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Florida Officials Warn Of Flesh Eating Bacteria
September 29, 2013 by Laura
Health officials warn of bacteria along coast
26 cases of Vibrio vulnificus reported across state
Officials said anyone who comes in contact with Vibrio vulnificus runs the risk of getting sick.
Twenty-six cases of the bacteria have been reported across the state. Two of them were in Volusia County, and one was in Flagler County.
Authorities said nine people have died of the bacteria in Florida, including a 59-year-old man in Palm Coast.
Officials said the bacteria can be contracted by eating raw shellfish or through an open wound. They said it’s a flesh-eating bacteria.
Health official warn seafood lovers and beachgoers to use caution.
“We like to come down and relax, take down our weekly stress levels from school,” beachgoer Justin Ireland said.
The water that brings so much enjoyment is now the source of one family’s pain.
Henry Konietsky, 59, went fishing for crabs near the Halifax River on Sept. 21, but his daughter said he died 28 hours later.
Officials said Konietsky contracted Vibrio vulnificus from warm seawater.
“They are getting it through a scratch in the skin, a cut, then the Vibrio gets inside and sets up housekeeping,” Seminole County Medical Director Dr. Todd Husty said.
Medical officials said in half of the cases, a person who contracts the bacteria dies once it gets into the blood.
Thirty-five cases were reported in Florida in 2012.
“It’s obviously a big increase in infection right now. It is a warm-water thing. We didn’t have this last year and the year before — not nearly as many,” Husty said.
Health Department officials said Konietsky contracted the bacteria through an open wound.
“If you get it from food, it’s one of the worst and most deadly food poisoning,” Husty said.
Volusia and Flagler health officials said to be sure seafood is well-cooked and beachgoers should avoid the water if they have open wounds.
“I love coming to the beach,” Ireland said. “I am worried, not just for me but for other beachgoers as well.”
Vibrio vulnificus occurs naturally in seawater. In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking the illness after an uptick in cases. Most of them happened in states along the Gulf Coast.
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Sneaky George W. Bush Pushing Through Dozens of Last-Minute Legislative Scams
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After spending eight years at the helm of one of the most ideologically driven administrations in American history, George W. Bush is ending his presidency in characteristically aggressive fashion, with a swath of controversial measures designed to reward supporters and enrage opponents.
By the time he vacates the White House, he will have issued a record number of so-called ‘midnight regulations’ – so called because of the stealthy way they appear on the rule books – to undermine the administration of Barack Obama, many of which could take years to undo.
Dozens of new rules have already been introduced which critics say will diminish worker safety, pollute the environment, promote gun use and curtail abortion rights. Many rules promote the interests of large industries, such as coal mining or energy, which have energetically supported Bush during his two terms as president. More are expected this week.
America’s attention is focused on the fate of the beleaguered car industry, still seeking backing in Washington for a multi-billion-dollar bail-out. But behind the scenes, the ‘midnight’ rules are being rushed through with little fanfare and minimal media attention. None of them would be likely to appeal to the incoming Obama team.
The regulations cover a vast policy area, ranging from healthcare to car safety to civil liberties. Many are focused on the environment and seek to ease regulations that limit pollution or restrict harmful industrial practices, such as dumping strip-mining waste.
The Bush moves have outraged many watchdog groups. ‘The regulations we have seen so far have been pretty bad,’ said Matt Madia, a regulatory policy analyst at OMB Watch. ‘The effects of all this are going to be severe.’
Bush can pass the rules because of a loophole in US law allowing him to put last-minute regulations into the Code of Federal Regulations, rules that have the same force as law. He can carry out many of his political aims without needing to force new laws through Congress. Outgoing presidents often use the loophole in their last weeks in office, but Bush has done this far more than Bill Clinton or his father, George Bush sr. He is on track to issue more ‘midnight regulations’ than any other previous president.
Many of these are radical and appear to pay off big business allies of the Republican party. One rule will make it easier for coal companies to dump debris from strip mining into valleys and streams. The process is part of an environmentally damaging technique known as ‘mountain-top removal mining’. It involves literally removing the top of a mountain to excavate a coal seam and pouring the debris into a valley, which is then filled up with rock. The new rule will make that dumping easier.
Another midnight regulation will allow power companies to build coal-fired power stations nearer to national parks. Yet another regulation will allow coal-fired stations to increase their emissions without installing new anti-pollution equipment.
The Environmental Defence Fund has called the moves a ‘fire sale of epic size for coal’. Other environmental groups agree. ‘The only motivation for some of these rules is to benefit the business interests that the Bush administration has served,’ said Ed Hopkins, a director of environmental quality at the Sierra Club. A case in point would seem to be a rule that opens up millions of acres of land to oil shale extraction, which environmental groups say is highly pollutant.
There is a long list of other new regulations that have gone onto the books. One lengthens the number of hours that truck drivers can drive without rest. Another surrenders government control of rerouting the rail transport of hazardous materials around densely populated areas and gives it to the rail companies.
One more chips away at the protection of endangered species. Gun control is also weakened by allowing loaded and concealed guns to be carried in national parks. Abortion rights are hit by allowing healthcare workers to cite religious or moral grounds for opting out of carrying out certain medical procedures.
A common theme is shifting regulation of industry from government to the industries themselves, essentially promoting self-regulation. One rule transfers assessment of the impact of ocean-fishing away from federal inspectors to advisory groups linked to the fishing industry. Another allows factory farms to self-regulate disposal of pollutant run-off.
The White House denies it is sabotaging the new administration. It says many of the moves have been openly flagged for months. The spate of rules is going to be hard for Obama to quickly overcome. By issuing them early in the ‘lame duck’ period of office, the Bush administration has mostly dodged 30- or 60-day time limits that would have made undoing them relatively straightforward.
Obama’s team will have to go through a more lengthy process of reversing them, as it is forced to open them to a period of public consulting. That means that undoing the damage could take months or even years, especially if corporations go to the courts to prevent changes.
At the same time, the Obama team will have a huge agenda on its plate as it inherits the economic crisis. Nevertheless, anti-midnight regulation groups are lobbying Obama’s transition team to make sure Bush’s new rules are changed as soon as possible. ‘They are aware of this. The transition team has a list of things they want to undo,’ said Madia.
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General Barry McCaffrey Exposed For The Ultimate Spineless Shill That He Is
One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex
By DAVID BARSTOW
In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity.
The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and help it win a huge prize: the right to supply Iraq with thousands of armored vehicles.
Access like this does not come cheap, but it was an opportunity potentially worth billions in sales, and Defense Solutions soon found its man. The company signed Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general and military analyst for NBC News, to a consulting contract starting June 15, 2007.
Four days later the general swung into action. He sent a personal note and 15-page briefing packet to David H. Petraeus, the commanding general in Iraq, strongly recommending Defense Solutions and its offer to supply Iraq with 5,000 armored vehicles from Eastern Europe. “No other proposal is quicker, less costly, or more certain to succeed,” he said.
Thus, within days of hiring General McCaffrey, the Defense Solutions sales pitch was in the hands of the American commander with the greatest influence over Iraq’s expanding military.
“That’s what I pay him for,” Timothy D. Ringgold, chief executive of Defense Solutions, said in an interview.
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President-Elect Barack Obama’s Press Conference | Dec 1 2008
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Good Ol’ Charlie Gibson Gets In One Final Bootlicking Of President George “W/Torture” Bush
Charles Gibson aboard for Bush interview
ABC anchor will boat to Camp David with first family
By Paul J. Gough
Nov 25, 2008, 06:18 PM ET
NEW YORK — During the same week Barbara Walters interviews the president-elect in Chicago, ABC’s “World News” anchor Charles Gibson will interview President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush during the holiday weekend.
Gibson will ride with the first family on Marine One from the White House to Camp David, then interview Mr. and Mrs. Bush there. Gibson will ask about the past eight years, the couple’s future plans and if they have any advice for Bush’s successor, Sen. Barack Obama, and his family.
The interview will air on Monday’s “World News With Charles Gibson” plus that show’s webcast, “Good Morning America” and elsewhere.
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I got to Friday Night Magic last night. I was quite short of sleep either Wednesday or Thursday, and I was pretty tired. I played my black and white lingering souls deck again. Match 1, Chris Manrique, who never plays Standard, had a black and white tokens deck pretty similar to mine. He had Suture Priests and Blood Artists. I won game 1. I sided in my Nihil Spellbombs to stop his Lingering Souls returning, never saw one in the next two games. Game 2, I fell over out of the starting gate and he never lost a life. Game 3 was a bit closer but his army came out quicker than mine. Match 2, Ramsey was playing a Venser flicker deck. Game 1, I was having land problems, he ramped into an acidic slime, and I scooped after he destroyed 2 of my lands. Game 2, he locked me down with Stonehorn Dignitary and got a Batterskull out to gain back all the life I'd managed to take him for. Match 3, Palmer was playing U/G Invisible Stalker. Game 1, he got a Spectral Flight and two Curiosities on a stalker while I was getting nothing, and he got me, but the next two games my deck came out a bit quicker. Match 4, against Phil Stanton, who is a good, experienced player, he doesn't usually play Standard but if he did I would't expect him to be 1-2 after 3 rounds. I didn't quite get the point of his deck; it had Huntmasters and Lingering Souls, both of which are excellent, but they didn't really seem to be working together, and I took both games. 2-2 overall, but my tiebreaks were terrible, and I was about 14th. My door prize was a Rainbow, it had an Autumn-Tail in it. By the third match, I felt so fatigued that I got confused with keeping track of life totals; even though I didn't feel too bad, I was quite sure I couldn't stay for after draft at that point. Dave announced that instead of the standard bring your own boosters after draft, it would be M12-M11-M10, which I would have been annoyed about. I was home by 11:15.
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How to Design a Life – Debbie Millman (#214)
Topics: CategoriesThe Tim Ferriss Show
“Hard decisions are only hard when you’re in the process of making them.”
– Debbie Millman
For some of you, this may be most important podcast episode you ever listen to. I don’t say that lightly.
It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my guest, who walks us through gripping stories, tactical details, humor, pain, and emotional redemption. We cover some sensitive and extremely important ground. Thank you, Debbie.
Graphic Design USA has named Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman) “one of the most influential designers working today.” She is also the founder and host of Design Matters, the world’s first and longest-running podcast about design, where she’s interviewed nearly 300 design luminaries and cultural commentators including Massimo Vignelli and Milton Glaser.
Debbie’s done it all. Her artwork has been exhibited around the world. She’s designed everything from wrapping paper to beach towels, greeting cards to playing cards, notebooks to t-shirts, and Star Wars merchandise to global Burger King rebrands.
Debbie is the President Emeritus of AIGA (one of only five women to hold the position in the organization’s one-hundred-year history), the editorial and creative director of Print magazine, and the author of six books. In 2009, Debbie co-founded (with Steven Heller) the world’s first masters program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, which has received international acclaim.
We cover a lot in this discussion: how to recover from rejection, how to overcome personal crises of faith, class exercises from her most impactful mentors, and much more.
Please enjoy (and reflect on) this wide-ranging conversation with Debbie Millman…
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Connect with Debbie Millman:
Twitter | Website | Facebook | Instagram | Design Matters Podcast
AIGA (Founded in 1914 as the American Institute of Graphic Arts)
The Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts
Books by Debbie Millman
See Debbie’s childhood drawing that predicted her future in this interview with The Great Discontent.
The Complete Gidget Collection
Working on the UAlbany student newspaper is where Debbie was bitten by the design bug.
Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
NO MORE | Joyful Heart Foundation
HOT 97 | Where Hip Hop Lives
Sterling Brands
Eleven Madison Park Restaurant
365 | Design Effectiveness Competition
AIGA: Sold Out — the Speak Up open letter by Felix Sockwell and its follow up, Is the Dark Side Prevailing?
Stop Being Sheep (PDF)
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger
Debbie in Ironic Chef garb
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman
Wally Olins: The Brand Handbook
This is Historic Times by M. Kingsley & Debbie Millman, Speak Up
Al Pacino in The Godfather: Part III
Don’t know a lot about design? Debbie recommends checking out her interviews with Chris Ware, Amanda Palmer, Alain de Botton, Krista Tippett, Nico Muhly, and…Tim Ferriss. (Thanks!)
As someone who has such a diverse tapestry of backgrounds, how does Debbie describe what she does to someone she meets for the first time? [07:14]
How a rediscovered childhood drawing predicted Debbie’s future. [09:13]
Debbie never set out to become a designer. [14:47]
On being thwarted by (and recovering from) initial rejection. [21:59]
What would Debbie say to her college self after her first big rejection? [26:38]
Empathy for those who reject us vs. feeling slighted by them. [30:53]
How did a lifelong desire to live in Manhattan figure into Debbie’s pursuit of happiness and influence what she does today? [36:54]
Debbie talks frankly about a history of abuse, and how it guided her desire for self-sufficiency and her work with NO MORE and the Joyful Heart Foundation. [44:34]
On coping with the aftermath of abuse and feeling profoundly alone because the ordeal seems “so surreal, and unnatural, and punishing.” [51:18]
Debbie tells us what it was like to be called a “corporate clown” and a “she-devil.” [57:57]
The lowest point becomes the catalyst: the journey from she-devil to godmother. [1:14:21]
Brochures can change the world. [1:18:07]
The origins of Debbie’s Design Matters podcast, and how it’s changed over the course of twelve years. [1:24:08]
Debbie explains the impact of Milton Glaser on the world of design and her life. [1:28:03]
Debbie shares “Your Ten-Year Plan for a Remarkable Life” exercise she modified from Milton Glaser and teaches in her classes. [1:33:51]
“Hard decisions are only hard when you’re in the process of making them.” [1:40:00]
Design Matters episodes Debbie recommends for people who might not know much about design. [1:49:50]
Robert Edelstein
Scarlett O’Hara
Maile Zambuto
Felix Sockwell
Dave Weinberger
Walter Landor
Armin Vit
Erik Spiekermann
Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Paul Archer
Joyce Rutter Kaye
Mark Kingsley
Bill Drenttel
Simon Williams
Austin McGhie
Naval Ravikant
Krista Tippett
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106 Replies to “How to Design a Life – Debbie Millman (#214)”
rsterbal says:
I hope people also join the conversation in one of the numerous Facebook groups that have been created around Tim and his work.
StevanPopo says:
Is there any one group in particular that you’d recommend? I’d be keen to join.
stupidpsychology says:
Thank you Debbie (and Tim.) I relate a lot with her early life and drive. I find it meaningful to hear these stories of healing and personal triumph; not only does it remind me that I’m not alone, but also how strong and expansive the human spirit is. She’s a warrior and her courage should be applauded as much as her many accomplishments.
kamal.sabi says:
WOW !!! words alone cannot describe how i feel right now after listening to this podcast. Thank you so much for having her on your show and thanks to Debbie as well for sharing her life story with us. Again, thank you Tim, you are the best !!!
Prashant Pillai says:
This podcast is absolutely of super value Tim. The way Debbie puts in her “Ten-Year Plan for a Remarkable Life” shifts you into a reflective mode right away.
Terry Curry says:
Tim! I bought your new book to read while backpacking Southeast Asia and it’s way to heavy! I hold you personally responsible for the entire situation because I wouldn’t be here without the 4HWW and I wouldn’t have this stupidly heavy book I don’t want to leave behind if you could just stick to your investing!
I’m going to need to leave it at a book exchange in Thailand.. any chance you can send me a digital copy so the heartbreak isn’t so real?
ya ya ya says:
Which bookstore? I can go find it at discount lol.
Derian says:
Love the part about dealing with rejection! Great podcast Tim.
Tim, I love your podcast and am willing to read Tools of Titans. It´s the next one waiting for me on my list 🙂
Congrats for the great work
Meeghan Murdoch says:
I found you via another podcast and have begun listening to yours as well as buying Tools of the Titans, which I love! It was the perfect Christmas gift to myself. ありがとうございます
McCrazy says:
Wow what an amazing woman!
I’m going to work on that 10 year plan exercise right now – thanks for the gift.
Tim, looks awesome.
Please interview Derren Brown. He was the real life basis for the TV show ‘The Mentalist’.
a simpler version of the exercise can be any perfect average sustainable day, without exception or consequences ( e.g. if arm is broken, its not broken, can’t do crystal meth and heli skiing every day)
Dalibor Vaněk says:
Why children are able to draw a future life explains psychology theory of Eric Berne. Acording to his theory people unconsciously choose life path at age 6-10 by unconscious decition and later by unconsciously following that decition. Berne explains it in book What Do You Say After You Say Hello.
Asmaa says:
As an architect and designer, I have great fascination for other creative people’s design process and just overall life design. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of Design Matters ! Might be because I live in France, and the podcast “culture” is not there yet.
Anyhow, I loved the interview, must be one of my favorites. I was very touched by her sincerity when telling her life story. I related very well to the part where she explained how sensitive she was and how hard it was to take rejection. Inspite of fear, humiliation or shame, everything happens for a reason or at least, there’s always a silver lining if you care to look.
Also, I did a version of the 10 year-plan a couple of years ago, I should definitely take a look back at it.
To answer your QOTD, my favorite quote from the interview is : “In order to take that first step, you need courage and that’s much more important than confidence. So for all you who are waiting for that confidence to show up, take that first step in that moment of courage, even it’s abhorrent courage.”
Off to listen to Design Matters !
Bharat Sarollia says:
1, “Aberrant moment of courage”
2, “Don’t accept the first rejection ever – give yourself options”
3, “Don’t ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence or busyness”
4, “Ambiguity is always perceived negativity”
I couldn’t choose one Tim, so here are my top four. If you use them as chapter headings you could write a narrative piece of a person on the first part of achieving their first dream.
laughingirl71 says:
This is from my blog today…”She is also the survivor of some pretty horrific childhood shit. Debbie very pragmatically states, “I spent the first 18 years of my life in constant terror.” She continues to say that she doesn’t share this part of her life very often (a testament to Tim’s interviewing skills) because she has so much shame.
Millman now does some work with the Joyful Heart Foundation. (an organization founded by Law and Order SVU’s Mariska Hargitay in response to the cries for help she received from REAL survivors of abuse) She states that her skills as a designer and branding expertise, dovetailed with her personal background, led her to feel as though “her whole life makes sense.”
TIM’S RESPONSE? (and this is the money, this is MY TAKE AWAY)
“I HAVE HAD MY OWN BATTLES WITH DARKNESS. IT’S VERY EASY TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE ALONE OR ISOLATED.” THEY DISCUSS FURTHER, AND DEBBIE SIMPLY STATES, “I FELT LIKE I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD THIS WAS HAPPENING TO.”
Tim, your interviews are long form, and I catch them when I’m walking, but dayum, you’re GOOD at what you do. . And the content of this podcast is proof of your skills. And maybe even proof that you have a soul. Bwahhahaaa.
Trevor Howell says:
Hey Tim, I saw your pilot episode of gym cribs with Kelley Starrett and thought it was fantastic! I am biased however… having earned my MS in Kinesiology, working as a strength and conditioning coach with the Baltimore Orioles and being a local gym owner. My name is Trevor Howell and I live just down the road from you In Pebble Beach, California. Anyway, I have a beautiful home garage gym including a washer and dryer! Haha. Joking aside, if you would like to film another episode and you think my credentials and proximity are appealing then let me know! I also have access to some very cool flywheel technologies that you, the great tinkerer/explorer might be interested in.
Trevor Howell
Carolyn Porter says:
Remarkable interview. Debbie is so honest about success and rejection. Love her idea of imagining life in ten years and reading it every year.
Vero Guevara says:
Great episode. She’s brilliant, resilient and inspiring. Thank you Tim!
Another great interview! Formula One style learning as usual! Tim, will you be contributing to the fight of Opiate addiction? Your approach towards learning and breaking subjects down could be a huge benifit to this epidemic. I encourge you to look at the dichotomy between use and medicinal treatments. Thanks bro!
She had me at red soled boots.
alexhabiby says:
I wanted to have her instructions for the 10 year plan for a remarkable life written down so I transcribed them and figured other people would like the instructions as well:
“It is Winter 2027. What does your life look like? What are you doing? Where are you living? Who are you living with? Do you have pets? What kind of house are you in? Is it an apartment are you in the city are you in the country? What does your furniture look like? What is your bed like? What are your sheets like? What kind of clothes do you wear? What kind of hair do you have? Tell me about your pets, tell me about your significant other, do you have children? do you have a car? Do you have a boat? Talk about your career? What do you want? What are you reading? What are you making? What excites you? What is your health like? Write this one day ten years from now. So one day in the winter of 2027, what does your whole day look like? Start from the minute you wake up, brush your teeth, have your coffee or tea, all the way through until minute you tuck yourself in at night. What is that day like for you? Dream big, dream without any fear. Write it all down. You don’t have to share it with anyone other than yourself. Put your whole heart into it. Write like there is no tomorrow; write like your life depends on it because it does. And then read it, once a year, and see what happens.”
Nic Kuiper says:
Cheers! Much appreciated.
Much appreciated! Thanks.
Kevin Brennan says:
Thank you Alex Habiby – I immediately copied for next weekend’s journalling.
Awesome, and you called it. I was going to go searching for this myself! Thanks, Alex!
Chris Burfield says:
Frank Kern taught me this exercise years ago…I’m sure he got from someone else. Start by describing the perfect day….because the perfect day leads to the perfect wrk, day, month, year, decade, century.
Adrianne. says:
Thanks Alex, exactly what we needed.
mattlriddle says:
Thanks. Was trolling the web just for this. I didn’t want to relisten to it but read it.
Conor Sweetman says:
You are a legend. Thanks!
kristyharris says:
Love this! On my to do list for a couple of weeks. Off to do it today!
Outstanding! The way Debbie sets up the exercise is really powerful. Thanks for transcribing the instructions.
arlynab says:
I was very impressed with the 10 yr plan essay and brought tear to my eyes. I am 74 and will do this exercise and wish that I had someone to advise me when I was younger. Tim you are my favorite interviewer and I have purchased 2 of your 4 books, the 4 hr body and Tools are so usedful to people of any age. THanks for what you are doing.
Texas Hippie says:
This episode was wonderful throughout, but I was most struck with how candid she was about her childhood assaults. As a male who has gone through similar traumas, I applaud you for working to help the foundations targeting preventing these sorts of abuses from happening, but especially focus on helping to rebuild the lives of the victims. You are truly an inspiration! I totally understand the feelings of being alone due to the abuse, and have been in therapy to focus on those feelings in myself. Thank you for sharing yourself with the podcast, and know that you have been a tremendous force for good in the world!
Dave Johnson says:
Incredible. IMO one of Tim’s best ever podcasts Thanks so much Debbie.
Zyra Meholli says:
My 10 year plan has 9 full pages of what I like a day to look like in the future. Amazing exercise. Only when we apply what we learn will we see a difference in our lives. Absolutely loved this interview. Big fan of the podcast and thank you for your service!
Absolutely the best episode!
Thank you, Tim and Debbie for sharing such incredible wisdom. Had goosebumps listening to her stories… Keep up the amazing work.
Panagides says:
Perhaps one of my all time favorite podcasts because Debbie shared timeless life lessons that often reaffirm how life happens for us and not to us. We might hold grudges or resent certain situations, but if we choose, they can serve as beautiful gifts to be opened in the future. Thank you Tim and Debbie.
Hi Timothy – I just sent you an email on linked in (not business related but I didn’t want to post it on here – too embarrassing!)! Hopefully you make some time to read it! Enjoy the weekend. Moni B
Thank You Tim !
What would you suggest / advise for someone ( like me ) who lack imagination and are living by default , in going through the 5 year or 10’year excercise ?
Varia says:
I was skeptical about the opening comment (“this may be most important podcast episode you ever listen to”) until I got 3/4 of the way through the interview. Nothing resonated until she described that exercise. I’m doing it now. I think it can be life-changing. It’s not a new concept (you yourself prescribe something similar in 4HWW) but for some reason the way she described me has given me the fire to REALLY do it and take it seriously this time. Thank you for another delightful episode – there truly is something to take away from every one.
I guess it’s not 3/4, it’s more like 9/10ths 🙂
Armond Mehrabian says:
I’m 1hr 11minutes into it and still wondering “so where’s the ‘most important ever’ part coming. So I should listen to the rest of it?
I just listened to the “10 year plan for a remarkable life” which starts at 1:33:51. In fact, I just started the sentence “It’s Monday in January 2027 and I woke up at 5am to go to the gym.” I like where this is going already.
Roger K says:
Strangely enough, my lesson was listening to her voice. It was warm, and drew you in, which one would not have expected from a NYer that was dealing with trauma and abuse. Instead of walls, she welcomes; I see that as a triumph in human spirit. Other lesson was the “where” you live. I don’t think that gets enough attention when people design their lives, and for some people it is the most important thing. For some, it is not. Good interview, I will have to go back and listen to her podcast now.
Phenomenal conclusion to the podcast. This was the first time I had heard of Debbie Millman and Tim’s edification of her set the bar very high and it didn’t seem like it was going to get there until BAM! The 10 year exercise and Debbie’s decision making agony landed like a ton of bricks. Afterwards I listened to Tim on Debbie’s podcast and the two conversations combined make an extremely impactful whole. Tim’s tireless work and the insights from Tony Robbins, Ramit Sethi and Kamal Ravikant have kept me going when all I wanted to do is just throw in the ultimate towel.
TanyaM says:
Wonderful podcast. Debbie’s experiences with rejection (or perceived rejection) rang true, particularly from my younger days. What Tim shared also seemed familiar. Good to know I’m not the only one and continue to learn to pause and reconsider. Thanks to Alex H for writing out the 10 year plan. I’ll certainly try it.
Angela Shurina says:
Thank you so much for this one guys!
I love you both!
“Dream BIG.
Dream without any fear.
Put your whole heart into it.
Write, like there is no tomorrow.
Write, like your life depends on it.
Write and see what happens.
It’s MAGIC.”
I’m so fascinated and inspired by Debbie’s journey!
I moved to Manhattan, NYC, from Siberia 6 months ago.
Went through hell and now magic starts happening.
I just felt I got to be there.
That was my life path.
I had to make it happen.
That was my goal.
This place making me more me and It’s only beginning…
December 31st 2016.
I wrote down EXACTLY what I want to happen now.
Fitness/spokes model
Online health business
My own health products…
My own show…
And I am on my way…:) IT’s MAGIC!
Thank you Debbie and Tim! Thank you SO MUCH!
I’m happy to hear about Debbie’s success. It was very refreshing to listen to her honesty. I too jumped around after I (also) graduated from college in 1983. I’m on the West Coast but I can relate to a lot of her story. I too was always into being creative, and realize I still live my life that way, no formula wanted. I’m a bit too defiant to give up on my success story, even though I still goof up. Thanks, Tim, for your enlightening interviews and for showcasing some great people.
Mr Dee says:
I actually found that intensely uncomfortable to listen to, but fascinating and engrossing, non the less.
Interesting point about how feeling that rejection is final, and the end of the story.
I wonder how that idea develops in the mind?
Well worth listening all the way, for the 10 year plan bit towards the end.
Kelsey Hallmon says:
There have been 3 Tim Ferriss podcasts that have had a profound, lasting impact on my life.
#1 – Sebastian Hunger.
#2 – Jamie Foxx.
#3 – This one! Debbie Millman.
Thank you Debbie, for being so open and candid! Tim – superb interviewing skills with this one (as always; x10 with this one). You did a fantastic job listening, delving deeper, and respecting Debbie when she brought up deep topics.
The 10 Year Plan for a Remarkable Life is BRILLIANT – I will be writing my essay tonight.
Tim, please do an Episode 2 with Debbie. This was beyond fantastic; I take my hat off to both of you!
Sturmfrei says:
Hi Tim !
I got the best gift for my birthday after weeks of depression and feeling the lowest low for the first time ever in my life. Gift was finding your podcast…..(also my first podcast). I picked episode # 210. I immediately felt my life was and could be more than what I was thinking it to be. Since then I have got books (Rumi, Ernest Hemmingway, Tool Of Titans, 4HourWorkWeek, 4 Hour Body(audible)), started my morning pages, meditating and found myself being a whole new person. I got myself out of the dump that I found myself in and came out stronger. I continue listening to your podcasts and discovering myself to be capable of so much more, feeling wiser, stronger and courageous with each podcast. I am excited to see how I shape myself in the next couple of months with all these tools that I have gathered from your podcast. It amazing how through your work you have helped many like me by steering us towards such wonderful treasures of wisdom and saved us …or given us a new life.
BJ Paul says:
hii all..
Glad to be part of this community
Josh Miles says:
Tim – excellent interview! I had the honor of interviewing debbie as the first episode of my show as well. If you’re planning on a round two, there might be some bits you’d enjoy digging into:
Joel Drake Smith says:
My favorite podcast so far! Thank you.
sjcolegrove says:
Recommended guest: Werner Herzog
That conversation could be mind blowing
She seems like a very likable person. But your best ever podcast episode? I’m 1 hour and 10 minutes into it. So maybe it gets better.
It’s definitely not the “best” for everyone, but for those dealing with similar issues or traumas, I would wager so.
Totally agree and validated by the many comments.
I just listened to the “10 year plan for a remarkable life”. In fact, I just started the sentence “It’s Monday in January 2027 and I woke up at 5am to go to the gym.” I like where this is going already.
When are you coming to San Diego?
A.Y. says:
Kudos to you, Tim, for making Debbie feel so comfortable to open up. It reminded me of your strategies for podcasting as explained in Tools of Titans.
Thanks for everything. You are a constant inspiration for me!
PS: The book has several references to Argentina (mate, Malbec, Borges) which shows you still have us in your mind. Need to come back here ASAP!
was definitely best for me! I felt like it’s my story with a happy ending (especially Manhattan part) 🙂 gave me more inspiration.
Tim, thank you sooooo much for this episode! As a female and as a graphic designer who graduated the same year as Debbie, I could really relate. She’s such a great speaker, so articulate, so easy to listen to. Loved listening to her journey, the lessons she imparted. It’s refreshing to hear someone other than a health or workout fanatic. That drawing she made as an eight year old? That is amazing!!!!!
A punch in the nose of profundity here, thank you so much Debbie. And, so apt for early into January 🙂
I started journalling daily since before Christmas during annual review (finally, thank Tim) and the exercise is scheduled for my longer sit next weekend. I hope to let you both know how the magic turned out in 5 years time!
I most valued the discussion around the one most important thing – and Tim’s interjection on how we tend to underestimate “the where”:
“humans tend to put why at the top, what somewhere lower and the where as an after thought. But the where is much more critical than we give it credit for and you can start there…the geography defines who we’re surrounded by all the time…”.
For the ocean (surfing) and its eclectic searching soul, I left London from San Francisco six years ago and that decision explains much…
Part II please!
freedom40guy says:
Another great podcast with tons of great take-aways! Thanks Tim!
David Giltner says:
Wow. Thank you so much to both of you for this episode. Debbie – what wonderful insight, delivered with such sincerity and authenticity. Your description of the 10 Year Plan for a Remarkable Life was so much more powerful in audio format. It would not have moved me the way it did if I had read it in print. You really sold it.
Tim – This is your best episode yet. Please keep this up. You really have something here.
Anelxander Perez says:
Brilliant podcast! Thanks Tim and Debbie, the 10-Year Plan was one my takes from this interview, I’ve recently working on that but this has expanded my perspective. Fantastic interview, thanks Debbie for being open about the life experiences you shared.
Hugs from Australia
OHMYGOSH!! I know I already posted my favorite take away: “We’re NOT alone!!”
I also determined to do the Life writing exercise, TODAY. Historically, I have had trouble completing such activities, as I just had no vision, no hope, and didn’t dare to DREAM BIG. (that’s changing!!)
So, today, this happened. LOL. Words are powerful. I’m sorry it’s long form, but dayum…sometimes I just have to tell the story!!
FOUR YEARS AGO, dyslexia was NOT on my radar. I was a traditional classroom teacher in a 4th and 5th grade English Language Arts class. My journey to become a dyslexia therapist would not even be a thought in my mind or heart for 2.5 more years. (I am currently completing a post-grad 2 year program to become a certified academic language and dyslexia therapist. This program EATS MY LUNCH, but that’s another post)
Today, THIS interaction popped up in my Facebook page memories:
I HAD A COLLEAGUE INFORM ME TODAY THAT SHE “WOULD NOT HAVE HER STUDENTS WRITE FAIRY TALES BECAUSE IT WAS FRIVOLOUS AND SHE DIDN’T HAVE ANY WALT DISNEY’S IN HER CLASS.” I TOLD HER I FULLY PLANNED ON TEACHING WALT, AND HAVING HIM THANK ME PERSONALLY IN HIS OSCAR SPEECH.
Walt Disney had dyslexia, which I had NO CLUE about at the time. I just knew that I loved fairy tales (still do) and that reading and writing them brought joy, imagination, and hope to both myself and my students.
Be careful what you say. Words are POWERFUL. What are the stories we tell ourselves? Are we too fat? Too female? Too weak? Too drunk? Too poor? Too depressed? Too MUCH? Change your words, change your story, write your own fairy tale. YOU. DO. YOU. And I’m going to keep on doing me. As challenging as that has historically proven to be!
Here’s to all the Walt’s in the world. And to Fairy Tales.
Richard Czerniawski says:
Hi Tim. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this podcast with Debbie. I was touched by her many challenges. She is a most resilient and courageous person. I learned a lot from listening to her and, while I’m 69-years old (and still doing the work I love), I will write out a day in my life 5-years hence. (At my age I don’t want to press with 10-years. There’s an old saying, “When (wo)man plans God laughs. Haha.) Here’s wishing you and Debbie much joy, success and good health in the many years to come. Peace and abundant blessings, Richard
Mark Lazenby says:
For me, your best interview so far Tim. Thank you Tim and thank you Debbie. I’ve done the 10 year exercise before but, from the starting point of ‘if money was no object’ Debbie’s starting point of ‘if you could do anything you wanted without any fear of failure’ is such a better place to start.
Hi Tim, I would really appreciate if you could make a small audio of the thought exercise (remarkable life) in the same fashion you did with Tony Robbins gratitude exercise. I believe other people would find value in it as well. What do you think?
Dijana says:
Great episode, thank you both! I got so much out of it, and at a very challenging and, dare I say, critical point in my life.
Weirdly, serendipitously, unexpectedly, I am in a middle of making big, critical decisions that I keep putting off; when all I really want is to travel the Dalmatian coast (I speak the language but my cat doesn’t) and have a go at a six month mini retirement project. So I did the obvious thing and bought Tools of the Titans. Wonderful stuff.
Joachim Chen says:
Truthfully, when Debbie describes the Ten Year Plan, there’s a bit of podcast magic there. It just brings you into a meditative and reflective state.
Jeremy Friedberg says:
When I first started this episode I wanted to end it after 5 minutes. Not because it was bad but probably because I was not really listening. Today it started up automatically where it left off and WOW I am glad I continued to listen.
One of the best interviews I have heard to date, specifically with regards of how rejection lead to major shift in Debbie´s life.
I will be using the 10 year essay with my team as well.
DNA2907 says:
I was very taken with the section about the 10 year plan and had started to write it. By chance I then heard Duncan Trussell’s interview with Jordan Peterson – about half way into that they talk about Peterson’s self-authoring program which seems to me like a much expanded version of what Debbie is talking about with added benefit of sections that explore your past and present to help to free you of psychological obstacles that are hindering you realising your plan. The Peterson interview is well worth listening to (he would be a great guest on Tim’s podcast) and also explore his website: http://selfauthoring.com
Beautiful monologue by Debbie Millman. Sweet. Smart. Honest.
She talks about healing, about shifting her negative inner voice to a positive one. When her inner negative voice whispers doubts and insecurities, she voices them out loud. ” I was trying to be sexy but that didn’t work.”
Debbie might not have healed everything she needs to heal but she imposes the discipline of honesty on herself. Very few people openly share with others when they feel inadequate. Constantly striving to be truthful with oneself and others is the only true healing. The journey to process our shadow self and ‘heal’ never ends, there is one layer of shadow-self after another. The braver you are, the more honesty you can withstand. Debbie is a champ.
I think the more spiritually evolved we are as human beings, the funnier we naturally become because pure honesty is hilarious. Debbie made me laugh so much. Her saying something and doing the opposite, being insecure, being overly self-aware, all of it is funny. We are all insecure, incoherent, and scared. Serious people are always the most scared and insecure ones and as they use seriousness to try n hide it. If you’ve got little to hide, you’re naturally funny.
Thanks to Debbie and thanks to you.
Please disregard. I confused Debbie Millman and Whitney Cummings.
Kevin Shelton says:
I did the exercise as a 5 year exercise I am not of college age anymore. I have been on a runner’s high ever. A copy of the link to my shrink, a copy of the link to my wife, and copies of the link out to a few friends.
I highly suggest doing a list at the end of the exercise. It provided a ton of clarity for me while the prose was from the heart. I found writing as I looped back Debbie’s instructions was really helpful. Her voice, particularly during the instruction of “write like your life depends on it….because it does” gave the exercise additional meaning.
Absolutely fantastic stuff! I will be returning to my list weekly and look forward to re-reading the prose next year.
Much appreciated Tim! Looking forward to the inevitable part 2 with Debbie.
Jeremiah Ashcraft says:
I had some similar ups and downs, and I’m actually going into a design program later this year.
Wow! I went through Debbie’s exercise and wrote (what looks like an essay) on “My Remarkable Life” in 2027. What a powerful exercise! I feel goose bumps with excitement and was left with a confidence that my dreams really will be my reality. I look forward to reviewing this annually.
Tim – I am new to your blog and podcasts, but after just a few months of listening and reading The Four Hour Workweek, you have me hooked. (My husband has been following you for years now, and went to your latest live podcast in NYC, but I have been missing out all of these years, and kicking myself for not listening to you sooner.)
I had a question for you or any others who read this post. (It’s not directly tied to Debbie’s podcast, but I was not sure how frequently the blog comments were read on prior posts that may be more applicable.)
I have decided to open an e-commerce store and would like to find a mentor or coach who could assist me with some questions on the initial set-up. (I have done a lot of research myself, however I am almost bordering on too much research, and want some assistance in drawing me back in.) I have come across many self-declared “experts” in the field, but I’d like to work with someone who comes recommended, rather than just picking someone blindly(especially since some charge $1,000+). Are there any coaches or mentors that you would suggest?
C Martin Bullard says:
Hi Tim, excellent podcast! Ms. Millman mentions being in a long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy – I wonder how many of your other Titans are as well? I am a psychoanalyst & know the (slow, inexorable & deep healing) power of this practice. You yourself might be interested in psychoanalysis as subject for study. It is a very deep & very storied “life hack” method. Keep up the excellent work Tim!! Regards!!
Tim, I have been an avid listener of this podcast for the last two and half years, but this episode brought tears to my eyes and so much inspiration. I started my career in graphic design and buried myself in my work at a young age to escape a similar upbringing. Just want you to know this podcast at least made a huge impact on one of your listeners, thanks for doing what you do!
Deletememories says:
Im happy you dare to speak up. It tears up long buried childhood pains and abuse. But it’s needed. I can’t speak up as the person abusing me was my father and it would break my mother’s heart. I never had pro counseling on the issue. I think it’s time to reach out for help now, 26 years later. As I was hoping I’d forget it or the horror would go but it never did… So there is help out there. Thanks for sharing it.
Marta Perales says:
Tim, I have not finished listening to the episode; and I don’t want it to end. Thanks so much for having her; and thanks to Debbie for sharing so much. This one will probably be one of those that I want to back and listen often. She’s amazing, and my heart is broken for everything she went through. Looking forward to finish listening to it. Really, THANK YOU
“Don’t accept the first rejection, ever.”
sandrajhodges says:
Debbie Millman – for 2 days I have been teaching my 4 classes to write their “My 10 Year Plan for a Remarkable Life”. Very remarkable, inspirational, and invigorating. Students quiet, talking about the task, questions, then “wow, I love this”, “can I take it home and work on it?”, and others stumbling, finding their way today. Thank YOU! I Love this picture! of you and Mrs. Obama. I was posting this on FB, but we are not friends there.
Jennifer Davison says:
Fantastic interview. I wonder if Tim and Debbie think the “10 year plan excercise” can also work magically for those of us who are not student age, I. e. at the beginning of their professional lives, but rather in the middle of their lives or at some sort of crossroads. Does it make sense to “dream big” if it’s not all out in front of you any more? Thanks for what you are sharing with all of us!
Hi Tim. Thanks for a great episode.
And thanks for probing her on the specifics of her practices. Particularly the 10 year plan exercise.
And great call leaving the interview at that – on a good rep! Cheers!
freejuniper says:
I loved listening to this. I want to hear more on the geography-happiness topic!
Jessica Lustbader says:
Tim, re: your comment on the importance of where you live. Have you ever read the Paul Graham essay, “Cities and ambition?” I think you’ll enjoy it! http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
ASMAA SAAD says:
Loved the article ! Thank you for sharing the link.
Joe Boccardo says:
Thank you (and Tim) for sharing this. This essay is perfect.
Carolina Bautista Rivera says:
I absolutely loved this episode. My favorite pice besides the “remarkable life essay” is when she talks about rejection. “Don’t accept the first rejection ever”. She is amazing, she really has master a life designing and the way she communicates it is so touching and real. Great episode!
shafiq says:
just love your website, that’s it for now
reeveschristian says:
Tim, after hearing you and Debbie’s conversation about Manhattan living and re-reading PG’s essay about Cities and Ambition from your rec via 5 bullet Friday, I immediately thought of a book exploring the same topic that I read last year and thought I’d recommend (although it’s likely you’ve already read!). It’s called “Geography of Genius”, by Eric Weiner. Aside from that, I’d also like to thank you for your body of work and the transparency with which you pursue Truth. Coming across your work as a Freshman in college sparked my own interest in continual personal evolution and truth-seeking and an intellectual curiosity that I don’t think I would have had the courage to explore so early and at such depths without your work. Keep up the good living man!
Nayereh Pater-Rov says:
Outstanding episode. Debbie Millman really nailed the systems versus goals approach.
Jackson Potter says:
In regards to your chosen quote at the top. That’s the worst quote I’ve ever read. You can’t more blatantly state the absolute obvious better than that.
Kaitlin says:
Great episode! Debbie mentioned a book at 1:11:40 called Cool Girl. I can’t find it! Does anyone know which book she’s talking about?
Thanks for taking the time to record this. I really like Debbie’s distinction between courage (doing something the first time) and confidence (which comes from doing something repeatedly). I think this distinction alone can help people to feel as if they can take on something new.
Thank you for this amazing episode. I have listened to this already three times so far!
Thank you thank you! My mind is blown – this episode gets better and better and better as it goes on. Is it possible to get a transcript? My bf is hard of hearing and I would love for everyone I know to be able to access this amazingness, especially him! Thank you, again.
ChrisD says:
I’d love to see an interview with Dr. Carol Dweck! This episode was fabulous, and based on the conversations you both had around bouncing back from challenging feedback I think you’d love her work. Plus I know her book has been mentioned by other guests.
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T Mark Hightower – Truth Seeking Pluralist
Christian Universalism, Flat Earth Debunking, Spherical Earth Affirming
Tag: Sundance Flying Club
William Donald Hightower Sr. as 17 year old flying student at Reid’s Hillview Airport 1945
Those who knew and flew with my dad during his 60 + year flying career should especially appreciate this article from over 70 years ago.
Flying Taught Here In From 8 To 12 Hours (San Jose News 1945)
(from personally scanned newspaper clipping)
Flying instruction is now available to civilians at Orcutt’s Flight Service at Reid’s Hillview Air Field, East of San Jose. Don and Harold Orcutt, operators of the Service, report that it takes less than a dozen hours of instruction to learn to solo and costs a little over $100. Shown above, left to right, are Don Orcutt and Bill Hightower, student pilot; Harold Orcutt Jr., in the cockpit, and Harold Orcutt Sr., spinning the propeller on the plane in the foreground. — San Jose News photo.
By PATRICIA LOOMIS
It takes only 8 to 12 hours to learn to fly.
Some 30 flying students are now receiving flying instructions at Orcutt’s Flight Service School, Reid’s Hillview Air Field, on the east side of San Jose, and most will be ready to solo after less than a dozen hours of instruction, according to Harold Orcutt, who with his brother, Don, operates the Flight Service.
Planes used in the war training program — Aeroncas, Ryans and Fairchilds — are used in instructing students at the field, Orcutt said, and the school is operated in accord with the wartime ruling against pleasure flights.
TWO INSTRUCTORS
The school has two instructors, Miss Florence Emig, daughter of Sheriff William J. Emig, and Don Orcutt. Miss Emig, former member of the San Jose State College Flying Club, taught flying at the Reno Flying School, Nev., and was graduated from the Ferry Command School, Air Transport Service, in Texas last December.
Don Orcutt was a civilian flying instructor at Thunderbird Army Air Field, Ariz., for over two years before coming to San Jose last March to open the first civilian flying school since the Army stopped civilian aviation on the Coast shortly after Pearl Harbor.
There are seven planes available at the school, with from 65 to 175 horsepower, Harold Orcutt said. He served in the AAF over four years in the 1920’s as a parachute rigger and station meteorologist. After leaving the Air Corps, and up until a year ago, he operated a string of “juke” boxes in this area.
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Marine kills two at Quantico base, takes own life
March 22 - A U.S. Marine shot dead two fellow service members at a base at Quantico, Virginia, then barricaded himself in a building and killed himself, prompting a brief lockdown of the base, Marines' base commander Col. David Maxwell says. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Rookies expect Cam Reddish, not Zion Williamson, to have best NBA career of 2019 class
Sporting News 19 August 2019, 21:49 UTC
Zion Williamson’s fellow rookies do not expect him to have the best career of the players in his draft class.
Only 5% of respondents in the league’s annual rookie survey said Williamson would have the best career of the 2019 draftees. Reddish, meanwhile, received 19% of the vote for the question. Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (16%) and Hawks forward De'Andre Hunter (11%) also ranked higher than Williamson.
Three other players — Jaxson Hayes (Pelicans), RJ Barrett (Knicks) and Coby White (Bulls) — matched Williamson at 5%.
Reddish, who was selected No. 10 by the Hawks, and Williamson were teammates at Duke.
Williamson was the story of college basketball at Duke last season and averaged 22.6 points, along with 8.9 rebounds, while shooting 68% from the field. He was the consensus top prospect in the 2019 draft and the Pelicans chose him with the No. 1 pick.
"I see myself trying to step into a leadership role," Williamson told reporters shortly after he was drafted. “When I think about doing that, I have to also understand my teammates and understand where their heads are at. If you're not on the same page, things don't usually go well.
"I think it's a matter of us coming together, making the same goals and just willing to win, and I think we can do something special."
The Pelicans’ roster underwent a major overhaul this summer. In addition to adding Williamson, they sent star Anthony Davis to the Lakers in exchange for Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart and multiple first-round picks. New Orleans signed veterans Derrick Favors and JJ Redick, as well.
"Look at what the NBA has become, and the way teams are built," Pelicans vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said last month. "You can't dream big enough in this league. I think I want everyone's approach to this to be, 'Why not us?'”
MORE: Zion Williamson says he wants to stay with Pelicans for entire career | Pelicans' David Griffin thinks future of team is 'crazy' good | Jrue Holiday discusses Pelicans trading Anthony Davis to Lakers, drafting Zion Williamson
Williamson is favored to win the Rookie of the Year among members of his draft class, as 35% of respondents in the survey predicted he’d take home the award.
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By Joe Stapleton
As the college hoops season enters February and March creeps closer, a number of teams have yet to decide their postseason fate. This college hoops season has been full of surprises and nearly impossible to predict — just ask No. 5 Kansas, who lost on Wednesday to TCU. Among all the confusion, Michigan remains relatively steady. The Wolverines have lost two close games to highly-ranked teams on the road, but they have held serve at home so far and still appear to be in excellent position to land a no. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
That being said, there is still plenty of room for error on Michigan’s schedule. The team travels to distinctly inhospitable Madison to play Wisconsin on Saturday, and from there will travel to East Lansing to play the Spartans just three days later. Sitting at 1-1 so far in this grueling 4-game stretch is nothing to sneeze at, and it seems a reasonable expectation for Michigan, given the team’s struggles on the road this season, is to split the next two. From that point, four of Michigan’s final six games are at home, and the road games aren’t particularly daunting — Penn State and Purdue. The home games won’t be picnics — among the Wolverines’ opponents are Michigan State, Indiana and Illinois — but Michigan has been stellar at the Crisler Center so far this season. The Wolverines recently knocked off 8th-ranked Ohio State at home and are in excellent position, despite a loaded Big Ten, to secure a very high seed.
After the jump you can explore an in-depth look at Michigan’s resume, a collection of projections from notable bracketologists, as well as a look at how other Big Ten teams have fared during this stretch of the season and where they sit in the NCAA Tournament picture.
Record: 20-2
RPI: 4
SOS: 13
Home: 13-0
Away: 4-2
Neutral: 3-0
vs. RPI Top 50: 6-2
vs. RPI Top 100: 13-2
Bracketology Rundown
Joe Lunardi/ESPN: 1 seed vs. Florida Gulf Coast (Auburn Hills/Los Angeles) Updated Feb. 5
Andy Glockner/SI: 1 seed vs. Northeastern (Auburn Hills/Indianapolis) Updated Feb. 5
Jerry Palm/CBS: 1 seed vs. Davidson (Auburn Hills/Indianapolis) Updated Feb. 4
Crashing the Dance: 1 seed (No. 1 overall) Updated Feb. 5
Bracket Matrix: 1 seed (No. 1 overall) Updated Feb. 6
Around the Big Ten
We’ll also keep a close eye on the rest of the Big Ten and let you know who’s in, who should be in, who could be on the bubble and which games this week have the biggest tournament implications. The Big Ten is widely considered the nation’s best conference, and so far this conference season teams of all tiers have been solidly beating up on each other.
Locks:
Michigan (20-2 overall, 8-2 Big Ten, 4 RPI): Michigan is steadily gaining a stronger and stronger hold on a 1 seed, an especially difficult task in this year’s Big Ten. Despite losses to Ohio State and Indiana on the road, the Wolverines look to be in the driver’s seat — but there is a lot riding on their next two games in Madison and East Lansing.
Indiana (20-2 overall, 8-1 Big Ten, 12 RPI): The Hoosiers seem to be in good position to secure a 1 seed, and in contention for the Indianapolis regional with Michigan. However, Indiana plays its most difficult games at the end of the season; its last nine games include five on the road against Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State, Minnesota and Michigan.
Ohio State (17-5 overall, 7-3 Big Ten, 17 RPI): The Buckeyes’ tough loss at Michigan shouldn’t hurt them, all things considered. They are holding steady in the 3-5 range when it comes to seeding. Ohio State’s next game is against Indiana, whom it still has to play twice.
Michigan State (18-4 overall, 8-2 Big Ten, 13 RPI): Somehow, Michigan State keeps cranking out victories. Despite injuries to Gary Harris and Travis Trice, the Spartans have won seven of their last eight, with the one loss coming on the road against Indiana. All but Andy Glockner have penciled in Michigan State as a 3 seed at this point — if the Spartans and Wolverines can both hold serve in their upcoming match-ups, we’ll be looking at a top-10 showdown in East Lansing on Tuesday.
Should be in:
Minnesota (17-6 overall, 5-5 Big Ten, 11 RPI): Minnesota has dropped five of its last seven conference games and is having a hard time finding a groove. The good news is most of their tougher games to finish the conference slate are at home — they will meet Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin in the friendly confines of The Barn. Despite the Gophers’ recent struggles, they are holding steady in the 4-5 seed range.
Bubble in:
Wisconsin (16-7 overall, 7-3 Big Ten, 40 RPI): After a four-game win streak to begin Big Ten play, including a win at vaunted Assembly Hall against Indiana, Wisconsin has come back to earth. The Badgers have gone 3-3 since that game and it seems clear that they do not belong in the upper echelon of Big Ten teams this season. Bracketologists project them in the 6-8 seed range. With Michigan coming to town on Saturday, Wisconsin has an excellent opportunity to enhance its dancing chances.
Bubble out:
Illinois (14-8 overall, 2-7 Big Ten, 46 RPI): Illinois, by all accounts, is holding on by a thread. Joe Lunardi has the Illini as one of the first four out of the NCAA Tournament and most other brackets hold them in the 8-11 seed range. John Groce’s club needs to get some wins in conference play; Illinois has just one win in its last seven contests.
Iowa (14-9 overall, 3-7 Big Ten, 93 RPI): Fran McCaferry’s team may be a year away. Iowa has played plenty of Big Ten teams extremely tough, including Wisconsin, who escaped with an overtime victory at home against the Hawkeyes on Wednesday. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how many close games you’ve lost on Selection Sunday. The Hawkeyes have already played three overtime periods and are just 1-5 in Big Ten games decided by four points or less.
Records are Division I only, RPIs updated on evening of 2/16/13..
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Enhancing Your Alumni Experience
Written by Bob Lewis ’75 (Psi 1106)
Psi continues to thrive and the chapter continues to grow. Our collegiate membership now totals 60+ young men from all over North Carolina and the USA. The fall 2012 recruitment class included 17 young men, and many of them have already taken leadership positions and active roles within the chapter. They have rededicated themselves to making sure we stay in contact with you and keep you abreast of what is happening at Psi Chapter at UNC.
Over the past two years, spearheaded by the efforts of Bob James '65 (Psi 932), we have grown our fall tailgate series to include each home game during football season. Bob has worked diligently to build an active email distribution list of over 250+ Psi alumni. This effort has produced some fantastic fellowship opportunities for Psi alumni to reconnect at the chapter house and to meet our collegiate brethren and build new relationships. This coming fall, we will celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Psi Chapter of Sigma Nu. Details are still evolving, but we hope to have everything put together by early spring so you can mark your calendar to attend the festivities.
We continue to make much needed improvements to the chapter house each and every year. Our most recent efforts have included the following:
• Sanding and refurbishing the floors in the Henry Clark Chapter Room.
• Stone based hardscape patio in the front of house.
• Complete landscaping of the grounds.
• Sanding and refurbishing the floors in the Coxhead Wing.
• Complete kitchen remodel.
• Installation of the Walk Way of Honor.
• Remodel of basement space into TV room and computer lounge (currently under construction).
Again, by the efforts of Bob James, the Walk Way of Honor began to take shape in spring 2012. You can still purchase a brick to honor yourself or another brother, or to memorialize our brothers who are deceased. The walk was installed this past summer, and adding bricks is easy. If you would like to purchase a brick, send $150 to me at 404 Greenfern Court, Burlington, NC 27215 with the information you want inscribed on the brick. You are limited to three lines of 13 characters each including spaces, hyphens, etc. The proceeds of the brick campaign go to reduce our capital projects cost or to reduce debt on the house.
The Psi Home Association's financial status is solid. Though our income is based on the dues from the collegiate chapter, we have been operating at a break-even status or slightly in the black since our return to campus in 2006. Our dues, housing fees and food cost are not the cheapest of the Greek houses, but we are generally in the average range for most. We are still a great bargain when it comes to campus housing or off-campus apartment living. Our total secured debt is just under $200,000. Interest rates continue to help us in being able to handle the debt. Our long range goal and desire would be to amortize the debt completely and to begin to build an escrow for capital projects and to add to the endowment for the Henry T. Clark Scholarship Fund.
Some years ago, there was a concerted effort by House Corporation presidents of the IFC fraternities to organize and meet regularly to provide guidance and a collective resource to the IFC fraternities at UNC. Our efforts paid many dividends, especially in the early years, in the area of housing safety, fire prevention, sprinkler installation, governance, recruitment and other issues affecting all houses. These efforts culminated in a comprehensive review of the Greek system, and recommendations were made to the UNC administration in many areas. I'm sorry to report that since those recommendations were made and a reorganization of the entire area of student affairs within the administration was complete, none of the recommendations were adopted. Our relationship with the University deteriorated to a situation of the Greek community being dictated to in regards to what we would do and would not do. Though we have a good director in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Community Involvement, my hopes of a cooperative effort by all IFC houses, sororities and Greek councils to make a profound cultural change in these organizations no longer exist. Because of this situation, it is imperative that Psi alumni provide a constant and diligent mentoring role to the active chapter. Those chapters that have involved alumni at all levels are the ones who sustain their memberships and thrive in a very volatile campus community. I am personally thankful to have Bob James, Josh Weeks '74, Mark Cramer '76, Nick Varunok, David Crispin and Michael Crook as members of the Alumni Advisory Board. These men dedicate their time to making sure Psi Chapter continues within the tenets of Love, Honor and Truth.
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“Feminist” foreign policy destroys millions of girls
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By Jonathon Van Maren
For global abortion activists, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed on the red-hot altars of “choice”—even millions of little girls. Girls who are still growing blissfully in the womb do not yet count as “women” and can still be victims of “reproductive freedom,” and so the globalist feminists who arrive in countries around the world to peddle their obsession with feticide pretend that they do not exist in the first place. In fact, because abortion culture has taken root and then fused with local prejudices in some nations, many of those little girls will live only extraordinarily brief lives, hastily ushered off the scene once people realize that they are, in fact, little girls. As The Economist noted in the now-famous cover story, over 100 million baby girls are missing in places like China—and as the National Post just reported, those numbers are climbing in India, as well:
The Indian government said Monday that there were more than 63 million women “missing” from its population, and that 2 million go “missing” across age groups every year due to abortion of female fetuses, disease, neglect and inadequate nutrition. There are also 21 million unwanted girls, the government said.
The 2017-2018 estimate, released as part of the country’s annual economic survey, reinforced the work of researchers and social scientists, who have argued that decades of son preference in India and its parallel in China, the One Child policy, have produced a man-made demographic bubble of excess males – those now under 25 top 50 million – in the two countries and may have long-term impacts on crime, human trafficking, the overall savings rate and the ability of these excess males to find brides.
Abortion activists like to claim that the solution to ensuring that these millions of girls do not get destroyed or discarded is to ensure that poverty is eradicated—but again, the data indicates that misogynist preferences for males remain firmly in place regardless of income:
The study, looking at numbers for 2015-2016, showed that the sex ratio for different states in India worsened even as incomes improved; sociologists have long argued that India’s son preference not only occurs in poor rural families but also in middle and upper-middle classes, where tradition dictates a son will carry on the family business or inherit property, though legally, a daughter can do so, too. In the northern farming states of Punjab and Haryana, for example, the sex ratio among infants to 6 year olds is 1,200 males per 1,000 females, even though they are among the wealthiest states.
“Perhaps the area where Indian society – and this goes beyond governments to civil society, communities, and households – needs to reflect on the most is what might be called ‘son preference’ where development is not proving to be an antidote,” the survey suggested.
And once again, the banner of “female empowerment” is taken from the West to other nations—where the result is the unfathomable destruction of millions of girls. The damage we Westerners do to other countries will be felt for generations to come—and by generations lost. Men like Trudeau trot the globe insisting that nations which still respect the lives of their littlest ones get with the feminist program, and start permitting practices that will fill dumpsters with little girls. What an utterly shameful legacy we are creating.
For anyone interested, my book on The Culture War, which analyzes the journey our culture has taken from the way it was to the way it is and examines the Sexual Revolution, hook-up culture, the rise of the porn plague, abortion, commodity culture, euthanasia, and the gay rights movement, is available for sale here.
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Home Hacking The Importance of Digital Forensics in Cyber Security
The Importance of Digital Forensics in Cyber Security
By PankajBudhija
In the past ten years, there have been many innovations in technology that has benefited many businesses, companies, and organizations but these innovations have also become a tool for fraudster’s to practice cyber crimes.
To investigate these cybercriminal activities, Digital Forensic is required. It is the process of utilizing the current knowledge of technical advancement in the field of computer science to extract, breakdown and showcase evidence, which is further presented as proofs in cyber investigations and is applicable in criminal courts.
TOOLS AND TASKING
In digital forensic two sorts of data are collected, Persistent data which is stored in local hard drives and volatile data which is located in registries and RAM.
The digital forensic expert should know how to search this data and retrieve it without destroying it.
Digital Forensic consists of some aspects :
In the first aspect, the person searching for the evidence should be clear about the things he/she is looking for because digital crimes are of many types from child pornography to theft.
The second aspect requires the selection of appropriate tools for investigation and good knowledge of software.
As we say half knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge, it could lead to things going wrong and vital evidence destroyed.
ROLE OF DIGITAL FORENSICS IN SOLVING CRIME
Hackers have become advanced with their methods of stealing online and doing illicit activities.
This means the persons tasked with solving these cyber crimes have to keep up with there pace and that’s why there has been many new digital forensic practitioner.
Digital Forensics also have applications in commercial, private or institutional organizations. The activities that we do on our personal computer system or our company’s network leave digital footprints in forms of caches, cookies, deleted files, backups etc.
It is essential that a company’s network administrator and network security team knows about Digital Forensic as cyber crimes are increasing day by day and their slight negligence can put the whole company at risk.
It can be beneficial for a company to know everything about it as the evidence that would be found about the intruder in the company’s network can further be used in the court’s prosecution.
A CASE OF CYBER SECURITY
Protecting consumer’s data is becoming a significant concern, and new laws are also being put up, If an organization fails to protect consumer’s data then it may end up in civil courts.
This happened with Facebook, As facebook’s data breach shocked the world exposing the identity of at least 90 million users due to which the company suffered massive losses and heavy criticism, It put a stain on the image of the company.
Facebook’s digital forensic team neglected a bug in its system, and the hackers exploited it and logged into other people profiles knowing each and everything about them.
After this incident, the company employed 10,000 to 20,000 more people in its security department and invested more for its cybersecurity.
Many large companies are putting a large portion of money in the IT department for network and computer security.
Organizations have built up security for their network [intrusion detection system (IDS), proxies, firewalls] which tell them the status of their security system.
The primary objective of Digital Forensics in cybersecurity is to recognize, accumulate and analyze the data as in such a way that it maintains the virtue of the collected evidence.
Thus every company should be appareled with technology that enhances the skills of the security team and protects the data from cyber attacks.
As cyber crimes rank as one of the top four economic crimes, Organizations need to adapt to forensics and use it as another tool against those who are committing cyber-crime.
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Grammy-nominated singer Akon shows his support for Bitcoin
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The American singer and producer Akon has resurfaced on the internet after speaking out in favor of Bitcoin.
“Nothing backs the dollar”
Speaking with Angela Yee and DJ Envy in a radio interview on the Breakfast Club, Akon expressed his views on what makes Bitcoin a better currency than the U.S. dollar. The fact that cryptos rely on people’s trust rather than a financial system imposed by governments make them more powerful than any fiat currency in the world, according to the Grammy-nominated musician.
Akon explained that fiat currencies have no intrinsic value, but people are forced to use them by their governments.
“Who says that the actual dollar is worth anything? Yes, the government, but nothing backs the dollar. The U.S. doesn’t have natural resources that back the dollar. What they do have is the military,” added Akon.
The renowned songwriter went on to emphasize that fiat currencies are extremely volatile because they are directly impacted by government policies. But, when it comes down to cryptocurrencies, they are more stable because they rely on the trust that people put into them.
“It boils down to trust. What you trust is the value it gives you… Bitcoin, for example, is not a dollar. It’s a digital coin. I can buy a Ferrari with Bitcoin. I can buy a house with Bitcoin. I can buy whatever I want to buy with Bitcoin because it is just as equally valued as the dollar because people say it is,” stated Akon.
Akon’s comments come as he steps forward towards launching his latest crypto-initiative, Akoin.
“One Africa. One Coin”
Under the motto “One Africa. One Coin,” Akon is working on creating the Akoin Ecosystem, which aims to unlock the potential of the world’s largest emerging economy with the creation of a trusted cryptocurrency, dubbed Akoin. This cryptocurrency is meant to stimulate and generate opportunities and inclusion for youth entrepreneurs across Africa’s 54 countries.
“We’re trying to build a currency for the Africans and the whole (African) continent,” said Akon.
At the moment, Akon is set to launch his pilot project in Senegal with the collaboration of the nation’s president Macky Sall. The American musician is planning to build a crypto-city, a few minutes away from the capital Dakar, that uses Akoin as the city’s official payment settlement token.
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Poll results: timely updates the key for Huawei’s new OS
As tensions between the USA and China heighten, and American suppliers cut ties with Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer is forced to find an alternative to Android and the Google Play Store. A couple of weeks ago, we asked APit readers what they’d like to see from an own-brand OS from Huawei. The results are in!
Huawei has been working on its own in-house OS for some time. We may even see it before the end of the year, if reports are to be believed. Of course, the Chinese brand already has a fairly heavy customization of Android called EMUI, but under the new restrictions from Washington, Google will cut all future updates and services from Huawei smartphones. A completely independent OS is required.
This could be seen as an opportunity for Huawei to develop an OS that can compete with Android and iOS, but that is not going to be easy. When we asked APit readers what it would take to compete with the big boys of Silicon Valley, and the results were interesting.
Any new Huawei OS is likely to look like EMUI. / © AndroidPIT
Timely updates, something that a lot of manufacturers struggle with when it comes to the latest versions of Android, was voted the most important factor. Huawei would need to avoid fragmentation to the same levels that Apple does with iOS, most likely. The second most popular choice in our poll was a wide selection of compatible apps. Given that Google apps and services would be out of the question, Huawei would need to develop a pretty killer lineup of alternatives – although it has been doing this for a while now anyway.
In worse news for the Chinese tech giant, the second least popular characteristic that our readers want to see from a new Huawei OS is a design like EMUI. If Huawei is going to create an OS of its own, it is very likely that it would stick to the UI design it has been working on for years.
You can see the full result in the image below.
Timely updates are the most desirable feature on a modern mobile OS. / © AndroidPIT
There were also a couple of good calls in the comments that were not part of our list. Kevin would like to more focus on privacy, with the OS being open source. Sorin wants the UI to be theme based and, most importantly, that the OS is built for speed. Chris Laarman wants a plain Linux experience with an Android emulator.
Are you surprised at the results of our poll? Let us know in the comments below.
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Healthy eating is essential for our body to stay fit and in shape. Eating the right food in the right amount is the secret to a healthy body. Improving your health will make you feel great, energized, and maintain a good body weight. Here we have some tips to improve your health by right eating.
Have a balanced diet
A balanced diet is a diet with every healthy component a body requires on daily basis. Our body needs a balance of fat, protein, fibre, vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates. All these are important in our diets to maintain a healthy body.
Many people think that fat is all bad but we actually need it. Yes, bad or too much fat can cause life-threatening diseases such as heart problems, diabetes, and even obesity problems. Good fat in our body protects our brain and heart. Fat is our body is important for our emotional health, improves mood, and the physical body.
Protein gives energy, improves our mental health, and improves our mood. However, proteins must be consumed in the right amounts. Too much protein can be dangerous especially to people suffering from the disease. Proteins are important as every cell in our body needs them. In addition, protein ensures healthy bones, muscles, skin, blood, hair, and nails.
Carbohydrates are the main sources of energy while fibre helps to maintain a healthy digestive system. Fiber also lowers the risk of having heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
Consume enough calories
Foods with too much fat and sugar contain more calories that cause obesity. Obesity population is continuing to increase among our communities. Food manufacturers, restaurants, and the general public are working on reducing excessive calories in products or meals. This year we've seen government health departments around the world formulating strategies to reduce the problem of obesity. In addition, new healthier cooking or food preparation is trending at the moment. Some people are sticking to steaming and boiling their food than deep frying.
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Bake up for National Scone Day!
In her day job Lana Haines, works as the Change Lead for NRMA Insurance's Digital Team in Sydney's central business district.
In her spare time she's a very active member for the iconic Country Women's Association (CWA).
Lana shared with us what she loves about the CWA, why it's about more than just home-made jams and her recipe for the perfect scone - just in time for National Scone Day on May 30th.
Yes it's true, there's a whole day devoted to scones!
What do you do with the CWA?
I'm a member of the Sydney City Branch – I know right - who knew we had CWA branches in the city!
I have a couple of roles within the branch, as media publicity officer and fundraising strategy coordinator.
I’m also a member and secretary of the State Social Issues Committee that responds to proposed legislation or changes to current legislation being considered by either State or Federal Governments, which may affect the association or its members, or family welfare generally.
Why did you become a member?
I’m a proud country girl having grown up in Grafton in the north of the state.
Over the years I've seen many industries closing and moving away from regional NSW and the impacts to the towns they leave can be devastating.
It’s something that doesn’t sit well with me and I wanted to join an organisation that lobbied for rural, regional and remote communities across NSW.
What do you love about the CWA?
The people you meet, the fun we have and the things you learn!
Sydney City Branch has over 70 members and with that comes an amazing diversity of age, background and experiences that we all can share in and benefit from.
Is it all about baking?
We do have some expert bakers, preserve makers and handicrafters who are always happy to share their knowledge.
You should try our preserves, they're seriously good!
But actually we use our home-made jams and chutneys for good.
In fact our branch has preserves at the heart of our fundraising strategy.
Over the last few years we've had a stall at the Hyde Park Barrack Christmas markets selling preserves and handmade Christmas decorations. And we sell out!
The money we make goes back into the community, for medical research (Lyme disease is the CWA’s current focus), also for education scholarships for country kids, and earlier this year, in conjunction with the National Council of Women of NSW, we sponsored an impressive young lady to help further her postgraduate studies in Animal Science at Charles Sturt university.
And of course, the Social Issues Committee as I mentioned previously.
How can you join the CWA?
If you would like to join Sydney City Branch, jump on our website, and check out the Get Involved page.
We meet monthly on a Monday evening in the CBD.
The CWA of NSW website also has an online form and details of all branches.
Why are you getting behind national scone day?
It’s a good question! It’s being pitched as “promotion of the scone, that noblest of foods, traditionally enjoyed with a cup of tea or coffee as a snack or as part of afternoon tea”.
It’s perfect alignment for us as we believe the scone is a 'superfood' and not just from a nutritional perspective but for all the things it represents from the baking to the sharing.
Scone's bring communities together - and let's be honest - who doesn't love a good scone!
Will you share your best scone recipe?
Yes! These are the CWA Sydney City Buttermilk Scones.
Easy to bake and just perfect - we love these the most!
2½ cups self-raising flour
1 tbsp icing sugar or 2 tsp sugar
Good pinch salt
1¼ cup buttermilk
Sift flour, sugar and salt into large bowl (or food processor).
Add butter and rub in by hand (or quickly pulse to a texture like coarse sand; empty from food processor into a bowl and do by hand from here).
Make a well in the centre of the mix and pour in buttermilk all at once.
Stir with a flat-bladed knife until it forms a soft dough - no more.
Turn out onto floured surface, no need to knead, just pat together.
Flatten dough evenly until about 2-3cm high and use a floured cutter to press out rounds (don't twist the cutter!).
Place side by side - virtually touching - onto a paper-lined high-sided baking pan to fit rounds. If you don't have one, just place onto a baking tray.
Brush tops only (not sides) with a little extra buttermilk.
Bake at 220C (fan OK) for about 15-17 mins or until golden and risen - they should sound hollowish when tapped underneath.
Place onto rack to cool a little - cover with a tea-towel for soft scones, or uncovered for a harder crust.
Split by hand (it's the traditional way) and enjoy with jam and cream - and a cuppa.
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RUSSIAN DIARY – CLOWN TOUR
U.R. Bowie
RUSSIAN DIARY, NOV. 6-20, 2016
(VISITING THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AS A CLOWN)
Nov. 5-6: On the Way There
Made a big decision late in 2016; decided to do something entirely different, go back to Russia with the Patch Adams Clown Tour, which amounts to a fortnight in the country (one week in Moscow, one week in St. Petersburg), entertaining children in hospitals and orphanages, as well as a few visits to homeless adults and a lot of madcap clowning on the streets. This year the group consisted of thirty clowns, from a variety of Western countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, and the U.S.A., as well as several Russian clowns who joined us in Moscow and St. Petersburg. I was the only one in the original group of thirty who spoke Russian.
I left Jacksonville for Kennedy Airport in NY, dressed in the air-conditioned palm-frond hat that would be part of my clown costume in performance. People were looking at me, looking, probably thinking, “What the…” A few of them commented, “Oh, I like your hat. . . . oh, did you make it yourself?” As for me, the hat was my way of adopting the visage of a clown, making myself look ridiculous (that’s what clowns deliberately do). I felt ridiculous as well, and for the whole two weeks of clownery in Russia, I never got completely over that feeling.
On the long enervating Aeroflot flight from New York to Moscow I experienced a constant feeling of being superannuated, as if the world had passed me by. My first trip into the Soviet Union was 1972, forty-four years ago. In my capacity as professor of Russian, I had returned many times over the years, had even spent an entire year in the country as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching in the city of Great Novgorod. But even that was sixteen years back into the past, and in returning now, I was still operating, to a large extent, by old rules. While I was aging, staying mostly away from Russia since the turn of the millennium, new rules had emerged, and a new generation had caught up with me, passed me.
The Aeroflot flight was now fully a Western-style flight, complete with the sort of excess badinage that Soviet Russians had no tolerance for: the welcome abroad, the blather about the benefits of flying Aeroflot, and more. In front of each passenger was a complete home-entertainment system, which enabled one to watch countless things on a screen. The Russians knew how to operate this system; superannuated I did not. As I was to learn upon arrival in Moscow, the new Russian generation is as fully in thrall to computerized gadgetry as the whole rest of the world. Times have changed.
What better symbol of the spirit of Young Russia—and its congruence with the spirit of the capitalist West—than the “poverty chic jeans” (ripped in spots on the legs), worn by the young Russian woman who sat next to me on the plane? I was reminded of the times back in the nineties, when I was group leader for student study-tours in Russia. My female students, who went about wearing those ripped-up jeans, were the constant target of irate old ladies in kerchiefs, particularly when the jeans-wearers tried to enter churches or sites of patriotic importance. “They dress like that (complained the old ladies to me), and pretty soon they’ll have our young people doing it.” And exactly when it happened I don’t know, but now that “pretty soon” has arrived. At least while in Moscow and St. Petersburg this time, I saw no young men going around with their pants pulled down almost to their knees and their underwear showing. I suppose, however, that this American trend will eventually reach young Russians as well.
Nov. 6, Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow: Clowns Welcoming Clowns
Along with me on the Aeroflot flight were four other clowns in our group, including the leader, Patch Adams, 71, a man whose whole life has been devoted to making people laugh, to healing through humor, and to flashing the bare bottom to the prudes and frowners of the world. His first visit to Russia was way back in 1974, and now he takes clown tours all over the world. Patch wears his clown gear 24/7; he is never not a clown. He has long white hair, dyed blue on one side, pulled back in a ponytail, and a handlebar mustache. Wearing pink-framed spectacles and a big red nose, he goes about in multicolored garb, in oversized clown shoes, his clown bloomers pulled up to reveal long, spindly legs. He loves to dance on those spindlies.
Going through Russian customs has also changed radically from the way things used to be. I still recall the tension of Soviet days, when grim-faced young (always very young) customs officials took your Western passport and eyeballed you long and hard. Bags were almost always opened, and contraband (say, Playboy magazines) confiscated. Now the officials in the booths are polite, welcoming, and nobody checks anything, no bags are opened. We waltzed right on through. Afterward we were greeted by a committee of welcoming clowns, all members of our group who had flown in earlier, and all decked out in outrageous costumes. Tooting horns and sporting dead (artificial) fish, the clowns began dancing around, blowing up balloons. Russian bystanders, passengers, taxi and bus drivers, vendors looked on in amazement, clamping on their faces that old familiar Russian face-look. At least that hasn’t changed (I thought), the standard generic Russian look—compounded of equal parts morose, phlegmatic and disgusted.
Then Patch Adams took out and brandished a pair of supersized white underpants, labelled, “World’s Largest Underwear.” Four or five of the clowns climbed inside the supersized, and they went dancing around arm in arm, chanting, “We all go round in underwear, underwear, underwear.” Some of the clowns approached little children who were passing by, offering them balloons. Most of the children seemed bewildered and frightened by this unusual spectacle. They didn’t want to take the balloons. Eventually, some of the Russian audience lightened up, began taking pictures of the festivities with cell phones. But many seemed less than amused by this outburst of bizarre exuberance. I couldn’t help thinking about the age-old Russian distrust of skomoroshestvo, the wild clownery of the minstrels and gleemen of ancient Rus—always associated with pagan religions, with chaos and disorder, and censured, condemned, therefore, by the Russian Orthodox Church and the autocratic authorities. The Soviets as well, to put it mildly, were not fond of this kind of behavior.
Nov. 6: Consumer Capitalism
Way back in 1972, on my first visit to Moscow, the place impressed me as a huge, grim, colorlesswarehouse, mostly empty of products and barely functioning at all. Back in those days, and in the times of many subsequent visits to Russia, you always felt as if there were just too much Collectivist Socialism at work. The country was drowning in Socialism. But now, as I rode the clown van from Sheremetyevo back to our hotel, the Katerina City, passing scads of burger joints (БергерКинг, КорнерБергер), fast food galore, passingone car dealership after another (Toyota, Mercedes, Audi, etc., etc.), passing reams of car washes, gigantic Western-style shopping malls, used car lots, everything under the grim, slate-gray skies of an early winter (snow all over the ground), I couldn’t help thinking that over the many years since I last spent time in Moscow—twenty years ago—the city had become mired in exactly the opposite problem: a surfeit of consumer capitalism. In the old days practically nobody drove a car, and all the cars on the roads were of Soviet manufacture. Now practically everybody drives a car, Western-made cars are available in abundance, but, as a result, the streets are clogged with traffic. No place is easily reached now by automobile; no place and at no time, except maybe in the middle of the night.
The Katerina City Hotel, in downtown Moscow, resembles in no way the kind of old Soviet hotels I stayed in for so many years. It is modern, efficient, the staff is polite, helpful, and they even smile at times—although despite years of effort to inoculate staff everywhere in the American smile, Russians still do not smile as much as Americans. The hotel, nonetheless (our home for a week in Moscow), is wonderful. The buffet breakfast, available to us every morning, would have been available nowhere in the Soviet Union or the Russia of the transition period (the nineties). The closest you could have found such a buffet back then was in Helsinki, Finland.
We arrive at the hotel in our van and are greeted in the lobby by scads of other clowns, who dance around and play the fool in their welcoming joy, yelling, “Greetings, Welcome, Namaste.” Among the thirty clowns in the group, six or eight are like me: newcomers to clownery. But at least five others are professional clowns, who spend most of their days every year being zany.
To top off the impression that Russia has adopted the conspicuous consumption and bad taste that originated in the U.S., I turn on the TV in the hotel room, and the first program I see is a take-off on the pablum/crap shown on American television. It’s called something like “Russia’s Got Talent,” with a meretricious girlie pop singer crooning out banality, and the judges then going delirious over her beauty and grace—spouting out long encomiums, reams of utterly insincere inanities. Yes. Welcome to Moscow, where nothing is the same any more, where—as everywhere else in the world—people are panting, gasping to embrace American crass stupidity.
I turn off the television and sit jetlagged and enervated, as I always am upon my arrival in this country. On a table by the couch there is a bottle of drinking water, Svjatojistochnik (Sacred Spring). I sit and watch the ever-so-subtle vibrations of the water at the top of the bottle. There is something soothing about watching water in a bottle or glass as it silently ripples and shakes. As if there were some hidden tidal pull at work here, an artificial moon working its magic upon any liquid in any container, including the liquid that makes up 80% in the container that is human you.
Nov. 7: SergievPosad
I was elated to learn that our first day of clowning would take place not in Moscow proper, but in the monastery city of SergievPosad, located some fifty miles north of Moscow. Elated because I naturally assumed that we would drop in for a tour of the monastery after our performance at an orphanage for deaf, dumb and blind children. The St. Sergius-Trinity Lavra (Monastery), founded by the ascetic Sergius in the fourteenth century, has been a focus for Russian spirituality for six hundred years. No other spot in the country is more venerated in Russian culture. Forced to play a minor role in the history of the Soviet Union, when all religion was denigrated and forcibly oppressed, the Lavra regained its prominent place in Russian culture after the fall of the USSR. Nowadays it attracts pilgrims, people seeking a more spiritual life, others hoping for cures from dire maladies.
Much to my surprise, as our clown bus drove through the city of SergievPosad and passed the monastery on our left, no one in the bus even bothered to look at the complex of churches and bell towers. Utterly uninformed about anything in Russian culture, the clowns went on joking, jibing, playing the fool in the bus, while I tried to attract the attention of those sitting near me. “Look, look out the window to your left.” This was when I first fully realized what a fish out of water I was in this group. Not only the oldest clown (by far), I was also the only clown with any knowledge of, or interest in, Russian history and culture.
It was even more to my surprise, and chagrin, when I learned that there was not to be even a brief stopover at the Lavra after our performance in the orphanage. The clowns had another appointment for that afternoon and evening. Our bus was to proceed to the dacha/country home of Maria, the founder of a charity for orphans known as “Maria’s Children.” There would be a dinner at Maria’s, followed by a talent show, put on by the various individual clowns.
Reaching our destination, we left the bus and entered a huge, labyrinthine building, the children’s home for the deaf, dumb and blind. We divided up into groups of two-three each and went into small classrooms where the children were learning and playing. I paired off with Simon, an American from Topeka. Neither he nor I had ever tried clowning before; we both were novices. As it turned out, this first clowning experience set the tone for me, and probably for Simon as well. Both of us are low-key individuals, more introverts than extroverts, and our clowning was of the quiet type. Simon had a cowbell with him, while I carried a bag full of various gifts: writing pads, pens, crayons, a tiny flashlight, a rubber lizard.
There were five deaf and dumb boys in the first classroom, all sighted. The oldest, Kolya, had just turned six, and he already was learning sign language. The boys were happy to see us and eager to interact with us. Touching the children is important. I noticed this throughout the whole two-week clown tour: children love touching you and being touched. Here in SergievPosad they also loved playing with Simon’s beard and ringing his cowbell. The five boys colored with the crayons I brought. In addition to interacting with them, I spoke at some length with their teacher. She was concerned about the upcoming American election, worried about Clinton and Trump, neither of whom she liked. Unable to forget the past, the fact that today’s date was oncethemajor Soviet holiday of the year (The Day of the Grand October Revolution), I said jokingly to the teacher, “Спраздиком (Happy holiday),” but she replied, “Oh, we never think about that any more.”
We spent forty to forty-five minutes with these boys, who were much exited and entertained by our presence. At one point the teacher had them perform a little round dance for us. After we left this group Simon and I went into a different classroom. This time there were two girls, and three boys, all of whom were blind. Simon and I enjoyed getting down on the floor with the children. One little boy wanted to wrestle; I ended up flat on my back, with him crawling all over me. One little blonde girl, four or five years old, was extremely articulate. She would learn about your looks by using her hands to explore—her hands were her eyes. She found a little flashlight in my bag, started turning it on and off—talking all the time, asking questions—then she began directing the rays of the flashlight into her closed eyelids. Apparently she had some sensation of light.
My rubber lizard was a big hit with this second group of children, as it had been with the boys in the first room, who even began fighting over it. I hoped to keep it with me for future encounters with children, but one little girl latched onto it. I ended up leaving both the flashlight and the lizard. This first visit on the tour, at least for me, was perhaps the best visit of all. The children were so happy to have us there, and it was a joy to bring them pleasure.
Nov. 7: the Monastery
All day long I was still thinking antiquated thoughts. Today was once was the biggest holiday of the year in the Soviet Union, but now the Soviet Union was so far into the past that even Lenin was fast fading into total historical oblivion.
We had lunch in the cafeteria at the children’s home—the Russian staples: beef in gravy, mashed potatoes, buckwheat and black bread—and after that I made my decision. I would stay here in SergievPosad and visit the Lavra, rather than going on with the rest of the clowns to the evening dinner and talent show. On the way out of town the bus let me off at the monastery, and I stepped out into the brisk air. Snow and ice all over everything.The sky was of the slate-gray color that sets in sometime in the Russian fall and hangs on all winter. Stopping off briefly at a little church named after St. ParaskevaPyatnitsa, I made my way up the slope to the main entrance into the monastery grounds.
Crossing myself, as was everyone else, I walked through the huge arch at the entrance and entered the inner grounds. It was already four o’clock, and the visitors/pilgrims were sparse. I took a look at the lovely little steep-walled Church of the Holy Spirit (fifteenth century). Wanted to go inside, but its doors were locked. Then I moved on to the Trinity Cathedral, built in the 1420s. Inside there was a service in progress, with a choir of harmonizing voices. People were stepping up to the big sarcophagus containing the relics of St. Sergius, founder of the monastery (he died in 1392), crossing themselves, bowing, kissing the box in various spots, stepping away, bowing, crossing themselves. The Trinity cathedral also has iconic frescoes on its walls, done by Andrei Rublyov, the most famous icon painter in Russian history. Later, on a visit to the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, I would stand before his most famous icon of all, Christ the Saviour, depicted as a very real living man.
I went into one other church, the monumental Dormition Cathedral, commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in 1559. By the time I emerged from that church it was already twilight—darkness comes early in the Russian fall and winter. I wandered around a bit more, enjoying the quietude, the peace of mind, then made my way back through the arch. Asking directions of a group of men who were smoking, I made my way up the hill to the train station. There was slush underfoot, snow had begun falling, and I was cursing myself for a decision I made that morning. Thinking that I would be largely inside all day, or on the bus, I had put on my running shoes instead of my winter boots.
Nov. 7: Women Working Behind Glass
As I approached the cashier’s box at the station, I had already begun laughing inwardly, because I was sure what would happen next. A lot has changed in this country, I was thinking, but the women selling tickets behind glass will always be the same. In Russia you constantly have to buy things by dealing with women who work glassed in; consequently, you cannot hear what they are saying. If you ask them to repeat themselves they are irritated, and then they begin yelling at you. I began by asking what a ticket to Moscow on the elektrichka (train run by electric wires overhead) cost.
She told me and I didn’t hear her. “Excuse me,” I said, “I don’t hear well.” Immediately indignant, she shouted out the price to me. I bought the ticket, but then asked her what platform the train was on. She didn’t want me asking that. She had better things to do than to tell me. Then I asked her how to get to the platform. Now, it would seem that all of these questions were legitimate—questions vital to the well being of the novice traveler. I had last been in the SergievPosad train station in 1983, so obviously I did not know my way around. But such questions in a Russian train station are not legitimate, and if you persist in asking them, the lady behind the glass will yell at you. She yelled. I suppose that this is the way glassed-in cashiers have operated for one thousand years of Russian history, and all the new Western ways that have recently penetrated the country—the service with courtesy and a smile that you run into (amazingly) everywhere—none of that counts for the glassed-in denizens of the cashier’s boxes.
Nov. 7: Russian Forbearance
Back in Moscow after the fifty-mile ride on the elektrichka, I rode the metro to the Paveletskaja station, emerged onto the street. A young lady whom I had asked directions while riding the up escalator got out her cell phone, found a map, and sent me off in the direction of Shluzovajanaberezhnaja Street, where the Katerina City, my hotel, was located. Now, it was dark, the snow had turned to hard rain, which made for watery slush and puddles all over the sidewalks. Soon my running shoes were soaked through, and I began cursing in English as I sloshed along. With typical Russian forbearance people on the streets were stoically negotiating the sidewalks, doing their best to make their way through this mess. I was the only curser. Still not sure exactly where I was, I asked another man for directions, and he told me to watch for an underground crossing. It would bring me out on the other side to Shljuzovajanaberezhnaja. On I sloshed, still blaspheming, for several more blocks, and then I suddenly noticed on my left a little café called ОкиДоки (Okie Dokie). That’s a sign from above, I thought. Everything’s bound to be okay now, and it was. Right in the shadow of the Okie Dokie Café I found the underground crossing and moseyed/sloshed on back to the Katerina City. Wentuptotheclerkinthelobbyandtoldhim, “СлякотьвСергиевПосаденормальнаяслякоть, новМосквеувассамаяпрогрессивнаяслякотьвмире(The slush in SergievPosad is just ordinary slush, but Moscow has the most progressive slush on earth).”
Nov. 8: Worst-Case Scenarios
Our job as clowns involves not only being crawled upon by relatively happy, normal children. It also involves visiting children who are in terrible shape. Today we were in wards full of such children. In places like this, the zaniness of clownery simply does not work, and the clowns have to come up with other things to do. We entered a ward full of children in wheelchairs, all of them severely retarded. We tried touching them, singing to them. There was one little girl of four, Tanechka, with a bald spot on the back of her head, with vacant eyes. I was rubbing her back, singing a Russian song, when she suddenly went into a rage, began shrieking, slapping herself hard on the head, then biting into her own wrist. After being in this hospital for an hour we left, and I, for one, felt that I had not done anybody any good. But who knows? When the children cannot respond you can never be sure how much, or how little, good you have done them.
Nov. 9. Gob-Smacked
Back in the hotel, I was still tormented by insomnia, the usual result of the horrible jet-lag that always gets me in the first few days of my stay in Russia. Could not get to sleep all night, and, if that were not bad enough, I put on the TV and learned the results of the American election back home. As the reporter on the German English-language network DW put it: people all over the world have been “gob-smacked” (British English for “punched in the kisser”). So, as it turns out, the glorious American people, ever anti-intellectual—perpetually insisting on their God-given right to be mindless—have elected as their president a man who is not only immoral, but is proud of his immorality and adverse to thinking as well, a boor and a demagogue, a man utterly unqualified for the job. I can think of nothing better to do than to go down for breakfast wearing the rubber Trump mask that I bought in a Halloween shop and brought along with me.
Nov. 9: The Ascension of the Lord Cathedral
Today I abandoned my fellow clowns altogether, remaining in the hotel to sleep all morning, from nine to two. After that I went out to visit one of my favorite places in Moscow, the KolomenskoeArchitectural Complex, built on high ground overlooking the Moscow River. I haven’t been here in sixteen years, and meanwhile they have reconstructed the wooden palace of seventeenth century Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich, but not at its original site. Today it’s too late for me to visit the new palace, but, then again, what I have come for is available at its original site, and still standing in all its white-stoned glory.
This is the ХрамВознесенияГосподня (Ascension of the Lord Cathedral, 1532), built, so the legend goes, by Tsar Vasily III, to commemorate the birth of his son and heir, Ivan—who would go on one day to be The Terrible. This temple is the oldest “hipped-roof-type” (also called tent-roofed) cathedral in the country. At 62 meters in height, for years it was the tallest structure in all of Ancient Rus. The sheer height of it is astounding, and the name Ascension is so appropriate: its white stone walls ascend. You stand below looking up at its sheer architectural power, and you feel like ascending yourself, soaring hand in hand with Christ up past all the kokoshniki (architectural embellishments in the style of the Russian peasant woman’s headdress) and onto the ever-narrowing tip of the thing and then BIF, disappearing (still holding the hand of Jesus) into the clouds. СлаваТебе, Господи, СлаваТебе, Богомати, I’ve finally got done with doing this business they call Life in Flesh; now I can finally soar up on high, where I can let go and have myself a nice, long rest.
Darkness was coming on, and no one but me was left standing alongside the railing of the slope that led down to the Moscow River. Just me and Jesus, standing looking up at the Ascension Church, enjoying being there with that temple, communing with Russian culture—with which I have communed for over fifty years now—contemplating the Ascension.
Nov. 10: Palliative Care
Today we visited the palliative ward of the Izmailov Children’s Polyclinic, one of the best Russian hospitals I’ve ever been in—very clean, good equipment, reeking in efficiency. But then, all of the hospitals and orphanages we visited in the two weeks of the Patch Adams Clown Tour were way above average. I know this because—while working as a volunteer for the Red Cross in the nineties—I have been in many such institutions, both in Russia and in Central Asia. Some of them are gruesomely bad, dirty, with broken windows. Not sure whether the Western organizers of the Patch Adams Tours are aware of this, but the renowned Patch Adams is shown only the very best hospitals and orphanages.
Palliative care (same word used in Russian, паллиативный), is care intended to palliate, mitigate, alleviate pain. But the word “palliation” has now taken on the meaning of care of the dying. In visiting here we were dealing with dying children. What to do for them? That is the question. Another: does anything we do for them really help? Hard to tell.
Working in tandem today with Guillaume (Giyomshchik), a big-eyed professional clown from Montreal who has a handlebar mustache and a long, disheveled goatee, I approached the bed of a girl called Eugenia. According to the chart on the headboard she was eleven years old, but she looked more like five. Matchsticks for legs and arms, with skin chalky white, continuously kicking side to side with one Auschwitz spindle leg, she lay with wandering eyes. Using her pet name, Zhenechka, we improvised a song that consisted largely of that name plus various endearments. After getting Giyomshchik into the rhythm of the thing (“Zhenechka, slavnen’ka, Zhenechka”), I let him carry on with the melody while I switched to harmony. Did the dying Zhenechka, she of the one spasmodic leg, hear the song? Who knows?
Throughout the day I was developing a bronchial cough; I could feel an old chronic friend coming on: bronchitis. Many times over the course of the years, on my visits to Russia, the strain of the jetlag and the lack of sleep has brought on this ailment. I was hoping this year to avoid that same old same old, but it was not to be. At any rate, I was thinking in the palliative ward, let’s hope that I can spread a helpful virulent germ around here today, thereby hastening the departure of sufferers like Zhenechka for the next world.
Nov. 11-12 : Bronchitis
Badly sick for a couple of days.Hung out mostly at the hotel, trying to get better.I missed the clowning at a homeless center, which I would have liked to go to, as it was the only visit in the whole tour to an institution for adults. But knowing I had only two weeks in the country, I rebelled against spending most of the trip in bed. Slept all morning, then took a jaunt down to the Novodevichy Nunnery to visit “Russia’s Preeminent Necropolis” (headline in Moscow Times). Hadn’t been here for many years.The graveyard is notable for its spectacular sculptural monuments. Today many of them were covered in snow, which makes for interesting effects on the tombstones.
Came upon the renowned humorist, longtime director of the Moscow Circus, YuryNikulin, who (in the sculpture) sits there on his backside, now perpetually holding a lit (supposedly) cigarette but never taking a drag. The dog at his feet was completely buried under the snow, but someone had kindly dug him out.
It was very cold and I was sick, so I gave up searching for the many famous Russian writers whose works I taught for thirty years in an American university. I had seen them anyway—the graves and monuments of Bulgakov, Gogol, Chekhov, Mayakovsky, many others—on previous visits here. I did find the grave of the great singer Lidia Ruslanova, and one of her songs, which I know by heart, “Наулицедождик—Rain Outside”—kept running through my head as I stood there.
Today I missed the grand gala ball and auction for the charitable organization Maria’s Children.
Nov. 13: On to St. Petersburg
The Bunin Allée (Avenue with Trees)
The nicest thing, perhaps, that I discovered during my stay in Moscow was the existence of a new metro station, called “Бунинскаяаллея(The Bunin Allée),” which is way far southwest of the city, the last stop on the line. I’m the only clown who would take note of such a station, named after the arbors and tree-lined boulevards (linden-lined, birch-lined) in the works of the writer Ivan Bunin, but, then again, I’m the only clown who wrote, years ago, a Ph.D. dissertation on Bunin at Vanderbilt, and then who spent thirty years translating his literary works—published, finally, in 2006, by Northwestern University under the title Night of Denial.
Nov. 13: Musings and Cogitations While on the Bullet Train to Petersburg
Since the fall of the Soviet Union this country has become so much more civilized. I never thought I’d see the day when Russians on the streets were not yelling constantly at one another, playing the age-old Russian game of yell. Now the yelling women behind glass are the last of a dying breed. Or the day when drivers stopped to let pedestrians cross. The old (unwritten) rules stipulated that drivers—intent on claiming their right to the highway—would always speed up when they saw pedestrians. “Get out of my way; I own this road!” Now new laws have the drivers in rein. Big fines.They stop and let you cross. Civilization.
I last rode a train between Moscow and St. Petersburg twenty years ago. In those days things were much the same as in Soviet times. The train took eight hours for the trip. You usually went overnight and slept the journey away in sleeper compartments for four. The conductor would bring you tea. Not a bad experience, but the trains were slow, and the toilets consisted of a drafty compartment, stinking horribly, with a hole in the floor.
Now you ride a chic bullet train, clean and comfortable, with civilized toilets, and you make the trip in three-four hours. In the old times nothing was ever compatible with Western standards, but riding this train today, you could as easily be riding in France or Spain. Amazing, the progress of civilization.
Yet, as I sit on the train, looking out at the snowy countryside, I’m musing over the failure of Homo sapiens ever to make much progress. All the “going forward” that we talk about so incessantly never really gets that far forward. Why such gloomy thoughts? Because back in the States, with the election of Trump, we’re into a big New Era, a chance for Real Change, which Change could be going more backward than forward, whichChange could even be Dangerous. Would that there were a way to stop the mutual back and forth of hatred that rules the U.S.A. One half of the country grits its teeth and shakes its fist at the other half, and that other half grits its teeth back and shakes its fist back. How did we get into this grievous situation? Don’t exactly know. What’s to be done about it? Don’t know that either, but I do know that real progress in terms of how the human psyche operates, real progress in human endeavors—notwithstanding the presence of wonderful new fast bullet trains—is the thing that never happens.
I’m nursing my bronchitis with vodka, the brand called “Air” [Воздух (пьешькакдышишь)], aware that vodka will not palliate my dark thoughts about the human race, and taking note of the warning on the bottle: “Чрезмерноеупотреблениеалкоголявредитвашемуздоровью(Excessive use of alcohol ruins your health).”
Nov. 14: St. Petersburg
Upon arrival last evening at our hotel (The Rachmaninov, on Kazanskaja Street), I led five other clowns on a brief walking tour of my favorite city. We trekked through the snow, passing first the Kazan Cathedral, right next to our hotel. I pointed out the Saviour on the Blood Church, just down the way along Griboedov Canal. Then we walked NevskyProspekt all the way to the Palace Square and Hermitage Museum. To the left from there we went scrunching along the pathways packed down with snow, past the Admiralty Building, on to St. Isaac’s Cathedral, all scaffolded up at the top. From there we took a right turn and proceeded to The Bronze Horseman, the most famous statue in all of Russia: Peter the Great mounted on his horse, right arm stretched forward, squinting to make out the horizon, since one eye (the left) was all snowed over.
Today we visited two different hospitals, first the one named after its founder, the Austrian doctor, Carl Gottlieb Rauchfuss, second a children’s hospital specializing in ambulatory problems and prostheses. At times on our visits I just sit back and watch the other clowns in action. Watch the children having fun. So many of these clowns are so good at what they do; you can’t help admiring them.
Maybe the highlight of my whole trip was something that occurred in the first hospital today. Here the rooms and corridors seemed to be teeming with very active, lively children. In the ward I first entered three small children were running and jumping, screaming and laughing at the antics of the clowns, while sitting alone on her bed, a girl of ten or eleven, brown-haired, very serious, wearing glasses, concentrated on a book she was reading. Her name was Katya.
The little children squealed, ran, jumped, while Katya sat, and the disconcerted expression on her face said, “Leave me out of the festivities; I want no part of this.” Several clowns approached her, in an attempt to get her involved, but she ignored them, kept her eyes on the book. She seemed to be thinking, “If only they’d finish their foolishness and leave me in peace.”
Eventually a nurse came in, had Katya on her back in the bed, administering to her in some way. Clearly uncomfortable with the procedure, the girl lay with tears in her eyes, while her book was left at the foot of the bed. It was “Stories from the Bible.” What to do? This. I walked up to Katya on her back, looked down at her and began to sing. It was what they call духовнаяпесня(a spiritual song/prayer), sung by peasant women in Russian villages of the nineteenth century.
Firstverse: Миру заступница, Мати Всепетая, я пред Тобою с мольбой
(Intercessor for all the world, All-Hallowed Mother of God, I stand before Thee with a plea)
Secondverse: Бедная грешница, мраком одетая, Ты Благодатю покрой
(Poor sinner that I am, all wrapped up in darkness, cover me, Mother, in Thy Bright Grace)
Thirdverse: Трудная жизнь, минуты страдания, Ты мне, молюсь, помоги
(Hard, hard life, moments of dire suffering, help me, O Mother, I pray)
She lay on her back, looking up with utter concentration, listening to the consolation of the song, listening. We never spoke a word together, but in leaving Katya, I hoped I had left her with a spark of succor, a way through whatever dark paths in her soul that she still had to walk.
Nov. 15: Dasha, Roma and Tima, Trump
We visited two children’s hospitals today, both great fun. One was the Institute for the Treatment of Bone Tuberculosis. Here Courtney (an Australian clown) and I spent time talking to a beautiful thirteen-year-old girl named Dasha, who was not ambulatory. She had a lovely temperament and a great smile, and she did her best to speak English. At times I helped her translate things she wanted to say for Courtney from the Russian. I left her with a necklace made by Native Americans, with two feathers hanging down at the bottom.
The Trump mask was a big hit here, more than anywhere else. Almost all the nurses and mothers wanted their picture taken with Trump. By now I had a performance routine down. I went around speaking out the mouth of the mask in Russian, asking somebody to help me find my pal Putin. I repeated the same words over and over. “МенязовутТрамп. Я шут гороховый. Я первый шут гороховый Президент в истории Америки (MynameisTrump. I’m a jackass-clown. I’m the first jackass-clown President in American history).” After that I sang “America the Beautiful,” beginning in English, but finishing off the last verse in Russian.
Made friends in the morning with a six-year-old boy named Roman (Roma). Gave him a calendar for 2017 consisting entirely of cats. He was thrilled. He told me, “My favorite animal is the cat.” Also gave him a writing pad and pen. His specialty in drawing was the tank. He drew me a picture of a tank, very carefully wrote out his name at the bottom, Рома, and presented it to me as a gift.
The highlight of the afternoon was three-year-old Timofey (Timothy). As clowns in multicolored outfits gamboled about, Timmy sat with his mother, dead serious, wide-eyed, muttering. “What’s that he’s saying?” I asked, and the mother, laughing, replied, “He’s saying Паук-человек (Spiderman).” So it turned out, Timmy was obsessed with the superpowers of the man-spider, and he was convinced that somewhere amidst this cornucopia of bright clownery his hero would appear.
Nov. 17: The Catherine Palace in Pushkin
Today we rode our bus out of town, to the city of Pushkin. There we visited the magnificent Catherine Palace, which I had been to many times, but never like this. The clowns capered and romped about in the magnificent parade rooms, danced amidst the splendor. I got to see the wonderful Amber Room again, and then we were off to the Psycho-neurological Orphanage No. 4. All the children here were severely retarded. Even the most experienced clowns are sometimes at a loss in a situation like this. The usual tricks—dancing about, blowing up balloons, tooting horns, singing songs—if they work at all, only work to a limited degree.You try to make the best of a sad situation.
Nov. 18: Winding Down
Our last visit to a children’s hospital this morning. I talked for a while with two six-year-old twin brothers, Misha and Matvej (Mikey and Matt). Passed out a lot more presents (calendars, crayons, writing pads, even toy cigarettes). One last go for the Trump mask, and once again it was received with hoots of joy. Everyone was posing for pictures with Trump. As for the children, the younger ones didn’t know who Trump was, but they enjoyed the mask. Mikey and Matt started playing run out of a ward shrieking, then run down the corridors pursued by the ogre in the mask. Great fun. Before leaving this hospital I gave away most of my clown props, including the palm-frond hat and the fake eyeglasses that I had worn most of the time. Assuming that it might be useful some time in the next four years, I kept the Trump mask.
There were times during this trip, especially during the worst bronchitis, that I wondered what I was doing here. Especially since at my age I was like grandfather to the group. But all in all, it was a wonderful experience. The clowns were so devoted to what they were doing, and such good people, it was a real privilege to be around them. Some of them were so refined in their performances that I sometimes just sat with the children and watched the entertainment.
I spoke with a lot of Russians all over about the American political scene. Didn’t meet a single Russian who liked Hillary Clinton; most of them hated her. But that is understandable, given that her husband as President was the first to perpetuate the Cold War by pushing NATO up to the borders of Russia, and given that Hillary followed the same anti-Russian “containment” policies as Secretary of State under Obama. As for Trump, the Russians appreciated his iconoclasm and showmanship, but they weren’t really sure what to make of him. But then, nobody else can figure out Trump’s behavior either, including Trump himself.
The best thing of all about this trip was the privilege of being able to interact with Russian children, with their mothers, with the nurses and doctors in the places we visited. In one hospital a woman there with her son, just checking in, said to me, “But you’re from America; they hate Russians in America, don’t they?” Well no, not all of us, at any rate. And if we could bring the haters along with us on this tour, could take them to the hospitals to see the children, the hatred would soon fade from their souls.
Posted by U.R. Bowie on January 2, 2017 in RUSSIA
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Orphan Black: BBC America Confirms Final Season Casting
Who will be in the last season of Orphan Black? Today, BBC America announced the casting for the fifth and final season of the sci-fi series.
The drama centers on Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), a con woman who discovers she is one of many clones at the center of a mysterious plot.
Alongside regulars Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Kristian Bruun, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Hanchard, Ari Millen, Josh Vokey, and Skyler Wexler, season five will feature Evelyne Brochu, Calwyn Shurgold, and James Frain.
The final season is slated to debut in 2017.
From BBC America:
Toronto – October 25, 2016 – Announced today, the cast for the final season of BBC AMERICA’s critically acclaimed and award-winning series, Orphan Black. The fifth season sees the return of Tatiana Maslany to her Emmy(R)-winning role as multiple characters in the Peabody Award-winning series. Orphan Black is produced by Temple Street Productions, a division of Boat Rocker Studios, in association with BBC AMERICA and Bell Media’s SPACE.
This morning at 9:30am ET, BBCA provided fans with unprecedented access to the Orphan Black production with a Facebook Live broadcast on location as they film a scene with one of Tatiana Maslany’s fan-favorite characters, Helena. (Watch Here)
Sarah Barnett, President of BBC AMERICA, stated, “Since the beginning, BBCA has worked with the incredibly talented cast and crew of Orphan Black to create deep relationships with the show’s fans. As the team reunites to shoot season five, we all wanted to invite the Clone Club to something pretty special – a virtual set visit with Facebook Live. This innovative event marks the beginning of our celebrations leading up to the final season of this unique show in 2017.”
“It’s with mixed feelings that we start this final leg of our journey with Sarah and her sisters,” said David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, Executive Producers of Orphan Black and Co-Presidents of Boat Rocker Studios. “We are incredibly proud of Orphan Black and what it’s come to mean to all those involved and, especially, the fans. Our pride is only matched by our gratitude to the wonderfully talented writers, producers, cast and crew who have been so dedicated to bringing to life such engaging and compelling characters and storylines.”
Returning to Orphan Black this season are fan-favorites Jordan Gavaris as Sarah’s battle worn foster brother Felix; Kristian Bruun as Alison’s incredibly devoted husband Donnie; Maria Doyle Kennedy as Sarah and Felix’s fiercely loyal and stouthearted foster mother Mrs. S; Kevin Hanchard as Art, a detective torn between being a good cop and his loyalty to the clones; Ari Millen as castor clone Ira; Josh Vokey as Scott, science geek and confidante to Cosima; and Skyler Wexler as Sarah’s daughter Kira. Also returning this season – James Frain as Ferdinand, an intimidating and scheming executive; Evelyne Brochu as love-torn scientist Delphine; and Calwyn Shurgold as Hell Wizard. Joining the cast this season is Elyse Levesque as Detective Engers, a dirty Neolution cop who is a true believer; Andrew Moodie as Mr. Frontenac, Rachel’s new mysterious consultant; Simu Liu as Mr. Mitchell, Kira’s new homeroom teacher; Jenessa Grant as Mud, an eclectic young islander; and Stephen McHattie as P.T. Westmoreland, the mythical 170-year-old founder of Neolution.
Spearheaded by co-creator Graeme Manson, the writing team includes returning writer Alex Levine and new writers Jeremy Boxen, Greg Nelson, Jenn Engels, David Bezmozgis, Renee St Cyr, Natalia Guled, and Aisha Porter-Christie. Returning to direct is co-creator John Fawcett, along with David Frazee, Aaron Morton, David Wellington, Grant Harvey, and Helen Shaver.
Orphan Black is executive produced by Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier, Graeme Manson, John Fawcett and Kerry Appleyard. The series is co-created by Manson and Fawcett, with Manson also serving as writer and Fawcett as director. BBC Worldwide distributes the series internationally.”
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The Desegregation of Huntsville
African American civil rights activists in Huntsville, Alabama formed a “psychological warfare committee” to outsmart white supremacists and force the Rocket City to desegregate.
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Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters
by CommodoreBlog · Published January 14, 2020 · Updated January 14, 2020
Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters is an upcoming Commodore 64 game by Carleton Handley (code), Saul Cross (graphics) and Hans Axelsson-Svala (music). In it’s early development the games title was temporarily named “Catrap (Pitman)”. Many Game Boy fans will be familiar.
Catrap also known as Pitman in Japan, is a puzzle-platform game originally developed for the Sharp MZ-700 computer in 1985 and was released by Asmik for the Nintendo Game Boy in 1990, and was very well received back in the day. It’s actually one of my favourite games on Nintendo’s classic hand-held.
You must navigate each single room, clearing any obstacles, kicking ghosts and monsters off the screen that block your path. Once you have reached this goal, you move onto the next room. This all sounds very simple and it is, that is, until you move onto later levels. Like many puzzle games, things get more complicated as you progress. In the Game Boy version, if you make a mistake you can use a rewind feature, which makes things a little less frustrating, allowing you to try again without restarting the game completely. This type of let’s say “early cheat system” would be later used in games such as Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and others.
Millie and Molly is a nod to the original game and features many similar mechanics of the Game Boy version, (Rewind feature on the Commodore 64! Is that a world first?). So far the team have put a lot of love, time and attention to detail into creating a similar experience on the Commodore 64, I’m sure this game will be welcomed with open arms when it’s eventually released to the public.
Latest News regarding Millie and Molly is Carleton is working on an underwater level featuring new music from Saul and Hans. From the short video shared on Twitter, the water level features some lovely soothing music. You may also notice just like Catrap, a password system is in place, so you don’t have to keep starting from the first level. Some of the other Tweets Carleton has shared on Twitter suggests there will also be a level editor included in the game.
Overall this is shaping up to be a lovely little game, we are certainly looking forward to giving it a play for a full review in the future. Check out the video and be sure to check the links below for more information.
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C64 needs more proper Arcade classic conversions & stuff like this. Otherwise you can simply fire up mame and be done with C64 versions as 85% of them are inferior compared to the originals. Only exception I can think of is Bubble Bobble.
New Bomb Jack conversion also will be gud (if it ever comes out).
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Academic lawyer. Lecturer in Law at Southampton Law School within the University of Southampton. Research interests fall mainly within constitutional law, international law, and legal theory.
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Asshole Jimmy Kimmel’s pathetic, unfunny cry for attention
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Jimmy Kimmel recently admitted that he violated your trust by having blatantly lied to you. Ha! Ha! Ha! That’s so funny!
I was one of the millions who viewed via the Internet the viral video of a young woman apparently practicing her “twerking” while home alone before, apparently, her female roommate or friend or relative arrives and forces open the front door (against which the first woman has been “twerking”), causing the “twerking” woman to fall onto a coffee table ablaze with several candles, and then, catch on fire.
The video did strike me as odd: Why the fuck would the second woman force the front door open like she apparently did when it was fairly clear that, for whatever strange reason, the first woman was upside down, up against the door? Is she that clueless and/or that bitchy that she would do that? And didn’t the “twerking” woman, albeit on fire, recover fairly easily from her body-slam onto the glass coffee table?
The viral video’s actual origin — a stunt pulled by “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” using a stuntwoman — explains all of that.
But it eludes me as to what, exactly, Kimmel & Co. were trying to accomplish by having released the fake video into cyberspace.
“Ha! We lied to you! Don’t you feel stupid?”
Was that the point?
Because it’s not especially clever or funny to post a fake video like this one online. It’s just another form of lying.
True, as this Associated Press article points out, we probably trust viral videos’ authenticity more readily than we should, and just because something has gone viral doesn’t mean that it’s authentic.
Certain videos purporting to capture victims of nerve gas in Syria at the hands of the Syrian government come to mind. Even if such videos weren’t faked, even if the victims were indeed nerve-gassed, the videos themselves of course don’t tell us who perpetrated the gas attack, yet the United States apparently just almost went to war based largely upon some fucking YouTube videos.
What would posterity have called that? The YouTube War?
I doubt that Kimmel & Co. were thinking of the Syrian videos when they pulled their stunt, of course.
Most likely, it seems to me, it was just a cry for attention, a juvenile publicity stunt.
I’ve never watched “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” but I have even less reason to do so now. The man’s just a liar, and that’s not clever or funny, and when one is lied to, he or she is not the defective one if he or she partially or wholly believed the lie.
It’s the liar — not the liar’s victims — who is the fucking asshole, and Jimmy Kimmel is a liar and therefore just another fucking asshole.
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Home Technology YouTube announces paid TV subscription service
YouTube announces paid TV subscription service
YouTube is officially jumping into the live-streaming television fray with a new subscription service called YouTube TV.
YouTube TV will stream live TV from over 40 networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, Fox, The Disney Channel and National Geographic, as well as feeding in news and sport from smaller, regional stations, depending on where a viewer is located. The deal also includes access to the content hidden behind the paywall of YouTube Red, the company’s own premium video service, and Showtime and Fox Soccer Plus can be thrown in as well, for an extra fee.
It’s all viewed through the YouTube TV app for iOS and Android, letting it play on phones, tablets and computers, and it can be streamed to a TV using a Google Chromecast. Content can be watched live, or tagged to record to a “cloud DVR”. YouTube says there’s no limit on how much can be stored on the service (although shows will be erased after nine months), and multiple streams can be recorded simultaneously. When you do get around to your backlog, it can be watched on any device through the app.
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The subscription itself will cost US$35 a month. That’s more than three times the price of Netflix, but it’s cheaper than what you’d pay for a cable bundle containing that lineup of networks and puts it in a similar ballpark to other live TV streaming services such as Sling TV, PlaySTation Vue and DirecTV Now – although channels on offer and plans obviously vary. A YouTube TV subscription can be canceled at any time, and includes up to six separate profiles, with their own cloud DVR library and recommendations.
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Besides “soon”, there’s no specific word yet on when the service will launch. YouTube says it will be rolled out in certain parts of the US first, but will expand across the country in time. Those interested can sign up to be notified when it’s available in their area. Whether this, or a similar lineup, might eventually come to other countries is hard to tell, given the web of international licenses that would need to be untangled.
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WCAX: Welch: For the People Act would expose dark money
Welch: For the People Act would expose dark money
WASHINGTON (WCAX) U.S. House Democrats have one bill at the top of their list-- HR.1, which would make Election Day a federal holiday. They call it the For the People Act.
It's meant to expand access to voting, reduce the influence of big money in politics and strengthen ethics rules for public servants.
We talked to Congressman Peter Welch about it this week.
"It's about trying to reform some of our own practices in the House. On campaign finance, it really calls to disclose where some of the secret dark money that has been flooding into the campaigns on both sides," said Welch, D-Vermont.
Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dismissed the bill as a power grab and said it would not get a vote in the Senate.
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Let there be light! Check out our Metro Vancouver Christmas Lights Map 2019
It's here! Postmedia's annual Metro Vancouver Christmas Light Map is live for 2019 but there's still time to submit your display.
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If your Christmas display could give Clark Griswold a run for his money, you’ve come to the right place.
This year, Postmedia searched for the best and brightest of holiday lights and decorations throughout Metro Vancouver. We asked you to submit your display for our interactive map and you delivered.
Thank you for submitting to our 2019 map! We have finished collecting submissions for the year.
Christmas Light Directory
Our interactive map is live! Click and browse the map or scroll down for a city-by-city listing of Christmas light displays.
Abbotsford / Mission / Chilliwack
Bench’s Christmas
1405 Kaslo Court., Abbotsford
This drive-by display is on nightly from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the month of December, and features inflatables and thousands of flashing lights.
Diamond Crescent Musical Christmas
7620 Diamond Crescent, Chilliwack
Lights on 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., except for Friday, Saturday and Christmas Eve and Day when lights are on until 10 p.m.
Santa’s Toy Shop
3863 Kensington Ct., Abbotsford
Lights are on from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31, from 5 to 10 p.m. Donations are collected for the Cyrus Center.
Santa’s Toy Shop.
Vendrasco’s
32228 Buffalo Dr., Mission
This walk-through display will be lit from from 5 to 10:30 p.m. from Dec. 1 to Jan. 1. Collections of non-perishable foods or cash donations will also be collected for a local Christmas bureau.
Vendrasco’s.
Biggest Christmas Tree in Burnaby Heights
3755 McGill St., Burnaby
This drive-by display boasts “the biggest Christmas tree in Burnaby Heights,” in the form of a light display installed on the side of an apartment building.
DuPlessis Family Christmas Display
8222 Burnlake Dr., Burnaby
Along with the usual thousands of lights, ornaments and inflatables, there are a number of new additions that will be hard to miss, such as the 12-foot Grinch upon his sleigh, Misfit Island and a forest of trees. The 12-minute light show runs continuously from 4:30 to 11:30 p.m. on Monday to Wednesday, and until midnight on Thursday to Sundays until January 5th, 2020. Be sure to tune to 92.3FM Ho Ho Ho Radio to hear the display soundtrack. Donations are also being collected for B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation.
DuPlessis Family Christmas Display.
Phil’s Christmas
4187 William St., Burnaby
This drive-by display features stunning angel figures and stately decorations for a classic look.
Phil’s Christmas.
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Coquitlam / Port Coquitlam / Port Moody
Christmas in PoCo
1688 Pitt River Rd., Port Coquitlam
This drive-by display features rainbow coloured trees and reindeers made of lights.
1417 Garibaldi Place, Coquitlam
This drive-by display includes 100 handmade features and 6,000 lights. Open from 4:30 p.m. to midnight.
Handmade Christmas.
Santa’s Home
1422 Smith Ave., Coquitlam
This drive-by display offers musical shows every 30 minutes beginning at 5 p.m. nightly.
Santa’s Home.
Lovely Lights on Lillian
927 Lillian St., Coquitlam
This walk-through display is on nightly from 4:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. through Dec. 31.
Lovely Lights on Lillian.
Christmas Character Wonderland
1642 Greenmount Ave., Port Coquitlam
What began years ago with a couple lights and a moment for a father to bond with his two sons has magically grown over the years to a loving work of Christmas cheer meant to put a smile on all those who happen to pass by and encourage the spirit of giving and care. The family looks to give back to the community with the Christmas light attraction and by collecting food bank donations to provide for those most in need. The lights are on from 5 p.m. each evening so please swing by to celebrate this holiday season.
Christmas Character Wonderland.
Oriole Place Lights
1228 Oriole Pl., Port Coquitlam
This drive-by display runs from 5:30 to 10 p.m. nightly. Donations accepted for the Royal Columbian Hospital NICU. Lights are synced to nine different songs; tune your radio to 92.3 FM to listen
Oriole Place Lights.
Dangville the Miniature Christmas Village
2638 Brewster Dr., Coquitlam
Dangville the Miniature Christmas Village has come to life, with more than 191 houses, 41 animated pieces, and several hundred elves, people and animals. See miniature scenes where elves are working away and town folk carry on their lives while preparing for Santa’s arrival. Open to the public nightly from Dec. 13 to 26, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Admission is free, though donations accepted for CKNW Kids Fund.
Dangville the Miniature Christmas Village.
Miracle on Rae Street
3313 Rae St., Port Coquitlam
Miracle on Rae Street returns for 2019. Lights are on Sunday to Thursday from 5 to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 5 to 11 p.m., on Dec. 1 until Jan. 5. The display includes more than 200,000 lights synced to music, alongside ground displays and a 90-foot decorated tree. Starbucks will be hosting and serving hot chocolate on Sunday, Dec. 15 while contributions to the food bank are accepted. Due to high volume, Rae Street will become a one-way traffic flow street for the season. Please enter off Prairie Avenue.
Miracle on Rae Street.
Capital Court Christmas
752 Capital Ct., Port Coquitlam
A classic drive-by Christmas display. Open nightly.
Capital Court Christmas.
Maple Ridge / Pitt Meadows
The Watsons
21456 122 Ave., Maple Ridge
Lights on from 4:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. nightly, with donations collected for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The Sheridans
21675 Howison Ave., Maple Ridge
This classic drive-by features lights wrapped around towering trees.
The Sheridans.
Christmas Spirit on Stoney
20812 Stoney Ave., Maple Ridge
This walk-through display is on from dusk to 9 p.m. on Sundays through Thursdays, and from dusk to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Christmas Spirit on Stoney.
The Andersens
12505 Izon Ct., Maple Ridge
Be sure to stop, roll down your windows or get out of your car as the lights dance and sync to Christmas music in this drive-by display.
Evans and Thurstons
24314 102B Ave., Maple Ridge
Several thousands of lights adorn a small, heritage-style Albion home. This drive-by display features a bright animated countdown clock and multiple figures in the yard. Backyard is lighted, too, visible from the lane.
Xmas in Vancouver
1475 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver
This custom-built light show located at #29 – 1475 Deep Cove Rd. features thousands of lights synchronized to music of all types. Lights run Dec. 1 to Jan. 10, with first show each evening at 5 p.m. and the last show starting at 9 p.m. Visitors can walk up to enjoy the lights or enjoy from their vehicle while tuned to 88.9 FM to hear the soundtrack. The show is dedicated to the memory of Paul Carruthers.
Xmas in Vancouver.
Christmas in North Vancouver
1690 Cascade Court, North Vancouver
This drive-by display features simple lights and a garden of lights.
Christmas in North Vancouver.
The Ho Ho Ho House
4280 Garry St., Richmond
The Woodmans have been lighting up Steveston for more than 30 years. The walk-through display is known as the Ho Ho Ho House, bringing a piece of the North Pole to Richmond. The display showcases thousands of lights, a candy cane walkway, multiple picture locations and Santa’s sleigh for that perfect holiday picture. Lights are on nightly from 6 to 10 p.m., Dec. 4 to Dec 31. Donations accepted for the Wigs For Kids Foundation.
The Ho Ho Ho House.
Warkentin Light Show
9211 211B St., Langley City
This drive-by display features almost 5,000 channels of LED light. The light show is synced to several modern Christmas songs. To hear the soundtrack, tune to 89.9 FM from your car to listen to the lights. The show runs daily during December.
Listen to the Lights
9241 213 St., Langley City
Stop by this home for a musical Christmas light show, synchronized to music. Tune your radio to 106.1 FM as you drive up. The electronic show, run off a salvaged desktop computer, has more than 20,000 lights, four leaping arches, a 15-foot tall spiral tree with a 3D star and four animated singing Christmas trees. New this year; a 17-foot, fully animated “pixel tree” that has to be seen to be believed. The lights are exclusively low-power LEDs and the entire show runs off of one standard household outlet. Lights are on starting Dec. 1 from 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays to Thursdays and 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays until Jan. 5. Exceptions are Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day when the show is on from noon until 11 p.m
Listen to the Lights.
Carrie’s Christmas
19646 49 Ave., Langley City
Lights are on nightly from 6 to 11 p.m. until Jan. 5. The display includes music and synchronized lights.
Carrie’s Christmas.
10130 Helen Dr., Surrey
A classic drive-by display.
Lambert House
11082 Jay Crescent, Surrey
This drive-by display offers musically synchronized lights every half hour starting at 5 p.m.
Bonneteau Winter Wonderland
16951 Jersey Dr., Surrey
This walk-through display includes thousands of lights, a Nativity Scene, Paw Patrol, Mickey and Minnie, Snoopy and Woodstock and plenty of Santas and Frosties to greet you. The display is bigger and better than previous years and features more than 100 Christmas characters. Donations are being accepted to benefit the Surrey Hospital NICU.
Bonneteau Winter Wonderland.
The Kelly House
15349 85A Ave., Surrey
This drive-by display includes dozens of figures and a classic Nativity scene.
The Kelly House.
George Family Lights
9277 132 St., Surrey
This walk-through display features lights synchronized to music. Lights on nightly between 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.
George Family Lights.
Art and Lou’s Christmas Lights
This free walk-through display is open Dec.1 to Jan. 1 nightly from 6 to 10 p.m. Enjoy the North Pole and the Nativity scene, with Santa and friends making a visit on Dec. 21 between 6 to 9 p.m.There will be candy canes for the kids and coffee for the grown-ups; guests are invited to bring their cameras and have fun.
Art and Lou’s Christmas Lights.
Frosty & Friends
17022 62 Ave., Surrey
This drive-by display is open from 5 to 11 p.m. daily, beginning Dec. 1 until Jan. 1.
Frosty & Friends.
Log House
This walk-through display is on from 5 to 10 p.m. each night. Includes figures of deer, snowmen, inflatable characters, a Nativity scene and 40,000 lights and several 4-feet-tall Christmas ornaments decorating a log house.
Log House.
Kimble Christmas Light Show
6116 163A St., Surrey
This drive-by display is synchronized to music for an approximately 33-minute show beginning at the top of the hour.
Kimble Christmas Light Show.
3rd Cloverdale Scouts Fundraiser by the Dolmans
Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 9 p.m. Enjoy popcorn, cookies and hot chocolate by donation.
3rd Cloverdale Scouts Fundraiser by the Dolmans.
The Murrays
Corner of 194th Street and 73rd Avenue, Surrey
This drive-by display features a light-up gift arch along with candy canes and special visits from Santa on nights when the weather is nice.
The Murrays.
The Chang Family Christmas 2019
11804 91 Ave., Delta
The Changs’ holiday display was the winner of the 107.7 Pulse FM’s 2017 and 2018 Christmas Light Challenge, and was featured on City TV in 2018. The free display is open daily between 4 p.m. to midnight.
The Chang Family Christmas 2019.
10655 Ramona Way, Delta
This drive-by display features hundreds of dazzling lights, including a Christmas tree made of lights on the front lawn.
Christmas Cul de Sac
11762 80A Ave., Delta
This Christmas Cul de Sax features several light displays on the same street.
Christmas at the Bihal House
11423 Health Cres., Delta
Lights on nightly from 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Christmas at the Bihal House.
A Mussato Christmas
Enjoy thousands of lights along with lawn ornaments, open nightly from 5 to 11 p.m.
Heritage Harbour at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
1905 Ogden Ave., Vancouver
During daylight hours, the public is welcome to walk the docks at Heritage Harbour and even take a picture with a Grinch display on one of the boats. After dark, the public can enjoy the beauty of the lights reflecting on the water from many vantage points ashore. Open daily during daylight hours. Free.
Heritage Harbour at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Never Too Old For Christmas
2004 East 12th Ave., Vancouver
This drive-by display is hard to miss, featuring a number of inflatable figures and handmade cutouts.
Never Too Old For Christmas.
VanDusen Botanical Garden Festival of Lights
5251 Oak St., Vancouver
This ticketed walk-through display invites families to take in a Dancing Lights show on Livingstone Lake, relax by a fireside lounge, visit the Make-A-Wish candle grotto, snap selfies with Santa and enjoy a spin on a carousel. Tickets are available online at vandusenfestivaloflights.ca.
VANCOUVER, B.C.: DECEMBER 17, 2018 – A couple walks through the tunnel of light while touring VanDusen Gardens 2018 Festival of Lights in Vancouver, BC, December, 17, 2018. RICHARD LAM / PNG
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Vox Pop On Amnesty In Georgia
D.A. King
[Also by D.A. King: Marching Through Georgia; Deport the Marietta Three]
Thank you Karl Rove.
Here is a sentence that I have neither uttered nor typed before: Thank you, Karl Rove.
Thank you Mr. Rove for doing what a lot of us have been attempting to do for years… make the American public take a position on, and have a basic working knowledge of, the enormous illegal immigration crisis.
People who two weeks ago could not spell "illegal alien" and had no idea that there were 10-12 million of them in our country are now fairly bursting with their own two-week-old opinions. Let the thought process begin. See the average American worker think. See conservative voters waver. Watch Totalization get some light shined on it.
As I went about my daily business today, the car radio brought talk of "shameless pandering"… this was from a syndicated Libertarian talk show host. On another station, Rush Limbaugh, new to immigration knowledge, told his listeners that Republicans were trying to take all of the issues away from the Democrats.
He did not mention taking the country from the citizen, but I personally think he will get there soon.
On an errand to the supermarket, I could clearly overhear a discussion of "those illegal immigrants getting legal…"
At the gym, fellow members that I had never even heard mention politics were speculating out loud as to how much money was spent to educate the children of illegals. A successful acquaintance who fits any description of the term "RINO" informed me in no uncertain terms that "we can't send them back, we must deal with them because they are here…" Ahh, the power of the media on busy minds. But a very alert young man who is aware of my passion for the subject thought for a few moments and suggested that if we stopped allowing employers to hire illegals, they "would go back where they came from." Thank you, Michael; you ended my workout with a ray of hope for your generation.
By making President Bush's first topic in his re-election bid an amnesty for criminals, mostly from Mexico, [Mr. Rove, everybody is laughing at your "earned legalization" Newspeak] the administration has put its willingness to barter America's future out for all to see.
If Mr. Bush wants to play chicken with the conservative vote…begin the game.
Mr. President, in your speech, do trot out that favorite of mine that tells us that we should be a welcoming nation and that we should "match willing workers with willing employers". I double-dog dare you Mr. President. And please. Use that "safe for migration" line. We love that one at my house. [VDARE.COM note: The President made the speech at 2:45 EST, and yes, he used the willing workers line. read the transcript view listen]
As I type these words of un-easy delight, speechwriters in the White House are busy with an effort to make ice cream out of the coming presentation. Their available ingredients are not the stuff of ice cream. One can only imagine the conversations in the process of the hopeless task.
Wash your hands when finished, people.
D.A. King [email him] is an active member of Georgians For Immigration Reduction and proprietor of http://www.theamericanresistance.com/.
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Craig Nelsen On The Coming White Minority
Craig Nelsen of ProjectUSA has strong op-ed in a Florida paper about the census and the likelihood of whites becoming a minority if immigration isn't brought under control.
Immigration and the pending white minority
By CRAIG NELSEN
Ocala Star-Banner
By 2042, the Census Bureau says, whites will be a minority in the United States, and among children under 18, whites become the minority in just 15 years.
How long is 15 years? Fifteen years ago, Bill Clinton was president.
So, just around the corner, whites in America are going to be disempowered, assuming we remain a democracy, through a radical and rapid transformation of the nation's demography on a scale unprecedented in world history.
In response to this news, individual whites — the proper, polite ones — will affect (or, if particularly ignorant of the world around them, evince) an attitude, at the least, of indifference and calm assurance, at the most, of celebratory enthusiasm.For the sake of clear, adult thinking, let's dismiss these proper, polite whites as a bunch of panglossian ninnies and adopt a position more in line with everything we know about humans.[More]
Craig was kind enough to quote from my piece on the first "Thirty Years War" for immigration restriction. In the timeline section, I had this note:
1920 September. 500 pound dynamite bomb exploded in front of 23 Wall Street. Wall Street support for immigration takes sudden drop.
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Difference between revisions of "Outside view"
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Taking the '''outside view''' means reasoning in [[far mode]] in cases where one would ordinarily use [[near mode]] thinking. It's a solution to the [[planning fallacy]], and is generally useful in cases where details are selectively unavailable or impossible to make use of in an unbiased way.
Taking the '''outside view''' (another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting reference class forecasting]) means using an estimate based on a class of roughly similar previous cases, rather than trying to visualize the details of a process. For example, estimating the completion time of a programming project based on how long similar projects have taken in the past, rather than by drawing up a graph of tasks and their expected completion times. The [[planning fallacy]] is that people tend to be hugely optimistic when visualizing the details of a case, and become even more optimistic as they visualize more details.
Example 1: Japanese students expected to finish their essays an average of 10 days before deadline. The average completion time was actually 1 day before deadline. When asked when they'd completed similar, previous tasks, the average reply was 1 day before deadline. (Buehler, R., Griffin, D., & Ross, M. 2002. Inside the planning fallacy: The causes and consequences of optimistic time predictions. Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment, 250-270. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.)
Example 2: Students instructed to visualize how, where, and when they would perform their Christmas shopping, expected to finish shopping more than a week before Christmas. A control group asked when they expected their Christmas shopping to be finished, expected it to be done 4 days before Christmas. Both groups finished 3 days before Christmas. (Buehler, R., Griffin, D. and Ross, M. 1995. It's about time: Optimistic predictions in work and love. European Review of Social Psychology, Volume 6, eds. W. Stroebe and M. Hewstone. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.)
It is controversial how far the lesson of these experiments can be extended. Robin Hanson argues that this implies that, in futurism, forecasts should be made by trying to find a reference class of similar cases, rather than by trying to visualize outcomes. Eliezer Yudkowsky responds that this leads to "reference class tennis" wherein people feel that the same event 'obviously' belongs to two different reference classes, and that the above experiments were performed in cases where the new example was highly similar to past examples. I.e., this year's Christmas shopping optimism and last year's Christmas shopping optimism are much more similar to one another, than the invention of the Internet is to the invention of agriculture. If someone else then feels that the invention of the Internet is more like the category 'recent communications innovations' and should be forecast by reference to television instead of agriculture, both sides pleading the outside view has no resolution except "I'm taking my reference class and going home!"
==Blog posts==
*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/vz/the_weak_inside_view/ The Weak Inside View]
*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/rj/surface_analogies_and_deep_causes/ Surface Analogies and Deep Causes]
*[http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/beware-the-insi.html Beware the Inside View] by [[Robin Hanson]]
*[http://lesswrong.com/lw/1p5/outside_view_as_conversationhalter/ "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter]
*[http://lesswrong.com/r/lesswrong/lw/hzu/model_combination_and_adjustment/ Model Combination and Adjustment]
Taking the outside view (another name for reference class forecasting) means using an estimate based on a class of roughly similar previous cases, rather than trying to visualize the details of a process. For example, estimating the completion time of a programming project based on how long similar projects have taken in the past, rather than by drawing up a graph of tasks and their expected completion times. The planning fallacy is that people tend to be hugely optimistic when visualizing the details of a case, and become even more optimistic as they visualize more details.
Planning Fallacy
The Outside View's Domain
The Weak Inside View
Surface Analogies and Deep Causes
Beware the Inside View by Robin Hanson
"Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter
Model Combination and Adjustment
Near/far thinking
Connotation, Absurdity heuristic
Arguing by analogy
Intelligence explosion, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
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Parasuram readies a solid entertaining role for Chay
Vi Anand opens up about Ravi Teja’s character in Disco Raja
Malayalam Poster : Keerthy Suresh’s look from Marakkar
Tamannaah’s That Is Mahalakshmi to release without director’s credit?
Published on Feb 3, 2019 9:16 am IST
Following the ‘credit’ controversy around Manikarnika, all eyes are on Tamannaah’s That Is Mahalakshmi. The film is directed by two filmmakers – Neelakantha and Prasanth Varma, after Neelakantha quit the project due to creative differences with Tamannaah.
And, if the latest reports are anything to go by, That Is Mahalakshmi may hit screens without the names of both the directors mentioned in the credits. Already, all the film’s posters and the teaser that were released so far didn’t have the directors’ names, and the makers may as well follow the same strategy for the movie.
That Is Mahalakshmi is an official remake of the super hit Bollywood film, Queen. Manu Kumaran is bankrolling all the four South Indian remakes of Queen in association with Kannada actress Parul Yadav.
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HONGQI AUTO
Hongqi means Red Flag and is the Luxury Brand of FAW, the state-owned vehicle manufacturer. The company is in existence since 1985 and tasked with producing limousines exclusively for the top ranks of the Communist party in China. FAW Group Corp will produce two plug-in hybrid vehicles plus an electric car for its Hongqi luxury brand over the next few years to meet China’s increasingly strict fuel consumption requirements. The state-owned automaker will start building the plug-in hybrid version of the Hongqi H7 midsize sedan this year, according to the company’s website. Hongqi’s first electric sedan, developed on a new vehicle platform, will enter production in 2018.
FAW also plans to build a second hybrid that will be positioned below the plug-in hybrid H7. Details about the second plug-in hybrid and the EV under development have yet to be disclosed.
Beijing requires automakers to cut fleetwide fuel consumption to 6.9 liters per 100 kilometers (34 mpg) this year, and to 5.0 liters (47 mpg) in 2020.
SALES | NEWS
HONGQI EV MODELS
HONGQI H7 PHEV BLUE WAY
Limousine PHEV
RED FLAG E-HS3
SUV EV
HONGQI EV SALES
Go to our detailed breakdown of Global EV Sales to see how HONGQI AUTO fares to its competitors in the fast-growing EV market.
GLOBAL EV SALES
HONGQI ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN THE NEWS
Week 45 2018 - Baidu and Hongqi to produce Level 4 EV
At the recent Baidu World Congress held on November 1, 2018, Baidu and Chinese state-owned carmaker FAW unveiled the Red Flag E-Boundary level 4 autonomous electric car. The Red Flag E-Boundary is based on the E-HS3 by the luxury brand Hongqi. The E-Boundary will be launched in small batches in 2019 followed by mass production in 2020. Chairman of FAW Dr. Xu Liuping said at the conference, “Last month we released the red flag technology brand ‘阩旗计划’ R.Flag with its branded autonomous system i.RFlag.
Week 31 2018 - Hongqi Strategy revelead
In a bid to revitalize the struggling state-owned Hongqi, FAWs luxury brand known for producing limousines for the Chinese state the company this week unveiled its new EV strategy. Hongqi will develop two platforms, the “532” for larger vehicles and the “432” for smaller vehicles. Hongqi Auto will build five pure electric vehicles, three plug-in hybrids, and two combustion vehicles on the large platform and four EVs, three PHEVs and two ICE vehicles on the smaller platform.
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A Short story, From the Far Side of Dreams
Elasia Unfurling
December 31, 2016 W. C. McClure 1 Comment
Elasia wiggled her fingers in the water, daring a fish to come take a nip. The grownups had expanded the dome to give the town more room, but the fact remained that the dark sky pressed in from all sides, and she longed to run freely through the forest she knew to be up there. She’d seen it once, when she was small, with the bright blue sky and that blinding sun. Vashaeda, the storyteller, told great tales of a world where the land stretched on and on. Not Elasia’s world, though. Her’s was topped and rimmed by dark water. It was lamps that provided light.
Elasia sighed and withdrew her hand. The fish weren’t being interesting today and her fingers were getting wrinkly and pale. She ran to Vashaeda’s house, hoping for a story, but the storyteller wasn’t home. Next on her list was old Ygarl. Ygarl had been a soldier once, though now he was an old man who walked bent over. Elasia didn’t exactly know what a soldier was, except that it was everybody’s explanation for the scars that covered Ygarl’s head and neck. He’d gotten them in the war, though she didn’t know what that was, either, except that something had endangered her father’s life, because Ygarl had saved him. Nobody wanted to talk about the war, though. Whatever it was, it had left a seed of sadness in all of the grownups. The war had happened up there.
Ygarl called Elasia Princess. It made her feel pretty, and special. Her father disapproved, so Ygarl only said it when he wasn’t around. Ygarl wasn’t the only one, either. Most of the townsfolk called her Princess when they thought her father couldn’t hear. A nickname, of sorts. She didn’t understand why it made father so angry.
“Good morning, Princess,” greeted Ygarl when she hopped through his door. “Hungry?”
“No,” said Elasia, folding herself into a deep windowsill. “I’m bored. Tell me a story.”
“Story, eh?” said Ygarl, wrestling with his stove. His hands looked like knots of wood layered upon each other, and his thick fingers shook around the knobs. “Vashaeda not in?”
Elasia shook her head. “Tell me about the blue sky,” she prompted.
“You’ve seen it,” he said through a groan as he eased down onto a chair beside the stove.
“But I had to be perfectly quiet, and it was only for a few minutes, to wave goodbye to Alsiamba when she went to die,” said Elasia. “You’ve seen the sky a lot more than I have.” Ygarl was reluctant to tell stories, and nobody told them like Vashaeda, but there was always a note of confession in Ygarl’s simple style that Elasia loved. “Please?”
Ygarl gazed at her warmly. His skin was sagging around his old frame, and he moved as if he were on the outside of the dome, in the water, but his eyes had the sharp alertness of a young man. “It isn’t always blue,” he said.
Elasia sat up straight. “What other colors can it do?” she asked. Images of the color prism splashed through her mind.
“On cloudy days, it’s gray. Sometimes dark, sometimes light; so light that it looks white. And twice a day, when the sun rises and sets, the sky turns red and orange and purple. At night, it’s black, like here, but there are millions of stars, and a moon.”
“Oh,” Elasia breathed, trying to imagine so many colors on the dome up there. “I’d like to see that.”
Ygarl studied her with a hint of sadness. “It is our shame that you’ve had to grow up like this,” he said. “No friends your age, in hiding… no sky.”
“In hiding?” Elasia frowned. She was well aware of being the only child in her town. It had always been that way. She didn’t question it. She’d never heard anyone say anything about hiding, though.
Ygarl’s face went slack for a moment. “Don’t listen to the ramblings of an old man,” he said, chuckling, but Elasia wasn’t fooled.
“What are we hiding from?” she asked. “Ygarl? Ygarl, I know you can hear me. What are we hiding from?”
The old man was tending to his breakfast as if it were the only thing that existed.
“Mreg,” he said at last, so faintly that she nearly didn’t hear.
“What’s Mreg?” she asked, lowering her voice as well.
The sorrow in Ygarl’s eyes when he looked at her nearly made her weep. “They can hear everything, up there,” he said quietly. “That’s why we couldn’t speak when we went up to bid Alsiamba farewell. Those who took her to her resting place made the journey in silence, so they could deliver her to her ancestors in peace.” He eased back in his chair with a low groan. “It will soon be time for my journey.”
“May I come?” asked Elasia.
Ygarl laughed. “How long is the longest you’ve ever been silent?”
Elasia began to practice silence right away. She skulked around town like a shadow, avoiding her usual sources of conversation.
“What’s gotten into you?” her father asked at last. “I don’t think you’ve said a word for days.”
“I’m practicing being quiet so I can come when Ygarl goes to join his ancestors,” answered Elasia.
Her mother dropped a dish, and her father looked as if he’d just been struck. “You will do no such thing!” he bellowed. “What has Ygarl been filling into your head?”
Elasia blinked at her father, fighting back tears and trying to figure out what she’d done wrong.
“I’d be perfectly quiet,” she said meekly.
“You have no idea how long a journey that is,” he snapped. “Keeping you quiet for that long is like asking the sun not to shine.”
“Is that difficult?” she asked. “May I see it?”
Something shifted then in her father’s eyes. A softening. Remorse. Tenderness.
“I’m sorry, Elasia,” he said gently, “but the answer is no. The world above is dangerous. If you want a sun and sky, I’ll see what I can do about that.”
The next day, a blazing ball of fire hovered at the top of the dome, and at night it went out, revealing a silver disc. Elasia knew her father meant well, but she wanted more. She wanted to breathe the air that smelled like trees and other exotic things. She wanted to see a bird again, the fish of the sky up there. She knew how to do it, too.
That night, she crept into her parents’ chamber and stole her father’s silver flute. He’d worked hard to keep his use of the flute a secret, but she knew that it was the flute that held back the water. It had probably created the disc of fire as well. She used it to create a tunnel through the water, up to the surface.
The sky wasn’t any different than down below, and she frowned at the shadowed trees. There were no lamps to light her way. Ygarl had never lied to her before. Where was his moon? Where were the stars? Above was only black. A few steps into the trees, and she was utterly lost. She fought against tears, but lost. A small sob escaped her lips.
She heard movement nearby. Something approached. It was large, and moving slowly, but it was headed straight for her. From behind, she heard something else, coming at her swiftly. She covered her mouth to keep from making another sound, but it was too late. She had no idea where to run.
A sliver of light shot down through the trees, and above she saw a bright disc for a moment, peeking through a hole in what looked like a huge blanket overhead. Ygarl had talked about clouds before. Was that the reason for the darkness? She saw movement in the moonlight, and white teeth, and something that shone blindingly for a second, slashing downward. Then the moonlight had passed, and she was left to guess what had made that thudding sound at her feet.
Another sliver of moonlight answered her question. Ygarl stood beside her, a long thin sword in his hands. On the ground was what remained of a beast, its lips still pulled back in a snarl. Trembling, she took Ygarl’s hand. But he didn’t lead her back to the water. In fact, he led her deeper into the forest. They walked all night.
Morning brought the white sky Ygarl had spoken of. It was painful to look at for too long, though she tried often. It was magical. Magnificent creatures filled the woods with busy movement and sounds. They slept for a while, and once rested, walked on. Elasia was careful not to say a word. She recognized that she’d be in trouble for the rest of her life once Ygarl took her back, but for now he was showing her the world she longed to see. And it did stretch on forever.
There were hills, and streams, and cliffs… great ponds and waterfalls… and then there was a morning lit by a blazing sun. The sky was a shade of blue she’d never imagined.
“Oh,” she gasped, and quickly clasped her hands over her mouth.
Rather than anger at her lapse, though, Ygarl merely chuckled and wagged a finger. His eyes glistened at the view. He seemed to strengthen as their journey stretched from days to weeks. He taught Elasia to forage for food along the forest floor. Soon the tree trunks grew larger, and Elasia began to feel something strange. A pressure between her shoulder blades. Every time she scratched at it, she caught Ygarl smiling at her slyly. She wished desperately that she could ask him about it, but she was careful to keep her mouth closed tight.
One day they encountered the ruins of what had been a large stone building. Ygarl considered it sadly for some time before moving on. Soon there were more like it. The air smelled familiar to Elasia, though she couldn’t say why. It was comforting. The tall trees swaying overhead seemed to whisper soothing things. Ygarl stopped before one, studying its thinning leaves so far above. With more than a few grunts and groans, he eased down against its bark. Elasia wanted to comment on the fact that the bark looked very much like his skin, but she remained carefully silent. After several weeks, the silence came naturally now. Hearing Ygarl speak was jarring.
“I have a story,” he said, easing back against the tree. “It’s about a city, and a flute handed down from one generation to the next. King to king. It’s about the ancestors nourishing those who came after. And about a princess, discovering her heritage, and her wings.” He gave her that sly grin again.
Ygarl’s skin was looking more like the bark behind him every minute and Elasia was beginning to worry. She opened her mouth to speak but Ygarl held up his hand.
“A great city once stood not far from here. For millennia two species ruled it. The Ean and the Mreg. The Ean were of the trees,” he said, gazing up at the leaves falling from the tree overhead. “The Mreg of the earth. The last Ean king… King Ygatherl…”
Elasia gasped at her father’s name. Ygarl nodded.
“He made a mistake that has haunted him ever since. The city was under siege, and he turned on the Mreg, thinking them spies. He…” Ygarl paused with a fit of coughing. “He was wrong about who was his enemy. The city fell. His kingdom no more, and having made enemies of his oldest allies, he fled for his life.” Ygarl’s hand brushed lightly against the scar that stretched across his forehead.
“He hasn’t taught the old ways,” Ygarl continued, nestling deeper into the folds of the tree. Or was the tree growing around him? “The Ean can fly, did you know that?” He smiled as Elasia reached back to the pressure between her shoulder blades. Her hands found nothing but there was something there that she couldn’t define. A feeling like she had extra arms that had been folded up too long and ached to extend. “I’m nearly home,” said Ygarl, and his voice sounded far away. The tree seemed to be absorbing him, or he was turning into it, or something in between.
“Ygarl…” gasped Elasia.
At the mention of his name, movement seemed to be everywhere. They were not alone anymore. A ring of giant spiders encircled them.
“Don’t be afraid,” Ygarl instructed, though his voice was scant more than a whisper. He was barely visible. “These are Mreg. It is right that they are here to witness my homecoming.”
A shower of leaves from above distracted her for a moment, and when she looked back, Ygarl was gone. One by one, the Mreg faded away, until she stood alone in the old wood. And then she felt it. The unfurling. The call of the air, and the sky. The beautiful, blue sky, and its dazzling sun. She would return to her home someday. She would return the flute, and apologize, but for right now she was surrounded by the whispering voices of the kin who came before her, coaxing her into the air. For right now, she was free.
Written by W. C. McClure www.wcmcclure.com. This short story may be shared (and please do); just please be sure to share it in its entirety, unaltered (and including this fine print), with credit given to W. C. McClure. Comments are welcome at www.farsideofdreams.com. Thanks!
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University of Windsor recognizes four supporters
The University of Windsor honoured four outstanding supporters at the 21st annual Clark Awards ceremony at the Ambassador Auditorium Tuesday night.
Honoured recipients Tony Doucette, left, Elder Mona Stonefish, Carol Reader and Thomas Porter gather for a group photograph during The 2016 Clark Award dinner at University of Windsor's Ambassador Auditorium Tuesday May 10, 2016. See story by Chris Thompson. (NICK BRANCACCIO/Windsor Star) Nick Brancaccio / Windsor Star
The University of Windsor honoured four outstanding supporters at the 21
annual Clark Awards ceremony at the Ambassador Auditorium Tuesday night.
The award, named after Charles J. Clark Sr., former University of Windsor chancellor, is to recognize outstanding service to the university and the community.
CBC Windsor’s Tony Doucette was recognized for his television sports reporting focusing on Lancer athletes. He has also been involved in the Lancers’ Evening of Excellence and has shared his expertise with the school’s digital journalism program.
Also recognized was Tom Porter, an active member of the university alumni association. He also served 12 years as a Windsor city councillor and on several local boards.
Honoured recipients Tony Doucette, left, Elder Mona Stonefish, Carol Reader and Thomas Porter, right, were joined by University of Windsor President Dr. Alan Wildeman, centre, for a group photograph during The 2016 Clark Award dinner at University of Windsor’s Ambassador Auditorium Tuesday May 10, 2016. See story by Chris Thompson. (NICK BRANCACCIO/Windsor Star) Nick Brancaccio / Windsor Star
Carol Reader moved to Windsor in the year 2000 from England by way of Calgary and was another of Tuesday’s honourees.
She became a member of the Friends of Women’s Studies in 2004. She spearheaded the group’s 2006 button campaign which produced protest and activist buttons.
She graduated with a BA in Women’s Studies in 2011 and a BA in history in 2013 and is now a graduate student in history.
Also recognized was Elder Mona Stonefish, who has dedicated her life to advocating for human rights, restorative justice and education.
Stonefish is a member of the Mohawk Nation-Iroquois Confederacy and the Potawatomi Nation-Three Fires Confederacy.
She has been active for many years at the University of Windsor as an advocate for increased awareness, understanding and appreciation of indigenous people.
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You Are What You Eat (film)
You Are What You Eat (disambiguation)
You Are What You Eat is a dieting programme aired in various forms between 2004 and 2007 on British broadcasting company Channel 4, and presented by Gillian McKeith. The fourth series was called You Are What You Eat: Gillian Moves In.
The show often uses shock tactics to get the participants to lose weight. In each episode all food eaten in one week by the person(s) taking part is placed on a table to highlight problem areas of their diet. Another technique is the analysis of the participant's faeces by McKeith to detect certain problems and make them known to the person involved. This aspect of the show gained McKeith the nickname "The Awful Poo Lady". Emphasising the possibility of the participant's death is sometimes used, with references to children they might not see growing up or a mock grave being prepared. Generally, editions would have these scenes in the first part followed by the participant's attempts to follow McKeith's diet and exercise regimes in the second. The fourth series was expanded from half to one hour programmes, with the contestants moving to McKeith's London house and being visited overnight at their homes for inspection.
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You Are What You Eat is a 1968 American counterculture semi-documentary movie that attempts to capture the essence of the 1960s flower power hippie era and the Haight-Ashbury scene. The film features locally known personalities including well known and somewhat mythical pot dealer Super Spade and musicians of the day including Tiny Tim, David Crosby and Peter Yarrow etc. and radio disc jockey, Rosko.
The film soundtrack features music by John Simon and by artists as diverse as Paul Butterfield, The Electric Flag, Eleanor Barooshian, Peter Yarrow, John Herald and Harpers Bizarre, accompanied by several members of The Band.
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You Are What You Eat may refer to following:
You Are What You Eat, a 2004–2007 produced dieting program presented by Gillian McKeith
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Private golf cart tour of Rome by night
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Language: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German
See some of Rome's most beautiful squares, floodlit for the night
Travel by golf cart to Quirinal Hill
Marvel at the baroque Trevi Fountain
Learn about the aristocratic residents of Piazza di Spagna
Experience the beauty of Rome at night, traveling by golf cart to some of the city’s most beautiful squares and fountains.
Start at majestic Piazza della Repubblica, and admire its elegant crescent shape, site of the grand, late 19th-century palaces of Gaetano Koch. Continue to Borromini's church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, and see the baroque façade illuminated for the night.
Next, climb Quirinal Hill to Piazza Barberini, a large piazza designed in the 16th century and named after Barberini Palace. Admire Bernini’s Tritone Fountain in the center. Continue to Piazza di Spagna and the Spanish Steps. Learn more about the aristocratic square and its famous former residents. Hear the story of the unusual Barcaccia Fountain.
Head south to the Trevi Fountain, one of Rome’s most famous water features. Throw a coin in the fountain and make a wish if you want to one-day return to Rome. Next, go to see the temple of all gods on Piazza della Rotonda. Gaze at the massive columns of the Pantheon.
End your tour on Piazza Navona, built over the Stadium of Domitian, and heart of Rome’s 'La Dolce Vita'. See the Four Rivers Fountain lit up for the night, and experience Rome’s atmospheric nighttime ambiance.
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Entrance to San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Church and the Pantheon
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Piazza della Repubblica, 10, 00185 Roma RM, Italy
Meet your guide at Piazza della Repubblica in front of the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, near the "Republica" Metro station.
Please be at the meeting point at least 15 minutes prior to tour departure
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‘Disgustingly rude’: A mum’s..
‘Disgustingly rude’: A mum’s drastic response to feral footy fans
A Melbourne mum is dumping her Melbourne Cricket Club membership and vowing to never attend an AFL match again.
Lee Quinlan spoke to 3AW Mornings with Neil Mitchell where she expressed her detest for the “disgustingly rude and inconsiderate” spectator culture.
The 38-year-old says she’s sick of shielding her children from the fan behaviour, after the Mother’s Day game at Marvel Stadium left her 7-year-old in tears.
“I just don’t want to attend anymore,” says Ms Quinlan.
“The aggressive nature in which supporters take on the game is bordering on intolerable.
“It’s a completely unenjoyable experience and I’m constantly trying to shield my young children from both the verbal and almost physical behaviour.”
The Geelong supporter and member of the MCC, which has a waiting list of over 20 years, says she’s been attending the football since she was a child and feels the game has changed as a spectator.
“As a family we love our football, but it’s been coming for a while,” says Ms Crowley.
“We would implore the AFL to have a look at the behaviour of the supporters.
“Try enjoying a game in the outer.
“Maybe a consideration for the AFL is to have family bays that are heavily controlled.”
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Spring in the Forest
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By: Sherri Kolade | Farmington Press | Published June 29, 2018
Forest bathing at Heritage Park to encourage nature connection
FARMINGTON HILLS — Some people head for the beach. Others head for the trees. When it comes to de-stressing and relaxing, Heritage Park’s Nature Center will offer up the latter 1-4 p.m. July 15 for a forest bathing session.
“Forest bathing ... seemed to be a unique experience that we thought the community would be interested in,” Nature Center Supervisor/naturalist Ashlie Smith said in an email.
Ann Arbor-based forest therapy guide Cayla Samano said that the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, is about taking a guided forest therapy walk to relax the mind and body for a greater sense of clarity, according to her website www.a2shinrinyoku.com.
Guided forest therapy walks, different from walking alone in the woods, are described as gentle and suitable for most people.
Samano said that a typical walk lasts 90-120 minutes and ends with a tea ceremony.
Samano said that the practice began in Japan in the 1980s.
“It was a government research program trying to figure out how to bring more relaxation to the really stressed urban citizens,” she said. “There’s been research and articles showing us nature connection. I think it is starting to become something that is being recognized. It is really beneficial.”
Samano said that trees produce phytoncides, which boost immune systems and bring down stress levels.
“When feeling stressed, I go out and take a walk and immediately feel better,” she said.
Smith said that during the program, people use their senses and observation skills to “bathe” in the forest around them.
“The group also gets a chance to reflect on their experience over herbal tea from wild Michigan herbs,” she said.
The Forest Therapy Workshop is designed for adults of all skill levels and will meet inside the Nature Center in Heritage Park. People should come dressed for the weather and exploring the outdoors, a press release states.
Other opportunities to connect with nature at the Nature Center include Full Moon Friday Night Hikes 9:30-10:30 p.m. July 27 and Aug. 24. The hikes are designed for ages 5 and older and cost $3 per person.
Parents Night Out! Kids Night will be held at the Nature Center July 20. The evening will be filled with nature activities and games 7-10 p.m. for $15 per child for Farmington/Farmington Hills residents. The program is for kids ages 5-11.
For Geocaching 101, technology and nature will combined for a treasure hunting game 1-2:30 p.m. July 29 at the Nature Center. The program, designed for ages 6 to adult, costs $5 per person. The goal is for attendees to use GPS technology to practice navigation and to explore hidden objects. The Nature Center will provide instruction and GPS units.
“As always, the Nature Center has a variety of programs going on throughout the year; there is sure to be something for everyone,” Smith said, adding that the Nature Center has the new Nature Discovery Trail leading from the popular splash pad to the Nature Center.
“A naturalist will be stationed on the trail on weekday afternoons throughout the summer, leading free and fun family activities,” she said.
Other activities at the Nature Center include Friday night hayrides, star parties and more.
“There are so many opportunities to get outside and have fun,” Smith said.
For all events, register at the Costick Activities Center, 28600 11 Mile Road, or at recreg.fhgov.com.
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A Japanese Reader - Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language
ISBN : 978-0-8048-1647-2 // ISBN : 9780804816472
Editeur : Tuttle
Langues : japonais, anglais
Description fournie par l'éditeur :
This book is a selection of graded Japanese readings written in modern Japanese.
An excellent way to learn Japanese, A Japanese Reader is designed for the foreign student of the Japanese who is interested in attaining and developing proficiency in reading Japanese, the style of which is in current use in books, magazines, and newspapers in Japan. It also includes authentic excerpts from works by 20th–century Japanese masters Mishima, Akutagawa, Kawabata, and others.
Although A Japanese Reader supposes some acquaintance with the spoken Japanese language, it does not assume any knowledge of written Japanese and starts from and very beginning, advancing in graded readings up through quite difficult materials. Learning the modern Japanese written language is, by no means, as difficult task for the student of the Japanese language as it is often made to appear. The most important thing in such a study is to get yourself started in the correct direction—after that, the progress you make and the eventual proficiency you will gain in reading (and writing) the language are limited only by the amount of time and effort you are able or willing to devote to the task. Attention has been given throughout the volume to grading materials in the order of progressive difficulty, though in many cases familiarity on the part of a student with the subject matter involved may well make a particular selection somewhat easier for him than others further on in the book. Partly to assist in the understanding of the reading selections and partly because it is felt that few students will wish to become proficient in reading Japanese and still remain uninterested in Japanese culture and cultural history, an attempt has also been made to indicate where possible significant collateral readings available in English, especially for some of the sections which deal with distinctive aspects of Japanese life and culture.
Lessons 1 through 17 deal with the essentials of the Japanese writing system, as it is used in Japan today.
Lessons 18 through 30 deal with building a working knowledge of Japanese grammar and introducing the Japanese system of writing.
Lessons 31 through 38 are selections of intermediate difficulty and largely deal with Japanese life and customs. Included are readings of Japanese literature, archaeology, ceramic art, painting, Buddhism, the theater, and political science and philosophy.
Lessons 48 through 59 are of increasing difficulty and include criticisms, resumes, a short text from Meiji and Taisho literature, and excerpts from important Japanese novels.
Lessons 60 through 75 are of advanced difficulty and provided further readings with a considerable variety of content including Sinology, Zen Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, newspapers, economics and finance, and Japanese government policies.
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ViaStrada
Vision, Purpose and Values
New Christchurch offices
25 February 2011 - 18:31
Following the 22 February 2011 earthquake, some parts of the central city are still inaccessible. ViaStrada began operating from new premises just north of the central city on 28 February. We occupy a two storey villa (wooden; no brick chimneys!). And it's not just the team from ViaStrada, but we took the team from Egressive with us who had lost their offices because of the Boxing Day earthquake. Our friends and colleagues from QTP are also with us in Bishop Street.
ViaStrada is open for business. Please see our contacts page for further details.
Christchurch 22 Feb earthquake
We've had a pretty bad earthquake in Christchurch, as you might have seen in the media already. The office looks rather messy, but we all got out fine. The city looks much worse than in September last year.
We are pleased to be able to say that all ViaStrada staff, their partners, spouses and families are unharmed.
CCC Variation 48
Christchurch City Council's Variation 48 - Management of the Flood Hazards in Christchurch, became operative on 31 January 2011.
Variation 48 identifies areas of the city subject to a greater risk of flooding as Flood Management Areas (FMAs) and imposes controls on filling and floor levels for development within those areas. Generally, all new buildings, building additions and earthworks within FMAs will require resource consent.
A cosy office
ViaStrada has been joined by our good friends from Egressive, developers of fine websites (including ours) and guardians of IT networks. Since the Boxing Day aftershock, their premises have been "red-stickered". We now have a half dozen additional people here on a temporary basis. Home baking at morning teas are much more common now!
Melbourne's new bike share scheme
ViaStrada's Andrew Macbeth and Christchurch City Council's Simon Ginn recently tested Melbourne's new bike share scheme, while on a trip looking at public transport futures for Christchurch.
Welcome to Esther Sassenburg
ViaStrada is pleased to announce that Esther Sassenburg has joined the Nelson office as senior Transport Planner in a part-time role. Esther recently moved to Nelson, and joins ViaStrada with a strong transport planning background in private consultancies and local government. Her work experience includes land use planning, urban planning and transport planning, and she has various projects, from the small up to a large and complex. Esther also has a certificate in Architecture and Urban Design. Her multiple skills will be a valuable addition to the Nelson office, and we welcome her to "team ViaStrada".
ViaStrada Bake-off 2010
Inaugurated during the depths of winter 2009, the ViaStrada Bake-off made a return visit to the morning tea table in 2010. The much anticipated 2010 competition saw some serious thought go into choosing (and in some cases practising) recipes. Even staunch non-bakers entered the arena and surprised themselves with the results.
Once a week two staff members tried their hand at baking; and to keep it interesting and add a little healthy competition, a vote determined the favourite of the day.
If you too would like to share our recipes, they are attached to this page for you to enjoy.
Earthquake consenting
With the Canterbury region's focus shifting from the earthquake aftermath to recovery, ViaStrada is looking at how it can assist with expediting the building and resource consent processes for those wanting to rebuild their premises.
Information on different resource consent options that are open to quake-affected building owners and updates on legislative and procedural changes of relevance can be found on the following page:
http://viastrada.nz/news/2010/resource-consents-earthquake-affected-buildings
9 December 2010 - 14:14
ViaStrada Christchurch will close on Friday 24 December and reopen on Monday 10 January.
ViaStrada Nelson will close on Thursday 23 December and reopen on Monday 10 January.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients and to wish you a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
2010 Six hour blast MTB event
19 October 2010 - 14:19
ViaStrada has competed in the McLeans Forest Park "6 hour blast" mountain bike event for four consecutive years, winning podium places in each of the last three years.
This year's event was held on 16 October 2010, with ViaStrada's team completing 15 laps to finish third out of 56 in the Corporate category.
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How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?
I am writing a book in which one of my main characters is a devout Catholic. His struggles with reconciling his religion and his experiences in life are crucial to his character and I'd like to portray them as unfiltered as I reasonably can through close 3rd-person limited narration. (He'll be my POV character perhaps 40% of the time.) His dogmatic beliefs shape many of his decisions, including insisting that another POV protagonist convert to Catholicism before they can marry (and I will therefore have to reckon with her thoughts on conversion and religion as well; she's committing to the marriage for her family's financial security).
But his religion is emphatically not the point, the moral, or the widely held worldview of my story, which also explores the impacts of the industrial revolution, scientific progress, multiculturalism (with characters from around the British Empire who do not necessarily have an English or Christian worldview), and (surprise!) supernatural elements. I don't want to pass judgement on it, either affirming or rejecting it, even as I allow for the existence of magic and he becomes aware of it.
Many books dealing with magic often avoid any mention of religion, even in historical settings when everyone was religious. Maybe it's because they run into this difficulty? In any case, I haven't found many examples of books with actively or profoundly Christian characters that aren't "inspirational", preachy, or otherwise judgmental.
What should I include or avoid in my story to ensure that the reader can empathize with this protagonist but not feel that I am either evangelizing or sending anti-religious messages?
What I've got so far:
My narrative voice, when it isn't in the directly in the POV character's head, will be rather passively agnostic.
I currently intend to at least represent in passing a variety of worldviews to avoid establishing a direct dichotomous religious conflict as a theme in the book.
I also currently intend not to give him any unequivocally religious or disillusioning experiences. (If he interprets something as a sign or a punishment, it will be ambiguous. If something magical happens, well, Catholics acknowledge the existence of witchcraft, demons, and miracles.)
Edit: (Side note, since it's a topic of interest below: Yes, this is set in early-mid 19th c. England-- probably 1840/1, but I'm considering moving it to 1828/9 to capture the Catholic Relief Act that might newly allow my character to run for Parliament, if I can reconcile it with the new industrial technologies I'm including. (E.g., do I really need railroads?) I've been doing my homework on the evolving relations between Catholics, Anglicans, and other Protestant denominations in Great Britain and the Empire.)
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@Ash Since the OP's story needs a Catholic perspective, it is important to note that Catholics (and most Christians) see the church on Earth as established by Christ (Eph 4:11-13) and as the body of Christ (1 Cor 12:12-14). – kingledion Jul 24 '19 at 12:57
I suggest referencing the works of Christopher Stasheff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Stasheff & christopher.stasheff.com . While not exactly the same (in his worlds Catholicism proves to be "The One Correct Religion", or at least his personal idealized view of how it should work is, rather. In any case, worth using for comparison and contrast at the very least. – nijineko Jul 24 '19 at 15:39
A pretty good example for a character like this, IMHO, is Michael Carpenter, from the Dresden Files. He shows up in Grave Peril, if you want a book reference. – Daniel B Jul 24 '19 at 16:56
I suggest reading Arthur C. Clarke's The Star. – Patricia Shanahan Jul 24 '19 at 22:17
@Ash Catholics form a little over half of the global Christian population, but there are many plurality-Christian countries where Catholics are a minority of the Christian population. See the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom as examples. – Justin Lardinois Jul 25 '19 at 20:44
Show his religious practices more and his explicit beliefs less. What does a devout Catholic do? Probably he doesn't spend all day talking about his beliefs; instead he lives them. He tithes. He fasts on Fridays. He attends mass daily before going to work (or wherever he spends his days). He teaches in Sunday school. He studies self-defense but it's the "passive redirection" styles, not the "active beat-up-your-opponent" styles. He says grace before eating. He tries to avoid swearing and never says "oh my God" in response to something trivial. He prioritizes Sunday mass over the big game on TV.
Missionaries and evangelists preach, sometimes to anybody who doesn't say "no" forcefully enough, but you're not writing that kind of character so you have to be more careful in what words you put in his mouth. He can talk about his beliefs, but he shouldn't break character in doing so.
I'm far from an expert on Catholicism, but the Catholics I know are not generally pushy when it comes to religion -- but if you ask them questions at least the more learned are happy to answer. Depending on the needs of your plot and character ensemble, you might be able to get some of that by having an outsider character. I've read Christian-themed fantasy fiction that uses outsider characters (someone from a neighboring realm, elf, etc) to provide those conversational prompts. Use it sparingly since that's not your primary purpose in writing, and you should be fine.
(As an example where the religious discourse is a primary function, see -- with a different religion -- Conversations with Rabbi Small, where most of the book involves a vacationing rabbi answering questions from a very curious non-Jew. The book is about the conversation more and the vacationing characters less; this is not what it sounds like you're doing.)
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Catholics had their time with the fanatical recruitment a few hundred years ago, but yeah, other than a nasty incident in WWII, they've backed off that stance. – Carduus Jul 24 '19 at 15:52
@Carduus right, I was talking about modern Catholics. If the story is historical fiction, the author will need to do some research into the target time. – Monica Cellio Jul 24 '19 at 19:29
WRT saying "Oh my God" -- this can actually be a great bombshell if something extreme does happen, and you've established that he doesn't take God's name in vain. Or, equivalently, if this character has been saying "Goodness me" and "Oh dear" the whole book, a sudden "Oh, shit" will let the reader know things have gotten bad. – Fund Monica's Lawsuit Jul 25 '19 at 0:09
It would, I'm afraid, be a severe misrepresentation of a genuinely religious person to focus entirely on their actions without in any way describing their inner life. You wouldn't write any other kind of protagonist without saying anything at all about what they thought. – DJClayworth Jul 25 '19 at 1:21
@DJClayworth I don't mean don't say anything; I just mean don't exceed what you would do for any other inner thought about important beliefs or identity. (I said to focus more on action than belief, not only.) Religious people do not think about religion to the exclusion of almost everything else, despite how they're sometimes portrayed. (The same goes for members of many other groups too.) – Monica Cellio Jul 25 '19 at 2:18
Treat the character fairly, and present the character's views as-is.
If religion is not he point of the story, then simply write a character that is motivated by the precepts of his faith. I can't see clearly from your OP if the character himself is judgemental or preachy. If the character is not intended to be preachy, then this isn't really an issue at all. Simply present the character as a devout Catholic at the time would be.
To some modern readers the tenets of the church would be unappealing. But, keep in mind that the base of your readers might be broader than you seem to think. There are many people in the world who are Catholic (like, a billion of them) and would view a faithful Catholic positively.
Alas, I was not born in Victorian England, so I can't tell you what the church emphasized at that point. But the generic, timeless homily subjects include
regular attendance at mass and confession
faithfully giving to the poor and to charity,
prayers for the pope and for national leaders and other local concerns, and
encouragement to witness Christ in your daily life.
In the late 1800s, the Catholic church was not very strong in England. Catholics had only relatively recently been allowed to own land and participate in politics, and as such were something of a persecuted minority; although by 1850 and later liberalism had dispersed much of the previous prejudice. Catholicism would have been more strongly associated with the Irish; an unpleasant association at the time, to be sure.
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+1 Welcome to Writing|SE – wetcircuit Jul 24 '19 at 13:43
Were they not still tithing in the 19th century? – RedSonja Jul 26 '19 at 13:02
@RedSonja They have always been tithing. That doesn't seem to be emphasized as much these days, but perhaps was more in the 19th century. – kingledion Jul 26 '19 at 14:31
Actually the Catholic Church doesn't teach tithing. They teach giving to the church, but without any set percentage. – curiousdannii Jul 27 '19 at 0:44
All the standard tricks will still work. Readers can like the protagonist through some simple actions that show he he is a kind person. Allow him to help someone in need, show a kind heart, concern for suffering, and consideration for those who would go unnoticed.
Make him relatable
Allow him to have (human) flaws, family, and friends. Give him petty career politics, and workplace drama that embeds him in real life. Give him money worries, and keep him rooted in mundane life (even as he has adventures and finds the paranormal).
Make him scholarly, but curious
"Bad" religion is controlling, narrow-minded, and authoritarian. "Good" religion is personal, welcoming, and nonjudgemental. Theology is the study of many different religions, so if he is well-read he will have influences from Greek and Latin philosophers, as well as religious teachings from other faiths. When he travels, make himn genuinely curious to see and learn. Give him a strong sense of wonder.
Evangelist Missionaries are going to be hard to defend in the 21st Century
A present-day missionary is going to face a lot of cultural criticism. The recent death of a missionary attempting to convert the remote Sentinelese tribe was unanimously cheered in my social feed. I don't have any suggestion to get around this other than to set your story in the past, maybe you can give him a sense of charming naiveté. Watch out for colonialism and racist exoticism (almost unavoidable in this context?).
Don't make him arrogant to spread gospel, instead he tries to set an example and internalizes lessons trying to grow in his own understanding of faith. He's on a journey, not a mission.
Good, whatever the doctrine
Make his religious presence "felt" by others. He says a few kind words, not high mass, but his conviction is palpable. He is devout, and even the witches (and exotic whatnots) acknowledge the legitimacy of his faith – whatever that means in this context.
There is obviously some cognitive dissonance in the Catholic teachings that you will have to downplay, lampshade, or avoid. A lot of that will come down to the tone of the story, and the plot-things you need him to do.
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This makes me feel good about my decisions, as already my character already ticks nearly every box, including literally saving animals (and also killing many for scientific specimens-- ah, moral ambiguity). He's not evangelical by nature, really on defense with Catholicism in early 19th c. England, but as part and parcel of his old money life he is awash in colonialist everything, and even "enlightened" compared to his peers he will have some blind spots. – wordsworth Jul 24 '19 at 6:31
"Theology is the study of many different religions", and yet if you want to study it at a university, theology will be taught in connection to a specific religion/congregation. (Maybe this is a German thing, but there is a difference between "theology" and "religious studies") – DrCopyPaste Jul 24 '19 at 11:52
You know, if I had a bunch of friends in my social feed who were sociopathic bigots that would cheer at the violent death of another human being for simply holding a sincere belief that they disagreed with... well, at the very least I wouldn't go advertising the fact in public. It's said you can judge a person by his friends, and that definitely does not reflect well on you! – Mason Wheeler Aug 9 '19 at 20:45
Avoid the imputation of naiveté.
In the real world, of course, all most all people hold their beliefs reflexively and naively. Most atheists have not thought through or are even aware of the epistemological and ontological difficulties of their position. The same is true of most Catholics, Jew, Hindus, etc. Thinking through the philosophical difficulties of your faith is rare and difficult. Most people are naive about what they believe.
But when you present any belief system in fiction (as opposed to sticking to events and emotions, as much of fiction does) you inevitably assume a non-naive posture. Your position may in fact be very naive, but your posture, in choosing to treat the matter at all, is one of non-naiveté. You are implicitly claiming (as you claim when you treat anything in fiction) that you are not naive about it.
Implicitly, therefore, you will treat your own faith as non-naive, and the faith of others as naive. If you simply present all the characters of your own world view as non-naive and other characters as naive, you will have produced a devotional or confessional work.
Devotiotional and confessional works exist for every faith, including agnosticism and atheism.
However, it is possible, in life as in fiction, for a person to recognize the philosophical difficulties with their faith and choose to believe it anyway. Their faith then becomes non-naive.
The agnostic position is that the universe is ultimately too mysterious for our limited capacity for understanding. The agnostic therefore refuses to take a position. The naive believer (Catholic or atheist alike) accepts the faith they were brought up with or the faith of their peers without awareness of the philosophical difficulties it presents. A non-naive believer acknowledges the same difficulties as the agnostic, but choose to believe anyway. (And note that there is also naive agnosticism which lazilly refuses to even think through the problem. For them, saying they are agnostic is a means to avoid the argument.)
A good example of establishing the non-naive faith of a character can be found in Brideshead Revisited in which the naively agnostic narrator Charles Ryder questions his dissolute Catholic friend Sebastian Flyte about how he can believe "all this nonsense". Sebastian replies (quoting from memory) "Is it nonsense though? I rather wish it were."
Sebastian's faith is non-naive. He knows there are difficulties. He knows he does not live up to its standards. He knows that many of his co-religionists don't live up to its standards either. He chooses to believe anyway.
Of course, to pull this off, you can't hold your own faith naively either. You have to acknowledge that, whatever your own views, there are philosophical difficulties with them as well. If you hold that position, you can be sympathetic with people who, faced with the same final uncertainty that we all should face (but that most turn their backs on) made a choice different from yours. Then you are no longer looking down on them, you are looking them in the eye. You may be looking at them across an abyss of differing faith, but you are looking them in the eye and acknowledging the intellectual honesty and sophistication with which they have come to a conclusion different from your own.
This does not mean, of course, that you can't also portray naive characters of the faith in question, or of many faiths. But if you also portray non-naive characters of the same faith, it becomes clear that it is the way that the other characters hold their faith, rather than the faith they hold, that is naive.
(1/3) I have to point out (as in my answer) that you are making an implicit value judgement here. We could easily replace religious faith every time you refer to it with astrology, or with adherence to scientific method. The structure of your answer still holds, yet in the case of astrology, we would/should just laugh at the fools who non-naively choose to believe in astrology despite understanding the philosophical difficulties of their position, and in the case of science, we would/should just laugh at the fools who "non-naively" (what?!) go the other way. – sesquipedalias Sep 26 '19 at 17:55
(2/3) So, you are implicitly treating religious faith as a debatable question--a topic where you could seriously go either way. Now, since, to my understanding, religion is no better than astrology (it is far worse, in fact), to me your argument does not apply to religious faith. Similarly, I imagine that to a truly devout person, it is also meaningless to consider religious faith as an open question. – sesquipedalias Sep 26 '19 at 17:56
@sesquipedalias Actually, no, the implicit value judgement is yours. You are deciding, with naive confidence in your faith, that everyone who disagrees with you is foolish. You are perfectly certain in your position and apparently unaware of its philosophical limitations (of which I am pretty sure I cannot convince you). But the paradox of a non-naive faith is that you must hold it with perfect conviction while at the same time acknowledging the sincerity and rationality of those who hold different positions. That is by no means an easy position to achieve. But I'm glad the answer helped. – user16226 Sep 26 '19 at 18:13
@sesquipedalias If I wanted to write about a person that sincerely believed in astrology, or disbelieved in science (whatever that may mean), I would have to take their position with as much sympathy and tenderness as I could muster, unless the point of my story was to portray them as fools. The point is not to agree with the protagonist, it is to understand how the protagonist sees the world, which requires some sympathy for their beliefs. Anyway, if you think you have a single opinion that's philosophically unproblematic, go ask a philosopher. They will disabuse you of that notion. – sgf Sep 26 '19 at 20:21
@sesquipedalias Re: I imagine that to a truly devout person, it is also meaningless to consider religious faith as an open question Here's something from C. S. Lewis, who certainly was a truly devout person: "Belief, in [the Christian] sense, seems to me to be assent to a proposition which we think so overwhelmingly probable that there is a psychological exclusion of doubt, though not a logical exclusion of dispute.", and, from the same paper, "there is evidence both for and against the Christian propositions which fully rational minds, working honestly, can assess differently." – sgf Sep 27 '19 at 6:16
I think that having him struggle to reconcile his religion with his life experience, as you said, will really help with the issues you are concerned about. It humanizes the religious character and shows that they aren't so judgmental and steadfast as other books and movies would have the public believe. A huge part of religion is an endless struggle. I think your character will be relatable to both religious and nonreligious readers for this reason.
I think it is worthwhile to spend time showing his inner (or outer) deliberations about his religion and times of doubt for him. Maybe he could even leave the religion for a bit. Just remember to keep it sincere—there are far too many Christian movies where a character "leaves the religion" but there's no real impact to it because the movie is so preachy. But as long as you keep the religion restricted to that character and out of the rest of the book, you should have no trouble with this.
This book sounds really cool and I'd love to read it. I'm especially curious how this character will reconcile his religious beliefs with magic. I also like writing supernatural stories with religious elements, but fitting both together is nearly impossible as you have mentioned in your post.
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If I ever get it published I'll come back here and let you know. ;) – wordsworth Jul 25 '19 at 1:01
"but fitting both together is nearly impossible": I disagree with this. Religion deals with things outside of your normal experience. It does not ask what will happen if I eat too many sweets, it asks what happens to my consciousness after my body is destroyed (we have no reports on the latter). If magic is part of people's normal experience in this world, religion will basically accept it and be about other things (possibly including "where does magic come from?") – sesquipedalias Sep 29 '19 at 10:36
Most people are largely prone to sympathize - with themselves
If you're writing "close 3rd-p limited", your character will probably see himself as basically good, perhaps with occasional doubts. I'm not sure what you mean by having the narrator be mildly agnostic, since I thought close third-person limited generally involved the beliefs of the POV character bleeding slightly through into the narration.
More generally, treating a character fairly will look a lot like being sympathetic to the character - as long as you're showing us life in that character's shoes. In a story with multiple close-POV characters, this is balanced by having characters "observing" contrasting sides to the same or similar events. When the Catholic character is paying his tithing, maybe it's reasonable, and the right thing to do, and can be filled with his gratitude for the fact that he has an income which provides for his family's needs. When his atheist wife thinks about what else could have been done with the money, maybe it's a stupid waste that's doubly bad because it props up an outdated institution with a decidedly questionable history.
You should probably err on the side of portraying the religious character as sympathetic and justified - whenever that's your POV character. After all, why would he be who he is if it doesn't seem like the right thing to do? Also, if you're really, truly fair to the character, you'll let him be "really right" sometimes. That is, you won't fully explode and even mock, in an unanswered way, all of his perspectives when you've stepped out of his shoes.
(In single-POV stories, hinting that the character's self-justifications might not always be exactly right is somewhat trickier, but that is a different question.)
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In my experience as a reader, many authors who use 3rd person narration often drift between being quite in the mind of the character (close), usually in moments of high emotion and decision-making, and zooming out to allow a more impersonal take on the situation, without entering into the point of view of a different character. When he's the POV character I don't intend to treat him AS the narrator, but there will be moments where it makes sense to get right up into his thoughts. – wordsworth Jul 24 '19 at 19:40
@wordsworth As a reader, I might think it was meant as in-character existential dithering, at least, if the same narrative stream flipped from being warmly religious to being dubious about the efficacy or worship, or the very existence of a God. To shift from emotionally (or spiritually) POV laden to matter of fact would make sense, but anything more than that would be pretty strange. If such vacillation WAS in-character, that would be fine. – Jedediah Jul 24 '19 at 19:55
As a Catholic, with my entire k-12 education in Catholic schools, Catholics often get some unusual portrayals in media because the United States and England a predominantly protestant (from the Catholic Perspective, Anglican is protestant, just like every other non-Catholic sect of Christianity save for Eastern Orthodox.).
Catholics are also not evangelical as nor speaking of "accepting Jesus to save your soul." The Catholics belief is that Jesus already saved your soul when he died on the cross, and so long as you atone for your own sins with God, prior to the afterlife, you're good (this is why the most common depiction of a Catholic person living his faith is in a confession booth saying "Bless me Father, for I have sinned Mea Culp, Mea Culp, Mea Maxima Culp (Latin: Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault)". And the priests they confess to are not allowed to comment on any confessors sins outside of confession (my own Parish Priest was caught in a squabble with local police over this. Turns out, a murder had turned himself into the cops for his crime and told them that he did so as part of penance assigned to him by the Parish Priest and the cops came to the priest to verify the story, which per the sacrament, he could not do (in the US at least, the law is in his favor so he couldn't be brought as a witness in trial).). The murder is not bound to not talk about what he said in confession, so there's no weight on his immortal soul for this happening.
Catholism also doesn't take the Bible literally and looks for the metaphorical meaning of the works. You won't see a Catholic interpreting Portends of the End of Days from the Book of Revelations nor will you see Catholics insist the world was literally made in six days, plus a rest period or that God created all the animals as is without evolution. The Catholic Church was never opposed to Darwin's origin of the Species. Much to the contrary, Gregor Mendel, a Catholic Monk, conducted his famous Pea experiments in from 1856 to 1863, releasing his seminal paper on the results in 1865, work which would earns him the credit of creating the science of Genetics (While neither was aware of the other's work, Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species was released in 1849. Mendel's work was a continuation of his direct superior's, Abbot C.F. Napp, own work with sheep.). In fact, Saint Thomas Aquinas's (1225-1274) own theological works would discuss creation more akin to God planting a seed that would grow and change over time, and also proposed that the monsters of Greek Myth were not seen in his "modern world" was because they had all died off because there features were no longer useful to the world, which is similar to the concept of Niches and Survival of the Fittest. In fact the most famous charge of church ignorance of science, the House Arrest of Galileo, has nothing to do with Galileo's support of Heliocentric, but because the book he published defending Heliocentralism equated then Pope Urban VIII as an idiot who supported Geocentric theory. This naturally pissed off the Pope Urban VIII, not the least of which was because Galileo's patron of the work was Pope Urban VII himself (who was looking for a defense of Heliocentralism as the Church had recently introduced the Gregorian Calendar, which only worked because it assumed Heliocentrilism was correct and was named for it's most powerful supporter Pope Gregory XIII, which was the Pope two Popes before Urban VII. These facts were starting to become widely known and Urban VII decided he needed an expert to show the Heliocentrilism idea was in fact correct, and turned to Galileo, gave him a really good patronage at the time to boot). Further hurting Galileo, was that the order of priests who would support him, the Jesuit Order, were not fans of Galileo's following a dispute over comets 10 years previous. The Jesuits are famous for two things: scholarly persuits, especially sciences (to the point that seismology, the study of earthquakes, is so populated with discoveries by Jesuit Priests, it's often called "Jesuit Science") and their very strict military devotion, to the point that in Galileo's time, they were the defacto intelligence agency for the Vatican and the leader of the order, The General Superior, is often called "the Black Pope" for the office's tendency to come off as the power behind the papal throne. And this is in a time where Papal Authority was massively over powered.
Another fun little weirdness that gets comment on is "Catholics breed like Rabbits" sterotype and I won't lie, my church parking lot has multiple personally owned family vans that can seat 15 people comfortably parked there every Sunday (average vans seat 7). This is despite Catholics coming off as having taboos about sexual matters. This oddity has it's roots in that Catholic Doctrine holds that Sex is not in and of itself sinful... only sex without possibilty of a child. Among some Catholics, the large families are often jokingly called "Really Good Catholics" as the ones with more traditional nuclear family are more likely to have practiced safe sex. It's also why the Church recently made news when current Pope Francis said that being Gay is not sinful. It's not a new position (Pope Saint John Paul II held a similar position during his papalcy) but again, Francis was asked about people who were attracted to the same gender. Gay sex is still sinful.
All this said, much of what many modern Catholics will tell you about the faith is not entirely true of it in the 1900s. The Modern Church was brought about after a number of reforms in the 1961 Vatican II conference. The big changes to the church were that mass can now be said in the vernacular rather than then the Latin and the Eucharist could now be received in one's hands, rather than being placed on their tongue by the priest (or other administer, Large Churches will often have some of the laity assist the priest during the sacrament). There were many other changes but they are more minor (for one, women would wear head coverings to service, but not when going about their normal lives. They are often lacy and cover only their hair. Another one is a Monastic Order can now set it's own rules for it's religious community and not the vatican (and all Catholics were allowed to disagree with clergy on religious matters. BTW, Papal Infallibility is a real thing, but it only applies in certain circumstances, and must only concern religious matters. It's also very, very rare, and has happened at most 7 times in the church's 2000+ year history). Another big change was to he wording of the Confitor, which is said in the public part of confessions. The one depicted in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame is an accurate Confitor pre-Vatican II if you want an idea of what that would sound like (The Latin Chanting prior too and continuing through most of the the song "Hellfire", though the prayer does not end where the creepy hooded red monks portion of the song leave it. The chanting from the back half of the song after the monks is Greek, not Latin, and a completely different prayer entirely.). By the way, Hellfire is often thought of as the Best Disney Villain Song and its singer, Frollo as Disney's Best Villain, and Catholics surprisingly think this more so than most people. It's got a lot to do with the fact that the film isn't taking digs at the church, but through this song acknowledging Frollo doesn't really understand his own faith. I could write a paper as to why, but suffice to say, remember seeking forgiveness for ones sins is a big thing in Catholic teaching and Frollo is failing everything about how to do even that.
For that matter, there is a difference between Nuns and Sisters (and their male counter parts). Nuns are women who take sacred vows and are typically cloistered and live in nunneries or abbeys (the head of Nunneries is titled "Mother Superior" or "Mother Reverend" and the latter is called an "Abbess") which they rarely leave (usually for medical reasons) and usually support themselves by making food items such as jams or liturgical items to be used in mass. Their male counterparts are Monks who have Monistaries or abbeys (the head is an Abbot... if you meet one, don't greet them with "Heeeeeey Abbot!"... especially if you're addressing Abbot Costello, trust me, he's heard it before.). Nuns can be addressed as Sisters as can Religious Sisters who are not Nuns. Religious Sisters take simple vows, live in a convent. Vows are renewed annually, so they may leave their orders, but the most notable aspect is that they typically practice their religious duties by ministry to the public where as nuns by praying for a specific cause. Such ministries of Sisters include hospitals, charities or caring for a communitie's poor, and most famously, teaching in Catholic School (in a modern setting, a Catholic school doesn't have many sisters these days, as the profession is on the decline, but every character who goes to a Catholic School speaks in hushed horror of Sister Mary Joseph and her dreaded Ruler. While they can be strict (to the point that your standard torture master has nothing on the hero compared to the sister that taught his math class), Sisters tend to be depicted as having a much better sense of humor than Nuns, and will often be depicted as the younger and more sunny personality next to the older dower nun. Two Movies that get their depictions of the differnce are Sister Act, where Whoopie Goldberg's character is placed in witness protection in an Abbey doesn't know the difference and gets admonished for trying to help the minister to the community which the Nuns do not do. Additionally, Maria from "The Sound of Music" is a Religious Sister who is contemplating a move to an order of Nuns. All of this is more to show your work as Vatican II has relaxed a lot of the stricter parts of Monastic Life and the fact that both members are addressed as "sister" results in most lay Catholics not knowing the difference too. As to why they appear in those films, Sound of Music predates Vatican II in story and production while the Nuns in Sister Act are fairly old, being led by Mother Superior Proffessor McGonaclle, who's formality isn't atypical of a Catholic who was fairly conservative in what the accepted of Vatican II (no that's not the character's name... she was just played by Maggie Smith).
And one quick note, a Catholic Priest is always addressed as Father by a Catholic, never Reverend (despite most priests using Reverend in their stylized name).
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This is a long wall of text about Catholicism and the accuracy of portrayals in media thereof, but virtually none of it actually addresses OP's question: "How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview"... – V2Blast Jul 26 '19 at 1:13
There is some useful information on accurately representing Catholics buried in this post, but there is so much text it is hard to find it. I suggest a significant edit to focus on answering the question first and foremost. – linksassin Jul 26 '19 at 3:16
I just have some miscellaneous observations:
Secular people were much rarer then than now. What makes your character different in the England of that era is his Catholicism more than his piety.
It will be important to think about how the Church views magic. Is it, in their view, all witchcraft and hence the work of Satan? Or can they come to view it as a kind of natural philosophy; just using a set of natural principles that are part of God's creation? Do Catholics and Anglicans view this differently? How about Scottish Presbyterians?
In your world, is one of these views actually correct, or do you want it to be ambiguous?
As a case study of this sort of thing, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomican depicts the experience of converting to Catholicism in a sympathetic light without tipping his hand about his own religious beliefs.
This may not be helpful, but The Simpsons shows some sympathy for Flanders' religiosity even while mocking him. If there's any part of this you can use, it's that his religion actually motivates him to try to be a good person. (Not saying this is always true in the real world!)
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Your task as an author is not to moralise, it is to tell a story. This may sound like an odd distinction, but what I mean by this is that the writing style should be objective even if the narrative structure is subjective.
Quality fiction is similar to good journalism or history; it shows what happened and leaves it at that, explaining different perspectives, allowing a window into a lost moment in time. Truth is more potent than opinion, it is better to show why something is wrong rather than to say it is.
In politics there's a tendency to misunderstand the perspectives of others, because they do not fit into a subjective narrative the individual has constructed. For example, many struggle with the fact that Hitler loved children. If Hitler is a bad person, how can he have a likeable trait (assuming you like children)? This simplistic tendency is what an author of fiction or non-fiction should endeavour to overcome.
I don't think avoiding religious experience is actually helpful. The ambiguity of the supernatural is an interesting way of examining the difficulty we all have in trying to figure out what reality actually is, and where to draw the line.
What is helpful however is having a narrator which is not agnostic, but is ambiguously objective. Yes, this character just had that experience, that is what I have told you... but I have not told you whether their perspective after the fact was factual or subjective!
An excellent author would add to this by deliberately acknowledging either internal doubt or internal consistency, and gradually revealing how the individual's changing memories inform their gradual rewriting of their own narrative.
Some people have beliefs, be they religious, political, or otherwise, which are so foundational to their personal identity and emotional stability that they cannot accept anything to the contrary, not even to themselves. Some people just don't suffer doubt, for better or worse. So to present a religious character as a scholarly doubting Thomas may not be appropriate if they genuinely have the psychology of a fanatic.
Importantly, that's not preaching or judging, it's just stating the fact that this person never doubted their belief. That is the way this person is.
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"Your task as an author is not to moralise, it is to tell a story." Hmm, many stories very deliberately moralize. Many stories are explicitly moral tales, trying to say, "see, this is what happens when you are dishonest" or "... use drugs" or whatever, or purport to show the virtue of some moral or ideological belief or practice. You may not like such stories, but it's a tried and true tradition. – Jay Jul 25 '19 at 16:09
@Jay The fact the story ends up as a morality play is a subjective matter. It may be the author's intention, but there is no guarantee the reader will interpret it this way. Morality in this case simply is the inspiration for plot and circumstance. I'm not disputing this is a format, I'm just saying it's kind of besides the point in the end. – inappropriateCode Jul 25 '19 at 18:18
Well, I don't want to get into an argument. But I think it's often not a subjective matter. Many writers deliberately set out to write a story with a moral message. "1984" was clearly and overtly about the evils of tyranny. The movie "Reefer Madness" was about the evils of marijuana. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was about the horror of slavery. On the flip side, "Birth of a Nation" was about how wonderful racism is. Etc. – Jay Jul 25 '19 at 19:39
@Jay Yes, that's true, I think I need to rephrase my point to emphasise the point that the style needs to be objective even if the narrative is subjective. If you see what I mean. – inappropriateCode Jul 26 '19 at 8:05
To write a book you need to study first!
As a Catholic, I know we are not supposed to preach all the time, but to try living as best and "rigther" way as possible and always help and forgive everyone around us. It's our habit to go to mass at least on Sundays, cofessing frequently and do charity with our friends at church.
Also, you don't need to be catholic to marry at a Catholic church. If the other party is catholic you just need to agree on educating your children on the catholic beliefs. If both aren't catholic and have never been, the Church considers their marriage valid all the same but they don't marry at the Church.
About the magic, for us it doesn't exist. It is either God's Will or some angel (good or bad) doing something that seems abnormal to us or it's a just trick from a human.
A common "religious" englishman would be someone a bit like G. K. Chesterton (born a bit after your story takes place), married and with kids and living his life normally. It's different from being a priest.
He would be rather revolutionary if he was english and a real catholic then - since many catholics were from other nationalities and suffered prejudice, and probably have lots of foreign friends too.
Hope I helped.
You provide information about Catholicism, but that is not what OP is asking for. What OP is struggling to do is to integrate the Catholic worldview of the character with the rest of the story in a way that would neither affirm this worldview as the sole right one, nor pose it as a wrong one: neither evangelise, nor send an anti-religious message. – Galastel supports GoFundMonica Jul 26 '19 at 13:41
I see, I should've posted just "Make him a normal catholic at that time" without explaining how he should be or how things were back then. That's up to the writer. Sorry! Got too detailed here... – user40393 Jul 26 '19 at 13:49
At a basic level, you can't. You've already identified this character as a protagonist, meaning you are already passing judgment on him (his morals and character) as essentially good and you are expecting your readers to judge him similarly. As for his "worldview", clearly he has got something right if he's a basically good guy, or sincerely striving to be the best he can. He doesn't have to be flawless or perfect in order for you to place him in a position as a protagonist of the story, nor must you call explicit attention to which practices or thought processes make him worth of writing about, only that you must express those things which are noteworthy. A person can be basically good and yet have numerous flaws, imperfections, paradoxes or holes in his/her worldview and even behavior. This is part of what makes the experience of following a character so interesting and relatable.
You can make it clear that many endorsements or apparent faults are not all-or-nothing. We often fall into the trap of arrogance, presuming that we know everything and can judge everything with exactness. For many readers, what will be most engaging and helpful is the development of empathy, which is a direct consequence of struggle. Prodding others to search their own Conscience for answers and not telling them what to think in every case can be a powerful and thought-provoking tool. Jesus often did this by speaking in parables, without always telling His hearers what conclusions to draw, but those who engage in honest inquiry will always arrive at the inspiration each needs.
Furthermore, people are not static. For every villain, there was a point prior to which he was redeemable or more easily redeemable. A person can be basically good and yet have an imperfect worldview. There is a spectrum of goodness made up of individual parts and bits of progress. For every good person, there were moments of decision and long periods of preparation that were character-defining. We change regularly when we are sincerely interested in doing what is right. When a person doubts he has got everything right and is trying to find answers but still proceeds with such incomplete and flickering light as he has got, there is bravery and resolve illustrated. Showing examples both of strength and of weakness on the protagonist's part will illustrate dynamism, as well as a wholesome amount of uncertainty, because no character is made perfect without some amount of uncertainty, necessitating trusting in what one does know, and confidence that things will turn out well in the end by so doing. This optimism is an irresistible trait of those we know who are religious.
The writers of the Bible often state happenings rightly as matter-of-fact, and sometimes add their own inspired editorials about attribution of causes. Since yours is a work of fiction, it would not be nearly as authoritative, compelling or inspiring to make such overt attributions. However, fiction gives us an important opportunity to soul-search and play things out, in effect role-playing or simulating a scenario to prepare ourselves mentally and emotionally for similar circumstances in real life.
In summary, it is perfectly acceptable to share a story you thought was worth sharing about a person whose character you deemed worthy of reflection, even if you can't put a finger on what exactly was right or wrong in his comportment and thinking in every dimension, and so leave judgment suspended on a great many particulars--yet by identifying him as a protagonist, you invite engagement in the search for such virtues from your readers. By writing a good story, you are evangelizing to a basic degree and you do not have to hide or be ashamed of that fact, nor must you compel congruence of belief between your readers and the protagonists. A novel provides a good opportunity to build up a case for endorsing at least one principal component, so to speak, of a worthwhile character, and so all but the most insipid readers will have an expectation for some real-world principle and insight, which expectation you should not disappoint.
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I disagree with your premise that a protagonist is necessarily a good person. A protagonist is the person the author puts forth as the leading character, usually written in a way to get the audience to sympathize with them in at least a minor way, or at least to understand their motivations. An antihero is a perfectly worthwhile protagonist, as can be someone who is very morally ambiguous. – wordsworth Jul 26 '19 at 21:43
I beg to differ with the idea that a protagonist is not necessarily virtuous. It would be counterproductive to try to stir up sympathy for someone who lacks goodness altogether. As I specified, a protagonist need not be perfect, but should excel most other characters morally. The point of identifying a protagonist is someone who is 'first in importance'; other shadier or less noble characters are by implication secondary, but not primary in importance. – pygosceles Jul 26 '19 at 22:36
I would agree that the reader is predisposed to assume the protagonist they are given is a reasonably good or well-intentioned person, but the author is free to subvert that. It is possible to justify their actions to the satisfaction of the reader without having the justification that they are acting in a pious or altruistic fashion, or even based in a generally-accepted code of morality. It takes very little goodness for people to be sympathetic and supportive. If you want real-world examples, allow me to direct your attention to Hitler and Trump. Every person is a hero in their own story. – wordsworth Jul 27 '19 at 0:43
I agree with the first line of your comment, but I'd recommend you amend your comment to remove the unwarranted Trump reference. Political bias should not be so blatant or overbearing as to dictate or subvert the purposes of literature... – pygosceles Jul 27 '19 at 3:22
Sympathy with the protagonist does not arise from the virtue, but from their humanity. Sympathy means the ability to feel as they feel, and we can feel as bad people feel, even while disapproving of their badness. But what we really need is for the reader to feel fascination for the protagonist, to want to follow their adventures. And you can, most certainly, feel fascination for bad people. This is why the villain so often outshines the hero in stories. – user16226 Sep 26 '19 at 17:57
Just note that there is an underlying value judgement that inevitably biases your view on the matter.
Compare the following:
"How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
"How to write a sincerely altruistic and philanthropic protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
"How to write a sincere neonazi protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
"How to write a sincerely communist protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
"How to write a sincerely capitalist protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
"How to write a sincerely paedophiliac protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
"How to write a sincere robin-hood protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
"How to write a sincerely superstitious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"
So, for instance, I understand religion to be a particularly virulent (and popular) form of superstition, so I read the first and last of the above examples as basically identical. But if you are religiously devout, you probably read them very differently.
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Patients with nocturnal asthma who are clinically stable have decreased cognitive performance during the day and poorer sleep quality than their healthy counterparts. Asthma management focuses on minimizing the impact of symptoms on daily functioning and overall well-being. Nighttime symptoms traditionally have been treated with multiple medications. Recently, a newer long-acting beta agonist, salmeterol, has been used to reduce both nocturnal and daytime asthma symptoms. Lockey and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of salmeterol in controlling nocturnal symptoms in patients with moderate persistent asthma. Safety evaluations were also conducted to correlate with overall measurements of quality of life.
Patients with an established diagnosis of asthma who had nighttime symptoms on at least six of 14 days during the baseline screening period were enrolled in this multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled study. Exclusion criteria included pregnancy or lactation, serious medical illness, history of immunotherapy and current use of oral or inhaled beta-adrenergic agonists. Patients who met the study criteria were randomized to receive two puffs daily of either salmeterol or a placebo. Albuterol was used for breakthrough symptoms, and its use was recorded. Patients returned for follow-up visits every four weeks. At each visit, peak expiratory flow, patient diaries of symptoms and nighttime awakenings, and records of supplemental albuterol use were recorded. In addition, the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) was administered at baseline and at each follow-up visit. The safety of the drug was evaluated on the basis of physical examination, vital signs, number of exacerbations and reports of adverse events.
A total 474 patients were enrolled in the study, with 240 in the salmeterol group and 234 in the placebo group. At baseline, study characteristics, including AQLQ scores, pulmonary function measurements and the incidence of steroid or theophylline use, were similar between groups. However, after the first four weeks and every four weeks thereafter, patients in the salmeterol group reported a better quality of life, improved peak expiratory flow measurements, reduced nighttime awakening and fewer daytime symptoms compared with patients receiving placebo. Salmeterol was well tolerated, with no clinical differences in examination findings and vital signs between groups.
The authors conclude that salmeterol is a safe, effective agent for treating nocturnal asthma. Salmeterol improved peak expiratory flow, quality of life scores and other pulmonary functions as well. In addition to the improvement in nighttime symptoms, patients reported an improved ability to carry on with their daily activities without fear of an exacerbation and with minimal side effects.
KARL MILLER, M.D.
Lockey RF, et al. Nocturnal asthma. Effect of salmeterol on quality of life and clinical outcomes. Chest. March 1999;115:666–73.
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Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Does Not Reduce Postpartum Urinary Incontinence
Am Fam Physician. 2014 Mar 1;89(5):390.
Clinical Question
Does intensive postpartum pelvic floor muscle training reduce the prevalence of incontinence at six months?
This intervention, which included primiparous women with and without urinary incontinence at six weeks post-partum, demonstrated that intensive supervised pelvic floor muscle training did not reduce the prevalence of urinary incontinence at six months. These results are noteworthy because the trial was well designed and the results were unexpected. (Level of Evidence = 1b–)
These investigators conducted a well-designed randomized controlled trial including 175 primiparous women at a single institution in Norway. Women were enrolled at approximately six weeks postpartum, with and without urinary incontinence (mixed population), if they had a vaginal birth of at least 32 weeks' gestation and spoke a Scandinavian language. The authors excluded women with a perineal tear graded as 3b, 3c, or 4 (all of whom were referred to a physical therapist), and mothers or newborns with a serious illness. All of the women had received a leaflet at discharge after delivery describing and encouraging pelvic floor muscle exercises. The allocation was stratified by the presence (or not) of major defects of the levator ani muscle as assessed by transperineal ultrasonography. The intervention consisted of weekly classes for 16 weeks, supervised by an experienced physical therapist, and instruction to perform daily home exercises and to document adherence with a home diary.
Masked outcome assessment was at six months postpartum using a questionnaire (International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire—Urinary Incontinence Short Form), ultrasonography, and manometry, as compared with baseline. Analysis was by intention to treat; loss to follow-up was 14% in the intervention group and 9% in the control group. Adherence in the intervention group was greater than 80% for class attendance and reported daily home exercise. Urinary incontinence was not statistically different between groups at baseline (39% in the intervention group vs. 50% in the control group), although the intervention group tended to have more women with major levator ani defects (65% vs. 50%; P = .10). At six weeks postpartum, there were no differences between the groups in incontinence at any frequency (relative risk = 0.89; 95% confidence interval, 0.60 to 1.32). There were also no differences between groups on per protocol analysis or on subgroup analysis based on the presence of levator ani defect.
Study design: Randomized controlled trial (nonblinded)
Funding source: Government
Allocation: Concealed
Setting: Outpatient (any)
Reference: Hilde G, Stær-Jensen J, Siafarikas F, Ellström Engh M, Bø K. Postpartum pelvic floor muscle training and urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol.. 2013; 122( 6): 1231– 1238.
LINDA FRENCH, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine
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TikTok chief says he would refuse to hand over data to China
Alex Zhu said he would refuse a request from Chinese President Xi Jinping as ByteDance seeks to take pressure off its popular short video app
Published on 19 Nov, 2019 8:06am Coordinated Universal Time
If Chinese President Xi Jinping personally asked TikTok’s chief to take down a video or hand over user data, what would he do?
“I would turn him down,” Alex Zhu said without hesitation, according to an interview with The New York Times published Monday.
Zhu heads viral short video app TikTok, the most recent Chinese-owned target of scrutiny by US lawmakers. He co-founded US teen karaoke app Musical.ly, which was bought by TikTok owner ByteDance in a US$1 billion deal that is now reportedly the subject of a national security review by the US government.
TikTok has been under pressure from US authorities over concerns about data privacy and security. (Picture: Reuters)
TikTok has repeatedly defended itself over concerns about data privacy and security, saying that the company stores US user data locally with backup redundancy in Singapore.
But the app, valued at US$78 billion late last year, continues to face skepticism from US lawmakers and officials.
“TikTok claims they don’t store American user data in China,” Republican Senator Josh Hawley, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, said at a US Senate hearing earlier this month. “That’s nice, but all it takes is one knock on the door of their parent company, based in China, from a Communist Party official, for that data to be transferred to the Chinese government’s hands whenever they want it.”
In response to mounting pressure from the world’s largest economy, news reports on Monday suggest that the app’s owner is taking steps to distance it from China, mitigate damage to its image in the US and branch out to other markets.
Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of Beijing-based ByteDance, said he will focus on adding users of the popular video app in countries outside its strongest markets, according to an internal staff note seen by Reuters.
“Continue to diversify TikTok’s growth,” Zhang said in the note, setting out company goals for November and December. “Increase investment in weaker markets.”
Zhang did not mention the pressure in the US but urged the firm to enhance its capabilities in “handling global public affairs” and strengthening user data protection, according to Reuters.
Zhang Yiming, founder of Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., poses for a photograph at the company's headquarters in Beijing on August 17, 2017. (Picture: Giulia Marchi/Bloomberg)
In Zhu’s interview with the Times – his first since taking the reins at TikTok earlier this year – he directly took on accusations including that the app censors videos that displease China or shares user data with its Beijing-based parent company.
Zhu told the Times that TikTok user data was segregated from the rest of ByteDance, and was not even used to help improve ByteDance’s artificial intelligence and other technologies.
“The data of TikTok is only being used by TikTok for TikTok users,” he was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, some employees and advisers have approached senior executives in recent weeks to suggest ways the company could rebrand, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the discussions.
Ideas discussed include expanding operations in Southeast Asia, possibly Singapore – which would allow executives to distance the video-sharing app from China – and rebranding it in the US, the Journal’s sources said.
TikTok has also reduced the amount of content from China that appears on the app, hoping to minimize reminders of its Chinese roots to American users as ByteDance’s investors view growth in the US as key to achieving their goal of an initial public offering late next year, the Journal cited people familiar with the company as saying.
A ByteDance spokesman denied talk of such measures, telling the Journal that an IPO was not the company’s focus and moving TikTok’s headquarters to Singapore was not under consideration. There was no discussion to change TikTok’s brand name and the company does not determine how much Chinese content is on the app, the spokesman added.
“It is well-known that ByteDance was founded in China,” he said. “But the reality is that the TikTok app does not operate in China, and we have been further building out and empowering teams in the markets where it does operate.”
ByteDance operates a version of TikTok in China under a different name, Douyin.
TikTok surpassed 1.5 billion downloads on the App Store and Google Play last week, according to data provider Sensor Tower, making it the third most downloaded non-gaming app of the year after of Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger apps.
Aside from the US, TikTok has also faced regulatory challenges in India and Indonesia, where it is also a hit. India temporary banned downloads of the app in April this year and Indonesia did the same last year, largely due to concerns about salacious content. Sensor Tower said that India is the main driver for TikTok’s new downloads this year, and the app is also popular in markets including Britain, France and Japan, according to App Annie.
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Renaissance and Neoclassical Historic Arts
Renaissance is a cultural motion that started within the early 14th to 17th centuries or in a interval between classical and trendy in Europe. The Renaissance was greater than only a cultural being. She was recognized for her developments in artwork, portray, philosophy, structure and different mental facets. It was a time when the most important development and growth occurred in Western Europe.
A1. The artwork of the Renaissance had its type from the social situations at the moment, which had formed the political construction of Europe. The cultural rarity of Italy exists, since within the early trendy interval there was no political type that led to inventive and educational progress. This freedom opened up commerce and commerce all through the world and opened up the wealth of Italy by commissioning its inventive work.
Renaissance artists regarded for human feelings and realism in artwork. They targeted on making human portraits with a pure background. They adopted the humanism strategy and put extra emphasis on man than on God, as mirrored of their sculptures and work. The early Renaissance was extra targeted on creating sculptures based mostly on persona and habits, whereas the Excessive Renaissance targeted extra on steadiness and drama. Renaissance artists had been closely impressed by Roman and Greek artwork, which used bare human our bodies of persona of their artwork. Their try to attain perfection in human artwork of expression, persona, and emotion lowered the social hierarchies in folks's standing, which led all of them to be taught and share their concepts and skills.
A2. Neoclassicism was a dominant motion in European artwork and structure within the mid-18th and late 19th centuries. It targeted on the classical western artwork types of historical Greece and Rome. It was a part of a motion initiated in response to the Baroque and Rococo kinds. It grew to become a dominant a part of educational artwork, which grew to become seen within the 19th century as museums of neoclassical structure.
Neoclassical artwork aimed to revive the European Age of Enlightenment, the classical Greek and Roman artwork kinds. It aimed to include the purity. Roman artwork and criticized the Baroque and Rococo fashion. Neoclassicism gained significance in France and England and expanded into Sweden. She used the basic essence of braveness and nationalism.
The Neoclassicism aimed to revive basic kinds with sharp colours and basic motifs. They prevented shiny and comfortable colours in her work that oppress the calm and the scale. Neoclassics have revived Greek portray kinds with mosaics, columns, engravings and different ornamental components.
A3. Renaissance meant the rebirth of artwork, science and medication and was a time that was answerable for probably the most radical developments and actions in Europe. A lot in order that it's also used to explain different vital cultural and historic moments. The classical Renaissance wave was the start of the Baroque fashion, which was extra dramatic and direct. Due to this fact, Neoclassicism was nothing greater than a response to the Baroque fashion to protect the purity of the traditional Roman arts. As well as, Neoclassicism was one of many earliest in educational artwork.
A3a.
The Renaissance was recognized for its humanistic strategy to artwork, whereas neoclassical artwork targeted on extra classical and purer stylistic components.
Within the Renaissance, radical developments in artwork, philosophy and medication had been thought-about, whereas in educational artwork neoclassical artwork was foreseen.
Renaissance artists believed in additional pure and expressive nude sculptures of artwork, whereas neo-classical artists integrated decorative components into their works;
The Renaissance opened gateways to new concepts and developments, whereas Neoclassicism was aimed toward sustaining the Age of Enlightenment.
A3b. The Renaissance was one of the vital influential and flourishing instances of the 15th and 16th centuries. For nearly three centuries important cultural developments have been produced. The artwork of the Renaissance emerged from a creating civilization that was searching for realism and scientific perfection in a number of the best works and achievements in artwork, science, structure, and philosophy. The excellent characteristic of Renaissance artwork is its dedication to classical artwork with a renewed curiosity in Roman kinds, together with bare human sculptures with out landscapes in a pure atmosphere. It was an vital period that introduced wealth to Europe, and its inventive freedom enabled the artisan to flourish.
A3b1. Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of many best artists of the Renaissance. Also referred to as "Renaissance Man", was born in Italy and was a well-known painter, who established himself as a polymath in lots of areas, reminiscent of music, science, arithmetic and botany. He's thought-about one of many best proficient individuals who ever lived. Mona Lisa is likely one of the most restructured works of his time, which was a lot appreciated. The Mona Lisa is a half-sixteenth-century portrait made in oil by a sedentary lady.
Andrea Appiani (1754-1817) The Milanese-born Italian painter was a classicist painter. He educated with Carlo Maria Giudici and realized portray by copying sculptures. His greatest works are within the church of San Maria presso San Celso and within the Royal Palace of Milan. A few of his oil work are Venus and Love and Rinaldo within the backyard of Armida.
A3B2. Madame Hamelin (1776-1851) was one of many neoclassical painter Andrea Appiani, who bears the same resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci's Monal Lisa. Each are half-length oil portraits of ladies, half imprisoned, reflecting the pure facial expressions through which their palms are folders that share related inventive values and kinds.
A3c. Neoclassicism reached its most vital inventive interval within the 1780s to the 1850s. New archaeological discoveries and settings paved the way in which for classical themes, which additionally outcome from the response of the rococo kinds. Neoclassicism retained its classical antiquity and existed alongside its a lot reverse type of romantic artwork. Artists of the neoclassical period changed non secular and mythological objects with life like, easy and brave ones. Within the 1830s, the period of Neoclassicism was changed by the Romantic period.
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Take a Salalah holiday during monsoon season, which runs from late June to early September, and you’ll see the landscape transformed into an oasis of rolling pastures and tumbling falls. It’s a unique sight for the region at this time of the year. The cool weather provides a respite for visitors, who flock to the city from across the Persian Gulf. More than just palm-lined beaches, Salalah offers museums, palaces and parks to explore. The Museum of Frankincense gives an interesting glimpse into the city’s history, made rich thanks to the trade in frankincense and perfume. Head into the Rub’ al Khali desert, otherwise known as the Empty Quarter, in search of the ‘Atlantis of the Sands’ at Ubar. There’s a series of exciting archaeological excavations currently underway here.
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AXYS deploys Vindicator LiDAR at Chesapeake Bay Entrance
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"Developing an Anchored Wind Monitoring and Forecasting System for Offshore Wind Energy"
02/26/14, 12:19 PM | Solar & Wind | AXYS Technologies Inc.
Sidney, BC Canada
AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) is pleased to announce the deployment of one of their WindSentinel Land Stations on a man-made island at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay as part of a project headed by WeatherFlow Inc.
The project is funded by the Virginia Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) with the objective, "Developing an Anchored Wind Monitoring and Forecasting System for Offshore Wind Energy."
The Vindicator III LiDAR, packaged in the WindSentinel Land Station, has already been deployed for a field verification period next to a tall met mast at Stumpy Point, North Carolina. It is now deployed on a small island that is part of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT) complex for a period of up to a year to validate and improve WeatherFlow's wind forecasting models.
"We are very pleased to engage with WeatherFlow in this project to advance offshore wind energy in the Mid-Atlantic region," says Graham Howe, International Business Development for Renewable Energy at AXYS.
Steve Woll, WeatherFlow Director of Business Development, noted that "WeatherFlow is excited to be able to collaborate with AXYS on this effort. With no measurements currently available in the coastal zone at wind turbine rotor heights, we're looking forward to using the WindSentinel's data to better capture the highly variable features of the coastal wind regime. That understanding will help us improve our forecast model and better characterize the winds at the offshore Wind Energy Areas."
The Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute (VT-ARI) is providing third-party validation of the WeatherFlow model by comparing model outputs at different forecast time horizons and locations with the Vindicator III LiDAR measurements and conventional anemometer measurements at the CBBT Third Island and the Chesapeake Light Tower (CLT). Also of interest to VT-ARI researchers are the effect of sea-breeze circulation cells on offshore wind patterns and the occurrence of near-surface jet-like features that preliminary WeatherFlow modeling efforts have forecast at the CLT.
The Vindicator III is a simultaneous pulse LiDAR designed and manufactured by Optical Air Data Systems (OADS) in Manassas, Virginia, which uses three fixed beams to take multi-point measurements. It is enclosed in the WindSentinel Land Station and the entire system is custom configurable with a variety of additional sensors for monitoring wind, weather and other parameters as required.
About the Virginia Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund
The Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) advances science- and technology-based research, development, and commercialization to drive economic growth in Virginia. http://www.cit.org/initiatives/crcf/
About WeatherFlow
WeatherFlow Inc. is a leader in the private sector weather industry, with over two decades of experience in applying the latest in observational, modeling, and forecasting technology to its clients' most challenging problems. www.weatherflow.com
About VT-ARI
The Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute (formerly the Alexandria Research Institute) was created in 1998 to provide a multi-disciplinary presence for the College of Engineering in the engineering and technology research and development cluster of Northern Virginia. Now with a growing presence in Hampton Roads, VT-ARI has been active in ocean renewable energy research and development since 2005.
About AXYS Technologies Inc.
AXYS Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, distributes and maintains remote environmental data acquisition, processing and telemetry systems. For further information contact AXYS at info@axys.com or visit www.axystechnologies.com
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Barbara Allen - Chords, Lyrics and Origins
The YouTube recording below features a very young Joan Baez playing this song, I suspect in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Looking at the video, you can pretty quickly get a sense of how Joan Baez plays Barbara Allen. The song is in 4/4 time. On the first and third beats of each bar she picks out a bass note with her thumb. For the opening C chord, for example, she picks out the bass C note (5th string, 3rd fret) on the first beat of the bar, and the bass G note (6th string, 3rd fret) on the third beat of the bar. On the second and fourth beats of each bar she plays triplets: 1st string, followed by 2nd string, followed by 3rd string (the notes are E, C, and G for the opening C chord).
So, where does Barbara Allen (also known as "Barb'ry Ellen" and "Barbara Ellen") come from? Well, it's certainly from the British Isles, though whether from England or Scotland is unclear (I've plumped for England, but frankly, that's just a guess). It is old enough to have been mentioned by the great diarist, Samuel Pepys (in his diary entry of on January 2, 1666 he mentions hearing it sung by a Mrs Knipp). Like most truly old songs, there are many versions of the lyrics and variants of the tune. For example, the song often begins with a verse that I have ommitted:
In Scarlet town, where I was born,
There was a fair maid dwellin’,
Made every youth cry Well-a-way!
Her name was Barbara Allen.
From the British Isles, the song soon established itself in America, where it became very popular and spawned yet more variants. It has been performed and recoreded in many different styles. Personally, I would describe the Joan Baez version as classic American folk. But you can also find country versions of the song (for example check out the version by Tommy Faile). My personal favourite is by somebody whom I know just about nothing about: Alan Moores. You can listen to it here:
'Twas in the merry month of May
F C
When green buds all were swelling,
F C Am
Sweet William on his death bed lay
For love of Barbara Allen.
He sent his servant to the town
To the place where she was dwelling,
Saying you must come, to my master dear
If your name be Barbara Allen.
So slowly, slowly she got up
And slowly she drew nigh him,
And the only words to him did say
Young man I think you're dying.
He turned his face into the wall
And death was in him welling,
Good-bye, good-bye, to my friends all
Be good to Barbara Allen.
When he was dead and laid in grave
She heard the death bells knelling
And every stroke to her did say
Hard-hearted Barbara Allen.
Oh mother, oh mother go dig my grave
Make it both long and narrow,
Sweet William died of love for me
And I will die of sorrow.
And father, oh father, go dig my grave
And make it both long and narrow,
Sweet William died on yesterday
And I will die tomorrow.
Barbara Allen was buried in the old churchyard
Sweet William was buried beside her,
Out of sweet William's heart, there grew a rose
Out of Barbara Allen's a briar.
They grew and grew in the old churchyard
Till they could grow no higher
At the end they formed, a true lover's knot
And the rose grew round the briar.
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Snapchat’s Discover Feature Could Be The Key To Brand Storytelling
by AdExchanger // Thursday, February 26th, 2015 – 8:57 am
“Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.
Today’s column is written by Jay Baer, founder of Convince & Convert.
Monetizing a revenue-starved app requires a delicate balance of creativity and business savvy. Companies need to sell ads to make money, but they risk alienating their prized user bases if they take disruptive or inelegant approaches.
Snapchat’s answer to this dilemma is Discover, a new section in the app that features curated content from prominent media companies and brands. The attention-grabbing content is brief, a little random and, true to Snapchat style, only lasts a day.
The content in Discover is created specifically for the app, and it’s being presented as news and entertainment, sort of like receiving a dozen mini magazines in the mail every day. The focus is not on the ads, which is clever because it’s sponsored content that doesn’t feel sponsored.
By shunning traditional approaches such as banner ads and creating a new form of advertising on a social platform, Snapchat guides its sponsors to tell their own stories one day at a time. While Snapchat and its brethren are clearly moving away from traditional ads toward sponsored content, the ads themselves are also content.
This carries big implications for the eroding line between content and ads, which may affect companies and ad agencies whose campaigns rely on storytelling, rather than features, benefits and price. What if a burger joint doesn’t want to participate in a drawn-out saga and simply wants to tell customers that burgers are on sale tomorrow? Now everyone – even advertisers – can be a media company, and Snapchat Discover may be just the outlet they need to provide a brief, albeit compelling, story.
Breaking The Advertising Mold
Social platforms have historically functioned like digital magazines, where advertisers can purchase ads adjacent to user-created content. But with the move toward sponsored, integrated content and storytelling, especially using video, social platforms are trying to function more like TV networks and make money by connecting content with audiences.
This change is especially significant as the percentage of social content that is viewed on mobile devices continues to grow. Because of the space limitations on mobile screens, this shift has presented some distinct challenges for advertisers. But as mobile viewing becomes the norm rather than the exception, advertisers need to move to sponsored native content that’s less disruptive to the user experience.
Snapchat minimized disruption by moving Discover to a separate part of the app. This avoids turning off people using the core Snapchat functions, but it means Discover stories must succeed on their own merits. To help achieve this, Snapchat chose its partners carefully, and all content in Discover is being created specifically for the app in conjunction with Snapchat.
With its pleasant, multi-tiered layout, Discover may be the most successful form of native storytelling on social apps. It offers snippets of video, text and photos and gives interested consumers the chance to dig deeper into a topic. The streamlined layout eliminates clutter to help maximize engagement for advertisers.
The Collective Push Toward Media Publishing
Snapchat isn’t the first social platform to transition to the publisher role and capitalize on the power of storytelling. Brands on Instagram often engage in native advertising, as well as some direct partnerships with Instagram, but the platform’s current strength lies in behind-the-scenes photography that incites brand passion, more so than episodic content and video storytelling.
Twitter recently unveiled a new native video feature that will provide users (including brands and new media celebs) the opportunity to shoot, edit, and post videos directly from the app. The new feature is Twitter’s attempt to get more video in the pipeline and boost engagement.
Facebook, meanwhile, is gunning for YouTube by prioritizing video. Facebook videos automatically play when you come across them in the news feed, whereas YouTube videos don’t. Facebook’s algorithms give preferential treatment to Facebook content, which marketers are figuring out. Facebook clearly recognizes the storytelling potential of video, and it wants brands creating that content to use Facebook.
Advertisers Need To Unlock Their Storytelling Abilities
Although Snapchat Discover is limited to select brands, advertisers in every industry need to hone their storytelling skills and be able to create short, captivating content for audiences who have come to expect this type of approach.
Brands are already enjoying success on other platforms. For example, the NHL packages daily highlights on Instagram, while Lowe’s offers “Fix in Six” videos on Vine. These are very different brands, but they’re both capitalizing on the power of short video to engage their audiences.
Snapchat’s Discover takes this approach a step further by creating a new model for storytelling. Because each piece of content lasts only 24 hours, brands must take an episodic approach to their storytelling. This requires creativity and consistency to engage an audience, day after day and week after week. But as this trend shows, brand attention is increasingly gained in small doses on small screens. Advertisers can’t afford to be left behind.
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3 Ad-Tech Stories You Need to Know This Week
The industry leans in on addressable TV with dual launch
By Ronan Shields
Advertisers want to better measure the effectiveness of their TV ad buys
The future of programmatic is video.
U.S. advertisers are forecasted to increase their spend on addressable TV by 35 percent between ahead of 2019 with the total amount of spend tipped to surpass $3 billion, according to eMarketer estimates.
Ad-tech companies and media owners are now attempting to capitalize on latent demand with U.S. media giant and publicly-listed measurement outfit this week unveiling their latest wares in the sector. Meanwhile, regulators in Europe are beginning to doubling-down on privacy post GDPR—this time, with Twitter in the crosshairs.
Here are three key ad-tech stories you ned to know this week.
LiveRamp unveils Data Plus Math offering
Today, LiveRamp and Data Plus Math inked a deal in which the pair will aim to provide advertisers and media owners with better measurement of their campaign executions carried out on addressable TV.
The partnership will provide media traders with campaign performance insights through Data Plus Math’s MediaFX Platform—currently used by more than 12 of the largest U.S. media companies—and will be based on IdentityLink, LiveRamp’s audience identification offering.
Through the licensing of IdentityLink, Data Plus Math customers will be better able to cross-reference brands’ customers and whether or not they’ve been exposed to certain media executions to better assess whether or not it drove a conversion such as product purchase or store and website visits.
John Hoctor, co-founder and CEO of Data Plus Math, said the partnership will help bring consistent measurement and attribution of ad campaigns to the fast-evolving addressable TV space.
“Our license of LiveRamp’s IdentityLink service will provide our customers with access to rapid, anonymized identity matching, opening up new avenues for better understanding of campaign impact and ROI,” he said.
“Their platform enables TV to receive proper credit for its role in the customer journey, both at the top and bottom of the conversion funnel,” added Allison Metcalfe, general manager of TV, LiveRamp.
A report by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) noted that almost a third (30 percent) of marketers said they would test such spend in 2018. These insights augment the findings of a later ANA research study, which found that 47 percent of survey participants intended to increase their investment in audience solutions over the coming months.
“This report clearly shows that marketers are seeking tangible strategies for identifying and engaging customer audiences in ways that are responsible, personalized and optimized to meet both consumer needs and business objectives,” Bob Liodice, ANA, CEO, said.
Comcast’s ad-tech unit Freewheel debuts new programmatic offering
Today, Comcast-owned Freewheel announced the debut of its ad exchange Drive, offering media buyers the opportunity to purchase emerging forms of video inventory.
Drive lets buyers purchase aggregated content from the Comcast-owned unit and includes Over-the-Top (OTT), Set-top Box Video on Demand (STB VOD) and digital video ad units plus advanced data and measurement capabilities, with Freewheel claiming it helps bring simplicity to the increasingly complex TV sector.
David Clark, Freewheel’s general manager and evp, said the rollout was geared towards thwarting the operational and technical issues that have troubled advertisers attempting to navigate the contemporary TV landscape.
“We recognized that FreeWheel, powering nearly every major publisher’s and MVPD’s digital video advertising, was in a unique position to solve these challenges for the industry,” Clark said. “That is the goal of FreeWheel’s DRIVE. We listened, and we created a solution for TV’s future.”
David Cohen, president of IPG Mediabrand’s Magna, said that the “explosion of viewing options makes it different to aggregate scale,” adding that Drive “gives us the opportunity to optimize video investments across some of the most premium content producers in the industry.”
Irish regulator in Twitter crackdown
Privacy officials at the Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) have begun investigating Twitter over allegations that it fails to adequately disclose its data collection practices to users.
University College London researcher Michael Vale claims the social networks’ refusal to give a user information on how it tracks them whenever they click on a link in a tweet contravenes GDPR rules.
Under the rules ushered in on May 25 this year, companies such as Twitter are supposed to hand over all the personal data it possesses about him, with the company reportedly refusing to hand over the data it tracked when users clicked on third party links contained in a tweet.
Vale then reported Twitter to the Irish DPA—due to the fact that its E.U. headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland—and it has since notified him claiming it initiated a formal inquiry.
This comes just weeks after it emerged that representatives of Brave, the Open Rights Group and University College London filed simultaneous complaints with DPA in the U.K. and Ireland under GDPR rules.
In this instance, concerned parties are seeking a pan-European investigation into the practices of just about every ad-tech company—Google, in particular—in a challenge that, if successful, will have far-reaching implications for the media business.
https://adweek.it/2yP1NzB
Ronan Shields
@ronan_shields
Ronan Shields is a reporter for Adweek, focusing on ad-tech.
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Alliant Perpetual
Building Society
We provide boutique and tailor-made banking and investment services to our members and sophisticated investors, to protect their wealth and enable access to our funds, knowledge and experience.
Alliant Perpetual is not a registered bank under the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989.
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We currently provide boutique financial products and services to wholesale, sophisticated and High net worth investors only. We do not cater to retail clients.
Our mantra is sustainable, renewable and impactful investments hand-picked by our leadership team to drive growth and returns to the members, and clients with a focus on the future and the world we want to live in.
We invest in a range of sustainable and impactful investments in several key areas including construction, innovation, education, green energy and fintech.
"We see a world where financial empowerment comes in the form of a tailormade financial wellness experience"
Am I eligible to become a member?
To become a member of Alliant Perpetual, you must be a wholesale or sophisticated investor. This means anyone that has at least NZ$5m in assets or investing a minimum of NZ$750,000.
Is Alliant Perpetual a Bank?
Alliant Perpetual is not a registered bank under the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989. However, as a Building Society we can offer a range of banking products and services to wholesale and sophisticated investors.
What is the minimum investment?
The minimum investment to become a member of Alliant Perpetual starts at NZ$750,000.
How long does it take to become a member?
The process usually takes around 14 days depending on availability of documentation requested by the board.
Does Alliant Perpetual provide retail products to retail clients?
No, we only service specific financial products to members and investors. However, our aim is to offer retail products once we are granted a full banking license in New Zealand.
What is Enso?
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How 6 Top Baseball Players Switched Their Diets To Slim Down And Get Strong
By Seth Kolloen
With millions of dollars riding on the health of their bodies, Major League baseball players are always looking for an edge. Here's how a few got in shape for the 2015 season.
Mark Teixiera, New York Yankees: Added 13 lbs. of muscle and lost fat by going gluten-free.
Teixiera, who'll make $23 million this year, revealed his off-season eating strategy to Billy Witz of The New York Times. The first-baseman's breakfast is a plate of turkey bacon and a smoothie made from coconut yogurt, spinach, and frozen berries. The rest of the day he's eating lots of buffalo meat and salmon.
Brandon League, L.A. Dodgers: Lost 20 pounds by going Paleo and giving up booze.
League felt his energy flagging last season, even though he was eating right and sleeping well. "The only other factor I could see was alcohol," League told JP Hoornstra of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. League stopped cold turkey in August, then ate a Paleo diet in the offseason. He's 20 pounds lighter and says he has much more energy.
Mike Trout, L.A. Angels: Traded meat for vegetables.
23-year-old Trout is already the best player in baseball. To make sure he stays that way he's adding more vegetables to his diet, he told Roy Wallack of the L.A. Times. "I always was meat, meat, meat. Now I'm more balanced, eating protein and vegetables—and staying away from the candy."
Jake Odorizzi, Tampa Bay Rays: Gained 17 lbs. by eating "as much as I could shovel in."
Odorizzi needed more strength and stability to last for the long season. He told Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times that he ate six to seven meals a day—"obviously healthy food"—including 4 eggs for breakfast, big portions of meat, and protein shakes after workouts.
Cody Asche, Philadelphia Phillies: Listened to his wife.
Asche's wife Angie runs eleat Sports Nutrition, helping athletes plan out healthy diets. Cody told Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com he "tried to cut out the bad stuff and eat fresh." Here's one thing he might have tried (and I might too) Angie Asche's 274-calorie recipe for Chicken Parmesan.
If you really want to incorporate baseball into your eating habits, you could try the new Baseball Diet, endorsed by MLB legend Lou Piniella (also ex-Hercules star Kevin Sorbo!), which turns healthy eating into a baseball-themed competition. Claims the web site: "When you follow The Baseball Diet™ you can track your home runs, base hits, foul balls, and strikes. The more you score, the more you lose!"
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Native American Trail Marker Trees
by Kaushik Patowary Thursday, February 05, 2015
All throughout North America there are trees that are peculiarly bent out of shape, but they are not some quirks of nature. Rather, they were intentionally shaped by the Native Americans so that they could be easily recognized. They are called Trail Marker Trees, and the natives used them as a marking system to denote areas of importance such as sources of food and water, or as navigational aids and landmarks that helped guide the indigenous people along the safest route in their journeys. The Trail Marker Trees differed in their appearance and formation from tribe to tribe and from region to region, but the most characteristics form is a sharp bend low on the trunk and horizontal to the ground and a second sharp bend upward, like the one shown in the picture below. Examples of these trees have been found all across the United States and throughout Canada.
Native Americans chose trees mainly from the hardwood family in their region, such as Oak and maple, because of their flexibility while young and their ability to retain shape after they have grown. They would bend trees over to form an arch, and would secure them to a stake in the ground or tie them to a large stone with a leather strap or vine. A new branch would be left to grow skyward from the top of the arch, forming a new trunk. Eventually the restraining stake is removed, leaving a knob - a distinctive characteristic of trail marker trees.
Some Trail Marker Trees are difficult to tell apart from naturally crooked trees, because of which most people don’t realize what these trees truly are. Many of these trail trees have disappeared as they were easily overlooked and fell victim to development and disaster. Many groups today are working together to make sure that trail trees are identified and protected for the history they represent. Regrettably, some group of volunteers having no actual field research and relying only on internet information have marked several naturally deformed trees as trail trees leaving some archaeologists and anthropologists sceptical and doubtful of the whole Trail Tree System business.
However, authentic examples of trail marker trees can be found at several inconspicuous locations. A very inspired group of volunteers known as the “Mountain Stewards” have documented literally thousands of Cherokee Indian marker trees in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The location of some of the trees are kept secret to protect them. Another non-profit, Great Lakes Trail Marker Tree Society, has documented a large number of trees on their website.
A roadside "trail tree" found in Tar Hollow State Forest, Ohio. Photo credit
A trail tree in northern New Jersey. Photo credit
Sources: Great Lakes Trail Marker Tree Society / Wikipedia / University of Illinois / American Forests via TYWKIWDBI
Native American Trail Marker Trees Reviewed by Kaushik Patowary on Thursday, February 05, 2015 Rating: 5
Tags : Historical Oddities Landmarks Trees USA
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Bennett, Isobel.
Sydney: Lansdowne, (1981. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Pycnogonida.
Calman, W. T.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1938. Quarto, publisher's printed wrappers. Offprints from the British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910. Natural History Reports. Zoology. Volume three, number one and Zoology Volume two, number two (Hirudinea by W.A. Harding). More
A collection of five major papers on Pycnogonida.
Calman, W. T. et al.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1907-1938. Quarto, erratically paginated, text illustrations and uncoloured plates, binder's cloth. More
A collection of four substantial papers on Pycnogonida.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1915-1932. Quarto, erratically paginated, text illustrations and uncoloured plates, binder's cloth. From the British Antarctic ("terra nova") Expedition 1910. More
Seashore life of India.
Chhapgar, B. F.
Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, laminated boards, colour plates, text illustrations. More
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The coral reef problem.
Davis, William Morris.
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations and diagrams. Publisher's cloth with labels, bookplate, a handsome copy. More
Field guide for medical treatment: Dangerous marine creatures.
Edmonds, Carl.
Flagstaff: Best Publishing, (1995. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, softcover. More
Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Endean, Robert.
St. Lucia: University of Queensland, 1982. Quarto, colour photographs, some blemishes, dustwrapper. More
Living corals.
Faulkner, Douglas and Richard Chester.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1979. first edition). Octavo, oblong format, striking full page colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
British Prosobranch molluscs: their functional anatomy and ecology.
Fretter, Vera and Alastair Graham.
London: Ray Society, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations. More
Catalogue of the fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology, volume two: the cretaceous Bryozoa.
Gregory, J.W.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1909. Octavo, nine uncloured lithographs. Publisher's cloth, library stamp of the Royal Society of Victoria on the title page, otherwise a sound copy. More
Zoological Catalogue of Australia, [volume] 12. Porifera.
Hooper, J. N. A. and F. Weidenmayer.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1994. Octavo, publisher's cloth. More
A chronological taxonomy of Conus, 1758-1840.
Kohn, Alan J.
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Quarto, uncoloured photographs, very good copy. More
Marine molluscs of Victoria.
Macpherson, J. Hope and C. J. Gabriel.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. More
Developments in deep-sea biology.
Marshall, N. B.
Poole: Blandford Press, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, good copy in dustwrapper. More
A coral reef handbook: a guide to the geology, flora and fauna of the Great Barrier Reef.
Mather, Patricia and Isobel Bennett.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, (2003. third edition, reprint). Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, signature. A guide to the geology, flora and fauna of the whole of the Great Barrier Reef. As well as having an increased geographic scope it contains sections on marine mammals, sea grasses, maritime archaeology, and..... More
Catalogue of the type and figured specimens of fossil Crustacea (excl. Ostracoda), Chelicerata, Myriapoda and Pycnogonida in the British Museum (Natural History).
Morris, S. F.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1980. Quarto, paperback, one plate. More
Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 expedition, parts one to seven.
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Wellington: Government Printer, 1960-1972. Quarto, photographs, publisher's wrappers, in four separate parts. Part 1. Crustacea, Part 2. Archibenthal and Littoral Echinoderms, Part 3. Polychaeta Errantia, Part 4. Marine Molluscs and Sipunculoidea. Bulletin 139. More
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Amsterdam: A. Asher & Co., [1965. facsimile). Large quarto, monochrome plates, text illustrations. Text in French. Originally published in Paris by Masson et Cie, Editeurs, 1904-1906. More
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The shell book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign.
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Guidebook to Pecten shells: recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the world.
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RWE And E.ON To Build Anglesey Nuclear Plant
by Mike Evans
A joint venture of German power giants RWE and E.ON aims to build a new nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey, possibly within 10 years, as part of a mega 20 billion pounds UK investment.
These are hugely ambitious plans from these two German energy companies, at a time of significantly difficult global economic conditions and uncertainties in credit markets.
The announcement of this mega joint venture was welcomed by UK government Energy Minister Mike O’Brien, who noted that this is a key investment in Britain’s long term energy security.
RWE Npower Chief Executive Andrew Duff says that both RWE and E.ON can compliment their strengths and capabilities, a form of corporate synergy, noting that both have a good record in nuclear generation.
Overall the plans suggest that around 6 GW of new electricity generating capacity will be added, which amounts to about 10 per cent of total UK capacity of all power plants.
And remember that Wylfa here on Anglesey contributes about 40 per cent of the electricity consumed in Wales.
Recently RWE secured approval for a grid connection of up to 3.6 GW for a new nuclear power plant at Wylfa.
In addition to this, the JV partner E.ON has been given similar permission to link up to the National Grid at Oldbury in Gloucestershire.
This huge announcement is significant for Anglesey as Wylfa provides a large number of
highly skilled jobs, as well as supporting other businesses in the local and regional supply chain.
Local MP Albert Owen, who has been leading the campaign to secure a new plant on the island, welcomes this positive development and the potential it brings to the island’s economy.
There is also news on the likely reactor design to be chosen for both Wylfa and Oldbury.
Though E.ON had previously signed a document backing in principle the French company Areva’s EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) design, it now seems to have stepped back from any firm commitment.
Areva’s EPR is the reactor design choice of French giant EDF, which recently had to dispose of land at Wylfa as part of the British Energy deal, and is also planning to build at least four new nuclear reactors in the UK.
It seems likely that the RWE E.ON joint venture may instead go for the Toshiba Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design, the main challenger to Areva’s EPR.
At this stage, however, each company may maintain their own option on reactor technology for each specific site, depending on technical and commercial criteria.
So now things are looking really bright for Wylfa on Anglesey, with the prospect of thousands of construction jobs being created going forward over the next decade or so.
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Comments for RWE And E.ON To Build Anglesey Nuclear Plant
Reactor design assessment program
by: Ed
The 6,000 MW capacity would suggest between four and six reactors for Britain, if this is what RWE Npower and E.ON would do.
They could I guess either go for the Areva EPR or Toshiba Westinghouse AP1000.
As for Wylfa on Anglesey I think the 3.6GW capacity implied by the grid connection would suggest either
2 of Areva's EPR's at 1,650 MWe each or 3 AP1000's at 1,100 MWe each.
So we could have Wylfa A being replaced by Wylfa B, C and possibly D. How about that!
Let's watch this space on the design assessment program.
Rwe Npower buy Sellafield land
by: Simon
Just read in the FT now that RWE Npower have just got options to buy two sections of land near Sellafield in West Cumbria.
Seems they are also getting a potential grid connection for up to 3.6 GW of generating capacity.
This sounds similar to the Anglesey grid connection that RWE Npower got a few weeks ago with a new nuclear build at Wylfa in mind.
yes, but have you just heard about the Anglesey aluminium news. plant to close this September.
not good for lots of people on island.
by: Jo
this is great news for the island, especialy after recent bad news on Woolworths and Eaton jobs in Holyhead.
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Angry Robot signs Emma Newman
Written by Lee on May 29, 2012 in Books, On Sale, Writers
We’ve just concluded a deal with Emma Newman (via her fabulous agent, Jennifer Udden at the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York) for three books in Emma’s Split Worlds urban fantasy series, and the first one – Between Two Thorns – will be published in March next year, and we couldn’t be more delighted. The series is fabulous, but you probably already guessed that.
Emma’s reaction to the deal was “I still can’t believe this is happening – in fact, I think that’s all I’ve been saying since I got the magical phone call! The Split Worlds series is the most ambitious project I’ve ever worked on, and I am thrilled I have the opportunity to work with Angry Robot to develop it to its full potential. I’ve been a fan of Angry Robot’s list for a long time now, and am very excited my books will become part of it.”
Emmapedia
Emma Newman was born in a tiny coastal village in Cornwall during one of the hottest summers on record. Four years later she started to write stories and never stopped until she penned a short story that secured her a place at Oxford University to read Experimental Psychology.
In 2011 Emma embarked on an ambitious project to write and distribute one short story per week – all of them set in her Split Worlds milieu – completely free to her mailing list subscribers.
A debut short-story collection, From Dark Places, was published in 2011 and her debut post-apocalyptic novel for young adults, 20 Years Later, was published just one year later – presumably Emma didn’t want to wait another nineteen… Emma is also a professional audiobook narrator.
She now lives in Somerset with her husband, son and far too many books.
You can find Emma online at enewman.co.uk and splitworlds.com or on Twitter @EmApocalyptic.
The Split Worlds is an urban fantasy setting with gritty noir, fantastical magic, evil faeries and people just trying to drink their tea in peace.
Dynastic families feud across the ages, furthering the agendas of their powerful supernatural patrons. Opposing secret courts wage clandestine wars to establish their control over humanity. Innocents are protected by monsters and the beautiful ones are seldom what they seem…
In the first book in the series, Between Two Thorns, something is wrong in Aquae Sulis, Bath’s secret mirror city. The new season is starting and the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned with the task of finding him with no one to help but a dislocated soul and a mad sorcerer. There is a witness but his memories have been bound by magical chains only the enemy can break. A rebellious woman trying to escape her family may prove to be the ally Max needs. But can she be trusted? And why does she want to give up eternal youth and the life of privilege she’s been born into?
This is going to be so cool!
Emma has already guest-blogged with our very own Adam Christopher, and tells a little more about how the deal came about, so go read…
Written by Lee
Emma Newman
May 30, 2012 at 10:19 am · Log in to Reply
Thank you everyone! I’m still grinning like an idiot here, and I *still* can’t believe it 🙂
J. M. Strother
May 30, 2012 at 2:41 am · Log in to Reply
Congratulations, AR, you’ve hooked yourself a good one. Emma is terrific.
Gwenda
May 29, 2012 at 4:34 pm · Log in to Reply
These books sound fabulous–congratzies to all involved!
Paul (@princejvstin)
Congratulations. I’m intrigued by the premise.
Anne Lyle
Many congratulations, Emma – it’s been great hanging out with you at cons, and now we’re cyber-sisters too 😀
Ooooh…another worldcon partier…
It’s going to be too epic.
Laura Lam
HUGE CONGRATS, EMMA! We’ll celebrate in style at Worldcon. 😀
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Animation Block Party Spotlight: Part 3
News Bytes: ‘Witcher’ Toon Rumored, Build-A-Baby Yoda, PBS Rides with ‘Donkey Hodie’ & More
Meghan Sheridan Tapped as Exec Director Development, Portfolio LA
Seth MacFarlane Signs Major Overall Deal with NBCUniversal
In Memoriam: Animation & VFX Greats We Lost in 2019
Casey Safron
Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will be introducing Animation Magazine readers to some of the award-winning animators who have screened at past ABP festivals.
Ting Tey created the film Bridge as her thesis at Academy of Art University. The film has gone on to screen at multiple festivals, including Siggraph and Klik! Amsterdam. Bridge won best Animation for Kids short at ABP 2011. Please check out Ting’s work at www.tingtey.com.
Casey Safron: Thank you for joining us, Ting. Bridge has been a favorite on the festival circuit—where did the idea for this short about animals crossing paths in life come from?
Ting Tey: I am very happy to hear about Bridge being a favorite on the festival circuit! That means a lot. The idea for this short came about when I was riding home on a bus, and the bus crossed a bridge in San Francisco. I began thinking about what would happen if there were cars coming in our direction, despite the traffic laws, and about the conflict that would ensue as vehicles from both directions faced off. I realized that putting this idea in the setting of a simple hanging bridge would be really funny! Instead of vehicles, I started with two stubborn characters on the bridge trying to get past each other.
Casey Safron: You used multiple software packages to create Bridge, ranging from Autodesk Maya to Adobe Flash; what was your process like in working with such a wide range of computer programs?
Ting Tey: Most of the pre-production work was handled in Adobe Photoshop, while the animatic was created using Adobe Flash due to its efficiency in letting me watch everything happen in real time. I then modeled and rigged the characters in Autodesk Maya, which is also where the character animation and actual staging of the action all happened. I used both Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop for the background painting. Finally, I used Adobe After Effects to put my film together, and Adobe Premiere for sound editing and compiling the entire film.
Casey Safron: Your film has over 500,000 views alone on Vimeo, do you think it’s essential as a filmmaker to release your content on the Internet?
Ting Tey: I think it is. With the number of people who watch content on the Internet always growing, it’s difficult to get a film out there without at some point having it available online. Also, Bridge was created for the purpose of helping me land a job.
I didn’t release my film online until one year after its completion, keeping it to the festival circuit before that time. At the end of the day, the value of the Internet does depend on the filmmaker’s intentions in creating the film.
Casey Safron: Do you have any new films in the works, collaborations or otherwise?
Ting Tey: I actually do! Although I am not in a hurry to complete anything at this point, and am taking it slow, I have had many story ideas. I prefer to create some ideas as comics instead of as films due to the heavy workload a 3D animation brings.
Dave Schlafman first screened his work at Animation Block Party in 2005 and subsequently has created bumpers for ABP and also participated as a festival jury member. He is currently the creative director of CloudKid Studios in Boston. His personal website is www.schlafman.com.
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Casey Safron: You’ve animated a number of films that have appeared at past ABP festivals, do you have a personal favorite of your independent works from the early-mid 2000s?
Dave Schlafman: That’s a hard question. I had a lot of fun producing the Philippe and Pierre shorts, but my favorite has to be The Sky is Falling, which I produced and directed for ABP. While the short is a PSA, there was something fun about taking a boring stat and making it come to life in an interesting way. It’s also pretty cool that that Al Gore showed it off at the TED conference during his global warming talk. That couldn’t have happened without ABP.
Casey Safron: You co-created the series Fizzy’s Lunch Lab for PBS KIDS GO!; how did that opportunity come about—did you design a traditional pitch package or was it based off your previous illustration work?
Dave Schlafman: Evan Sussman and I worked together at Soup 2 Nuts in Boston. We worked well together, so we decided to develop a show together. That was in 2007 and the result was Fizzy’s Lunch Lab. At first, it lived as a paper pitch and WGBH Boston offered us a development deal. We spent almost a year in negotiations, but at some point, we realized the property could possibly sit on the shelf for a while.
That’s when we decided to pass and fund/produce an animated pilot ourselves. We finished the pilot in the fall of 2008 and sent it out to a handful of places, including PBS. I had directed a series of original shorts for Between the Lions, so Linda Simensky and Paul Siefken [at PBS] knew of my work through that project. They were looking for web series and it happened to land on their desks at just the right time. We were very lucky. The web series launched in November of 2009 and three seasons later, we’re still going strong as one of the top websites on PBS Kids. It’s really been a dream project.
Casey Safron: In 2009, you and Matt Moore founded an animation studio called CloudKid (www.cloudkid.com)—what was the learning curve like in making the shift to run a business with more employees than just Dave?
Dave Schlafman: Before CloudKid, I ran a satellite animation studio out of my apartment in Boston, so that helped a lot. It taught me how to make budgets, schedules, and work with freelance artists all around the country. So, when we started CloudKid, I had the basic project management stuff down. All the other odds and ends—like marketing, managing in-house artists, building tech infrastructure, buying computers—happened gradually. Having a business partner helped and we definitely took our time and started slow; I think that’s the key. It’s kind of like a 24/7 job because there’s always something that could get done and more often than not, you’re the catalyst to make it happen. Unfortunately, drawing and my creative time fall by the wayside because running the business sometimes takes precedence. That’s the biggest change.
Casey Safron: What’s next on tap for CloudKid, any new series in the queue?
Dave Schlafman: Most of the work we’re doing these days lies somewhere in between animation and gaming. We’re working with Scholastic Education on a pretty awesome software project that we developed with them. It has a ton of character animation and character development, but it’s not a traditional “series” per se. So, while I miss producing specifically animated shorts, I have a new love of creating character-driven games with lots of animation. CloudKid is hoping to bring TV sensibilities to interactive games. In fact, we’re getting ready to launch our first original iPad app, Negative Nimbus, later this summer. We’ve been working on it for the last six months, in-between our paying gigs. We’re getting ready to tease an animated trailer and website (with some goodies) in the next couple weeks. Stay tuned—we’re all VERY excited about it.
Marieke Verbiesen’s animated scientific experiment Reloaded won best music video at Animation Block Party 2011. She is a multi-faceted filmmaker, working in various mediums from electronic gaming to interactive cinema and installation art. Please check out her work at www.marieke.nu/blog.
Casey Safron: Hi Marieke, thank you for taking the time to chat. Your music video Reloaded features a style of monster that was popularized by the 1950s Harryhausen and Godzilla genre films—do you have a favorite monster movie from that era that influenced your animation?
Marieke Verbiesen: I definitely have a few favorites, but Reloaded was pretty much based on the monster movie genre as a whole that arose in the 1950s era. For the character design of the monsters in Reloaded I started by researching the Nordic library of extinct animals. This is a huge collection of frozen animals, one of each kind that went extinct during the past few centuries. The animated creatures in Reloaded were modeled on sketches of these animals; it’s strange to think that they actually existed so many years ago.
Casey Safron: Your installation Moviestar highlighted green-screened creatures that come to life once a visitor enters the art space, were there any creative restrictions you faced due to the interactive nature of this project?
Marieke Verbiesen: Moviestar is an interactive installation that uses classic film, animation, animatronic creatures and surround sound in a spacious, installation setting. Visitors activate and control the installation by moving in front of a green-screen, where they can see themselves projected in a surreal jungle where crazy things are happening. Sound, animations and the robot-animatronics in the space respond to the visitors’ movements, along with live recordings of the visitors, are together creating a real-time movie. By centralizing the visitors and transforming them into actors, there is very fun, unpredictable part in the installation. This has been the biggest challenge: to see what the physical response is from visitors and let both the animations and the rest of the environment respond that.
Casey Safron: You continued with a trend of interactivity in the design of your most recent work Pole Position, a car race game controlled by a gamepad … what did you learn from Moviestar that you applied to the design of this user based animation experience?
Marieke Verbiesen: A lot of what I experienced when creating Moviestar was useful. Pole Position blends a real-life recorded environment from the perspective of a robot-controlled car, with a game that users control with a joystick. As a user, you play the game and control the car, score points when you hit or avoid certain objects. The largest similarity between Pole Position and Moviestar is that both installations blend physical, real time recorded environments with digital animations that interact together when users control them. Pole Position is based on the classic 1982 arcade race game of the same name, one of the first ones that used full color, and paid a lot of attention to the surroundings of the race environment, aimed by its creators to make it “movie-like.” Because Pole Position is a real working game that users control, there is a challenge to play with it and keep on playing with it. There is something within us humans that simply wants to improve our score and test a machine’s boundaries.
Casey Safron: Do you have any new alien cartoons in the works, or are you focused on installation pieces?
Marieke Verbiesen: Both! Right now I have a new installation in the works that uses human interaction connected to time-lapse animation. I enjoy working in several disciplines; trying to unite animation, interaction, sound and physical objects or spaces. During the last few years I got more and more interested in making large, life-size interactive installations, moving more and more away from the screen.
Related Topics:ABP, Academy of Art University, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Animation Block Party, Autodesk Maya, Between the Lions, Bridge, Casey Safron, CloudKid, CloudKid Studios, Corel Painter, Dave Schlafman, Fizzy’s Lunch Lab, Godzilla, Klik! Amsterdam, Linda Simensky, Marieke Verbiesen, Moviestar, Negative Nimbus, Paul Siefken, PBS, PBS Kids Go, Philippe and Pierre, Pole Position, Reloaded, SIGGRAPH, Ted, The Sky is Falling, Ting Tey
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Submitted by Pyramid Atlantic Art Center on Fri, 07/26/2019 - 18:52
This Fellowship is designed to offer artists, from a range of artistic disciplines, an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice, and provides a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.
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Each applicant will be judged on the artistic merit of his/her work, interest and potential in printmaking, paper arts and book arts (or a combination thereof), as well as the quality and clarity of his/her plan for the residency. Although previous experience in a Pyramid Atlantic discipline may be helpful to a successful applicant, such experience is not necessary or expected. Artists are also asked to give an artist talk during their residency.
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Minimum 2 weeks, maximum 1 month (specify the amount of time in the application)
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Pyramid Atlantic Art Center's Keyholder Residency is a competitive opportunity for emerging artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is awarded to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking or book arts studios. Two artists are selected per season by the Pyramid Atlantic artistic staff. Keyholders work in a productive community atmosphere alongside other artists, and are expected to abide by all studio policies. Housing does not come with Keyholder Residency.
Fall Residency Dates: September 3 –December 6, 2019
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Work 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic (Perform daily operational tasks including but not limited to ordering supplies, receiving and unpacking orders, responding to organizational inquiries, and working at the reception desk)
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BIG INK Large-Scale Woodblock Printing at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Submitted by BIG INK on Mon, 05/06/2019 - 19:53
Deadline to submit a proposal: Midnight, Sept 9, 2019
Event Location: 4318 Gallatin St, Hyattsville, MD 20781
Event Date(s): Nov 16 & 17, 2019
Event Time: 10 am - 5 pm
Public Time: 11 am - 4 pm
Link to Submit: https://www.bigink.org/apply/#application
Event Synopsis:
BIG INK, a nationally recognized print arts organization, is traveling to Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in 2019. Pyramid has invited BIG INK to host a two-day event where prints will be pulled from large-scale woodblock plates. We are seeking image proposals from emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists who would like to carve a woodblock, at least 24" x 36" inches in dimension, to print at the event. No prior printmaking experience is required. Any artist that has an interest in print media and wants to achieve a deeper understanding of woodblock carving is welcome to apply.
Upon completing the application and being accepted, artists will have two months prior to the event to carve their design. BIG INK has created how-to videos that guide participants through the carving process. The series draws from invaluable technical observations made by BIG INK's directors and past participating artists. The artists' sole responsibility is to bring a fully carved and ready to print woodblock on their assigned printing day. All consumable materials including paper, ink, cleaning supplies and equipment are included with participation.
The event itself is an excellent way to network with other participants, plug into a growing creative community, and produce high-quality work that can later be used for sale and exhibition.
About BIG INK:
BIG INK's mission is to inspire a greater public appreciation for large-scale woodblock printmaking and extend its practice. Founded in 2012, BIG INK was originally the brainchild of Lyell Castonguay and Carand Burnet. Castonguay, whose personal woodblock work is often monumental in scale, wanted to organize a community of large-scale woodblock artists. Castonguay and Burnet began to host informal gatherings at print studios around their local area. These happenings evolved into the collaborative working model BIG INK utilizes today. BIG INK establishes a temporary print shop on site at affiliate organizations, most often at museums, universities, art centers, studios, and galleries. Artists are selected through a call-for-entry process to attend these events and print original woodblocks at least 24” x 36” in dimension. Since the program’s inception, hundreds of artists have participated in BIG INK events across the country.
About Pyramid Atlantic Center:
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center was founded in 1981 by noted artist and teacher Helen C. Frederick to provide a setting for artistic collaboration and dialogue. A 501(c)(3) non-profit contemporary arts center, Pyramid Atlantic receives federal and state funds as well as generous support from private foundations, corporations, and local businesses. In addition, we count individual donors and our members among our most valued supporters. We are located in the historic Arcade building in the Hyattsville Gateway Arts District. The facility features a papermaking studio, print shop, letterpress studio, bindery, and a darkroom. We also have private studios for artists to rent and a gallery for exhibitions.
Participant Benefits:
BIG INK events are a constructive way to collaborate in a creatively inspiring space while gaining an in-depth knowledge of how to create a large-scale woodblock print. The program is designed for printmakers who understand basic woodblock principles but want to expand their expertise and working scale. The program is also designed for those not yet trained in woodblock but whose visual aesthetic would lend itself to the medium. This includes illustrators, sculptors, designers, and painters who use bold contrast, strong outlines, and patterning. Participating in an event often inspires artists to incorporate more print work in their studio practice.
BIG INK's role is to make the production of a large-scale woodblock accessible and easy to understand. We make the experience rewarding and informative by imparting our knowledge of preferred materials and techniques. We do so through a tutorial series comprised of over 20 videos. Step-by-step instructions guide BIG INK participants with preferred materials and methods including plywood types, image transferring, carving, creating textures, fixing mistakes, tool maintenance, incorporating power tools, and more. BIG INK remains in contact providing guidance and technical support when needed. At the conclusion of the event, BIG INK photographs each participant's finished print. We add this image to the bigink.org online archive. These images are used to help curate BIG INK themed exhibits at national and international art venues.
How Many Prints Are Produced?
BIG INK assists in the creation of three impressions from each participant's woodblock. We pride ourselves on producing high-quality impressions despite that events typically happen in a community setting. Work is printed using oil-based inks on archival paper and the quality is comparable to what you would receive working at a private studio.
What happens to the prints produced at the event?
We request ownership of one print for our archive in order to photograph your work and use it for curatorial projects. At some point, we hope to donate these prints to a museum. The archive consists of over 300 prints and growing. The other two prints remain in the artists' possession.
What do I submit with my image proposal?
We ask for basic contact info, a short artist statement/bio, anticipated dimensions of your woodblock and most importantly a JPG that represents what you intend to carve. You are welcome to submit an image from your portfolio or a new design. Upload your image in black & white via the application on our apply page. Please note your proposal image doesn't have to be completed on a large scale and can be drafted in your preferred medium. Black sharpie, pen & ink, and dark pencil gives us the clearest impression of your concept. Avoid the use of gray tones when possible. Refer to this album of past proposals for inspiration and reference. Images must be solely created by the applicant.
What material should I use to carve my woodblock?
Artists are responsible for purchasing 1/2" cherry ply, 1/2" MDF or 3/8" Shina. Purchase links to materials will be provided to accepted participants.
How big can I work?
Images must be at least 24” x 36” in dimension but no larger than 40” x 96” in dimension.
It is free to submit a proposal; accepted artists pay $300 dollars to participate. This covers all consumable materials for the event including printing ink, paper, cleaning supplies, equipment and photography. The artist is only required to bring a fully carved block.
Scholarships:
We are unable to offer scholarships at this time. Past participants have been able to cover funding through local and state grants, The Awesome Foundation or crowd funding platforms like Kickstarter.
Q: Can two artists collaborate on a proposal? A: Yes, list both names on the application.
Q: Can I submit an existing image with my proposal? A: Yes
Q: If accepted can I change my proposal image after the fact? A: Yes, as long as it falls within the same aesthetic.
Q: Does my proposal image have to be a certain size? A: Your proposal image can be small. It doesn't have to be the same size as your woodblock.
Q: Am I expected to attend both printing days? A: No, but you’re welcome to.
Q: How many prints does each artist produce? A: Three, one of which is archived in the BIG INK portfolio.
Q: Can I bring my own paper and print more? A: Because we work with many artists at one time we standardize for time's sake. There isn't enough time to print more than three impressions of your woodblock at the event.
Q: What type of paper do we use? A: Masa
Q: What type of ink do we use? A: Oil-based relief ink, bring an apron and wear work clothes.
Q: Do I have to bring any other materials besides my carved block? A: No
Q: Can we print in color? A: Because we work with many artists at one time we standardize for time's sake. There isn't enough time and space for color printing.
Q: How do we transport the finished prints? A: BIG INK provides newsprint to wrap the work.
Q: Do you have recommendations on where to stay? A: We use Airbnb and quality hotels are usually located a short drive away or within walking distance.
Q: What is the best way to transport the finished block if I'm flying? A: You may be able to ship your block directly to the venue. Contact us directly to confirm. When shipping your block please include a return label in the package. This makes shipping your block back home simple.
Q: Can I create an edition of prints after the event? A: Yes
Q: Can BIG INK create an edition of prints for me? A: Yes, for a fee.
Q: Can I cut the block in half to facilitate transport to and from the venue? A: We recommend it for images over 6 feet long. We will abut the pieces together on the press before printing.
Artist Testimonials:
"Being a professional sculptor, carving a woodcut was something that appealed to my sensibilities but was also something I'd never done. BIG INK's step by step videos was helpful in guiding me through the process. BIG INK answered my technical questions quickly and gave me feedback on my image when I emailed photos. I'm now taking what I learned as a BIG INK participant and integrating it back into my 3-D work." Kerry O. Furlani
"BIG INK encouraged all the participants to work together to execute their prints. The event inspired me to continue exploring scale and surface in my practice and opened up a new channel of communication with a great group of artists." Enrique Figueredo
Fee Detail:
Free to apply, $300 dollars if accepted
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Maryland, USA - Nepal-America Film Society (NAFS), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Maryland, proudly announces the 3rd Nepal-America International Film Festival (NAIFF). The film festival will take place from 28-30 June 2019, in the Washington DC metro area. We are now accepting submissions of all genres; feature films, documentaries, animations, experimental and short films from across the globe.
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Create a large woodcut with BIG INK at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Submitted by BIG INK on Fri, 10/28/2016 - 03:06
BIG INK is partnering with Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Hyattsville, MD for an event that fosters appreciation for the art of woodcut printmaking. On April 1st & 2nd, 2017 BIG INK will bring a 48” x 96” mobile printmaking press to Pyramid. BIG INK volunteers will help pre selected participating artists print woodcuts en plein air. The finished prints will be hung in a highly visible area, creating a viewing gallery for all to enjoy.
The participating artists, selected by Lyell Castonguay, director of BIG INK, will bring giant carved wood blocks measuring at least 24" x 36" in size. Visitors will witness woodcuts being printed in an open forum. Handouts will explain the process, its history, and context in contemporary art. In addition, the artists who created the work will be in attendance to network and answer questions. The prints created at BIG INK events are exhibited in university galleries, art centers, and museums, such as a recent show in Seoul, Korea.
If you're interested in creating a large woodcut for this event please visit http://www.bigink.org/apply. The deadline to apply is Jan 23rd, 2017.
Free to apply, $275 if accepted.
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RS 5 Coupé > A5 > Audi Philippines
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Performance intensified.
Fuel consumption combined: 8.7 l/100km; CO₂ emission combined: 197 g/km¹
The new Audi RS 5 Coupé combines elegant aesthetics with classic RS-performance. The 2.9 TFSI V6 Biturbo with 331 kW (450 hp) and 600 Nm maximum torque promises sportiness and power. The RS 5 Coupé accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds, and can reach up to 250 km/h. If desired, the maximum speed can be increased to 280 km/h.
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The RS 5 Coupé owes its significant increase in power and efficiency to the newly developed six-cylinder engine. The two turbochargers are positioned centrally between the cylinder banks. The air is drawn out of every two-flow turbocharger and into the combustion chambers, which makes the response spontaneous and dynamic - at any speed. The RS 5 Coupé accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds. Its maximum torque of 600 Nm (170 Nm more than the previous model) lies in a wide range of 1900-5000 1/min. The optional RS-Design Package can raise the maximum speed to 280 km/h. This power is achieved through the sporty eight-speed tiptronic with optimised switching times, superior to the standard permanent all-wheel drive quattro with centre differential. Dynamic handling, with excellent traction and simultaneously with maximum safety, is guaranteed with the driving forces, which are distributed at a ratio of 40:60. The robust RS-sound further emphasises the power of the engine.
No sooner has the engine started, than dynamics become perceptible. Several driving modes can be adjusted via the Audi drive select and which range from confidently sporty to directly dynamic. Additionally, the driver can carry out their own individual settings to savour the driving performance of the RS 5 Coupé even more. The standard RS sports suspension ensures significantly lower road handling as compared to the previous model. Alternatively, it is possible to choose the sports suspension plus with Dynamic Ride Control (DRC), ceramic brakes and dynamic steering with RS-specific set-tops. Specially tuned to the RS 5 Coupé, it reduces the pitch and roll for improved road holding. The damper characteristics can be adjusted in three stages and therefore provide the right set-up for each lane. The RS 5 Coupé weighs 60 kilograms less than its predecessor and weighs in at a total of 1655 kilograms. An optimised combustion process with reduced compression makes the RS 5 Coupé even more efficient.
Strength of character to the last detail.
The RS 5 Coupé was designed to incorporate the striking motorsport details of the Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO: massive air intakes with typical RS honeycomb structure, a wider and lower single-frame grille, lateral air in and outlets and the typical RS sides which emphasise the broad wheel arches through the strong curvature. Sportiness is also evident at the rear. The applied spoiler lip, the RS-specific diffuser insert and oval tailpipes are a part of the RS character. These details can be further individualised through the optional styling packages which offer dull aluminum, glossy black or fine carbon. On request, the roof can be made of carbon fibre with a visible structure.
A sought-after seat for sportiness.
The command centre of the RS 5 Coupé remains completely black. On the interior, the performance character of the RS 5 Coupé is taken up with the RS sports seats in Fine Nappa leather, optional in honeycomb stitching and seams in contrasting colour, which provide perfect lateral support and engage with the RS-Sport contour leather steering wheel with gearshift paddles. The RS logo can be found on the seats, on the steering wheel, the door sill trims and on the selector lever. On request, it is possible to set striking accents using the RS-Design package - for example, in the form of red contrast stitching on the steering wheel, shift lever knob and centre console. The optional Audi virtual cockpit brings important information directly into your field of vision using clear, high-resolution displays - including RS-specific content such as G-meters, shift light or tyre pressure or temperature. In this way you are able to enjoy the RS character even more.
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Chris Wilder not complacent after Sheffield United’s stunning 2019
The Blades won promotion and have been a surprise package in the top flight.
Chris Wilder is focused on his side’s future challenges (Danny Lawson/PA)
By Mark Walker, PA
January 1 2020 12:00 PM
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder had little time for reflection at the end of a stellar 2019 for his club.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/chris-wilder-not-complacent-after-sheffield-uniteds-stunning-2019-38826607.html
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The Blades were an outside bet for automatic promotion from the Sky Bet Championship 12 months ago but on Thursday they take on Liverpool at Anfield from a position of comfort in the top half of the Premier League.
Wilder’s side have continued to defy the odds – they lost for the first time in almost a year on the road at Manchester City on Sunday – but the former Oxford and Northampton manager preferred to look forward at the turn of the year.
“There’s a fantastic future ahead for the football club, we’ve put ourselves in a great position,” Wilder said.
“But I’m never one to sit back and admire and my staff aren’t and my players won’t.
“We’ve got some huge challenges in the new year and ones we are really looking forward to.”
The first of those is against Jurgen Klopp’s champions-elect, who were given a real scare by the Blades at Bramall Lane in September when Georginio Wijnaldum’s fumbled shot clinched them a narrow win.
Liverpool have since surged clear in the title race but no challenge is a lost cause as far as Wilder is concerned.
“Going to Anfield, iconic stadium, fabulous experience, everything that Liverpool bring to the English game,” he said.
“They are the most powerful, historic of clubs in our game and going so well.
“But we’d like to put a little bump in their road, as we tried to do at Manchester City.”
The Blades have beaten Arsenal and drawn with Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United this season and are in contention for European football next season.
“I always think time for reflection is at the end of the season and time to reflect on a career is when you finish,” Wilder added.
“But I think certainly the club has done a hell of a lot of good things in this calendar year.
“A terrific campaign in the Championship with Norwich and Leeds United. We shouldn’t have been anywhere near it, but we were.
“Then to get into the Premier League and off we go on a new journey, a new experience, and so far we’ve handled it very, very well.
“There’s still a lot of work to put in and a lot of games to go, so we’re not sat here comfortable.
“We can be happy with what we’ve done in 2019, but certainly the key is to kick on into the new year and keep improving.”
Liverpool-born midfielder John Lundstram hopes to recover from an ankle injury in time to feature at Anfield, while otherwise Wilder will select from a fully-fit squad.
By Tom White, PA Sport Data Journalist Liverpool are on course to wrap up the Premier League at the home of rivals Everton in March.
By PA Sport Staff Gary Neville said he cannot understand why Manchester United’s owners have kept faith with those responsible for the club’s recruitment policy.
By Nick Purewal, PA Frank Lampard has refused to rule out Chelsea making a move for wantaway Paris St Germain striker Edinson Cavani.
By Damian Spellman, PA Newcastle wing-back Jetro Willems will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a cruciate ligament injury during Saturday’s Premier League win over Chelsea.
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Baseball Oshawa — Oshawa Legion Minor Baseball Association
Baseball Oshawa History
November 27, 1975: Planning commenced on a “Minor league” diamond as a Memorial Project by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 43 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Legion. Legion Diamond at Lakeview Park was officially opened on July 21, 1976. The cost of the project was $34,834.00 for lighting and poles plus $8,842.50 for fencing. A “Wintario” Grant from the Ontario Government in the amount of $21, 000.00 was also received.
Spring 2003: The Oshawa Legion (Minor) Baseball Association’s official web-site came on-line for the first time on the “World Wide Web” to showcase the league, all it’s teams and it’s members. The web-site address is www.baseballoshawa.com.
Spring 2004: The Oshawa Legion (Minor) Baseball Association submitted application to the “Ontario Trillium Foundation” to receive a grant to update Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium. Upgrades included a full sprinkler system for the infield and outfield, new stadium grooming equipment, upgraded bullpens, outfield levelling, as well as permanent and maintenance free foul lines.
On May 11, 2004 the OLMBA received $74,400.00 dollars from the Ontario Trillium Foundation for this initiative. Ceremonies were held before the beginning of the Junior Legionnaires games. Dignitaries on hand included Oshawa Mayor John Gray and M.P.P. Jerry Ouellette, who were on hand to throw out the first pitch prior to the scheduled Oshawa Legionnaire’s game.
Spring 2004: Long time Executive Member of the Oshawa Legion (Minor) Baseball Association Ted McComb is inducted into the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame under the “Builders” category. The ceremony was held at the Oshawa Civic Auditorium with many dignitaries and guests on hand. A framed picture of “Mr. Baseball” and his lifetime sports achievements are on display at the Civic Arena Complex.
Spring 2005: Long time Executive Member of the Oshawa Legion (Minor) Baseball Association Gladys Cochrane passed away. Many Legion Branch #43 and OLMBA friends and family attend funeral services and a reception. The OLMBA Executive unanimously votes to change the name of its annual golf tournament to the “Gladys Cochrane Memorial Golf Tournament”. A trophy in Gladys’ name will be awarded to the Mosquito Legionnaire “Most Valuable Player” each year. Further the snack bar at Kinsmen Civic Memorial Stadium will be named the Gladys Cochrane Memorial Snack Bar.
Winter 2006: Long time friend of the Oshawa Legion (Minor) Baseball Association and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #43 and wife of OLMBA Executive Member Ted McComb passed away. Many Legion Branch #43 and OLMBA friends and family attend funeral services and a reception. She will be sadly missed.
Summer 2006: OLMBA, EOBA and Oshawa Dodger President Troy May passed away on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 due to injuries sustained in a car accident with his family on Sunday, July 16, 2006. Troy was instrumental in obtaining the OLMBA’s first “Trillium Grant” from the Ontario Government. Upgrades from this grant included a sprinkler system for Kinsmen Stadium along with other stadium equipment. Troy’s love for the game and for the youth of Oshawa will be sadly missed. Of note the “Troy May Umpires Award”, given each year to the OLMBA Senior Umpire of the Year will be re-named the “Troy May Memorial Umpires Award” and henceforth the annual Mosquito tournament will be renamed the “Troy May Memorial Mosquito Tournament”.
Summer 2010. The Oshawa Legion Minor Baseball Association (OLMBA) hit a home run today with the newly renovated Kinsmen Stadium made possible with a $101,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). Jerry Ouellette, MPP for Oshawa, joined OTF representative John Stafford and Mayor John Gray, in congratulating the Oshawa Legion Minor Baseball Executive at the ribbon cutting ceremony.
“Being actively involved in youth sports in our community, I can personally appreciate the importance of this OTF grant and the impact it will have on kids’ recreation,” said MPP Jerry Ouellette. “I wish to congratulate the many outstanding coaches and volunteers from the Oshawa Legion Minor Baseball Association on your recent grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to upgrade Kinsmen Stadium and continue to promote and enhance baseball in Oshawa.”
The OTF grants was used to replace the backstop, renovate the buildings, extend fencing and provided a canopy over the dugouts. Funding also supported OLMBA to purchase pitching machines for the Rookie Ball division to support and improve training for local youth. “This grant will enhance the game of baseball in Oshawa,” said Ryan McBride, President, OLMBA. “We are thankful for the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s commitment to promoting a physical activity in Ontario.”
Established in 1949, the Oshawa Legion Minor Baseball Association provides a house league and Rep baseball program for children ranging from ages 4 to 18. The pitching machines for the Rookie ball teams have enhanced the quality of the game and improved the player’s skill development. The OLMBA is volunteer-led and has been successful in increasing the number of registrations for the 2010 season.
A leading grantmaker in Canada, the Ontario Trillium Foundation strengthens the capacity of the voluntary sector through investments in community-based initiatives. An agency of the Government of Ontario, OTF builds healthy and vibrant communities.
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Committee 1948 1949
C. Arthur Perry 1965 1967
Ted McComb 1965 1967
James E. Lutton 1968 1974
Tom Sellers 1975 1976
Douglas J. Finney 1977 1978
Gordon Johnson 1979 1980
David V. Whiteley 1981 1981
Bryan Wilson 1982 1983
Michael Lisko 1984 1984
Eric Wesslby 1985 1986
Mark Orton 1994 1996
Jim Hutchinson 1997 2000
Troy May 2001 2004
Randall C. Meredith 2005 2005
Troy May * / Dave Sheridan 2006 2006
Dave Sheridan 2006 2007
Ed Quinlan 2007 2008
Ryan McBride 2009 2012
*OLMBA President Troy May passed away on July 19, 2006 from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on Sunday, July 16, 2006. Vice-President of Rep Baseball Dave Sheridan assumed the duties of President as per the OLMBA constitution. As per the constitution Dave remained in control until elections for officers was held at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in October of 2006.
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Port Alberni proposes 5.1 percent tax increase for 2020
Capital projects include community safety building, welcome sign
Elena Rardon
The City of Port Alberni’s draft budget for the next five years includes an estimated 5.1 percent tax increase in 2020.
City CAO Tim Pley and deputy director of finance Rosalyn Macauley presented the draft financial plan for 2020-2024 to council on Monday, Nov. 25. Pley explained that city staff used the 2019-2023 budget and the city’s new strategic plan as a starting point when putting together the budget for the next five years.
The draft includes a few major capital projects, including a community safety building, beautification of the upper Third Avenue streetscape and a new Port Alberni welcome sign.
READ MORE: Port Alberni city council reveals 2019-2023 strategic plan
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It also estimates that the property tax increase to the average assessed value single family residence will be 5.1 percent for the year 2020.
In addition, the draft budget also includes an increase in four city staff positions. The city proposes hiring staff for two new positions next year, while two other positions would be increased from part-time to full-time.
“If we’re going to continue to provide all the services we provide, and we’re also going to add in strategic initiative work, we’re going to have to put in more money in the budget and we’re going to need more staff resources,” City CAO Tim Pley explained on Monday. “We believe that those are critical to being able to complete those tasks.”
Mayor Sharie Minions thanked city staff on Monday for preparing the draft budget so early.
“I think this is a great start for a lot of information for us to review,” she said.
Consolidated 2020-2024 Draft Budget by Elena Rardon on Scribd
Departmental presentations will take place at city hall on Dec. 3, 4 and 5 from 6-9 p.m. First reading for the budget will take place on Jan. 13, 2020, and there will be an opportunity for public engagement starting Jan. 14, 2020. The deadline for the five-year financial plan bylaw adoption is scheduled for May 15, 2020.
The full draft budget is available to view on the city’s website.
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High Tech in a Small Package: HEIDENHAIN’s newest exposed linear encoder LIP 6000
HEIDENHAIN’s new LIP 6000 miniature linear encoder system, consisting of a scanning unit and glass scale, has the unusual capability to measure to 2 nm resolution with high speed of 4m/sec at long lengths of scale.
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HEIDENHAIN’s new LIP 6000 miniature linear encoder system, consisting of a scanning unit and glass scale, has the unusual capability to measure to 2 nm resolution with high speed of 4m/sec at long lengths of scale. This encoder was developed with large mounting tolerances, small interpolation error and low noise levels, thereby making the encoder useful in machine feedback applications where very constant speed control is needed or high position stability at standstill is important. Industries that could take advantage of this encoder are semiconductor manufacturing, metrology, and micromachining.
The LIP 6000 scanning unit contains the HSP (HEIDENHAIN Signal Processor) 1.0 ASIC which overcomes contamination on the glass without the loss of accuracy by amplifying the LED light source instead of amplifying the electrical signals which leads to noisy outputs. HSP 1.0 gives the ability to have a position stability of +/- 1 nanometer RMS and a very small interpolation error of just +/- 3 nanometers. The encoders system also comes with a homing track and user-mounted optical limits for end of travel markers.
At just 5 grams of weight without the cable, and dimensions of 26mm x 12.7mm x 6.8mm, the LIP 6000 works well in small spaces. Its scanning head comes with 1 Volt peak to peak or TTL interfaces, with other serial interfaces planned for later in the year.
The glass scale is adhered to the machine via clamps or an adhesive and comes in normal float glass or ZERODUR. The scales will come with +/- 3 micron and +/- 1 micron accuracies, with lengths up to 3040mm. The baseline error for these scales is +/- 0.175 microns/5mm.
HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION is the North American subsidiary of DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH, a leading international manufacturer of precision measurement and control equipment. The product line includes linear scales, rotary and angular encoders, digital readouts, length gauges, CNC controls, and machine inspection equipment.
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Jessica Eye fight stats
MMA 1 Submission
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First Name Jessica
Last Name Eye
Nickname/s Evil
Birth Name Jessica Eye
Date of Birth July 27, 1986
Born Parma, Ohio, United States
Residence Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Nationality American
Reach 67in
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Jessica Eye fight history
Valentina Shevchenko KO (Head Kick) MMA† 06/08/19 UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes, United Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States
0:26 R2 / 5×5 Pro UFC Flyweight title challenge • 125 lbs • Co-Main Event • Weigh-In 125.0 lbs (56.7 kgs)
Katlyn Chookagian Split Decision MMA 12/08/18 UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Flyweight • 125 lbs • Preliminary Card • Weigh-In 126.0 lbs (57.2 kgs)
Jessy Jess Unanimous Decision MMA 06/23/18 UFC Fight Night 132: Cowboy vs. Edwards, Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore
Kalindra Faria Slit Decision MMA 01/14/17 UFC Fight Night 124: Stephens vs. Choi, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Flyweight • 125lbs • Preliminary Card • Weigh-In: 126.0 lbs (57.2 kgs)
Miesha Tate Overtime (Fastest Escape) BJJ 12/11/16 Submission Underground II, Portland, Oregon, United States
……… ………………….. Pro No Gi • Submission Only rules • Co-Main Event
Bethe Correia Split Decision MMA 09/10/16 UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem, Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Bantamweight • 135lbs • Preliminary Card • Weigh-In: 135.0 lbs (61.2 kgs)
Sara McMann Unanimous Decision MMA 05/29/16 UFC Fight Night 88: Almeida vs. Garbrandt, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Julianna Pena Unanimous Decision MMA 10/03/15 UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson, Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Bantamweight • 135lbs • Main Card • Weigh-In: 136.0 lbs (61.7 kgs)
Miesha Tate Unanimous Decision MMA 07/25/15 UFC on FOX 16: Dillashaw vs Barao 2, United Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Bantamweight • 135lbs • Co-Main Event • Weigh-In: 136.0 lbs (61.7 kgs)
Leslie Smith TKO (Doctor Stoppage) MMA 11/15/14 UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt, Arena Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
1:30 R2 / 3×5 Pro Bantamweight • 135lbs • Prelim Card • Weigh-In: 134.0 lbs (60.8 kgs)
Alexis Davis Split Decision MMA 02/22/14 UFC 170: Rousey vs McMann, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Sarah Kaufman No Contest MMA 10/19/13 UFC 166: Valasquez vs dos Santos 3, Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Bantamweight • 135 lbs • Originally a win for Eye but tested positive for marijuana
Carina Damm Unanimous Decision MMA 06/01/13 NAAFS: Fight Night in the Flats 9, Nautica Pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Flyweight • 125lbs • Main Event • Weigh-In: 129.5 lbs (58.7 kgs)
Zoila Frausto Gurgel Arm-Triangle Choke MMA 12/07/12 Bellator Fighting Championships 83, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
0:58 R1 / 3×5 Pro Flyweight • 125lbs • Main Card • Weigh-In: 124.5 lbs (56.5 kgs)
Angela Magana Unanimous Decision MMA 08/17/12 NAAFS: Rock N Rumble 6, Nautica Pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Anita Rodriguez Unanimous Decision MMA 04/20/12 Bellator Fighting Championships 66, I-X Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Catchweight • 131lbs • Prelim Card • Weigh-In: 130.0 lbs (59.0 kgs)
Kelly Warren Unanimous Decision MMA 02/18/12 NAAFS: Caged Vengeance 10, Gray’s Armory, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Flyweight • 125lbs • Main Card
Jennifer Scott Unanimous Decision MMA 11/23/11 NAAFS: Night of Champions 2011, Canton, Ohio, United States
Casey Noland Split Decision MMA 09/24/11 Bellator Fighting Championships 51, Canton, Ohio, United States
Aisling Daly Rear-Naked Choke MMA† 06/04/11 NAAFS: Fight Night in the Flats 7
4:00 R2 / 5×5 Pro NAAFS Flyweight title
Ashley Nee TKO (Punches) MMA† 02/04/11 ROC 34: Ring of Combat 34, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
4:34 R1 / 3×5 Pro vacant Ring of Combat Bantamweight title • Main Card • Weigh-In: 130.0 lbs (59.0 kgs)
Marissa Caldwell Unanimous Decision MMA 09/18/10 NAAFS: Eve of Destruction 1, Akron, Ohio, United States
Amanda LaVoy TKO (Elbows) MMA 06/05/10 NAAFS: Fight Night in the Flats 6, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Marie Colangelo Unanimous Decision MMA† 12/05/09 NAAFS: Night of Champions 2009, Akron, Ohio, United States
3:00 R3 / 3×3 Amateur NAAFS title
Marcia May Guillotine Choke MMA 10/09/09 NAAFS: Caged Fury 7, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
1:29 R1 / 3×3 Amateur ……………………………………………………………………………………..
Amy Kurrelmeyer TKO (Punches) MMA 06/06/09 NAAFS: Fight Night in the Flats 5, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Barb Honchak Split Decision MMA 12/06/08 NAAFS: Night of Champions 2008, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Kari Ricker TKO (Punches) MMA 06/07/08 NAAFS: Fight Night in the Flats 4, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Jessica Eye’s Bio
Jessica Eye is a female fighter from Parma, Ohio, United States.
She is also a personal trainer at Strong Style MMA and Fitness Center.
She is currently signed with the UFC.
MMA Titles
2011 - Ring of Combat Bantamweight Champion
2009 - NAAFS Amateur Champion
2012 - WMMA Press Awards | Flyweight of the Year
2012 - WMMA Press Awards | Submission of the Year (Bellator 83: vs Zoila Gurgel)
Boxing Titles
Ohio Boxing Association Amateur Champion
Strong Style Fight Team Gym / Affiliations
- Trainer / Instructor / Coach
Other Social Network Links
Facebook: Jessica Eye Personal Page
Jessica Eye from UFC Facebook
Jessica Eye from www.jessicaevileye.com
Sara McMann vs Jessica Eye May 28th 2016
Miesha Tate vs Jessica Eye July 24th 2015 from UFC Facebook
Jessica Eye vs Julianna Pena UFC 192 October 2nd 2015
Jessica Eye vs Leslie Smith at UFC180 15-11-14 by MMAJunkie
Alexis Davis vs Jessica Eye 22-02-14 UFC 170
Sarah Kaufman vs Jessica Eye 19-10-13 UFC 166
Jessica Eye vs Carina Damm 01-06-13 NAAFS Fight Night in the Flats 9
Jessica Eye vs Zoila Gurgel 07-12-12 Bellator 83
Jessica Eye vs Anita Rodriguez 20-04-12 Bellator 66 by Ryan Heckert
Jessica Eye Tapology Profile
Jessica Eye Sherdog Profile
Jessica Eye UFC Profile
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Bringing benefits to the forefront of state legislation
By Cort Olsen
August 16, 2017, 6:08 p.m. EDT
While the federal government remains fixated on the future of the Affordable Care Act, one broker in Mississippi is bringing the average employee’s benefit pain points to the attention of state leaders with the intention they’ll act sooner to improve the healthcare experience.
Pamela Anne Files, senior vice president of Fisher Brown Bottrell Insurance, has served on the Governor’s Health Exchange Committee as well as the Mississippi Department of Insurance to keep the local government in the loop on the scope and placement of benefits for the common worker.
“[Files] has served the industry with passion and put forth the effort to bring benefits to the forefront of discussions with the legislature and the public,” says Angela White, account executive at Bottrell Insurance.
For her leadership role in advancing improving healthcare and insurance at the government level, EBA chose Files as one of our 2017 Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising.
To select this year’s honorees, EBA editors asked readers to submit the names of thought leaders who are making their mark on the benefit business through their unique approaches to client relations, benefits technology and/or mentoring other women. From the dozens of submissions received, the editors chose 30 benefit advisers to recognize for their outstanding achievements.
On top of being a driver for benefit legislation on the state level, Files is considered to be a strong role model for female benefit advisers whose voices may not receive the same amount of value as their male counterparts.
“Her being a leader in this field has opened up opportunities for other women,” White says. “It has also allowed employers the satisfaction of being proud about their investment in their employees. The difficulty exists in the arena of core competency and ability for a knowledgeable and respected female.”
Also see: “7 up-and-coming trends in HR tech.”
Mark Miranda, director of employee benefits at Fisher Brown Bottrell Insurance, has worked alongside Files for years and says she is one of the reasons he came to Fisher Brown Bottrell in the first place.
“Though I have only been working for the agency for a year, I have worked with Fisher Brown Bottrell and Pam for the past 18 years on the carrier side,” Miranda says. “Pam has always been a true professional and friend in the industry.”
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Files has been instrumental in helping educate other woman within the firm. White says Files personally helped her in the employee benefits field with learning all facets of the product portfolio. “She is always working to help coworkers and other producers share best practices,” White says. “Her leadership in the Health Underwriters Association has allowed other women to strive to be on the board or work through the leadership chairs to become president and gain the most coveted position of Past President.”
Miranda adds that one of Files’ passions is to work on difficult cases and turn them into successes. “She differentiates herself in the industry by selling solutions, her experienced team and stay out front of educating her clients on new technology and analytics,” he says. “Keeping clients happy and informed has allowed her to have high persistency of clients.”
One of the best practices Files has managed to set in motion is the affordability of well-rounded benefit packages for lower income workers. “Workers have a feeling that they and their family members are covered for insurance and do not feel they have been taken advantage of financially,” White says. “Employers are satisfied with knowing there is no high pressure sales tactics in their workplace.”
Miranda says Files is a leader, a creative thinker and a committed insurance professional. “We at Fisher Brown Bottrell are proud of Pam’s accomplishments and her commitment to the industry we serve,” he says.
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New brews: Whatever your craving, there’s a Fox River Valley craft beer to satisfy
By Diane Krieger Spivak - bestofthefox@shawmedia.com Nov. 7, 2019
The art of brewing beer has been around for literally thousands of years. Thesimple, five-step process uses four main ingredients: hops, water, malted barley and yeast. It’s the combinations of those ingredients and additives, devised through the creativity of craft brewers, that give craft beers their unique flavors.
Nowhere is that more evident than in our communitites of the Fox River Valley, where independent brewers are popping up with taprooms and tasting shops up and down the Fox.
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[Owner Ed Seaman (left) and his son, Mike Seaman, manager, at the Broken Brix tasting room, located inside the Home Brew Shop at 225 W. Main St. in downtown St. Charles.]
It’s worth noting that more than a few of these brewers got there start from Ed Seaman at the Home Brew Shop in St Charles. Once an engineer with an established tech career, he followed his dream of brewing his own beer and never looked back. He’s been operating Home Brew shop since 1990, brewing craft beer, making wine and cider, and perhaps most importantly, teaching classes of aspiring beermakers the craft. It could be said that Ed helped mold the craft beer cuture in the Fox River Valley, and for that we thank him. Visit his shop and bar, Broken Brix, at 225 W. Main Street in St. Charles.
But here in Best of the Fox magazine, we’re showcasing a few of the newest craft breweries, established in 2018 or 2019, where you can kick back and enjoy a cold one right here in the Fox Valley area:
D&G Brewing
Former criminal justice professors Alex Drayer and Brittany Groot made their way back to Groots’ roots in the Fox Valley from their teaching gigs in Colorado when one of their contracts expired. Drayer told his wife he wanted to start a brewery, so last year they opened D&G Brewing in St. Charles.
“We just hired our first employee,” says Groot. The couple started home brewing 8 years ago. “We had just bought our house in Colorado and hit up a local brewery where a table of homebrewers behind us told us about each of the five or so different beers we were trying.” The couple joined their home brew club and the rest is history.
D&G Brewing has 12 beers on tap, including 11 unique varieties. “Most who walk into our brewery aren’t craft brew nerds, geeks or snobs. We’re traditionalists and big fans of making the cleanest, best version of style you’re having,” says Groot. “We don’t add a lot of strange things. We like to offer a wide variety of beers and always trying to perfect a recipe. We’re just trying to be your friendly neighborhood brewery.
As with most of the breweries listed here, D&G offers its customers the options of bringing in or ordering in their own food, or buying from food trucks.
D&G Brewing, 303 N 4th St Suite A, St. Charles (773) 203-2325 http://dandgbrewing.com/
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[A choice of beer flights is a great introduction to the offerings of BBGB Brewery & Hop Farm.]
Although it opened in 2016, we include Hardware,an “avant garde sustainable gastropub and brewery,” because the brewery section of the establishment was basically reinvented in 2018 with a new brewmaster, Bob Salzman, former assistant brewer at Crystal Lake Brewery. Hardware has its own onsite greenhouse and organic hop farm.
“We have 7 year-round beers that run the gamut from cream ale, pale ale (Earl the Pearl is our flagship), porter, stout, Saison, and a couple extra tap handles for different other styles, says Salzman. Try their New England IPA, Belgian Dubbel and Imperial Stout. Salzman switches out new ones around every month,and keeps tabs on what customers want.
“A lot of breweries are doing fruit and milkshake beers. I don’t do that. I’m more traditional,” says the certified beer judge. “I learned the hundreds of years of old high-quality style beers.” Hardware 2000 W Orchard Rd North Aurora (630) 299-3977http://eathardware.com/
Holzlager Brewing Company
Holzlager is the newest craft brewery in this group, slated to open in September, 2019 in a renovated former Ace Hardware building in Woodstock.
Holzlager is the brainchild of friends Charles Moran, Mario Cortez and Travis Slepcevich, who met at their day jobs three years ago. Slepcevich, an electrical and automation engineer by day, was a home brewer.“Travis had just built a miniaturized version of a full-size brew house in his basement, and with his background in automation, quality control was evident to us from the very beginning,” says Moran, who co-owns the brewery with Cortez and Slepcevich, and serves as operations manager.
“Our plan is primarily based on selling beer out the back door to bars, restaurants and retail distribution. We also have a tap room onsite. Travis has a good library of recipes he’s honed in on during his 10 years home brewing.
Holzlager’s Trojan Unicorn is its flagship beer, but the brewery has four or five popular brews it keeps on tap. “We’ve got seasonal fare we do around different events. Says Moran. “We want to source as much as we can locally, including grains, hops and yeast. It’s important to us to give back to the community here in Woodstock and to get feedback from local consumers. We want to make the community feel they have a stake in the brewery, as well.”
Holzlager Brewing Company 150A S Eastwood Dr, Woodstock holzlagerbrewing.com
Oswego Brewing Company
Opened May, 2018, in Oswego – this spot is the result of yet another friendship. Chris Heinen and Marc Wilson have been home brewing for almost a decade. It was when Wilson started brewing professionally that the two decided to go for it. Heinen found investors and financing and Oswego Brewing took off. In fact, the brewery recently was awarded a bronze medal at the Illinois Beer Festival in Morris for its “Pickin’ Raspberries” beer.
“Oswego is a quaint little farming town but also in a growth area within the western suburbs of Chicago,” says Wilson, co-owner and head brewer. The brewery is located in a former fire station, in the walkout basement where fire trucks used to park. “It’s a great location. We look out on the river, so that makes it kind of fun,” says Wilson.”We’re not a large warehouse.” “Hay'z For Horsez IPA - New England has been a mainstay since we first opened our doors,” says Wilson. “We try to keep a couple beers year round - Hefeweizen, and Kolsch style beer. Many of the beer names are connected to the firehouse.”It’s a little charm we’re able to provide; not weird names people are embarrassed to ask for.”
Oswego Brewing Company 61 Main St, Oswego (331) 999-1991 https://oswegobrewing.com/
McHenry Brewing Company
It was a Vine to Wine class in college that set Bob Master on the road to craft beer, and a later Milwaukee brewery tourthat clinched it. “I said, ‘That’s what I want to do for the rest of my life’,” says Master, owner/brewer of McHenry Brewing Company, in McHenry, A home brewer for three years, and later assistant brewer for Chain O’ Lakes Brewing Company, Master bought the facility and renamed it. He started selling his craft beer June 30, 2018, and the beer’s still flowing.
“Right now we have New England IPA and a Tom Brady for football season,” says Master. McHenry Brewing carries “quite a few beers, depending on the seasons, and what I’m feeling. I do a lot of experimental stuff that I release on Fridays.”
“We’re more on the smaller size, but it’s nice — local and friendly,” says Master. “You meet nice people and get to chat.”
McHenry Brewing Company 3425 Pearl St, McHenry (815) 403-2212 https://www.mchenrybrewing.com/
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[An imperial stout is dubbed Secret Burrito.]
Riverlands Brewing Company
St. Charles-based Riverlands Brewing opened St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2019, after four college buddies caught the craft brewery bug several years ago at a barbecue.
“We’re getting beer out in stores, restaurants, bars and in kegs,” says co-owner and head brewer Eric Bramwell.“The community has been extremely receptive and supportive, and the Chicagoland area seems to be taking notice, which is pretty neat.”
Riverlands’ 2,500-square-foot tap room holds more than 100 people. “We have a gorgeous bar and barnwood walls, thanks to a woodworker friend,” says Bramwell.Besides making beer, Bramwel, a home brewer for 10 years, writes all the original recipes. “We do seasonal beers and rotate about 50 different recipes. We cycle through what people like.”
Favorites include a series called Acid Rainbow — a sour beer with a lot of fruit. Another fan favorite is Murky Waters IPA. “Every couple months we do an imperial stout release,” said Bramwell. “They’re amazing; like candy,” says co-owner Steve Marck. The tap room has 16 taps.
Riverlands Brewing Company : 1860 Dean St Unit A, St. Charles (630) 549-6293 https://www.riverlandsbrewing.com/
Sew Hop’d Brewery & Tap Room
Opened in Huntley at the end of April, it got its name from three of its owners who also own an industrial sewing machine manufacturing company. While on business in Germany, they learned about the beer industry, and utilized the home brewing skills of one of their colleagues. Located in a former Borden Milk plant, Sew Hop’d “brings a nice, laid-back vibe to the city,” says co-owner,brewer and lifelong resident Lance Lamb, who’s enjoying seeing his hometown revitalized. “We saved an old building and it looks pretty cool. We’re very family- and dog-friendly; there’s kids and dogs in the beer garden.”
“We’ve got a nice summer German-style lemon Hefeweizen, 4 IPAs, and a lot of flavored stouts like blueberry, s’mores, and vanilla, plus a guest tap, and gluten-free cider. We store all our finished beer in half barrels, which we serve out of,” says Lamb. “We feel we’re a local hometown option for people.”
Sew Hop'd Brewery and Taproom One Union Special Plaza Suite 113,Huntley (815) 701-8819https://www.sewhopd.com
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The Overview of AI in Drug Discovery in 2019: The “Proof-of-concept Year”
Oct. 2, 2019 by Andrii Buvailo 2697 Comments 0
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The race for adopting new machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and related technologies (for simplicity -- “artificial intelligence”/”AI”) keeps rapidly unfolding in the pharmaceutical industry, albeit with varying rate of progress across different use cases.
Let’s review retrospectively some of the key developments in the drug discovery area in 2019 and see how they characterize the current state of AI in the pharmaceutical industry (“hype vs reality”). Note, that I do not cover the healthcare sector in this post (diagnostics, medical applications of AI, digital health etc) -- those will be discussed in one of the future posts.
1. Notable Venture Rounds, New AI Startups
According to BPT Analytics report, the overall number of new AI-startups per year has been declining since 2017, with only 9 newcomers in 2018, and only one notable new AI startup focusing on drug discovery in 2019, so far -- Acorn AI, a “big data”-driven AI-company founded by Medidata to accelerate drug discovery via optimizing clinical trials.
The total amount of disclosed venture capital raised for AI-driven drug discovery startups in 2019 is around $0.5B so far, the number likely increasing by the end of the year.
Below is a summary of some of the most important venture rounds in the “AI for drug discovery space” in 2019:
BlackThorn Therapeutics
San Francisco based BlackThorn Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on developing first-in-class drugs for neurobehavioral disorders, closed a $76 million Series B financing from multiple investors. The money will be used to further advance its drug discovery research efforts, including the application of AI-driven cloud-based platform PathFinder™ to generate objective neuromarkers, which support drug target identification, and improving the success of its drug candidates in clinical trials.
Exscientia
This British drug discovery company focusing on an “end-to-end” drug candidate development using its AI-driven platform Centaur Chemist™ raised $26 million in round B in January, to scale up collaborations with big pharma, as well as build own portfolio of small molecules.
Insilico Medicine
The Hong Kong-based company Insilico Medicine, a developer of a comprehensive drug discovery and biomarker development platform GENTRL, and a pioneer in the application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to drug discovery use cases, raised a $37 million round B to commercialize its AI-driven “end-to-end” drug design platform GENTRL, and expand its business development team.
Insitro
Lead by a tech “star” Daphne Koller, Insitro is a San Francisco-based AI-driven company, focused on drug discovery, which raised its $100 million Series A round earlier this year from a number of high-profile investors. Not much is disclosed publicly about the company’s platform and research strategy, but from its recent research collaboration with Gilead it is known the company will focus on disease modeling and lead molecules discovery to potentially treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Notable Labs
Another San Francisco-based company Notable Labs, which is an AI-driven personalized testing service for predicting which types of cancer patients are most likely to respond to a drug, closed $40 million Series B round to scale up its capabilities and expand its platform globally.
Standigm
This South Korean drug discovery company focused on small molecule drug discovery using three of its proprietary AI-driven platforms -- Standigm BEST®, Standigm Insight®, and Standigm Expander® -- raised $11.5 million Series B funding round to advance its drug candidates pipeline toward license-out.
The Salt Lake City-based biotech company Recursion Pharmaceuticals, which uses automated, experimental biology with artificial intelligence to reveal new drug targets and develop drug candidates, raised $121 million in a Series C round to further develop its in-house pipeline of small molecules and the technology.
Read also: 194 Companies Offering AI Solutions For Drug Discovery and Development
2. Notable Research Collaborations
AI-startups with big pharma
While 2018 was a record year by the number of publicly announced research partnerships between big pharma and AI-driven startups to run pilot programs with new technologies (22), the year 2019 is characterized by a smaller number of “big pharma -- AI startup” deals so far (14).
Some of the most active AI-driven startups in deal-making with large pharma players in 2019 are Atomwise (on a deal-making spree, having partnered with Charles River Laboratories, Eli Lilly, Hansoh Pharma, and smaller players); BenevolentAI (partnered with AstraZeneca and Novartis); Exscientia (partnered with Roche and Celgene); and Iktos (partnered with Merck and Janssen).
Notably, the average deal valuations reported in 2019 are generally larger compared to the previous year, with a number of deals exceeding a billion dollars in potential milestone payments, as a recent Insitro deal with Gilead, worth up to $1.05B in milestone payments. Two of 2019 deals had “record-breaking” status in this area:
-- Atomwise and Hansoh Pharma (September 2019), reportedly, the “Largest China-US Collaboration for AI Drug Discovery”, potentially worth up to $1.5B;
-- Exscientia and Celgene, reported as “the largest deal in AI for drug discovery” by the time of the news communication in March 2019.
“Big pharma” with “big tech”
Big news just came out days ago about a large-scale five-year collaboration between Novartis and Microsoft aiming at bringing the latter’s advanced data analytics and AI capabilities to the far front of the drug maker’s ongoing research plans. Three main directions are in scope: personalized therapeutics for macular degeneration and irreversible blindness; cell and gene therapy manufacturing; and overall accelerating Novartis’ drug discovery and development processes.
It is notable that Microsoft earlier announced another AI collaboration with AstraZeneca to form AI Factory for Health -- an accelerating program for healthcare startups.
3. The “Proof-of-concept Year” for AI in Drug Discovery
It would take too long to list all the interesting announcements involving AI in drug discovery in 2019, but what is clear is that big pharma is now after AI, and the appetite of C-suite executives has grown dramatically since the last couple of years.
Let’s review several important developments that illustrate a sort of “technical” proof-of-concept for the AI in pharma research.
Deep Genomics revealed new drug target and a drug candidate ready for IND via AI
The company claims its AI-driven discovery platform AI Workbench, including more than 20 machine learning models, managed to identify a new genetic target for Wilson disease, and consequently -- a new oligonucleotide therapy DG12P1, which the company intends to advance into clinical studies within two years. The whole process took less than 18 months, compared to 3-6 years for a “traditional” case scenario.
Exscientia reaches a milestone in AI collaboration with GSK
Exscientia announced that it has managed to reach its first major milestone within its AI-drug discovery collaboration with GSK, which started in 2017. The AI company delivered a highly potent in vivo active lead molecule targeting a novel pathway for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The in vivo active molecules were discovered with 5 cycles and only 85 compounds tested.
Insilico Medicine validates its AI-drug discovery platform with in-vivo tests
A recent article in Nature Biotechnology “Deep learning enables rapid identification of potent DDR1 kinase inhibitors” published by Insilico Medicine made quite a noise in the pharmaceutical media space after the company managed to confirm in-vitro and in-vivo activity for some of the lead molecules, “imagined” from scratch by their AI-driven system GENTRL (Generative Tensorial Reinforcement Learning) -- in a matter of weeks. This is an important conceptual milestone for the progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in drug discovery -- a type of deep learning that Insilico has been pioneering in pharma since 2016 (a historic timeline is included in the referenced post).
Recursion Pharmaceuticals reaches a milestone in AI collaboration with Takeda
Recursion recently announced that it discovered a number of novel preclinical and clinical small molecules in over 60 unique indications, with new therapeutic candidates identified for over a half a dozen diseases -- within its AI-driven collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceuticals, started in 2017. This year Takeda has exercised its option for drug candidates in two rare diseases, and the companies extended collaboration. Clearly, the pharma giant is happy with what Recursion offered via its AI-driven effort.
4. Pharma Looks for New Collaboration Models to Fit AI
Deep learning technologies, the cornerstone of “AI-revolution”, require a lot of data that is not always available, or easily accessible in the pharmaceutical industry for the AI-developers to properly train their systems.
Another problem is intrinsic biases in the available data -- all because the scope of data sources is often limited, meaning all available data might have a limited representation of features, not reflecting the true nature of what is modeled. There is an insightful article illustrating this issue on the example of hidden biases in a well-known DUD-E dataset, widely used for training convolutional neural networks: DUD-E, Where’s My Accuracy?
Generally, data availability in drug discovery is a very different situation from what we see in more “classical” applications for AI -- natural language processing and image recognition, where data is much more abundant and diverse (millions of text samples in many languages; millions of images with diverse contents etc). So the impressive progress of AI in those areas is not necessarily possible as quickly and comprehensively in the pharmaceutical industry.
One important step to tackle data availability and data bias in pharma have been undertaken in 2019 by a group of pharmaceutical companies and research institutions with a project MELLODDY (Machine Learning Ledger Orchestration for Drug Discovery), which uses such advanced technologies as blockchain and federated learning. Conceptually, the project will allow training machine learning models on numerous private datasets owned by various companies, without compromising their intellectual property, or confidentiality of sensitive data -- here is a more in-depth explanation of how it works.
It is now hard to say how far MELLODDY project will go, but the concept is powerful and I am sure it will be chased by numerous other life science organizations. Undoubtedly, being able to use everyone’s research data (currently hidden under companies’ firewalls) for the common benefit of training AI models will be a game-changing step towards AI-driven transformation of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Corsair Obsidian Series 500D Review
February 22, 2018 | 14:00
Tags: #atx #brushed-aluminium #case #chassis #corsair #mid-tower #tempered-glass
1 - Corsair Obsidian Series 500D Review 2 - Interior 3 - Test Setup and Cooling Performance 4 - Performance Analysis and Conclusion
The dual SP120 fans deliver acceptable cooling results, but they’re far from chart-topping. On the CPU side, cases with 140mm exhausts tend to fare better, and we suspect that the roof ventilation could be improved a little. Meanwhile, the intake fan is positioned quite far away from the GPU just because of the sheer depth of the case, which will make its airflow less effective. Even so, there’s nothing to suggest that your hardware will be at risk of overheating assuming you use sensible coolers.
The 500D is a welcome return for Corsair to more premium cases, and it feels like a worthy addition to the much-loved Obsidian Series. The combination of brushed aluminium and tempered glass is hardly revolutionary, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work very well, and we like what Corsair has done with the curves and especially the handles on the side panels. The build quality is definitely one the 500D’s strongest points, and perhaps more so in the wake of less appealing Carbide Series cases of late.
Inside, Corsair has adopted a number of currently popular trends and merged them into a largely successful design. The PSU shroud, potential for vertical GPU mounting, and full-length motherboard tray are again nothing new, but the execution is still great for the most part. Add to that nifty touches like USB Type-C (finally), integrated pump/reservoir mounts, and removable fan/radiator brackets, and you have a very well-rounded premium mid-tower chassis. If we had to level some criticisms at it, we’d say that a few extra fans would be appreciated, that a modular hard drive system might be beneficial to some users, and that the cable management system could do with a few minor tweaks to be even better, but all of that is deliberate nitpicking. You might also accurately say that there’s not a lot of innovation here, but the 500D is not a copycat case and still stands out for good reasons.
US pricing is currently more favourable than UK pricing, but even so this is a chassis that’s well deserving of our top award.
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As the U.S. and its allies debate how to respond to the military and economic threats posed by China, they must not ignore the Chinese Communist Party’s “shredding of human rights and religious freedom,” Russell Moore wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sunday.
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Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, told Breitbart News Saturday the media continue to “bypass” former Vice President Joe Biden’s scandals to focus on Trump.
21 Sep 2019, 12:37 PM PST
WSJ: Lenders Are Using Grades, Magazine Subscriptions to Decide on Loans
Financial institutions used to rely primarily on credit scores when giving out loans. Now they are considering unconventional criteria like whether applicants shop at discount stores, subscribe to magazines or pay their phone bills on time, according to a new report.
NLRB: Google Must Let Employees Speak Out on Political, Workplace Issues
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered Google to allow its employees to speak their minds on political and workplace issue, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Watch Live: State Attorneys General Announce Big Tech Antitrust Investigation
State attorneys general will launch one of the largest bipartisan, multi-state antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google on Monday.
State Attorneys General to Launch Big Tech Antitrust Investigation Monday
EPA, DOT: California Gas Mileage Agreement May Break the Law
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) sent a letter to the California Air Resources Board, noting that their agreement with four automakers to have them adhere to stricter national emissions standards may violate the law.
6 Sep 2019, 12:15 PM PST
WSJ: Racists Do Not Fight Abortion, They Promote It
Pro-life Americans believe in the inherent dignity and right to life of every human, regardless of race or ethnicity, declares a hard-hitting essay in the Wall Street Journal Monday.
Poll: 70 Percent of U.S. Angry at Political Establishment
The overwhelming majority of Americans said they remain angry at the political establishment, according to a poll released Sunday.
Report: Attorneys General Probe of Big Tech Could Launch in September
State attorneys general could launch an antitrust investigation into America’s largest technology companies as soon as next month, according to a report released Monday.
Watch–Peter Navarro: ‘Wall Street Journal Never Saw an American Job It Didn’t Want to Offshore’
President Trump’s chief trade adviser Peter Navarro hit back at the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, saying they “never saw an American job” they “didn’t want to offshore.”
Donald Trump Rips Wall Street Journal: ‘They Understand Nothing About Trade or Business’
“The Wall Street Journal editorial board and some others continue to publish foolish articles that demonstrate that they understand nothing about trade or business,” Trump said. “Nothing.”
Wall Street Journal’s Freeman: ‘The Impeachment Dream Is Dead’
James Freeman says the hearings into the Russia conspiracy investigation have led to the reality that “the impeachment dream is dead.”
Report: FTC Fines Facebook $5 Billion for Privacy Violations
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly approved Friday a $5 billion settlement with Facebook following the social media giants’ handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This serves as the largest fine the FTC has given out for privacy violations; however, politicians and activists have said that this fine serves as a “bargain” for Facebook.
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Dubbed the "Salmon Capital of the World," sport fishing is king in Campbell River. This civic gateway to northern Vancouver Island has for nearly a century enjoyed a sterling reputation among anglers from all corners of the globe. They continue to trek here in pursuit of peace, serenity, breathtaking scenery, and the promise of reeling in all five species of Pacific salmon.
The third largest city on the island, with a population of 32,000, and the urban service centre and hub community for approximately 60,000 people living and working in the region. Campbell River is a coastal city in British Columbia on the east coast of Vancouver Island at the south end of Discovery Passage, which lies along the important coastal Inside Passage shipping route. Campbell River and Region is in close proximity to the neighboring communities of Quadra and the Discovery Islands, Sayward, Oyster River, Gold River, Tahsis and Zeballos.
Natural beauty and community amenities here offer an unparalleled lifestyle that gives residents, businesses and visitors room to grow and space to breathe. From eco-adventures and internationally renowned salmon fishing to skiing at Mount Washington, safe streets to cultural treasures, fine dining to golfing, boutique shopping to advanced educational opportunities, community festivals to parks and trails for all ages and abilities, Campbell River has it all! As the thriving central hub of the northern Vancouver Island and central coast region, Campbell River is a city with friendly small-town character. Which makes us a natural home for companies looking for a highly accessible location, abundant natural resources and first-class transportation and communications networks. Add a skilled labour force and a talented pool of experienced managers, and this is one of the most advantageous environments in the Pacific Northwest.
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Tom Lockyer Selected for Wales Squad
The Rovers captain has been selected by Wales Manager Ryan Giggs for international fixtures against both Trinidad and Tobago and Slovakia.
The defender was part of Giggs' thirty-two man squad announced this morning.
The Wales senior side play host to Trinidad and Tobago in an international friendly at Wrexham on Wednesday, 20th March, before starting their quest for qualification for EURO 2020 against Slovakia in Cardiff on Sunday, 24th March.
Lockyer has made five senior appearances for Wales - making his first start for his country against Albania in November.
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Fates & Fortunes
By Melanie M. Clarke
What's your fate?
Send it to Melanie M. Clarke, editorial assistant, Broadcasting & Cable (e-mail: meclarke@reedbusiness.com; fax: 646-746-7028; mail: 360 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10010).
Dianne Doctor, VP/news director, WCBS New York, promoted to senior VP/news director.
At KGO San Francisco: Daniel L. Mathers, broadcast maintenance engineer, CNN, New York, named engineering management supervisor; David Fortin, broadcast maintenance engineer, C-NET, San Francisco, named engineering management supervisor; Stephanie A. Nuzzo, news producer, KTVK Phoenix, named morning news producer.
Kevin Dorsey, local sales manager, KCNC Denver, promoted to director, sales.
LaBron Harris,
sales associate, Home Depot, Livonia, Mich., joins WWJ/WKBD Detroit as retail sales account executive.
Jeff Schroeder, commercial production manager, WKEF/WRGT Dayton, Ohio, named account executive, WBDT Dayton.
Sandra Colony, VP, communications, Time Warner Cable/ Mystro TV, New York, appointed senior VP, Insight Communications, New York.
Kim Cannon, VP, marketing and sales, Time Warner Cable, Western Ohio division, Kettering, Ohio, named VP/general manager, Time Warner Cable, southwest division, Corpus Christi, Texas.
At Comcast Cable, Philadelphia: Derek Harrar, co-founder/VP, business development, MegaSense, Sunnyvale, Calif., named VP, business development; Alexandra Soumbeniotis, national manager, alternative sales channels, promoted to national director, partnership sales.
At Oxygen Media, New York: Lisa Gersh Hall, COO, named president; Daniel Taitz, general counsel, named chief administrative officer.
Eric Sherman, VP/general manager, VH1 Classic/VP, MTV/VH1 Digital Television, New York, named senior VP/general manager, VH1 Classic/VH1 Digital Television.
RAUL DE QUESADA, VP, Fox Sports International, Los Angeles, promoted to senior VP and assistant general manager.
Eddie Hill, director of marketing, Nickelodeon, New York, promoted to VP, marketing.
At Food Network, New York: Lynn Brindell, marketing consultant, AOL Time Warner, New York, named senior VP, marketing; Susie Fogelson, director, consumer marketing, promoted to VP.
At TV Guide Channel/TV Guide Interactive, Los Angeles: Margot Davis, director, marketing, ABC Family Channel, Los Angeles, named VP, marketing and promotions; Todd McNulty, VP, on-air promotion, ABC Family, Los Angeles, named VP, on air promotions; Melissa Van Meter, director, ad media, ABC Family, Los Angeles, named VP, marketing and advertising.
At The Inspiration Networks, Charlotte, N.C.: Jim Dickson, director, national accounts, promoted to VP, national accounts, affiliate relations; Farley Lafferty, president/founder, Fort Services, San Diego, joins as director, print and new media production.
Cynthia Weiss, director, marketing, Comcast SportsNet, Philadelphia, promoted to VP, marketing.
Kate Snow, White House correspondent, Good Morning America, ABC, Washington, named co-anchor, Good Morning America, weekend edition, New York.
Gigi Stone, correspondent, WABC/Newsweek, New York, named anchor/correspondent, ABC News Live, New York.
Rick Sanchez, anchor, WTVJ Miami/interim anchor, WBZL Miami, joins CNN, Atlanta as an anchor.
Chris Wragge, sports anchor, KPRC Houston, joins WCBS New York in the same capacity.
John Huck, sole weekend anchor, KVVU Henderson, Nev., named co-anchor, News at Ten.
Harve Alan, senior VP, programming, Clear Channel Radio, named director, programming, ABC Radio Networks, New York.
At Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, Minn.: Susan Edberg, VP, marketing, promoted to senior VP, marketing and national distribution.
At American Public Media: Valerie Arganbright, on-air fundraising and promotion manager, Public Radio International, Minneapolis, named senior director, on-air fundraising and content services, Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media, St. Paul; Bill Radke, creator/writer/ host, Rewind, KUOW FM Seattle, named co-host/senior editor, Public Radio Weekend, American Public Media, Los Angeles.
Dianne Harms, director, development, KCCK Cedar Rapids, Iowa, appointed director, membership services, WFUV New York.
Advertising/Marketing/PR
Michele Krumper, VP, management supervisor, MediaCom U.S., New York, to senior VP, management supervisor.
Michael Morovich, account executive, Petry Television Inc., New York, named sales manager.
Appointed VP, sales, at Ascent Media Network Services, New York: Lisa Roberts, VP, sales, Triumph Communications, New York; William Jarr, senior account director, broadcast services, PanAmSat, New York.
Richard Crawford, VP, strategic business unit, CSG Systems, Englewood, Colo., named VP, sales, cable and broadband operations software practice, Telution Inc., Denver.
Joe Fiscina, consultant, CNN, Time Warner center project, New York, joins A.F. Associates, Northvale, N.J., as VP, special projects.
Ramin Farassat, director, marketing/broadcast technologies architect, SkyStream Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., appointed director, product marketing, RGB Networks, San Mateo, Calif.
Alex Irwin, senior developer, CAF International, Miami, named network administrator, VayaIP, Boca Raton, Fla.
Allied Fields
Barbara A. Gehrig, regional senior VP, Comcast, Maryland/Delaware region, Baltimore, named chairperson, Cable Telecommunications Association of Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, Annapolis, Md.
Leslie Park, corporate legal counsel, Atari Inc., New York, promoted to VP, legal and business affairs, Crown Media Holdings, Los Angeles.
Retired Boston University communications professor MURRAY R. YAEGER, PhD, died of cancer June 13 at his home in Kennebunkport, Maine. He was 75.
Among his former students are senior executives, directors, writers and producers at CBS, HBO and ABC and on feature films and documentaries.
Earning a doctorate at the State University of Iowa, Yaeger wrote as his dissertation an analysis of Edward R. Murrow's See It Now on CBS. The research provided him unique access to Murrow in conferences and editing sessions.
He is survived by a brother, Lanny Yaeger.
THEODORA ZAVIN, copyright attorney and president emeritus of The BMI Foundation Inc., died June 21 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. She was 82.
She is survived by sons Jonathan and Joshua and three grandchildren.
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Balfour Beatty strong after six months of acquisitions
By Dan Stewart, Dan Stewart Dan Stewart2008-07-02T09:00:00+01:00
Construction and engineering group releases confident trading update following £320m buying spree
Balfour Beatty has released a confident trading update, saying business remains strong after a six-month acquisition spree worth £320m.
The group said progress in the construction sector had been “particularly strong”, and it had seen “very good progress” in its engineering sector.
In spite of big contract wins such as the M25 widening and maintenance project, Balfour Beatty’s order book increased by only £400m, to £11.8bn – however, this does not take into account the order books of its 2008 acquisitions.
Since January, Balfour Beatty has made five major acquisitions, including the purchase of Dean & Dyball in March for £45m and Blackpool Airport in May for £14m.
The company also made two acquisitions in the US, GMH Military Housing for $350m (£175m) and Barnhart for $116m (£58m), and one in Germany, rail engineering group Schreck-Mieves for €36m (£28m). In total, the acquisition spend is £320m.
The company said: “We anticipate that order intake and trading performance will remain strong throughout the year and that we will make good progress in 2008.”
Balfour Beatty will announce its interim results on 13 August.
Balfour Beatty ties up £103m US military housing project
UK contractor will design, construct and renovate accommodation at historic West Point
Balfour Beatty wins £200m US military housing contract
Seven-year contract marks start of longer-term PPP deal to provide homes on three US air base
Balfour Beatty scores Wembley win
Balfour Beatty has won a £250m deal to build the next phase in Quintain’s regeneration of Wembley.
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9 Political Beliefs Of Soon-To-Be Head Economic Advisor Alan Krueger
Linette Lopez
Alan Krueger
flickr: Center for American Progress
Yesterday, President Obama announced that he selected Alan Krueger to replace his head economic advisor Austan Goolsbee. Krueger will still need to be confirmed to the Senate, but that is mostly a formality. He will be Obama's number one thinker on the economy.
So what does he think?
The Wall Street Journal broke the story of Krueger's selection, and they wrote that he was "likely to provide a voice inside the administration for more-aggressive government action to bring down unemployment and, particularly, to address long-term joblessness."
We should hope so. But that's only one part of what this administration's head economic advisor will be thinking about, and Krueguer, a prolific writer and Cornell/Harvard graduate, has done quite a lot of thinking. You will note that it is driven, mostly, by statistical research.
Aggressive foreign policy to fight terrorism.
Krueger may be less keen to hack away at counter-terrorism spending. In his 2007 book, What Makes a Terrorist, he argued that terrorists are not motivated by poverty and deprivation. Instead, he says, terrorism is a political statement that requires intelligent individuals to carry out complex schemes.
The evidence suggests that terrorists care about influencing political outcomes...To understand who joins terrorist organizations, instead of asking who has a low salary and few opportunities, we should ask: Who holds strong political views and is confident enough to try to impose an extremeist vision by violent means? Most terrorists are not so desperately poor that they have nothing to live for. Instead, they are people who care so fervently about a cause that they are willing to die for it.
The unemployed/unemployment doesn't always act like we think it does.
Darth Dragon via flickr
In 2011 Krueger and Andreas Muller (of Stockholm University) conducted a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers and this is what they found:
The longer a worker is unemployed, the less time they devote to searching for a job.
The unemployed are picky about the jobs they take, and do not want to paid less than they were paid previously.
In a Bloomberg column 2011, he points out the unemployment decreased rapidly because people stopped looking for jobs, not because they'd found them.
Source: The Washington Post
We should spend more on educating low-income Americans.
A derelict school building in West Virginia.
Mike Vadala / Flickr
Krueger edited Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies in 2004 where he argued that “the real rate of return from investment in various education and training programs for the disadvantaged is six to 11 percent”. Because low-income families tend to use a higher discount rate when making educational decisions, credit constraint is their largest barrier to achieving educational equality.
Source: Harvard University
He think Congress needs a budget trigger.
In a NYT op-ed, Krueger said that Congress needed a trigger that would automatically kick to curb spending and lower the deficit if the legislature were unable to pass measures themselves. Also from the article, one gets the sense that Krueger does not have much faith in politicians.
Discretion is hard for politicians to give up — and briefly satisfying, as dieters know when they dig out those hidden chocolate bars. What will help over time to lessen our appetite for more debt is to remove the temptation, and expectation, that when it comes to the budget we can always spend more than we have.
Raising the minimum wage does not cause unemployment.
In 1992 Krueger wrote a paper comparing fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The New Jersey restaurant hiked the minimum wage while the Pennsylvania restaurant kept its rate unchanged. Counter to common intuition, the New Jersey restaurant did not lose jobs, it actually added them.
Why? The idea is that business owners can make a choice; pay low wages and watch workers walk through a revolving door, or pay high wages, keep your workers, and seldom face the challenge of replacing them.
Giving more visas to skilled immigrants.
In 2000 Krueger wrote that the U.S. should increase its number of skilled workers by issuing more H-1B visas to immigrants.
... the labor market increasingly demands more high-skilled workers, as suggested by the long-term rise in the number of workers with college degrees and their sharply increased pay compared with that of those with high school degrees. Therefore, it would be economically beneficial to admit relatively more highly skilled permanent immigrants... it makes economic sense to increase the number of skilled immigrants by issuing H-1B visas...
Also, that workers who fall under this category deserve more protection.
American workers are protected from exploitation on the job by three defenses: exit, voice and regulation. Exit entails the ability to move to a better job if one is available; voice results from representation by labor unions and other organizations; and regulation is a labyrinth of standards enforced by government agencies. These protections are deficient for H-1B workers.
Source: Princeton University
Getting rid of tax breaks for big oil.
In 2009, when he worked for the Treasury, Krueger wrote a report about what would happen if the government junked tax breaks for big oil. His finding -- nothing much. Natural gas prices might go up a 1%, oil production might go down less than 0.5%. The rest of the world wouldn't even notice.
If you're smart, you can make it no matter where you go to school.
Krueger will probably get flack from critics who sneer at graduates from top tier Universities (he attended Cornell and Harvard), but personally, he doesn't believe an elite education is necessary for professional success. He found this in a paper he wrote with Stacey Dale in February.
Krueger and Dale compared the wages of students with the same standardized test scores, who went to different undergraduate institutions (say Penn vs. Penn State). They found their salaries didn't differ much.
Source: Washington Post
The government is more involved with jobs than we think.
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In 2009, Krueger wrote a paper with University of Michigan Professor Morris Kleiner called Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market. They found that 35% of all jobs in the U.S. are regulated/licensed by the government, and that those with licenses have 14% higher wages than those that do not.
Now here's a word from a guy who would fire Krueger...
BNET
Here Are 9 Things GOP Frontrunner Rick Perry DOESN'T Believe
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2019 Filings for Central District
Annual Total
Chapter 7 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Grand Total
Opened 26,766 335 0 7,078 34,179
Reopened 878 61 0 221 1,160
Total 27,644 396 0 7,299 35,339
% change from previous year's Total 4.1% -9.6% -100.0% -5.0% 1.9%
Opened 2,094 30 0 611 2,741
Reopened 68 0 0 24 95
Total 2,162 39 0 635 2,836
% change from previous year's Total 4.2% -22.0% -100.0% -14.2% -1.0%
Reopened 78 8 0 19 105
% change from previous year's Total 4.0% -21.7% 0.0% -3.8% 1.8%
% change from previous year's Total 0.5% -27.5% 0.0% -3.7% -0.6%
% change from previous year's Total 8.1% 44.1% 0.0% 12.0% 9.2%
% change from previous year's Total 4.1% 0.0% 0.0% 2.8% 3.8%
% change from previous year's Total 1.9% -18.9% 0.0% -10.8% -1.2%
Reopened 102 6 0 26 134
% change from previous year's Total 11.7% -31.9% 0.0% -3.3% 7.6%
% change from previous year's Total 7.6% -16.7% 0.0% 3.8% 6.4%
% change from previous year's Total 5.7% 46.4% 0.0% -6.1% 3.3%
% change from previous year's Total -3.2% 24.1% 0.0% -16.9% -6.1%
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Home » About Caroline » Biography
A few words .... Most of my adult life, over the past three decades, has been dedicated to researching and observing how animals heal themselves across a wide range of species, from companion animals to kangaroos, polar bears, brown bears, elephants, tigers, rhinos and primates. I believe that from applied zoopharmacognosy, a new branch of ethology has developed which takes a new look into the causes of behavioural problems seen in domestic, companion and captive animals. Back in the nineteen eighties I discovered that companion animals could communicate their health needs via offering them aromatic plant extracts – it was an amazing breakthrough. They could let us know which plant medicines they needed, which they didn't, where they needed it, and dosed themselves accordingly.
About Caroline:
Author - Founder of Applied Zoopharmacognosy - International Speaker - Lecturer
Caroline Ingraham founded Applied Zoopharmacognosy and is a leading expert in the field of animal self-medication. Caroline has always had an enormous concern for the ethical treatment of animals and has spent the last thirty five years researching and observing how animals self-medicate. Caroline has helped thousands of animals all over the world, regain behavioural and physical health. She has had great success with orphaned elephant calves at the Sheldrick Trust in Kenya, as well as in conservation with endangered species, and rescued animals at the RSPCA in the UK.Caroline has featured in many scientific journals and articles and has written numerous books on the subject. She has appeared on the BBC, ITV, BBC Radio 4, National Geographic TV and at the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts.
Caroline's work encompasses an understanding of pharmacokinetics and pharmacology combined with animal self-medication. Caroline is in demand globally as a consultant and teacher, speaking regularly at International Symposiums. She lectures to vets, college and university students all over the world and holds a London clinic in a Notting Hill veterinary practice.
Caroline writes widely on the subject of animal self-medication, her two most recent publications are 'Help Your Dog Heal Itself' 3rd edition released in 2018 and 'Animal Self-Medication (released January 2019).
Primate Society of Great Britain: Full member
Recent public engagements
2015: Hay Festival of literature and arts
2015: Natural Dog Conference
2015: University of Bristol: Veterinary and Zoological Society
2015: BBC Radio 4: Four Thought
2016: British Essential Oil Association
2016: Your Horse Magazine
2016: Interview with Dr Karen Becker: USA
2016: University of Sussex: Botanica
2017: Aromatherapy Today conference: Australia
2017: International Conference for Innovative Veterinary Medicine: Holland
2018: Hungarian Aromatherapy Conference
2019: RCVS Zoological Society
Organisations I work with
Wildlife Heritage Foundation
Battersea Dogs Home
Zoological society of London
Brno Zoo
French National Institute for Agricultural Research
2012: Psychologies Magazine
2012: Canadian Federation of Aromatherapy
2013: Your Dog Magazine
2014: Your Dog Magazine (sensory gardens)
2015: The Veterinary Times
2015: The Daily Telegraph
2016: Science Psy
Published books:
1997: Aromatherapy for Horses
2001: Aromatherapy for Animals
2006: The Animal Aromatics workbook
2014: How Animals Heal Themselves
2016: Help Your Dog Heal Itself: 1st edition
2017: Help Your Dog Heal Itself: 2nd edition
2018: Help Your Dog Heal Itself: 2nd edition (Hungarian)
2019: Animal Self-Medication
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The Battle of Lepanto: The Battle that Saved Christian West and A Lesson for Our Times
By Karen A. Walker
On October 7, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, more than on any other feast day, I feel especially emboldened in faith and hope, no matter what the anti-common sense, anti-life, anti-Christian news of the day! The reason is simple. The power of praying the Rosary was manifest in such a remarkable, historical and tangible way on this day — at the Battle of Lepanto — that Pope Pius V declared it to be a Feast in honor of Our Lady of Victory.
Subsequent popes altered the feast name to Our Lady of the Rosary to more fully reflect what was done (and what we can still do today) to achieve Our Lady’s victory, namely the unceasing Rosaries prayed by all of Christendom for the battle outcome. Even the soldiers on ship decks, led by the Don Juan of Austria, fasted, confessed and prayed the Rosary before engaging in battle. Similar scenarios throughout history have echoed the Power of the Rosary, even in this 21st Century (which will be featured in later articles). So, what is this famous battle that literally turned the tide for Christendom, against the relentless, aggressive and ravishing conquest of Christian nation after nation by the Ottoman Turkish Islam empire–the same conquest that turned Constantinople, a former seat of Christian Faith, into what is now called Istanbul?
The Battle of Lepanto took place in 1571. A newly formed Holy League, a navy culled by Pope Pius V from among Christian nations at the time to defend Christendom against the seemingly invincible Islam Turkish Ottoman Empire, fought a decisive — thought by some historians to be THE decisive battle–in the suffocating conquest of Christian nations by the Muslim empire. But the Holy League Christian ships did not win the battle on their own. It would have been nearly impossible given the odds. Pope Pius V ordered that all of Christendom pray the Rosary to stop the Islam forces that day. Even the rough fighting troops knelt down on the deck of their ships, some of them exhausted and battle-worn from previous fighting, to pray the Rosary before engaging the fresh forces of Islam. And, during that remarkable battle, something miraculous happened…
I encourage you to read two of the best articles available on the Battle of Lepanto, one is written by Christopher Check, executive vice president of The Rockford Institute, who served for seven years as a field artillery officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, the father of four boys who lectures on topics in military and Church history. His original article appears in Catholic Answers’ This Rock magazine, and may be found here. The second article on the Battle of LePanto is found in The New American and can be found here.
An abbreviated section of Mr. Check’s article on the Battle of Lepanto appears below:
It was at dawn on October 7, 1571, the Holy League rowed down the west coast of Greece and turned east into the Gulf of Patras. When the morning mist cleared, the Christians, rowing directly against the wind, saw the squadrons of the larger Ottoman fleet arrayed like a crescent from shore to shore, bearing down on them under full sail.
As the fleets grew closer, the Christians could hear the gongs and cymbals, drums and cries of the Turks. The men of the Holy League quietly pulled at their oars, the soldiers stood on the decks in silent prayer. Priests holding large crucifixes marched up and down the decks exhorting the men to be brave and hearing final confessions.
Then the Blessed Virgin intervened.
The wind shifted 180 degrees. The sails of the Holy League were filled with the Divine breath, driving them into battle. Now heading directly into the wind, the Turks were forced to strike their sails. The tens of thousands of Christian galley slaves who rowed the Turkish vessels felt the sharp sting of the lash summoning them up from under their benches and demanding they take hold of their oars and pull against the wind.
Don John knelt on the prow of Real and said a final prayer. Then he stood and gave the order for the Holy League’s battle standard, a gift from Pius V, to be unfurled. Christians up and down the battle line cheered as they saw the giant blue banner bearing an image of our crucified Lord.
Many historical accounts of Battle of Lepanto report that a thick fog arose, causing confusion among the Muslim fleet so that it mistakenly attacked its own ships. Many historical accounts also mention a vision of Our Lady holding the Rosary which appeared in the clouds at some point during the battle, seen by many of those who were fighting. A portion of Mr. Check’s article continues below:
The fleets engaged at midday. The first fighting began along the Holy League’s left flank, where many of the smaller, swifter Turkish galleys were able to maneuver around Agostin Barbarigo’s inshore flank. The Venetian admiral responded with a near impossibility: He pivoted his entire….
…The fighting lasted for five hours. The sides were evenly matched and well led, but the Divine favored the Christians, and once the battle turned in their favor it became a rout. All but thirteen of the nearly 300 Turkish vessels were captured or sunk and over 30,000 Turks were slain. Not until the First World War would the world again witness such carnage in a single day’s fighting. In the aftermath of the battle, the Christians gave no quarter, making sure to kill the helmsmen, galley captains, archers, and Janissaries. The sultan could rebuild ships, but without these men, it would be years before he would be able to use them.
The news of the victory made its way back to Rome, but the Pope was already rejoicing. On the day of the battle, Pius had been consulting with his cardinals at the Dominican Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill. He paused in the midst of their deliberations to look out the window. Up in the sky, the Blessed Mother favored him with a vision of the victory. Turning to his cardinals he said, “Let us set aside business and fall on our knees in thanksgiving to God, for he has given our fleet a great victory.”
Our Lady of Mercy and Grace, through our daily devotion to the Rosary, help us in business to be instruments of your Son’s peace, charity in truth, and justice for all, especially for the unborn and elderly.
Beautiful, what can be accomplished!
Thank you Karen for an insightful article about such a troubling topic in this time of our lives. It truly is unsettling to see the world being taken again by this same radical violence from Islam.
I’m so glad to see a balanced article not downplaying the necessity, but giving us the real solution for these times. Our Lady’s Rosary!
God bless you and your work!
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Since 2002, the Center has annually convened thought leaders in the fields of craft, creativity, design, and associated disciplines to discuss, share knowledge, and make recommendations on relevant topics and areas to the field of craft.
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The meeting is a way to keep our finger on the pulse of intellectual thought and trends and identify education-oriented needs within the field.
Participants have included museum directors, curators, university faculty, scholars, editors, critics and artists with diverse media expertise. The Craft Think Tank has frequently resulted in recommendations for new Center for Craft Core Programs and Projects, including the Craft Research Fund, Windgate Museum Internship. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, and the New Apprenticeship Project.
Craft think tank goals
Convene thought leaders in the field
Increase the exchange of theory and scholarship in craft
Provide the opportunity for collaboration that may not have happened organically
Identify education-oriented needs in the craft field
Formulate and suggest plans to meet the identified needs
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In November 2017, the Center for Craft and UNC Asheville convened a special topic Craft Think Tank devoted to mapping and understanding the potential role and impact of craft in a makerspace setting. This intimate gathering brought together a select group of 15 national and international experts across disciplines. London-based cultural consulting agency From Now On facilitated the convening; their previous work on the cultural role of makerspaces made them an ideal choice to lead the conversation. The convening was partially funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation entitled “University of North Carolina Asheville: Leading the Public Arts and Humanities in the City of Asheville.”
The first session explored the landscape of craft makerspaces. It mapped the many factors that could influence craft makerspace initiatives, from types of users, to policy and tools. In the second session, participants speculated about the emerging issues which, in the future, are likely to impact the success of craft makerspaces. Finally, participants used this content and their expertise to build hypothetical models of what a future craft makerspace could be.
Eleanor Annand, Resident Artist, Penland School of Crafts
Daniel Charny, (Facilitator), Director, From Now On Annet Couwenberg, Fiber Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art
Alma Daskalaki, Innovation Manager, Crafts Council, UK
Nettrice Gaskins, SCOPES-DF Program Manager, Fab Foundation
Mike Marcus, Assistant Director, Creative Placemaking and Property Development, Center for Craft
Nick Moen, Founder and Creative Director, The Bright Angle
Stephanie Moore, Executive Director, Center for Craft
Carol Pepper-Kittredge, Statewide Project Manager, California Community Colleges Maker Initiative; CACT Director, Sierra College
Susan Reiser, Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean of Natural Sciences, UNC Asheville
Sara Sanders, Engineering Design Studio and Lab Manager, STEAM Studio, UNC Asheville
Stephanie Santoso, Senior Program Fellow, Infosys Foundation USA; Former Senior Advisor for Making, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Brent Skidmore, Associate Professor of Art & Art History and Public Arts and Humanities Chair, UNC Asheville
Joshua G. Stein, Founder, Radical Craft; Co-director, Data Clay Network; Professor of Architecture, Woodbury University
Marilyn Zapf, Assistant Director, Programs and Curator, Center for Craft Participants Attendees included experts in the fields of craft and makerspaces.
The Craft Think Tank further benefited from contributions from Liz Corbyn, PhD Student in Material Culture, University College London, Dee Halligan, Director, From Now On, and Justin Marshall, Associate Professor of Design, Northumbria School of Design, UK.
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This Craft Think Tank and publication was made possible, in part, by the University of North Carolina Asheville and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
On June 19-21, 2016 the Center for Craft, in partnership with Warren Wilson College, convened a two-day, special-topic Craft Think Tank, bringing together a select group of experts across disciplines to assess the state of craft in academia. During the first day, the group met to consider, adopt, or reject new strategies to further the study (and thereby the practice) of craft.
Contributors developed a list of potential initiatives and prioritized the following:
- Scholarly national craft conference
- NEH course/workshop on teaching craft studies
- Strategically diversifying the field
- Supporting universities to develop a craft studies minor using existing resources
The second day focused on developing a master’s-level program in critical and historical craft studies. The group discussed and made recommendations concerning the content, format, approach, audience, and resources needed to create a relevant and successful program.
Elissa Auther, Windgate Research and Collections Curator, Bard Graduate Center, Center for Craft, Museum of Arts and Design
Julie Levin Caro, Professor of Art History, Warren Wilson College
James Darr, Professor of Art, Warren Wilson College
Anne Dunning (Facilitator), Principal Consultant, ARTS Action Research
Paula Garrett, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Warren Wilson College
Anna Helgeson, Grants & Programs Coordinator, Center for Craft
Leah Leitson, Professor of Art, Warren Wilson College
Jay Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Warren Wilson College
Sequoia Miller, Historian, Curator, and Studio Potter
Mira Mohsini, Cultural Anthropologist, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, Eastern Michigan University
Lara Nguyen, Professor of Art, Warren Wilson College
Kirsty Robertson, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Museum Studies, Western University, Canada
Stacey Sloboda, Associate Professor of Art History, Southern Illinois University
Sarah Teasley, Head of Programme, History of Design, Royal College of Art
Namita Wiggers, Independent Curator, Writer, and Educator; Director and Co-Founder, Critical Craft Forum
Catherine Whalen, Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center
Marilyn Zapf, Assistant Director and Curator, Center for Craft
Center for Craft and WWC’s 2016 Craft Think Tank was supported, in part, by a grant from the John & Robyn Horn Foundation.
The Center for Craft held its 12th Craft Think Tank on October 16-18, 2014 in Asheville, North Carolina. This year’s intimate gathering posed an opportunity to focus on the specific needs of the curatorial community, bringing together a select group of national and international, emerging and experienced curators, artists, and critics.
Conversations focused on questions such as: what are the obstacles and opportunities for exhibiting objects and making in the 21st Century, what does it mean to be a “craft” curator in a post-disciplinary creative landscape, and how can we strengthen the display, documentation, and preservation of objects? Participants also considered how matters like diversity, technology, and interdisciplinary inform the future of craft curating.
Glenn Adamson, Director, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Nora Atkinson, Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Elissa Auther, Adjunct Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Daniel Charny, Co-Founder and Director, From Now On and Professor of Design at Kingston University, London, UK
Edward Cooke, Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, Yale University, Connecticut
Garth Johnson, Curator of Ceramics, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona
Elizabeth Kozlowski, Curator, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Texas
Stephanie Moore, Executive Director, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, North Carolina
Danny Orendorff, Curator-in-Residence, Charlotte Street Foundation, Missouri
Jenelle Porter, Mannion Family Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Massachusetts
Cat Rossi, Senior Lecturer in Design History, Kingston University, London, UK
Sarah Schleuning, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, High Museum of Art, Georgia
T’ai Smith, Assistant Professor in Art History, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Cindi Strauss, Assistant Director of Programming and Curator for Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
David Wilson, Artist, California
Namita Wiggers, Director/Co-Founder of Critical Craft Forum, Adjunct Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft, and Adjunct Instructor, Oregon College of Art + Craft | Pacific Northwest College of Art, Oregon
Marilyn Zapf, Assistant Director, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, North Carolina
Emily Zilber, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
In 2013 the Center for Craft partnered with the American Craft Council and Crafthaus to discuss the brand of craft. The meeting was held October 17 – 19, 2013 at the Montreat Conference Center in Black Mountain, North Carolina and was facilitated by the brand consulting agency, Fenton. 25 participants were in attendance.
Christopher H. Amundsen, Executive Director, American Craft Council
David Brooks, Board of Directors, Craft Retailers and Artists for Tomorrow (CRAFT)
Steffanie Dotson, President, The Furniture Society board
Joel Du Bois, Consultant Semiotician and Linguist, Fenton
Catharine Ellis, textile artist
Beth Ann Gerstein, Executive Director, The Society of Arts and Crafts
Joshua Green, Executive Director, NCECA
Doreen Jakob, UK researcher
Garth Johnson, Ceramicist, NCECA board
Stoney Lamar, American Craft Council Board, Center for Craft board
Karen Lorene, Facèré Gallery, SNAG board
Brigitte Martin, editor, crafthaus, SNAG board
Janet McCall, Executive Director, The Society for Contemporary Craft
Jean McLaughlin, Executive Director, Penland School of Crafts
Perry Price, Director of Education, American Craft Council
Gwynne Rukenbrod, Executive Director, SNAG
Michael Sherrill, Board President, Center for Craft
Michael Strand, ceramicist, Associate Professor and Head of Visual Arts, North Dakota State University
Nicola Thomas, UK researcher
Lisa Witter, Senior Advisor, Fenton
Elly Woolston, Director of Fenton Europe (facilitator)
Stephen Yusko, metalsmith, Haystack board
Emily Zaiden, Center Director, Craft in America
Marilyn Zapf, Assistant Director, Center for Craft
The 2012 Craft Think Tank brought together 17 thought leaders for three days to discuss the need to develop new models of craft apprenticeships. Topics of discussion included the history of apprenticeships, the state of craft education, modes of work, mentorship and influence, transmission of knowledge, equity and legal concerns, and steps to move towards a new, sustainable model.The New Apprenticeship Project website is a repository for the future development of this project.
Michael Sherrill (co-chair), Artist, owner Mudtools
Mark Shapiro (co-chair), Writer, ceramicist
Stephanie Moore (facilitator), Executive Director, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
Steven T. Aceto, Attorney, Aceto Law Office P.A.
Jay T. Close, Blacksmith
Tony Clarke, Partner, VCA Inc.
Matthew Crawford, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia; author, Shop Class As Soulcraft
Dustin Farnsworth, Artist, Penland resident
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, President, North Bennet Street School
Hoss Haley, Metalsmith, sculptor • Mark Hewitt, Ceramicist
Dan Jacoby, Professor, Policy and Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Washington
Stoney Lamar, Woodturner
Faythe Levine, Independent researcher, producer Handmade Nation
Bruce Metcalf, Studio jeweler, writer
Perry Allen Price, Director of Education, American Craft Council
Ian Robertson, Dean of Work, Warren Wilson College
Tim Tate, Co-director, Washington Glass School, glass artist
The 2011 Craft Think Tank convened 15 thought leaders in the field of craft to discuss a variety of topics suggested by participants. This year’s discussions addressed how craft is defined in the university setting, the role of the artist outside of the studio, the anticipated impact of craft in 10 years, and how national and regional craft conversations inform one another.
The 2009 Craft Think Tank convened 19 though leaders in the field of craft to discuss a variety of topics suggested by participants. This year’s discussions addressed the effect of the internet on craft artist-gallery relationships, federal funding opportunities for craft, the impact of CAD (Computer Aided Design) on craft education, practice-based PhDs in craft, the opportunity of craft collaborations in a global economy, ‘borrowing’ from the fine arts, and advancing the goal of having the history of craft courses taught at the undergraduate level.
The 2008 North Carolina Craft Think-Tank marked the seventh year the Center for Craft convened leaders in the field of craft. Topics were introduced by participants then opened to the full group for discussion. The 2008 session major points were recorded by then Center for Craft director Dian Magie and assistant director Katie Lee and outlined in the report below.
SESSION 1: How is the World Wide Web connecting the maker with the market? How can professional makers become better educated in alternative methods of marketing their work? How can universities prepare their craft/design students who plan craft as an entrepreneurial business?
SESSION 2: Increasingly museums are being gifted with major collections and endowments relating to contemporary craft/decorative arts. What curatorial challenges do craft collections present within the institutions? How can craft exhibitions enhance audience development and the educational mission of the museum? There is a lack of serious press coverage for craft related museum exhibitions– how can this be addressed?
SESSION 3. Friday afternoon sessions related to academia, through several topics.
- SESSION 3-A What changes in program or degree requirements would be most helpful for graduating BFA craft students to prepare them to enter the field professionally? How important is it for the maker to study the history of craft?
- SESSION 3-B As a museum intern, what were the most valuable educational skills that helped in your internship, and what areas could be strengthened in preparation for working with craft in museum collections and exhibitions? How important is it for a curator to experience making?
- SESSION 3-C What are the pros and cons of establishing a Ph.D. as the “terminal degree” for studio craft faculty?
- SESSION 3-D How can craft research and scholarship be encouraged at the MA and Ph.D level? Discussion on RFP for university to sponsor a seminar with peer-reviewed papers read.
SESSION 4: What is the status of public and private foundation support for studio craft in the U.S. compared to Australia, Canada, England, Europe? In what ways could the support in the U.S. be encouraged and increased?
SESSION 5: What are the tensions and opportunities of digital technology, new materials, and multiples for makers of studio craft?
SESSION 6: The language and relationship of craft to design and “fine” art is internationally debated. How does the inter-relationship differ for universities, museums, and makers?
SESSION 7: How can we find commonality or shared values between the disparate populations and practices that now fall under the craft/design banner, and what criteria can be used to navigate the shifting landscape as old boundaries erode?
Grace Cochrane, freelance curator and writer; 1988-2005 curator and senior curator, Australian decorative arts and design, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, AU (2006)
Kim Cridler, Assistant Professor, metalsmithing and jewelry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WS (2007)
Martin DeWitt, Founder and director, Museum of Art, Western Carolina University, NC
Kelly H. L’Ecuyer, Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Alan C. Elder, Curator of Canadian Crafts, Decorative Arts and Design, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, CN
Catharine Ellis, Fiber faculty, Haywood CC Professional Crafts Program; President CCCD Nonprofit/Foundation Board, NC (2007)
Paul Harper, Director of ALIAS, furniture design and making, currently studying for his PhD at London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Robyn Horn, sculptor, wood/metal, Windgate Foundation board member, AR
Lydia Matthews, Associate Dean of Academic Programs, Parsons, The New School of Design, NY (2004, 2005)
Robert Milnes, Dean, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, TX
Rob Pulleyn, clay artist; developer Marshall School Artists Studios; publisher Lark Books 1979- 2005; CCCD nonprofit/foundation board member.
Jody Servon, Assistant Professor, Director of Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, NC
Ezra Shales, Assistant Professor, Alfred University, NY
Michael Sherrill, sculptor, clay/glass/metal, ‘06 Kohler resident artist, NC
Brent Skidmore, Director, UNC Asheville, planned Craft Campus, studio furniture, NC
Chris Staley, Professor-in-Charge of the Ceramics Area, School of the Arts, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Cindi Strauss, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (2007)
Joining the Friday afternoon discussion, the following Windgate Fellowship recipients:
Ben Johnson, 2006 graduate Kent State, BFA in Glass
Andrea Donnelly, 2007 graduate NC State University, BFA in fiber
Tim Maddox, 2007 graduate, Kendall College, BFA in wood/furniture
Jennifer Livingston, 2007 Museum Intern at Woodson Museum, Appalachian State University
On April 12-15, 2007 the Center for Craft (formerly the UNC Center for Craft, Creativity and Design) convened twenty-two leaders in the field of craft – artists, curators, faculty, writers from throughout the U.S. with representatives from Canada and England, including Center for Craft Director, Assistant Director and three Center for Craft board members. Friday and Saturday attendees participated in discussions on seven topics, each with three discussion leaders from the group. Lively discussions continued at meals, and as the group assembled at the end of the day for wine and cheese on the veranda of Waverly Inn, one of two inns reserved for retreat participants.
SESSION 1: What education is necessary for the 21st Century studio artist to achieve economic success and/or artist growth and where can it be found.
SESSION 2: How can we attract and train 21st Century craft curators?
SESSION 3: What is the future of the handmade, limited production, and/or mass production in studio craft? What is the impact of technology on makers?
SESSION 4: How is critical writing and scholarship on studio craft being supported and encouraged? What role can the Center for Craft portal www.crafthistory.org serve? (portal recommended in 2006 Craft Think-Tank)
SESSION 5: How is the intersection of craft and design shaping academia and the marketplace?
SESSION 6: Who is the audience for craft in the future and how will we reach that audience?
SESSION 7: What are some shared issues for craft in the U.S., Canada and England? What are some significant differences?
SESSION 8: Recommendations to CCCD for future of the “Think-Tank.” Topics, size of group, changes in structure. Other recommendations.
Sandra Alfoldy, Assistant Professor, Historical and Critical Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada
Charlotte Brown, Director, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, North Carolina State University
Kim Cridler, Assistant Professor, metalsmithing and jewelry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Donald Fortescue, Wood/Furniture faculty, California College of The Arts, CA
Sabrina Gschwandtner, MFA student Bard College, founder of KnitKnit Magazine, NY
Vicki Halper, curator/scholar, co-author Choosing Craft; A Story told by Artists, Seattle, WA
Peter Held, Curator of Ceramics, Ceramics Research Center, Arizona State University Art Museum
Lily Kane, Director of Education, American Craft Council, NY
Simon Olding, Director, Crafts Study Centre, University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham, England
Bruce Pepich, Director, Racine Art Museum, WI
Michael Puryear, Furnituremaker, NY
Suzanne Ramljak, Editor, Metalsmith, CT 13. Howard Risatti, author, retired Chair, Craft Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
Cindi Strauss, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
Lena Vigna, Curator, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
Andrew Wagner, Editor Craft Magazine, previously Senior Editor, DWELL, NY/CA
Catherine Whalen, Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, NY
Center for Craft Board Members and Staff participating:
Catharine Ellis, Professional Crafts Program – Fiber, Haywood Community College
Andrew Glasgow, Director, The Furniture Society
Stoney Lamar, wood sculptor
Jean McLaughlin, Director, Penland School of Crafts
Dian Magie, Executive Director
Melissa Post, Assistant Director
The Center for Craft (formerly the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design) began hosting a two-day spring retreat in 2002 with the charge to “identify and prioritize initiatives that will advance craft in academia and the curatorial worlds.” In the following three years, the topic of the retreats further developed the initiatives recommended in 2002. Participants in the retreats represented leaders in the field of fine craft – museum directors and curators, university faculty, scholars, editors, critics and artist – with diverse media expertise and geography. Thirty-one craft leaders gave of their time to participate in one or more retreats. Addendum A is a list of all participants. This report consists of abstracts of the four retreats.
Participants in this two-day retreat followed the recommendation from the March 2003 retreat to replace the goal of creating a scholarly peer-reviewed journal, with a peer reviewed grant program for craft research. the 12 participants formulated the process for a Craft Research Fund. In may 2004, the Center for Craft (formerly the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design) received support from a foundation, to follow these guidelines, offering up to $100,000 a year for three years in a pilot program.
Andrew Glasgow, Executive Director, The Furniture Society
Tony Hepburn, Ceramics Department Head, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Janet Koplos, Senior Editor, Art in America; craft text lead author
Gyongy Laky, Fiber Artist, Design Program Faculty, University of California at Davis
Stoney Lamar, Wood sculptor, CCCD Nonprofit Board President
Mark Leach, Deputy Director, Mint Museums
Lydia Matthews, Chair, Graduate Studies in Visual Criticism and Fine Arts, California College of The Arts
Bruce Metcalf, Studio jeweler, author, craft text co-author
Tina Oldknow, Curator of Modern Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass
Howard Risatti, Chair, Department of Craft/Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California
facilitating, Dian Magie, Executive Director, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Prior to the Chicago 2003 SOFA exhibition, a group of craft leaders met to discuss the creation of an inventory of craft in museum collections. This was a component of one of four initiatives identified during the 2002 North Carolina Summit Retreat on Craft charged with identifying initiatives that will advance craft in academia and the curatorial worlds.
Edmund de Waal, Senior Research Fellow, Craft Research Centre, The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
Christine Hennessey, Chief of Art Information Resources, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Glenn Adamson, Curator, The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Art Museum
Stoney Lamar, wood sculptor and Board President, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Mark Leach, Deputy Director, Mint Museums, Charlotte
Melissa Post, Curator, Mint Museum of Craft + Design
Davira S. Taragin, Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Racine Art Museum
Dian Magie, Executive Director, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design who facilitated the meeting
The two-day retreat on craft publications was convened to discuss and develop specific recommendations for research and publications on craft that were identified as priorities in the March 2002 Summit Retreat on Craft. Four of the ten participants participated in the 2002 retreat. Before arriving, participants reviewed the initiatives recommended and responding comments from the field published in the North Carolina Summit Retreat on Craft. The meeting was held in UNC Asheville Kellogg Conference Center in Hendersonville North Carolina and sponsored by the Center for Craft formerly The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, a regional center of the University of North Carolina) located adjacent to the Conference Center. Center for Craft Executive Director Dian Magie facilitated the meeting.
Returning participants:
Glenn Adamson, Curator, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Diane Douglas, Executive Director, Center for Liberal Arts, Bellevue Community College (former Director of Bellevue Art Museum, 1991-2001), Bellevue, Washington
Janet Koplos, Senior Editor, Art in America, New York, New York
Martha Drexler Lynn, curator and author (former Curator, 20th Century Decorative Arts Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989-1999), Carmel, California
Additional participants:
Garth Clark, author and owner, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York Ned Cooke, Chair, Art History Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Andrew Glasgow, Executive Director, The Furniture Society, Asheville, North Carolina
Vicki Halper, curator and author (former curator, Seattle Art Museum), Seattle, Washington
Jim Melchert, Ceramic sculptor and Professor of Art Emeritus, UC Berkeley, Oakland, California
Bruce Metcalf, jeweler, author, critic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Center for Craft (formerly the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design) hosted a two-day retreat for 13 national leaders in the field of craft, who met to identify initiatives that would advance craft in academia and the curatorial world. A White Paper (executive summary) was then circulated to more than 80 craft leaders across the country for additional comment. The editing and publishing of the full Proceedings of the Retreat, supported with a grant from the American Craft Council, took place in the 2002 summer. Through a facilitated process, the retreat participants built on their collective experiences to identify a unifying issue that shaped the conversation: How to place craft in a larger cultural context. With a focus on this theme, the group prioritized academia, museums and creators/makers as the top three target audiences.
Through a facilitated process, the retreat participants built on their collective experiences to identify a unifying issue that shaped the conversation: How to place craft in a larger cultural context. With a focus on this theme, the group prioritized academia, museums, and creators/makers as the top three target audiences.
The conversation then shifted to focus on initiatives for future action. The group was asked to think of as many tactics as possible and as the discussion continued, there became a clear sense of the interwoven nature of these target audiences. Participants began looking at the intersections that joined these groups and found that there were four main initiatives that would have the greatest impact on the field: 1) a book on the history of craft; 2) a scholarly journal; 3) a university craft studies program with an endowed chair; and 4) placement of craft within museum collections.
Participants broke into two groups to identify strategies that would move these initiatives from idea to reality. The entire group expanded on the strategies developed and discussed each topic. The following reflect the major suggestions in each area, prioritized from the initiative the group felt would make the greatest impact on “how to place craft in a larger cultural context” relative to “advancing craft in academia and the curatorial world.”
1. A BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF CRAFT
Title: The American Studio Craft Movement. The idea for this survey text is overwhelmingly considered the most important charge. Some of the specifics are as follows: a) include a brief historical section on precursors to the Studio Craft movement; b) organize the book chronologically; c) emphasize movements and topical issues; d) follow major historical benchmarks; e) include education and support group chapters; f) avoid separating material by media; g) strive for diversity in the artists discussed. The author should be one editor who works with a number of writers and has the authority to re-write all text to present a unifying voice. Another approach would be a single author who can analyze and keep content fresh. The audience would include those in cultural studies, art history, studio work, American studies, makers not enrolled in university programs, collectors, dealers, museums and libraries.
2. SCHOLARLY JOURNAL
A scholarly bi-annual Craft Studies: History and Criticism is needed that will have an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the aesthetic, and includes technical analysis only as it applies to the aesthetic. Standard features include: a) a critical book review; b) critical exhibition reviews; c) well-researched scholarly articles with footnotes; d) craft criticism; e) technical information as part of a larger context; f) interviews to capture verbal history of leaders/makers in craft field; and g) craft as a subject from the interdisciplinary approach. This journal is without restriction to media, cultural environment, historical era or geographical region. The primary focus, however, is North America.Recommend an editorial board with a paid managing editor. Authors should be compensated for their contributions.
3. A UNIVERSITY CRAFT STUDIES PROGRAM WITH AN ENDOWED CHAIR
This could be an interdisciplinary program leading to a degree, or alternately, a concentration within an existing degree program. This type of program will be placed in a university that a) demonstrates existing support for programs that are interdisciplinary; b) has a museum on campus or in the community for research; c) has an appropriate library; and d) has a supportive community of craft artists. A director will be named as an endowed chair placed in a department (most likely an art history department). This position will entail both the administrative and professorial aspects of running the program. The chair should have knowledge or experience in studio craft (e.g. MFA) and/or have a Ph.D. in American studies or art history.
4. PLACEMENT OF CRAFT WITHIN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museums need to be surveyed to track the expansion and contraction of the field, the percentage of exhibits relating to fine craft over a five-year period, and focus of museums, including the opening of new “craft” museums. A survey and database with images of work in collections would assist in the study of craft and exhibits co-sponsored by several museums. A fund should be established for museums to acquire craft objects for their permanent collections. Grants are needed for educational programs and also a source that could subsidize participation fees for traveling craft exhibits. The acquisition assistance should be open to all museums, while the education and traveling exhibitions monies should target general museums who do not specialize in craft. Additional strategies that support craft in museum collections involve acquisition support, traveling exhibition support and educational department support.
Glenn Adamson, Curator, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wis.
Joan Falconer Byrd, author, Professor of Art, Western Carolina University, N.C.
Diane Douglas, Executive Director, Center for Liberal Arts, Bellevue Community College, Wash.
Mary F. Douglas, Curator of Collections, Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Asheville, N.C.
Robert Ebendorf, Belk Distinguished Professor in Metal, East Carolina University, N.C.
Janet Koplos, Senior Editor, Art in America, New York
Martha Drexler Lynn, author/curator, 19th- and 20th century production and studio craft, Carmel, Calif.
Bruce Pepich, Director, Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, Wis.
James Tanner, Professor of Art, Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn.
Kenneth Trapp, Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, fiber artist, Professor of Art, San Jose State University, Calif.
Dian Magie, Executive Director, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Lynn Jones Ennis, proceedings editor
Randy Siegel, facilitator
Scheduled but unable to attend
Garth Clark, author and owner, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
Howard Risatti, Chair, Department of Crafts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Va.
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Despite using substances at lower levels than men, women typically progress from substance use to addiction more quickly than their male counterparts. Women also experience the health consequences of substance use, such as death, cancer, heart disease and memory problems, sooner and more intensely than men.
Women and Smoking
When it comes to tobacco, women typically smoke fewer cigarettes, inhale less deeply and smoke cigarettes with lower nicotine levels as compared to men. However, women are just as likely as men to become addicted to nicotine. These gender differences can be seen at an early age—in one study, girls ages 12 and 13 who started smoking at least once a month reported symptoms of nicotine dependence in a shorter amount of time compared to boys (21 days vs. 183 days).
Women and Alcohol
Research shows that women metabolize alcohol less efficiently as compared to men. This is because women have decreased activity of an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase, which breaks down alcohol in the liver and stomach and keeps it from entering the bloodstream. Women’s bodies also contain less water and more fatty tissue than men of similar sizes, which means they maintain higher concentrations of alcohol in their blood. As a result, women get intoxicated faster and have worse hangovers, even when drinking the same amount as men.
Some research suggests that women progress faster than men from alcohol use to addiction. But other studies argue this is found primarily in studies of people who already have been diagnosed with addiction and may be in treatment for it. New findings also suggest that this difference between women and men is less apparent in recent years than in the past because of increasing rates of risky drinking among women and stable or diminishing rates among men.
Women and Other Drugs
Women become dependent on marijuana, heroin, cocaine and certain psychoactive prescription drugs more quickly than men.
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Century Properties to complete 4 new projects in 2014
By editor| 2019-07-02T03:13:01+00:00 February 26th, 2014|Corporate News|
Listed real еstatе company Century Properties (CPG:PM) said it expects a full and busy year in 2014 with the construction and completion of its 4 projects in Metro Manila.
Company Executive Chairman of the Board Jose E.B. Antonio said the firm’s resolve in developing innovative real еstatе products for the market over the past years, coupled with a differentiated marketing strategy, resulted in successful property sales. This propelled the completion and turnover of several residential and commercial projects for Century this year.
Earlier Century reported that its reservation sales for 2013 rose to Php24.6 billion, the highest it has achieved in its history.
“Century Properties opened 2014 riding high with a record pre-sales growth, and we intend to keep this momentum going with the same aggressive and impassioned approach we took in the past year. The results were tremendous so we expect to perform no less in 2014,” Antonio said.
He added: “This month Century Properties will mark its 28th year in Philippine real еstatе. And the best way to celebrate this milestone is by handing over to our clients the keys to their much-awaited homes and investments. We will be busy completing projects for them this year and in the next few years.”
In December 2013, Century has completed more than 1,300 units of Knightsbridge Residences at Century City in Kalayaan Avenue, Makati. Unit inspections and turnover have started with unit owners.
Meanwhile, the Century City Mall is scheduled for a soft opening this month. The Company said 17,000 square meters of the retail center’s net leasable space is over 90% leased out to more than 100 tenants, including include a high-end supermarket, premium cinemas, café, restaurants, boutiques and specialty stores.
By the end of 2014, Century said it will turn over more than 500 clinic suites at Centuria Medical Makati, a 28-storey outpatient IT-medical arts building also at Century City.
There are three more buildings in the Century City development that are in various stages of development and construction, including Milano Residences (scheduled for a 2015 turnover), Trump Tower (scheduled for a 2016 turnover), the office-residential building called Century Spire (slated for a 2018 turnover).
Meanwhile, the Company will turn over by the end of February close to 600 units at the newly-completed St. Tropez building at the Azure Urban Resort Residences in Paranaque City. This is the third tower within the nine-building residential resort development, which has already turned over two towers totaling more than 1,300 units in 2013.
Construction of Azure’s third and fourth buildings has reached their top off stage, and Azure’s ninth tower, the Bahamas, launched more than 750 units recently.
In March, Century will officially open the Azure’s Paris Beach Club, a multi-level amenity center designed by Paris Hilton, with the international celebrity slated to personally grace the occasion.
Century Properties likewise announced that construction works are on schedule for its multi-tower, masterplanned community developments Acqua Private Residences in Mandaluyong City, and the Residences at Commonwealth in Quezon City.
Acqua’s first tower, Sutherland, will be turned over in 2015 and construction for the rest of the 6-tower development is ongoing. Meanwhile, construction continues for the first three buildings of the eight-tower Commonwealth development, with the first building scheduled for turnover also in 2015.
In the last five years, Century Properties has developed premium market leadership through design and partnering with world renowned brands such as Trump for the Trump Tower at Century City, Missoni Home for Acqua Livingstone residences, Versace Home for Milano Residences, John Hitchcox and Philippe Starck through yoo inspired by Starck for Acqua Iguazu residences, and Armani and Studio Daniel Libeskind for Century Spire.
Century Properties Group, Inc. is a forerunner of premium real еstatе developments in the Philippines. Since it was founded 28 years ago, Century Properties has transformed 744,576 square meters of space into premier residential and office developments in and outside Metro Manila. Its name has become synonymous with quality real еstatе projects that showcase the best of innovations and world-class design, with a desire to contribute to the transformation of the Philippines into a global destination.
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How to blend insight with data analytics to improve forecasts
Forecasts are more accurate when managers' insights and data analytics are combined, an Emory University professor says.
Robert Freedman @RobertFreedman
CFOs can improve the accuracy of their sales estimates — and, ultimately, earnings forecasts — by supplementing statistical modeling with the human-judgment side of forecasting, Karen Sedatole, an accounting professor at Emory University, told CFO Dive last week.
Sedatole and her co-authors have research coming out early next year showing improved sales estimates at an agriculture chemical company that used what she calls disaggregated forecasting. She’s also working on human-judgment research that looks at ways to better align incentives to more accurate forecasts.
Dividing estimates
In her research on disaggregated forecasting, she had the chemical company split its sales forecast into two estimates: one for sales to regular customers, and another for sales that are influenced by events that are hard to model ahead of time but that sales managers would typically be aware of.
“In the agriculture industry, much of the demand for your product comes from your regular customers — the Home Depot, the large growers — and it's pretty predictable,” Sedatole told CFO Dive. “You can forecast that a little easier. Then there are other sources of demand that are volatile. There might be a huge increase in demand for a product because of a drought in a certain part of the world, or an outbreak of a pest.”
For her test, Sedatole had sales managers keep logs tracking anomalous events they believed could affect demand. Once they believed an event would occur as predicted, they would upload their updated assumption to the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for use in the revised forecast.
“Once they decide that this event is pretty likely — we’re 90% sure this is going to happen next month — it gets moved into the official part of the forecast and the production planners incorporate it into the production planning process,” she said.
Sedatole measured results using a before-and-after analysis and determined managers’ input mattered. “We found it actually did reduce overall forecast error,” she said.
Aligning incentives
She's looking at other research that suggests CFOs can better align incentives to improve accuracy by understanding the bias human judgment introduces to the forecasting process.
Sedatole said there’s a built-in incentive for the sales organization to underestimate demand while the budget’s being prepared and to overestimate demand when the forecast is rolled out and updated throughout the year.
“Budgets are a little bit of a negotiation process,” she said. “When I’m negotiating my budget targets, with people higher up in the organization, I negotiate a sales target of 90, because my bonus is tied to meeting my targets and I think I can sell 100. That way, I make sure I meet my budget by the end of the year."
When it's time to forecast, the incentive on the sales side is to convince the production planner to make more, not fewer, units.
"If I tell them 90, the production manager is only going to produce 90 and then I will lose out on 10 units of sales, so I tell the production manager 100, or maybe even 105, because I want to make sure there’s enough," Sedatole said. "So, I set my budget at 90, but now I’m forecasting 105 to try to influence a decision on the operations side of the organization.”
Tapping human insight
Much of today's focus is on using data analytics to improve budgeting and forecasting, but more work on the human-judgment side is needed to tap into the potential to improve both, Sedatole said.
“The human aspect is where the biggest improvements in forecasting can come from,” she said. “Of course, data analytics are getting more sophisticated, but some of the improvement is going to come from the managerial judgment side, which may be a byproduct of changes in the way we incentivize managers when they generate those forecasts.”
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Donaldson To Be Honored for Evaluation Advocacy at Upcoming Conference
Professor Stewart Donaldson teaching an evaluation course in South Africa in 2014.
In the annals of evaluation history, Robert Ingle is considered a force of nature. Until his death in 1998, he was a passionate advocate of the evaluation profession and a major player in the formation of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and its conference, which brings together key figures annually to discuss the latest methodologies, research, and cutting-edge systems in evaluation.
The AEA conference confers the Robert B. Ingle Service Award to an individual whose passionate advocacy and commitment to building evaluation’s profile matches Ingle’s founding vision.
This month, during the AEA’s 32nd conference, held in Washington DC, the Robert B. Ingle Service Award will be given to CGU’s own Stewart Donaldson, Executive Director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and professor of Psychology and Community & Global Health.
Donaldson’s selection was announced by the AEA in a recent statement and on the organization’s website.
The statement praises Donaldson for continuing “to develop and lead one of the most extensive and rigorous Evaluation Centers and graduate programs specializing in evaluation at the Claremont Colleges.”
The announcement also cites recipients of several other awards, which will be given during the upcoming AEA conference.
Donaldson, who served for many years as dean of CGU’s School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation and School of Community & Global Health until his recent selection to lead the university’s CEC, was cited for his exemplary AEA service, including his contributions as an AEA board member, chair, and director of numerous related projects, and his efforts, as AEA president in 2015, to generate an inclusive theme that “inspired evaluation professionals and other stakeholders from all regions of the world.”
His selection for the award named in memory of the AEA’s Robert Ingle is deeply moving to him, Donaldson said.
“I’m so grateful and appreciative of the many wonderful colleagues and friends who have worked beside me,” he said, “and for those who nominated me for this very meaningful award.”
Visit the Claremont Evaluation Center to learn more.
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https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/humble/schools/article/Humble-ISD-ushers-in-centennial-year-with-13183673.php
Humble ISD ushers in centennial year with kick-off celebration
By Melanie Feuk, Staff Writer
Published 12:34 pm CDT, Sunday, August 26, 2018
Grace Bocca, center, a Summer Creek High School senior, leads the SCHS Starlettes during their performance at the Humble ISD Pep Rally for the community kicking off the district's Centennial Year Celebration in the arena at the Humble Civic Center on August 25, 2018. less
Grace Bocca, center, a Summer Creek High School senior, leads the SCHS Starlettes during their performance at the Humble ISD Pep Rally for the community kicking off the district's Centennial Year Celebration in ... more
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The Humble Independent School District’s student enrollment has grown by 3,000 percent since its inaugural school year, so it may come as no surprise that the school district’s centennial kick-off event was very well-attended.
Even as the event was just beginning, long lines of cars packed Will Clayton Parkway, requiring law enforcement presence to help direct traffic.
The Humble Civic Arena was packed on Saturday night, Aug. 25, with people eager to celebrate the beginning of Humble ISD’s 100th school year.
District officials, administrators, teachers, parents, students and community members — all were welcomed to the free event.
“What makes Humble ISD special is that it’s a community-wide family,” said Elizabeth Fagen, Humble ISD superintendent. “It’s not just a school, or a school district, but everyone is part of the Humble ISD community and have made the district what it is.”
Miguelina Simmons, teacher at Lakeland Elementary, believes that quality of education has a direct link to the sustainability of a community.
“We’re celebrating 100 years of Humble ISD and for me, you’ve got to educate your youth in order to sustain a well-developed economy,” Simmons said. “This is to celebrate education, overall, and I think it’s important to support that.”
While each district school was represented at the centennial kick-off, the event’s atmosphere promoted unity in celebrating the spirit of Humble ISD as a whole. Humble ISD’s high schools demonstrated that spirit when they joined forces for a multi-school pep rally; delighting event attendees.
Among those in attendance was Whitney Johnson, an Humble ISD educator as well as alumnus. She has family members who are also Humble ISD alumni and her two nephews are current Humble ISD students.
“I teach in Humble now and we just wanted to come celebrate because the district itself has meant a lot to my family,” Johnson said. “Being hired by my hometown district, I find I love the family aspect of it.”
For parent Elizabeth Parker, the district and community’s continued strength in Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath gave Humble ISD’s centennial kick-off a special significance.
“There’s certainly a lot to celebrate,” Parker said.
Humble ISD promises more celebratory centennial happenings to come throughout the 2018-2019 school year. The district plans to finish out its centennial school year in the spring with a grand celebration at Turner Stadium.
One of the centennial-based initiatives is a vast Humble ISD history database, which provides a well-organized collection of photographs and information dating back to even before the district was known as Humble ISD.
Lisa Aguilar was attending the event with her husband and children. Both Aguilar and her husband are educators and part of their impetus for attending was to show support for schools. Aguilar teaches at Humble Elementary, where two of her children attend. She sees the centennial as an opportunity for a learning experience.
“With history lessons especially,” Aguilar said. “Humble Elementary is the oldest elementary school in Humble, so you can show the whole history of the building, where it started and talk about how the school changed over time.”
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Woman, 25, in desperate need of kidney transplant makes heartbreaking plea for donor
Shiarn Daniels is in the last stage of kidney failure and is on dialysis every night to keep her alive - now she is appealing for a stranger to be her saviour
Katie Dickinson
Stuck in an agonising limbo as she waits for a new kidney, Shiarn Daniels has issued a heartbreaking plea for a stranger to save her life.
Shiarn's world was turned upside down last year when a test to find the source of her high blood pressure actually revealed that her kidney function had dropped to 16%.
The news came completely out of the blue and shattered her life as a normal, happy-go-lucky 25-year-old.
"Even the hospital aren't sure why it's rapidly dropped like that," said Shiarn.
Shiarn Daniels (Image: Newcastle Chronicle)
"It was because my blood pressure was sky high that I ended up getting tested - and they just found my kidney function was low."
Shiarn, from Walker, Newcastle, is now in the last stage of kidney failure, with her function having dropped to 8% since last year.
She has been told that her only hope is a kidney transplant and has been on the waiting list for a new organ since October.
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But a donor is proving difficult to find - and Shiarn is now appealing for an altruistic donor to save her life.
Family and friends have been tested in the hope of helping her, but the only person who proved to be a match decided not to go ahead with the transplant.
As she faces an anxious wait on the list, Shiarn is on dialysis every night to keep her alive.
(Image: Newcastle Chronicle)
Her condition has also forced her to stop working as a carer and claim benefits to help her get by.
"They've helped me to stay part-time, doing activities, but I can't lift things so doing my old job wasn't an option," said Shiarn.
"It's really taking a toll, I've been put on depression tablets because of it.
"With the kidney failure I'm constantly tired, exhausted, I find it hard to do daily tasks such as just simply walking to the shops.
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"I do get pain sometimes, especially when I'm using the machine, have sleepless nights and just get really down and depressed."
Shiarn's appeal for a stranger to be her saviour comes as new figures show 33 people in the North East have received a kidney transplant from a stranger in the last five years – thanks to someone they didn’t know donating altruistically while they are still alive.
Those who donate a kidney anonymously while they are alive are ‘game changers’ in the fight to increase the number of kidney transplants for those on the waiting list in the North East each year, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.
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Altruistic donations can start chains of up to three transplants through the UK’s kidney sharing schemes.
In 2018, 48% of non-directed altruistic donations in the UK formed part of a chain in the scheme compared to just 30% in 2017.
There are currently 220 people waiting for a kidney in the North East and 66 people have died on the transplant waiting list for a kidney in the last five years.
Shiarn said: "If there's anyone out there that wants to do something really good in their life and donate a kidney, please get in touch with the Freeman Hospital."
For more information on living donation visit www.organdonation.nhs.uk/livingdonation.
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The prayer which Jesus Christ taught to His disciples.
No Prayer for the Dying is the eighth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It marks their first line-up change since 1982; guitarist Adrian Smith left the band during the pre-production phase, unhappy with the musical direction it was taking, and only having contributed to one song, "Hooks in You".
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Gospel music has been around a long time and has a large following of religious people who love to sing the praises of god. Dealing with life's ups. The Gospel Music Association named God's Property the Dove Awards Urban Album of the Year in 1998. 3. 59 19. Pages of Life: Chapters I. A two CD set filled with so many songs of praise.
Here are 25 daddy-related songs to let ring this Father's Day, from Jay Z and Stevie Wonder showing love to their newborn daughters to Tupac Shakur giving his pops the finger and Madonna cursing hers as well. With Father's Day just around the corner, now is the time to think of the man that stood tall in your life from day one. Of course, not all us us are so lucky to have had ones. So from Jay Z and Stevie Wonder showing love to their newborn daughters to Tupac Shakur giving his pops the finger and Madonna cursing hers as well, here are some daddy-related cuts to let ring this Sunday. Closing out The Game's debut album, this emotional song chronicles the birth of the Compton rapper's son. Busta Rhymes sings the sentimental chorus: "But in the end I hope you only turn out better than me, I hope you know I love you young'n, like father, like so. Eric Clapton, "My Father's Eyes".
Album Boomer’s Story. Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer Lyrics. One of our planes was missing Two hours overdue One of our planes was missing With all its gallant crew The radio sets were humming We waited for a word Then a noise broke Through the humming and this is what we heard. Comin' in on a wing and a prayer Comin' in on a wing and a prayer Though there's one motor gone We can still carry on Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
Sustain, inspire and enlighten Your servants who bring them the Gospel. Bring fresh vigor to wavering faith; sustain our faith when it is still fragile. Continually renew missionary zeal in ourselves and in the Church; raise up new missionaries who will follow You to the ends of the world. Make us witnesses to Your goodness; full of love, strength and faith – for Your glory and the salvation of the entire world. A Prayer for Missions.
Madonna made history with ‘Like a Prayer’ album. 28 years ago this week, Madonna released what is not only her best album to date, but also what could be the most important release ever by a female artist. That’s not to say that Like a Prayer is the best album ever by a female artist, but it’s pretty close. The aftermath of Like a Prayer was groundbreaking in that Madonna beat the religious right at their own attempted game of censorship. Their efforts caused Pepsi to drop Madonna as a spokesperson, but they completely failed at hurting Madonna’s success or censoring the video. Even if you aren’t convinced that the Like a Prayer video is an artistic masterpiece, the song Like a Prayer has stood on its own. Not only has Rolling Stone and Billboard praised it as one of the best pop songs of all time, but the song has become a spiritual classic, even for those who aren’t fans of Madonna.
A A Prayer For Daddy In Vietnam
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VA suspends Temeck over improper prescriptions
Barbara Temeck, who pointed out problems at Cincinnati VA, faces possible prosecution, says she is being retaliated against.
VA suspends Temeck over improper prescriptions Barbara Temeck, who pointed out problems at Cincinnati VA, faces possible prosecution, says she is being retaliated against. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2p89a1Q
Anne Saker, asaker@enquirer.com Published 8:40 p.m. ET April 22, 2017 | Updated 11:57 a.m. ET April 26, 2017
Dr. Barbara Temeck, who until February had been the "acting" chief of staff at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.(Photo: The Enquirer/Kareem Elgazzar)
VA officials have indefinitely suspended the deputy chief of staff at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center for writing three prescriptions for a private patient, an action that her lawyer said served as a “publicity stunt” to cover up the VA’s relationship with UC Health.
Dr. Barbara Temeck, a Veterans Affairs surgeon and administrator of more than three decades, stands at the center of a years-long struggle over the troubled Cincinnati VA, which cares for 43,000 veterans in the region
Her lawyer, Ken Hawley of Cincinnati, said the suspension began Wednesday and will most likely be followed by a firing. Hawley said he would appeal the job action. The notice said the suspension does not involve Temeck’s professional conduct or competence.
In addition to the suspension, Temeck is facing the prospect of criminal charges as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio is reviewing a federal investigative report about her.
Temeck told The Enquirer she believes Dr. David Shulkin, now the VA secretary, is the prime force behind her punishment. Temeck said removing her papers over the VA’s problems with UC Health and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, which she tried to correct.
Shulkin is scheduled to be the featured speaker at the May 20 commencement for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Hawley said his review of VA records shows Temeck is getting discipline not imposed on even extreme cases of VA prescription misuse.
In an April 5 statement to regional VA director Robert McDivitt, Temeck said the proposed suspension is aimed less at dealing with the prescriptions and more at “the goal of getting rid of me so that the fraud, waste and mismanagement at the Cincinnati VA can continue.”
“I know, Mr. McDivitt, that you have been instructed by Dr. Shulkin to do what you are doing,” Temeck’s statement said. “I implore you, though, to do what is best for the veterans and stop covering up the serious issues that I have exposed.”
Hawley said he believes a decision about the suspension will likely come before the end of April.
Threads to larger problem
Officials at the VA and the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined requests to comment on the Temeck case. Cincinnati VA Medical Center Director Vivian Hutson, a U.S. Army veteran who came aboard in October, had no comment. McDivitt’s spokesman, Carl Higginbotham, said, “The matter is still ongoing, and he didn’t want to comment further on it.”
Jennifer Thornton, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney, said the office “is aware of this matter. We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any grand jury investigation.”
Requests for comment from Shulkin, the VA secretary, have not been answered.
Temeck’s circumstances speak to a larger problem in the VA: For more than 70 years, the nation's medical schools have been sending its graduates to residencies at VAs from coast to coast. But that shared relationship has over time turned sour in places primarily because the VA does not conduct much accountability with medical schools and the nonprofits that run teaching hospitals, government reports indicate.
Last year, a Government Accountability Office report found the VA exercised little oversight when contracting with teaching hospitals and the affiliated medical practices. A 2015 VA inspector general's study found that contracting between the VA and University of Pittsburgh Physicians was so lax that doctors billed the VA for every hour in a single month.
In June, a hearing of a House Veterans Affairs subcommittee heard that affiliates sometimes dictate contract terms, take possession of VA property and steer money away from VA research nonprofits – all with little or no oversight.
Temeck, a Georgetown University-trained cardiothoracic surgeon who has spent her 35-year career at the VA, arrived in Cincinnati in July 2013 as the hospital’s deputy chief of staff and acting chief of staff. She told The Enquirer she immediately noticed irregularities: Full-time VA doctors were working at UC Health while on federal time. The hospital was incorrectly staffed so that caregivers made as much as $50,000 a year just in overtime. She reassigned nurses and other providers but got pushback from employees whose pay would have been cut.
Temeck also found the VA often was needlessly sending veterans to UC Medical Center for care that the VA could provide. The VA pays UC Health about $40 million a year for that care.
Temeck's management so upset doctors and nurses that they called at least two meetings with Jack Hetrick, the regional VA director at the time, to complain. Officials of the UC College of Medicine twice stopped the VA from promoting Temeck to the chief of staff job permanently.
A newly released investigation did not back up many of Temeck's key allegations. Dr. Eugene Goldman, of the Coatesville VA Medical Center in eastern Pennsylvania, led the inquiry from October until last month. Temeck was required to speak to the inquiry under oath, while interviews with UC officials "under an agreement" with the inquiry "were conducted unsworn, and the format was conversational."
The heavily blacked-out report, released this week to The Enquirer under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, blamed Temeck herself for the problems that she uncovered: "If Dr. Temeck had any actual evidence of wrongdoing on the part of . . . any staff under her organizational division, she was empowered as the (word removed) chief of staff to take corrective actions, including disciplinary actions."
Complaints to headquarters
In September 2015, more than 30 doctors, nurses and other staffers – including third-generation Cincinnati orthopedic surgeon Richard Freiberg – complained about Temeck to Robert McDonald of Indian Hill, former chairman of Procter & Gamble and then the VA secretary. When that complaint did not remove Temeck, the letter writers went public, which led to stories in February 2016 by WCPO.com accusing Temeck of creating a culture of intimidation.
The stories also revealed that Temeck had written prescriptions for painkillers for Kathleen Hetrick, a former VA nurse who is the wife of Jack Hetrick, the former VA regional director.
The VA is not immune to problems with prescription misuse. In one instance, VA nurse practitioners in Jackson, Mississippi, were prescribing medications to patients without adequate licensing or oversight. At least one doctor said superiors pressured doctors to write prescriptions for patients they hadn't seen.
In a statement this month defending herself, Temeck told the VA that she and the Hetricks had been friends for years and VA co-workers. She had overseen Kathleen Hetrick’s medical care since 2002 when Hetrick was injured on the job in a VA hospital, but Temeck had never prescribed drugs. But when Hetrick was between doctors, Temeck wrote three prescriptions in December 2012, November 2013 and May 2013, under her federal drug license issued through the VA, which is to be used only for VA patients.
Temeck wrote two prescriptions for 30-day supplies of diazepam (brand name Valium) and one for hydrocodone (brand name Vicodin).
Hawley, Temeck's lawyer, said that when the prescriptions became public, agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration questioned Temeck. She acknowledged writing the prescriptions and surrendered her DEA license.
"We thought the matter had ended there," Hawley said, since the VA has not punished other doctors for prescription problems with the kind of career-ending consequences facing Temeck. "They want to silence Dr. Temeck to maintain the relationship with UC,” he said. “They are retaliating against her in a way they have never treated another VA doctor.”
In the suspension proposal given to Temeck earlier this month, the VA accused Temeck of writing the prescriptions to curry favor with the regional director. But Temeck said she had no reason to do so since at the time the prescriptions were written, she was at another VA hospital and not under Jack Hetrick’s supervision.
Temeck said that in the fall of 2013, shortly after she arrived in Cincinnati, she connected Kathleen Hetrick with a VA pain doctor, and that was the last time she was involved in Kathleen Hetrick's care. Temeck said she did not know how the information about the three prescriptions became public. The Hetricks didn't authorize the release.
Potential HIPAA violation?
Hawley said the public release of Kathleen Hetrick's medical records to WCPO.com violates the federal medical privacy law known as HIPAA since the Hetricks never authorized the release.
In February 2016, the VA’s office of inspector general determined Temeck “inappropriately” prescribed medication under her DEA license. Though she kept her title as deputy chief of staff, Temeck was reassigned to a data-entry job in the basement of the Cincinnati VA, where she has been ever since.
Hawley said he has learned from Cincinnati VA insiders that during a visit to the facility last fall, David Shulkin, then the VA undersecretary in charge of VA hospitals, explicitly directed hospital leaders to remove Temeck. A few weeks later, hospital managers tried to persuade an oversight board of hospital doctors to remove Temeck’s clinical privileges to pave the way for her removal. The board did not do so.
Shulkin was the VA's undersecretary of health under President Baral Obama, and President Donald Trump nominated Shulkin to the top job this year. Shulkin, the first non-veteran to head the department, was a hospital executive before joining the VA in 2015, and he has made management accountability one of his goals at the VA.
The office of inspector general finished its report on Temeck in August and turned it over to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, said OIG spokesman Michael Nacincik in Washington. The federal prosecutor could ask a grand jury to indict Temeck on felony charges of writing a prescription outside the scope of her DEA license.
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AMD Names Lenovo President as Next CEO
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AMD has named Rory Read, the president and COO of Lenovo, as its new CEO, replacing Dirk Meyer, who resigned in January.
Eight months after Dirk Meyer resigned as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, the world s second-largest chip maker has found a replacement from the executive ranks of PC vendor Lenovo.
AMD on Aug. 25 announced that Rory Read is the new president and CEO of AMD. Read most recently was president and COO of Lenovo, and prior to that had spent 23 years with IBM. Read also will be on the company s board of directors.
AMD Board Chairman Bruce Claflin noted Read s record of driving profit growth during his time with Lenovo as a key asset that he brings to the chip vendor.
"He is ideally suited to accelerate AMD's evolution into the world's leading semiconductor design company," Claflin said in a statement. "As president and COO of Lenovo, he helped take the company into dynamic new markets while growing market share and expanding profitability. His sound strategic thinking and natural customer orientation will help amplify the voice of the customer inside AMD."
According to AMD, Read was in charge of Lenovo's day-to-day operations worldwide, including pushing forward the company's growth strategy. He was responsible for double-digit revenue growth and market share gains. He had been president and COO at Lenovo for the past two years.
"I'm very pleased to be joining AMD at this important time in its history," Read said in a statement. "AMD is a true innovator and is uniquely positioned to lead the industry forward, delivering the next big thing both within the PC ecosystem and beyond. AMD has strong momentum and the opportunity to continue profitably gaining share based on its highly differentiated products, solid financial foundation, and passionate and committed employees."
Read s appointment brings stability to AMD as it pushes forward its Fusion strategy. AMD's Fusion APUs (accelerated processing units) offer the graphics chip and CPU on the same piece of silicon, a move designed to improve the performance and energy efficiency of the chips. AMD rolled out the first of its Fusion processors at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in January.
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Wigan 0 v 2 - Chelsea Match Report - 19 August 2012
Now that's what I call a start!
Within seven minutes of the first match of the new season Chelsea were up 0 v 2 against a sleepy Wigan team that were obviously suffering from early season nerves. The first goal was a terrific finish from Ivanovic, the second from a (slightly lucky) penalty from super Franky Lampard.
Ivanovic's lung busting run got him in the perfect position to get on the end of a defence-splitting pass from Hazard (who had spun his marker brilliantly). And it was also Hazard who was bundled over in the area to win us the penalty. So it's fair to say that Hazard looks well up for the EPL!
When you remember that the Latics have endured 6-0 and 8-0 defeats by Chelsea in recent seasons, the home fans at the DW Stadium must have feared the worst after Chelsea went 0 v 2 up so early on...but unfortunately those fears were unfounded, as our two goals were our only two shots for the rest of the first half. And, truth be told, the second half wasn't that much better. As Chelsea decided to stay in cruise control, rather than step it up a gear (or two) to finish off the game. (Have we learnt nothing about the importance of goal difference come the end of the season?)
The take out from this game is that Hazard ISN'T our new Robben (as many had hoped), but instead looks more like our new Joe Cole. Which is another way of saying he's a tricky player with a GREAT turn / turn of pace, rather than an explosive skillmeister who will take on (and beat) half a dozen players, ten times a match. Plus, he looks very unfit, and faded noticeably as the match wore on.
Other things that stood out in this match are that Oscar looked very comfortable in the traditional number 10 role (we've an embarrassment of riches in this position it seems), when he replaced Hazard mid-way through the second half. And that I see now why we're linked with Victor Moses. Because he popped up on both wings for Wigan today, looked comfortable with either foot, and made a COMPLETE MUG out of both Ashley Cole and Branislav Ivanovic ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. So expect him to be a Chelsea player by the end of the next week.
Prior to watching this match, I've always seen Moses as a 'Poor man's alternative to Hulk'. But on this form he could prove a whole lot more than that. Sure, he's still got a fair bit to learn, and his distribution leaves a lot to be desired. But eight to ten million pounds for a 21 year old with that much natural ability will be viewed as an absolute steal when we look back on the deal in years to come (so long as he lives up to his potential of course).
Where that leaves the Hulk deal, I've no idea. Because I can't see us buying both of them.
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Penn's Fish House Restaurants founder Roger Penn dies
Restaurants bearing the founder's name grew from one, opened in 1967 in Canton, to 14 in Mississippi.
Penn's Fish House Restaurants founder Roger Penn dies Restaurants bearing the founder's name grew from one, opened in 1967 in Canton, to 14 in Mississippi. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/06/14/penns-fish-house-restaurants-founder-roger-penn-dies/1456349001/
Harold Gater, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 11:33 a.m. CT June 14, 2019 | Updated 12:51 p.m. CT June 14, 2019
This 2001 photo shows customers enjoying the lunch buffet at Penn's Fish House on Lakeland Drive. (Photo: Clarion Ledger)
Roger Penn, the founder of Penn's Fish House Restaurants, died Friday morning.
This 2001 photo shows Roger Penn, the founder and owner of Penn's Fish House. (Photo: Clarion Ledger)
Penn, 84, died at his Hinds County farm surrounded by his family, according to an Ott & Lee funeral home obituary. Restaurants bearing his name grew from one, opened in 1967 in Canton, to 14 in Mississippi.
Penn started franchising through Penn's Express Restaurants in 2001. Penn's Fish House Restaurants is known for its catfish and chicken-on-a-stick.
Visitation will be held 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Ott & Lee Funeral Home in Morton. Funeral services will be held 4 p.m. Sunday at the Penn farm at 1153 Midway Road in Hinds County. The burial will be in the Penn Family Cemetery.
Contact Harold Gater at 601-961-7368 or hgater@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter.
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1916 Calendar advertising Autocrat Linen Writing Paper
Holyoke, Mass. White & Wyckoff Manufacturing Co., 1915. [12] leaves: illustrations; 16 x 8.2 cm. Attached to cardboard backing showing all 12 months of the year and a hook to hang from. Each leaf contains an illustration in the upper half with a caption about Autocrat Linen Writing Paper and..... More
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Detroit: Standard Accident Insurance Co., 1910. Hardcover. [60] pages of rules paper; 11 cm. Flexible green cloth with logo for the Standard Accident Insurance Co. in black on the front. Information about that insurance company on paper lining front and back cover. Inside the front cover is a space left..... More
Agenda des Grands Magasins du Printemps 1932
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Philadelphia: Consolidation National Bank, 1892. 1 leaf 24 cm. Engraved. "James V. Watson, President. Edward H. Ogden, Vice President. Edwin H. Webb, Cashier." Dated July 15, 1892, and addressed to A. E. Patton, cashier of the First National Bank of Curwensville, Pa. Consolidation National Bank was established in 1855 as..... More
Contract Bridge Score Book Compliments of D. W. Clark's Walk-Over Shoe Store, Staten Island
New York: D. W. Clark's Walk-Over Shoe Store, 1932. Staplebound. [16] p.: tables; 17 cm. Stapled brown cover printed in black. Contract bridge scoring information on inside of front cover. A few pages have been removed; the remainder have not been used. Running title: Walk-Over Shoes." Scarce. In Very Good..... More
Fifth Annual of Advertising Art: From Advertisements Shown at the Exhibition of the Art Directors Club, Art Center, New York, May 5 to 29
New York: Art Directors Club, 1926. Hardcover. [20], 136, [32] p., color frontispiece: color and black-and-white illustrations; 29 cm. Yellow and green cover with spine and cover titles. Black endpapers. Artists represented include: Edward Steichen, E. A. Georgi, Henry Raleigh, Walter Biggs, Lucille Patterson Marsh, Frank Swift Chase, Edward A...... More
First Aid [Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound pamphlet]
Lynn, Mass. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., 1930. Paperback. 32 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Stapled; wrappers printed in yellow and black with a front wrapper photograph of a girl in a nurse costume taking care of her patient collie, signed: Anne Shriber. No date of publication but there is a...... More
First National Bank of Altoona [letterhead] 1892 addressed to Alexander Ennis Patton
Altoona, Pa. First National Bank of Altoona, 1892. 1 leaf 23 cm. Engraved. "John Lloyd, Cashier" has lines printed over it and below is added: "Henry Cryder, Cashier." Dated July 12, 1892, and addressed to A. E. Patton, cashier of the First National Bank of Curwensville, Pa. Alexander Ennis Patton..... More
Fort Pitt National Bank [letterhead] 1892 addressed to Alexander Ennis Patton
Pittsburgh, Pa. Fort Pitt National Bank, 1892. 1 leaf 22 cm. Engraved. "D. Leet Wilson, Prest. Andrew W. Herron, Cashr." Dated July 2, 1892, and addressed to A. E. Patton, cashier of the First National Bank of Curwensville, Pa. Alexander Ennis Patton (1852-1904) became the president of the First National..... More
The Franklin Line Mouldings and Picture Frames [advertising flyer]
Chicago: S. Franklin & Co., 1905. Advertising flyer (18 x 22 cm.) printed in black on one side. Offers the company's free catalog of moldings and picture frames. The company, located at 10-26 Waller St., Chicago, manufactured moldings and frames, which were also available at Drescher & Cusson, New York..... More
General Electric Fan Motors -- 1906 [color advertisement]
S.l. General Electric Co., 1906. 1 leaf (19 x 14 cm.) with color advertisement for the electric fan sold by General Electric. With a striking color illustration of a Dutch woman in wooden shoes in the fore-ground, with the wind blowing her dress, and a traditional wooden windmill in the..... More
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Bayr is gifted with inhuman strength. But he’s also blessed with an all-too-human heart that beats with one purpose: to protect Alba.
One innocent human girl. Twenty-five supernatural bachelors. Six weeks to choose The One.
When struggling actress Kimmie-Jayne Starr discovers she’s snagged the starring role on the next huge reality TV show, Hitched, she thinks all her dreams have finally come true. But as soon as she lands on the beautiful island of Mystic Cove, something feels wrong. As a string of strange accidents on set grow deadlier, Kimmie realizes there’s much more to this dating show than she ever could’ve imagined.
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AUTHOR JENNIFER L. ARMETROUT
HALF-BLOOD (BOOK 1)
The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden.Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.
AUTHOR BRODI ASHTON
EVERNEATH
Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.
Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.
As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen.
Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton.
(some mild swear words, kissing, and some violence)
AUTHOR ANNA BANKS
OF POSEIDON (BOOK 1)
Galen, a Syrena prince, searches land for a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. It's while Emma is on vacation at the beach that she meets Galen. Although their connection is immediate and powerful, Galen's not fully convinced that Emma's the one he's been looking for. That is, until a deadly encounter with a shark proves that Emma and her Gift may be the only thing that can save his kingdom. He needs her help--no matter what the risk.
AUTHOR HELEN BOSWELL
Hope Gentry doesn’t believe in Fate. Born with an unusual power to see the dark memories of those around her, Hope just wants to be a normal teenager. But on the first day of her senior year of high school, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to a transfer student named Micah Condie. At first glance, Micah seems like a boy that most girls would dream about. But when Hope's powers allow her to discover Micah's darkest secret, she quickly becomes entangled in the lives of mythical entities she never dreamed existed. Was this her destiny all along? And will her powers help her survive the evil of the Demon Impiorum?
Mythology isn’t just for English class anymore.
(mild swearing, mild violence, kissing, cautionary mention of alcohol and drug use)
AUTHOR NELY CAB
CREATURA (BOOK 1 IN THE CREATURA SERIES)
Isis can control her dreams. Or she could—until recently. The creature in her nightmares has been haunting her for months. As if being dumped wasn’t bad enough, now she dreads going to sleep. She decides to confront the creature and win back some of her peace; only, she finds that he’s not a monster and he’s not a dream. A sacrifice for love, a shocking discovery and a jealous ex-boyfriend blur the lines between reality and dreams, making it hard to tell who the real monsters are.
Who would’ve known…that sometimes love is lethal?
(some swearing including use of a couple harsher swear words, some violent scenes)
AUTHOR KIERA CASS
From Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a captivating stand-alone fantasy romance.
Kahlen is a Siren, bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human—a kind, handsome boy who's everything Kahlen ever dreamed of. Falling in love puts them both in danger . . . but Kahlen can't bear to stay away. Will she risk everything to follow her heart?
(mild swearing, some violent scenes, kissing)
AUTHOR MIMI CROSS
SHINING SEA
Seventeen-year-old Arion Rush has always played the obedient sidekick to her older sister’s flashy femme fatale—until a mysterious boating accident leaves Lilah a silent, traumatized stranger. As her sister awaits medical treatment with their mother, Arion and their father head to his hometown in Maine to prepare a new life for them all. Surrounded by the vast Atlantic, songwriting is Arion’s only solace, her solid ground.
Unexpectedly, Arion blossoms in the tiny coastal town. Friends flock to her, and Logan Delaine, a volatile heartthrob, seems downright smitten. But it’s Bo Summers—a solitary surfer, as alluring as he is aloof—that Arion can’t shake. Meanwhile, Lilah’s worsening condition, a string of local fatalities, and Arion’s own recent brushes with death seem ominously linked…to Bo’s otherworldly family. As Arion’s feelings for Bo intensify and his affections turn possessive, she must make a choice. How will Arion learn to listen to her own voice when Bo’s siren song won’t stop ringing in her ears?
AUTHOR SARAH DALEY
DROWNING SANDY ~ PREQUEL SALMON RIVER ROMANCE (A NOVELLA)
The water is calling...
and Sandy can no longer resist the urge to unleash her mermaid form. But a simple swim in Lake Ontario ends when she discovers the truth of her own banishment. When long time crush, Dylan, seems to shift in a direction she never dreamed possible, Sandy must make a choice — mermaid or human? Once she chooses, she can never go back.
(some intense scenes, kissing)
AUTHOR KRISTEN DAY
FORSAKEN (BOOK 1)
Once you’ve been touched by darkness, it never leaves you…
Abandoned by her parents as an infant; seventeen year old Hannah spent her childhood wading through countless foster families until being adopted by the Whitmans three years ago. Unfortunately, Atlanta’s high society wasn’t quite ready for Hannah…or the strange events that plague her
Chilling visions of murder, unexplained hallucinations, and a dark, mysterious guy who haunts her nightmares all culminate to set in motion a journey of self-discovery that will challenge everything she’s ever believed; not to mention her sanity.
Sent to live at The House of Lorelei on Bald Head Island, NC for ‘kids like her’, Hannah quickly realizes things are not what they seem. Her fellow ‘disturbed’ teens are actually the descendants of mythical Sea Gods and Goddesses. And so is she.
But when Finn, the ghost from her dreams, appears in the flesh; her nightmares become reality and her dark visions begin coming true. Inexplicably drawn to him, she can’t deny the dangerous hold he has on her heart. The deadly secrets he harbors will ultimately test her courage and push the boundaries of her love.
She must decide if she is ready to embrace the ancient legend she is prophesized to be a part of. The fate of all the descendants will forever depend upon it.
(violent scenes (including attempted rape), and sensual kissing)
AUTHOR JENNIFER DERRICK
BROKEN FATE
Zeus gave her one simple job: Kill every human. Atropos—daughter of Zeus and the third goddess of Fate from Greek mythology —spends her eternal life snipping human lifelines when their mortal lives are over. As if being a killer doesn’t make life miserable enough, she and her Fate-wielding sisters must live amongst the humans on Earth thanks to a long-running feud between their mother and Zeus. Living on Earth means they must mingle with the mortals, attend the local high school, and attempt to fit in—or at least not stand out too much.
Killing and mingling don’t mix, which is why Atropos’ number-one rule is to avoid all relationships with the humans. Caring for the people she has to kill is a fast track to insanity. However, when Alex Morgan walks into her first-period English class, she knows she’s in for trouble. He’s the worst kind of human for her to like—one with a rapidly approaching expiration date. And he makes Atropos want to break all the rules.
AUTHOR CHRISTY DORRITY
AWAKENING (BOOK 1 OF THE GEIS)
...because some Celtic stories won't be contained in myth.
A little magic has always run in sixteen-year-old McKayla McCleery's family-at least that's what she's been told. McKayla's eccentric Aunt Avril travels the world as a psychic for the FBI, and her mother can make amazing delicacies out of the most basic of ingredients. But McKayla doesn't think for a second that the magic is real-it's just good storytelling. Besides, McKayla doesn't need magic. She recently moved to beautiful Star Valley, Wyoming, and already she has a best friend, a solo in her upcoming ballet recital-and the gorgeous guy in her physics class keeps looking her way.
When an unexpected fascination with Irish dance leads McKayla to seek instruction from the mute, crippled janitor at her high school, she learns that her family is not the only one with unexplained abilities.
After Aunt Avril comes to Star Valley in pursuit of a supernatural killer, people begin disappearing, and the lives of those McKayla holds most dear are threatened. When the janitor reveals that an ancient curse, known as a geis, has awakened deadly powers that defy explanation, McKayla is forced to come to terms with what is real and what is fantasy.
A thrilling debut novel based in Celtic mythology, Awakening is a gripping young adult fantasy rife with magic, romance, and mystery.
AUTHOR D. G. DRIVER
CRY OF THE SEA (BOOK 1)
Juniper Sawfeather is the teen daughter of environmental activists. When she helps her father document damage at a reported oil spill, she discovers three mermaids washed up on the beach covered with oil. In her efforts to rescue the mermaids, she soon finds herself in the middle of a struggle between her parents, the media, a marine biologist (and his handsome young intern), the popular clique at school, and the oil company over the fate of the mermaids. Can she protect them from being exploited? Or killed?
2nd place in the 2016 Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Awards (Green/Environmental category)
2nd place in the YA category of the 2015 Green Book Festival for environmental fiction.
(very little swearing, sensual kissing)
AUTHORS JAYMIN EVE & JANE WASHINGTON
TRICKERY (BOOK 1)
Willa Knight: Dweller. Slave. Non-magical being.
In Minatsol, being a dweller means that you are literally no better than dirt. In fact, dirt might actually be more useful than Willa. Her life will be one of servitude to the sols, the magic-blessed beings who could one day be chosen to become gods.
At least her outer village is far removed from the cities of the sols, and she won’t ever be forced to present herself to them... Until one small mistake changes everything, and Willa is awarded a position to serve at Blesswood, the top sol academy in the world—a position that she definitely did not earn.
Under the sudden, watchful eye of the gods, she will be tasked to serve the Abcurse brothers, five sols built of arrogance, perfection and power. They are almost gods themselves, and under their service she is either going to end up sentenced to death, or else they are going to ruin her so badly that she will wish for it.
Either way, she is in trouble.
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