages between recruiters and potential talent can be shared with HR professionals and hiring managers. The platform also allows the recruiter and corporate hiring team to exchange notes on each job candidate. Recruiters who rely on LinkedIn to discover talent are optimistic the upgrades will make the hiring process more organized.
“I think that would be a great feature,” says Aimee Aurol, talent acquisition specialist for Acuris Group, a media company. “Hiring managers can get a better idea of what I’m doing as a recruiter, and I can see which candidates are moving along in the process.”
Aurol says LinkedIn is her primary tool for identifying and contacting candidates for her company. While the majority of her job placements come from LinkedIn, she says the platform’s candidate suggestions could use improvement. At its current state, Aurol’s candidate searches often turn up the same candidates over and over. But she hopes the updated AI will direct her to a wider variety of available talent.
And Jersin says it was designed to do just that.
“All of these tools are created to help learn your interests and surface the right candidates,” he says. “When a recruiter reaches out to a specific candidate, or a job seeker applies for a role, our AI algorithms take note, matching profiles with job descriptions and highlighting top recommendations.”
LinkedIn’s AI will also take into consideration whether previously suggested candidates were hired or not as it adjusts its personalized algorithm. To help the algorithm learn your company’s preferences, Jersin recommends setting up projects for each available role. Then, go through suggested candidates and save the ones you want to contact — and hide the ones that don’t fit.
Once a candidate is hired, the upgrades allow hiring managers to send rejection letters individually, or in mass. This part of the upgrade was designed to improve the hiring experience for both job applicants and employers.
“We believe applicants will appreciate knowing the outcome of their contact with your company — and it's bad business to leave applicants hanging,” Jersin says. “…one survey showed that over 40% of candidates said that if they don’t hear back from a company they’ll never apply to it again.”
While the upgrades are scheduled to debut in late summer, Jersin says LinkedIn will slowly introduce the new features over the next couple of months. The feature will be included in LinkedIn’s Recruitment and Job Slots membership packages; existing customers will not have to pay additional fees to access the service.
“The new features will make it simple for recruiters to simply keep doing their sourcing and hiring while inadvertently training our algorithms to learn more about their preferences,” Jersin says.
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News & eventsNewsroomMore than 200 hybrid bus systems selected for Belgium
More than 200 hybrid bus systems selected for Belgium
10 Jul 2017 2017-07-10T17:00:00+02:00
Next-generation hybrid-electric technology powers buses in Belgium
From London to Paris, and even Hong Kong, our company’s global fleet of series electric drive propulsion systems are operating on buses in major Metropolitan cities, decreasing harmful emissions and noise pollution. Now, our systems are making their way to Belgium.
As part of our recent agreement with Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. of Poland to offer our electric drive systems on their hybrid buses, we’ve now expanded into Belgium, as Solaris – one of the leading bus manufacturers in Europe – has secured an order for more than 200 hybrid buses from Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport, the primary bus operator in Wallonia, Belgium. These buses will not only be the first Solaris buses to include our hybrid systems for propulsion, but also the first buses to use our newest energy storage system, the ESS-3G-1K. The ESS-3G-1K system uses ultracapacitor technology which is known to be reliable, highly efficient, and power dense reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) with its long design life.
“The successful integration of our product onto Solaris test buses has yielded the first of what we hope are many more orders into the European market using this new energy storage system,” said Ian Wilson, Global Business Development director for BAE Systems.
Our hybrid solutions’ energy storage system not only stores system-generated power but it also recaptures the bus operator’s braking energy for even greater efficiency. Then, only the stored energy is drawn upon to power the motor used for vehicle propulsion and to drive all other bus accessories, like air compressors, power steering, etc. This design allows operators to drive a bus on all-electric power since the motor drives the wheels using stored energy.
For Solaris, this order is its biggest success in Belgium and our technology played a key role in the selection. The hybrid buses will be used by two bus operators: TEC Hainaut and TEC Liege-Verviers.
We look forward to growing our business along with Solaris Bus & Coach and providing clean-air solutions that benefit Belgium as well as its communities and surrounding area. Currently, more than one billion passengers have travelled on one of the 7,000 buses powered by BAE Systems’ efficient, hybrid propulsion system and have saved 15 million gallons of fuel while eliminating 160,000 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Learn more about our hybrid and electric propulsion systems.
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Composer. Born 8 September 1841. Died 1 May 1904
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Antonín Dvořák Biography (BBC)
The Bohemia into which Dvorák was born on 8 September 1841, in a village near Prague, was one facing rapid change. Like many from a poor rural environment Dvorák followed a natural drift towards Prague. Dvorák’s musicality was evident early on and his family supported him all through his musical training.
After graduating from the Prague Organ School in 1859, however, he faced grinding poverty. He eventually joined the Provisional Theatre Orchestra as a viola player (1862–71), performing in a huge range of operas. During these ‘years in the galleys’ he wrote two symphonies, string quartets and the opera Alfred, though he only began to make an impact on Prague’s musical salons after the success of his patriotic cantata, The Heirs of the White Mountain (1872).
Growing fame and the award of five consecutive government grants prompted huge productivity: operas, symphonic works and chamber music poured out of him, sharing such characteristics as appealing melody, classically oriented development and a consciously popular tone. The latter resulted in international acclaim for his Moravian Duets and Slavonic Dances (both 1878).
Brahms’s friendship won him a German publisher, and concert societies across Europe and America began programming his music. A series of trips to England resulted in major commissions, including the Seventh Symphony (1884–5) for the Philharmonic Society, and The Spectre’s Bride and Requiem for the 1885 and 1891 Birmingham Festivals. Dvorák continued to compose operas, including two masterpieces, Dimitrij (1881–2) and The Jacobin (1887–8).
In the late 1880s he turned to more experimental and inclusive modes of composition, notably in the Eighth Symphony (1889) and the ‘Dumky’ Trio (1890–91). Further shifts in style occurred as a result of his stay in America as Director of the National Conservatory in New York (1892–5).
The huge popularity of the works of this period, notably the ‘New World’ Symphony and ‘American’ Quartet, was founded on approachability, inspired lyricism and an easily apprehended clarity of outline. On returning to Prague in 1895, Dvorák devoted himself first to symphonic poems and then to operas, the greatest of which was Rusalka (1900).
Though among the most popular of classical composers, Dvorák is one of the least well understood; his early work is dismissed as being overly neo-Romantic, a judgement which does little justice to the remarkable originality of much of it, or to the startling confidence of the Third Symphony (1873).
His compositional technique (securely founded on an education strongly resembling that of his 18th-century predecessors), his genius for memorable melody and his independent imagination resulted in one of the larger and more consistently enjoyable compositional outputs of the 19th century.
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Antonín Dvořák Biography (Wikipedia)
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( d(ə-)VOR-zha(h)k, (listen); 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. Following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák's own style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them".
Dvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being an apt violin student from age six. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with special success, in 1873, when he was aged 31. Seeking recognition beyond the Prague area, he submitted a score of his First Symphony to a prize competition in Germany, but did not win, and the unreturned manuscript was lost until rediscovered many decades later. In 1874 he made a submission to the Austrian State Prize for Composition, including scores of two further symphonies and other works. Although Dvořák was not aware of it, Johannes Brahms was the leading member of the jury and was highly impressed. The prize was awarded to Dvořák in 1874 and again in 1876 and in 1877, when Brahms and the prominent critic Eduard Hanslick, also a member of the jury, made themselves known to him. Brahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who soon afterward commissioned what became the Slavonic Dances, Op. 46. These were highly praised by the Berlin music critic Louis Ehlert in 1878, the sheet music (of the original piano 4-hands version) had excellent sales, and Dvořák's international reputation was launched at last.
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Katherine Bryan and Edward Cohen: Dvorak's "Song to the Moon" from Rusalka
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Dvořák: Serenade for Strings
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Building a Library surveys recordings of Dvořák's Serenade for Strings in E major.
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Dvořák: Rondo in G minor, Op 94 (excerpt) (2017)
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The young star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Dvořák's entertaining Rondo with Chineke!, conducted by Kevin John Edusei.
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Time to reminisce with Dvořák
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BBC Music Introducing artist Yume Fujise performs Dvořák's 'Songs my mother taught me' with pianist Maria Tarasewicz, on the 10th anniversary of BBC Music Introducing.
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8 minutes of heart-wrenching yet consoling Dvořák
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The Elias Quartet play the second movement from Dvořák's String Quartet in E flat, Op 51, live on In Tune.
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Donald Macleod explores the period in the late 1870s when Dvorak first made his name
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Proms interval talks: An Introduction to Dvorak's Seventh Symphony
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Petroc Trelawny is joined by Jan Smaczny to introduce Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor (extract)
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Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor (extract)
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Dvorak's relationship with the British Isles
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Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's relationship with the British Isles
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Dvorak's letters to the Royal Philharmonic Society
Donald visited the British Library, where he examined the Royal Philharmonic Society's archive of letters from Dvorak with the BL's Curator of Music Manuscripts, Sandra Tuppen.
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Dvorak: Overtures
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Stephen Johnson reveals links in Dvorak's In Nature's Realm, Carnival and Othello.
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Slavonic Dance No.9 in B minor (Op.72 No.1) orch. composer [orig. pf duet]
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Juanjo Mena
String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American'
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Silent woods
German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin
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Symphony No 7 in D minor Op 70
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Czech Suite, Op.39 (Furiant)
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String Quartet No.14 in A-flat Major, Op.105
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Nocturne for strings, Op 40
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Jiří Bělohlávek
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Carnival Overture, Op 92
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Daniele Rustioni
Slavonic Dance in F, Op. 46 No.4 - Sousedska
Michel Béroff
Jean‐Philippe Collard
Serenade for Strings, Op 22 (Scherzo)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Rondo in G minor Op.94
Daniel Müller‐Schott
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Michael Sanderling
Trio for piano and strings no. 4 (Op.90) "Dumky"
Primoz Lorenz
Tomaž Lorenz
Matija Lorenz
Trio Lorenz
Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (3rd mvt)
Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat major, Op.45 No.3
Neeme Järvi
Trio for piano and strings no 3 in F minor, Op 65
Grieg Trio
Benedictus (Mass in D, Op.86)
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Nicholas Cleobury
Simon Preston
Piano Trio No. 3 in F Minor, Op.65 (2nd mvt)
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Tanja Tetzlaff
Lars Vogt
Allegro appassionato (4 Romantic pieces, Op 75)
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2 Slavonic Dances, Op 72 (Nos 2 and 7)
Diana Ketler
Roland Pöntinen
Piano Trio No 4 in E minor, Op 90, 'Dumky'
Thorsten Johanns
Răzvan Popovici
Kryštof Mařatka
Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66
István Kertész
Pražský filharmonický sbor
Mojca Bitenc
Dariusz Perczak
Andrés Orozco‐Estrada
Quartet-movement in F major
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Symphony no 8 in G major, Op 88, B.163
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Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104
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Carnival Overture, Op. 92
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Romance in F minor Op.11
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Klid [Silent woods], B182
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Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
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Prague Waltzes
Songs my mother taught me, Op.55 no.4
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The Noonday Witch, Op. 108
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Piano Concerto in G minor Op. 33 - iii. Allegro con fuoco
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Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95, 'From the New World'
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In the run-up to the exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic, JK Rowling visits the British Library and reveals the real-life counterparts to her fantastical world.
It is 20 years since JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone first cast its spell on readers across the globe. But Rowling's fantastical creation wasn't entirely make-believe.
In the run-up to the exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic, JK Rowling ventures behind the scenes of the British Library, revealing the real-life counterparts to her fantastical world. From shrieking mandrakes and Elizabethan invisibility spells to the mystery of ancient Chinese oracle bones and the real life search for the Philosopher's Stone, it is the start of a warm, playful and inventive journey round some of the most magical places in the land - from wizarding wandmakers in the English forest to the beguiling witchcraft of Boscastle, Cornwall.
The film features readings by actors from the Harry Potter films, including David Thewlis, Evanna Lynch, Warwick Davis, Miriam Margolyes and Mark Williams, while Rowling's illustrator Jim Kay illuminates her imaginary world. Narrated by Imelda Staunton.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom had the rainbow pride flag raised at the state Capitol on Monday for the first time in state history, sending a message of resistance against the Trump administration’s policy forbidding the LGBTQ banner at other government buildings.
The Democratic governor tweeted out the news with a photo showing the pride flag flying beneath the American flag midway through LGBTQ Pride Month. It will stay up until July 1.
“In California, we celebrate and support our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community’s right to live out loud – during Pride month and every month,” Newsom said in a statement.
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“By flying the pride flag over the State Capitol, we send a clear message that California is welcoming and inclusive to all, regardless of how you identify or who you love.”
Newsom’s decision comes shortly after Vice President Mike Pence confirmed that the Trump administration rejected U.S. embassies’ requests to fly the rainbow pride flag in June.
Though Pence’s reasoning was that only “one flag should fly” on those State Department buildings, he’s long been one of the most vocal opponents to LGBTQ equality efforts, supporting so-called gay conversion therapy, fighting to stop marriage equality and defending people seeking to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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Black Sea Oil & Gas receives approval from the Romanian Government for the Field Development Plan for the Ana and Doina Gas Fields
Bucharest Romania, 15 April 2019
Bucharest, Romania, 15 April 2019: Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL (“BSOG”) together with its co-venture partners, Petro Ventures Resources SRL (“Petro Ventures”) and Gas Plus International B.V. (“Gas Plus”) are pleased to announce that, following the taking of FID on February 6, 2019, they have now received the approval from the Romanian Government through the National Agency for Mineral Resources (“NAMR”) for their Field Development Plan (“FDP”) for the development of the Ana and Doina natural gas fields which make up the Midia Gas Development Project (“MGD Project”), offshore Black Sea.
The MGD Project, which is the 1st new offshore gas development project in the Romanian Black Sea to be built after 1989, consists of 5 offshore production wells (1 subsea well at Doina field and 4 platform wells at Ana field) a subsea gas production system over the Doina well which will be connected through an 18 km pipeline with a new unmanned production platform located over Ana field. A 126 km gas pipeline will link the Ana platform to the shore and to a new onshore gas treatment plant (“GTP”) in Corbu commune, Constanta county, with a capacity of 1 BCM per year representing 10% of Romania’s consumption. The processed gas will be delivered into the National Transmission System operated by SNTGN Transgaz SA (“Transgaz”) at the gas metering station to be found within the GTP.
In 2019, BSOG anticipates having completed the detailed engineering for the MGD Project, commenced the fabrication of the Ana Wellhead Platform at the shipyard in Agigea, commenced the civil constructions at the GTP site in Corbu and have purchased & delivered a number of company items.
Mark Beacom, BSOG CEO, commented: “This approval from NAMR provides the official acknowledgement from the Romanian state that the MGD project is an approved project. We very much appreciate the swift handling of our FDP application by the Agency.”
Gigi Dragomir, NAMR President, said: “The Development of the Ana and Doina gas fields offshore Romania is a top priority for NAMR, which supports the implementation of the Romanian Offshore Project that could lead to the diversification of the supply sources in Romania.”
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BSOG, owned by Carlyle International Energy Partners and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is a Romanian based independent oil and gas company, targeting exploration and development of conventional oil & gas resources. The company’s current portfolio is made up of XV Midia Shallow Block and XIII Pelican Block concession in the Romanian Black Sea where it is the operator and holds a 65% interest.
Gas Plus is the fourth largest producer of natural gas in Italy active in the main sectors of natural gas industry, particularly in exploration, production, purchase, distribution and sale to retail customers. At 31 December 2017, the Group had 45 exploitation concessions located throughout Italy, a total of approximately 1,600 kilometers of distribution network in 39 municipalities, serving a total of more than 72,000 end users, with a staff of 181 employees. Gas Plus holds 15% interest in the XV Midia Shallow Block and XIII Pelican Block concession in the Romanian Black Sea.
Petro Ventures, a private investment group, holds 20% interest in the XV Midia Shallow Block and XIII Pelican Block concession in the Romanian Black Sea.
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Early Google and Apple backer Sequoia Capital is actively hiring to boost its investments in European startups
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Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm that invested early in Google and Apple, is looking to boost its activity in Europe.
Sequoia has hired a search firm to help it find investment talent in Europe for the first time, as it increases its portfolio of European investments.
Sources told Business Insider that the Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller spent at least one week out of every month in Europe, where he sees promise in the startup scene's momentum.
US venture-capital firms are increasingly looking beyond Silicon Valley for deals, as valuations spiral at home.
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The legendary Silicon Valley investment firm Sequoia Capital is actively looking to boost its footprint in Europe, seeking to hire investors on the ground for the first time.
Sequoia bet early and successfully on companies including Apple, Google, WhatsApp, and YouTube.
Sequoia has stepped up its European activity over the past few years, investing in the German travel startup Tourlane and leading a $42 million round in the UK email-security startup Tessian in 2019 alone. Its earlier European investments include the British artificial-intelligence chip firm Graphcore.
The Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller spends a week out of every month in London, and he sits on the boards of Graphcore and Tessian.
One source told Business Insider that Miller's conviction that the European startup scene was gaining momentum and might produce more global successes prompted the firm to look more seriously at the continent.
The Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller.
Sources told Business Insider that Sequoia Capital was looking to hire investors to source startup deals from Europe for the first time, to support Miller.
There is some gossip among industry investors that Sequoia Capital plans to open its first European office in London, but one source familiar with the matter told Business Insider this was not the case.
Sequoia's increased focus on Europe is vindication for the continent's startups, which have traditionally lagged their peers in the US and China in terms of scale and the amount of capital raised.
Conventionally, Europe has produced local stars and performed well in sectors such as enterprise but failed to produce long-lasting platform companies to rival Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon. Several promising companies went on to be acquired by foreign rivals, such as the chip firm Arm, the Google-owned DeepMind, and the Apple-owned Shazam.
But the story is changing. According to TechNation research, US investors poured $5.3 billion into European tech companies in the first seven months of 2019 alone, up 40% year over year.
Sequoia's increased presence in Europe will make it tougher for local investors to win deals. One told Business Insider: "It's broadly a good thing because it confirms the view of the [European] market, but they'll win everything they go for."
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Broker's Take: DMG issues 'buy' call on Suntec Reit, target price S$2
Wed, Nov 26, 2014 - 11:38 AM
Claire Huanghuangjy@sph.com.sg
DMG Research has put a "buy" call on Suntec Reit at a target price of S$2.00.
Noting that Suntec Reit shot to the top of the most active stock list after a huge volume of 129.3 million units took place minutes after the 5pm close on Tuesday, the research house said 180.2 million units changed hands in all, nine times Monday's trading volume.
The unit price, too, rose three cents to hit a one-year high of S$1.935 - the same price at which the surprise trades were done during the adjustment period after normal closing.
"This could be due to Suntec Reit replacing Olam International in the MSCI Singapore Index from Wednesday onwards. On price performance, Suntec Reit is up 25.6 year-to-date and is the best-performing Reit this year," said DMG.
As at 11.20am, the Reit hit a high of S$1.94, with almost 32.9 million shares changing hands.
Suntec Reit's Q3 DPU falls 5.1% on enlarged unit base
DMG said that it was "overall optimistic" on the Reit's asset enhancement initiatives (AEI) at Suntec City and remained confident that the trust would achieve average rentals above its original target of S$12.59 psf per month, following the completion of all three phases at Suntec City Mall. "We forecast Suntec's distribution per unit to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 3.4 per cent over the next three years. We believe that Suntec's near-term share price performance will be supported by the completion of its AEI at Suntec City Mall," added DMG.
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Charlton Athletic Football Club Safeguarding Statement
Following widespread national publicity regarding allegations of historical abuse in football in November 2016, the Football Association’s and English Football League’s investigation has identified 285 suspects with 331 football clubs have been impacted, with the figure spans all tiers of football, from premier clubs through to amateur.
The FA’s unequivocal goal has always been to ensure the game is safe and enjoyable for all. Working collaboratively with the clubs and authorities, the FA has led this work in developing a united strategy. The FA’s work has been, and continues to be, to: Implement preventative safeguarding measures and create fun, safe football environments; Make the reporting of concerns as easy as possible; Ensure safeguarding and child protection concerns are investigated swiftly and thoroughly in conjunction with statutory agencies-and with demonstrable outcomes. The FA has released a document entitled ‘Keeping Football Safe and Enjoyable’, which outlines the safeguarding work being done across football.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Charlton Athletic Football Club staff recognise their duty of care to safeguard the welfare of children and young people by creating an environment that protects them from harm, allows children and young people to have a voice and is proactive in the implementation of welfare processes. The club’s standards of practice ensure all staff are fully aware and understand their responsibilities under safeguarding legislation and are required to take relevant training and education courses in conjunction with football governing bodies. The club regularly refer to government documentation, such as Keeping Children Safe in Education and Working Together to Safeguard Children to keep updated on best practice and current legislation on safeguarding and welfare.
Charlton Athletic Football Club Key Safeguarding Principles
• To safeguard all children and young people who interact with the Club.
• To demonstrate best practice in the area of safeguarding children and young people.
• To develop a positive and proactive welfare programme to enable all children and young people to participate in an enjoyable and safe environment.
• To promote high ethical standards throughout.
Working closely with the FA’s team of safeguarding professionals, all 92 clubs operating within the Premier League and Football League ensure there is a structure and team of safeguarding personnel. In line with the FA’s safeguarding strategy Charlton Athletic Football Club has a Designated Safeguarding Officer and welfare team. The key roles of the Designated Safeguarding Officer are to ensure that all eligible individuals have the necessary certification; to make certain that safeguarding is embedded in the club; to promote best practice and to deal with any poor practice and welfare issues that may arise. Club Welfare Officers are required to attend the FA Safeguarding Children Workshop and a Welfare Officer Workshop in addition to having an in-date enhanced DBS/ criminal records check
Charlton Athletic Football Club Safeguarding Hierarchical Structure
Head of Education and Welfare & Senior Safeguarding Manager
Joe Francis
joe.francis@cafc.co.uk
Education and Welfare Assistant
Ladoki Toya
ladoki.toya@cafc.co.uk
CAFC Academy Safeguarding Officer
Kiran Dingri
kiran.dingri@cafc.co.uk
In coordination with the FA’s guidance and Charlton Athletics’ commitment to safeguarding, the club has a number of policies and procedures in place to for all staff and stakeholders to follow to ensure the welfare and safety of all those in club activity. These policies are reviewed annually by a CAFC board member. Charlton Athletic Football Club Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy and Procedures can be found on our club website. There are a number of supporting policies in place that also contribute to the safeguarding and welfare culture within the club. Active policies within the club are the following:
• Whistleblowing Policy
• Staff Complaints Procedure
• Match Day Complaints Procedure
• Safe Selection and Recruitment Process Procedure
• Health and Safety Statement of Intent
• IT Policy
• Adults at Risk Policy
• Anti-Bullying Policy
• Late Collection of Children Policy
Safeguarding In Action
Charlton Athletic Football Club take great pride in our work in pursuit of welfare and safeguarding for all our club members. The English Football League conducted the first of two annual Safeguarding Audit Visits as recent as August 2018 for the club’s Academy. This collaborative two day visit highlighted the culture of care ingrained within our Academy environment and provided the club the opportunity to display the positive work in action at the Academy, with EFL representative highlighting our work as a model of good practice. We intend to work closely with the EFL and all other governing bodies to continually develop our practices and be updated on all legalisation in regards to safeguarding.
Charlton Athletic are committed to not only developing talent on the pitch but ensuring that players and parents involved within our academy are provided with a holistic development platform to grow into better rounded individuals. The club have a number of education/development programmes throughout all phases of the Academy, providing our players with the knowledge and skills set for success on and off the field. These programmes, developed by the Education and Welfare team, will ensure our players, parents and staff all understand their contribution and responsibility to ensuring the welfare of all associated with the club and how to support the players in their enjoyment of football and athletic development. The “CAFC Champions Programme” was launched in the season 2017-18, providing great success through our Foundation and Youth Development Phases. Our programme built upon the concepts to “Play, Live and Represent” like a champion will continue throughout this season. Alongside these player orientated programmes, parent workshops will continue for the upcoming season. As an important stakeholder for development and welfare, the club believe building strong relationships with families will ensure a safeguarding culture is embedded throughout our academy. This supportive workshops provide a platform for staff and parents to work collaboratively, addressing the rigours of academy life.
An exciting new “Life Skills and Player Care Programme” created and designed by Head of Education and Welfare Joe Francis has been launched at the start of this season. This bespoke programme, which is funded and supported by the League Football Education will target our professional development phase within our club with an emphasis on performance, well-being and transition.
If you have concerns about the safety or wellbeing of a child or vulnerable adult at Charlton Athletic Football Club please make contact with a member of our Safeguarding Team via telephone or email. The club will review all information you have provided and respond to this ASAP. We have a duty to share information that you give us with other agencies if we think that a child or vulnerable adult could be at risk of harm. Please contact the club or any of the below organisations for advice and guidance on safeguarding and welfare.
Help Organisations
F.A. /NSPCC Help line-0808 800 5000
Kidscape (Parents Help line Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.) 020 7730 3300
Parent line Plus-0808 800 2222
Childline-0800 1111
www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/
www.stonewall.org.uk
www.bullying.co.uk
www.nspcc.org.uk/
Guidance for young people
www.youngstonewall.org.uk/
www.childline.org.uk
Late collection of children
Anti-discrimination and equal opportunities policies for clubs
CAFC Academy sexting policy
CAFC Academy tours and tournament protocol policy
CAFC Academy anti-bullying policy
CAFC Safeguarding policy
CAFC Academy adults at risk policy
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Afterschool Workout
Wed, Jan 22 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Paerdegat Library
Teens fitness
No gym, no problem. Workout to YouTube (Cardio, Hip Hop, African Dance and more) and learn/share dance choreography with the group. Open to kids, tweens & teens. Wednesday Jan. 8 and 22 at Paerdegat Library.
Fri, Jan 24 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Paerdegat Library
Teens arts and crafts music teen time
Open space for teens to hang out, listen to music/DJ, craft station, homework help, movies and more. Bring food and tell your friends!
Teen Tech Time
Mon, Jan 27 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Ryder Library
Teens teen tech time
Video gaming for teens.
Mon, Feb 3 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Ryder Library
Fri, Feb 7 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Paerdegat Library
Mon, Feb 10 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Ryder Library
BHM: Paper Quilting
Mon, Feb 10 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Walt Whitman Library
Teens arts and crafts
All ages are invited to participate in the creation of a special paper quilt following African patterns in celebration of Black History Month. The quilt will then be displayed in the branch for the month.
All materials provided.
Wed, Feb 12 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Paerdegat Library
No gym, no problem! Workout to YouTube (Cardio, Hip Hop, African Dance and more) and learn/share dance choreography with the group. Open to kids, tweens & teens. February 12 and 26.
Fri, Feb 14 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Paerdegat Library
Teen Valentine's Showcase
Teens arts and crafts live music performance
Feel the love at the Paerdegat Library! All ages are invited to enjoy singing, dancing and comedy performed by Library teens. Make your own Valentines card/craft, and chocolate goodie bags. Please wear red.
Mon, Mar 2 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Ryder Library
Community Food Fight!: Cooking Demo
Mon, Mar 9 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Paerdegat Library
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Try your hand making some “healthy” snacks … pesto, granola, smoothies, dips and more. You’ll get to slice and dice fresh foods, taste new things, and take your snacks home with the recipe. For tweens...
Community Food Fight!: Pickling
Wed, Mar 11 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Paerdegat Library
Discover the art and science of pickling! Fill your jar with fruits and veggies, add spices, and watch it turn into something new and delicious. You can make pickles, relish, kimchi, jams and more. Take...
Community Food Fight!: Make Your Own Green Space
Mon, Mar 16 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Paerdegat Library
Teens bklyn incubator gardening health and wellness teen time
Teens make your own potted plants and herb garden. Decorate your pots too. Help us create an indoor garden at the Library! We’ll also make DIY seedballs – seeds you can throw around the community to create beauty...
Mon, Mar 16 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Ryder Library
Teens bklyn incubator cooking health and wellness teen time
Try your hand at some “healthy” snack recipes… pesto, granola, smoothies, dips and more. You’ll get to slice and dice fresh foods, taste new things, and take your snacks home along with the recipe.
Wed, Apr 1 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Paerdegat Library
Teens make your own potted plants and herb garden. Decorate your pots too. Help us create an indoor garden at the Library! We’ll also make DIY seedballs – seeds you can throw around the community to create beauty in...
Community Food Fight! Closing Celebration (Pizza Party)
Mon, Apr 6 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Paerdegat Library
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For the past month Paerdegat teens have been learning to cook, garden and make healthy food choices. Let's celebrate! Come enjoy pizza and drinks before Spring Break!
Mon, Apr 6 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Ryder Library
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Ohio State football | Here are all the stadiums the Buckeyes will travel to this season
Aug 29, 2018 at 12:01 AM Aug 29, 2018 at 12:07 PM
Take a virtual tour of all of the stadiums the Ohio State football team will play in during the 2018 season.
Using Google Earth, we take you on a tour of the stadiums with Dispatch reporter Tim May.
VIDEO: Tour the stadiums where the Buckeyes will play
The Buckeyes start in Ohio Stadium, then travel to At&T Stadium, Beaver Stadium, Ross Ade Stadium, Spartan Stadium, Maryland Stadium, then hopefully Lucas Oil Stadium and the Levi's Stadium.
See the complete schedule.
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LU brings in replacement for boss who was moved to head up Crossrail
By Will Ing2019-07-16T05:00:00+01:00
Mark Wild is on loan from Transport for London
Transport for London has moved to find a permanent replacement for Mark Wild who was transferred across last November from his position as boss of London Underground to Crossrail chief executive.
Wild, who has been managing director of the Tube for more than two years, had been expected to return once Crossrail is completed. He was seconded to Crossrail after previous boss Simon Wright stood down.
Transport for London then appointed Nigel Holness as interim managing director for London Underground.
But now TfL has made a permanent replacement for Holness, who has left to take up a position running Metro Trains Sydney which he had previously deferred.
The appointment of Andy Lord, who was Heathrow’s head of operations for seven years, means Wild will not return to his former job.
But a spokesperson for TfL said Wild will still return to London’s transport agency once the central section of the Elizabeth line opens – which is due in late 2020 or early 2021.
Lord will take the reins at London Underground, as well as TfL Engineering, from 4 November this year.
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DNR: Crabbers can prevent terrapin deaths
By Christina Jedra
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Mar 17, 2016 | 8:14 PM
The Department of Natural Resources is urging recreational crabbers to use turtle excluders on their crab pots this season to prevent the deaths of terrapins. (Scott Smith / HANDOUT)
As Marylanders anticipate the start of crabbing season on April 1, environmental advocates are reminding crabbers to protect unintended victims: terrapins.
Terrapins can get caught in crab traps, or pots, when crabbers neglect to install a turtle excluder. The excluder, a rectangular frame, lets crabs in and keeps the state reptile out, researchers say.
Diamondback terrapins are a protected species, and use of the excluders, or bycatch reduction devices, is required by law for recreational crabbers since 2007.
But compliance is low, said Scott Smith, a wildlife diversity ecologist for the Department of Natural Resources.
A DNR study on the Severn River in 2009 showed only 13 percent of crab pots had excluders. In 2012, that rate was under 24 percent.
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"It's abysmal," Smith said. "If you're looking at low-hanging fruit, this is easy for recreational crabbers to do."
DNR officials will conduct another compliance study this summer, Smith said.
Smith said that while terrapins spend a lot of time under water, they have limits.
"They're like us. They have lungs," he said. "They can hold their breath so long, but once the temperature heats up, they have to come up every few hours to breath. If they're stuck in a crab pot checked every few days, they'll drown."
Willem Roosenburg, an Ohio University professor and leading researcher on terrapins, said that while precise population data isn't available, crab pot mortality and shoreline development have taken a toll on the species.
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"Terrapins should be common in Anne Arundel County, and they're not," he said.
The diamondback terrapin is not officially threatened or endangered but is included on DNR's list of Species of Greatest Conservation Need.
In Talbot County, there are nine female terrapins for every one male — a biological effect of warming waters that makes the threat of crab traps more serious, Smith said.
"If you're drowning in a crab pot, you never have an opportunity to nest," he said.
Smith encourages retailers to sell crab pots with turtle excluders attached.
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Roosenburg said the Diamondback Terrapin Working Group, made up of state and federal officials, has discussed the possibility of eliminating the recreational use of crab pots.
"The population has not demonstrated their responsibility in using them and therefore might lose the privilege," he said. "These (bycatch reduction devices) have no effect on the number or size of crabs they catch. There's no excuse for not doing it."
He added: "They should be required in commercial fisheries too, but that's a political battle of a different magnitude."
The use of bycatch reduction devices is enforced by Natural Resources Police, said department spokeswoman Candy Thomson.
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Failure to use them carries a fine of $135 to $500, she said. If an offender chooses to go to court and is found guilty, the fine is $1,000 for the first offense and $2,000 or one year in jail for subsequent offenses.
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CarlowLive
Deering invites female entrepreneurs in Carlow to apply for the ACORNS Programme
Over 150 female entrepreneurs have taken part in ACORNS to date
Darren Hassett
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Carlow TD, Pat Deering
Early stage female entrepreneurs, living in Carlow, are invited to apply for a place on the ACORNS (Accelerating the Creation of Rural Nascent Start-ups) programme, Fine Gael TD, Pat Deering has said.
The intention is to provide up to 50 entrepreneurs, based in rural Ireland, with the knowledge, support and networking opportunities to meet and even exceed their current aspirations.
The programme will run from October 2018 until April 2019. Selected participants will be those who, on a competitive basis, best demonstrate their potential to advance their businesses and their commitment to fully engage in the initiative.
The deadline for application for this year’s cycle is September 21.
Deputy Deering said: “The ACORNS Programme is based on the principle that entrepreneurs learn best from each other.
“It is focused on interactive round table sessions that are facilitated by female entrepreneurs who have started and successfully grown businesses in rural Ireland.
“It is designed to help provide female entrepreneurs who are in the process of setting up a business, or have recently started one with the knowledge, support and networking opportunities to meet and even exceed their current aspirations.
“The programme has proved very successful so far. Over 150 female entrepreneurs have taken part in ACORNS to date with many reporting increased sales, exports and job creation."
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Launching the call for applicants, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, said: “I am delighted to continue to provide support to this initiative through my Department’s Rural Innovation and Development Fund.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for rural based female entrepreneurs and I urge them to apply to participate in this exciting initiative.
“Each year, the participants give an overwhelming endorsement of the role ACORNS has played in supporting them to grow their business. Once again, female entrepreneurs have the opportunity to avail of ACORNS and all that it has to offer to help them realise their ambitions. This is an opportunity not to be missed.”
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Gideon Rose: Why Did September 11 Happen?
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Pepsi-Cola scores big with catchy flexo-printed cans
by Canadian Packaging Staff
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EskoArtwork
Football, aka soccer in North America, has always been a team game, and it was a superb team effort earlier this year that enabled the famed Pepsi-Cola soft-drink brand score big-time during the FIFA 2010 World Cup tournament in South Africa—capturing its highest-ever share of cola sales during the month-long tournament.
As part of the beverage giant’s promotional campaign, aluminum canmaker Ball Packaging Europe utilized the cutting-edge flexo printing technology developed by EskoArtwork of Gent, Belgium, to print pin-sharp images of some of the world’s most renowned soccer stars—including England’s Frank Lampard, Frenchman Thierry Henry and Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast—right onto the label surfaces with outstanding, ultra-fine detail that resulted in spectacular shelf impact.
According to Gary Brown, graphic manager for the U.K. business of Ball Packaging Europe, the innovative letterpress process—utilizing hi-res optics on the CDI Spark computer-to-plate device—enabled the images to be applied directly to the flexible printing plates at full production speeds.
“The differentiation we achieved on the flesh tones and the fine text detail for the nutritional information was very impressive,” Brown states. “Producing work of this caliber requires input from all areas of the business, but the result was clearly worth the effort.
“It means we can offer our customers exceptional quality and at the same time a competitive value-added solution to the market.”
Jon Ellis, activity marketing manager for PepsiCo’s U.K. bottler Britvic plc, says the company sold 1.4 million specially-labeled Pepsi-Cola cans—helping the brand achieve it’s highest-ever share of cola sales during the World Cup period.
“The key to the success of a promotion like this is being able to produce a stand-out design that engages consumers and ensures Pepsi’s brand identity remains clearly visible, and high-quality, sharply defined print is an essential element in that process,” Ellis remarks. “We have been working with EskoArtwork and Ball Packaging Europe to make the most of the innovative solutions available and maximise our product design potential.”
Brown adds that Ball Packaging Europe will continue to employ EskoArtwork technologies for similar high-end, short-run work in the future.
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Carl G. Jung or Lapis Philosphorum
January 3, 2011 January 3, 2011 by Alessandro Cima
This film was shot in 1950 by Jerome Hill. It was then edited by underground film pioneer Jonas Mekas in 1991. It shows Carl Jung talking and stone carving at his home by a lake. He’s working at things he liked to do and he’s describing something rather elusive. I think Jung’s great contribution was in not fearing the deep subconscious, but rather enjoying it and opening the door to let it in.
Here’s my own take on how you open the door just like Jung did… sort of.
Posted in: Documentary Film, Film | Tagged: Carl Jung, Jerome Hill, Jonas Mekas, mind, philosopher's stone, psychology, Switzerland
The Living Dead – Adam Curtis Documentary About Cold War Mind Control
November 13, 2010 November 13, 2010 by Alessandro Cima
Adam Curtis makes fascinating documentary films for the British Broadcasting Corporation. This one is about the manipulation of memory, or the attempt to manipulate it, by governments during the Cold War era. It features several scientists and psychology experts who worked for either the U.S. or Soviet governments trying to figure out how to control minds.
I post the work of Curtis because his filmmaking is actually quite a lot like my own in several ways. This film bears a relationship to my latest film, Yellow Plastic Raygun, which is also about memory and how it influences the future. Curtis dwells in the domain of documentary, a form that I have serious misgivings about, while I dwell in the domain of art – or direct mind control if you will! I like Curtis’ use of corporate, military, instructional, and entertainment films as his raw visual material. He mixes it up with what is actually a rather simplistic script relating information that is not especially insightful. The film seems to suggest something more under the surface because of its imagery which often bears no relationship whatsoever to the information being related by the voice-over. This is a tricky area for documentary that brings it perilously close to the realm of art. You don’t quite know what it is that you are actually watching. I like that but I also distrust it. But Curtis appears to me to be making a documentary about his own feelings and artistic interpretations of the factual material. He is not trying to teach or inform at all. He is simply trying to create an impression. The words of the documentary could be replaced with gibberish. In fact, it would probably be a slightly better film if they were!
The Living Dead – Part 1 (watch the next 5 parts after the jump)
Memory is perhaps the single most important quality of existence. We are simply memory machines walking around and recording. All of our activities point toward an ever-increasing ability to record and remember. We are building memory. The idea, pursued in the first half of this documentary, of wiping out unpleasant memories that are assumed to be destroying the health of an individual, seems to me to be misguided and foolish. I have always viewed it as the job of every human to be able to stare straight into the most horrific scene, remember it, and not allow it to take control. Very simple. You must be able to look at anything… and continue to eat your ice cream.
Posted in: Documentary Film, Film | Tagged: Adam Curtis, artificial intelligence, BBC, Cold War, documentary, memory, military, mind, psychology, soviet
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PARDON Doja x Cannabis Amnesty
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Abi Roach, Owner, Hotbox Cafe
"Canada is transitioning into cannabis being a legal product. By changing the law, the government is admitting the war on cannabis was a failed experiment, In trying to control moral judgement with criminal law. The real victims of prohibition, the people arrested and jailed for its crimes, deserve not only an apology but also a relief from the burden set upon them, the label of being a criminal. Legalization requires amnesty."
Dan Sutton, CEO of Tantalus Labs
"Cannabis amnesty is essential to restore balance to disproportionately enforced drug laws on marginalized communities and especially communities of colour. We have all come to terms with historic cannabis law being irrational, and restoring those communities most harshly affected is a critical goal of legalization."
Melissa Lantsman, VP Public Affairs, Hill + Knowlton Strategies. War Room Director and Campaign Spokesperson to Doug Ford
“As a lifelong Conservative, I support NDP member’s Murray Rankin's private member's bill and urge the Liberal government to adopt this bill as government legislation. We need to help the over half million affected Canadians get their life back on track, without the burden of a criminal record for minor possession holding them back — we need to focus on violent and dangerous criminals.”
Omar Khan, VP Public Affairs, Hill + Knowlton Strategies
“As a Liberal who has worked at the highest levels of the Party both federally and at Queen's Park, I urge the federal government to adopt Murray Rankin's private member's bill as government legislation. As we approach October 17th it's important to recognize that racialized and indigenous communities are overrepresented amongst those incarcerated for simple cannabis possession in this country. It's time to address this injustice.”
Gordon Brown, Past Chair of the Legalize Marijuana Committee
It was 49 years ago that Canada began the process of legalizing marijuana by establishing an inquiry into the non-medical use of drugs. It recommended ending convictions for possession or for growing marijuana for personal use. One commissionaire went further and recommended legal distribution. Just before the inquiry began, I established The Legalize Marijuana Committee to lobby the government for saner laws and met with the Minister of Health and Welfare and then was the second witness at the commission hearings. The Commissions' recommendations never happened and since then tens of thousands of people have been convicted for what should no longer have been a crime. Two of the purposes of our 1969 campaign were to stop convictions for the inoffensive private use of marijuana and to stop the police from infiltrating and entrapping primarily young people who were losing faith in the law. To restore some faith in justice among the tens of thousands of people convicted the decent thing to do would be an amnesty. That is long overdue.
- Gordon Brown
Will Stewart, VP of Hiku Brands
Amnesty for simple possession of cannabis is the next logical step in the legalization movement in Canada
Dr. Zach Walsh, Associate Professor of Psychology at UBC
Amnesty for non-violent cannabis offences is a direct and fair way to improve the well-being of the thousands of Canadians who have been harmed by decades of bad policies. It's also an important step in healing the injuries caused by the war on cannabis.
Chuck Rifici, Chairman and CEO, Auxly Cannabis Group, Founder and CEO, Nesta Holding Co., Chairman of National Access Cannabis
Government needs to write policy that is right for Canadians. To wait until existing laws are repealed and replaced lacks vision, and disproportionately affects minority communities. If the government is moving forward, Canadians deserve the right to as well.
-Chuck Rifici
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Terry Lake, VP of CSR at The Hydropothecary
As a former British Columbia Health Minister I am an ardent supporter of policies that improve public health, including the legalization of a well regulated cannabis industry. Marginalized and racialized groups have been disproportionately affected by the enforcement of drug prohibition, and many cannabis law reform advocates have been criminalized for activism that paved the way for our legal cannabis industry. Having a criminal record is associated with a range of health and social vulnerabilities that can lead to poorer long-term health. Pardoning those with criminal records for simple possession of cannabis is good public policy.
Randy Osei, CEO of Rozaay Management Inc.
The opportunity to play sports is something no youth should have stripped from them. Yet data shows that minor possession charges have disproportionately affected minority youth, specifically African-Canadians and Indigenous youth, limiting opportunities for jobs, participation in sports, travel, and much more. Although this is not a statement supporting youth drug use, it is one meant to raise awareness of government legislation in regards to cannabis law: Criminal records for minor drug possession prohibits participation in sports for the youth who likely need it most. Cannabis amnesty will change the lives of our children, opening the door for inner city youth to participate in their sport of choice. I support a second chance for our youth. I support the Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty.
Matthew Green, Hamilton City Councillor
As a Hamilton City Councillor whose residents have been targeted, criminalized, and incarcerated for past cannabis related offences; and given the exclusive nature in which this government had provided access to legalization, cannabis licensing, and corporate profiteering, I am calling for full Amnesty for all people convicted of nonviolent Cannabis crimes, past and present, including those currently incarcerated.
Free Them All.
Hamilton City Councillor, Ward 3
Kirk Tousaw, Tousaw Law
“Without amnesty for non-violent cannabis offences, the entire concept of legalization continues to punish people for no good reason. “
Jamie Shaw, Niche Director & BCICA Director, Cannabis Advocate
The reason we regulate anything is to discourage uncivil behaviour, from littering to unscrupulous business practises; not to protect people from a plant; and certainly not to continue criminalizing and fining people for using that plant pretty much anywhere.
Ian Campeau, Deejay NDN
"Legalization without amnesty is oppressive monopolization"
- Ian Campeau, Deejay NDN
Mike Schreiner, Leader of Green Party Ontario
"Criminal records for petty cannabis offences continue to be a roadblock for already marginalized populations, and wiping them away should be looked at as the fair thing to do."
Mike Schreiner, Green Party Leader of Ontario
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Liberal M.P.
“The criminalization of cannabis is a longstanding injustice. Amnesty for possession is necessary to correct the injustice as best we can. It’s the right things to do, and we should act on it immediately.”
Jodie Emery, Cannabis Rights Activist
"Cannabis Amnesty is deeply important to me as a long-time cannabis activist. The primary reason to legalize cannabis is to end the numerous civil liberties violations and unjust criminalization harms related to prohibition policies. Cannabis-related criminal records prevent our fellow citizens from being treated equally regarding employment, housing, travel and even parenting. It's irrefutable that cannabis and drug prohibition laws have been used to disproportionately target and harm our most marginalized citizens, including black, brown, indigenous, poor and young Canadians.
The only legitimate form of cannabis legalization must include an acknowledgement of the discrimination and stigma that harms people criminalized for cannabis; an apology and amnesty for citizens with cannabis criminal records; and reparations for prohibition victims, to repair the damage caused by decades of costly, punitive prohibition law enforcement.
That is why I am devoted to calling for an arrest moratorium, cannabis amnesty, and retroactive removal of all non-violent cannabis criminal records, including for those who provide access to cannabis. Legalization is supposed to be about restoring justice. Without Cannabis Amnesty, there will be no justice. Cannabis Amnesty must be granted immediately to the hundreds of thousands of Canadians with cannabis-related criminal records."
– Jodie Emery
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Price manages to win vs. Cubs
Tucker Barnhart was rooting for a run-scoring groundout, which seems like an odd desire considering the Cincinnati Reds were playing defense.
Price manages to win vs. Cubs Tucker Barnhart was rooting for a run-scoring groundout, which seems like an odd desire considering the Cincinnati Reds were playing defense. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2paHrxe
Zach Buchanan, zbuchanan@enquirer.com Published 5:46 p.m. ET April 23, 2017 | Updated 6:52 p.m. ET April 23, 2017
Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price, center right, runs back to the dugout after calling up relief pitcher Wandy Peralta (53) to relieve relief pitcher Blake Wood in the seventh inning of a baseball game, Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Cincinnati. The Reds won 7-5. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)(Photo: John Minchillo, AP)
Tucker Barnhart was rooting for a run-scoring groundout, which seems like an odd desire considering the Cincinnati Reds were playing defense. But when you’re playing the Chicago Cubs, outs can sometimes be more important than runs.
The Reds catcher was behind the plate in the ninth Sunday as the Cubs began to mount the type of comeback that’s expected of the World Series champions. Cincinnati had its best reliever on the mound in Raisel Iglesias, who’d just collected the final two outs of the previous inning. But things had begun to go wrong.
Iglesias had given up consecutive hits to start the ninth, allowing the Cubs to cut the lead to three. After a first-pitch ball to Jason Heyward, Barnhart visited the mound. Before the at-bat was over, Iglesias had thrown a pickoff attempt to nobody for an error, putting a runner on third.
What Iglesias needed, Barnhart thought, was a clean slate. Runner on third be damned.
“When Heyward was up, I was hoping he would ground out and they would score a run so it would clear the bases and start over,” Barnhart said. “Hit reset.”
Heyward didn’t oblige, cutting the lead to two with a single to right. But then Barnhart got his wish. Igleisas coaxed a comebacker out of Miguel Montero, and initiated a 1-6-3 double play to empty the bases. Pinch-hitter Wilson Contreras flied out to end the game, sealing a 7-5 win for the Reds at Great American Ball Park.
The win staved off the threat of being swept for the first time in 2017, and pushed Cincinnati’s record back over .500 at 10-9. And despite the branding about this being a rebuilding year, the Reds care deeply about winning.
Sunday’s game easily could have been purely about bullpen preservation instead. Reds relievers had covered seven innings the night before, necessitating the call-up of probably not-quite-ready right-hander Ariel Hernandez from Double-A. Then 40-year-old righty Bronson Arroyo mowed through six innings on just 66 pitches.
The Reds led 7-2 at the end of the sixth, thanks in large part to a bases-loaded double by Patrick Kivlehan. With such a cushion, Price could have pushed Arroyo as far as he could go and then used Hernandez in mop-up duty. He could have hit reset on his best relievers, saving them to fight another day.
But these were the Chicago Cubs, against whom no lead is safe. And Price saw a much darker future if he let his foot off the gas. His team had already played past the ninth two of the last three games.
“If that game went into extra innings,” Price said, “we were screwed.”
So Price inserted right-hander Blake Wood into the game to start the seventh, as much for the conservation of Arroyo’s still-acclimating arm as for the preservation of the lead. When Wood gave up hits to his first two batters, Price pulled the trigger again and brought in left-handed rookie Wandy Peralta.
Peralta gave up a run-scoring groundout and then a hit, but struck out his next two batters to end the inning. Then he recorded the first out of the eighth before giving way to Iglesias, who finished the inning without incident.
Things may have gotten testy in the ninth, but Price knew he had his best reliever on the mound against one of the most dangerous lineups in the game. For a few moments in that final inning, it looked like he might play to win and still lose. Instead, he played to win and won.
“You have to take what’s there to win,” he said. “You never know what’s going to happen the next day.”
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Mahanubhavudu: A clean entertainer- Cinema express
Mahanubhavudu: A clean entertainer
Mahanubhavudu has laugh-out-loud moments, but doesn't come close to the director's previous work Bhale Bhale Magadivoy
Murali Krishna CH
Mahatma Gandhi believed in the saying ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’. He emphasised the importance of having a clean body and healthy life. And the protagonist of director Maruthi’s Mahanubhavudu is an exact replica of Gandhi’s beliefs.
The film starring Sharwanand and Mehreen goes on with two interesting aspects, one in which everything works well for the protagonist and the other in which everything makes things clumsy for him. The story develops quite slowly and Maruthi touches on the quirks of people who suffer from obsessive cleanliness.
An IT professional Anand (Sharwanand) leads a freaky lifestyle and suffers from a severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He uses a tissue to put a clip on a girl's hair, blow drys his toothbrush, checks the car doors though it is locked and does all kinds of peculiar things to keep everything clean and also expects everyone around him to be neat. This peculiar habit of his leads to distance in his relationship with his mother. But, then, he gets attracted to Meghana (Mehreen) and presumes that both of them are like-minded. As the film progresses, Anand loosens up a little as he begins to deal with the people who find him completely weird and uninteresting.
Cast: Sharwanand, Mehreen, Nasser
Direction: Maruthi
The fresh story is engrossing and most of the first half entertains with situational comedy on OCD, romance blossoming between the two principal characters, a funny chase-turned-fight scene and an interval bang.
In the second hour, Sharwa keeps you in splits with his fixation on neatness. Specifically, the river bath, mango pickle and boozing scenes are a laugh riot. But his sufferings have no end and he gets to deal with different issues, albeit forcefully. That’s not all, he also lives with misconstruction by his mother, girlfriend and family. Amidst all this chaos, Anand gets a respite from Meghana’s father Rama Raju (Nasser), who empathises with him. Unlike the adamant father in Maruthi’s earlier outing Bhale Bhale Magadivoy, Rama Raju is kind-hearted and arrives with a solution to Anand’s issues.
Sharwanand gives a relatable performance and is true to his character. He shares a crackling chemistry with Mehreen and their enchanting presence makes the tale engaging enough. Mehreen has got an effective role, but she is no show stealer. Sharwa gets able support from Vennela Kishore, who plays his cousin in the film. Nasser plays his part well, but his role lacks lucidity.
Everyone has their share of positives and negatives, and Maruthi strikes a chord by drawing a thin line and stuffing the story with adequate entertainment. It's challenging to execute a story with such complexities, but credit to him for churning out a clean family entertainer with the love-hate-love relationship. Once again, the director relies completely on the comedy, and has arrived with a simple story of a young man suffering from the disorder and his struggle to win his love. Definitely, Mahanubhavudu has laugh-out-loud moments, but it does not come close to his blockbuster hit Bhale Bhale Magadivoy.
Mehreen Maruthi Mahanubhavudu Nasser Sharwanand
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City Stars - Dealing with difficult people
The City Stars Programme is led by Christine Brown-Quinn, a former Managing Director in International Finance, now an author, speaker and consultant helping women to develop business strategies so they can thrive in their careers. Well versed in what it takes to forge a thriving career in highly pressurised, alpha environments, Christine is known as ‘The Female Capitalist®’.
At the beginning of their career, when delivery and completion of tasks are paramount, women often excel. By mid-career, however,they can experience a slow-down in the rate of pay and promotion, which cannot be simply explained away by maternity leave or a system based purely on meritocracy. So what is happening here?
While hard skills are perhaps more obvious and achievable, the softskills critical to career progression are often overlooked. The City Stars programme, therefore, addresses the issue of career ownership and strategic positioning as well as the critical soft sills to move a promising career forward.
• What are the four main behaviour types and which one you can identify with
• The five most common pitfalls for de-escalating conflict
• Why listening is a key mechanism to create calm composure
• The four magic phrases to shift the focus from you to them
• How to use the top time-tested techniques for managing difficult characters
For this final session, your managers are invited to attend from 4pm to help lay foundations for taking your success back into the workplace and to support your ongoing journey. A company’s sponsorship of such a development programme not only plays a key part in the confidence building, but also creates more effective and committed teams, fostering a ‘pay it forward’mentality.
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Château de Chantilly Triathlon
The Castle Triathlon Series makes its yearly pilgrimage over the English Channel in August for the sixth race of the 2020 series.
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Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th August 2020
Set over the UK bank holiday weekend, the racing will take place in the spectacular and historic town of Chantilly, just a 2.5hrs drive from Calais and 40 miles north of Paris.
As we look forward to 2020 as this event continues to grow and include a whole spectrum of distances, with races for children aged eight and up to the middle-distance race, Le Gantelet, first introduced at Château de Chantilly in 2013.
Chantilly provides a fantastic and challenging race, with the 2.5km Grand Canal overlooked by the Château and its gardens hosting the open-water swim. Triathletes will transition within the Terrasse des Connétables and set off into a fast 20km or 45km cycle circuit around the Forêt de Chantilly. After entering T2, competitors will run the surrounding woodlands, the world famous race course “LHippodrome” and Chateau gardens finishing within sight of the beautiful Chateau.
Chantilly - Présentation
About Château de Chantilly
Chantilly cream, one of Europe’s finest art collections and a Bond villain’s hideout. The Château de Chantilly has a long and varied history that began in the mid-14th Century.
Construction of the estate is thought to have begun in 1358, with the Grand Château razed during the French Revolution of the 1790s before being rebuilt in the 1870s.
The stretch of water that plays host to the swim section of the triathlon is the Grand Canal, a 2.5km long tributary of the Oise. The cycle route circumnavigates the arrow straight bridleways of the Foret de Chantilly, with the run section named after the Maison de Sylvie that it surrounds.
Owned by the Institut de France, the château houses the Musée Condé, which is one of the finest art galleries in France and is open to the public. It was also at the Château de Chantilly that a French chef, François Vatel, invented Chantilly cream in 1671.
Château de Chantilly also has a rich history in popular culture. James Bond fans will note that it acted as the estate of Christopher Walken’s villain, Zorin, in A View to a Kill from 1985, while more recently it was used as a location for 2006’s Pink Panther remake, which lends its name to our children’s races. Pink Floyd played two concerts here in 1994 and Ronaldo (the Brazilian one) used the Château to host his 2005 wedding.
Enter Le Gantelet
For the ninth year running, the middle-distance Le Gantelet will be held at the Château de Chantilly Triathlon. In 2020 the race will be hosted on Sunday 30th August, and will consist of a 1.9km swim, 90km cycle and a 21km run.
Le Gantelet is perfect for those who wish to upgrade from sprint and Olympic-distance racing or simply want to take on a new triathlon challenge. The stunning venue and scenic grounds set the scene for a motivating event that will nurture your most extreme triathlon ambitions.
The swim only event provides the choice of three different distances: 5km 2.5km and 1mile (see price table below) and boasts a unique and stunning swim route in all the stunning castle lakes.
The swim described by many triathletes as the ‘best open water swim ever completed’ will now be open to outdoor swimmers as an event in its own right.
All swimmers will be provided with timing chips and the races categorised into wetsuits and non-wetsuits. Prizes will be awarded for the top three male and female competitors in each distance.
One mile leisure and family swim
Enjoy the beautiful setting of the Chateau de Chantilly at your own pace. Swim any stroke you like (breaststroke encouraged), swim and chat with friends as you go around. Don’t worry about how long it takes (however time limit set at 90 minutes), just enjoy it. Under 16s welcome if accompanied throughout by a competent responsible adult.
10K, Half Marathon & NEW Marathon
Building on the success of the Castle Run Series introduction in 2018, the 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon will be returning to the iconic Chateau De Chantilly. As the venue lends itself so well to running, we are excited to introduce the NEW FULL MARATHON to our run routes at the Chateau.
This stunning and unique multi-terrain course will incorporate spectator friendly loops of the French countryside, the Castle lake, and of course the Chateau itself. Each runner will receive a medal and will be welcomed across the finish line with a banquet of well-earned treats, with live bands, food stalls and a retail area, making the weekend a festival of sporting achievements.
Half marathon and 10K at all our Castle venues. Set on the most iconic and stunning off road, spectator friendly courses. Come join us for the Series. Full marathons available at Chateau de Chantilly, and Hever Castle, July.
May I congratulate you and your team on a Top Class event at Chateau de Chantilly, the organization was first rate especially the marshaling on the cycle route, I have never competed in such a well run event held on Public open roads, no stopping at traffic lights and you even managed to have road works removed for the event, it really does make a difference to us competitors – a big thank you.
Geoff Armstrong
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To compete in the Château de Chantilly you can enter either as an individual, a relay team of two, or a relay team of three. The Junior and children’s races follow the same format. Relay entries can be all male, all female or mixed.
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(approx*)
Sprint Plus - The Conde
£95 / 140
Super Sprint - The Louis XV
Starter Sprint - New Race Distance
1Mile Swim
Aquabike Sprint (Swim / Bike)
750m / 20km
Aquathlon Sprint (Swim / Run)
750m / 5km
Duathlon Sprint (Run / Bike / Run)
5.5km / 20km / 2.5km
Junior (13-15 yrs) - Pink Panther
£44 / 55
Children (11-12 yrs)
Adult mixed relay
250m / 5km / 1.3m**
£120 (team)
Family mixed relay
250m / 5.75km / 1.5km**
Half Iron / Middle Distance - Le Gantelet
£220 / 270
Olympic / Standard - The Chantilly
1.5 km / 45km / 10km
Aquabike Standard (Swim / Bike)
1500m / 45km
Aquathlon Standard (Swim / Run)
Duathlon Standard (Run / Bike / Run)
11km / 45km / 6km
*Start times are approximate and shown here as a general guide. These are subject to change. Depending on numbers, there will be multiple waves for each race distance, usually separated by 15 to 20 minutes.
Entrants will be notified of their wave time via email 2 weeks prior to the event. We advise that entrants arrive at least 1 – 1.5 hours before their wave time. There’s an option to request specific waves during registration. Relays go off in the final wave of their distance.
Please take a moment to study these in detail.
Chantilly Triathlon is an exciting and busy event with lots of different courses taking place throughout the weekend. There will be a full brief before your race start but it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with the course and in particular any key junctions to ensure you take the correct route.
Saturday Mixed Relay
Saturday Triathlon Swim Routes
Saturday Swim Only (1mile, 2.5k, 5k)
Saturday Triahlon Cycle Routes
Sunday Triathlon Cycle Routes
Saturday Triathlon Run Routes
Sunday Triathlon Run Routes
Sunday Run Series Routes
GPX/Map My Ride
Chantilly 45km Cycle Route
Chantilly 10km Run Route
Chantilly 4km Run Route
Two weeks prior to event, this section will give you everything you need to know about race day, including wave times, registration opening details, spectator entry, camping info and water temperature readings etc.
Find the 2019 Races Results here, along with amazing shots of participant’s photography during the event.
Participant Photography
The Chateau de Chantilly Triathlon is a F.F.TRI sanctioned event and it is therefore obligatory for a competitor to produce the correct documentation on the race day.
NOTE: You do not need a day pass for run and swim only events. However you will still need a medical certificate.
For those who do NOT have a valid membership card, of a recognised triathlon governing body such as FFT/BTF/TI/ITA, it will be necessary purchase a F.F.Tri Day Pass (also known and Pass Journeé and Pass Compétition) and present the documentation as stated below.
This day pass can be purchased via our Online Shop. The fee goes directly to the F.F.TRI.
No membership card or Day Pass, no entry!
All participants must bring the following documentation on Event day*:-
*No Day Pass necessary for run and swim only events.
Photo ID (passport or driving licence etc. Printout or image on smartphone).
Triathlon Governing Body Membership Licence
Proof of Day Pass purchase. (Confirmation email)
Parental Consent Form (8-15yrs only)
Day Pass form (also known and Pass Journeé and Pass Compétition).
Medical Certificate.
Parental Consent Form (8-15yrs only).
Useful downloads:
Medical Certificate (EXAMPLE)
CLICK HERE TO BUY YOUR DAY PASS
Spectator Offering
The spectator experience at the Castle Triathlon Series has become almost as famous as the spectacular backdrops and classic courses, and has made passing time before your loved ones finish the race a thing of the past.
Rules and Terms and Conditions
Please read and understand the general rules, in particular the cut-off times, before competing to ensure a fantastic race for you and everyone else.
Travel, accommodation and directions to the venue
Click the link below to find out everything you need to know about all of our venues.
All competitors in all races will receive a medal on completion of their race.
Each 1st place winner will also receive a suitably themed trophy, and sponsor’s prizes for 2nd and 3rd place. There is a significant prize pot on offer for the Olympic and Gauntlet race distances.
Click below to find out more about what we have on offer.
Water quality and temperature
Please see water quality tests for Château de Chantilly’s lake. All tests are undertaken using the EU Water Bathing Directive as the benchmark.
For swim length up to 1500m wetsuits will be optional on race day if the temp remains between 14 and 22 degrees centigrade and over 1500m swim length wetsuits will be options between 15 and 23 degrees centigrade.
Château de Chantilly Water Test 2019
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Marketing leader comments on the state of customer data utilisation and where competitive advantage lies when every brand has data on everyone
Stephanie Buscemi on stage at Dreamforce 2019
Marketers need to work harder to provide customers with transparency and an ability to control their own data as part of their ethical – and not just legal – responsibility towards them, Salesforce global CMO, Stephanie Buscemi, believes.
Speaking to CMO during the recent Dreamforce conference, the marketing leader pointed to an overreliance on cookie and device data, and overuse of second and third-party data sets. She advocated building and refreshing first-party data sets that not only give customers clarity on the types of data being collected and used, but gives them an ability to control it.
“Getting your first-party approach right means not abstracting yourself away from contact with the customer, and engaging with them directly,” Buscemi said. “Having full transparency on preferences and not having it be binary, but with each engagement, is key. It’s a lot more to instrument, but you’re going to have the trust of the customer doing that.
“Just because a consumer said yes for this engagement, doesn’t mean they’re going to say yes for this second thing. Being able to engage on that is important.”
Buscemi agreed this approach becomes ever-more critical as brands finally become able to unite all their sources of customer data into a unified single customer view. It’s an ambition Salesforce claims to be edging closer to technically, with fresh products integrations announced designed to bring together an organisation’s marketing, digital, services and sales customer data sets into one single source of truth.
“It’s got to be OK to be used for that interaction, and there needs to be verification at each point happening. You can’t just say we’re going to aggregate it,” Buscemi continued. “Some of those data sources may be coming from places I as a consumer don’t want mixed with the profile over here. And we have to put that power in the hands of the customer and consumer to do that.
“It is about validation and revalidating with the customer contact.”
Buscemi said she was alarmed at a recent CMO dinner to find half the room claiming minimal database impact from the introduction of consumer data protection laws globally such as GDPR and the California Consumer Protection Act.
“Unless they already had a level of sophistication in preferences and opt-ins and are doing it at every touchpoint, you undoubtably should be losing some of those names on your database,” she commented.
“At Salesforce, we have been extremely stringent on that. We’re basically rebuilding the database all over again on first party in a different way to say this is what we’re going to market to. In the meantime, you can market out on a community. But once you’ve had engagement, it’s protected here.”
With Apple firmly placing itself on the side of privacy and taking a stand against digital competitors such as Google and Facebook to not share or use customer data outside of its own ecosystem, the tech industry is arguably at an inflection point. And as organisations gain the capability to create that holistic picture of a customer across an enterprise, it’s clear brand owners must draw a clear line on how far is too far when it comes to using customer data.
By being transparent with preferences and how data is going to be moved, Buscemi said it’s often the case customers will say yes to information being used provided the value exchange is there.
“But all too often, people either haven’t been compliant, or it’s fine print in the footer where people have been tricked. That’s not the way we’re going to be able to continue as companies,” Buscemi said.
Future values
As organisations all start to know everything about everybody, there’s also the question of where competitive advantage can be found. For Buscemi, competitive advantage lies in the content you’re delivering, and your organisational values.
“Products and services alone won’t be enough – there’s always going to be another feature or function out there,” she said. “People are going to look to companies and stay with brands that have value and purpose – that are doing well and doing good.
“We know this is especially true of younger generations. We see time and time again through consumer studies that they’re making purchasing decisions based on brands they believe they can trust, and that are doing good in the world, not just doing well.”
While many B2C marketers have been working to up their game when it comes to purpose, Buscemi agreed it’s been a gap on the B2B marketing side.
“There are some companies doing it well, and a lot trying to catch up. They’re seeing this is a key decision of how people will buy today and realising they haven’t focused on it enough,” she said. “The challenge is you can’t just say it; you have to be able to show it through tangible programs and things you’re doing.
“If you say you’re about equality, you have to be able to back that up with things you’re doing that drive equality in employee base, with customers and community you serve.”
Operationalising values is a responsibility today’s marketers should be spearheading within their organisations, Buscemi said.
“Name a newspaper and all the corporate ads are getting trust and equality washed. For every time you say that, you need to ask yourself what are the programs you have in place to support it. If you can’t articulate the programs, it’s a challenge.”
As an example, Buscemi noted Salesforce’s core value of inclusivity. “We made lemonade out of lemons when we had a situation almost two years ago when an asset came forward that wasn’t particularly inclusive... I couldn’t articulate how that wouldn’t happen again in the organisation,” she said.
“Rather than stand up a brand team to figure it out, we saw this as the responsibility of everyone to curate and figure out together.”
Salesforce kicked off efforts through a diverse group of people and audited all marketing messaging, then developed six principles of inclusive marketing. Buscemi said all staff have been trained on the principles and it’s worked to build a sense of ownership.
“It’s an example of how marketing is manifesting and how we’re operating every day,” she said.
Another recent marketing-led initiative for Buscemi has been working through reimagining Salesforce’s digital experiences to eliminate point-based interactions. It’s work that’s again seen marketing working right across the entire organisation.
A third way Buscemi is ensuring her marketing function is transforming adequately is by giving permission to marketers to let the voice of the customer lead.
“A lot of times in marketing, we have a fit and finish to it. I’m very OK with recording the person and putting that out there. It’s more impactful,” she said, adding customer stories lie at the heart of her overarching marketing strategy.
“There’s this trust revolution and a crisis of trust happening… People aren’t in the mood to be pitched, there is so much going on politically and around the world. It’s better if we let customers in a more unvarnished, authentic way, tell the story.
“I have been giving the team permission to do a lot more of that. It’s a shift for a marketer who wants everything to be perfect.”
Buscemi’s other advice for marketing leaders is to “Lead, lead often, and lean in to the situation”.
“What we have been doing in the four walls of marketing needs to happen and transcend across the entire organisation,” she said. “Today’s marketing is about creating a coordinated experience. Maybe many CMOs have been cordoned off by channel. It just got exponentially larger.
“There is opportunity for CMOs today to reimagine their role and be much more of an orchestrator. To help the company say we have agreed these are our core values and how we operate, how do those core values get manifested in marketing, then allow the masses to take it and run with it.”
But doing this also means letting go of control, Buscemi said. “There’s an information explosion – there is no way you’re going to have your hands on all the content,” she added.
“Flash forward three to five years, and I believe the notion of your own branded .com website will be obsolete. It’s going to be much more co-created, community rated and surveyed articles. It’s the way people want to buy and consumer. People are doing this in Yelp over a burger, they will do it over technology.”
Read more: Why Salesforce's CMO thinks the age of the marketing campaign is over
Nadia Cameron travelled to Dreamforce as a guest of Salesforce.
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Let’s move to… Folkestone
13 November 2019 Colin Batt Removals Comment
Thinking of moving to Folkestone?
With its trendy eateries, galleries, boutiques and elegant period buildings, Folkestone looks like – and is – a town on the up again. Its story is that of seaside towns around Britain – a thriving resort at the start of the 20th century, it fell into decline and disrepair until regeneration began to turn its fortunes around. Yet Folkestone stands out for its character – underneath the gloss of recent investment, the town still has a thick layer of grit. And it’s all the better for it.
Folkestone’s regeneration owes a great deal to Roger de Haan, billionaire entrepreneur (he is the former owner of Saga, one of the town’s biggest employers) turned benefactor who has donated tens of millions of pounds to develop the town and support charities and schools. In particular, de Haan has funded the regeneration of the Harbour Arm, now a vibrant promenade lined with food and drink outlets, open-air seating and a big screen showing sporting events and films.
Across the harbour sits the much-lauded, Michelin Guide-listed Rock Salt restaurant; but the town’s best food is actually found at its more homespun establishments, from pub grub by the fire in the Pullman to fabulous vegetarian and vegan food at Beano’s, whose vegan sticky toffee pudding beats most other sticky toffee puddings we’ve eaten.
The beaches are, of course, the town’s best asset; both Folkestone and Sandgate are rated excellent for water quality, and though they’re mostly shingle, there’s a sandy beach by the harbour called Sunny Sands. You can enjoy a lovely walk along the seafront promenade, lined with pastel beach huts, from the harbour up to the Lower Leas Coastal Park, which has the south east’s largest free adventure play area. Keep going and you’ll find yourself in Sandgate, with its cute Victorian cottages and independent shops and cafes.
The arts scene is another of Folkestone’s strengths; there are two theatres, an annual book festival and a charming creative quarter of independent shops, galleries and cafes. Here you’ll find record stores, clothes shops and the delightful Steep Street coffee house, which has shelves of books for customers to peruse. Plus there’s the Triennial art festival – as part of which, in 2014, artist Michael Sailstorfer buried gold bars collectively worth £10,000 on the beach. No one knows whether they’ve all been found – you might strike lucky.
Houses here are not only cheaper than in much of Kent, but are really truly stunning in the west end of town, whose wide tree-lined boulevards are graced by enormous Victorian and Edwardian villas and period townhouses converted into flats. And transport links are fantastic – London is less than an hour away by train, with three services an hour to St Pancras and Charing Cross, plus you have the Eurotunnel on your doorstep and the Eurostar terminal 15 minutes away at Ashford.
At family-run Kent removal firm Colin Batt Removals, we’ve been helping people settle into homes across the county for 40 years – and are proud of our lovely corner of England. We’re based in Ashford and cover all of Kent, carrying out removals in Folkestone, Maidstone, Canterbury, Tonbridge and anywhere else you care to mention – we often work nationally and internationally too, as we specialise in piano removals. Call 01233 740395 for a free quote.
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PROVOKING THE ARTIST'S BOOK, PART 2: ANALOG AND DIGITAL (OR THE RAW AND THE COOKED) // Anne Royston
15 Sep 2017 12:00 AM | Susan Viguers (Administrator)
At the Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, an initiative devoted to creating “expanded artists’ books” presents transmedial works that bridge what we would consider a traditional artist’s book—the concrete, physical, haptic art object—and the digital, like an iPad/iPhone application (Abra by Amaranth Borsuk and Kate Durbin with Ian Hatcher). In these projects, old and new media deliberately link arms to declare their shared investments, investments I think of as key to artists’ books in any guise: material and formal considerations embedded into materiality and form; reading as a vibrant and immersive experience; writing that develops in tandem with its medium, shaping and being shaped by it.
For digital and new media scholars, reading this kind of writing begins with N. Katherine Hayles’s concept of “media-specific analysis.” In her now-classic essay “Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep,” Hayles argues that we must read the materiality of texts, hypertexts both digital and print, as well as their semantic content. She characterizes materiality as “the interplay between a text’s physical characteristics and its signifying strategies”—such medial self-awareness, she acknowledges, hardly limited to digital examples (72). Many of these examples, in fact, reference “reverse remediation” in digital hypertexts, moments where the digital mimics the analog: the appearance of dog-eared pages in print codices transferred to a screen; the illusion of something like Scotch tape at the edges of ersatz photographs; the moments which, as Emily Larned wrote in an earlier post for this blog, often create an “aesthetics of interference,” where such interference is constructed for the comfort or delight of the reader. This is not a new reaction, of course: we could cast much further back to recall the moment where moveable type, as blackletter, mimicked the script to which readers had been accustomed.
Digital and new media scholars, both Hayles and those who follow, are far from allergic to more traditional artist book examples (see Hayles’s Writing Machines, which references Tom Phillips’s classic A Humument, or Manuel Portela’s Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and The Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines, which has a chapter on Johanna Drucker’s letterpress work). Yet those with an interest in artists’ books often overlook the digital. At the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Portugal this summer, I heard about projects ranging from Taiwanese artist Hsia Yu’s book of digital remix poetry printed on Mylar, Pink Noise; to Rote Bete, a book made entirely on the copier by Portuguese artist César Figueiredo; to Eugenio Tisselli’s “Degenerative,” a web-based project which was corrupted bit-by-bit every time it was visited.
Page from Rote Bete
Yu’s book might easily be assimilated into the genre of artists’ books, perhaps Figueiredo’s work as well. What about Tisselli? Does it change our view to know the degenerative process was captured at various stages of decay before fading away completely, again suggesting, to an artist’s book reader, strange parallels with flux that might have intrigued Tom Phillips?
Day 1 and Day 44 of “Degenerative”
The truth is, of course, that both print and code are equally deep (or equally flat—take your pick). After all, both digital and analog are material. As Matt Kirschenbaum argues in his fantastic 2008 book Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, it’s a convenient illusion that the digital is “hopelessly ephemeral...infinitely fungible or self-identical, and that it is fluid or infinitely malleable” (50). Instead, Kirschenbaum reminds us, “Every contact leaves a trace” (ibid). Why should we not extend our consideration from artists’ books to the digital, then, especially given their shared concerns about media specificity, self-reflectiveness, and reading?
In its digital guise, Abra, which I mentioned at the beginning, encourages the user to create new poems through casting “spells” on the screen, which can shift and mutate words, graft the user’s words into the evolving poem, erase words from the lexicon, all in a shimmering set of rainbow hues. There is a paperback version, as well, that does not attempt to replicate the app but instead extends its concerns to another form. And linking the two is a letterpress-printed, small-edition handmade codex. At the back of this book there is a space left for an iPad, inviting the user to make the connection.
Abra, from the Center for Book and Paper Arts’s website
Hayles, N. Katherine. “Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep.” Poetics Today 25, no. 1 (2004). pp 67-90. doi: 10.1215/03335372-25-1-67.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2007.
Anne M. Royston is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at Rochester Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Literature, as well as a Book Arts Certificate, from the University of Utah. She is a founding member of the Salt Lake City-based independent book arts group, Halophyte Collective.
13 Sep 2017 4:40 PM | Richard Minsky
Yes. For more than two decades book artists have been mediaizing.
To go back a bit, or some bytes, to April 24 - June 19, 1993, when the Center for Book Arts exhibited _AGRIPPA (a book of the dead) _ William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh with Kevin Begos, Jr., Peter Pettingill, Sun Hill Press, Karl Foulkes, and (BRASH). The floppy disk had a virus that deleted the text as you read it.
http://www.centerforbookarts.net/exhibits/archive/showdetail.asp?showID=62
http://centerforbookarts.org/collection-spotlight-dennis-ashbaugh-kevin-begos-william-gibson-carl-foulkes-and-peter-pettingills-agrippa-a-book-of-the-dead/
http://www.centerforbookarts.dreamhosters.com/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1189
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15 Sep 2017 11:50 AM | A Royston
Yes! Agrippa is the ur-text, I think, for this kind of work. It certainly is for Kirschenbaum: he talks about the black box of the artist's book as well as the black box of its contents/code...
18 Sep 2017 12:08 PM | Robert Bolick
Don't forget video in the media-bending at which Borsuk and others excel (http://wp.me/p2AYQg-Hf). Borsuk's essay "Abra: The Kinetic Page" covered above cites Ann Hamilton's work as a haptic-digital inspiration, and in the essay's inclusion of sound and video, she manages to create a supplementary work of art that also performs a role in distribution (which Steve Woodall wondered about during the V&A symposia).
Over here in Europe, book artists like Johannes Heldén (mentioned in the link above), entrepreneurs like the founders of Visual Editions (see the app for Marc Saporta's Composition No. 1 in the link above, too), "video catalog artist" Giulio Maffei, son of book artist Giorgio Maffei (http://wp.me/p2AYQg-T6) and Louisa Boyd (http://wp.me/p2AYQg-QV) provide additional examples of media-bending and play with the distribution function (wasn't the "distribution thing" a feature of Sixties book art?).
Many thanks for a piece to expand my appreciation of this art.
21 Sep 2017 12:25 PM | Anne Royston
Thank you for the comment! And for the names to investigate, as well. I'm familiar with Composition No. 1, and Visual Editions as well; less so with the Maffei(s) and Boyd...
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Guy Warner: Why our local jam-makers need your support
PUBLISHED: 12:07 30 October 2018
Guy Warner
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If we can continue to show our support for talented and industrious jam-makers like these, we might just pull our favourite preserve out of the sticky situation it's supposed to be in!
I read some alarming news earlier this year – peanut butter is set to overtake jam as the nation’s favourite spread! Now, as someone who loves a great big dollop of strawberry jam on my toast (and who gets excited on discovering a whole syrupy strawberry or two hiding in the jar), I’m wondering how can this be?
Fortunately, I don’t think jam is likely to go out of fashion just yet as we’ve got some outstanding local jam producers in the Cotswolds who are helping to preserve our once-loved conserves.
Founded in 2011, The Artisan Kitchen is a relative newcomer to the jam world but has already clocked up well over 200 awards for its products. The talent behind The Artisan Kitchen is chef Sarah Churchill who created her first preserve from the rescued fruit of a local Mirabelle plum tree. This earned Sarah a Great Taste Award, and since then, she has been hard at work developing new flavours for today’s palates. This year alone, Sarah’s jams and marmalades have gained 46 awards, including 16 Great Taste Awards, with the Seville Orange Marmalade Vino de Naranja being put forward for the prestigious Golden Fork Award earlier this month.
What’s so exciting about The Artisan Kitchen is the mix of old and new. Sarah makes each of the preserves by hand in a big copper pot in her Gloucestershire kitchen. But the flavours are thoroughly modern and forward-thinking – Gin & Tonic Citrus Marmalade, Sweet Orange Espresso Marmalade, Apricot Vanilla Elderflower Jam, Blackcurrant Sloe Gin Jam. It’s these clever flavour combinations that were noted by our judges at this year’s Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards, earning the Gloucester Marmalade, made from Gloucestershire cider, local apple juice and sweet and bitter oranges, the title of Food Product of the Year 2018.
Kitchen Garden is another Warner’s Budgens favourite, founded by Barbara Moinet from her kitchen table in 1989. As well as jams and marmalades, Kitchen Garden offers jellies, chutneys and dressings, all ‘made by hand in the Cotswolds’. Over the years, Kitchen Garden has built up a strong and loyal fan base but is now seeking to attract a younger audience too, with fresh new flavours and new-look labelling.
The company has a repertoire of over 60 products, many of them award-winners, with classics such as Blackberry & Apple Jam, Traditional Rhubarb Jam, Orange Marmalade with Brandy and Three Fruit Marmalade. Last year, Kitchen Garden was crowned Best Local Producer at the Cotswold Life Food & Drink Awards, and Barbara Moinet received a posthumous award as Cotswold Food Hero 2017. At this year’s awards, Kitchen Garden was a finalist in the Best Local Producer category.
All of which leads me to believe that it’s not yet over for jam. If we can continue to show our support for talented and industrious jam-makers like these, we might just pull our favourite preserve out of the sticky situation it’s supposed to be in!
Find Kitchen Garden jams and preserves at Warner’s Budgens stores in Broadway, Moreton-in-Marsh, Bidford-on-Avon and Winchcombe. Also available at kitchengardenfoods.co.uk.
For the latest news on The Artisan Kitchen’s seasonal flavours and stockists, visit theartisankitchen.co.uk.
Locally-owned company Warner’s Budgens have six stores in the area - Bidford-upon-Avon, Moreton-in-Marsh, Quedgeley, Tewkesbury and Winchcombe. Visit the website here.
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Sweeping sex assault suit filed against University of Tennessee
Six women say UT has created a student culture that enables sexual assaults by student-athletes, especially football players.
Sweeping sex assault suit filed against University of Tennessee Six women say UT has created a student culture that enables sexual assaults by student-athletes, especially football players. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://tnne.ws/1XgNatI
Anita Wadhwani and Nate Rau, The Tennessean Published 4:15 p.m. ET Feb. 9, 2016 | Updated 11:07 a.m. ET Feb. 24, 2016
UT athletes named in lawsuit
A.J. Johnson is among at least six players on UT's Fall 2014 roster who have been accused of sexual assault. Knox County Sheriff
Michael Williams is among at least six players on UT's Fall 2014 roster who have been accused of sexual assault. WBIR
Riyahd Jones was part of the football team until Jan. 2, 2015. Submitted
Yemi Makanjuola transferred to the University of North Carolina Wilmington with public well wishes from his coaches shortly after the February 2013 alleged assault was reported to UT officials. Submitted
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Five alleged sexual assaults detailed in lawsuit
Lawsuit blames top UT officials, including coach Butch Jones and UT Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, for 'deliberate indifference to the serious risks of sexual assaults'
Lawsuit seeks immediate stop to unusual administrative hearing process for sexual assaults
UT is latest major university sued under federal Title IX rules
Six women filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the University of Tennessee has created a student culture that enables sexual assaults by student-athletes, especially football players, and then uses an unusual, legalistic adjudication process that is biased against victims who step forward.
The lawsuit, filed by plaintiffs identified only as "Jane Does," accuses five Tennessee athletes of sexual assault. They are former basketball player Yemi Makanjuola, former football players A.J. Johnson, Michael Williams and Riyahd Jones and a current football player named as a "John Doe."
The lawsuit also details an incident involving a female student who says she was sexually assaulted by a nonathlete, who was named a John Doe. The alleged assault took place after attending a football team party at Vol Hall, a campus dorm where she was served drinks by former UT player Treyvon Paulk, the lawsuit says.
COMPLETE COVERAGE: University of Tennessee sex assault lawsuit
In making its case that the university enabled an environment of bad behavior and used a disciplinary system that favored the players, the lawsuit cited more than a dozen incidents involving football players that included underage drinking, sexual harassment, assault, armed robbery and sexual assaults that did not involve the Jane Doe plaintiffs. Some of the incidents cited have previously never been reported.
The plaintiffs say that UT violated the Title IX laws, which protect students from gender discrimination in federally funded education programs. UT created a hostile sexual environment for female students by showing “deliberate indifference and a clearly unreasonable response after a sexual assault that causes a student to endure additional harassment," according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit said blame for the hostile policies should be placed at the very top of the UT administration.
Tennessee AD Dave Hart at center of another controversy
“UT administration (Chancellor Jimmy Cheek), athletic department (Vice Chancellor and Athletics Director) Dave Hart and football coach (Butch Jones) were personally aware (as ‘appropriate persons’ under Title IX) and had actual notice of previous sexual assaults and rapes by football players, yet acted with deliberate indifference to the serious risks of sexual assaults and failed to take corrective actions,” the plaintiffs said in their lawsuit.
The plaintiffs say that UT’s administrative hearing process, which is utilized by public universities across the state, is unfair because it provides students accused of sexual assault the right to attorneys and to confront their accusers through cross-examination and an evidentiary hearing in front of an administrative law judge. The administrative law judge who hears the case is appointed by Cheek, the lawsuit says.
The university "delayed the investigation process until the athlete perpetrators transferred to another school or graduated without sanction or discipline," the lawsuit said. Johnson was suspended at the end of his senior season but was able to participate in the UT commencement ceremony.
Responding through legal counsel Bill Ramsey, the university released a detailed statement that said:
"Like the many other college campuses facing the challenges of sexual assault, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has devoted significant time and energy to provide a safe environment for our students, to educate and raise awareness about sexual assault, and to encourage students to come forward and report sexual assault. When the University receives a report of sexual assault, we offer care and support to the person who came forward and work to investigate and resolve the matter in a timely, thorough, and equitable manner. When warranted, the University takes disciplinary action but will not do so in a manner that violates state law or the constitutional due process rights of our students.
"In the situations identified in the lawsuit filed today; the University acted lawfully and in good faith, and we expect a court to agree. Any assertion that we do not take sexual assault seriously enough is simply not true. To claim that we have allowed a culture to exist contrary to our institutional commitment to providing a safe environment for our students or that we do not support those who report sexual assault is just false. The University will provide a detailed response to the lawsuit and looks forward to doing so at the appropriate time, and in the proper manner."
An unusual hearing process
Tennessee is the only state in the country to use such an administrative hearing process, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims that UT student-athletes frequently hired prominent Knoxville attorney Don Bosch to represent them in their administrative hearings.
“Athletes knew in advance that UT would: support them even after a complaint of sexual assault; arrange for top quality legal representation; and then direct them to the (Tennessee Uniform Administrative Procedures Act) hearing procedure that denies victims the right to a hearing and to the same equal procedural, hearing, and process rights as given to perpetrators of rape and sexual assault,” the plaintiffs said in their lawsuit.
Feds launch sexual violence investigation at UT
The plaintiffs are seeking damages including reimbursement and pre-payment for all of their tuition and related expenses incurred as a consequence of the sexual assaults, as well as damages for deprivation of equal access to the educational benefits and opportunities provided by UT. They're also seeking damages for emotional suffering. The lawsuit also is seeking an injunction that would force the state to stop using the administrative hearing process.
"This Title IX suit seeks to remedy institutional failures at UT and in its athletic program that, we contend, made female students vulnerable to sexual assaults," Nashville attorney David Randolph Smith, who is representing the plaintiffs, said. "With respect to the Tennessee Uniform Administrative Procedures Act (TUAPA) and the way in which sexual assault cases are handled at UT and other state colleges and universities, the case has important ramifications to ensure compliance with federal law.”
Lawsuit details assaults
The lawsuit comes on the heels of two Title IX investigations initiated by the federal government after it received complaints in June and July of last year. Title IX, in part, governs how universities should handle sexual assault allegations. University officials have said they are cooperating with the federal investigation. No further details about those investigations have been made public.
The Tennessean was the first last year to detail a sexual assault report and order of protection sought against Makanjuola, who transferred to the University of North Carolina Wilmington with public well wishes from his coaches shortly after the February 2013 alleged assault was reported to UT officials. In July 2013, an administrative law judge at the university found that “by a preponderance of evidence” Makanjuola had violated university codes of conduct by sexually assaulting the woman. The district attorney did not pursue charges.
UT never disclosed rape allegations against 2 athletes
Williams and Johnson are awaiting separate trials to be held in June and July related to the alleged assault of the same woman during a football party in December 2014. Both men have denied the accusations.
Johnson and Williams are among at least six players on UT's Fall 2014 roster who have been accused of sexual assault.
Riyahd Jones, 20, was named as a suspect in a reported sexual assault that allegedly occurred at an off-campus apartment Feb. 5, 2015, according to a Knoxville police report. Jones, a senior and Vols defensive back for the prior two seasons, was part of the football team until Jan. 2, 2015. The woman chose not to pursue charges against Jones, and Knoxville police said in April that it would close the case.
The alleged assaults took place on and off campus and involved women who ranged from a freshman who had been on campus just three weeks to a varsity team athlete. At least three of the accusers dropped out of school within weeks or months after they reported their attacks to university officials.
Two of the student-athletes named in the lawsuit — Johnson and Makanjuola — were publicly praised by UT coaches and administrators while they remained on their teams, graduated or transferred, even as those officials were aware that sexual assault allegations had been made against the players.
Last February, a Tennessean investigation detailed how a campus investigation into a sexual assault allegation against a football player was handled when a female student stepped forward in September 2014, three weeks into her freshman year. The report did not name the victim or the football player. The Tennessean, relying on university emails to the woman and her parents and a campus report, detailed how the investigation took what experts called an "unusual" turn. The case was transferred from one university department to another, with the charges against the football player dropped midway through the investigation and the eventual finding that the incident was "consensual." Typically, campus administrators do not conclude whether an incident was "consensual," instead finding there is not enough evidence for them to conclude an assault took place.
'Undue influence' alleged
In March, the ongoing Tennessean investigation revealed that a former vice chancellor at the university had raised concerns in the spring of 2013 that athletics department director Hart exerted undue influence over student-athlete discipline. At the time, Vice Chancellor Tim Rogers, who oversaw the office that investigated allegations of student misconduct and sexual assaults, said the UT athletics department placed students and institutional integrity in "peril." The concerns were outlined in a memo written by Rogers and obtained by The Tennessean.
Rogers, a 38-year veteran of the university, authored a memo detailing his concerns about pressure from athletics department administrators on how athletes should be disciplined for misconduct ranging from minor infractions to sexual assaults. The document said the athletics department's "undue influence" into allegations of student-athlete misconduct had been "enabled by way of the Chancellor's directives and interference." Cheek at the time refuted those allegations.
UT athletics accused of influencing student discipline
Rogers took his concerns directly to UT President Joe DiPietro and Cheek in the spring of 2013. DiPietro told The Tennessean that he never investigated those claims but spoke with Cheek and Hart. DiPietro said he was "confident in the statements" from Cheek and Hart that no such influence existed. Rogers abruptly retired in June 2013 shortly after his conversation with DiPietro, saying at the time it was due to an "intolerable situation."
The lawsuit claims Rogers' memo detailed a "hostile sexual environment, rape culture and an increased risk of placing athletes with freshmen women at Vol Hall," the site of some of the incidents.
Other prominent lawsuits
There have been several prominent lawsuits against universities under the federal Title IX law.
A young woman recently agreed to a $950,000 settlement with Florida State University after she sued over how the school investigated and adjudicated her claim of sexual assault against star quarterback Jameis Winston. That case centered around the so-called “after clause,” regarding how universities handle sexual assault claims after they are filed.
In 2007, two former Colorado University students who said they had been sexually assaulted reached settlements totaling $2.85 million after they alleged the university created a party culture to show football recruits a “good time” without proper supervision. The plaintiffs in that case, citing the so-called “before clause,” said Colorado was to blame for fostering an environment that led to their assaults.
The suit filed on Tuesday against Tennessee cites both clauses — claiming the university allowed an out-of-control party culture among student-athletes. The Jane Does also say that after they stepped forward to report assaults, the university’s adjudication process was unusual and weighted in favor of the athletes.
The women are represented by Smith, who has been on the winning side of several prominent cases. Smith, who specializes in civil litigation and medical malpractice suits, was one of the lead attorneys representing victims of the 2003 Nashville nursing home fire.
He also was lead counsel in the lawsuit that attempted to block the petition effort to hold a referendum deciding whether to make English the official language of Metro government. Smith was the lead attorney on the successful legal challenge to the state's initial law allowing guns in bars.
Tennessean reporter Matt Slovin contributed to this story. Reach Anita Wadhwani at 615-259-8092 and on Twitter @anitawadhwani. Reach Nate Rau at 615-259-8094 and on Twitter @tnnaterau.
About the lawsuit
The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief requiring UT to address its violations of Title IX law, including: "instituting, with the assistance of outside experts, and enforcing a comprehensive sexual harassment policy, including procedures for effective reporting of sexual harassment incidents, an effective and immediate crisis response, and an expanded victim assistance and protection program, adopting a real zero tolerance policy under which there will be expedited proceedings and punishment proportional to the offense for violation of sexual harassment policies."
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On Monday, a grand jury decided not indict Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November 2014. At time of the shooting, Rice was in a park, playing with an air gun he had borrowed from a friend. Loehmnann fired his weapon at the boy within two seconds of arriving on the scene.
It’s now been over a year since Tamir’s death, and for many, the ensuing case has been a frustrating series of delays and injustices. For many, today’s decision is heartbreaking — but not surprising. The Rice family had this to say in a statement:
“It has been clear for months now that the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty was abusing and manipulating the grand jury process to orchestrate a vote against indictment.
“Even though video shows the police shooting Tamir in less than one second, Prosecutor McGinty hired so-called expert witnesses to try to exonerate the officers and tell the grand jury their conduct was reasonable and justified.
“It is unheard of, and highly improper, for a prosecutor to hire ‘experts’ to try to exonerate the targets of a grand jury investigation. These are the sort of ‘experts’ we would expect the officer’s criminal defense attorney to hire — not the prosecution.”
Aviva Shen at Think Progress detailed the timeline of the investigation in October, echoing the belief, held by many supporters of the Rice family, that McGinty intentionally “prolonged the investigation and hindered the case.” According to Shen, Tamir’s case sits in stark contrast to similar ones:
“Tamir Rice’s family has waited for a decision to move forward with the case for almost a full year, while other high profile police shootings around the country have reached decisions over indictments in a matter of days or weeks. McGinty has not yet presented the sheriff’s investigation to the grand jury, which has been in his hands since June. With the release of the most recent report, McGinty has suggested it could take well over a year to decide to indict the officers, let alone to begin to try the case.
“With each delay in the process, the chances for indictment and successful prosecution of the officers grow slimmer. Witnesses move away, memories fade, and evidence tends to disappear.”
Monday, when the decision was finally announced, Vox’s German Lopez filled in some more context. His piece detailed the factors that led to the shooting of Tamir Rice, from the police’s misperception of his size and age to the failure of the dispatcher to mention that his gun was probably a toy and to systemic problems with training in the Cleveland police department. Race, says Lopez, is also an important component:
“Black teens were 21 times as likely as white teens to be shot and killed by police between 2010 and 2012, according to a ProPublica analysis of the FBI data. ProPublica’s Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones, and Eric Sagara reported: ‘One way of appreciating that stark disparity, ProPublica’s analysis shows, is to calculate how many more whites over those three years would have had to have been killed for them to have been at equal risk. The number is jarring — 185, more than one per week.’
“The disparities appear to be even starker for unarmed suspects, according to an analysis of 2015 police killings by the Guardian. Racial minorities made up about 37.4 percent of the general population and 46.6 percent of armed and unarmed victims, but they made up 62.7 percent of unarmed people killed by police.”
According to CNN, prosecutor McGinty expressed remorse over Tamir’s death, calling it an “absolute tragedy,” but was adamant about the legality of everything that had taken place:
“The state must be able to show that the officers acted outside the constitutional boundaries set forth by the Supreme Court of these United States.
“Simply put: Given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and communications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police.”
But Radley Balko of the Washington Post said back in March that talking about legality can take us only so far. While what Loehmann did may have been legal in the strictest sense of the word, Balko writes,
“We shouldn’t be asking if the police actions were legal or within department policy; we should be asking if they were necessary. Or if you’d like to use a word with a bit more urgency behind it, we should ask if they’re acceptable.
“Asking if a police shooting was legal tells us nothing about whether or not we should change the law. Asking whether or not it was within a police agency’s policies and procedures tells us nothing about the wisdom of those policies and procedures. Of course, both of those questions are important if your primary interest is in punishing police officers for these incidents. But while it can certainly be frustrating to see cops get a pass over and over again, even in incidents that seem particularly egregious, focusing on the individual officers involved hasn’t (and won’t) stopped people from getting killed.”
The U.S. Department of Justice says it will continue a separate investigation of Tamir’s death:
“The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the United States Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been monitoring the investigation that has been conducted regarding the death of Tamir Rice on Nov. 22, 2014. We will continue our independent review of this matter, assess all available materials and determine what actions are appropriate, given the strict burdens and requirements imposed by applicable federal civil rights laws.
Additionally, the Department of Justice continues in its efforts to pursue ongoing and comprehensive reform pursuant to the consent decree in the federal, civil pattern and practice case filed before Chief Judge Solomon Oliver in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.”
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Business Creativity & Innovation
Business Creativity
Power and Politics
The role of Power and Politics in Innovation
The dynamics of modern business environment demand that we create and innovate faster and better than our competitors. Companies, and sometimes whole industries can be destroyed in record time due to their inability to innovate. Innovate or die!
Much has been researched, discovered and learned about how organisations can improve their ability to innovate. Many books have been written and whole new organisations have been created which now compete with each other to take their ideas about creative processes into other organisations. Which is very good news.
But what happens when the politics of self-interest come up against the creative process? What happens when ideas threaten egos? Much has been written about the obstacles to innovation. One blockage that gains little attention is the extent to which an organisation’s own internal politics can conspire against it and sabotage the creative process. Power, politics and innovation are uneasy bedfellows.
Anyone for Politics?
“Why is it that having great ideas isn’t the hard part of innovation? It’s the “making them happen” that hurts.”
(From: ?What If! by Dave Allan and others)
The team at Politics at Work Ltd are original thinkers, writers and trainers in this challenging area. Their catalogue ofDirty Tricks at Work has identified over 50 political games, which inhibit organisational, team and individual performance, and many of these are worth learning and exploring in the creative context as they can directly undermine our attempts to be innovative.
If we are determined to nurture the creative spirit in our people and provide an organisational climate and environment where innovation and ideas flourish, then we must tackle these political games and negative thinking patterns directly.
Games of Resistance
So what does resistance to creativity and innovation look like and sound like? How will we know it when we experience it? The truth is that resistance in organisations takes many forms but much of it is quite subtle, it is indirect, and sadly much can even be deliberately covert or Machiavellian.
If we explore the myriad of interactions between people in organisations we discover a world of indirect transactions. People are frequently diverted away from clear and direct communication in the mistaken belief that others can’t or won’t be able to handle the truth. Also, many of us have concerns that voicing our doubts about an idea will be seen as rocking the boat or not being a team player.
Others are concerned that challenging the bosses great new idea (which might well be fundamentally flawed) might be a career decision. Because of this – mostly faulty – assumption, people interact obliquely, politically and indirectly.
There are many repetitive sequences of unhelpful interactions which take place and which we have defined as political games. What follows is a taster from the Politics at Work catalogue of Dirty Tricks at Work. More specifically these are some of the ways in which politics and innovation come into conflict with one another.
If we can learn how to recognise these inhibiting games, tactics and manoeuvres we have taken a big first step to increasing innovation. Further, if we are able to help people learn to counter them effectively, such a discovery would serve to protect the new, fresh, green shoots of ideas. These gems need to be nurtured through the first difficult stages of life if they are to make an impact to the competitive position of the business. These discoveries will start to transform the creative culture of the organisation.
Interesting Idea John…
As the great American business writer Peter Block observed, in its milder forms, resistance can be as simple as declaring that “I thought the ideas in your presentation were really interesting”. “Interesting” is the key word here, because it is the word people frequently use when they want to appear supportive and positive about an idea when really they are indirectly resisting. We say “interesting” when asked for feedback and we do not want to reveal our concerns and doubts. “Interesting” can even be code for “your work sucks and will spoil all my plans”.
Time Bandit
This is the tactic of resisting an idea or suggestion by pretending that the timing just isn’t right (and at the same time implying that at some future, unspecified date the timing will be more apposite) “Ben, the only thing wrong with your idea is the timing, come back in the spring and we’ll look at it again” Which is usually indirect code for “no way is this idea going any further!” Of course there are times when an idea is a really good one, but the timing really is inappropriate and that to move it forward now would be a mistake. Under these circumstances this is not a game but a genuine interaction. However our research shows that playing Time Bandit is a highly popular tactic for resisting or sabotaging ideas that someone, usually out of political self-interest, does not want to see progressed.
The Creative Cuckoo
When Politics at Work first began research into organisational games, one of the first to be clarified was the Creative Cuckoo. Many of us will have had the misfortune to observe this game first hand. Many more will also have been taken in and exploited by this manoeuvre. We have defined the Creative Cuckoo as “the tactic of stealing credit for the efforts or ideas of another”. The upside to this game is that at least the idea does get progressed. The huge downside is the betrayal of trust and damage to integrity, credibility, team working and morale that result. If our organisation has creative cuckoos nesting within it then creativity quickly becomes an endangered and protected species. It is easy to see why people decide to protect their best ideas and compete to ensure that they get the credit for them. Sadly this is time and energy that could and should be directed back into the creative process, not into protectionism.
This is the tactic of duplicitously resisting a valid suggestion or idea by demanding more research or data, in the hope that the other party will eventually be either distracted or exhausted and either drop the idea, or forget it.
“Come back with a detailed proposal, with a clearly differentiated cost benefit matrix and we’ll look at it again.” And when they come back, more research is still required, and again, and again…
Of course it is appropriate that before new ideas are acted upon, that they should be researched and tested. It is prudent and appropriate for managers to place boundaries and reigns around the first flush of exhilaration that sweeps a new idea into awareness. Sadly though, this is also a convincing and apparently professional stance, which can often mask an inauthentic position and resistance.
We were recently told the story of someone who once had a manager who so disliked their ideas that he would nit pick and find fault with everything they put forward. This resistance strategy hit new levels of absurdity one day when he had the temerity to ask if “the inverted commas are in the right font” for a new process idea they had put forward. What lurked beneath his resistance was that he had a really clear vision of what he wanted and how he wanted to achieve it, and other people’s ideas frequently came into conflict with his. Unfortunately he chose to play a game of Nit Picker rather than communicate directly, fearing perhaps his people would not be able to handle his objections. Faced with this style of resistance perhaps unsurprisingly creativity was initially muffled and then disappeared. Other political strategies for undermining creativity include…
Super Parent
They have seen it all and done it all before, and their experience is so vast and impressive that if they say it is a poor idea and won’t work, we are facing an uphill struggle. Their arrogance and ego demands complete acceptance and our capitulation, or else!
Techno-Babble
The idea is challenged on the scientific level and the resistance takes the form of long winded, confusing, jargon filled explanations which are presented as just being “helpful”. Again rather like the Super Parent, they have seen it all before (and have a legion of facts to prove it) and see no new reason to go down a road which has already proved fruitless.
Naysayer
It can’t be done, it’s impossible, and it won’t work. The Naysayer denies that the idea is achievable and they are so convincing that they have even hypnotised themselves into believing it. In 1899 Charles Duell the Director of the US Patents office suggested that the government close the office because everything that could be invented had been invented. Margaret Thatcher believed that a female Prime Minister was unlikely and certainly “not in my lifetime” The Naysayer is naturally resistant to new ideas and possibilities and wants to recruit us to their cause.
This game starts when the most powerful person present has an idea – which everyone immediately knows is terrible – but no one says so, indeed some might even go out of their way to congratulate the boss on their brilliant insight. It is the modern organisational equivalent of the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes. The upshot of this is that other ideas resident in people’s minds are much less likely to then be articulated because to do so might be interpreted as a challenge to the “Emperor”.
Now what if…
By now you will have got the message about how these games undermine the creative spirit in the organisation and if you want to learn more then take a peek at www.politicsatwork.com . Imagine what we could achieve if we could change the culture and environment of the organisation to cut through these inappropriate behaviours into a more productive state.
These extracts are reproduced by kind permission of Politics At Work Ltd
© Copyright 2019 Creative Business Solutions
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A recent Consumer Reports survey reveals that many Americans seek out domestically manufactured items. They have plenty of options.
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The presidential campaign focused a white-hot spotlight on the loss of domestic manufacturing jobs, so it wasn't surprising that in a Consumer Reports survey just before Election Day, 40 percent of Americans said it was increasingly important to seek out gifts made in the U.S.
To assist those who want to "buy American," particularly during the holiday season, we sought out goods of various stripes that aren't just conceived, designed, or engineered here—buzzwords that suggest an American connection that often falls short of actual production—but also are actually built in domestic factories.
The list is longer than you might realize. Many big-name companies now offer at least a few products made under the Stars and Stripes. Wrangler and Levi's, for example, manufacture denim jeans for men and women, and PF Flyers has its "Made in USA" sneaker collection, with pairs starting at $150. The Wrangler jeans we found were priced at $120; Levi's were on sale for as little as $70.
But don't expect a company's entire line to be American-made. Today, many businesses are multinational corporations. Take New Balance, for instance. The athletic shoe and apparel maker produces more than 4 million pairs of sneakers per year at its U.S. plants, but some shoes are churned out at facilities in Europe and many more come from Asia, including China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Similarly, Lodge, the iconic cookware company, produces its foundry-seasoned cast iron and carbon steel items domestically, but its enameled cast iron goods are made in China.
How do you know where those sneakers and other goods from global companies come from? If a business makes products abroad or uses materials from other countries, it is required to disclose those details on labeling or packaging. The rules regarding "made in America" claims can be complicated. Check out this primer on those rules.
Go to Consumer Reports' 2016 Holiday Gift Guide for updates on deals, expert product reviews, insider tips on shopping, and much more. Be sure to check our Daily Gift Guide, and sign up to get an e-newsletter with top picks and the latest news from CR.
Searching for the Red, White, and Blue
In addition to label reading, you can also discover a product's heritage simply by asking customer service. We've found company representatives to be knowledgeable and up front. Other helpful sources are websites such as Made in America Movement, AmericansWorking.com, USA Love List, and MadeinUSAForever.com.
Here are brands that offer at least some products made in the U.S.A.:
Kitchen and housewares: All-Clad (bonded stainless-steel cookware), NordicWare, Viking Professional, and West Bend cookware; Lasko, known mostly for its fans; Kirby and Oreck vacuum cleaners; Bunn coffee makers (like the Speed Brew Outdoorsman); Pyrex glassware; Lenox bone china and Homer Laughlin dinnerware; Tervis Tumblers (insulated acrylic cups and ice buckets); Cutco, Lamson & Goodnow, and Rada cutlery; KitchenAid stand mixers; Blendtec and Vitamix blenders.
Apparel, footwear, and accessories: American Apparel (though at press time, the financially strapped company was considering eliminating 3,500 jobs at its Southern California base), Brooks Brothers, Club Monaco, Filson, J.Crew, L.L.Bean (notably the company's Maine Duck Boots), Orvis, Texas Jeans, Woolrich (mostly blankets, throws, and socks); Fox River, Smartwool, Thorlos, and Wigwam socks; Allen Edmonds, Danner, Kepner Scott, G.H. Bass, New Balance, Red Wing, SAS, and Wolverine footwear; Kangol and Stetson hats; Copper River bags and backpacks, Domke camera bags.
Tools and home care: Ariens, Stihl, and Troy-Bilt power equipment, including string trimmers, blowers, and chain saws; Channellock, Moody, and SK, and Stanley hand tools; DeWalt power tools; Maglite, Monster, SureFire, and Tektite flashlights; Shop Vac wet-and-dry vacuum cleaners.
Toys and sporting goods: Aerobie flying rings and discs; Wiffle balls; Vermont Teddy Bears; Gravity skateboards; Little Tykes; Lionel trains (made in U.S.A. boxcars); Crayola crayons; Wilson (NFL footballs); Louisville Slugger pro wooden baseball bats; K’Nex, Lincoln Logs, and Tinkertoy building sets; Titleist golf balls; Aspen and Nautilus fly-fishing reels.
Audio gear and instruments: Grado Labs (headphones); Klipsch (including Heritage Series), Danley, and Genesis Advanced Technologies loudspeakers; Gibson, Martin, Taylor, and Rickenbacker guitars; McIntosh Labs audio equipment.
Would you pay more for American-made products?
Tell us why in the comments section below.
All-American Classics
If you're looking for a true American toy, how about springing for a Slinky? Most Slinkies continue to be made in the U.S.A., at a plant in Hollidaysburg, Pa., using the same machinery that has churned them out since the 1960s. While there are some 20 metal and plastic variations—from dog-shaped to gold-plated—to purists, nothing quite beats the unadorned steel original, which still makes that unmistakable metallic clang. Who imagined a spring could be so much fun? The toy was invented in the 1940s when Richard James was conducting experiments using springs and one fell to the floor and began to walk.
Lincoln Logs are another American favorite for generations. Part of the K'Nex family, the classic wooden construction toys were invented in 1916 by John Lloyd Wright, son of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The toys have remained popular because they help children develop fine motor skills and sharpen their problem-solving skills.
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'She wanted to do it, now she's done it': TOWIE's Tommy Mallet CONFIRMS girlfriend Georgia Kousoulou's nose job... as he furiously jumps to her defence after she is criticised over her decision to have cosmetic surgery
By Katie Storey For Mailonline
Published: 05:33 EST, 25 November 2017 | Updated: 13:10 EST, 25 November 2017
They had celebrated their three year anniversary in September, becoming one of TOWIE's most long-standing couples on the show.
And proving their relationship is more solid than ever, Tommy Mallet was seen jumping to the defence of his girlfriend Georgia Kousoulou, after she came under fire on Instagram for indulging in cosmetic surgery following her latest upload.
While she is yet to confirm whether she has had a nose job, her beau Tommy appeared to reveal Georgia has undergone the procedure, as he hit back at those criticising her nose, saying: 'It's her body, her life.'
'It's her body': Tommy Mallet was seen jumping to the defence of his girlfriend Georgia Kousoulou (above), after she came under fire on Instagram for indulging in cosmetic surgery
In the photo, Georgia is seen posing in a navy shirt dress and thigh-high suede boots, while wearing her long blonde tresses down in perfectly styled curls that fell past her shoulders.
She had made no reference to her recent surgery, simply captioning her snap by telling fans she'd had so much 'fun' teaming up with fashion brand Silk Fred.
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However, her glamorous appearance was overlooked by users of the photo-sharing site, with many commenting on Georgia's nose instead and speculating whether she had gone under the knife.
She was criticised by some for opting for the surgery, as they penned: 'Old nose looked alot better; I be brutally honest with you didn't need a nose job; U look like a difrent person; It's so sad that you felt the need to have a nose job, and now you can't go back. I really feel sorry all these girls in the public eye who have all this surgery and ruin their looks.' (sic)
Going strong: The reality star appeared to confirm his girlfriend's nose job on Instagram as he targeted those criticising her for favouring the procedure
'You can't go back': Instagram users had hit out at Georgia for 'ruining her looks'
'Old nose looked a lot better': She was forced to deal with a slew of criticism, as others agreed she looked like a 'different person' post-surgery
Others added: 'Please don't tell me you've had your nose done; Nooooo!! Ur nose was perfect before, u look so different; def her nose she's had done? She was pretty though man I don't get these girls; her nose lol; Oh my god ! You actually don't look like yourself anymore.' (sic)
Sources claimed Georgia was really 'upset' by the criticism and was 'struggling' to rise above the trolls' comments.
'She feels like she has been forced to reveal her new nose before it has 100 per cent healed because she is filming and has to work,' a source told The Sun.
'It is still very bruised and will take another few weeks till you see the final results.
'People comments are so hurtful she is struggling with the criticism. It's upsetting for her.'
Got her back! The criticism didn't go unnoticed by Tommy who made sure to show his support for Georgia, while appearing to confirm that she has opted for the cosmetic procedure
The insider added that Georgia is 'not ready' to talk about the surgery but will give her reasons for getting the procedure 'in time'.
The criticism didn't go unnoticed by Tommy who made sure to show his support for Georgia, while appearing to confirm that she has opted for the cosmetic procedure.
He hit back in response and blamed the harsh criticisms for sparking Georgia's decision to have the surgery in the first place.
The Essex star posted a lengthy message that read: 'Comments like that are the reason people in Georgias positions change themselves.. Every time she had a argument on the show she had people pointing out insecurities that she already had so she changed it.
'She can do what she wants': Tommy who made sure to show his support for Georgia, while appearing to confirm that she has opted for the cosmetic procedure
Supportive beau: When another questioned Georgia's responsibility as a role model, Tommy fired back: 'She still is a advocate to young girls and older girls... it's 2017'
'That is your opinion, you should just keep it to yourself if you feel like it's going to bother someone... It's her body, her life, her Instagram she can do what she wants... If it makes her happy.'
When another questioned Georgia's responsibility as a role model, Tommy fired back: 'She still is a advocate to young girls and older girls... it's 2017 and if you feel strong about something and feel like you need a change then do it.'
He then appeared to confirm Georgia's decision, as he added: 'Get with it people she wanted to do it now she done it... she is a normal young woman with feelings just because she's in the public eye I feel like people forget this.'
Tommy's comments led to a bevy of fans joining him and showing Georgia their support, insisting she had the right to change her looks if she wanted to.
'So beautiful': Tommy's comments led to a bevy of fans joining him and showing Georgia their support, insisting she had the right to change her looks if she wanted to
Keeping coy: Despite her beau's admission, Georgia is yet to address her cosmetic work on social media
Georgia, meanwhile, is yet to address her cosmetic work, but did allude to the backlash that came her way by re-tweeting a message posted by I'm A Celebrity: Extra Camp presenter Scarlett Moffatt.
Scarlett had criticised those targeting woman for how they look, as she said: 'Who are these people who think it's ok to call women for the way they look... too skinny, too fat, too old, not enough make up etc. What example are we teaching to the younger generation. It really upsets me that we live in a world where it's the norm.'
Georgia isn't the only TOWIE star to go under the knife recently, as she follows in the footsteps of Bobby Norris and James Lock's girlfriend Yazmin Oukhellou.
Hitting back? She did allude to the backlash that came her way by re-tweeting a message posted by I'm A Celebrity: Extra Camp presenter Scarlett Moffatt
Following suit: Georgia isn't the only TOWIE star to go under the knife recently, as she follows in the footsteps of Bobby Norris and James Lock's girlfriend Yazmin Oukhellou
Both reality stars had unveiled their before and after results on social media and while they stressed they are not advocating surgery, they insisted it had been a 'well-thought out' decision they chose to go ahead with to target their insecurities.
Bobby told fans: 'So happy with the results from my septorhinoplasty... as somebody who has struggled to breath through one side of my nose for so many years, the difference is already unbelievable even though I'm still a bit swollen and bruised.'
Yazmin, meanwhile, stated: 'I had a previous broken nose and deviated septum so surgery was the only option for me. I am so glad I did it as I was nervous at first but so happy that I can now breathe properly and that the small bump has gone.
Explaining her decision: Yazmin had stressed that she was not advocating surgery and insisted it had been a 'well-thought out' decision she chose to go ahead with to target her insecurities
'As I have stated before in previous posts I am NOT telling people to run out and have cosmetic surgery due to vanity. I am saying that if you want to get surgery, have been thinking about it for a long time and like me I had no other option then people should feel comfortable to and feel they won't be judged.
'This is the reason I have decided to be so open about it and not lie like others have as it's my body and my choice and people need to stop judging others choices, shaming body's and appearances and just get on doing you.'
Others that have opted for similar procedures include Ferne McCann, Mario Falcone, Chloe Ferry and Charlotte Crosby.
Opting for change: Others that have opted for a similar procedure to Georgia (above) include Ferne McCann, Mario Falcone, Chloe Ferry and Charlotte Crosby
Towie’s Georgia Kousoulou ‘upset and hurt’ after cruel trolls mock her ‘swollen and bruised’ nose following surgery
Tommy Mallet confirms Georgia Kousoulou's nose job
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Fake whisky ‘infiltrating’ rare Scotch market – study
Chris Mercer December 20, 2018
Some of the whiskies found to be fake during SUERC radiocarbon testing. Credit: SUERC / Rare Whisky 101
Tests on 55 ‘rare’ Scotch whiskies have revealed more than a third to be fakes, prompting concern about the scale of counterfeiting in the secondary market.
Twenty-one ‘rare’ Scotch whiskies out of 55 tested over a period of more than nine months were either ‘outright fakes’ or not distilled in the year declared on the label, according to analysis by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC).
If genuine, the 21 whiskies would have a combined value of £635,000, said Rare Whisky 101, a valuation and consultancy service that acquired the bottles via the secondary market and commissioned the lab tests – which used radiocarbon dating.
Whiskies have risen to prominence in auctions and on the secondary market in general in recent years, but this has heightened concerns about counterfeiting. It’s an issue that will resonate with many fine wine collectors.
‘Fake whisky [is] now infiltrating every major route to market for rare whisky,’ said Rare Whisky 101, adding that the tests suggest there could be as much as £41 million-worth of rare whisky on the secondary market and in private collections that is counterfeit.
There appeared to be a particular problem with whiskies claiming to pre-date 1900, after tests by SUERC showed all of these samples to be fakes. These included an Ardbeg 1885, acquired by Rare Whisky 101 from an unnamed private owner.
‘We are clearly disappointed to discover that, without exception, every single “antique” pre-1900 distilled whisky RW101 have had analysed over the last two years has proven to be fake,’ said David Robertson, Rare Whisky 101 co-founder.
Assume the worst
‘It is our genuine belief that every purported pre-1900 – and in many cases much later – bottle should be assumed fake until proven genuine, certainly if the bottle claims to be a single malt Scotch whisky,’ said Robertson.
Fellow co-founder Andy Simpson added that it was inevitable that ‘rogue elements’ would try to capitalise on the market’s growth and that all buyers should request proof of authenticity.
He said, ‘While we know that the vast majority of rare whisky vendors aren’t knowingly selling fake whisky to unsuspecting buyers, we would implore auction houses, retailers, brand owners and buyers to refrain from selling or purchasing any pre-1900 distilled Scotch whisky unless it has a professional certificate of distillation year/vintage by a carbon dating laboratory.’
How the testing was done
Radiocarbon dating, also known as carbon-14 dating, is linked to analysis of radiocarbon levels within a particular product or organism.
SUERC described the process as an ‘evolving science’ but said that it could be used to decipher when a whisky was distilled.
The atmosphere produces radiocarbon continuously and small amounts are absorbed by living organisms, including barley that is used for whisky.
However, there have been man-made changes to radiocarbon levels in the atmosphere; notably a reduction following the advent of the industrial era but also a significant increase during the period of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s.
SUERC said that it could date a whisky within a range of two to three years for anything distilled after the 1950s, although there was a broader range for older whiskies.
Professor Gordon Cook, head of the SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, said that he considered this method the ‘gold standard’ for identifying the age of a whisky.
He added, ‘We have had significant help from the major distillers who provided whisky samples of known age that allowed us to start this work.’
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A little bit east of Pittsburgh
dan June 22, 2019 July 2, 2019
Another year and another road trip to witness and map a 17-year periodical cicada emergence. This year it was Brood VIII (8), a group of cicadas in an area wrapped around Pittsburg on the east, north, and west. Disappointingly, my trip only lasted 4 days, including driving to and from Pittsburgh, thanks to crappy weather (rain) and a blown turbo intercooler.
Driving through Pennsylvania is rarely exciting, though much of it is pleasant to look at — mostly long green mountains that hug the ground like exhausted dachshunds, and the occasional tunnel to break the monotony. Blue, Kittatinny, Tuscarora, Allegheny. Route 70 is nice — not amazing, not grim, just nice.
I chose to stay at the Springhill Suites in Latrobe Pennsylvania because it was near a golf course. Golfers wake early and make quite a racket — cloudy brains in the grasp of a hangover struggling to assemble themselves, knocking into every wall, tripping over every chair, slamming every door. I wanted to wake early each day, and a hotel full of golfers is as good as any alarm clock. The Suites were nice — Paul Mitchel soaps that smelled of orange & spice; a desk in the room; a refrigerator to hold Redbull and snack cakes; a window facing west towards and a small airport — nice sunsets. Free Chupa Chups in the lobby. The Wi-Fi wasn’t free but also wasn’t expensive. The free breakfast was bland, but you get what you pay for.
Most of my trip was spent driving from one park to another, with the guidance of the built-in navigation system that came with my 7-year-old car. The system is outdated and often takes me along some wild paths — plenty of as the Germans say “hoffnungsvollunddocherschaudernd” — hopeful yet cringing — like mud & gravel one-lane roads with no exit for 2 miles. Two white knuckle miles of potholes and ruts and the constant fear that a Silverado 6500HD is heading around the bend at 70 miles per hour. Still plenty of fun. It’s usually on roads like this were you find beautiful bubbling road-side brooks or a Grand National with 36″ tires parked next to a slowly oxidizing tractor. Life becomes interesting when your GPS forces you outside your comfort zone.
My favorite named location was the Hoodlebug Trail in Black Lick, PA (a “lick” is a natural salt or mineral deposit).
I use my entomological road trips as an excuse to partake in a few of my favorite things: gas station convenience store junk food fireworks stores, Little Debbie Snack Cakes, and weird, or not so weird, roadside attractions.
I’ve decided that my current favorite convenience store is Sheetz. I also like United Dairy Farmers (know for their ice cream). Circle K, Wawa, Quick Check, and 7-11 are fine as well — they all have their quirks. Sheetz has the best-iced coffee flavored drinks — banana, coconut, chocolate. Good stuff.
Glitter Mountain fireworks store in Donegal, PA had an enchanting selection of novelty fireworks, like Frog Prince and Princess, a Black Cat Mobile (like a Bat Mobile), and meme-themed rocket batteries. I love fireworks packaging as much as fireworks — all the bright, contrasting colors, hissing cats, grinning frogs, menacing aliens, metallic jellyfish starbursts — all advertise amazing explosive experiences. I want them all.
The biggest Walmarts usually have the best selection of Little Debbie snack cakes. Ever since I heard the band Southern Culture on the Skids sing about them in their song Camel Walk, I’ve been into them. I have a painting of Little Debbie on my office wall. I don’t eat them every day — but when I’m on road trips I track them down. I love their flavor, sweetness, and their unique plastic-like frosting.
As for roadside attractions, I didn’t see many of those. I did blunder upon The Laurel Hill Iron Furnace in St. Clair Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. This was an iron furnace back in the 19th century — now it looks like an ancient temple found in the jungles of South America.
A shed being consumed by a forest…
And a car on a pole (Excel Auto Body in Export, PA on RT 66):
Here’s a map of the placed I visited:
Here’s a list of places I wanted to visit but did not because of time and the blown intercooler:
Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney
Johnstown Flood Museum in Johnstown
Quality Dry Cleaners in McKees Rocks
Trundle Manor in Pittsburgh
Fallingwater in Mill Run
Kecksburg Space Acorn in Mt. Pleasant
World’s Largest Teapot in Chester, WV
Bayernhof Museum in Pittsburgh
Mars Flying Saucer in Mars
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Three words that define the style and sound of Darius Syrossian, yet also represent the principles by which he has successfully made his name as a DJ, producer, label boss and radio host at a global level. He is one of the core artists of Steve Lawler's Viva family and has ticked off every major club and festival in an extensive touring schedule; his production skills have lead to acclaim with labels such as Get Physical, Area Remote, 8 Bit and ofcourse VIVa MUSiC, his own imprint Breakout Audio has presided over collaborations with talent such as Paul Woolford, Julian Chaptal and Pier Bucci; and the VIVa radio show that Darius hosts to thousands each week is now broadcast to over 30 countries.
But those three words have to be repeated. TRUE. HOUSE. MUSIC. As a person that has dedicated more than 15 years to legendary UK vinyl record shops Global Beat and Crash Records, Darius wears his passion for the music on every part of his existence, as only people who do it for the love of the music are able to. Having seen every fad and trend come and then quickly go in the electronic scene, yet never having wavered from his devotion to the groove, it's with plenty of conviction that Darius' huge musical knowledge and vast vinyl collection allows him a unique versatility. A DJ in the truest sense, no matter whether that be abyss-deep house or following Detroit techno or playing Detroit techno, the groove will always be there, unwavering as the emblem of his style.
If his ethos is noteworthy, Darius' achievements are just as distinguished. He has toured the world as a DJ, taking in all continents and including major dance gatherings like Sonar, Miami WMC and Kazantip Festival, Ukraine. A main member of Steve Lawler's VIVa Music family Darius can point to numerous releases, including the 2010 bomb 'Luis Conte', which was written with good friend Nyra, & most recently the massive track entitled ‘Stay up dancing, Get in Monday’ that has led Darius to sit at in Resident Advisor’s top 20 most charted artist for March/April 2011. Darius has subsequently expanded his production portfolio to include releases, remixes and collaborations through labels like 8Bit, Area Remote, Monique Musique, Natural Rhythm and WE DIG. Music. and in the summer of 2011 featured on three cd compilations, Heidi's huge Jackathon compilation on Get Physical, Nick Curly's 5 years of 8 Bit Comp and also on Cocoon heroes ibiza Compilation
Connecting all his talents, Darius is also the voice of the bi-weekly VIVa Music Radio show, which is downloaded by thousands of listeners and syndicated across over 30 countries to be broadcast on FM radio, with contributing guests to the show having included Stacey Pullen, Guti, Nic Fanciulli, Boris Werner, Kabale Und Liebe, Lauhaus, Soul Clap, Luna City Express Deetron, Martinez & more.
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DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Thanks, Obama
By Meg Downey Monday, April 2nd, 2018
The #DCTV Couch Club is a team of DC fans dedicated to exploring the universe of The CW’s Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, Black Lightning and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Look for new Couch Club posts here on DCComics.com after every new episode!
Alright, Legends fans, I know I say this a lot, but there was SO MUCH going on this week. I feel like it may have actually set some sort of Legends of Tomorrow record for the amount of plots intersecting all at once. From Obama to Lord of the Rings (?!) to Amaya in Zambezi to the Darhks to Ava and Rip. Phew!
And with only one more episode left in this season, I don't think things are in any danger of slowing down now. So, with that in mind, let's break this one down piece by piece, starting from the beginning.
If you're anything like me, you probably almost forgot that Grodd was a part of the Darhks' plan, which, if anything, is a pretty major testament to how bonkers this season has been. After all, it's kind of tricky to make a giant telepathic gorilla anything but the most memorable thing on the screen at any given moment. But regardless, Grodd is very much back in play this week. (The last time we saw him, if I'm remembering correctly, was when he killed the Time Bureau director, who I’ll bet is another guy you totally forgot about!)
Beyond being a megalomaniacal telepathic super genius, if there's one skill Grodd seems to have mastered, it's causing huge disruptions in the time stream. So, now we've got him not only trying to murder Barack Obama but also stepping in to be the pinch hitter for Zambezi's destruction…which are two things I can safely say I never thought I would be typing in the same sentence.
While the Obama thing did provide maybe the single most hilarious "run, Barry, run" moment in #DCTV history, I think it's more important to focus on Zambezi in this instance, so we'll circle back to Grodd himself in a second. First, we should acknowledge how he got there: Damien Darhk getting cold feet about the Legends and their plan to set Mallus free.
Okay, so, I know I've spent, like, a ton of time this season waffling about the Darhks and whether or not they should be allowed to be heroes, if only briefly, but this episode really sealed the deal. Damien Darhk sucks. I mean, not only was the whole thing his fault, but coming to the Legends for help, and then immediately sabotaging their plan because he decided he didn't want to go through with it at the 11th hour?
C'mon, man. I've been kind of rooting for this new, funny Damien since the start of this season, but I can now say that I am officially, extremely over it. I'm out of patience for Damien and his sort-of-second-chances. Don't get me wrong, I do feel pretty bad for Nora in all of this, but I really think I might be beyond caring about whether or not she gets redeemed, too. The Darhks have officially overstayed their welcome.
...Though I will say, however brief and ill-fated this partnership was, Damien helping to orchestrate the whole John Noble "pretending to be Mallus" scheme is certainly one of the most bizarre payoffs the show has ever accomplished. Niche Lord of the Rings gags may not always be expected, but they're always welcome.
On the flip side of things, we have Rip, who has been making himself scarce this season, finally confronting Ava about her whole situation…and what a situation it is. We learned tonight that Ava is, in fact, the 12th iteration of herself to serve the Bureau, which is a pretty nasty thing to learn. Rip's questionable morality isn't exactly news or anything, but this is dark even for him.
Thankfully, this Ava has Sara to help her through, even though they have definitely spent the last few episodes on less-than-great terms. It's my sincere hope that the two of them can make things work in the long term, especially into next season. I really want Ava to stick around on the Waverider, if for no other reason than to really stick it to Rip and his extremely uncool, manipulative scheming.
Meanwhile, back in Zambezi, and back to Grodd, things for Amaya and Nate are...well… Let's just say they could be going better. The village may have been saved temporarily, but Grodd saw to making sure that it didn't stick, which means Mallus is officially, terrifyingly, out of his cage.
I don't know exactly what I was expecting for Mallus's true form, but I don't think "actual, literal, winged demon" was on the list. But here we are. Nora is gone, at least for now, and Mallus—despite everything, despite Damien trying to back out of the plan, despite all the complications with Amaya trying to change history—is finally free.
We've only got one episode left, so I want to hear your thoughts on how this is all going to shake out. Is Nora really dead? Am I the only one extremely sick of Damien's nonsense? Does Ava belong on the Waverider? Is the plan to use the totems against Mallus now that he's free actually going to work? And if it does, what will the consequences actually be?
I’ll see all of you in a week when we’ll have our answers and I’m sure have plenty to say!
Meg Downey covers DC's Legends of Tomorrow as a part of the #DCTV Couch Club. Look for Meg on Twitter at @rustypolished. DC's Legends of Tomorrow airs Mondays at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. CST) on The CW.
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DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Sums and Parts
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Ghost Ship
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Walking in Memphis
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Call it, Friendo
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: It's an Adequate Life, Zari Tomaz
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: How to Win Friends and Exorcise Demons
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: A Spoonful of Sugar
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Sweet and Bitter End
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Fortunate Son
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Finally Freaky Friday
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Who is the Mack Anyway?
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Nothing Says "Halloween" Like the '80s
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Trouble with Totems
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Lions and Tigers and Anachronisms
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Being the Chainsaw
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Book Review: The Meaning of Masonry, Part 1
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By R.W. Bro. Alan Gordon
(Senior Grand Deacon, Past Master - Temple-Noyes-Cathedral Lodge No. 32)
Some months ago, my daughter, Adrienne, found a book in a yard sale near her home in El Cirrito, CA which she bought and sent to me. The book, The Meaning of Masonry, is by W.L Wilmhurst, PM 275; Past Provincial Grand Resgistrar (West Yorks), UGLE.
I have to confess that, as I am not as well-versed in the esoteric aspects of Masonry as I maybe should be, it was difficult to get started reading this book. However, on a recent vacation, I found more time to delve into it. So far, I have only completed reading the first two chapters (or, as he calls them, lectures) of the book. So this article will not expound on the book as a whole, but rather on the portions of which I have completed in my study, so far.
Throughout the reading, WB Wilmhurst draws parallels between Masonic teaching and that of religious teaching, particularly Christianity, referring multiple times to the Holy Trinity in his description of the use of various aspects of Masonry, i.e. three lesser lights, three pillar officers, and the three great Master-builders of the Temple. Having said that, the author states in part that Masonry is “…not in itself a religion; but rather a dramatized and intensified form of religious process inculcated by every religious system in the world.”
Today, we espouse the teachings of all religions and have the books of faith for most major religions on the altars of our lodges. The parallels WB Wilmhurst draws solely to Christianity are not without merit, and should be considered for the non-Christian faiths, as well. Therefore, it is left to the reader to open his mind to the possibilities, and be able to address the concepts promoted as they apply to the specific reader’s faith and beliefs.
WB Wilmhurst promotes several ideas that, while not totally foreign to our understanding of Masonry, will make the reader think about the rituals and Degrees in a different light. In the forward to the book, WB Wilmhurst promotes the concept that “Freemasonry is not the repetition of the ritual or the safeguarding of secrets, but the regeneration of the Brethren.” He states in part that Masonry is essentially a “philosophical and religious system expressed in dramatic ceremonial. It is a system intended to supply answers to the three great questions that press so inexorably upon the attention of every thoughtful man and that are the subject around which all religions and philosophies move. What am I? Whence come I? Whither go I?”
He goes on to explain that the act of initiation, passing, and raising should be seen as parallel to one’s stages of life. Life, in turn, is seen as a pursuit of the answer to those questions. The reason a candidate joins Masonry should be a desire for knowledge, a desire for that Light that may not be found elsewhere. Anything less is seen as a less than worthy reason for applying for membership. It is also seen as the reason we do not solicit men to join our Craft. The reasons should come from within the candidate in as an expressed desire to seek improvement in himself internally. And in that regard, the candidate first prepares himself to become a Mason in his heart.
Masonry is also seen as a pursuit to reach the perfection which was lost at the time of the exile from the Garden of Eden. Man in his natural state is inherently imperfect. As he becomes conscious of that state of imperfection, he develops a desire to seek a remedy. Over time, a great many schools of that secret knowledge, which have purported to guide the candidate to that remedy, have risen and fallen. They have in their time taught both the internal and the external doctrines that we as Masons seek. The doctrines they taught remain with us even as these schools no longer exist. Today, speculative Masonry is in part based on these teachings.
In Masonic lore, we address the building of a Temple in Jerusalem. It is the Temple within us that is being constructed with the living stones being, in effect, the souls of men. The conspirators of the Master Mason’s Degree are analogous to the disobedience of Adam and Eve in eating the apple; seeking knowledge for which they were not prepared or had not earned. The tragedy is then seen as “a cosmic breakdown and universal loss; an allegory of the breakdown of a divine scheme” and “a moral disaster to universal humanity”. What we have lost is not designs upon a trestle board nor even a secret word, but a path to that Supreme Wisdom that will enable us to complete that temple of human nature leading us closer to the perfection of man.
Despite these losses, there remains a Light in the East. We therefore travel from West to East in search of that Light which provides a mere glimmer of the true secrets we hope to find through our studies in Masonry. Those secrets would otherwise allow us to seek a state of perfection or regeneration as the author refers to in the forward to his book.
The above is but a brief interpretation of the first two lectures contained in WB Wilmhurst’s book. Those two lectures were entitled “The Deeper Symbolism of Masonry” and "Masonry as a Philosophy.” I personally found the content to be at times enlightening, and at other times intriguing. Sharing this work may promote wider discussion and exploration into our Craft. While I don’t know that everyone will agree with WB Wilmhurst, the discussion and exploration that is encouraged should enable us all to attain some higher level of understanding which, in closing, is the true focus of Masonry.
As I complete the other lectures in the book, I'll return to offer my thoughts on those, as well. But until then, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of The Meaning of Masonry.
The Belief in a Supreme Being
Wall decoration inside the Temple of Hatshepsut. Luxor, Egypt. Photo: Przemyslaw "Blueshade" Idzkiewicz. [October 2004.] Licensing: Released under cc-by-sa 2.5 license
by Q.B. Driskell, Asst. Grand Chaplain
I recall my very first visit to the lodge room of Naval Lodge, No. 4. I, like most, was astonished by the art I was surrounded with; the ancient Kemetic art, Coptic symbols, and hieroglyphics (the language of the Metu Neter) embroiled on the wall left me (and still leaves me) contemplating questions about the nature and the origin of Deity. It also inspired me to ponder the central importance that Deity plays in our fraternity and in the lives of its members.
There is but one key universal prerequisite in order to be initiated into the mysteries and privileges of Freemasonry in the world – belief in a Supreme Being. This is as old and as ancient as the ages; and as all such ancient traditions should, they invite us to consider deep fundamental questions: What is the origin of this prerequisite? If the prerequisite is a Supreme Being, then why the letter “G” in the East?
Let’s begin in Cush (Abyssinia or present-day Ethiopia), where civilization (and arguably Freemasonry) originated and where perhaps some of the wisest Nubians labored. They conducted their enlightenment in compliment with how the Nile River flows from south to north through, which birthed ancient Kemet (Egypt). There are no better architects and engineers than those ancient African Nubians who constructed and built the huge pyramids, mysterious monuments that sit on 13 acres of land and in the center of the earth.
Knowledge represents an acquired amount of learning, both formally and informally, which unlike the ancient Kemites and Nubians had the profound ability to fully exercise their supreme, creative power that exist in the pineal gland, further evidence of our own great mystery relative to human physiology. However the use of their pineal gland, located in the brain gave these ancient Africans the ability to activate and use 100% of their mental capacity, to which the brain still remains a mystery to western thought.
How these Kemites possessed the human mental capacity to construct the architectural phenomenon of the pyramids and other wonders of ancient civilization still remains unprecedented and hasn't been duplicated since - this alone transitioned the ancient Kemites into being Supreme Deities on earth. Their imaginative power and dexterity to transcend western-world thought and evolve into complete harmony with the terrain and Cosmos (which we may view as Operative Masonry and Speculative Masonry), is a mastery of the above and below paradigm and can never be ignored.
Can we modern mortals achieve the same or similar status in our ontology?
Recently, I re-watched a CBS News clip of myself and brothers from The Colonial Lodge No. 1821 entitled, Inside the Secret World of Freemasons where we were interviewed by Mo Rocca. He mentioned how National Treasure, a film that introduces Freemasonry to a younger generation, inspired many younger masons to join our ancient order. However, Freemasonry in National Treasure is presented as exciting but innocuous, with the "secret knowledge" dealing with various clues that would lead to a hoary and immense treasure. That could not be further from the truth.
The G present in the American Masonic symbol of the square and compasses can not only be interpreted as a general term for “God” or “geometry,” but I would contend for “gnosis” —that is, knowledge, or more specifically, a secret knowledge towards a mystical enlightenment. In fact, Freemasons are initiated into this secret knowledge that could lead to the answers of the mystery of existence. And believing in Deity, independent of her name, means that you believe in the need for metaphysics, or something beyond the material world in order to begin the process of unpacking and “knowing” these mysteries. Its symbolism and esoteric knowledge draws us in, transforming our worldview in the hope of becoming - the thing itself.
Freemasonry has always had the ability to impact individuals and society thusly, but it also has the power to transform society into its own image and likeness; our own country is such an example. However, Freemasonry isn’t a religion (this we obviously know), but it is a builder of faith, because at the very least, like the ancient Africans, it embodies a willing and conscious desire to embrace the mysteries of our own divine existence to which we hopefully discover our true self and the glorious power within.
Additionally, Freemasonry is a journey of self-discovery – though it is only one path designed to point us to universal truths. And the universality of such truths ensures us that the light, the gnosis, is the same, regardless of our socially constructed differences.
On this path, another prominent symbol is vital – the compass. The compass is a mathematical tool that guides and gives direction, and parenthetically, let me state that as an evangelical, born-again, theologically and religiously universally ecumenical liberal progressive humanist Christian minister, I would argue that humanity has lost its way and is in dire need of a moral compass; thus, a Freemason, or colloquially put, “a traveling man” cannot, and should not go too far without this particular working tool. As they are designed to move us from the North East corner, a place symbolizing physical and spiritual death, to the East where life and enlightenment originates.
Let us aspire to that place in our enlightenment journey where we can discover that secret treasure within, in hopes of acknowledging we are indeed the Supreme Being we’ve been praying too.
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Prescott Airport deals with summer heat, high elevation
Director: Runway extension is the ultimate fix
Airport director says that a runway extension will fix multiple issues the airport is facing. (City of Prescott/Courtesy)
By Cindy Barks | Cindy_Barks
Originally Published: July 11, 2019 8:44 p.m.
It’s hot and it’s high: For many Prescott residents, those conditions make for a pleasant high-desert summer.
But it turns out that the combination of Prescott’s high elevation and relatively warm summer temperatures present some challenges for the Prescott Regional Airport (PRC).
To adapt to the summertime heat, the airport’s commercial airline carrier, United Express (operated by SkyWest Airlines), has adjusted its schedule to fly in the cooler morning or evening hours (7:15 a.m. to Denver, and 8:05 p.m. to Los Angeles).
That move has not come without challenges of its own, however — especially in combination with Denver’s severe summer storms in June.
The difficulties have been felt by passengers in recent weeks, as a number of flights were delayed, mostly for weather-related reasons.
HOT AND HIGH AIRPORT
Airport Director Robin Sobotta says a variety of factors — including elevation, temperatures and humidity — all contribute to the “density altitude” at the local airport.
In aviation terms, Prescott’s weather and altitude put PRC in the category of “hot and high” airports.
As the temperatures and altitude increase, air density decreases, according to the AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) website. That, in turn, can cause reduced lift as the aircraft climbs.
Prescott, known as a mile-high city, has an elevation in the 5,200- to 5,300-feet range. At the airport, the elevation is 5,045 feet, according to the AirNav.com website.
Coupled with the high elevation are average high temperatures in June, July and August in the 86- to 89-degree range.
Prescott isn’t alone in its “high and hot” category. Sobotta said Pueblo, Colorado — at an elevation of 4,692 feet, and an average high temperature of 91 degrees in July — faces similar challenges.
NEED FOR LONGER RUNWAY
While the short-term response for SkyWest has been to reschedule for the summer, Sobotta said the longer-term answer will be lengthening the airport’s runway.
That project is in the planning stages, but it is still four to five years away, Sobotta said.
In addition, she said, “It is not an inexpensive project.”
Lengthening the runway by 2,400 to 3,300 feet from its current 7,619-foot length could cost upwards of $40 million — 95% of which could be covered by a Federal Aviation Administration grant.
A longer runway would help commercial aircraft to deal with the summer heat.
“We wouldn’t have had to move to evening time slots (this summer) had we had the additional runway length,” Sobotta said.
Without the summer schedule change, the airline likely would have had to significantly reduce its passenger loads to accommodate the density altitude issue, Sobotta said.
“We really appreciated the thoughtful efforts of SkyWest to provide the maximum number of seats to PRC travelers, particularly in light of our remarkably high passenger loads,” she said.
CUSTOMER ISSUES
While accolades had been the norm for the airport since the start of the SkyWest/United Express flights in August 2018, weather-related delays have produced recent customer complaints.
Prescott Community Outreach Manager John Heiney said the city has received complaints from fewer than five customers about the on-time rate. In addition, he said, the airport has fielded a number of customer questions.
‘STRONG OVERALL PERFORMANCE’
Marissa Snow, spokesperson for SkyWest Airlines, said the airline “is definitely committed to being on time.”
And overall, she said, “SkyWest’s performance in Prescott has been strong; we have operated nearly 70% of our departures on time year-to-date 2019.”
Still, Snow acknowledged that Denver’s June weather has caused some issues. “This summer’s weather systems (in Denver) have affected Prescott’s service,” she said.
Snow pointed out that the Denver area recently experienced severe weather systems, which caused delays in evening flights to Prescott. That, in turn, caused a conflict with federal and airline requirements that the flight crew must have a 10-hour rest before flying again. In several instances, that led to delays in the next morning’s flights from Prescott to Denver.
Although the number of June flight delays was not available from SkyWest, Sobotta said she was shown statistics for the first six months of 2019 that indicated that June experienced three times more delays than January.
Snow said SkyWest’s operations team is looking into options to deal with the issue.
Among the possible changes is an adjustment in scheduling for the flight crew.
“The airline has assured me that implementing crew changes should improve reliability,” Sobotta said, noting that the changes are expected to start in August.
Another possibility is a switch to a larger aircraft — possibly an Embraer 170 or 175.
SkyWest Airlines/United Express, has been Prescott’s commercial airline carrier under the federal Essential Air Service (EAS) subsidy since late-August 2018.
Sobotta said the next round of EAS proposals will take place in February 2020. After the bidding process and a final decision by the U.S. Department of Transportation, a new contract will begin Sept. 1, 2020.
With the addition of the SkyWest/United Express daily flights to Denver and Los Angeles, the Prescott Regional Airport exceeded the 10,000-passenger (enplanement) mark in 2018 for the first time in years. Airport officials say 2019 is on track to exceed 25,000 boarding passengers.
City launches study for runway extension at Prescott Regional Airport
New nonstop Denver flight announced for Prescott Regional Airport
Main runway repair to get underway next week at airport
Prescott Airport reaches 10,000-passenger milestone on May 20
High winds cause United Express to reduce passenger load on Aug. 31 flight
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Transcript: Digital Production Buzz – April 9, 2015
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Larry Jordan: And welcome to The Digital Production Buzz, the world’s longest running podcast for creative content producers covering media production, post production, marketing and distribution around the world. Hi, my name is Larry Jordan and joining us is our co-host, Mr. Michael Horton.
Mike Horton: Michael Horton.
Larry Jordan: It’s amazing.
Mike Horton: H-O-R-T-O-N. Just sent in my new contract today. I re-signed for three years.
Larry Jordan: Is that what we were doing today?
Mike Horton: Yes, mmm.
Larry Jordan: And you said it was just an autograph that you needed.
Mike Horton: No, I re-signed for three years, Larry. You’ve got me for three more years.
Larry Jordan: Oh, that’s good news, by the way.
Mike Horton: You’re speechless, aren’t you? I don’t know what to say.
Larry Jordan: We’ve got an Australian theme to our show this week…
Mike Horton: It is, it’s all Aussies.
Larry Jordan: You can be quiet now.
Mike Horton: Ok.
Larry Jordan: Craig Ratcliffe of Craig Ratcliffe Photography is based in Brisbane, Australia. His work includes advertising, classic portraiture and lifestyles. Tonight, he shares his thoughts on current trends in photography; and then a gentleman who is well known to Mr. Horton, Dan Berube, along with mike Horton, is the co-founder of the world famous Supermeets. He’s also a film producer in his own right based in Boston. This evening, he takes us behind the scenes of the Supermeet, because Mike doesn’t talk about that show at all.
Mike Horton: Ever.
Larry Jordan: Colin Brown is a filmmaker. He’s also from Brisbane, Australia and talks about filmmaking for non-profits. He has a lot of experience in both filmmaking and non-profit charities and I’m very much interested in his thoughts.
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Larry Jordan: Next week is the annual NAB show and The Buzz is covering it in depth. More than 90 interviews spanning 12 hours of production starting Monday 13th April at 10.30. For all the details, visit nabshowbuzz.com. Mike, or should I say…
Mike Horton: How many people are you bringing?
Larry Jordan: 17.
Mike Horton: 17 people.
Larry Jordan: We’re taking 17 people. We’re setting up a broadcast radio station and a broadcast television station in a 20 by 20 foot booth.
Mike Horton: And you are live streaming, so…
Larry Jordan: Live streaming three shows a day.
Mike Horton: …while I’m in my hotel room tearing tickets for the Supermeet, I can watch this.
Larry Jordan: You can, on your cell phone and on nabshowbuzz.com, any mobile device, any computer, yes.
Mike Horton: That’s exciting.
Larry Jordan: It is. It’s a huge amount of work.
Mike Horton: And you don’t have Dan or I on the show.
Larry Jordan: We prefer to think of it as having industry leaders on the show.
Mike Horton: Why did I re-sign?
Larry Jordan: Are you going to be at NAB?
Mike Horton: Yes I will. I’m driving Saturday. You know what’s fun? I wish we had a rolling camera, because your offices are just jam filled with cables and…
Larry Jordan: There is so much gear.
Mike Horton: …boxes and giant televisions.
Larry Jordan: It’s impossible to tell you how many people worked on this.
Mike Horton: How do you put that together?
Larry Jordan: Debbie Price has produced it, Megan Paulos is responsible for putting all the gear together and they’re both…
Mike Horton: They’re worth their weight in gold.
Larry Jordan: …they are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, except Megan’s actually helping us with this show so she’s glued to her seat in the control room. But, oh, what an effort that is.
Mike Horton: Good luck, Larry.
Larry Jordan: We love it. It’s an incredible amount of work but it’s just so much fun. I want you to watch nabshowbuzz.com. You can also visit with us on Twitter, @DPBuZZ, and as always subscribe to our free newsletter at digitalproductionbuzz.com. Mike and I will be back with Craig Ratcliffe right after this.
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Larry Jordan: Craig Ratcliffe is a commercial and advertising photographer shooting subjects as diverse as food and jewelry to landscape and industrial locations. Based in Brisbane, Australia, he has more than 40 years’ experience in the competitive world of photography. He’s experienced, then, transition from film to digital during his career, as well as a vast sea change in how photographs are taken and consumed. Hello, Craig, good to have you with us.
Craig Ratcliffe: Hello Larry, lovely to be here.
Larry Jordan: It’s good to have you with us. We’ve got…
Craig Ratcliffe: We’ve got a bit of echo here.
Larry Jordan: Well, at this point you’re bouncing off the walls of our studio. Craig, what got you started in photography?
Craig Ratcliffe: My father was actually a very successful commercial and advertising photographer in Sydney, Australia and I grew up in and around photographic studios, the smell of photographic studios. I was even a child model on many occasions.
Larry Jordan: Well, fathers do that to their kids on a regular basis.
Craig Ratcliffe: They certainly did. Well, I had every intention of being a rock and roll star when I was 15, but my father had other ideas for me.
Larry Jordan: I think that your photography career got you to meet most of the rock and roll people in the world, it would seem to me.
Craig Ratcliffe: I’ve met a lot of people in my career, from Prime Ministers of Australia to the leading actors in Australia. Yes, I’ve certainly photographed quite a few musicians in my time as well.
Larry Jordan: You got started when you were 15, if I remember reading correctly on your blog. Before we talk about the process of photography, what I’m interested in is, as you think back to your mentoring you, what was one of the most important lessons you learned about the business of photography from him?
Craig Ratcliffe: Basically communication. It’s talking to your client. I’ve got to say myself now that the best photographs in the advertising industry are taken with your ears. You must listen to your client, you must see what they see and interpret what they see visually. That’s probably the most important thing I could advise anybody. I never consider myself exactly an artist. I’m an interpreter of other people’s visions.
Larry Jordan: Well, when it comes to interpretation, some of the images on your website are just stunning. Glorious is the only word that I can use to describe them, exposures that I would die to get on my gear. There’s just some amazing stuff. What was your specialty, shooting? You’ve covered so much stuff, what were you starting off shooting when you first began?
Craig Ratcliffe: Look, I learned at a very hard school of photography. It was probably eight years before I started shooting myself. In the first couple of shoots I did with my father as a very young man, as a 15 year old, I sat down in a chair during the shoot. I never sat down again. Never in my life did I sit down again, and I still don’t. It was, “Up, get out of that chair,” probably with words I can’t express here.
Craig Ratcliffe: But I don’t really sit down any more; there’s always something to do in a studio, there’s always more you can do to a photograph. In the end analysis when you’re taking a photography, you’ve got to find that point, particularly in still life with complex images like, say, jewelry, where you must be satisfied with what you’ve created. But then again, you can always go further. In this magic moment you go…
Larry Jordan: Well, the thing I like is that many of the images I’ve looked at look so natural and inartificial that it looks like there’s no special light, it looks like they’re just sitting there, whether it’s a lifestyle photograph of a model or food, which looks edible, or a car which doesn’t have any speculas gleaming off. It looks the way you would expect it to look, which has got to take forever to light.
Craig Ratcliffe: It does, but I’m getting much better at it, having moved into the digital era. I tend to move my subjects around into a position where they work in a lighting aspect. My main focus is to make things look natural so that the human eye interprets – well, there are instances, particularly in modern photo composites, where you might see a view out of a window which there’s far too much detail in.
Craig Ratcliffe: The human eye isn’t going to see that, it’s going to interpret that as looking like a mural if there’s too much detail and then too much detail in the room. It’s just that magic balance, I suppose, that has taken years to perfect, and I do it with my eyes.
Mike Horton: You talk about making your images look natural and when you talk about people looking natural, some of the images that you have on your website of corporate CEOs, office people, these are not necessarily professional models, these are amateurs. How do you get them to behave the way that you want them to behave so it’s natural?
Craig Ratcliffe: There are a number of ways I do that. One is that I totally expose myself, as in…
Mike Horton: That’s good. Nothing more need be said.
Craig Ratcliffe: I have no inhibitions when I speak to people. I tend to make myself, let’s say, the funny guy in the room, the stupidest guy in the room so that the person I’m photographing doesn’t feel inhibited because I’ve made a bit of a goose of myself and then they don’t feel that way, or I might just find out something they’re interested in and I’m not that well read but I know a lot of stuff about a lot of things from sport to politics, so I can actually discuss something with them and completely take them off guard usually. A lot of those shots will be done when people maybe are actually doing their own job.
Mike Horton: Do you actually spend a lot of time with them before you push the shutter button? Or sometimes do you not have the time and you just have to make them feel comfortable?
Craig Ratcliffe: Usually, there’s no time. I’ll walk into an office and I just get them, it’s almost like shock. But I might also get them from a distance, long lens. When they’re not aware of my presence, I might set up the shot, do the shot but then as I’m leaving get the shot, when they think it’s over.
Larry Jordan: We were just waiting for you to finish. That was a pregnant pause as we’re taking notes over here. I was reflecting, your career began in ’74 and in those days the way you would do retouching is you would actually be marking on the transparency itself. What’s it been like over the last 40 years, as we make the transition into digital? Do you miss the days of being able to physically touch film and retouch, the way you used to? Or is it an all Photoshop world and there’s no going back?
Craig Ratcliffe: Certainly there’s a lot I miss about conventional non-digital photography, and that’s probably the reward of picking up your photograph, the latent image. It’s that light. With digital, it’s almost instant gratification and that latent image that you know is sitting there in that roll of film and you don’t know it’s right until it comes out and you put that on a light box and it’s that feeling of, “Wow, it’s great.” That’s what I miss. There’s a display, “Oh, look, I’ve got it”, and I just miss that…
Mike Horton: Back in those old days, did you develop your own film or did you just send it out?
Craig Ratcliffe: Oh, the first darkroom I ever did black and white printing or processed any negatives in, I built myself.
Mike Horton: Ah, cool.
Craig Ratcliffe: Under my father’s instructions, so I had to be a carpenter first, and I’m not a great carpenter, but I managed to get everything level. He had me in the darkroom virtually… for about four years. This is something that doesn’t happen today because we don’t have light sensitive chemical materials and that learning of how to do things in the dark, using a scalpel in the dark – I used to have to do that when you’d cut sheets of film – I miss a lot of that.
Craig Ratcliffe: I miss the smell of the fixer. When you walk into a photographic studio, they always had that odor, that background odor of fixer.
Mike Horton: I actually did this in college as part of a way to pay my tuition. I was in a darkroom and I worked hours and hours and hours and, yes, the smell, I can still remember the smell, which has…
Craig Ratcliffe: Do you remember it?
Mike Horton: …which has affected my brain, which is why I can’t speak more than about 60 minutes before I start to slur.
Craig Ratcliffe: Don’t worry. When my father occasionally would underexpose a black and white image, he taught me how to produce – a lot of people don’t understand but you can actually intensify negatives and that’s the process of sepia toning, your potassium bromide and sodium sulfide, my fingernails were black.
Mike Horton: There’s your smell.
Craig Ratcliffe: That’s one hell of an odor, I can tell you.
Mike Horton: That’s why you and I would do really well in a bar.
Larry Jordan: Craig, do you find yourself planning shoots differently? Back when you were shooting film, even though you really had too many people and unlimited film budget, you still didn’t shoot anywhere near the number of images you shoot now digitally. Do you plan shoots differently now that they’re digital?
Craig Ratcliffe: I try to think of it that I’m still using film, but the habit with many photographers is that you do overshoot. Of course, there were budgets with the amount of film you could shoot. A 120 roll of film wasn’t all that cheap and especially… processing it. Although I did have an E6 processor towards the end and a photo composite service. We would sometimes do 18 element photo composites.
Craig Ratcliffe: I had an in-house re-toucher and a compositor. So when it came to the shift to digital and now these days when you can work in layers, I kind of understand it very well because you’re essentially doing the same thing. I myself don’t work in layers, I do use Photoshop as a darkroom.
Larry Jordan: I want to take you back to the days of film, because when I was reading this on your website, it was just too good not to talk about. How would you build a composite image when you were working with film? There’s no digital layers and Photoshop, you’re looking at different pieces of film. How would you build a composite?
Craig Ratcliffe: Very good planning. You required a very good rendering by the art director or designer, which they often didn’t understand that they had to do and you’d say, “Well, this has to fit here and this has to fit there.” They have to essentially give you a blueprint, if you like, that you can work around. You can’t just magically put everything together. You can get very good effects, it can work very well. You only have to go back 20, 25 years and it was all traditional photo composition, there was no Photoshop.
Larry Jordan: But how would you build a composite? What was the technical process?
Craig Ratcliffe: Oh, right. I didn’t do it myself, we had a compositor and a re-toucher. Basically, what you would do is create to scale duplicate Ektachromes, so… might say we’d do our composites at about a 1411 Ektachrome. You would create each Ektachrome with two sides and then the re-toucher would get some what was known as… film and he’d have to cut with a scalpel around each… so you create the mask.
Craig Ratcliffe: The… mask would be taken away and then in our case we’d get the compositor to then create a soft edged mask out of lithographic black and white film and you could grow or shrink the edge and soften or harden the edge purely by time, temperature… process. Then you took all those masks that were in black and white, put them under an enlarger and, with a pin registration board, that would be exposed under the timer, so you had a positive and a negative mask on each layer.
Mike Horton: This was back when? 1940 something?
Craig Ratcliffe: We were still doing this in 1990.
Mike Horton: And now you can do it digitally. We do the same thing but we only do it digitally.
Craig Ratcliffe: Well, exactly. You are doing exactly the same thing. There’s not much difference.
Mike Horton: Yes, except there’s no smell.
Craig Ratcliffe: Exactly right.
Larry Jordan: What cameras are you shooting with now?
Craig Ratcliffe: I use a Hasselblad.
Mike Horton: Oh my goodness.
Craig Ratcliffe: I generally don’t take that on location and she’s getting a bit old. They’re very expensive cameras. I’m sort of running on a DH2, which is the… which is adequate. I’ve usually… and I use that for my… and my food photography generally. I also use Nikon, they’re my field cameras. I miss the days of, and I really wish that someone would do something about this, I really miss my bellows. I miss my view cameras. I don’t think people realize exactly what you can do with objects, quite simply, if you know how to use a view camera.
Larry Jordan: Like the ground glass plate on a Hasselblad, you mean?
Craig Ratcliffe: No, I meant when you’re using a five by four camera or a ten by eight camera, where you can shift… tilt, swing and, with all those movements, it becomes unnecessary to… You can do it optically or… and since… basically went out of business, to my knowledge, there hasn’t been anyone producing a bellows view camera with a digital… I’ve attempted it. I tried to build one but…
Mike Horton: Keep practicing.
Craig Ratcliffe: I will, I will.
Larry Jordan: There are a lot of kids who are starting out in school who would love, at the end of 40 years, to look back on a career similar to yours and feel as good about it as you do. What advice do you have for them?
Craig Ratcliffe: It’s a tough world out there. Look, I was lucky, I had an amazing photographer father. It wasn’t ever easy, but these days, my goodness, there are so many photographers out there competing against most young photographers. My own son is now a videographer, it’s gone to a third generation, and I think I taught him pretty well. I’ve got the philosophy of it. It’s hard work. In my game, I have to forget everything for what I do. I miss parties, I miss holidays, work Christmas Day. You can’t say no.
Craig Ratcliffe: You have to be there… constantly and if you’ve got to understand that. Also, I don’t know whether you really necessarily have to take that many photographs. I think you look at the world as a photographer. I remember my dad used to say, “Give me a pair of…,” and he’d go out and look at things like… and shape and compose your images, visually remember that. Do those exercises, look at things…
Mike Horton: That’s a great tip.
Larry Jordan: I teach that to all of my college kids and they all get embarrassed, saying, “How can you do this? This just makes me feel weird,” and I say, “Yes, but now you’re a camera.” No, no, no, finger to thumb and thumb to finger. Just getting their fingers in the right spot is a challenge.
Craig Ratcliffe: What format? Are you using Cinemascope? Yes, Larry, that’s very good of you, that you do that, because we can go and create thousands and thousands of images but with often not getting a look at but you know what? If you do this in how to look at the world, that’s just necessary.
Larry Jordan: Craig, where can people go on the web to study your work and learn more about you, and hire you, for that matter?
Mike Horton: And hire you, yes.
Craig Ratcliffe: And hire me. Well, I’m available. I have a website at the moment, it will be redeveloped. At the moment it’s www.ratcliffephotography.com.
Larry Jordan: That’s ratcliffephotography.com and Craig Ratcliffe himself is the gentleman we’ve been talking with and, Craig, thanks for joining us today, it was fun.
Craig Ratcliffe: Thank you very much.
Larry Jordan: Bye bye.
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Larry Jordan: Dan Berube is the founder of the Boston Creative Pro User Group. He’s also the co-producer, with our own Mike Horton, of the world famous Supermeets and a long time recurring guest on The Buzz. Hello, Dan, it’s good to have you back.
Dan Berube: Hey, Larry, how are you?
Mike Horton: Hello, Dan.
Dan Berube: …Mike. I have one question for you.
Mike Horton: Yes?
Larry Jordan: We are listening.
Dan Berube: Where’s my contract?
Mike Horton: Yes, I’ve already signed the three year contract.
Larry Jordan: Mike signed on your behalf, so I’m sure that he’ll deal with all the business details for you a little bit later. Dan, how would you describe the Supermeet?
Dan Berube: I describe the Supermeet as almost there. We are so excited. We are on the eve of one of the baddest, greatest Supermeets that we have put on in our history and we’re in our 14th year, next year we have our 15th year and, God, I wish it was at the Riviera, but that’s another story.
Mike Horton: Yes, so do I. Yes, for those people who don’t know, the Riviera’s going to be blown up here in August.
Larry Jordan: I did not know that.
Mike Horton: You did not know that?
Larry Jordan: I did not know that, so I’m glad to find out.
Mike Horton: No, the Supermeet is the last event the Riviera’s going to have.
Larry Jordan: This April?
Mike Horton: They’re closing in May…
Larry Jordan: Are you serious?
Mike Horton: …and then they’re blowing it up in August…
Larry Jordan: After the Supermeet, there’s nothing…
Mike Horton: After the Supermeet.
Dan Berube: Well, trust me, we’re not going to blow it up, we’re going to put on a good show. We’re going to bring down the house.
Mike Horton: We’re going to bring down the house, right.
Larry Jordan: Dan, 14 years is a heck of a long time. What was it that encouraged you to start this with Mike all those years ago?
Dan Berube: Oh my God, well, it goes back to, well, again, I was doing Final Cut Pro consultations, I was working at the Apple Faneuil Hall market center and I just basically decided to start doing another group. I was working with the Media 100 group and then this thing called Final Cut just came out at NAB that was software based and could use the Firewire DV port on your computer and that was it for me. I was working for a public television series, I moved and started my own company and here I am today.
Larry Jordan: Michael, you’re in LA and Dan is in Boston. How did the two of you ever connect?
Mike Horton: A lot of Skyping.
Larry Jordan: Well, not just now but what was it…
Mike Horton: No, Dan and I first met at DV Expo in 1959 or something like that.
Dan Berube: 1959, yes.
Mike Horton: It was, yes, it was something like that, and Dan had come out, he was working for Canon and we were having a user group meeting there with Apple and Brandy … was there and Brian Meaney was there. This was back in the days when Apple would actually send people down and actually do stuff.
Larry Jordan: I do remember those days.
Mike Horton: Yes, they were doing it then, and that’s where we met and Dan said that’s when he was going to start the Boston Final Cut Pro User Group and I said, “Yes, good luck.”
Dan Berube: Exactly. It was a handshake and, “Good luck,” and here we are today. I think Milton Berle was at that event too back in ’59.
Mike Horton: Who was?
Dan Berube: Milton Berle, right?
Mike Horton: Yes he was, and he was a very young guy at that time.
Dan Berube: …
Mike Horton: In fact, he was the MC that night, he and Bing Crosby.
Larry Jordan: Dan, you and Mike both run user groups in addition to the Supermeet and one of the things that Mike has remarked on many times is how hard it is to get people to come out to events like user groups. Are you seeing the same issue? Are people reluctant to show up for user group meetings or Supermeets and, if so, how do you encourage them?
Dan Berube: I tell you, it’s all about learning from PT Barnum – leave them wanting more, and I do and they come back every single month. I’m at a wonderful facility at Emerson College in Boston, at the Paramount Theater, in the Kevin Bright screening room. Kevin Bright launched it, he was the executive producer of Friends and is now the director of the Emerson LA campus Sunset Boulevard. We’ve got a 2K theater; over the summer, it’s being retrofitted to a 4K theater…
Mike Horton: Oh wow.
Dan Berube: …and I just have wonderful, wonderful instances of people gathering together and talking to each other, screening their work, having some great speakers and having a damn good time while we’re doing it.
Larry Jordan: Well, let’s keep going with that because the Supermeet’s coming up and you’re carrying that same theme over to the Supermeet. Have you and Mike ever announced the agenda, or are you still keeping it secret?
Mike Horton: Yes, you have to pay attention. It was announced three months ago.
Dan Berube: We don’t have an agenda, no.
Mike Horton: Yes, we don’t have an agenda, but we do have food.
Dan Berube: We do. We have, what was it? Pickled…
Mike Horton: Yes, pickled corn. Those little tiny pickled corn.
Dan Berube: I know.
Larry Jordan: Boy, I tell you, that certainly makes me want to show up.
Dan Berube: …and a pole stuck in the floor and people just go up to it and nosh at it while they’re talking to each other.
Mike Horton: Yes, exactly. It’s going to be awesome. No, we do have the agenda. All you have to do is go to supermeet.com and check it out. It was announced just about five days ago, something like that.
Dan Berube: Yes, we have Blackmagic Design, we have HP and Nvidia, we have Isotope, Ripple Training, Adobe, GenArt, Other World Computing. This is probably the best show that we’ve had in years.
Mike Horton: This is jam packed show.
Dan Berube: We have a little bit of everything for people to be able to sit there, watch and then go back outside and talk to each other. The biggest thing about the Supermeet is for people to get together and talk to each other.
Larry Jordan: Now, why is that so important to you, Dan? Because Mike says the same thing, but why is that so important?
Dan Berube: Because no-one talks to me. No, because I enjoy being with people. It’s part of me, it’s my inner being, it’s a passion that comes from within me. There’s passion, humility and I love building these events that bring people together and I hear…
Larry Jordan: We’re trying not to pick up on the humility.
Mike Horton: Yes, that’s it, that would be my answer – I do this because nobody talks to me.
Dan Berube: I spend a lot of money doing it, but you know what? With every Supermeet, people talk to me.
Mike Horton: At least I get to talk to people. That’s pretty good.
Dan Berube: It’s all about relationships in this industry. It’s the corniest phrase in the world, but it’s so true. You have to get out, you have to talk to people and you have to sell yourself and then listen to people. It’s equal parts selling and listening and when you reach that, magic happens.
Mike Horton: Every time that Dan and I are asked that question, you know, why do we do this kind of stuff, the answers are corny but honestly it’s really from the heart. It’s what we hope to achieve at every Supermeet or every user group meeting, that people meet each other and talk to each other, learn from each other, help each other and then hopefully collaborate with each other, and that’s the biggest reward we get out of these things and that’s what keeps us going, and so we hope to do it again this year and then the year after and we’ll continue going.
Larry Jordan: Just don’t blow up another hotel next year.
Mike Horton: Well, we’ve already blown up the Stardust, now we’re blowing up the Riviera.
Larry Jordan: Dan, do you have a raffle?
Dan Berube: Yes, we have a history.
Dan Berube: Do I have a raffle?
Mike Horton: Does the Supermeet have a raffle?
Dan Berube: Yes, we do have a raffle at the Supermeet. It is one billion dollars in prizes and…
Mike Horton: Exactly. We’re giving away lynda.com.
Dan Berube: We’re giving away cameras, human beings, switchers, software, hardware. We’re giving away a big DaVinci Resolve panel that’s bigger than what I’m doing. There are just a lot of things we’re giving away, plus there’s a big door prize for the first 500 people through the door. One lucky person gets a $10,000 HP workstation.
Mike Horton: That’s the workstation and the Dream Color monitor.
Larry Jordan: Wow. Wow.
Dan Berube: Right, and then everybody who registers and goes to the Supermeet is going to get a prize… and Jeff Greenberg is going to rock the house with GenArts and is going to talk about that, so just show up and you may win something in the raffle, but you’re definitely going to win something from GenArts and all the loving that’s in the room.
Mike Horton: Yes, everybody’s going to go home with something, so that’s going to be fun.
Larry Jordan: Dan, I know we’ve only got a few seconds left, but you’ve also got a film and competition called ‘The Chain.’ Tell me where people can go to learn more about that, because that’s such a cool film and I really want people to be able to see what’s going on with that.
Dan Berube: Yes, we’re screening April 18th at the Monadnock International Film Festival, so go to moniff.org and you’ll see a listing for Saturday April 18th under short films.
Larry Jordan: And how about Supermeet? Where can people go?
Dan Berube: Supermeet.com.
Larry Jordan: And how about with Boston Creative Pro User Group? Where can they go for that?
Dan Berube: It’s the acronym – boscpug.org.
Larry Jordan: All right, so let’s hit them all. That’s moniff.org for Dan’s film; supermeet.com for the Supermeet; and boscpug.org for BOSFCPUG. Dan, thanks for joining us today.
Mike Horton: See you, Dan, in two days. Bye bye.
Dan Berube: See you soon.
Larry Jordan: Colin Brown has over 18 years’ experience in the film industry, holding senior positions in post production companies in both Australia and New Zealand. Colin has won several awards and been instrumental in luring major productions to his native state of Queensland. Colin now helps non-profit charities in Australia, including producing a series of videos for other non-profits. Hello, Colin, welcome.
Colin Brown: Hi, how you doing?
Larry Jordan: Well, we’re talking to you, I think that’s a great way to start.
Mike Horton: Colin is wearing the same thing that Craig was wearing.
Larry Jordan: He was.
Mike Horton: Is this an Australian thing?
Colin Brown: Am I wearing the same? Really?
Mike Horton: Really, you are. You are wearing the same kind of ear buds kind of thing with microphone dealy…
Larry Jordan: A very cool look.
Mike Horton: …that Craig was wearing, and you also have the same background as Craig.
Larry Jordan: Don’t break his heart. He looks cool, by the way.
Mike Horton: But you do look cool.
Colin Brown: That’s all right, I can move it a bit. There you are, how about that?
Mike Horton: Yes, it is an Australian thing. You look awesome and you sound good.
Colin Brown: Excellent. Well, that’s the main thing.
Larry Jordan: Colin, you ran a post production business in Brisbane for a long time. What kind of clients were you working with way back then?
Colin Brown: We had different clients, from major film productions right down to corporates.
Larry Jordan: When was that? When were you working in post? Because you worked post in two countries – you were in Australia for a while and in New Zealand. Which one did you do first and what made you switch?
Colin Brown: I went to New Zealand after I’d finished high school in Australia and was offered a job there to work on a cigarette commercial, actually, and from there I sort of moved through the ranks to be the general manager of a film production company and then from there I missed home, actually, so I went back. Wellington in New Zealand is very cold…
Larry Jordan: Yes, it is.
Colin Brown: …so I moved back to Brisbane, where it’s warmer.
Mike Horton: That’s why everybody moves to LA.
Colin Brown: Yes.
Larry Jordan: How long were you working in post and when did you shift gears into working with non-profits?
Colin Brown: I worked in post for the best part of 17 odd years and then I made a move, actually. I was the head of an advertising agency and I did that for about three years and in doing that I met some people who worked in the non-profit sector and realized that they needed help, so that’s where it came from.
Larry Jordan: Now, when you say they needed help, what did they need?
Colin Brown: I’ll go back one step. Initially, I lost a brother to cancer when I was young, so I found a small not-for-profit in Brisbane that helped the families of children with cancer. They provide free accommodation for families who come from remote areas and I saw that they needed help in terms of their branding and marketing and I actually sit on the board of that organization now. So I moved into making videos to help them get sponsorship and that sort of thing.
Mike Horton: Wouldn’t you love to do that? Gosh, I would love to do that. Can you make a career out of doing that? Can you pay the rent doing that?
Colin Brown: No.
Mike Horton: Yes, that’s what I was going to…
Larry Jordan: It helps your heart but doesn’t help the pocketbook.
Colin Brown: No, no. I do it for the love, actually. I don’t do it for money. Some of the other videos I’ve made, you charge a nominal fee, but it really is for the cause, so to speak.
Larry Jordan: Well, let’s stay with non-profits for just a bit. They needed help with branding, they needed help with marketing. Basically, their heart’s in the right spot but it sounds like they just need direction. Is that a true statement?
Colin Brown: Pretty much.
Larry Jordan: And then, if so, what advice do you give them? How can you enable a non-profit to communicate their message to people who don’t yet understand it?
Colin Brown: I guess the thing with non-profits is they get into a space where it’s really competitive in terms of trying to get money. Everybody from Ronald McDonald House to World Vision to Save The Children, everybody’s trying to get the general punter, the moms and dads and the companies’ money, so first of all they have to realize that it’s a competitive space, and then they have to realize that they need to get things in order in terms of approaching these companies, corporates, if you like, to get sponsorship. My advice would be to get things in order to make sure that you can present a case that is saleable and also buyable, if that makes sense.
Mike Horton: It always bothers me that we use that word competitive when we come to non-profits, because there are so many people in institutions trying to do the same thing. Why do we need to start another one, even though you think you have a better idea or be smaller or be less, I don’t know, it just bothers me that we use the word competitive a lot when it comes to non-profit organizations, but it’s true.
Colin Brown: Yes, I would agree with that. It is true, it is very true, but the ones that I’m involved with have a specific role in the area that they are. The childhood cancer society that I’m involved with help people from remote locations to come and stay and they offer that service for free, so they obviously need funding to do that. They don’t get any government funding, so it’s a tragedy but it’s real, there is competition in that space.
Mike Horton: Yes, sure.
Larry Jordan: You’re working with a non-profit now creating a series of videos. Tell me about that project, what you’re doing and let’s walk through the production process.
Colin Brown: Yes, sure. There’s another local charity, if you like, in Brisbane which offers therapeutic horse riding for disabled people, so what that means is that they get everybody from people who can’t walk, in wheelchairs, right through to limited disability in terms of even hearing.
Colin Brown: What horse riding does for those people is amazing, actually, when you see it. It provides them with a confidence and the role which it plays with wheelchair bound people is quite profound in as much as it helps their core and I’ve seen kids who, when they get on a horse, they’re literally hunched over and after a year of riding they’re able to sit up by themselves.
Mike Horton: Yes, I live in a community here in Los Angeles called Chatsworth and there’s a horse riding therapy organization in that community which is one of the best in the country and it’s only a couple of blocks from where I live and I’ve gone over there a number of times and just watched the progress of wheelchair bound people from one week to the other. It’s extraordinary. It’s just really extraordinary.
Colin Brown: It really is.
Mike Horton: The rewards are almost instant when they put somebody who’s never been on a horse before on a horse and, boy, does it make you smile. It really does.
Colin Brown: Yes, it does. So what I’m doing with them is, again, they needed help with their brand presence and they’re also trying to do a major upgrade on the facilities they have, so in the process of producing a brand video, if you like, I approached a prominent Australian musician, got the rights to a song for them and I’m just going to do a little music clip for them to take to corporates and other organizations in the local Brisbane area to get funding for them to do that major upgrade.
Colin Brown: The other ones that I do for that, I also interviewed some of their staff to, again, try and expand on their donation base, just basically to get public awareness of what they do.
Larry Jordan: And how are those being distributed?
Colin Brown: Via the internet.
Mike Horton: Is there any other way?
Colin Brown: And through some other newsletter based stuff as well.
Larry Jordan: So let’s just talk tech for a minute. What kind of cameras are you shooting with and how are you getting it edited? Please get as specific as you want.
Colin Brown: Sure. It’s a two camera process. There was a studio base where I did the interviews, shot on a Blackmagic camera, actually, the 2K cinema camera; and the second camera is a Canon 5D and the same on location when I shoot the horses and the kids riding the horses, it’s a two camera shoot with the same cameras.
Larry Jordan: And then editing?
Colin Brown: I actually do the editing. I started in the industry as a film editor, so that’s a little passion for me, so I cut them and grade them in Resolve, cut them into Adobe Premiere Pro and then output as one would normally do.
Larry Jordan: Now, you’re shooting with a Canon among others. Are you transcoding the footage or are you just editing the H.264 natively?
Colin Brown: Editing it natively.
Larry Jordan: And then you go to Resolve for a color grade?
Colin Brown: Correct.
Mike Horton: And are you writing the script?
Mike Horton: See, he does everything.
Larry Jordan: That’s it, lights, cameras, action, editing. Wow.
Mike Horton: Jibs and crane shots and ‘copter shots.
Colin Brown: I wish, yes. When you’re working with not-for-profits, it’s hard to get…
Mike Horton: Well, now you can do it so cheap, you’ve got all these quadcopters, you could put your little GoPro cameras on them and scare the horses.
Larry Jordan: As I think about it, once you’re a really well established non-profit and you’ve been in business for 40, 50 years and established the brand and people understand what that is, the biggest challenge is having people understand why they should contribute to you. In other words, with the limited charity dollars that they’ve got, why that particular charity? It seems to me that the biggest challenge you’ve got is answering that ‘why?’ question. What techniques are you using to help people be reassured that the non-profit is worth contributing to and the corollary that falls out of this is what advice do you have for other young non-profits to answer that ‘why?’ question?
Colin Brown: That’s a great question and it’s quite difficult to answer, but for me it comes down to exposure. There are a lot of charities out there and a lot of not-for-profit organizations that are rubbish, where the dollar doesn’t actually get to what they’re trying to do. So firstly you have to establish what the organization does and make people aware of that and that’s kind of what I’m trying to do with the horse riding thing, because not many people know about therapeutic things that offer these people horse riding.
Colin Brown: But I think firstly you have to identify exactly what you’re doing and exactly what you’re offering to whatever sector you’re in. Secondly, when you’re asking for money, you have to, in my opinion, offer where exactly that dollar’s going to go. For example, in the horse riding, it might be that you’re sponsoring a horse and in doing that it enables the horse to be fed etcetera. With the childhood cancer society that I’m involved with, you can sponsor a unit where the families stay or you can help with buying.
Colin Brown: For example, we did a donation drive not long back because each of the rooms needed a medical fridge to store the drugs that the kids needed for their treatment. I guess that’s a long answer to a very complex question. In short, I think you need to identify the need and focus on where the dollar’s going to go.
Larry Jordan: Continuing that same theme, what mistakes do non-profits make, aside from not having enough money, in creating their videos that they need to think about avoiding?
Colin Brown: Quality. I think one of the main things that happens with not-for-profits is that they get people who don’t know what they’re doing or sell them an idea that isn’t the right message. I guess that’s what I didn’t mention in the last question you asked, it’s the messaging. The messaging has to be correct and on the money.
Colin Brown: Often, not-for-profit videos are quite low quality, they look terrible, they’re filmed on substandard equipment and they just look terrible, which then reflects on the organization themselves to make the organization look terrible, so the one piece of advice I would give is to get somebody who can do it to make it look professional.
Mike Horton: Yes, you’re absolutely right. Going back to that horse riding therapy place in Chatsworth, one nice thing about living in Los Angeles, you’re surrounded by a lot of talent and a lot of talent is doing some very good things for this place and they’re using a lot of very professional equipment with a lot of talented people and their video, to get people to actually give money, is so good that you cannot help but give money after you see the video. It’s excellent. It’s a beautiful story, it’s beautifully done and that’s so important because if you’re going to spend five or six minutes watching this thing, it means a lot to your donations.
Colin Brown: Exactly, and the other thing I would add to that is that if you’re approaching CEOs or decision makers in big major corporates, they don’t have a lot of time so you have to pull their heartstrings, so to speak, quickly.
Mike Horton: Yes, music’s really important…
Colin Brown: It is.
Larry Jordan: What projects are you working on in the future? What’s coming up?
Colin Brown: I don’t really know, to be honest. I will continue to work with the McIntyre Center, which is the horse riding center, and the childhood cancer society that I work with. I’m on the Board there, so that keeps me fairly busy as well. I do these things on the side and I’ll continue to do that, I guess.
Mike Horton: Yes, please do, we need people like you.
Larry Jordan: So what are you going to be doing to pay the rent?
Colin Brown: I’ve got a day job, so I’ll continue to do my day job.
Larry Jordan: Well, we appreciate you staying in late from work today to be able to visit with us, that’s very kind of you.
Colin Brown: My absolute pleasure.
Larry Jordan: Oh, I almost forgot, do we have a website that people can learn more about the McIntyre Center that they can go to?
Colin Brown: We do, yes.
Larry Jordan: You want to share it with us so that we can have a place for people to check it out?
Colin Brown: Sure. It’s rda.com.au.
Larry Jordan: That’s rda.com.au.
Mike Horton: And can we see some of your work on that site?
Colin Brown: No, not that site. Actually, I told a lie, it’s rda.asn.au.
Mike Horton: Can we see some of your work on that site?
Larry Jordan: Let’s talk communication and getting the message drilled home, shall we?
Mike Horton: That’s the one thing you forgot to put in the video – go to this site and get more…
Colin Brown: I do know what I’m doing, yes.
Mike Horton: It was that lower third that you got wrong.
Larry Jordan: Give us the website one more time.
Colin Brown: It’s rda.asn.au.
Mike Horton: All right.
Colin Brown: That’s the actual organization’s website.
Larry Jordan: So where can we go to see your work?
Colin Brown: I don’t have a lot of stuff up.
Mike Horton: Oh, you’ve got to put something up.
Colin Brown: Yes, I guess.
Mike Horton: Make your own website. Next project, make your own website.
Larry Jordan: Yes, you should feel guilty because otherwise millions of people are missing the quality of your work right now.
Mike Horton: Exactly. We need more people like you here in LA.
Larry Jordan: And Colin, thank you so very much for your time. It’s been a wonderful visit and we wish you great success going forward in the future.
Colin Brown: And to you chaps as well.
Larry Jordan: Take care, bye bye.
Mike Horton: Yes, thanks so much.
Colin Brown: Cheers, thanks. Bye bye.
Larry Jordan: You know, Michael, it is so important to do this kind of work and it’s a tribute to him. He got started when his brother died of cancer.
Mike Horton: Yes. Well, I can’t tell you how important what he said is. The video that you do about that institution that you’re talking about and trying to sell is so important, because you see so much God awful stuff and it really does make a difference when you only have five minutes to pitch. Show that five minute video and if you can get that heartstring going, people will commit.
Larry Jordan: But it’s so hard because you’re a non-profit and you’ve got so little money to work with, you feel that any money that you spend on a video…
Mike Horton: Yes, but guys like Colin and also with tools being so affordable and one man bands and things like that, it can be done so cheaply. It’s just that guy behind the camera, the guy behind the story, that’s all it really needs. It really needs that talented person to take it to that level that you need it and there are so many people out there who can do so many things. But you’re right, we’ve got to pay the rent. There’s no good answer to this whole thing, but quality, quality, quality.
Larry Jordan: And message.
Mike Horton: And message.
Larry Jordan: A strong message.
Mike Horton: Yes. That’s a good topic, non-profits.
Larry Jordan: It’s a good topic. It’s not a huge market but it’s so necessary.
Mike Horton: Well, I think it is a huge market. It’s just do it well.
Larry Jordan: Yes, that’s true. So when are you heading out to Las Vegas?
Mike Horton: I go Saturday. I know you’re going tomorrow, right?
Larry Jordan: No, Saturday.
Mike Horton: Oh, really?
Larry Jordan: Yes, drive Saturday.
Mike Horton: Oh, so you’re spending all day…
Larry Jordan: We’re tearing The Buzz apart to be able to load it into the truck.
Mike Horton: You’re spending all day putting it into the truck and then Saturday you’ll be there. So you’re setting up on Sunday?
Larry Jordan: We’re setting up Saturday afternoon and Sunday. It’s a 20 by 20 foot booth and we’re building a complete radio station and, thanks to One Beyond, a complete television station.
Mike Horton: I’m amazed. Every time I go there and I see this thing, you’ve actually done that in probably, what, eight hours?
Larry Jordan: Mhmm. A little less. Yes, full intercom system, full networks, broadcast, audio broadcast, video.
Mike Horton: And also you do the cable rolling and the video thing.
Larry Jordan: Yes, we specialize in cable rolling. Next time, Michael…
Mike Horton: Please tell me when you’re going to do that.
Larry Jordan: I will tell you when we do it because I know how much…
Mike Horton: I want to be there. It’s, what, Thursday at noon, right?
Larry Jordan: Just after we talk codecs, it’s going to be a great…
Mike Horton: Ok, it’s going to be awesome. Please, everybody, be there, Thursday noon, cable rolling. It’s going to be fun.
Larry Jordan: And you’re welcome to come by the booth and say hi and take a look at what we’re doing. It’s a huge amount of work from a lot of people and we are desperately proud of it and would love to show you how…
Mike Horton: You should be, you’ve got a good crew.
Larry Jordan: …how we squeeze all that into a very, very small space, broadcast radio and broadcast television in a 20 by 20 foot booth and half of it’s stage. It’s amazing.
Mike Horton: Yes.
Larry Jordan: I want to thank our guests for today: Craig Ratcliffe, photographer…
Mike Horton: And I won’t be on the show. Just remember that, folks. I’m not on the show. I’m doing the Supermeet. Can you hear me, Mr. Audio Person? Ok, go ahead Larry, finish.
Larry Jordan: …Dan Berube, who won’t be on the show either…
Mike Horton: It’s not that I’m angry.
Larry Jordan: …who’s the co-producer of the Supermeet; and Colin Brown, a filmmaker, all from Brisbane, Australia, except Dan, who’s from Boston, but it starts with the letter B, what more do you want?
Mike Horton: But Dan’s kind of Australian.
Larry Jordan: Next week, The Buzz is at the 2015 NAB show, creating more than 12 hours of programming directly from the trade show floor. You can get all the details at nabshowbuzz.com. in addition, visit with us on Twitter, @DPBuZZ, and Facebook, at digitalproductionbuzz.com.
Mike Horton: By the way, you’re going Saturday, do you want to meet in Baker at about 11am…
Larry Jordan: That’d be great.
Mike Horton: …in Bob’s Big Boys and…
Larry Jordan: We could do biscuits in Baker.
Mike Horton: Biscuits in Baker.
Larry Jordan: Mhmm.
Mike Horton: That big thermometer.
Larry Jordan: A little bit of brownies maybe on the side.
Mike Horton: It’s a deal, 11 o’clock.
Larry Jordan: I’m there.
Mike Horton: 11am.
Larry Jordan: Theme music composed by Nathan Doogie Turner; additional music on The Buzz provided by smartsound.com. Text transcripts provided by Take 1 Transcription. Our producer is Cirina Catania, our crew Megan Paulos, Alexia Chalida, Ed Goyler, Keegan Guy and Brianna Murphy. His name, Mike Horton; my name, Larry Jordan and thanks for listening to The Buzz.
Mike Horton: Goodbye, everybody.
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The duration for M.Phil. degree is 2 years, which includes one year course work at the beginning and dissertation work at the end. The duration for Ph.D. degree is 3 years. Candidates having M.Phil./ M.S. degree are eligible to be enrolled in Ph. D. course and they are exempted from undergoing coursework. But, Ph. D. fellows who do not have M.Phil./M.S. degree must complete a one year course work at the beginning.
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Tesla Model 3 overtakes Ford Focus in UK’s best selling cars list in August 2019
Laurie Havelock
Published: 3:12 pm September 5, 2019
Tesla’s electric Model 3 overtook the Ford Focus to become the UK’s third-best selling car last month, industry figures have revealed.
According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), more than 2,000 new Model 3s were driven off forecourts in August, bettered only by Ford’s Fiesta and Volkswagen’s Golf for popularity.
Figures also show that electric car registrations surged fivefold last month to take a record 3.4 per cent market share.
But overall demand for new vehicles fell as new diesel and plug-in hybrid registrations continued to fall.
Electric surge
Tesla’s Model 3 – represented by the “other” category – overtook the Ford Focus in August’s sales figures (Photo: SMMT)
In August, the SMMT reports that 3,978 Fiestas were driven off by new owners, compared with 3,439 Golfs and 2,082 “other” models
Tesla does not publish what it calls “regional sales figures” and is not a member of the SMMT, so its UK Model 3 sales were recorded as “other” in the trade group’s monthly breakdown of popular models.
Elon Musk, one of Tesla’s co-founders, said that he hoped the Model 3 would be an affordable electric vehicle (EV) option for many buyers. The US firm is aiming to sell 500,000 of the model annually by 2020.
Meanwhile, the market for battery-powered electric vehicles grew by 377.5 per cent, with 3,147 electric models registered in August compared to a year prior.
The SMMT said that “exciting new powertrain technologies” could come to market in the next few months, extending the range of EVs available to buy even further.
Demand for new cars fell by 1.6 per cent, with 92,573 new cars registered in August compared with 94,094 during the same month in 2018.
It marks the sixth consecutive month of decline as demand for diesel models dropped 12.2 per cent and for plug-in hybrids by 71.8 per cent.
Zero-emission dreams
Government grants for new low-emission cars were slashed in October last year, with hybrid models no longer eligible for the scheme.
Motoring groups warned that the change would leave the UK struggling to meet targets to reduce vehicle emissions.
SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said: “August is typically the new car market’s quietest month so the huge increase in EV registrations is very visible but especially welcome.
“It’s great to see consumers respond to the massive industry investment made over many years.
“To support a smooth transition and deliver environmental gains now, we need a long-term Government commitment to measures that give consumers confidence to invest in the latest technologies that best suit their needs.”
Private and fleet registrations fell 3.0 per cent and 1.5 per cent respectively last month, while the smaller business market was down 34.7 per cent.
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Calif. wells run dry amid drought
Hundreds of wells in California’s Central Valley farming region have run dry.
Calif. wells run dry amid drought Hundreds of wells in California’s Central Valley farming region have run dry. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1sgijSD
Associated Press Published 10:47 p.m. ET Sept. 21, 2014
The Tule River in Porterville, California, is dry except for a few pools of water after a three-year drought.(Photo: Scott Smith, AP)
East Porterville, Calif. — Hundreds of domestic wells in California’s drought-parched Central Valley farming region have run dry, leaving many residents to rely on donated bottles of drinking water to get by.
Girl Scouts have set up collection points while local charities are searching for money to install tanks next to homes. Officials truck in water for families in greatest need and put a large tank in front of the local firehouse for residents to fill up with water for bathing and flushing toilets.
About 290 families in East Porterville — a poor, largely Hispanic town of about 7,000 residents nestled against the Sierra Nevada foothills — have said their shallow wells are depleted. Officials say the rest of Tulare County has many more empty wells, but nobody has a precise count.
Other Central Valley counties also report pockets of homes with wells gone dry and no alternative water service.
“When you have water running in your house, everything is OK,” said East Porterville resident Yolanda Serrato. “Once you don’t have water, oh my goodness.”
With California locked in its third year of drought and groundwater levels dropping, residents and farmers have been forced to drill deeper and deeper to find water. Lawmakers in Sacramento passed legislation to regulate groundwater pumping, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law this past week.
Three days later, Brown signed an executive order that provides money to buy drinking water for residents statewide whose wells have dried up, while also directing key state officials to work with counties and local agencies to find solutions for the shortages.
The State Water Resources Control Board had already allotted $500,000 to buy bottled water for East Porterville residents, said Bruce Burton of the board’s Drinking Water Program.
But many East Porterville residents, like Serrato, say all they want is to get a glass of water from the kitchen sink. Her well dried up nearly two months ago, she said, making life challenging for her husband and three children.
To bathe, they each have to fill a bucket from a 300-gallon tank in the front yard, carry it inside and pour water over their heads with a cup. They’ve lived in their home for 21 years, she said. “It’s not that easy to say, ‘Let’s go someplace else.’ “
East Porterville sits along the Tule River, which starts high in the mountains and runs through the unincorporated town. Typically, river water permeates the sandy soil under the community, filling up wells as shallow as 30 feet deep. Not this year. Drought has caused the river to run dry, along with the wells.
Tulare County spokeswoman Denise England said East Porterville needs to get connected to the nearest water main in neighboring Porterville. That could cost more than $20 million and take up to five years, if the project didn’t hit political snags, she said.
England said counting the number of dry wells is difficult because people don’t come forward fearing their children will be taken away if their home lacks a safe water source, or they believe that their home would be condemned, making them homeless. Officials have had to combat these rumors, she said, adding, “We’re blindly feeling our way through this.”
In the meantime, charities have stepped up. Local schools, businesses and a religious group in Cincinnati, Ohio, donated water to the community.
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Electric School Buses: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the goal of the electric school bus program?
Transportation is the largest source of carbon emissions in the country, and we can help do something about it. We are launching this nationally-leading program to support Virginia school districts’ transition of their school bus fleet from diesel to electric, which will improve air quality and the health of children in our communities. We’re also exploring battery storage capabilities, and the batteries on the school buses will enable us to continue to study their use while enhancing reliability on our electric grid.
What are the benefits for school districts?
Electric school buses are 60% less expensive to operate and maintain, which means schools can invest more in students, teachers, and learning opportunities. They are also free of emissions, making the air in and around the bus cleaner and safer for students, teachers, and staff.
What are the benefits for Dominion Energy customers?
When the program is fully implemented, the energy stored in the buses would be enough to power roughly 10,000 homes. More battery storage means better grid reliability and the potential to add even more renewable resources.
What are some environmental benefits of electric school buses?
The largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States is transportation. By replacing one diesel school bus with an electric bus, 54,000 pounds of greenhouse gases are avoided per year.
When will the program launch?
The first 50 buses will be on the roads by the end of 2020.
How does vehicle-to-grid technology work?
Electric school buses act as giant batteries, storing energy until it is needed. When energy demands are high or if energy resources are intermittent, the batteries in electric school buses can plug in and stabilize the grid and meet demands. If there is a power outage or an emergency, electric school buses can be used as mobile power stations by local emergency management and others. However, getting this technology up and running requires a smarter grid, which we are working to build, thanks to the Grid Transformation and Security Act of 2018.
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Recent Test results hint at a great state of flux in world cricket
Arunabha Sengupta
The cricketing events in the past few weeks have been rather intriguing.
Bangladesh, after one of the landmark home series against Australia, huffed and puffed their way to finish second best in the treacherous land of South Africa. And at the same time, Sri Lanka, having been trounced 0-3 by India at home, bounced back to beat Pakistan 2-0 in the latter’s adopted home of UAE.
These lead to a mixed bag of indicators.
In Bangladesh’s case, it is more than abundantly clear that their encouraging shows at home notwithstanding, the tigers lose all their ferocity as soon as the action shifts abroad.
True, Shakib Al Hasan had withdrawn from the tour, and Tamim Iqbal was not available for the second Test. But then, South Africa were without Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander, and even Morne Morkel played in only one of the two Tests. In spite of that, if a team wants to field first on winning the toss on rather normal Test wickets, it speaks volumes about the lack of confidence in its own batting line up.
The decisions were not based on strengths of the team or even strength of the opposition. They were simply taken due to an enormous conviction in their own weakness, in other words ‘fear’. It is true that Bangladesh have come a long way from being just a pushover in world cricket, but their progress is still a product of a few individuals. Take away Shakib and the team is back to being a ragged outfit. Pull out Tamim too and it topples all by itself.
In retrospect, the team that drew against Australians at home was a vastly different one, now totally undone by alien conditions and lack of the star performers.
However, if we look at the Sri Lankans on the other hand, it has been an incredible story. They had been blown away 0-3 at home against India. And then they outplayed Pakistan in two incredible Test matches away from home.
They did not perform at a constant high though, and that is what makes the triumphs stand out. In the first Test, they were bowled out for 138 in the second innings and successfully defended a target of 136. Thanks mainly to that phenomenal performer named Rangana Herath. And in the second Test, they fell for 96 in the second innings, and undid more or less all the advantage gained through a 220-run lead. And then through the designs of Dilruwan Perera, along with two finishing blows by Herath, they stopped Pakistan 68 runs short.
Having been whitewashed at home, they went abroad and whitewashed Pakistan in their adopted land.
As already mentioned, if one looks at these results in the aftermath of what took place in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh not too long ago, one is foxed with numerous mixed signals about the health of the different teams. The fluctuations are curious, and teams seem to blow hot and cold at the drop of a proverbial hat.
Perhaps when the West Indies play in Zimbabwe, after a rather encouraging performance in England, we will be treated to a similar inconsistency of results.
One of the logical explanations is that every side in the current scenario, perhaps apart from England and India, are going through major states of flux.
Bangladesh is busy coming through the ranks, but have miles to go before they can be taken seriously away from home. Sri Lanka is in the process of serious rebuilding after the retirement of several stalwarts. Even the encouraging performances of these two teams had a lot to do with the less than ideal composition and preparation of Australia amidst all its payment fiasco, and the perennial volatility that is the signature of the Pakistan side.
And although it does not come across as blatantly, even South Africa, plagued by injury, AB de Villiers and kolpak problems, is hardly a side of steady fortunes and solidity.
In these circumstances, it is really difficult to infer a lot from the results, or to evaluate the merits and demerits of the different sides and conclude about their respective strengths and weaknesses at home and away. There is just too much volatility in world cricket to do any analysis with any degree of certainty.
However, this unpredictability also has its own charms. One can definitely look forward to the destinies of these sides with plenty of interest.
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Bat population decline continues as expected showing continued effects of white-nose syndrome
Following the pattern observed in neighboring states, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is reporting a substantial, but expected, decline in the number of bats in Minnesota. The decline is due to the effects of white-nose syndrome (WNS), a disease that is harmful and usually fatal to hibernating bats.
Recently completed DNR bat surveys have recorded declines up to 94 percent in affected locations across the state, compared to counts prior to March 2015 when the DNR first confirmed the presence of the disease in Minnesota.
A 90 percent decrease was observed at Soudan Underground Mine in northeastern Minnesota, where the disease was first confirmed in the state. A 94 percent decline was observed at Mystery Cave in southeastern Minnesota.
“While there may be a rare hibernaculum in Minnesota that hasn’t yet been impacted, WNS is likely to be present anywhere bats hibernate in the state,” said Ed Quinn, DNR natural resource program supervisor.
Four of Minnesota’s bat species hibernate and four species migrate.
White-nose syndrome is named for the white fungal growth observed on infected bats. It is not known to pose a threat to humans, pets, livestock or other wildlife.
Although the disease is transmitted primarily from bat to bat, people can inadvertently carry fungal spores to other caves on clothing and caving gear.
For several years, public tours of Soudan Underground Mine and Mystery Cave have begun with a brief lesson on how to prevent the spread of WNS. Both before and after tours, visitors are required to walk across special mats designed to remove spores from footwear, and they are advised not to wear the same clothing, footwear or gear when visiting other caves or mines where bats may be present. Multiple washings in a standard washing machine will not provide sufficient decontamination.
As tours will continue at these and other caves, the DNR will continue to follow recommended national decontamination protocols to prevent human transport of fungal spores. The DNR urges owners of private caves to learn about WNS and take similar visitor precautions as outlined in the protocols.
DNR biologists continue to conduct winter bat counts in several Minnesota hibernacula.
“We use these counts to compare the number of bats in a site from year to year. Although we count all of the bats that we see, more are likely in areas we can’t reach,” explained DNR mammalogist Gerda Nordquist.
Many species of bats feed voraciously on insects. Nordquist said the DNR has heard from residents who saw many more bats before WNS and now are noticing a dramatic increase in mosquitoes. Along with mosquitoes and other biting insects, bats also eat large numbers of moths. Some moths can damage farm crops and vegetable gardens, and bat losses to WNS could lead to increases in pesticide use.
WNS was first documented in North America in 2007 in eastern New York and has since spread to 33 states and seven Canadian provinces, killing more than six million bats.
Nordquist encourages anyone who sees a sick or dead bat to submit a bat observation report. DNR staff reviews these reports and additional follow-up or testing is conducted as needed.
To learn more about white-nose syndrome and Minnesota’s bats, visit mn.dnr.gov.
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How to silence that Iran war drumbeat
War is not inevitable. Bold, transparent diplomacy can work.
By John K. Cooley
Increasing signs that either Israel or the US might attack Iran before President Bush leaves office have many people in Europe, the Middle East, and around the world on edge.
Whether the rumblings are real or overinflated rumors, it's time to reverse any momentum that could unleash a potentially calamitous Middle East conflict, killing thousands, sending oil prices to $200 a barrel and beyond, and accentuating global recession.
After talks with Mr. Bush on his tour through Europe, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn't mention war explicitly, but did say that European states would agree to impose new financial sanctions on Tehran. Bush noted that "all options are on the table," and that the ball was in Tehran's court.
Tehran, meanwhile, seems to continue to ignore the threat of sanctions.
Beyond official statements, the latest clues to war parallel proposed and actual sanctions against Iran. Immediately after a high-profile visit to Washington earlier this month, Israeli cabinet minister Saul Mofaz publicly called an Israeli attack on Iran "unavoidable" unless Iran reined in its nuclear activities.
Members of a Bush delegation in mid-May reportedly assured Israeli officials in secret that a US attack on Iran was planned, according to Israeli Army Radio and in The Jerusalem Post as well as in American blogs and websites.
Also last month, the Asia Times claimed that US Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D) of California and Richard Lugar (R) of Indiana were given classified briefings about a planned US strike – not on Iran's nuclear sites but on headquarters of its Revolutionary Guard Corps. The purpose, the paper claimed, was to "send a message" to halt Iranian support for anti-US militias in Iraq. Offices for both senators vigorously denied the report.
To avoid further inflaming this kind of talk, the West must end Iran's race to nuclear weapons – not by force, but by bold transparent, and imaginative diplomacy.
This should include direct and comprehensive US-Iranian talks on the basic issues that have plagued Washington-Tehran relations since the Islamic Republic overthrew the late Shah in 1979 and the ensuing hostage crisis.
One immediate step the Bush administration could (but most probably won't) take is to make absolutely clear its intensions regarding long term presence in Iraq. Both Iraq – which is worried about its sovereignty– and Iran – worried about military threats – are anxious about the possibility of permanent US bases there.
Washington has forsworn such bases, but further reassurances are needed.
More realistically, the most powerful and technologically advanced nations, including the US, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and China, should join in offering Iran much more cooperation in peaceful nuclear and other energy fields that would finally induce it to abandon uncontrolled enrichment of uranium or plutonium production and any related weapons programs. Though such offers have been periodically on the table for years, they can be effective now if we repeat and improve them, and make them more detailed.
Although nearly unnoticed in Western media, Iran made an official offer to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in May involving a package of "comprehensive negotiations" on everything from the nuclear issue to general disarmament and help toward a Palestinian-Israeli settlement. If this were taken seriously and acted on, the West could stymie Iran's dangerous growing isolation.
To ease tensions, both US presidential candidates should specifically renounce plans for permanent US bases and presence in Iraq. As US historian William Pfaff recently wrote in his column, insisting on a permanent presence in Iraq would "turn Iraq into an American satellite state." This would force Tehran and other neighbors to regard Iraq as a threat and provide incentive to speed nuclear weapons activity.
The veracity of Iran's protestations about its purely peaceful goals has been shadowed by the most recent report from UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Years of US and UN sanctions haven't made Tehran change its policies. Why would it do so now?
In fact, some of the big Western banks have acceded to US demands to curb credits to Iran, hitting imports of products from refrigerators to children's toys. But Iranian importers have now turned to Chinese and smaller Western banks. What Iran is discovering is that it can deal somewhat successfully regardless.
What's more, Iran is a major regional power. By defeating its enemies, Saddam Hussein and the Afghan Taliban, the US – helped by Iran in both cases – has greatly strengthened this power.
By reopening a US diplomatic mission in Tehran, dropping sanctions except those involving military technology, and improving the old offers of Western and Russian IAEA-supervised peaceful nuclear technology, the US could help avert intensified tensions or an actual war.
The wisest path to peace would be to encourage rather than discourage Western investment in Iran's oil – natural gas and other (nonmilitary) industries – and engage immediately in direct, top-level dialogue with Iran's leaders.
We don't have to further back ourselves into a corner, from which neither the West nor Iran is able to come out without a fight.
• John K. Cooley is a former Monitor correspondent who covered the Middle East for more than 40 years. His latest book is "Currency Wars."
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Pagani, January 23, 2017, Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Diocese of Newark and a native of Detroit, paid a visit to the Basilica of St. Alphonsus in Pagani; the welcome given by both the local population and the religious and civil institutions of the place was extraordinary.
The historical religious event was noted by the presence of the bishop of the diocese Nocera Inferiore- Sarno, Mons. Giuseppe Giudice who warmly thanked Mons. Tobin, the Redemptorist bishop of the diocese of Teggiano-Policastro Mons. Antonio De Luca and the superior the Redemptorist community of San Alfonso, Fr. Luciano Panella.
The celebration also was graced by the presence the mayor of Pagani Salvatore Bottone and the president of the Province of Salerno Giuseppe Canfora who greeted the participants expressing great joy for such a significant event for the entire citizenry.
Before the start of the celebration, Fr. Luciano welcomed Cardinal Tobin and the eminent guests and participants followed by a visit to the chapel of St. Alphonsus. At the end of this solemn moment, the Eucharistic celebration began.
Archbishop Tobin pointed out in his homily his close link with the host city for years where the mortal remains of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, the founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, is venerated.
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Almora knocks in go ahead run in ninth to beat Nationals
by Cole Little - Senior Writer - Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:39 PM
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WASHINGTON -- Rookie left fielder Albert Almora drove in the go-ahead run with a ninth-inning double as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Washington Nationals 4-3 to even the series on Tuesday.
Cubs starter John Lackey produced another quality start, a theme of the past month for the veteran ace, but closer Hector Rondon garnered the victory. Nationals reliever Sammy Solis, by giving up the what proved to be the winning run for Chicago, was named the loser on the night.
With no action to speak of in the first two innings, Lackey, surprisingly, was the one to incite the offensive fireworks, hitting a two-out single in the top of the third that sparked a Cubs run. Center fielder Dexter Fowler followed up Lackey’s hit with a double of his own, and, with runners on second and third, right fielder Jason Heyward came up with a clutch single to right that scored both runners. Heyward has struggled to produce with runners in scoring position this season, but he has improved in that regard recently.
The Nationals cut the Cubs’ lead to 2-1 in the bottom half of the third, with shortstop Danny Espinosa scoring on a sacrifice fly by left fielder Jayson Werth. Prior to that, the bases were loaded with only one out, and they were loaded once again after Lackey walked right fielder Bryce Harper following Werth’s sacrifice fly. However, a lineout by second baseman Daniel Murphy allowed Lackey to escape with only one run against his name.
Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist was walked to start off the fourth, and, after advancing to second on a groundout, he stole third. The gutsy steal enabled Zobrist to score on a single by catcher David Ross, giving the Cubs a 3-1 advantage.
After an offensive lull, the Nationals cut their deficit to one run in the bottom of the seventh, as Espinosa scored yet again via a sacrifice fly, this one off the bat of center fielder Ben Revere. The Nats knotted the game up at three runs apiece the following inning. Harper took advantage of a leadoff walk and later scored on a sacrifice fly by third baseman Anthony Rendon.
A leadoff walk led to a run being scored again in the ensuing half inning. In the top of the ninth, shortstop Addison Russell drew a leadoff walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Ross. Almora then produced the biggest hit of his young career, hitting a double to center that scored Russell in what turned out to be the game’s winning run. To make matters more impressive, this was Almora’s only at-bat of the evening. In the bottom of the ninth, Rondon, who had entered the game in the eighth, forced the Nationals into a three up, three down inning, and the Cubs escaped with a 4-3 victory.
A riveting matchup of the National’s League’s two best teams, Tuesday night’s game was a back and forth thriller that could potentially be an NLCS preview. The Cubs will look to follow up their exciting victory tomorrow night in the series finale, as Chicago starter Jason Hammel will seek to rebound from a loss in his previous start. Hammel will have his work cut out for him, though, because his opponent, Washington starter Stephen Strasburg, is a remarkable 10-0 on the year.
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Close MediaNews Guild Vote Sparks Uncertainty for Future Talks
Joe Strupp June 16, 2008
Will the close union vote at a chain of MediaNews Group papers outside San Francisco mean tough bargaining times ahead for the nine-paper group and its new guild local?
Initial reaction from both management and a group of anti-union staffers may mean some difficult negotiations as the newly-approved Newspaper Guild unit gets to work. Not to mention the close vote Friday, in which newsroom employees voted 104 to 92 for representation by the Northern California Media Workers.
“This vote represents a powerful investment in the future of journalism in the Bay Area, one that’s going to move us all forward, both staff and managers,” said Sara Steffens, reporter at the Contra Costa Times of Walnut Creek and a co-chair of the union organizing campaign. “It will be good for our news coverage and good for our communities.”
But the vote, which means that the Bay Area News Group – East Bay will have newsroom staffers represented by the guild, reflects at least some opposition to a union shop. With 225 eligible voters at the nine papers, which include the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times, fewer than half, 104, voted for the guild, with 92 opposed.
“Most telling: the guild boasted that two-thirds of eligible employees had signed cards; yet, in the final tally … not even a majority of eligible employees [favored the guild],” a statement by a group of newsroom employees named, Why Union-Free, stated on their Web site.
“For all of our sakes, I hope this union can accomplish what no MediaNews newspaper guild has before ? a quick first contract devoid of massive givebacks. Unfortunately, from this point forward, our managers will be unable legally to discuss the ramifications of any aspect being negotiated. Once again, we will be at the mercy of a guild group that showed throughout its campaign that full disclosure wasn?t always a priority. For those who worked under a guild in ANG, once again you find yourselves at the mercy of a guild that allowed substantial givebacks, including the loss of vacation time and life insurance, and initially overlooked including other benefits, such as the 401(k) retirement plan.”
The anti-union group, headed by Contra Costa Times staffers George Avalos and Ann Tatko-Peterson, has been opposing the guild effort, claiming it will not help most workers. It’s Web site is www.whyunionfree.com.
“So, our effort shifts gears starting today. We will serve in a watchdog capacity from this day forward,” Peterson wrote in a Web site statement following the vote. “We will scrutinize every contract brought before us, report on every potential gain or loss and be sure that every employee who wants to know the ‘whole story’ actually gets it. We are in no position to stop a bad deal or drawn out negotiating process ? that will belong to the majority who vote ? but we at least can put all of the information in the hands of our colleagues.”
John Armstrong, president and publisher of Bay Area News Group – East Bay, also offered little support for the union after the vote was held, stating in a memo to staffers: “Kevin Keane [BANG-EB executive editor] and I are disappointed, of course, because we feel a union-free environment is best for our employees. We will meet next week with our labor specialists to determine how to proceed.
“This has been an emotional experience for everyone involved. My hope ? and Kevin?s ? is that we now can heal the wounds and move forward as one team to build the quality of our newspapers, web sites and other products,” he added. “Moving forward as one unified team rarely is part of collective bargaining, but Kevin and I pledge to do all we can to keep us moving in a positive direction.”
Still, guild leaders cited the vote as a positive move for the local union and the national organization.
“Many in the industry have been closely watching developments at the BANG-EB properties since August, when corporate parent MediaNews made headlines by withdrawing recognition from the 20 year-old Guild unit at ANG Newspapers, which included the Oakland Tribune and four other East Bay dailies,” Bernie Lunzer, the newly elected Newspaper Guild president said in a statement.
MediaNews in August withdrew recognition of the former Alameda Newspaper Guild, which represented some 130 staffers at the four-paper ANG, including the Oakland Tribune.
The union recognition change followed MediaNews’ consolidation of ANG’s editorial functions with its neighboring five-paper Contra Costa Newspapers, led by the Contra Costa Times of Walnut Creek.
The consolidation of editorial operations from the two groups came one year after MediaNews purchased the Contra Costa papers from McClatchy as part of its takeover of 31 daily and community papers in the area, which also included the Mercury News.
Company officials said at the time that the move was proper because the consolidated editorial unit now includes fewer than 50% guild members. Since the ANG unit, which had been under a guild contract since 1998, had only 130 staffers and the Contra Costa staff, which was union-free, included about 170, the guild unit could be removed because it did not represent a majority of the combined workers.
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Students volunteer in community
Seth Hartter-Executive Editor
Goddard and Eisenhower students gathered together in late April at the Goddard High School football stadium for a day of charitable work and volunteering.
The event, known as Neighbors United, began in 2015.
“Neighbors United is an event that came about from Eisenhower and Goddard students,” said Dane Baxa, Goddard Director of Community Relations.
For junior Matthew Peek the reason for the day was clear.
“It is to better incorporate everyone into the community and bring everyone together,” he said. “We did things like picking up trash in the neighborhood.”
The Young Professionals of Goddard and the Eisenhower and Goddard Student Councils began working on Neighbors United in 2015.
Other organizations from around Goddard also took part in the event.
“Neighbors United helps community members with projects that can’t ordinarily be done by city officials,” said Dan Funke, treasurer of the Goddard Lions Club. “The Lions Club provided $3,000 to the event.”
The event had a greater turnout than the 2016 inaugural event, which had over 300 volunteers.
“We had about 450 volunteers out in the community, and about 50 students to help out with food and organizing,” Baxa said.
Every year there is a prize awarded to either Eisenhower or Goddard High School, Goddard earned it in 2018.
“A golden shovel is awarded to whichever high school brings the most volunteers,” Baxa said.
During this year’s event, the date of next year’s was set.
“The next event is on Saturday, April 27, 2019,” Baxa said.
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Can't Find App on Google Play Search? Here are the Reasons and How to Get Discovered
For those of you who use an Android phone or tablet, no doubt you ever open the Google Play Store app to download applications or games you want.
But have you looking for a specific app or game to be downloaded but you didn't find it? Though the application is available on your friend's smartphone.
Or if you are a Developer and have uploaded the app to Google Play but didn't find it in search?
What is the cause? How to make it appears in Google Play Search? In this article, I will discuss it.
Some apps on Google Play
The Reasons for the Application Doesn't Appear in Google Play Search
There are several things that make it possible:
1. The App or Game has just been Released
The newly released apps will certainly take some time to appear on Google Play search. It's the same with newly published articles. The newborn babies will take time to grow up.
2. There is no Optimal Optimization from Developer
It takes a great SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technique to optimize app visibility. This can be done by optimizing the description of the app that I will explain more deeply below.
3. The Application Don't Meet Engagement with Users
Not a lot of Android users who install and give a review also greatly affect the visibility of the application in the search.
4. The App has not yet Released in Your Country
This is one of the policies in the Google Play Store, if you are a developer or have uploaded an app, then there are options to ask about which countries or regions can see and find your app.
So the availability in your country depending on the Developer, and maybe takes times to launched globally. For example, the app is released for USA and Europe, it's likely that the application will be available in other countries within the next few days, weeks, or months.
5. Your Device is Not Compatible with the Application
There are also some applications that are intended for devices with certain specifications. So if your phone does not meet these specifications, then you can not find it in the Play Store.
6. The App has been Removed from Google Play Store
This could be the effect of a violation of Google Play policies, so Google has had to remove the app.
It can also be removed by the developer itself because they have lost interest to develop it because it does not sell.
Easy Way to Find an App that Doesn't Appear in Google Play Search
This way for Android users, you can do a search on Google Chrome by typing the keyword "App Name Google Play" if you do not find it on the Play Store.
How To Make Apps Easy to Discovered on Google Play Search
Now for the Developer or Publisher. Google Play search is a key tool for Android users to find relevant and popular apps for their devices.
Therefore, it's important to ensure that your application is complete and optimal so your app can be found by users on Google Play. So it's expected to get a lot of installs
Text in store listings helps users find your app. Therefore, it's also important to make store listings as attractive as possible. Consider the following tips when optimizing your app on Google Play.
1. Use a Unique and Easy to Remember Name
The name or title of the app should be unique, easy to remember, and accessible. Avoid common terms, and show the benefits of the app.
Keep the title in focus, don't use long titles as it may be cut off, depending on the device that the user uses to search.
Avoid using misspelled common terminology, as users may comment on that.
2. Provide a Complete Description Following the SEO Rules
Focus on the users and write down what benefits they will get from your app.
For example for Android games, give details of the features that available in the game along with Android phone specifications that can play it.
Re-review the description on the Google Play app, to make sure that the most important text is visible in the "upper half" chart.
Use Best SEO Practices in Descriptions, but note Google Play content policies regarding SPAM and IP violations, for example; excessive keywords, impersonation, and more.
3. Complete the Application with Graphic, Image and Video Assets
Icons, images, screenshots, and trailer videos can make apps appear more prominent in search results, categories, and featured app lists.
While not all graphics assets are required in the store listings, you should add quality screenshots showing the supported platforms for the app.
3. Translate the Descriptions for Different Countries
Do not target your app for only one Country. If you can, make it global using the English language.
Actually, Google provides automatic machine translations for store lists, but you can't specify them explicitly (precisely and clearly).
Therefore, if you translating the Description with the help of a professional translator, then the search results for your app will be better and make it easier to be found by users around the world.
In Play Console, you can also purchase the text of human translations from third-party vendors.
4. Create an Incredible user Experience
Google Play search factors that exist in the user experience when using your app are entirely based on user behavior and feedback.
Apps on Google Play are ranked based on a combination of ratings, reviews, downloads, and other factors.
The weight and value details are part of Google's search algorithm, but you can do some of the things below to improve your app's visibility:
Build a more durable and meaningful user experience.
Maintain and enhance the application of regular updates.
Encourage users to provide feedback in the form of ratings and comments.
Provide good service to customers by responding and solving user problems. Usually, this is rarely done by some Developers or Publishers.
5. Promote the Application to Social Media and Google Adwords
Today's technology is very advanced, you can take advantage of Facebook, Instagram YouTube, and Twitter to promote your products.
Google also provides Adwords where you can advertise your products so it will appear on Google search, blogs, websites, or YouTube even tough your app has not yet appeared on the search.
Also Read: How to Fix Can't Download Apps from Google Play Store
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Blues LP Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, & Bo Diddley
Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, & Bo Diddley
Super Super Blues Band (colored vinyl pressing)
LP (Item 807453) Checker/Jackpot, 1967 — Condition: New Copy
(reissue)
LP, Vinyl record album
Checker (label)
Jackpot (label)
Blues (CD, LP)
Soul (CD, LP)
A group that definitely lives up to its name – given that the lineup features the Chess Records stalwarts Bo Diddley, Howlin Wolf, and Muddy Waters! The set's maybe a bit more in the mode of Wolf or Waters than some of Bo's own records – although there's a bit of that riffing spark of his at times – and the tracks are often nice and long, with more than enough room to make you feel like Phil Chess gave these guys plenty of space in the studio to hang out, and find the right way to interact. As much as we love Chess albums with short songs and a soulful punch, we really appreciate it when they can break format and open up on a session like this – which really helps create a unique moment on record! Titles include "Goin Down Slow", "Long Distance Call", "Sweet Little Angel", "Ooh Baby & Wrecking My Love Life", and "Spoonful". © 1996-2020, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(Limited edition colored vinyl!)
We realize that there are many different interpretations of the standard grades used for pre-owned vinyl record albums & CD, so we thought we'd offer you the ones that we are working with, so you have an idea what we mean when we give the grade for a non-new item on our pages.
Used Vinyl Grades
Below are stated conditions for a used vinyl records at Dusty Groove. Grading for the cover should be assumed to be near (within a "+" or "-") the grading for the vinyl. If there is significant divergence from the condition of the vinyl, or specific flaws, these will be noted in the comments section of the item. However, please be aware that since the emphasis of this site is towards the music listener, our main concern is with the vinyl of any used item we sell. Additionally, all of our records are graded visually; considering the volume of used vinyl we handle, it is impossible for us to listen to each record. If we spot any significant flaws, we make every attempt to listen through them and note how they play.
The following grading conditions apply to the vinyl component of an album or single:
This is what it says, that the record is still held fast in shrink-wrap. We tend to be pretty suspicious about these things, so if the shrink-wrap doesn't look original, or if the record seems to have undergone some damage over time, we'll probably take it out of the wrapper to ensure that it's in good shape — which is why we don't have more of these. In some cases the shrink-wrap may be torn in spots, but if it's not possible the record has been taken out and played, the record will still qualify as "Sealed".
Dusty Groove does not use the grades of Near Mint (or Mint, for that matter) because in our experience, we find that no records ever qualify for such a high grade. Even sealed records tend to have one or two slight faults, enough to usually qualify them for a grade of NM- or lower. We've often found that records which are clearly unplayed will have a slight amount of surface noise, especially in quieter recordings.
Near Mint - (minus)
Black vinyl that may show a slight amount of dust or dirt.
Should still be very shiny under a light, even with slight amount of dust on surface.
One or two small marks that would make an otherwise near perfect record slightly less so. These marks cannot be too deep, and should only be surface marks that won't affect play, but might detract from the looks.
May have some flaws and discoloration in the vinyl, but only those that would be intrinsic to the pressing. These should disappear when the record is tilted under the light, and will only show up when looking straight at the record. (Buddah and ABC pressings from the 70's are a good example of this.)
May have some slight marks from aging of the paper sleeve on the vinyl.
Possible minor surface noise when played.
Very Good + (plus)
Vinyl should be very clean, but can have less luster than near mint.
Should still shine under a light, but one or two marks may show up when tilted.
Can have a few small marks that may show up easily, but which do not affect play at all. Most marks of this quality will disappear when the record is tilted, and will not be felt with the back of a fingernail.
This is the kind of record that will play "near mint", but which will have some signs of use (although not major ones).
May have slight surface noise when played.
Vinyl can have some dirt, but nothing major.
May not shine under light, but should still be pretty clean, and not too dirty.
May have a number of marks (5 to 10 at most), and obvious signs of play, but never a big cluster of them, or any major mark that would be very deep. Most marks should still not click under a fingernail.
May not look near perfect, but should play fairly well, with slight surface noise, and the occasional click in part of a song, but never throughout a whole song or more.
This is clearly a copy that was played by someone a number of times, but which could also be a good "play copy" for someone new.
Very Good - (minus)
Vinyl may be dirty, and can lack a fair amount of luster.
Vinyl can have a number of marks, either in clusters or smaller amounts, but deeper.
This is the kind of record that you'd buy to play, but not because it looked that great. Still, the flaws should be mostly cosmetic, with nothing too deep that would ruin the overall record.
Examples include a record that has been kept for a while in a cover without the paper sleeve, or heavily played by a previous owner and has some marks across the surface. The record should play okay, though probably with surface noise.
Good + (plus)
Vinyl may be dirty, or have one outstanding flaw, such as a light residue, which could be difficult to clean.
May have marks on all parts, too many to qualify as Very Good-, or several deeper marks, but the record should still be ok for play without skips.
In general, this is a record that was played a fair amount, and handled without care. A typical example may be a record which has been heavily played by a DJ, and carries marks from slip cueing. Depending on the quality of the vinyl, may play with surface noise throughout.
A record that you'd buy to play, cheap, but which you wouldn't buy for collecting.
Will have marks across all parts of the playing surface, and will most likely play with surface noise throughout. May have some other significant flaws, such as residue, or a track that skips.
In most cases, a poor quality copy of a very difficult to find record.
This is a grade we rarely use, as we try not to sell records in very bad condition, though in some rare cases we will list a record in such bad shape that it does not conform to the standards above. A "Fair" record will have enough marks or significant flaws that it does not even qualify as "Good", but is a copy you might consider for playing, if you're willing to put up with noise and/or flaws. An example might be a recording with surface noise so heavy that it is equal to the volume of the music. For records listed as "Fair", we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
Like "Fair", we rarely list records in this condition, as they represent the extreme low end of spectrum. These records typically have multiple serious problems, and we offer them as "relics" or "objects" only — for those who want to at least have a copy of a record, even if it is not really worthy of play, perhaps for the cover alone. For these records, we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
1928 Sessions (180 gram pressing)
Yazoo, 1928. New Copy (reissue)
LP...$14.99
Vintage work from Mississippi John Hurt, but somehow amazingly clear and crisp in this classic LP presentation! The tunes are wonderfully earthy – just vocals and guitar from Hurt, in a style that's definitely blues, but which has some surprisingly jazzy inflections at times – at least ... LP, Vinyl record album
Legendary Son House Father Of Folk Blues (180 gram pressing)
Columbia, 1965. New Copy (reissue)
A great return to recording for Son House – a musician who'd stopped playing the guitar in the postwar years, but rose again to fame during the great folk blues revival of the 60s! The style here is every bit as classic as some of Son's earliest music – just recorded a lot better, too ... LP, Vinyl record album
Sittin Here Thinkin
Muse, Late 50s. New Copy (reissue)
LP...$9.99
Great gritty sides from the mighty John Lee Hooker – material with a slightly obscure origin, but recorded in the late 50s, right in a stretch when he was cutting some of his classics! Hooker's guitar and vocals are center stage – both growling with a hell of a lot of soulful power ... LP, Vinyl record album
Free Beer & Chicken
ABC, 1974. New Copy (reissue)
Fantastic stuff from John Lee Hooker, and a record that's unlike any other he's ever done! The groove is very hard and funky, with tight drumbreaks and excellent basslines that you'd hardly expect to find on an album by a blues artist – jamming around with a tight groove that really makes us ... LP, Vinyl record album
Blue Lightnin'
Jewel, 1965. New Copy (reissue)
A really nice later set from legendary Texas blues titan Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins – done up for the Jewel label with a bit of the spark that was missing from the hit & miss work he did earlier in the decade for Bluesville! Blue Lightnin' also has a down and dirty style in spots, ... LP, Vinyl record album
Abner Jay
Man Walked On The Moon
Mississippi, Late 60s/Early 70s/Early 90s. New Copy
A great mix of vintage and later work from Abner Jay – a unique one man band in the best rural blues tradition of the south – and who, like some of the best, doesn't ever use his multi-instrument talent as a gimmick! Instead, Jay works here in a mode that's like a stripped-down combo, ... LP, Vinyl record album
Shakey Jake with Bill Jennings & Jack McDuff
Good Times (180 gram pressing)
Prestige/4 Men With Beards, 1960. New Copy (reissue)
LP...$18.99 22.98
A stunner from Shakey Jake – and a set that's got a surprising jazz element as well – given that the singer/harmonicist works here with Jack McDuff on Hammond and Bill Jennings on guitar! Jack and Bill were working together on other soul jazz sessions for Prestige Records during the ... LP, Vinyl record album
Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 – Vol 1
Third Man, 1969. New Copy 2LP Gatefold
LP...$22.99 27.98 (CD...$18.99)
A fantastic document of the first-ever Ann Arbor Blues Festival – the start of a great event that would blossom into other styles of music in the 70s, but which stood as a strong blues-based event in its initial year of 1969! In some ways, the three day series of concerts is a roots answer ... LP, Vinyl record album
Reverend Gary Davis
Worried Blues (180 gram pressing – with download)
Fat Possum, 1969. New Copy
The last studio album from the Reverend Gary Davis – and a set that was a great attempt to finally capture his talents in a well-recorded setting! Despite that fact, the presentation here is mostly in the spirit of Davis' roots – mostly with the man himself on vocals, guitar, banjo, ... LP, Vinyl record album
Tim Maia (1977)
Mr Bongo (UK), 1977. New Copy (reissue)
70s soul from Brazil – and a tremendously strong effort from the legendary Tim Maia! This record was Tim's first after an initial run on Polydor – and it shows Maia tightening up his groove even more, but still avoiding the slicker sounds of later years. There's a really focused sound ... LP, Vinyl record album
Time Capsule (180 gram pressing)
Nodlew/Pure Pleasure (UK), 1973. New Copy (reissue)
One of the most beautiful records to come out of the early 70s – a tremendous indie effort from a young Weldon Irvine! Irvine put this album together as sort of a musical "time capsule" of his generation – an effort to capture the era's thoughts, feelings, and emotions ... LP, Vinyl record album
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Column: Judges who abuse system need quick rebuke
Judges try hard not to be politicians. They wear robes meant to diminish preening. They write judicial opinions in the third person to project a greater sense of independence. And they cultivate an image that floats above the sharp elbows of the sometimes-shabby political process.
But there’s something judges don’t want you to know. Many were political animals before taking the bench and they continue those instincts as they prowl the judicial branch. And unlike peanut butter and jelly, politics and judging are a bad combination.
As an attorney, I’ve advised numerous Ohio judges on questions of ethics and what’s legal for them to do in and around the political maelstrom. While I don’t reveal what clients tell me in confidence, I can say that nearly all of them are sensitive to how their decisions might affect their ability to achieve higher office. Most jurists are able to tune this political radar to its lowest setting and make decisions strictly based on the constitution and the law. But a few take the opposite approach and game the justice system for their own personal and political advantage.
Consider exhibits A and B: Supreme Court Justice William O’Neill and Franklin County Appeals Court Judge Tim Horton. Both are currently drowning in the deep water of judicial misdeeds but still collecting their full salary from taxpayers.
Justice O’Neill has announced that he’s running for governor. That’s his right, but judicial ethics rules require candidates for non-judicial office to immediately step down from the bench. This ethical safeguard helps remove overt politics from court decisions. Nonetheless, O’Neill refuses to resign and yet claims he will stop hearing new cases. Why not leave now? He knows that the judicial discipline process grinds slowly and, by the time it ensnares him, he hopes to be the likely Democratic nominee and can simply resign then. Delay allows him to have his taxpayer-funded cake and eat it, too.
Judge Horton is running out the discipline clock in a different fashion. He’s already been convicted and served a jail sentence for mishandling campaign funds. A sitting judge sitting in jail is as rare as a Buckeye fan sleeping through game day. Judge Horton avoided more serious criminal liability by agreeing not to appeal his sentence. But then he appealed it anyway.
Horton knows disciplinary authorities won’t begin to consider removing him from the bench until his underlying case — including all appeals — is over. By filing an appeal where the law didn’t allow it and after he had agreed not to, he bought himself several more months of pay at a job that doesn’t even require daily attendance at the courthouse. Even then, the removal process will likely take many more months.
The Horton scandal first came to light in 2014, when he was scrutinized by fellow judges for serious allegations of sexual harassment. State investigators eventually recommended felony charges but the judge avoided them by admitting to some criminal behavior and accepting a misdemeanor conviction.
There’s something else these two unethical judges have in common — each defeated more-qualified opponents because of the well-known nature of their last names. O’Neill is unrelated to former Ohio governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice William O’Neill but has enjoyed electoral success due to Ohioans’ familiarity with the moniker. Horton doesn’t own any doughnut and coffee shops, but his initial campaign success was attributed by most observers to the fact that Tim Horton is a household name, and a yummy one at that.
Neither ought to remain on the bench. Each is abusing the system to stay put. They use the slow process of the judicial ethics system to stiff-arm the interests of justice.
Court rules need to be updated with an eye toward taking swifter action when there’s good evidence that a judge is abusing the extended due process of the system for little more than partisan or personal gain. When judicial officers act in clear defiance of ethical dictates, the power of suspension and removal should allow authorities to take action in weeks, not months or years.
Ohio voters historically have defended the system that allows judges to be elected rather than selected. But voters expect the rules that govern those judges to be equipped to take prompt action when a due-process safety net for judges becomes a hammock for politicians in robes.
Mark R. Weaver is a Columbus attorney and communications adviser. He was formerly deputy attorney general of Ohio. He is the author of the recently released book "A Wordsmith's Work."
@MarkRWeaver.
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Minnesotans who watch nature closely have been using a relatively new tool to spy on wildlife: trail cameras. We know from our readers' letters, calls, and photographs that they are excited about these remote, automated, motion-triggered cameras, sometimes called camera traps, and the wildlife they so candidly "capture" in digital photos. People are using trail cams in many different ways, but the common reaction to a successful shot is surprise and enlightenment: Look what is living here among us. Bobcats at the cabin. Coyotes at the farm. A bear—in the driveway!
Wildlife managers and field biologists are using trail cameras in their work, too. DNR furbearer specialist Jason Abraham's story "Counting on Cameras" shows how scientists are using photos from remote cams to augment the longstanding method of track surveys for 14 of the state's common carnivores. Elusive and mostly nocturnal, these creatures are naturally hard to spot even by sharp-eyed trackers. Suddenly trail cams are bringing their locations and sometimes their behavior into new light. The cams may even one day replace track surveys as the basis for DNR measures of wildlife abundance.
Trail cameras are part of a virtual wave of high-tech advances that are opening up new perspectives on the wild world. It's a common theme here in the pages of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. In recent years, the magazine has covered a solar-powered robotic glider that scans Lake Superior for native fish, dye tracing that uses gas chromatography to track the mysterious path of underground water, and telemetry tracking projects galore.
In these projects, tiny radio or satellite transmitters are glued to turtle shells, affixed to birds or mammals via small backpacks, inserted under the skin of fish, or held in sturdy collars worn by bigger animals such as wolves, bears, elk, and moose. Transmitters are getting ever smaller, more sophisticated in what they can measure, and more durable in what they can withstand. As they ride along with wildlife, they allow researchers to follow the animal's journey and learn from it. Transmitters have told us how deep loons dive for food, how far sturgeon roam in river systems, and where golden eagles fly to breed and winter, among many other things.
High tech can help inform us about not just the world as it is, but also the world as it might be. In "Seeing the Future," writer Amanda Kueper shows how federal scientists at the SPRUCE project in northern Minnesota are simulating the effects of projected climate change on a forested peat bog, then meticulously measuring and analyzing those effects using advanced instruments. Peatlands, which have naturally and efficiently stored carbon for centuries, could under warmer conditions release this carbon in the form of "greenhouse gases" that fuel further warming. The peatlands, part of Minnesota's rich mosaic of landscapes, could also undergo dramatic changes. It's important work with sobering implications.
From trail cams to elaborate experiments, technology is helping open our eyes to what's happening in the natural world. How will we use this flood of information from these modern marvels we've created? I hope we harness it to preserve wild things, wild landscapes, and our own place in the whole grand, complicated scheme.
Keith Goetzman, acting editor
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