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Keystone Professor
Wilson Elkins Professor (2013-2015)
Director, Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics
3118 Glenn L. Martin Hall, Bldg 088
duncan@umd.edu
Sc. B, Brown University, 1971.
M. S. The Johns Hoplins University, 1973.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1979
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1999.
Poole and Kent Teaching Award for Senior Faculty of the College of Engineering, University of Maryland 2003.
Distinguished Scholar Teacher University of Maryland 2004.
Wilson H. Elkins Professorship, University System of Maryland, 2013-2015.
Keystone Professor, College of Engineering, University of Maryland, 2007 - present.
Michael A. Sadowsky Lecture in Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April, 1999.
Peachman Lecturer, Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, February 2011.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Associate Editor 2010-2017
American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics:
Secretary-Treasurer 2003-2006
Coordinator of the Gallery of Fluid Motion 2001-2012
Chair of the Annual Meeting Press Relations Committee 2008-2012
Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee 2010-2013
Chairmanship Track of the Executive Committee 2012-2016
Experimental and theoretical/numerical investigations of fluid flows: breaking water waves, cavitation and explosion bubbles interacting with compliant boundaries, turbulent boundary layers flows interacting with compliant walls and free surfaces, and fluid-structure interactions.
ENME 331, Fundamental of Fluid Mechanics
ENES 221, Dynamics
ENME 640, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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Air Entrainment and Surface Fluctuations in a Turbulent Ship Hull Boundary Layer, Naeem Masnadi, Martin A. Erinin, Nathan Washuta, Farshad Nasiri, Elias Balaras and James H. Duncan, accepted for publication in J. Ship Research, May, 2019.
The Oblique Impact of a Flexible Plate on a Quiescent Water Surface, A. Wang, H. Kim, K. P. Wong, M. Yu, K. T. Kiger and J. H. Duncan, J. Ship Research, 63(3), 154-164, 2019. DOI: 10.5957/JOSR.10180093.
The Controlled Vertical Impact of a Moderately Inclined Flat Plate on a Quiescent Water Surface, A. Wang and J. H. Duncan, J. Fluid Mech., 879, 468-511, 2019, DOI;10.1017.jfm.2019.630.
Spray Generation by a Plunging Breaker, M. A. Erinin, S. D. Wang, R. Liu, D. Towle, X. Liu and J. H. Duncan, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 46. Issue 14, pp. 8244-8251, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082831. Featured on GRL cover (Vol. 46, Issue 14), Eos Buzz, Eos Research Spotlight (doi:10.1029/2019EO129873), and phys.org.
The impact of a deep-water plunging breaker on a wall with its bottom edge close to the mean water surface, A. Wang, C. M.Ikeda, J.H.Duncan, D.,P. Lathrop, M. J. Cooker and A. M. Fullerton, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 843, pp. 680-721, doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.109, 2018.
A model of radar backscatter of rain-generated stalks on the ocean surface, X. Liu, Q. Zheng, R. Liu, M. Sletten and J. H. Duncan, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 55, Issue 2, pp. 767-776, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2614897, 2017.
The Generation of Gravity-Capillary Solitary Waves by a Pressure Source Moving at a Trans-critical Speed, M. Masnadi and J. H. Duncan, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 810, pp. 448-474, DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2016.658, 2017.
Observations of Gravity-Capillary Lump Interactions, N. Masnadi, and J. H. Duncan, J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 814, DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2017.50, 2017.
A study of radar backscattering from water surface in response to rainfall, X. Liu, Q. Zheng, R. Liu, D. Wang, J. H. Duncan and S. J. Huang, J. Geophys. Res. - Oceans, Vol. 121, Issue 3, pp.\ 1546-1562, DOI: 10.1002/2015JC010975, 2016.
The pressure field of Imploding lightbulbs, M. Czechanowski, C. Ikeda and J. H. Duncan, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 56, Issue 3, DOI: 10.1007/s00348-015-1913-y, 2015.
C. M. Ikeda, J. Wilkerling and J. H. Duncan, “The Implosion of Cylindrical Shell Structures in a High-Pressure Water Environment”, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. Series A, Vol. 469, 20130443, 2013
Kiger, K. T.; Duncan, J. H., “Air-Entrainment Mechanisms in Plunging Jets and Breaking Waves”, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 44, pp. 563-596, 2012.
Maxeiner, E., Shakeri, M., Duncan, J. H., "A Parametric Study of Breaking Bow Waves using a 2D+T Technique”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 687, pp. 540-570, 2011.
Gomez-Ledesma, R., Kiger, K. T., Duncan, J. H. “The Impact of a Translating Plunging Jet on a Pool of the Same Liquid”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 680 pp. 5-30, 2011.
Diorio, J. D., Cho, Y., Duncan, J. H. and Akylas, T., “Resonantly Forced Gravity-Capillary Lumps on Deep Water. Part 1. Experiments”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 672, pp. 268-287, 2011.
Cho, Y., Diorio, J. D., Akylas, T., and Duncan, J. H. “Resonantly Forced Gravity-Capillary Lumps on Deep Water. Part 2. Theoretical Model”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 672, pp. 288-306, 2011.
J. D. Diorio, Y. Cho, J. H. Duncan, and T. R. Akylas, "Resonantly forced gravity--capillary lumps on deep water. Part 1. Experiments," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November, 2010.
Y. Cho, J. D. Diorio, T. R. Akylas, and J. H. Duncan, "Resonantly forced gravity--capillary lumps on deep water. Part 2. Theory," Journal of Fluid Mechanics,November, 2010.
Diorio, J. D., Cho, Y., Duncan, J. H. and Akylas, T., “Gravity-Capillary Lumps Generated by a Moving Pressure Source, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 201, Issue 21, Article Number: 214502, 2009.
J. Diorio, X. Liu and J. H. Duncan, "An Experimental Investigation of Incipient Spilling Breaking," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 633, pp. 271-283, 2009.
Shakeri, M., Tavakolinejad, M., and Duncan, J. H., “An Experimental Investigation of Divergent Bow Waves Simulated by a Two-Dimensional plus Time Technique”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 634, pp. 217-243, 2009.
Shakeri, M., Maxeiner, E.; Fu, T. and Duncan, J. H., “An Experimental Examination of the 2D+T Approximation”, Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 53, Issue 2, pp. 59-67, 2009.
DeVoe Awarded Elkins Professorship
UMD professor to develop new technology for studying individual cell behavior.
Maryland Engineers Receive Coronavirus Research Seed Fund Awards
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a torrent of creativity from researchers eager to help society through this difficult passage.
UMD Research in Sea Spray Formation Featured on the Cover of Geophysical Research Letters
New research exploring sea spray formation shows three distinct areas where spray droplets occur.
Burgers Program Features Topics in Turbulence
Graduate students from 30 universities and 7 countries come to College Park.
Five Mechanical Engineering Graduate Students Named Future Faculty Fellows
Clark School program prepares graduate students for future academic career.
Bruck Named a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Professor Hugh Bruck named one of six Distinguished Scholar-Teachers for the 2016-2017 school year.
Mechanical Engineering Professors Receive DURIP Awards
Two professors win awards to support new research instrumentation.
Duncan Completes Chairmanship Track, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Mechanical Engineering Professor James Duncan completes APS DFD Chairmanship Track, will serve as Past Chair.
Alumna Receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award
Alumna Christine Ikeda receives $510,000 grant to improve high-speed watercraft designs that reduce weight and improve efficiency.
Duncan Receives Wilson H. Elkins Professorship
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Robotics Team Mentored by UMD Students Advances to FIRST Championship Competition
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Clark School Faculty Win DoD Awards
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STS Program Has New Director
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Mechanical Engineering Recognizes Faculty Accomplishments
Edward B. Magrab honored at reception recognizing distinguished service to campus and department.
ME PhD Student James Diorio Awarded ARCS Fellowship
Diorio is advised by Professor of Mechanical Engineering James Duncan.
Mechanical Engineering at Maryland Hosts Tsunami Science Forum
Forum Part of Greater Campus Tsunami Relief Day
Professors Wallace, Duncan Elected to Ameican Physical Society Division Executive Committee
This division is the principal professional organization for over five-thousand fluid dynamicists in the U.S. and abroad.
James Duncan Named 2004-2005 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Outstanding Scholarly Achievement and Accomplishments Recognized.
ME Teams Take First, Third Place in Business Plan Competition
Terplicators, which netted $20,000 by winning the competition, is developing next-generation mold design software solutions.
Professors Duncan, Schmidt Win Clark School Faculty Awards
These awards will be presented at the Clark School's Commencement on Friday, May 23, 2003.
Professor James Duncan Discovers Effects of Surfactant in Ocean Waves
Their findings were published in the January 30, 2003 issue of the journal Nature.
Duncan Named Director of Science, Technology, and Society Program
Professor James Duncan has been named Director STS Program, taking the reins from Professor James Wallace.
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You spent 39% more time on mobiles in 2020: App Annie report
Chennai: With Indians on Covid-19’s stay-at-home mode for most of 2020, time spent on smartphones surged by almost 39% in the year, with most spending 4.6 hours a day, up from average 3.3 hours a day in 2019.
App downloads in India grew by almost 30% year-on-year to 24.27 billion downloads in 2020. By app store consumer spend, India ranked 25th but saw 35% YoY growth in consumer spend through in-app purchases and subscriptions to $500 million, AppAnnie’s annual ‘State of Mobile’ report released on Wednesday, showed.
India continues to hold its place as the second-largest market worldwide for app downloads after China.
“If we assume the average user spends eight hours sleeping, that is equal to nearly 30% of all waking time spent on mobile. Games were the most downloaded and represented two out of every five downloads,” Lexi Sydow, senior insights manager, App Annie, told TOI.
2020 also saw Facebook-owned apps dominate monthly active users rankings in India as the now-contentious WhatsApp and Facebook emerged as top two apps in India on the basis of usage.
At an average 21.3 hours per month per user, time spent on WhatsApp grew 25% from 2019. Time spent on Facebook grew 15% YoY and Instagram recorded a 10% growth in usage in 2020.
With India banning the use of short videos app TikTok in June, the app was pushed down to the fifth among social apps compared to last year when it recorded the highest YoY growth of 240%.
Ludo King and PubG Mobile were the top games apps recording maximum most monthly active users.
Finance apps found special preference among Indians in 2020 as time spent by users on the top five investments and trading apps grew 75% year-on-year in India outpacing global growth of 55%.
At over 177 billion hours, video streaming, another key category, saw a 40% growth in time spent. YouTube and MX Player among the most-used apps recording 25% and 20% year-on-year growth respectively.
With people preferring to eat home-cooked food during Covid-19, the food and drink apps category saw a 35% decline in usage.
“While use of food delivery apps often peaked near the beginning of the pandemic in most markets, India had an initial decline due to logistical impacts before rising again in the summer,” AppAnnie said.
Interestingly, BevQ, Kerala’s liquor sale virtual queue management app, was the app with highest YoY growth in sessions followed by Domino’s Pizza and Fresh to Home.
With people confined to their homes, education apps, (170%), business apps (120%), health and fitness (80%) were among categories that experienced highest year-on-year growth in downloads in India.
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East Lansing Info’s Annual Report for 2018
By Alice Dreger | January 31, 2019
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East Lansing Info (ELi) serves as this community’s dedicated independent local news organization. We are a public service news organization, operating in 2018 entirely on funds donated by readers, using local citizens as reporters. Our work is nonpartisan, noneditorial, and nonprofit.
Today we bring you this report on our activities in 2018, including details on our income and expenses. We do this in part to remind you that no one owns ELi. While ELi is run by me as Publisher (functioning also as CEO) and Ann Nichols as Managing Editor, and is overseen by a voluntary Board of Directors, ELi belongs to this community.
Because ELi is a community asset, it’s important to us that you know what kind of care we are taking with it. That’s why we show you income and expenses on a regular basis, and why we bring you the Your ELi column, which helps to explain our work for you.
It’s also why a good deal of our reporting originates from questions, concerns, and tips that our readers submit to us, and it’s why we use local citizens as reporters.
Our work here isn’t just about news delivery. It’s about creating a healthy news ecosystem in East Lansing – one where we support transparency in government, media literacy, and productive democratic engagement.
ELi’s 2018 by the numbers:
In 2018, East Lansing Info provided about 575 original news reports by a total of 34 reporters. The reporting team included a handful of volunteers and a bevy of citizens paid per-report, including graduates of our 2017 and 2018 Summer Youth Journalism Program.
Approximately 500 people donated a total of $106,461 to ELi. This is much higher than the average year because our 2018 Sustainability Campaign ran December 2017-January 2018, whereas our 2019 Sustainability Campaign shifted to November-December 2018, because of NewsMatch. That means that, in 2018, we had big donation spikes in January, November, and December, whereas in most years we had or will have only two months of spikes.
Our main page continues to be sponsored by LightSpeed, our weekly mailer by Crunchy’s, and our Arts & Entertainment reporting by the Responsible Hospitality Council and area restaurants (including Beggar’s Banquet, Harrison Roadhouse, The Riv, and Rick’s). Lou & Harry’s picked up sponsorship of Sports reporting for us in 2018.
Now here’s a look at our 2018 expenses, which came to a total of $87,390.
You can see that our largest “expense” continues to be paying local folks. That’s not just reporters. It’s also the people who work with us as editors, tech managers, and as office help. (I volunteer my labor for ELi as publisher, CEO, and investigative reporter, which is ELi’s chief form of savings over most local news operations.)
Our second largest expense continues to be paying Facebook to let us alert potential readers to local news. The “Advertising/Promotion” total also includes things like printed materials for hand-outs to new audiences and costs of t-shirts for reporters and donors, but the bulk of this expense is paying Facebook for “boosts.”
We would rather pay Facebook nothing, but our stats show us we’d reach only about half our current audience if we did that, and we would also struggle to reach new folks. Frustratingly, even though we pay Facebook, the social media giant still makes it really hard for us to get news out via that system.
“Credit card charges” came to about $2,500 in 2018. When donors give by check, that’s free to us. But in 2018, most donors gave to us using credit cards, for ease. The systems we use to obtain those donations (PayPal, GiveGab, Patreon, and EventBrite) charge us fees ranging from about 4% to as high as 10%. We always try to nudge people towards the lowest-cost options, but we don’t want to turn away donations, so we put up with the expenses charged to us.
The category of “business-related expenses” is a bit of a catch-all, so let me unpack it. We spent $740 on accounting fees including payroll management; $331 on our memberships to the Institute for Nonprofit News and LION Publishers, plus $95 for me to attend the LION annual conference; $305 on office supplies, chiefly stationery and envelopes for letters to donors; $101 for two lunches for the Summer Youth participants; and $20 for our annual LARA corporate registration.
Computer expenses were higher than normal this year because, for the first time in four years, we bought Ann a new computer, as her old one was dying.
“Reporting-related expenses” includes fees paid to SurveyMonkey for surveying our readers, costs for obtaining court records and deed records for stories, Freedom of Information Act charges, and a subscription to the Lansing State Journal.
Because of NewsMatch and our readers’ tremendous response, we have been able to come into 2019 with enough funding to get us through the year, barring extraordinary circumstances.
A qualitative look at ELi’s production in 2018:
While the national media continues to report on the rapid die-off of local news organizations, through ELi, East Lansing enjoyed the kind of steady, reliable, nonpartisan reporting that few cities do. Even Lansing – Michigan’s capital city – doesn’t have regular, in-depth reporting on its public School Board or City Council like East Lansing does.
The ELi “Gov Gang” made up the biggest single block of ELi reporters, as you might imagine. We covered the income tax vote, the City’s financial crisis, big development, the pain and the politics of parking, court consolidation talks, public safety and crime, Parks & Rec including trails improvements, Council Members’ votes and actions, the proliferation of scooters, a driveway drama, and so much more.
As the leader of the Gov Gang, I’d like to express my personal thanks to this incredible reporting team: Chris Root, Jessy Gregg, Dan Totzkay, Casandra Eriksen, Andrew Graham, and our newest addition, Brad Minor. It’s an incredible privilege for me to work with a group of people so dedicated to public service local journalism. These are people who truly believe in your right to know what your government is doing.
In 2018, Paige Filice brought us a fantastic series of reports on our local environment, Karessa Wheeler took the lead for us on Schools reporting, Mark Meyer joined ELi to provide terrific high school sports reporting, and Sarah Spohn and Chris Wardell brought us so much great Arts & Entertainment news.
Ann Kammerer brought us a series of profiles so remarkable, Ann Nichols named “The Kammerer Stories” as a class at the top of her list of feel-good reads from 2018.
Below: ELi’s 2018 Summer Youth Journalism participants
In 2018, we also benefitted from great reporting by Roz Arch, Andrew Barsom, Thomas Baumann, Gary Beaudoin, Evan Dempsey, Kepler Domurat-Sousa, Alex Hosey, James Hosey, Noa Kuszai, Peyton Lombardo, Emma McIlhagga, Amalia Medina, Thao Nguyen, Tom Oswald, John Paul Roboski, Somer Sodeman, Aron Sousa, Ken Sperber, Colleen Steinman, and Lucas Walters.
One of the big thrills of 2018 for me personally was being able to accept the Crystal Award, East Lansing’s annual award for public service, on behalf of the entire operation that is ELi. To see this team recognized in this way is just an absolute joy.
Speaking of which, in 2018, we were also recognized nationally!
In 2018, national media experts really started paying attention to how ELi does what it does, seeing in it what we do: a chance to reawaken an appreciation of high-quality, old-fashioned journalism in America from the ground up.
In 2018, work at ELi was featured in The Christian Science Monitor, the Lenfest Institute’s report on local news operations, the Poynter report on local news (twice), The Guardian (in a guest op-ed by me), and The Membership Puzzle Project’s report on news operations like ours that engage audiences in news production.
This also marked the first year ELi applied to and was accepted into the national NewsMatch program, which is run by The Miami Foundation and sponsored by Democracy Fund, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Facebook Journalism Project, the Gates Family Foundation, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation, and the Wyncote Foundation.
NewsMatch is key part of what made it possible for us to raise $80,000 in our year-end campaign.
To those of you who engage with the project that is ELi as readers, tipsters, donors, reporters, editors, managers, helpers, and all-around supporters, thank you for making it possible for us to bring East Lansing the news.
Your ELi: It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in East Lansing
By Emily Joan Elliott | January 18, 2021
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commission of Mid-Michigan will host an event on television this evening. This morning, ELi reflects on covering news related to racial equity and justice.
Local Yoga Studio Looks to GoFundMe to Avoid Bankruptcy
Grab your mats! Yoga State is offering a class through Zoom tonight, but you can also support the local business through it’s GoFundMe.
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HomeCatalogueThe Brown Dog and His Memorial
The Brown Dog and His Memorial
Catalogue, History, History of Science, Popular Titles, Science and Society
Book. In 1907, London medical students protested over a statue raised to a little brown dog. Bonfires burned late into the night. Large groups marched through the streets clashing with police. Gangs were arrested trying to pull down the memorial in midnight raids. Medical “hooligans” stormed meetings of their opposition. Behind this episode was an international conflict between pro-science and anti-vivisection groups. Tensions were high and growing. For some, physiology was growing in triumphal leaps and bounds. For others, science’s use of animals was rising too fast. Laws were ignored, and moral imperatives required action. In 1903, a celebrated libel case made London a hotspot for this debate. Anti-vivisectionists lost in court but used their new brown dog statue to win the propaganda war. Action provoked reaction for the next five years.
Edward K. Ford was an eyewitness. His pamphlet provides a rare on-the-ground account. It also includes key material on legal issues, as well as press and public reaction. His anti-vivisection perspective is plain. This remains essential reading for any study of the brown dog affair, anti-vivisection campaigns, and the history of science in society. Complete facsimile of 1908 pamphlet.
Little is known of Edward K. Ford other than what he provided in this pamphlet. Quite possibly he is a pseudonym for Emilie Augusta Louise Lind af Hageby (1878-1963), who co-founded the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society.
Ford, Edward K. (1908) The Brown Dog and His Memorial (London: Euston Grove Press), 56 pages. 2013 complete facsimile of 1908 pamphlet.
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Embassy of Italy in Hanoi, Vietnam
Embassy of Italy in Hanoi, Vietnam is a representation of Italy which runs an wide range of consular services to local and international citizens here. This website provides detail information of embassies around the world such as address, phone numbers, fax numbers, email, official website, opening hours.
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Judge: Peart
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Country of Origin: Togolese Republic
The Refugee Appeals Tribunal refused the applicant’s appeal on credibility grounds, finding that the applicant, who claimed a well-founded fear of persecution on account of her membership of the UFC in Togo, could not be believed in relation to a claim of rape and with regard to her description of her escape from persecution in Togo. The applicant sought to challenge the Tribunal’s decision by way of judicial review.
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The Cal Poly Mustangs will play Fresno State in 2022 according to a contract obtained by FBSchedules. The game is slated to take place on Saturday, September 3, 2022.
As of this writing per their website, Fresno State’s schedule has Sacramento State listed on September 3, 2022. No further details have been announced regarding when that game will take place, if at all.
The Mustangs will receive a guarantee of $350,000 for the 2022 game. Cal Poly and Fresno State are also scheduled to meet in 2021, which will take place on Saturday, September 11, 2021. Cal Poly will receive a guarantee of $390,000.
The two schools have met 44 times since 1922 with the latest clash in 2013. Fresno State holds a commanding lead in the series at 32-10-2. Fresno State will host Idaho State on September 5 to begin the 2020 season.
Cal Poly opens the 2020 season on the road at Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday, September 5. They will face California the following week before their first FCS and home game against San Diego on September 19.
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New FE minister went to college, we are now told
Chris Henwood
Wed 5th Sep 2012, 15.33
The college past of the government’s new further education chief Matthew Hancock has been revealed.
The personal Conservative Party website of the 33-year-old joint Parliamentary Under Secretary for BIS and DfE was updated with details of West Cheshire College today.
It is understood the extra detail about Mr Hancock’s further education past was added around noon – more than 12 hours after news of his appointment hit the FE Week website.
The revised webpage on the MP for West Suffolk, who went to Fandon County Primary School and then King’s School Chester, said he attended West Cheshire College of Further Education.
A BIS spokesperson confirmed Mr Hancock took an A Level in Computing at the college in 1995.
The site is managed by staff at his House of Commons office.
Screenshot from the Conservative Party website
Screenshot with added West Cheshire College, from www.matthewhancock.co.uk
The change means the site carries more detail on Mr Hancock’s own further education than his party’s official website, where there was no mention of West Cheshire College as of 3pm today.
However, a Conservative Party spokesperson said the site might also be altered, saying she would “let the website people know”.
She added: “I’ve got no idea if it will be changed, but I’ll let the IT people know and they may or may not update it.”
Nobody from Mr Hancock’s Commons office or West Cheshire College was immediately available for comment.
He replaced fellow Tory MP John Hayes, who had been in the post as Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning since May 13, 2010.
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Dyslexia — more than just a term
Fri 28th Mar 2014, 10.18
Abandoning the term dyslexia could have far-reaching consequences. Catherine Davidson looks at the situation for college learners.
It is not just important that dyslexia is recognised in FE, it is essential.
When students attend FE, they often choose vocational subjects where they have a passion, ability and determination that they have never before experienced.
When students show this kind of talent in hands-on subjects, but struggle with the theory side, tutors notice that something is acting as a barrier to their learning and this is often when they receive a dyslexia assessment for the first time.
Even in academic subjects, such as A-levels, students often find a voice and find it easier to express their concerns as young adults who are taking ownership of their learning.
Middlesbrough College has assessed an average of 12 students per week so far this year and the majority of these are being informed that they might be dyslexic for the first time.
At Middlesbrough College students are offered a variety of support options.
A new additional learning support model means that students are offered support in a small group, delivered by specialist dyslexia tutors; support in class is delivered by a specialist dyslexia learning support assistant or a drop-in service, which is open to everyone and staffed by specialists.
The group support is as much about developing students’ strengths as overcoming their weaknesses.
Often students have been through other educational systems feeling left behind and de-motivated, despite their obvious potential
The emotional impact of dyslexia is also addressed, as often students have been through other educational systems feeling left behind and de-motivated, despite their obvious potential.
Part of the support process is to recognise the positives of dyslexia, concentrating on strengths and abilities alongside the difficulties with reading, spelling and memory that so often stop people from achieving.
Initially, the college’s new model offered support to students on a six-week basis, but the majority of students who have accessed the support have chosen to stay for the full year.
Students are also offered assistive technologies which may enable them to work to their full potential.
The college offers several drop-in sessions during the week and an open door policy in the Support Hub if students find themselves struggling with any aspect of their course and they would like help or just someone to talk to.
Students do not need a label to attend the drop-in and staff are welcomed here too if they have any questions or concerns they believe a specialist may be able to answer.
In my experience, the majority of students welcome a label and request an assessment; this often gives students the confidence to approach staff about their difficulties, to disclose where maybe they would not have done.
For mature students, it is even more vital.
Invariably the label of dyslexia offers an explanation for a lifetime of difficulties.
The label of dyslexia is what determines the funding for this support.
Without the label students would be unable to access these support services which so clearly work.
Last year, 90 per cent of all Middlesbrough College students who accessed dyslexia support achieved on their course, and in a growing Additional Learning Support Team which supports all students in the college, dyslexia is still the most accessed support service.
Whatever support students are offered it should be individual to the student themselves; characteristics of dyslexia are individual so support should reflect this.
The Additional Learning Support Department states in last year’s Self-Assessment Report: “We recognise that everyone’s needs are unique, we work with students to identify any barriers that exist and make every effort to overcome them.
“The college wants all students to have the same opportunities to achieve their full potential.”
The current trend for arguing against the term dyslexia does nothing for the hundreds of students of different age groups, educational and social economic backgrounds that access FE.
Whereas providing students with support offers them an opportunity to excel in their chosen vocation, to succeed academically or simply to have more confidence in themselves and their ability and surely this is worth recognising.
Catherine Davidson, dyslexia support coordinator, Middlesbrough College
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Computer game and ’80 piece’ orchestra spend investigated at Hull College
Thu 10th Oct 2019, 23.23
The husband of the chief executive at a college surviving on bailout funding used the marketing budget to hire the 80-piece Hull Philharmonic Orchestra to play computer-game music, FE Week can reveal.
As previously reported, Hull College Group has launched an independent investigation into allegations of nepotism and misuse of funding and its boss, Michelle Swithenbank, has since gone on leave.
The investigation is understood to also include over £100,000 spent on a computer game app, computer game-style cinema advertising and a PR agency that promoted the music event and computer game.
The spending has been described as “concerning” by the college’s local MP, Emma Hardy, who is also a member of the education select committee.
Tweet from an attendee of the concert, funded by the college, on 15 June 2019
The college funds now under scrutiny were spent or committed to by Graham Raddings when in charge of the college marketing budget between January and August 2018.
Raddings, partner and now husband to Swithenbank, claims on his LinkedIn profile to be a “games designer” and an “8 bit [computer game music] enthusiast with entrepreneurial spirit”.
He was appointed to the college as executive director of marketing and innovation in January 2018, around the time the college had received a £42 million bailout from the government as part of a Fresh Start process.
Before Raddings left the college in August 2018, the college partnered with 8-Bit Symphony to run their first ever music event on June 15, 2019.
The college spent more than £10,000 to hire the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra and Hull City Hall, according to the contract, with Hull Culture and Leisure Ltd acting as an agent for Hull City Council.
Described as “8-bits, 80 piece orchestra, 90+ minutes” the musicians played retro computer game music by composer Dr Rob Hubbard.
8-Bit Symphony was founded by Chris Abbott, who runs a business called C64Audio. According to Abbott’s website the two other founders were Damian Manning and Graham Raddings.
Supporting the claim that Raddings was Abbott’s business partner, FE Week has also obtained emails from Raddings sent to college staff many months after he had left, leading the event arrangements on behalf of 8-Bit Symphony.
Despite this, Abbott told FE Week that he “approached the college to see if they wanted to support the very first event” and that Raddings was only “a point of contact at the college” and “Graham’s name is an error on the website, and this is currently being corrected”.
A spokesperson for Hull College Group said: “The board were made aware of the event happening in June 2017, and considered there was no conflict of interest.
“As with any business the event had clear objectives and budget allocation. Michelle Swithenbank’s involvement with the event was to support and promote where appropriate.”
An email from Raddings’ personal Hotmail account to a college employee on February 20, 2019 concerning the “8 bit VIP event”, with Abbott copied in, asks “what do you need from us to ensure we can get things sorted?”.
Email from Graham Raddings organising the event several months after leaving the college
The following day, Swithenbank responds to the “8 bit VIP event” email by sending it to the vice principal, marketing staff, the PR agency Pace Communications and copying in Raddings, to say: “Hi all. We don’t need the theatre we need the restaurant and the main building. This has been going on since August, how are we not up to speed with things? This is a Very important event on 15th June which is a Saturday. I thought it had all been coordinated and sorted?”
Abbott said C64Audio “paid for the food and drink and also paid for all of our VIP tickets”…“received no payments from the college” and is still in the process of registering 8-Bit Symphony as a charity.
According to tweets from college staff at the time, the VIP event held on the college premises included 38 bottles of champagne, 46 bottles of wine and more than 1,000 canapés.
Of the VIP event, a spokesperson for Hull College Group said: “The event was not for guests of the principal’s husband. Prosecco and canapés were served as agreed in the hospitality brief to the client, C64Audio.”
They added that the students “gained valuable voluntary work experience which has enhanced their skills for their study programme”.
In the meantime, Abbott has used the publicity from the 8-Bit Symphony event to raise close to £70,000 for a Kickstarter campaign to produce a CD and told FE Week he plans to run similar events “with other organisations across the globe”.
During his time at the college, Raddings also used the marketing budget to pay for the development of a free computer game called Go Go Dash, which remains available on the iTunes store.
The college has refused to reveal how much was spent, but FE Week understands it was in excess of £30,000. The developer chosen was a former colleague of Raddings, Adam Carmichael, a lecturer at Grimsby Institute and the sole director of Microwave Games Ltd.
The college confirmed it also paid Rob Hubbard, the composer behind the 8-Bit Symphony, to compose the music for the game.
Graham Raddings
According to the press release written by the PR agency Pace Communications: “Hull College principal and CEO, Michelle Swithenbank, said: ‘The game is a lot of fun and is an innovative way to showcase the opportunities we offer for learners who are interested in working in the city’s growing digital sector. By involving Rob Hubbard, we also hope to inspire our learners to also go on and achieve great things’.”
In addition to the cost of creating the free game and use of the PR firm, the marketing budget was also used to create a “gaming zone” at the college to launch the app, as well as advertising the game around Hull on a digital screen on the side of a van.
College minutes for May 2019 describe another app in which “the finance director confirmed that the app is being developed and progress would be reported at the next meeting”.
When FE Week first asked the college about this app a spokesperson said: “The smartphone app is a new proposal and still under consideration and planning. It is not linked to Go-Go-Dash”.
The college has refused to provide any details about this app, understood to have a £50,000 budget, and has since said: “After initial consideration of an app, the college decided not to pursue the idea.”
Another new area of spending that is being looked into as part of the investigation is animated video adverts based on computer game graphics that were screened at cinemas.
Before leaving the college, Raddings employed a sole trader, Dave Shepherd, trading as 3D Facility, to undertake what he describes on his website as the “concept development, design and production”.
Shepherd confirmed to FE Week that he is a sole trader working from his home in Hull and with other freelance game designers, but did not respond to further requests for comment.
Raddings was also behind a tender for a PR Agency, understood to have initially been for £90,000 to support the college with internal communications and reputation management as part of the Fresh Start.
The tender process was won by Pace Communications, and the company founder and owner, Anita Pace, has confirmed the contract included her attendance at staff and board meetings at a rate of £85 per hour.
It is understood that before the contract was terminated in early 2019, the budget had been significantly overspent.
In August 2018, Steven Yardley, at the time the college’s vice principal corporate and commercial, spent the afternoon on a 43-foot luxury yacht as a client of Pace Communications.
Steven Yardley (second to the left), at the time the college’s vice principal corporate and commercial
When asked if Pace knew Raddings from the time when they both worked for KCOM, a spokesperson for Pace Communications said: “We would not comment on our work with any of our clients, past or present.”
Raddings did not respond to the question of whether he knew Pace prior to the tender process.
When asked about the details of the spending, Raddings told FE Week: “I categorically and strongly deny any and all allegations of implied or actual financial wrongdoing, budgetary impropriety and any and all inference, direct or otherwise, that my involvement with any of the projects, contractors and suppliers that fell under the remit of my role as executive director of marketing and innovation or my time working at Hull College Group were in any way improper, or have brought the financial position or public perception of Hull College Group into any kind of disrepute.”
The college’s local MP, Emma Hardy, said: “I am pleased that the investigation is looking into this. I am concerned by the evidence that has been presented so far, especially as we know FE colleges are in a dire financial situation and every penny should be used to improve the education for learners.
“It is important to recognise the difficult journey the college has been on and there have been huge improvements. So I welcome this investigation and look forward to a speedy resolution so the college can continue to move forward.”
Michelle Swithenbank told FE Week: “I welcome the investigation and look forward to the outcome.”
College switches law firm conducting the ‘independent’ investigation
FE Week reported the Stone King lawyer appointed to the ‘independent’ investigation had for many years been the college’s lawyer, which raised questions over potential conflict of interest.
Since then, the college has moved the work to the law firm Eversheds. A spokesperson for Hull College Group said: “It is in the interests of all parties for the investigation into these whistleblowing allegations to be carried out swiftly and thoroughly.
“As soon as the allegations came to light, Hull College instructed its lawyers Stone King – who are highly regarded in the sector and by the ESFA – to investigate the matter using its HR investigatory team.
“As things stand, however, the whistleblower has declined to participate in the investigation. Since their participation is clearly integral to the whole process, the corporation has decided to instruct a separate law firm, Eversheds, to conduct the investigation in the hope the whistleblower will now choose to engage with the process.
“The corporation will then be in a position to fully consider and address any issues which may arise from it.”
What were they thinking …an 80 piece orchestra…. surely 70 would have been sufficient !!
Shocking and desperate, if lines like:
The students “gained valuable voluntary work experience which has enhanced their skills for their study programme”…
are coming out justifying why a College in financial difficulty was hosting an ego-stroking event for the Principle’s husband serving “38 bottles of champagne, 46 bottles of wine and more than 1,000 canapés”…
Chorley Bob
Principle’s? You possibly mean Principal’s. Hope you’re not in education.
Matt Cat
If they were, they might have read the article properly and realised that the article says Hull College didn’t pay for the VIP event, despite the impression given by the salacious details. As a private event it would have been income.
Facts Please
Quite right. The horrible behaviour of some of the people commenting on here must be founded in one of two things. Lack of understanding, lack of business nous, etc. Or plain maliciousness. I really hope it’s the former, as then the sector has a future. If it’s the latter, then the number of people willing to put themselves in the firing line, to turn colleges around, will dwindle to nothing. When the sector then goes to the wall, I hope that those who have undermined those seeking to save it will rue their unpleasantness.
BobFish
Got time on your hands now, have you Raddings?
real facts please
Finally someone called it out . subtle isn’t even the word!!!!, but sums it all up that they feel they have to take to a platform like this to try and throw the scent off, or try to #canvas support.
Disappointed of Hull
Swithenbank was appointed under the Warke regime. The FE Commissioner made sure he went as part of the bale out. She perhaps should have gone as well. Governors initially said they would appoint future CEOs on a 2 year fixed-term basis so they wouldn’t be stuck with these people hanging on. Why did this change? Both of these people appear to have acted like this once great college (formerly an outstanding college with Beacon Status) is their personal fiefdom to do with as their please. Governors have been fooled but not the staff – hence so many whistle-blowers contacting FE week. Millions wasted over the past few years and hundreds of dedicated and experienced staff gone. Staff used to joke she was bring Grimsby Institute to take over Hull; one staff member at a time.
Emma is my local MP. She is great but not sure where her evidence is where the college is getting better – Ofsted last graded it as Requiring Improvement! Might be worth Nick asking how many former staff had to sign non-disclosure agreements in order to get their redundancy payments – and how much this cost. Never mind a college-led independent enquiry – I think it’s time the police thought about investigating.
Non-disclosure clauses are perfectly standard elements of severance agreements, and operate in both directions. To suggest that use of such standard clauses warrants criminal investigation is ludicrous, and demonstrates a sad lack of understanding of business. I am sick of people throwing mud in the hope that some will stick. Before doing so again, please think how you’d feel on the receiving end, unable to defend yourself.
Yes, let’s stick to the facts. Green and Weinstein used a lot of NDAs, so not always used for the most ethical of reasons. The Government is also looking into curbing the use of them. Why are they needed in FE? What sector sensitive info could anyone possibly take elsewhere that isn’t already known. It isn’t like working at Dyson is it?
I’m pretty sure that the high amount of whistle-blowers stated know EXACTLY how it feels not being able to defend themselves judging by the alleged amount of NDA’s issued.
An investigation is underway. Until such time as its findings are available, we might all do well to stop making unsubstantiated assertions. Would you like to be on the receiving end of such? I suspect not. So perhaps act accordingly? Or are certain people somehow considered fair game? Disgusting behaviour.
Hundreds of staff have lost their jobs at this college. If any money that could have kept them in employment, and supporting students, has not been used correctly then this needs to come out. And yes, I agree, let’s see what comes of the investigation. Another fact for you, the first ‘independent investigator’ (that had links to the college) was changed after the intervention (again) of the FE Commissioner. Without FE week pushing this I don’t think we would have got to the point where a proper independent investigation is going to take place. Well done to them.
#$@&%*! – is as polite as this can be!!
There’s clearly little, if any, accountability & financial management if they believe this to be acceptable, particularly when they’re reliant on Government financial support to keep the doors open!
Polite Request
I am deeply concerned about what is going on here. Instead of reporting on the fact that an investigation is taking place, FE Week appears to be prejudicing that investigation. Clearly, all employees, including (and perhaps especially) those at the most senior levels, need to be held to account. But by their governing bodies, not by sensationalist journalists – unless governors bottle addressing real issues. Of course, it’s true that governing bodies don’t have a great track record in holding senior managers to account, and as well-meaning amateurs can be manipulated by wrong-doers. Yet we now seem to face a situation whereby governing bodies are all too ready to bow to unsubstantiated rumour and insinuation, and to hang out to dry perfectly good people who have done nothing wrong. Their very weakness leads them to bend whichever way the wind’s blowing. If FE Week feels that it must make, instead of just report, the news, can we perhaps have the full picture? Who is leaking college documents to the press? Why are they doing so? What’s the context in which they are doing so? What’s needed here is some humanity. Please, all, don’t rush to judgement. And FE Week, please, recognise that what you publish bears not just on a given situation, but potentially on someone’s whole career. There are plenty of people stupid enough to believe pretty much anything, and it behooves everyone to be cautious and judicious, and to let proper processes run their course. We’ve seen people hounded out before for no good reason – and one can’t help but wonder how much a part sexism plays in that – and we need to be careful not to wrongly trash perfectly good reputations. Being a principal was long a cushy number, and that truth has, inevitably, and properly, led to a corrective. Let’s not go too far the other way, or else no-one with any sense will take up these roles. The sector is in difficulty, some imposed, much of its own making, and needs good, sophisticated, astute, leaders. Let’s not end up without any such. Thank you.
Quite right. And yes, it does seem a little strange that it’s female Principals in the firing line all the time, now you mention it.
K Brammer
Surely someone is holding the Governors to account here? Clear bias at the start by appointing their own law firm – wow. Then the college is left pondering why the whistleblower doesn’t wish to testify? I am lost for words!
The ‘whistleblower’ may possibly have decided that they can do maximum damage by throwing their mud and then disappearing into obscurity, without being themselves held to account? Would be fascinating to know who they are. One possibility is that they’re disgruntled somehow? As I’ve already commented, an investigation is underway, and the motivation of this person will hopefully form part of that investigation. The only decent and fair way to proceed is to let that investigation reach its conclusions, whatever they are.
Would also be fascinating if you could respond to my point that the investigation was initially being led by the their own law firm.
This is a bit of a logic failure. Colleges don’t “own” law firms (in fact, if they did, I’m sure FE Week would do a big article about “WHY DID HULL COLLEGE BUY A LAW FIRM???”).
To be hired for anything, I’m sure Law firms have to be independent and DFE approved. Who’s going to jeopardise their entire career and law firm to manufacture or disregard evidence from a whistleblower investigation?
As for why it was changed, maybe the whistleblower had the same logic failure and got scared, and as the adults in the room, had to be re-accommodated?
Yes, I agree. Appointment of a law firm in some way connected to the college wasn’t wise. But I guess that was a decision of the governors. There is a much bigger story/debate in all this, that affects all colleges, about the amateur nature of governing bodies, but that’s for another time. For the moment, the point is: the principal can hardly be blamed for a decision of the governors. It’s apparent from some of the comments that some people will use any tool with which to beat someone doing a good job, turning around a dinosaur, out of some sort of personal dislike. Sorry, but that smacks of the schoolyard. Without the package of the bail-out, recovery plan, and this principal that was agreed with the FE Commissioners the college would be dead in the water. Be careful what you wish for!
The Future Proofing chapter of Hull College Group management certainly knew how to re invest the government bail out funds.
The leadership team also topped up their squanderable funds with money raised by their teaching staff for the exclusive benefit of students.
Monies raised through merchandise sales to promote and ensure quality presentation of School of Art and Design student exhibitions: and funds raised through the sale of print works (made by a late colleague) to establish a student prize trust fund, were absorbed by the college finance department.
This investigation is implying that college management firmly believe that CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.
Bertie Baggy
I wonder how many times the PR teams at Hull College (and Highbury College with the lobster story) sat in meetings thinking ‘what can we say to FE Week to defend these ludicrous items of expenditure’. The Comms people must have said ‘give me something rigorous to set out our defence’ and there is clearly no robust or credible defensive position available. Here is public money being wasted. As with the Highbury story, where is the scrutiny and accountability? These stories damage the reputation of the entire sector. Clearly the noise of the 80 piece orchestra drowned out the voices saying ‘this will not look good if the cost of this activity ever gets out’. Well done again FE week for uncovering this.
Apparently their journalistic skills in realising orchestras cost money wasn’t up to realising that concerts with paying guests also generate income and including both the income and expenditure figures in the article: did the concert actually make a profit? And if it did, why is this article even here? And even if it didn’t, but was a commercial marketing venture, is it FE Week’s new brief to judge every single marketing initiative of every FE institution in the country?
Andrew Marks
I wonder why the Hull Daily Mail failed to mention Pace Communications by name? They published two stories about this in the last few weeks. Pace wasn’t mentioned in either.
Concerned Observer
Where are the comments on the other side of what is looking increasingly looking like a witch hunt? I know for a fact that such have been submitted: colleagues concerned about the thrust and tone of FE Week’s reporting have told me that they have posted comments in an effort to rebalance matters and remind us all of the principles of fairness, proper investigation, opportunity to respond, not rushing to judgement, etc. However, it’s notable that none of those comments have been allowed to appear. Why is that?
I think perhaps you need to be reminded that Colleges are publicly funded. With public funding comes the requirement for the control of expenditure, as well as legitimate scrutiny and questioning of what is classed as reasonable expenditure.
College’s have charitable status and must make sure that the funds they spend ultimately benefit the learners they serve.
How does a lobster dinner and a night in a five star hotel as a ‘send off’ for a former MIS director benefit the learners? How does a 70 piece orchestra benefit the learners? How does a large spend on champagne benefit the learners?
None of this expenditure is justifiable, whether it has been signed off by the Board, or not. Any person with an ounce of integrity would know this.
This needs to be called out and stopped. It’s amazing to me that many College CEOs have come out publicly defending these people. I wonder, are they indirectly defending their own illegitimate expenditure? Too many corrupt people in senior roles who need holding to account in my view.
The best footing for patronising comment is fact. I have seen no reference to a lobster dinner. It was a 70, not an 80, piece orchestra. Prosecco, not champagne. The concert presumably brought in funds – which any investigation that’s allowed to proceed, without sniping, will determine one way or the other. Even if not productive of immediate income, I imagine that the concert was part of an agreed marketing strategy. Again, best to let the investigate determine that. Facts are understandably less exciting than speculation and gossip, but I for one think the latter both unhelpful, and contrary to the principle of fairness.
I saw this concert on The One Show with Kate Thornton. Hundreds of people went. Box office for hull college must have been chunky.
You mean the event and the VIP event might have even been profitable for the college and been good publicity? (right up until this article, anyway). If so, that would qualify as good use of a marketing budget, I’d have thought.
I wonder how many of the other promotional events run by the marketing departments of other FE institutions have been examined by FE Week so vigorously?
Tickets were, I understand, £41.50 each. Paid for by those attending the concert. So, not a beanfeast at all, but instead a commercial venture. Sorry, don’t know how many tickets sold, but presumably this could be learned from the venue.
Guardian says it was “packed”.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jul/23/game-changer-the-commodore-64-concert
Just one tiny mention of the sponsor though and no branding so hardly an “innovative” marketing venture (for you real facts) or beneficial to the college, or worth the investment. Read the article back and you will see the real reason for this concert.
VivB
This doesn’t seem to add up; all these senior whistleblowers were probably around at the time of their recent OFSTED inspection, where effectiveness of leadership and management got a ‘good’ grading. So why didn’t these whistleblowing managers say anything then? There is something not quite right here. OFSTED praise leaders and managers for their decisive action to resolve financial difficulties for heaven’s sake! This was only 5 months’ ago! There appears to be more to this witch hunt than meets the eye!
And why not
Really, you honestly don’t know why this wouldn’t come out during an Ofsted inspection? I bet virtually everyone in FE knows why.
The event, it says, took place ages ago! A long time before OFSTED came. So why were the whistle-blowers sitting on their hands all that time if they really believed that there was financial mis-management? Doesn’t this mean they too are complicit as at the time of OFSTED they were telling inspectors that everything was fine and dandy? I want to know how many whistle-blowers (because the news article is vague – it says many then focuses on one) and why the whistle-blower/s waited until now!? What is special about now? Now people are accusing the college of eating Lobster! That was another college! These articles are pretty dirty and ruin careers before investigations have even been given a chance! I think it is a form of bullying. FE WEEK if you’re going to do this, why don’t you balance the comments and publish why this has blown up in the first place?
Nigel Hampson
Does anyone remember the Nolan Principles? Clearly the appointment by the college leaders of their own lawyer to carry out the allegedly independent investigation into the multiple concerns shows the college leaders either haven’t heard of Nolan or don’t care.
N Thompson
Massive debt, hundreds of jobs cut and the Chair of Governors supports the CEO and her husbands vanity projects to run loose at a cost to the tax payer of many thousands . . . . surely the Chair of Governors isn’t fit to run the place?
Yes, the college is in debt, due a bail-out without which it would have closed. That debt arises from decades of problems, planned to be addressed by the college’s recovery plan, approved by the FE Commissioners as a condition of the bail-out. That plan was being rolled out in a very effective way, until such time as someone decided to derail it and attempt to ruin a career. Whichever way you cut it, that’s pretty awful behaviour. Can’t help wondering whether the ‘whistleblower’ was after the boss’s job and was somehow disappointed. The mountains out of molehills nature of the complaint certainly suggests such unpleasant motivation. Why is an innovative marketing strategy a vanity project? What knowledge and experience of marketing do you have? What approach to such works well with 16-18 year olds? I don’t know, so would defer to those that do. Please, let’s stop harping and let the investigation run its course.
Not many vanity projects get onto BBC1 Prime-time, that’s for sure.
Just a few thoughts to add to the context…
Hull College has a CEO who was appointed in turbulent circumstances. Ms Swithenbank was appointed as Deputy CEO to Gary Warke based primarily on her recent appointment as an OFSTED Inspector in order to strengthen the curriculum prior to the expected inspection due later in the year.
Shortly after her appointment the true financial circumstances of the Hull College Group came to light leading to the intervention of the FE Commissioner. The Hull College Principal Gray Towse and the Group Finance Director Tony Sutton had already moved on to pastures new.
Gary Warke resigned moving on initially to the Manor Property Group in East Yorkshire and subsequently to a post of Qualifications Developer at the Ministry of Education at Abu Dhabi UAE.
Therefore, you have a new member of senior staff unfamiliar with the Hull College Group dealing with a financial crisis that was still not fully identified. Since that point there has been an almost 100% turnover of senior staff with the Principals of Harrogate and Goole retiring/resigning, the replacement Director of Finance leaving along with others who held senior positions under Gary Warke with ad hoc interim replacement positions being filled at short notice. Many of these staff left under NDA’s which another poster suggests are not unusual in Education and the wider business environment. Almost like a Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet. In addition, there have been three Chairs of Governors during this period plus other changes to the membership of the Governing Body leading to a possible lack of oversight and support.
The knee jerk reaction to cut expenditure via staffing costs has led to a knowledge management crisis in a number of academic areas with course provision being withdrawn in both full- and part-time provision leading a criticism as to the colleges role within the community and a movement away from the core provision through sub-contracting and top-slicing.
It is not unreasonable to assume that Ms Swithenbank expected her post of Deputy CEO to enhance her senior leadership experience. Immediately prior to Hull College her first permanent SLT appointment was for 4 months at Peterborough Regional College as VP Curriculum (Again based on her recent appointment as an OFSTED Inspector). Before that she held interim management posts at Grimsby for 1 year 10 months and prior to that just 1 year 3 months as Head of School at City of Wolverhampton College.
The point I am trying to make is that the post appears to have been a very much a poisoned chalice with little in the way of consistent support – discuss?
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Teens seek salons for a "sun" tan
SaraRose Martin, Co-Editor-in-Chief
During the winter months, the glowing signs of summer begin to fade, literally, and teens turn to the warm embrace of tanning salons. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, approximately 2.3 million teens visit a tanning salon at least once a year. In the United States, 37 percent of white female teens and over 11 percent of white male teens between 13 and 19 years old have been to a tanning booth.
Teens seek tanning salons for a multitude of reasons. Seniors Laura Cornish and Angella North go to the tanning salon once or twice a year for events such as prom and homecoming. Both prefer salon results over spray tans.
“I did it for prom over a month span. It was about $30 to $50, and I went about three times a week,” Cornish said. “[The tanning bed] is more natural.”
Like Cornish, North chose to use a tanning bed instead of a spray or airbrush tan because she believes it looks more natural.
“Overall I’ve done it probably 30 times,” North said. “[I wasn’t worried about the effects because] I didn’t do it excessively. The spray tan makes you orange. In middle school I did a spray tan, and it made me look like an oompa loompa.”
The skin of teens is more susceptible to skin cancer than adult skin because adolescents’ skin cells are dividing and changing more rapidly. A 2002 study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that indoor tanning devices increased the risk for squamous cell carcinoma by 2.5 times and the risk for basal cell carcinoma by 1.5 times. Because there are no set guidelines for adolescents to get skin examinations, most skin cancers in children go undiagnosed.
According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, tans are caused by harmful ultraviolet radiation, and teens sustain skin cell damage by visiting a tanning salon one even time. For those in high school or college, just one indoor tanning session a year boosts the risk of developing melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, by 20 percent. Each session after increases the risk almost another 2 percent, and the risk rises to 73 percent after six or more sessions. Cumulative damage caused by UV radiation may lead to premature skin aging, including wrinkles, lax skin, and brown spots, as well as skin cancer.
“How would you like to look like a leather handbag by the time you’re 30?” anatomy teacher Sinead Arndt said. “A tan is skin damage– the skin is trying to protect itself. Skin cancer is almost a guarantee from tanning. Skin will prematurely wrinkle. It can cause skin discoloration– so blotchiness and it damages the skin to the point where it loses that soft, youthful appearance.”
In 2014, the FDA issued a final order reclassifying ultraviolet tanning devices from low-risk, or class I, to moderate risk devices, (class II). This requires warning labels on the devices to alert young people of the dangers associated with their use. However, according to Arndt, there are some conditions tanning beds can help.
“Now on a positive note for tanning beds, some people with severe eczema or psoriasis on their skin can benefit from UV treatment,” Arndt said. “You’re not going to be in there until the point where you tan. You’re in there for much shorter periods of time, but the ultraviolet light can help with skin conditions.”
An airbrush tan is a spray tan applied by a train technician using a compressor gun by a trained technician or in a spray tan booth. The primary ingredient in spray tanners is DHA, or dihydroxyacetone, which is not toxic and produces no risk of skin cancers.
“Basically if you’re tanning just to tan, like for prom, you’re just damaging your skin,” Arndt said. “Spray tans are a much better way to go.”
And although no tanning is good for one’s skin, indoor ultraviolet tanners are 74 percent more likely to develop melanoma than those that have never used a tanning bed. Senior Hunter Hall decided to try an airbrush tan after his dermatologist recommended it. Hall has a $79 monthly membership to Palm Beach Tan in Gainesville, which gives him access to the highest level beds and all spray tanning. Hall uses a tanning bed about three times a week.
“I have spray tanned. I like bed tanning better because your results last longer and look better. [I tried spray tanning] because of the risk of skin cancer, primarily, and the risk of aging,” Hall said. “I went to the dermatologist, and they told me I needed to stop or I was going to die. I actually went for a sun spot, and they said it was nothing this time but that I need to stop because I’m going to die eventually of skin cancer. They said I should try spray tanning instead.”
Hall says that tanning salons don’t discuss the risks of tanning beds with their customers, but he is aware of them.
“There’s signs in every room. They don’t really say anything about it; you just go in knowing,” Hall said. “I do care about the consequences; it’s more of an addiction to tanning- like once you start going and getting that look, you just keep wanting it.”
With his monthly membership, Hall has access to the 10–minute maximum beds, where he can get a tan quickly.
“I probably go around three times a week to keep [my tan] steady,” Hall said. “I’ve tried stopping. In tanning beds you turn dark and you don’t peel and get a burn or sun poisoning. It’s a lot more hassle-free, other than the long term effects of skin cancer and aging.”
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Italy’s ALI acquires Scotsman Industries from sponsor Warburg Pincus
Italian foodservice equipment manufacturer ALI Group SpA announced its entry into a definitive agreement to buy Scotsman Industries Inc from US private equity major Warburg Pincus LLC.
The parties did not volunteer any information on financial terms or other deal specifics. Brookwood Associates LLC and Alston & Bird LLP were involved in the transaction as advisors to ALI, while Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP provided counsel to Scotsman Industries.
The Illinois-headquartered target has been operating as Scotsman Industries since May 2009, when Warburg Pincus bought the Enodis Ice Group and changed its name. The company specialises in the manufacture of commercial ice machines and claims to be the global leader in its field. Scotsman Industries sells its products in over 100 countries through a network of more than 1,000 distributors. The company has six manufacturing facilities and employs more than 800 people.
Luciano Berti, chairman and CEO of ALI, said that his organisation was excited at the prospect of adding Scotsman Industries to its family. This acquisition is a strategically important move on ALI’s part because it will enhance the company’s leading position among commercial foodservice equipment suppliers.
Given Scotsman Industries’ market leadership in the ice machine business, ALI will also be able to seize new opportunities and strengthen its capabilities to serve customers. The deal will bring in very well-known brands, which will help ALI enhance its global presence and visibility, Berti stated.
Author Gulli ArnasonPosted on November 7, 2012 Categories Private EquityTags acquisitions, ALI Group, private equity, Scotsman Industries, Warburg Pincus
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The Notwist Announce New Album 'Vertigo Days'
Listen to two singles from the record now
German electronic explorers the Notwist will always feel a little under-appreciated despite having spent decades crafting pristine art-pop music. Early next year, they'll return with yet another outing.
The new Notwist album is called Vertigo Days, and it will arrive on January 29 via Morr Music, who released the band's earlier records before they signed with Sub Pop for a few releases, including Close to the Glass.
Vertigo Days includes the previously released "Oh Sweet Fire" (featuring Ben LaMar Gay) and a new single called "Where You Find Me," both of which are available to stream below.
Outside of Gay, the album features guests like Juana Molina, Zayaendo, Angel Bat Dawid and Saya of Tenniscoats. In a press release, the band's Markus Acher explained that the members of the Notwist "wanted to question the concept of a band by adding other voices and ideas, other languages, and also question or blur the idea of national identity."
Vertigo Days:
1. Al Norte
2. Into Love / Stars
3. Exit Strategy To Myself
4. Where You Find Me
5. Ship
6. Loose Ends
7. Into The Ice Age
8. Oh Sweet Fire
9. Ghost
10. Sans Soleil
11. Night's Too Dark
12. *stars*
13. Al Sur
14. Into Love Again
Pre-order Vertigo Days.
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Excellent placing for Moran at ESAA XC
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Exeter Harrier Elliot Moran ran the race of his life to secure a superb 27th place at the English Schools Cross Country Championships in Blackburn. The 15 year old represented Devon Schools in the Juniors Boys’ 3.6km race, and achieved an excellent result in this most eagerly anticipated event of the winter for young cross country runners. Moran, who attends Colyton Grammar School, was nervous and excited on the morning of the event, having achieved 170th last year he was determined to better this. “I had really good preparation” said Moran, “the hotel we stayed in had a swimming pool and spa we were able to use. It was good.” Of the race itself Moran had a great start. “I pushed forward so I was in the first 50 early on. I felt good throughout, and half way through I knew I had to save energy for the sprint finish. I managed to move up 4 or 5 places. I wasn’t expecting to do so well, I’m ecstatic with 27th place, and I’d really like to thank Exeter Harriers and my coach Brian O’Hare for all the support.”
With over 300 athletes competing in each race there were other good Harriers performances. Also in the Junior Boys newcomer Sam Pyne was 163rd, and for the Inter Boys Finley McLear ran an excellent race to come 48th, and Owen Coldwell 266th. Another good performance came from Jake Smith in the Senior Boys’ race with 82nd, with Shaun Johnson 101st and Patrick Livingstone 218th.
In the Junior Girls’ race Anna Downs ran a good race for 119th, Runa Manby came in 240th and Isabelle Beech 287th. Jasmine Wellman, running for Dorset Schools, finished 202nd.
Madeleine Roche and Florence Livingstone came 262nd and 265 respectively in the Inter Girls’ race, and Katie Olding had a very good run for the Senior Girls’ with 55th place, Zoe Kuyken was 112th and Martha Ellett 146th.
“All these athletes have had some hard training sessions recently, building up to the track season which starts soon” said Brian O’Hare, Exeter Harriers Endurance Coach. “They’ve worked hard throughout the winter and have built up good strength. They are coached for 800/1500 really and I’m excited to see what will happen in the track season.”
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Reach Out and Touch Some Oil
Idea: Extended Drilling
July 2007 Louise S. Durham, Explorer Correspondent
Oh, the irony of it all.
Groups both pro and con battle passionately over offshore drilling in many regions of the United States -- and they battle so intensely that perhaps everyone is overlooking an obvious solution.
While the mere suggestion of installing drilling platforms in environmentally sensitive offshore areas such as California, Florida, etc., triggers a major freak-out among many elected officials -- and others -- a technology exists to tap some of the close-in offshore resources by drilling from an onshore location.
Is it possible that everyone can be happy?
The technology is called extended reach drilling (ERD), and it enables long horizontal offsets to be drilled to sites that might otherwise be inaccessible.
Perhaps the best known ERD success story can be found in southern England’s BP-operated Wytch Farm field, which reportedly is the largest onshore oil field in western Europe. The field actually lies underneath Poole Harbor stretching out to sea beneath Poole Bay in the Dorset Coast region, which is one of the most environmentally sensitive areas in the United Kingdom.
At the Wytch Farm field, long-reach deviated wells are drilled in a radial pattern from a camouflaged central well pad onshore to locations several miles out into scenic Poole Bay. In fact, a well reached within less than 2,000 feet of a seven-mile departure, according to Tom Bjorklund, research scientist in the geosciences department at the University of Houston.
During the recent AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif., Bjorklund’s poster presentation on using ERD to develop California OCS reserves left no doubt he’s on a mission to get the word out about the potential for this technology.
Fractures in the Monterey Formation exposed on a wavecut platform along the California coast near Santa Barbara. The industry and local residents historically have had a delicate relationship, but an AAPG member believes use of extended reach drilling technology could make safe development of the area’s rich potential possible. Photo courtesy of Coast Geological Society
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“I wanted to get information out to the public more,” Bjorklund said, “because (in) all of the discussions in Congress last year about offshore drilling, they kept talking about 200, 100, 50 miles offshore.
“The discussion was missing the possibility of a large potential from zero to seven miles offshore that could be developed without offshore rigs or platforms,” he noted. “This was not included in all the talking.
“My point is to get this particular subject out as part of the dialog in offshore drilling,” he added. “The use of ERD to develop the offshore resources of the United States should be considered in the formulation of a rational, knowledge-based energy policy.”
The volumes of oil and gas awaiting recovery offshore California are huge.
“Discovered and undiscovered conventionally recoverable oil and gas resources of the Pacific OCS region are estimated to range from 14 to 19 billion BOE, according to the MMS,” Bjorklund noted.
“In the Santa Maria and Santa Barbara-Ventura basins in the California OCS, 24 offshore fields have been discovered with reserves of 1.3 billion BOE, but remain undeveloped because of federal and state offshore drilling restrictions,” he said.
“The highside potential -- including prospects in state waters -- may reach 3.4 billion BOE.”
Bjorklund said the potential exists to develop between 500 and 1,000 MMBOE from onshore sites, assuming ERD wells can develop reserves within seven miles of the California coast.
The numbers from a completed ExxonMobil project at Sacate Field are telling.
Since 1999, the company has drilled 15 ERD wells at Sacate, using Platform Heritage at the adjacent Pescado Field. The platform is located in 1,075 feet of water in the Santa Barbara channel, eight miles off the coast.
The 15th well drilled reaches more than five and one-half miles from the platform and is the longest ERD well in North America, according to Bjorklund.
(Recent reports show that ExxonMobil has gone beyond the seven-mile mark at its Sakhalin 1 project.)
He noted the field has produced over 18 MMBO and 15 BCFG. Estimated ultimate recovery is pegged at 106 MMBOE.
The list of environmental benefits using ERD technology to develop Sacate is noteworthy:
Fewer wells required.
No additional platform needed.
Reduced noise and visual impact.
Reduced air emissions.
Reduced impact on marine biology and habitats.
So Close, and Yet So Far
Companies are on the move to try to navigate the tedious process of acquiring leases and permits to develop other areas offshore California using ERD.
For example, Plains E&P reportedly has applied to the State Lands Commission for a lease to implement development of the T-Ridge prospect in state waters.
Sunset Exploration also has proposed a competing project to develop the T-Ridge structure via ERD from an onshore site at Vandenberg Air Force Base and has signed a letter of intent to participate in the project with ExxonMobil, according to Bjorklund.
He noted the horizontal departures of a well to develop fractured Monterey formation on the T-Ridge structure from either onshore or Plains’ Platform Irene would be about four miles -- and the payoff likely would be impressive.
“Based on 3,000 acres of closure,” Bjorklund said, “the potential of the T-Ridge prospect may range from 40-100 MMBOE.”
A list of only a few possible onshore drill sites to tap into unproven OCS reserves within seven miles of the California coastline, along with possible reserves in state waters, reveals some impressive reserve potential numbers:
North Vandenberg Air Force Base: 230-470 MMBOE.
South Vandenberg Air Force Base: 110-220 MMBOE.
Pt. Conception: 110-210 MMBOE.
Capitan: 30-60 MMBOE.
West Montalvo: 40-90 MMBOE.
There’s far more to ERD than simply having an existing site to use as a well kickoff point to reach an otherwise inaccessible area. In fact, considerable upfront evaluation is a must-do.
“Each site has to be investigated in detail,” Bjorklund said, “to know if it’s economic, practical, whether the resource can be exploited from onshore.
“That’s a story in itself.”
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Yes! May 2nd is National Chocolate Truffle Day!
Happy National Chocolate Truffle Day!
Here are today’s five food finds about Chocolate Truffles:
According to the legend, the chocolate truffle was created by Louis Dufour in Chambery, France in 1895.
Historians believe that chocolate truffles burst in popularity because across the street from Louis Dufour’s chocolate truffle shop was the Prestat Chocolate Shop.
Roald Dahl was a big fan of Prestat truffles!
There are three types of truffles: American, European and Swiss.
The first recipe for a chocolate truffle appears in a cookbook from the 1920s.
1878 At 7 a.m., the Washburn A flour mill in Minneapolis exploded, sending the roof 500 feet in the air. 18 workers were killed and seven other flour mills were also destroyed.
1885 Good Housekeeping magazine begins publication. Founded by Clark W. Bryan, the magazine was purchased by Hearst publishing in 1911.
1934 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev died. A Russian chemist who developed a method for large scale production of synthetic rubber. Production of polybutadiene was begun in 1932 using potatoes and limestone as raw materials.
Categories: April Food Holidays, Daily Food History, Food Facts, Food Holidays, Today's Food History
Tagged: april food holidays, Chocolate Truffles, Food Holiday, national chocolate truffle day, National Food Holiday
May 1st National Chocolate Parfait Day!
Happy National Chocolate Parfait Day!
Here are today’s five things to know about Chocolate:
Dark chocolate has more antioxidants than green tea and just as many as blueberries.
White chocolate really isn’t chocolate. It’s made from cocoa butter, the substance you get by pressing cocoa beans. Cocoa butter is absent of the cocoa solids used to make chocolate.
Chocolate was consumed by the ancient Aztecs as a frothy beverage, somewhat like hot chocolate we drink today.
Chocolate comes from a plant, called Theobroma cacao, which translates “Food of the Gods”.
Eating chocolate can also reduce the symptoms of stress.
1683 Supposedly, a patent for a system of extracting salt from sea water was granted in England.
1841 The first wagon train left Independence, Missouri for California.
1851 London’s Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park. It was the first international exhibition ever to be held. The Exhibition was housed in the Crystal Palace.
1889 Bayer introduced aspirin powder in Germany.
1927 Imperial Airways became the first British airline to serve hot meals.
1931 Empire State Building opens. It was built on the site of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
1971 ‘Brown Sugar’ by the Rolling Stones is released.
1991 Charles Elton died. Elton was an English biologist who first developed the idea of a ‘food chain.’
2001 Hindus in Seattle filled suit against McDonald’s restaurant chain for not disclosing the use of beef flavoring in its French Fries.
2005 A 9 foot, 640 pound freshwater catfish was caught by fishermen in northern Thailand on the Mekong River. According to many, this is the largest freshwater fish ever caught.
Tagged: april food holidays, Food Holiday, National Chocolate Parfait Day, National Food Holiday, parfait day
April 30th is National Raisin Day!
Happy National Raisin Day!
Here are today’s five food finds about Raisins:
In 1873, a freak hot spell withered the grapes on the vine. One enterprising San Francisco grocer advertised these shriveled grapes as “Peruvian Delicacies” and the rest is history.
It takes more than 4 tons of grapes to produce 1 ton of raisins.
The finest raisins come from Malaga in Spain.
Raisin – comes from the Latin racemus and means “a cluster of grapes or berries”.
Fresno, California is the Raisin Capital of the World.
1792 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich died. Captain Cook named the Sandwich Islands after him (now known as Hawaii). He is supposed to have invented the sandwich as a quick meal so as not to interrupt his gambling sessions.
1904 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis (St. Louis World’s Fair). It was at the Fair that the ice cream cone was supposed to have been invented. The hot dog and iced tea were also popularized at the Fair.
1952 Mr. Potato Head is introduced to the world. Mr. Potato Head is the also the first toy to be advertised on television.
1955 ‘Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White’ by Perez Prado hits number one on the charts.
1981 Dunkin Donuts opened its first store in the Philippines.
Tagged: april food holidays, Food Holiday, National Food Holiday, National Raisin Day, raisins
April 29th is National Shrimp Scampi Day!
Happy National Shrimp Scampi Day!
Here are today’s five food finds about Shrimp Scampi:
The word “scampi” means “shrimp”. Therefore, “shrimp scampi” is “shrimp shrimp” (or “scampi scampi”).
The pistol shrimp can deliver an explosive attack hotter than the surface of the sun and loud enough to rupture a human ear drum.
Every shrimp is actually born male, and some develop into females.
Some shrimp are actually capable of glowing in the dark.
Shrimp can vary in size from 1/2 inch to 12 inches.
1768 Georg Brandt died. A Swedish chemist, he discovered the element cobalt in 1730. Cobalt is used in steel making, and is an essential part of vitamin B12
1856 A shipment of 33 camels arrived at the Texas port of Indianola. They had been purchased on the North African Coast, for the U.S. army to use in the deserts of the Southwest.
1913 The zipper was patented by Gideon Sundback. Most checked chefs pants still have buttons.
1988 McDonald’s announced it will be opening 20 Moscow restaurants. They will serve Bolshoi Mak instead of Big Macs.
1989 Donald Deskey died. An industrial designer, he designed the packaging for Tide laundry detergent and Crest toothpaste among others.
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April 28th is National Blueberry Pie Day !
Happy National Blueberry Pie Day!
Here are today’s five food finds about Blueberries:
Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
The pale, powder-like protective coating on the skin of blueberries is called “bloom.”
A blueberry extract diet improves balance, coordination, and short-term memory in aging rats.
Blueberries are the official berries of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The anthocyanin present in blueberries is good for eyesight.
Blueberry pie by Petee’s Pies in New York, NY.
1789 The most famous mutiny in history took place on the English ship, ‘Bounty’, against Captain William Bligh. The ship was sailing to Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees.
1796 ‘American Cookery’ by Amelia Simmons is published in Hartford. It is the first cookbook written by an American. This is one of the classic cookbooks that can be found on the Food Reference Website.
1899 The comedy short ‘Stealing a Dinner’ was filmed by cameraman G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. (Mutoscope were ‘peephole’ motion pictures on cards mounted on a rotating drum turned by hand.)
1940 Italian operatic soprano, Louisia Tetrazzini, died. Chicken Tetrazzini, created by an American chef (San Francisco?), was named in her honor.
1944 Alice Waters was born. Executive Chef and Owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant, opened in 1971 in Berkeley, California
1953 Howard C. Rossin was issued a patent for an overcoat built for two (or Siamese Twins).
2005 Loaded Burrito Scare: Clovis, New Mexicao police were called to a middle school when someone saw what appeared to be a weapon being carried in by a student. Police did not find any weapon, but finally an 8th grader realized that what someone had seen was his extra credit commercial advertising project – a 30 inch long steak burrito wrapped in tin foil and a T-Shirt.
Tagged: april food holidays, blueberry pie, Food Holiday, National Blueberry Pie Day, National Food Holiday
April 27th is National Prime Rib Day!
Happy National Prime Rib Day!
Here are today’s five food finds about Prime Rib:
A standing rib roast is a prime rib consisting of SEVEN ribs.
A scooped & tied standing rib roast will have the bones taken off and then tied back on.
A rib eye roast is a boneless prime rib.
The beef is cut from the rib section, the largest central area of the steer, located in between the chuck and the short loin, just above the plate.
If choosing a prime rib at the butcher, look for a cut that has a bright color and milky white fat.
1773 The British Parliament passed the ‘Tea Act,’ one of the events that led to the American Revolution.
1865 Cornell University was chartered. Cornell is an agricultural land grant university endowed by Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Western Union Telegraph Co. Today, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, offers many programs, including Agricultural and Life Sciences, Hotel Administration, and Nutritional Sciences.
1871 The American Museum of Natural History in New York City was opened to the public.
1902 Julius Sterling Morton died. He was the founder of Arbor Day, first observed in Nebraska on April 10, 1872. Over one million trees were planted.
1947 Pete Ham of the rock group Badfinger was born.
1965 R. C. Duncan was granted a patent for ‘Pampers’ disposable diapers.
1995 On ‘Seinfeld’ Kramer began sculpting with pasta.
Tagged: april food holidays, Food Holiday, National Food Holiday, National Prime Rib Day, prime rib
April 26th is National Pretzel Day
Happy National Pretzel Day!
Here is today’s five food finds about Pretzels:
The first pretzel was created in 610 A.D. by a monk in southern France or northern Italy. It was originally called a ‘pretiola’ and was renamed ‘pretzel’ later when the idea migrated to Germany and Austria.
In 1861, pretzel twisting was the second highest-paying job in the Philadelphia region. Today, machines do the twisting, although at some artisan shops, tourists can still see it done the old-fashioned way.
The birthplace of the hard pretzel was Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The pretzel, or bretzel as it was called then, first came to America in 1710 with Palatine German immigrants (from the Rhineland) who settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and became known, incorrectly, as the “Pennsylvania Dutch.”
In the 18th century, German children would wear pretzel necklaces at the beginning of a new year for prosperity, health and good fortune.
In the 17th century, pretzels were known as a marriage knot. During a wedding ceremony, a couple would wish upon a pretzel, break it (like a wishbone), and eat it to signify their oneness. It is speculated that the term, “tying the knot,” originated in Switzerland in 1614 during a wedding between two prominent families.
1785 John James Audubon was born. Ornithologist, naturalist and artist, known mainly for his paintings and sketches of North American birds.
1877 Minnesota held a state day of prayer to plead for an end to a 4 year plague of Rocky Mountain locusts. In southwestern Minnesota, locusts had been eating crops, trees, tobacco, fence posts, leather, dead animals, sheep’s wool – everything but the mortgage. Two days later a snowstorm moved through and the locusts were never seen again. No one knows what caused the locust plague, nor why the Rocky Mountain locust became extinct after the plague.
1947 Pete Ham of the music group ‘Badfinger’ was born
1962‘Mashed Potato Time’ by Dee Dee Sharp is #1 on the charts.
1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine explodes. The worst nuclear disaster in history. In addition to the human toll, agriculture and livestock was contaminated by radiation in large areas of Europe for years to come.
1989 Lucille Ball died. Two of the funniest food related comedy routines ever done were the chocolate factory and the grape stomping episodes from her TV show, ‘I Love Lucy.’
2005 A herd of buffalo escaped from a farm and wandered around a Baltimore, Maryland suburb disrupting traffic, and shutting down several major highways. Police eventually herded them onto a nearby tennis court.
2006 Chicago banned the sale of foie gras.
Tagged: april food holidays, Food Holiday, National Food Holiday, National Pretzel Day, Pretzels
April 25th is National Zucchini Bread Day!
Happy National Zucchini Bread Day!
Here are today’s five food finds about Zucchini:
A zucchini has more potassium than a banana.
The word zucchini comes from ‘zucca’ the Italian word for squash.
Biggest is NOT best. The most flavorful zucchinis are small- to medium-sized.
According to World’s Healthiest Foods Nutrition info, nutrients and vitamins found in zucchini can help prevent cancer and heart disease.
The flower of the zucchini plant is also edible.
1856 Charles Luttwedge Dodgson met a little girl named Alice Liddell. Alice had a penchant for consuming unknown (and apparently psychoactive) food, pills and liquids that she found while exploring a very large rabbit hole.*
1932 Meadowlark Lemon, basketball star, was born.
1945 Stu Cook of the music group ‘Creedence Clearwater Revival’ was born.
1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway opened. It connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Its completion opened the heart of Americas industrial and agricultural areas to ocean going vessels for shipping. (The official opening ceremony is June 26)
Tagged: april food holidays, Food Holiday, National Food Holiday, zucchini bread, Zucchini Bread Day
April 24th is National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day!
Happy Pigs in a Blanket Day!
Here are today’s facts to about Pigs-in-a-Blanket:
The first written record of pigs in a blanket occurs in Betty Crocker’s Cooking for Kids in 1957.
Pigs in a blanket are also known as devils on horsebacks, kilted sausages, and wiener winks.
In the United Kingdom, pigs in blankets are small sausages, or chipolatas wrapped up in bacon.
In America, pigs in a blanket often refers to hot dogs, Vienna sausages, or breakfast sausages wrapped in biscuit dough, croissant dough or a pancake and then baked.
You can combine these dishes by wrapping your sausage in bacon, then cooking them into a biscuit or croissant.
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas was born. He was the founder and long time editor of the ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ now known as the ‘Old Farmer’s Almanac.’
1833 Jacob Ebert and George Dulty patented the first soda fountain.
1914 Justin Wilson, Cajun chef and humorist was born. He wrote five cookbooks, hosted several cooking shows, including ‘Louisiana Cookin’ and ‘Cookin’ Cajun.’
1949 Chocolate rationing ended in Britain.
1994 The world’s largest lollipop, 3,011 pounds, is made in Denmark.
Tagged: april food holidays, Food Holiday, National Food Holiday, PigsinaBlanket, PigsInABlanketDay
April 23rd is National Picnic Day!
Happy National Picnic Day!!
Here are today’s things to know about Picnics:
Did you know that a “picnic” ham is really not a true ham? It is cut from the upper part of the foreleg of a pig – a true ham is cut from the hind leg.
Italy’s favourite picnic day is Easter Monday. It is called “Angel’s Monday” or Pasquetta (“Little Easter”).
After an ant has visited your picinc, it lays down a scent as it returns to the nest for the other ants to follow!
In the year 2000, a 600-mile-long picnic took place in France to celebrate the first Bastille Day of the new millennium.
The first table designed specifically for picnics (in a style similar to what we know today) appeared in the late 1800s.
1564 and 1616 William Shakespeare was born. He passed away on the same date 52 years later. There are many references to food in Shakespeare’s works. “Let the sky rain potatoes.” (‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’). “Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.” (‘Romeo and Juliet’).
1895 Purdy and Peters were issued a patent for a “design for spoons.”
1947 Glenn Cornick of the music group ‘Jethro Tull’ was born.
1982 The Conch Republic (Key West & the Florida Keys) seceded from the United States to protest an INS (Immigration & Naturalization Service) roadblock on the only road into the Keys.
1985 Coca-Cola announced it was changing its 99 year old secret formula. New Coke was a big flop.
1992 The first McDonald’s in Beijing, China opened. It is the world’s largest McDonald’s, with 28,000 square feet, seating for 700 and 1,000 employees.
1993 R.I.P. Cesar Chavez. He was the founder of the United Farm Workers Union.
Categories: April Food Holidays, Daily Food History, Food Facts, Food Holidays
Tagged: foodimentary, National Picnic Day, picnic
April 22nd is National Jelly Bean Day!
Happy National Jelly bean Day!
Here are today’s five things to know about Jelly Beans!
They were President Reagan’s favorite candy and he used them to help him quit smoking when he was the governor of California.
Each year in the U.S, there are 16 billion jelly beans manufactured just for Easter. This is enough to circle the Earth more than 3 times if they were laid end to end.
The jelly bean is associated with Easter because of its egg-like shape.
In the early 20th century, a “jelly-bean” was slang for a man of style and no substance.
They were the first candy to be sold by weight rather than unit.
1662 John Tradescant died. He succeeded his father as naturalist and gardener to Charles I. 1818 Cadwallader C. Washburn is born in Livermore, Maine. In 1866 he built a flour mill at St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota and his Washburn-Crosby Co. (forerunner of General Mills) would market Gold Medal flour.
1832 Julius Sterling Morton was born. He was the founder of Arbor Day, first observed in Nebraska on April 10, 1872. Over one million trees were planted.
1889 The U.S. opened Oklahoma to homesteaders and the Oklahoma land rush officially began at 12 noon.
1913 Thomas Wright of New Jersey patented a method to load ice on to refrigerator railroad cars.
1948 Prosper Montagne died. Montagne was one of the great French chefs of all time. He is mainly remembered as the creator of Larousse Gastronomique (1938), a comprehensive encyclopedia of French gastronomy.
1964 The New York World’s Fair opens in Flushing Meadows on the same site as the 1939 World’s Fair. I had my first Heineken beer at their exhibition there. As a matter of fact, I spent every weekend there from April to October for the 2 years the Fair was open. I sampled music, food, beer and wine from around the world, and it helped to inspire my interest in cooking and food history.
1970 The first Earth Day was celebrated. Is our environment better or worse today?
Categories: April Food Holidays, Food Facts, Food Holidays
Tagged: National jelly bean day
April 21st is National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day!
Here are today’s five things to know about Cashews:
The pistachio, mango, cashew and poison ivy are in the same family.
Cashews are native to Costa Rica and Central America.
The fresh cashew nut has a substance inside that produce a big burn and rash in skin and mouth, at the same time this is a highly valuable product known as Cashew Nut Shell Liquid or CNSL, ingredient that have special structural features for transformation into specialty chemicals and high value polymers, this is important considering the fact that, since this is a renewable resource, is better than synthetics.
The cashew nut and the cashew Apple are completely different things! Thank his last one is a kind of fruit to which it’s attached the nut, this fleshy fruit has an aroma some people love while others dislike, the most common way of preparation of this fruit is doing a tasteful juice mixed with water and sugar.
Cashews in Costa Rica are harvested in March and April.
1878 The White House hosted the first Easter Egg Roll. Previously, the activities had been held on the Capitol grounds. Congress passed a law banning the practice due to a limited maintenance and landscaping budget (Bah humbug!). President Rutherford B. Hayes was asked if children could hold the activities on the South Lawn of the White House and he enthusiastically agreed. The event has been held there ever since.
1910 R.I.P. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain. American author, pen name Mark Twain, who wrote ‘Tom Sawyer’, ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ etc. There are many quotes and descriptions about food and dining in his works. An example is: “A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.” (From ‘A Tramp Abroad’).
1962 The Top Of The Needle restaurant in the Seattle, Washington Space Needle, was officially opened. It was the second revolving restaurant in the U.S. It seats 260 and rotates completely once every hour. (The world’s first revolving restaurant was the La Ronde Restaurant built in 1961 atop the Ala Moana building fronting the Ala Moana shopping center. The restaurant has since closed down.)
1963 The Beatles and the Rolling Stones met for the first time at the Crawdaddy Club.
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April 20th is National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day!
Here are today’s five things to know about Pineapple Upside-Down Cake:
The term ‘upside down cake’ wasn’t used very much before the 1900s, but the style of baking dates back to the Middle Ages.
Early recipes for fruit upside down cakes were made in cast iron skillets on top of the stove.
The classic American ‘Pineapple Upside Down Cake’ dates to sometime after 1903, when Jim Dole invented canned pineapple.
The Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (now Dole Pineapple) held a pineapple recipe contest in 1925 with judges from Fannie Farmer’s School, Good Housekeeping and McCall’s magazine on the judging panel. The 100 winning recipes would be published in a cookbook the following year.
The Hawaiin Pineapple Company ran an ad campaign in 1926 based on the fact that so many recipes for the cake had been submitted, naturally making the Pineapple Upside Down Cake even more popular!
Pineapple Upside Down Cake by Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery in New York, NY.
1770 Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo died. Born in Belgium, this ballerina danced with the Paris Opera. Escoffier named many gourmet dishes in her honor.
1841 Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ was published, the first modern detective story. This has nothing to do with food, but I am an avid fan of both detective fiction and Poe.
Categories: April Food Holidays, Daily Food History, Food Holidays
Tagged: pinneapple, pinneapple upside down cake day
April 19th is National Rice Ball Day!
Here are today’s five things to know about Rice Balls
Rice balls preserve very well, and can even be used to preserve meats or other foods within its airtight seal.
The rice ball is traditionally Japanese.
Typically the rice is soaked in vinegar and made to stick together. Dipping it in soy sauce will cause it to fall apart again.
Rice balls date back at least as far as the 11th century.
Another word for the rice ball is “Onigiri”, a word commonly misused to refer to sushi.
1877 Ole Evinrude was born. He invented the first practical outboard motor in 1909. The idea came to him while rowing a boat to a picnic one day. He decided there must be an easier way to move a small boat on the water.
1882 Charles Darwin Died. Pioneering English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution. His works include ‘Origin of Species’ and ‘The Descent of Man.’
1904 Richard Pough was born. An American ecologist he was the founding president of the Nature Conservancy and helped found the World Wildlife Fund. In 1945, he was one of the first to warn about the dangers of DDT to fish and birds.
1933 Jayne Mansfield was born. American beauty contest winner, stage and screen actress. Supposedly the only title she ever turned down was ‘Miss Roquefort Cheese,’ because she believed it “just didn’t sound right.”
1947 Mark Volman of the music group ‘The Turtles’ was born.
1968 ‘Honey’ by Bobby Goldsboro is #1 on the charts.
1975 Percy L. Julian died. An African American chemist, he worked on synthesizing various compounds from soy beans. One of his creations was a foam fire extinguisher refined from soya protein.
1995 The Supreme Court ruled that alcohol content could be listed on beer labels, overturning a 1935 law which had prohibited it.
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April 18th is National Animal Cracker Day
Here are today’s five things to know about Animal Crackers
The famous Barnum’s animal crackers box was originally a Christmas ornament hung by a string. The string can still be found on boxes.
A box of Animal Crackers sold for 5 cents in 1902.
Animal Crackers originated in England where they were known as animal biscuits.
54 different animals have been created as animal crackers. The most popular brand, Barnum’s Animal Crackers, has featured 37 different animals since 1902.
The most recent addition to the Barnum’s animal crackers is the Koala bear.
Over the years, the only ones that have survived the entire lifetime of the product are bears, elephants, lions and tigers.
Shirley Temple sang “Animal crackers in my soup, Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop,”, but rabbits never found their way into a box of Barnum’s Animal Crackers.
The name referred to P. T. Barnum (1810-1891), the famous circus owner and showman.
1834 William Lamb became prime minister of England. (I know it’s a stretch, but his name is Lamb!).
1904 ‘Pigmeat’ Markham was born. American actor, comedian. (“Here comes the Judge.”).
1906 San Francisco was hit by a devastating earthquake at 5:12 a.m.
1907 The Fairmont hotel reopened in San Francisco, one year after being severely damaged by the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
1944 Skip Spence of the music group ‘Moby Grape’ was born.
Categories: April Food Holidays, Food Holidays
Tagged: animal crackers, branum's animal crackers, National Animal Crackers Day
April 17th is National Malbec Day!
Here are today’s five interesting things to know about Malbec:
Malbec is a purple grape variety used in making red wine.
Malbec is one of the Argentine favorites.
On April 17, 1853, the President of Argentina put legislature in place for the foundation of an agricultural school in Argentina, with the goal of transforming the country’s wine industry. Several vines were brought over from France, including Malbec, which flourished in Argentina.
Terrazas de los Andes is an Argentine winemaker that embodies the best of Malbec by combining Argentinian terroir with French know-how to ensure quality grapes.
Argentina’s most highly rated Malbec wines originate from Mendoza’s high altitude wine regions of Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley.
1629 The first horses were imported to the American colonies by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1790 R.I.P. Benjamin Franklin. American diplomat, publisher, inventor, etc. Among his inventions were the Franklin stove and bifocal eyeglasses. He also published ‘Poor Richard’s Almanac.’
1810 Lewis M. Norton of Troy, Pennsylvania was issued the first U.S. patent for pineapple cheese.
1917 The first Del Monte brand national advertisement appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
1937 Daffy Duck makes his debut appearance in ‘Porky,s Duck Hunt’
1996 R.I.P. Arnold Neustadter. He was the inventor of the Rolodex rotating card file.
Tagged: april food holidays, food holidays, malbec, National Food Holiday, world malbec day
April 16th is National Eggs Benedict Day!
Happy National Eggs Benedict Day!
Here are today’s five food facts to know about Egg Benedict:
Eggs Blackstone substitutes streaky bacon for the ham and adds a tomato slice.
Huevos Benedict substitutes avocado for the ham, and is topped with both salsa and hollandaise sauce.
Eggs Sardou substitutes artichoke bottoms and crossed anchovy fillets for the English muffin and ham, then tops the hollandaise sauce with chopped ham and a truffle slice. The dish was created at Antoine’s Restaurant in New Orleans in honor of the French playwright Victorien Sardou. A more widespread version of the dish starts with a base of creamed spinach, substitutes artichoke bottoms for the English muffin, and eliminates the ham.
Portobello Benedict substitutes Portobello mushrooms for the ham, and is a popular alternative for Catholics observing the Friday Fast.
Eggs Provençal replaces the Hollandaise sauce with Béarnaise Sauce.
Today’s Food History:
1521 Martin Luther arrived at the Diet of Worms. This was NOT the first fad diet.
1906 William James Farrer died. An Australian agriculturist, he developed new varieties of wheat.
1924 Henry Mancini was born. Oscar winning music composer, he wrote many songs and film scores, including the score for ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’
1928 Ellsworth Milson Statler died. American hotel owner, founder of Statler Hotels. His Statler Hotel in Buffalo, New York was the first hotel in the U.S. to have running water and private baths in each room.
1941 The original Elsie the Cow died. Elsie the cow was originally a cartoon character appearing in ads for Borden Milk. At the 1939 New York World’s Fair, when people began asking where Elsie was, Borden’s picked a cow originally named ‘You’ll do Lobelia’ from their herd to be Elsie. Elsie stared in commercials, made personal appearances, and even starred in an RKO movie, ‘Little Men.’ Elsie was injured in a truck accident in 1941 and had to be put to sleep. She is buried in Plainsboro, New Jersey.
1956 On the ‘I Love Lucy’ show, Lucy stomped grapes in Rome, and wrestled with another female grape stomper. An inspiration for future ‘food wrestling’ entrepreneurs. Actually, this is one of the funniest sitcom episodes ever made.
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April 15th is National Ham Day
Happy National Ham Day!
Here are today’s five thing to know about Glazed Ham:
The Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota sold the first canned ham in 1926.
Hams are produced by almost every country in the world.
Mainz ham is a German ham that is brined, soaked in brandy or wine lees (or a mixture of both) and then smoked for a long period.
A country ham is much drier than injected-cured hams and has a sharper flavored due to its high salt content.
A pig scratches himself with his right leg, which uses the muscles more often, so the meat will be tougher. Aim for the left leg if you can.
On the Apollo 13 mission, the crew managed to create a functioning CO2 filter out of duct tape and glazed ham.
Chicago artist Dwight Kalb made a statue of Madonna from 180 pounds of ham.
Names of some of the better known hams of the world include: Smithfield, prosciutto, Westphalian, Parma, Virginia, Kentucky, Country, Canned, Bayonne, York, Mainz, Prague, Asturias, Toulouse, Dijon, Black Forest, Bohemian, Serrano, presunto, Bradenham, Estremadura, Prazska sunks, and szynka.
1710 Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo was born. Born in Belgium, this ballerina danced with the Paris Opera. Escoffier named many gourmet dishes in her honor.
1854 New York became the first state to fund a study of insects harmful to plants.
1874 George Harrison Shull was born. An American botanist, frequently called the ‘father of hybrid corn.’
1878 Harley Proctor created Ivory Soap.
1912 John Jacob Astor IV died. Great grandson of John Jacob Astor, who founded the family fortune. John Jacob IV built the Astoria section of what would become the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (1897) in New York city (this was on the site that were the Empire State building would be built in 1929). He also built the Knickerbocker and the St. Regis hotels. He died on the Titanic.
1951 Household hints columnist, Heloise, was born in Waco, Texas.
1955 The first franchised McDonald’s was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois, by Ray Kroc, who bought the hamburger restaurant owned by the McDonald brothers. On opening day a 2 patty hamburger was 15 cents and French Fries were 10 cents
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April 14th is National Pecan Day!
Happy National Pecan Day!
Here are today’s five things to know about Pecans:
Pecans come in a variety of sizes – mammoth, extra large, large, medium, small and midget.
Before a shelled pecan is ready to be sold, it must first be cleaned, sized, sterilized, cracked and finally, shelled.
There are over 1,000 varieties of pecans. Many are named for Native American Indian tribes, including Cheyenne, Mohawk, Sioux, Choctaw and Shawnee.
Texas adopted the pecan tree as its state tree in 1919.
2 Pecans provide nearly 10 percent of the recommended Daily Value for zinc.
1828 The first edition of Noah Webster’s dictionary is copyrighted.
1912 The British luxury liner Titanic struck an iceberg shortly before midnight. It sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 15.
1927 Clarence Birdseye of Massachusetts received a U.K. patent for frozen fish fingers.
1939 ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck was published.
1964 Rachel Louise Carson died. An American biologist and author of ‘Silent Spring,’ about environmental pollution, especially the dangers of DDT.
1989 ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ by Fine Young Cannibals is #1 on the charts
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April 13th is National Peach Cobbler Day!
Happy National Peach Cobbler Day!
*Created in the 1950’s to sell Canned Peaches for Spring Celebrations.
Here are today’s interesting five food facts to know about Peach Cobbler:
Peach Cobblers are an American deep-dish fruit dessert or pie with a thick crust (usually a biscuit crust) and peach filling.
Peach Cobbler day was created by the Georgia Peach Council in the 1950’s to sell canned peaches.
The rough look of the pie gives the dish its name. It looks “cobbled” together.
There are 419 calories in 1 cup of Peach Cobbler.
Peach cobbler was invented by early American settlers.
1748 Joseph Bramah was born. An English engineer, among his many inventions was a beer engine, used to deliver beer from keg to glass without artificial carbonation being added.
1796 The first elephant to be brought to the U.S. arrived from Bengal, India. It was exhibited in New York, and its diet was described as: “thirty pounds of rice besides hay and straw…. all kinds of wine and spiritous liquors….and every kind of vegetable; it will also draw a cork from a bottle in its trunk.”
1883 Alfred Packer was convicted of cannibalism in Colorado. (Actually he was convicted of murder, since cannibalism was not against the law). He was sentenced to death, but was retried in 1886 and sentenced to 40 years. He was paroled in 1901, and died in 1907.
1902 Baron Philippe de Rothschild was born. (Wine producer).
1909 Mervyn Hugh Cowie was born. Cowie was a British wildlife conservationist, founder and director of Kenya’s Royal National Parks.
1916 Funk Brothers Seed Company sold the first U.S. shipment of hybrid seed corn to Samuel Ramsay of Jacobsburg, Ohio. Todayinsci.com
1916 Edna Lewis was born, southern chef and author of ‘The Taste of Southern Cooking’ (1976).
1917 James Buchanan (‘Diamond Jim’) Brady died. An American financier and philanthropist, Diamond Jim was known for his diamond jewelry and his huge appetite.
1944 Jack Casady of the music group ‘Hot Tuna’ was born.
1976 The $2 bill is reintroduced by the U.S. Treasury.
2008 The National Meats Institute in Uruguay organized a record Largest BBQ, grilling about over 26,000 pounds of beef on a mile long bbq grill using 6 tonnes of charcoal.
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April 12th is National Grilled Cheese Day!
Happy Grilled Cheese Day!
Here are today’s five interesting food facts about Grilled Cheese:
Grilled cheese sandwiches originally showed up in America during the roaring 20’s.
It is said that grilled cheese was first served as an open-face sandwich.
A grilled cheese sandwich is often accompanied by tomato soup, a southern delicacy!
Grilled cheese sandwiches can be served with bacon , tomato, and various other additions. It makes the meal much more filling.
April is national grilled cheese sandwich month. Be sure to celebrate heartily!
1748 Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu was born. A French botanist whose ideas formed the foundation of a natural plant classification system.
1985 The four ‘unicorns’ of Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus were declared to be only goats with surgically implanted horns by federal inspectors. The circus was ordered to stop advertising them as unicorns
1988 The first U.S. patent on an animal life form was issued to Harvard scientists for a genetically engineered mouse.
1989 The USSR issued ration cards for sugar due to a shortage
2001 Maryland banned the farming of genetically modified fish in any waters linked to other bodies of water.
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April 11th is National Cheese Fondue Day!
Happy National Cheese Fondue Day!
Here are five interesting food facts about Cheese Fondue:
The melted cheese dish known as fondue is Swiss in origin.
Cow herders, who had long winters with few provisions, invented the dish.
Other nationalities have similar recipes involving things like creamy eggs.
The way the Swiss dish obtained a French name is a mystery, though there is a powerful influence of French language speakers in Switzerland even today.
The Swiss nobles liked the dish so much that they adapted it from its humble beginnings to make it a dish of the nobility.
1899 Percy L. Julian was born. An African American chemist, he worked on synthesizing various compounds from soy beans. One of his creations was a foam fire extinguisher refined from soya protein.
1926 Luther Burbank died. American horticulturist, he developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables, including the Burbank Potato (1873), the Shasta Daisy, over 100 varieties of plums and prunes and 10 varieties of berries.
1958 ‘Tequila’ by The Champs is #1 on the charts.
1986 Kellogg’s ended tours of its breakfast cereal plant for fear that industrial spies would obtain company secrets.
1992 The largest Barracuda caught with rod and reel was a great barracuda that weighed 85 pounds. It was caught off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
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April 9th is National Chinese Almond Cookie Day!
Happy National Chinese Almond Cookie Day!
The Cookie of Good Luck.
Here are today’s five food facts to know about Chinese Almond Cookies:
In Mandarin Chinese, these are more literally called “Almond Cakes.”
The Chinese Almond Cookie is native to southern and southeast China.
There is no record of these cookies before the 1900’s.
The Chinese commonly prepared Almond milk and Almond tea.
An American variation exists using pecans.
Typical to southern and southeastern China, these almond cookies are usually enjoyed around Chinese New Year, and are given as gifts to family and friends.
In some Chinese restaurants, they are served to cleanse the palate after several courses, rather than being regarded as a dessert.
Yuan-Shan Chi declared these cookies “as Chinese as blueberry pie.”
o 1626 R.I.P. Sir Francis Bacon. An English statesman, philosopher and author of ‘Novum Organum’, a work on scientific inquiry. Some also claim he wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. He died after having stuffed a dressed chicken with snow to see how long the flesh could be preserved by the extreme cold. He caught cold and died from complications about a month later.
o 1682 Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole Mississippi Basin for France. He named it Louisiana, in honor of Louis XIV of France.
o 1770 Capt. James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent.
o 1850 R.I.P William Prout. An English chemist, he was the first to classify food components into 3 main divisions – carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
o 1872 Samuel R. Percy of New York received a patent for dried milk.
o 1965 The entire cast of the comic strip ‘Peanuts’ was featured on the cover of TIME magazine
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April 8th is National Empanada Day!
Happy National Empanada Day!
Here are today’s five food facts to know about Empanadas:
The Spanish word for bread is “pan”. “Empanar” is a verb form that means “to bread”. Emapanada is the past-participle, “breaded”.
It’s basically a single-serving turnover. It can be filled with sweet foods like fruits, sugars, and syrups, or savory foods like meats, cheeses, and oils.
They originated in northwest Spain, in a region known as Galicia.
Today they are most popular in Spanish-speaking countries across Europe and South America.
Originally they were made with bread dough, but now they are made with pastries as well.
o 1513 Ponce de Leon landed in Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. He thought it was just another island of the Bahamas.
o 1862 John D. Lynde of Philadelphia patented the first aerosol dispenser.
o 1873 Alfred Paraf received a patent for the first commercially viable margarine manufacturing process.
o 1879 The Echo Farms Dairy of New York began selling milk in glass bottles, the first in the U.S.
o 1946 ‘Catfish’ Hunter, baseball pitcher, was born.
o 1992 R.I.P. Benjamin Eisenstadt. He invented the artificial sweetener, ‘Sweet ‘n Low’ (granulated saccharin and dextrose).
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April 7th is National Coffee Cake Day!
Happy Coffee Cake Day
Here are today’s five food facts to know about Coffee Cake:
Coffee cake was not invented, rather it evolved from a variety of different types of cakes.
Cakes in their various forms have been around since biblical times, the simplest varieties made from honey or dates and other fruits.
The Danish came up with the earliest versions of coffee cake. Around the 17th century in Europe, it became the custom to enjoy a delicious sweet and yeasty type of bread when drinking coffee beverages.
There are many available combinations, everything from blueberry coffee cakes to cinnamon walnut coffee cake and more.
The hole in the center of most coffee cakes is a relatively recent innovation—it became popular in the 1950’s. This “bundt pan” was invented to allowed heavier batters to get cooked all the way through without any dough left unbaked in the center.
The first coffee cakes are thought to have originated in Germany. These were more like sweet breads than cakes.
o 1727 Michel Adanson was born. Adanson was a French botanist who developed a system of plant classification based on physical characteristics. His system was opposed by Carolus Linnaeus, and was not widely used.
o 1857 A cold front barrels over the U.S. and snow falls in every state in the country.
o 1860 Will Kieth Kellogg was born. Founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. (later the W.K. Kellogg Company) to manufacture cereals (cornflakes were the first) developed by his brother John Harvey Kellogg.
o 1869 David Grandison Fairchild was born. An American botanist and agriculturalist, he was responsible for introducing many useful plants to the U.S. Author of ‘The World Was My Garden,’ and ‘Exploring for Plants’.
o 1933 The beginning of the end of Prohibition. On this day 3.2 percent beer sales were allowed in advance of Prohibition’s ratification.
o 1943 Mick Abrahams of the music group ‘Jethro Tull’ was born.
o 1948 The World Health Organization (WHO) was established.
o 1967 ‘Happy Together’ by Turtles is #1 on the charts.
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April 6th is National New Beer’s Eve !
Here are today’s five thing to know about Beer:
Germany serves beer ice cream in popsicle form. Its alcoholic content is less than that found in “classic” beer.
In 1962, Iron City beer was the brand used to test-market the concept of tab opening aluminum cans. By 1970, over 90% of all beer cans were self-opening.
Prohibition, beginning on January 16, 1920, lasted 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, and 32-1/2 minutes, and was rescinded on December 5, 1933, at 3:32 p.m.
Centuries ago in England, pub visitors used a novel innovation that enabled them to get their beer served quickly. They used mugs with a whistle baked into the rim, the whistle being used to summon the barmaid. It has been suggested this practice gave birth to the phrase “wet your whistle.”
A beer lover or enthusiast is called a cerevisaphile.
o 1859 Massachusetts created the first Inspector of Milk position in the U.S.
o 1869 John Wesley Hyatt patented celluloid, the first synthetic plastic.
o 1896 Opening day of the first modern Olympic games. The last Olympics were held 1,500 years ago.
o 1930 ‘Twinkies’ go on sale for the first time.
o 1932 C. Glen King, at the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C from lemon juice.
o 1938 Roy J. Plunkett accidentally discovered Teflon.
o 1947 John Ratzenberger, actor, was born. He played ‘Cliff Clavin, Jr.’ on the TV series ‘Cheers.’
o 1954 TV dinners are introduced. C.A. Swanson & Sons introduced the first TV dinner: roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, sweet potatoes and peas. It sold for 98 cents and came in an aluminum tray, so you could just open the box and heat the dinner in the oven. (No microwave ovens back then).
o Supposedly executive Gerald Thomas came up with the idea when the company had tons of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving (Didn’t we all?). The idea for the aluminum trays came from the trays used for airline food. They were an immediate success, and Turkey dinners are still the most popular Swanson frozen dinner. Swanson stopped calling them TV dinners in 1962.
o 1988 McDonald’s opened its 10,000th restaurant in Dale City, Virginia.
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April 5th is National Caramel Day!
Here are today’s five food facts about Caramel Candy:
The word “caramel” comes from the late latin root “calamellus” meaning “sugar cane.”
While the origin is unknown, it’s speculated that American setllers in 1650 were making hard toffee candies in kettles.
In 1960, Vito Raimondi, with the help of his uncle William Raimondi, invented and patented the first caramel apple machine.
Toffee, or in the US “caramel candy”, is a soft, dense, chewy candy made by boiling a mixture of milk or cream, sugar(s), glucose, butter, and vanilla (or vanilla flavoring).
Caramel coloring, a dark, bitter-tasting liquid, is the highly concentrated product of near total caramelization, bottled for commercial use. It is used as food coloring and in beverages, such as cola.
o 1764 The Sugar Act passed in Britain, placing new restrictions on the import of molasses to America.
o 1806 Isaac Quintard patented the apple cider mill.
o 1858 W. Atlee Burpee was born. Founder of the world’s largest mail-order seed company in 1876.
o 1881 Edwing Houston and Elihu Thomson patented a centrifugal separator, which could be used in separating milk.
o 1981 Bob Hite died. Singer with Canned Heat.
o 1994 Andre Tchelistcheff died. Tchelistcheff was a Russian-born U.S. enologist, was a pivotal figure in the revitalization of the California wine industry following Prohibition (1919-33) and used his Paris training in viticulture and wine making to pioneer such techniques as cold fermentation and the use of American oak barrels for aging. He was also an authority on the types of soil suitable for growing various grape varieties.
o Encyclopedia Brittanica (CD-2002)
o 1998 The Spice Girls first U.K. concert in Glasgow
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April 3rd is National Chocolate Mousse Day
Happy Chocolate Mousse Day!
Here are today’s five thing to know about Chocolate Mousse:
The word mousse is French and translates as “froth” or “foam.”
Cold dessert mousses are often poured into decorative glasses and garnished with fruit, sweet sauces, or whipped cream.
Savory mousses can be made from fish, shellfish, meat, foie gras, etc.
There are three key constituents to a mousse: base, binder, and aerator.
They may be hot or cold and are often squeezed through a piping bag onto some kind of platform to be used as hors d’oeuvres.
Savory mousse dishes were an 18th century French achievement. Dessert mousses (generally fruit mousses) began to appear much later, in the second half of the 19th century.
The first written record of chocolate mousse in the United States comes from a Food Exposition held at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1892.
Chocolate mousse came into the public eye in the U.S. in the 1930s, about the time as chocolate pudding mixes were introduced.
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1829 James Carrington of Connecticut patented a coffee mill.
1845 William James Farrer was born. An Australian agriculturist, he developed several new cultivars of wheat.
1860 The first Pony Express mail delivery service by horse and rider between St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California began. The 1,800 mile run took 10 days.
1956 Elvis Presley sings ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ on the ‘Milton Berle Show.’ An estimated 25% of the American population tuned in to hear him.
1959 The Coasters song ‘Charlie Brown’ is banned by the BBC because it refers to “throwin’ spitballs.” The ban only lasted 2 weeks.
1974 The Super Tornado Outbreak. 148 tornadoes in 13 states in 26 hours. The world’s largest tornado outbreak in recorded history. It included six F5 tornadoes and 30 F4 tornadoes. The first tornado hit at 1 p.m. and the final tornado hit at 2 a.m. the following morning.
1982 The temperature in Lamberton, Minnesota dropped from 78 degrees F to 7 degrees F in 24 hours. The 71 degree drop in temperature is a Minnesota record.
1985 The Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood, California closed after 57 years. Robert Cobb, owner of the Brown Derby, created the Cobb Salad there in 1936.
2010 Students at a Utah high school created a replica of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ using 2 tons of Malt-O-Meal cereal.
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April 2 is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
Happy Peanut Butter and Jelly Day!
Interesting Food Facts about Peanut Butter & Jelly
Studies show that there is a 75% chance that if you drop a slice of peanut buttered bread, it will fall face down.
50 percent of all the peanuts grown around the world are used to make peanut butter.
It is estimated that the average American school child will have munched through 1500 Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches before graduation.
An 18 ounce jar of peanut butter will contain about 850 peanuts.
The largest recorded peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the world was lovingly crafted in Peanut, Pennsylvania in 1993. It was 40 ft long and contained 150lbs of peanut butter and 50lbs of jelly.
By law, any product labeled “peanut butter” in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.
Peanut butter was first introduced to the USA in 1904 at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis by C.H. Sumner, who sold $705.11 of the “new treat” at his concession stand.
A 2002 survey showed the average American will have eaten 2,500 of these sandwiches before graduating from high school.
742 Charlemagne was born. Charlemagne, Charles I, Charles the Great, King of the Franks, Charles le Grand, Carolus Magnus, Karl Der Grosse, King of the Lombards, master of Western Europe, Emperor. Some of the food related ‘facts’ I have come across related to Charlemagne:
* the peacock was first served in Europe during his reign;
* Sauerbraten was invented by Charlemagne;
* Roquefort cheese was a favorite of his;
* the knife began to be used to eat food for the first time during his reign (rather than the fingers);
* Roses were used to cover tables for meals.
I have no real corroboration for any of these ‘facts’ think ‘truthy’
1819 The periodical, ‘American Farmer’ was founded by John Skinner
1827 Joseph Dixon began manufacturing the first lead (graphite) pencils. Necessary to write recipes and menus
1840 Emile Zola was born. French writer and critic who was also known as a gourmand. His detailed descriptions of simple meals, banquets and eating in his novels are among the best to be found anywhere. He was also known for his own luxury dinner parties. “What will be the death of me are bouillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.”
1863 THE RICHMOND BREAD RIOTS – Shortages of food caused hundreds of angry women gathered in Richmond, Virginia to march on the governor’s office and then on the government commissary to demand bread. It ended in a riot when they broke into the commissary and then other shops & buildings and carried out anything they could carry. Even the hospital reported losing over 300 pounds of beef. Arrests were made, but at the request of authorities, the newspapers downplayed the incident, and records were later destroyed when the Confederate government fled and burned much of the town behind them.
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Every minute 5 children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition . . . Every Child Matters . . . Local Plants Suit Local Conditions
Statistics show that approximately 5 children a minute, under the age of 5, die from malnutrition. Food Plant Solutions is taking an ‘EVERY CHILD MATTERS’ approach to this fact. One of the solutions to malnutrition is as simple as growing the right food plants in the right places.
The first 1000 days from conception are critical in a child’s development. If children do not receive adequate quantities of key micro-nutrients during this period, they can be permanently damaged for life. This can include blindness, intellectual disabilities and impaired growth.
Malnutrition robs children of their futures
This can be prevented
The Food Plant Solutions project was designed to address malnutrition through the use of readily available and local food sources. We create educational publications that help people understand the connection between plant selection and nutrition, and empower them to grow a range of highly nutritious plants with differing seasonal requirements and maturities. We identity food plants that are potentially important for a country or region because they are suited to the environment, they are high in nutrients and they grow with minimal inputs. This is a sustainable solution that empowers people in need, not just for now, but into the future.
Food Plant Solutions does not send people in-country, but forms partnerships with existing aid providers who use the FPS publications to educate communities, and particularly women and children, on the nutrient value of their local foods. Not only does this sustainably address malnutrition and food security, it also empowers women. In many cases this will increase incomes, particularly for women, which benefits the family unit as a whole, and it safeguards and strengthens the capacity of women to provide food security, health and nutrition for their family. Most projects (whether they be housing, water, schools, maternal health, etc.), would be further enhanced by adding a Food Plant Solutions component to them. Most people who are in dire situations require a sustainable way to grow and access nutritious food.
With program partners, FPS encourages the establishment of demonstration food gardens in schools and communities, as these provide ongoing education and improve the health and nutrition of participants, who are provided with nutritious food prepared from these gardens.
With some of our programs achieving a reduction in malnutrition by as much as 95%, this approach is proven, cost-effective and sustainable.
Contact us at info@foodplantsolutions.org to get involved.
History of FPS
Tasmanian agricultural scientist and Officer of the Order of Australia recipient – Bruce French, has spent over 30 years on a voluntary mission to document information on all the food plants of the world.
Bruce has established a database of over 30,000 edible plants, which continues to grow. The database contains descriptions, countries and climatic zones of the plants’ origins, photos, edible parts, and cooking methods. Nutritional information is available for a selection of these plants. All information in the database can be reproduced in a number of formats including CD, DVD, books and PowerPoint presentations.
Rotarian Buz Green, of the Rotary Club of Devonport North in Tasmania (D9830) developed a relationship between the organisation behind the database, Food Plants International, and Rotary to establish the Food Plant Solutions project.
Since June 2007, the Food Plant Solutions committee, with other volunteers, have transformed Food Plant Solutions from a concept into a dynamic international project that is internationally recognised. The preeminent leader in our field – Bioversity International, has recognised the significance of our work in a Letter of Support.
Approximately 5 children a minute, under the age of 5, die from malnutrition.
1 in 4 children under the age of 5
is afflicted with stunting.
Malnutrition robs children of their futures and it is preventable.
Food Plant Solutions is an innovative solution to end hunger, malnutrition and ensure food security that is sustainable, cost effective and proven to work. It’s simple – identify and grow the best local foods, that are highest in nutrients, to meet the nutritional needs of malnourished people throughout the world.
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In 1985, when PolioPlus began, polio paralysed approximately 350,000 children per year. Due to the dedicated efforts of Rotary and its partners there has been a decrease of 99% in polio cases.
And yet, every minute 5 children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition.
Like polio, hunger and malnutrition is preventable.
Like polio, Food Plant Solutions needs extensive partnerships.
Like polio, a long-term commitment is needed.
We are calling on all Rotarians to follow ‘End Polio Now’ with End Malnutrition NOW.
Food Plant Solutions empowers people but particularly women, to understand the connection between plant selection and nutrition. We create educational publications, which are designed to quantify the nutritional value of the food and educate care-givers on what foods are more nutritious. The publications address malnutrition and food security and empowers women, who are often the main providers and purchasers of food in the family.
We form partnerships with existing aid providers, which reduces cost and duplication. This is a very cost effective approach.
We can link in with existing aid projects – most people in challenging situations also require nutritious food. The FPS approach is is as applicable in places where people are in conflict and turning to ‘bush’ foods to survive.
A partner only needs to give FPS information on where the project is and FPS can create the publications as described above. Field trips to determine suitable plants are not required, as the FPI database contains all the required information.
Food Plant Solutions is based in Australia and is a not-for-profit, non-government organisation.
Food Plant Solutions provides an annual audited financial report.
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In short, while I can download your open source product and run it, I don't get the same level of support you give if I buy your product, or I don't get the features you give (withholding add-ons, etc), or I don't get the specific training materials that goes along with the software.
So, why hasn't anyone made open source software for the security industry yet? My company does open source IT consulting (This is what pays the bills and puts money towards the security company). While we write code at times, we usually point people towards vendors, provide support, etc.
If you have products that are open source in nature, or are closed source but run on open source platforms, please, contact me. Its fustrating to have to rely on closed source products, where your paying outrageous licensing fees and enhanced TCO with bugs and who knows what lurking in the closed source code, in an industry where transparancy means less liability.
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Proooooooooooooooooooooooompt
# ? Feb 2, 2016 12:50
Prompt?
J.A.B.C.
There's no need to rush to be an adult.
Interprompt over phone:
"Jerry!"
A scream so loud it cut through the headphones, making him look away from his homework and down the hall. He knew that scream, down to the volume and pitch. He was in trouble.
No sense waiting to make it worse. He headed down the stairs and into a disaster zone of cookware and steaming pasta strewn about on the linoleum tile. Mom was up on the counter, feet tucked in tight to her chest, eyes wide as she glared at him, then the cabinets under the prep area, then back to him.
Chester poked his head out from a cabinet door, took a nervous look here and there, clicked its mandibles twice, then retreated into the darkness of the storage space.
"Oh, crap." He said, shoulders slumping. She found Chester.
"Crap is right, young man!" Mom replied. "What did I tell you about super science in the house?"
Damage control time. "Mom, I know you're angry, but it's a school project this time, I swear."
Eyes narrowed, but she made no move to get off the countertop. "What project?"
Chester pushed his way out of the cabinet, the dog-sized black ant scuttling over to the upturned pot of spaghetti, steady click click click of its legs on the tile as it attempted to grasp the pasta in its mandible. Every scoop ended up falling to the floor, landing with a wet plop, only to try again.
"Dr. Halls gave us a module on the cube-square law," Jerry said, looking down at the ant as it tried, again, to eat the spaghetti. "So I wanted to demonstrate how it'd affect a creature that has been upscaled. I wanted to keep him in my room, but his exoskeleton can't handle the steps."
Chester was now pushing itself down flat, dragging the noodles to its beak with a wet, slurping sound. Mom sighed, feet sliding off the table, sitting at the edge of the counter. "Clean this up, then. I'll get the dog bed out of the closet and order some pizza."
Chester finished off the pasta, clicking in triumph as Jerry began to pick up the mess.
No interprompt real prompts only.
Boaz-Jachim
CANERE CORAM LEONE
Thunderdome CLXXXIII: Sorry Dad, I Was Late To The Riots
This week's prompt is the post-apocalypse. You are going to write me stories about interesting people who want something. I want to be specific:
1. Post-apocalypse.
Something happened, and society got messed up. Maybe it's a medieval post-apocalypse after demons invaded. Maybe it's a sci-fi post apocalypse and trees are turning into crystals. Maybe it's a surreal post-apocalypse and everyone's becoming rhinoceroses. Maybe you write Fallout fanfic and I get mad. No stories about causing the apocalypse. If your brains are too decadent and soft, you can ask for an apocalyptic premise and I will flash rule you.
2. Interesting people.
How are they interesting? I don't know. Maybe they have a sweet jacket, or a complex emotional landscape, or they can melt bones. I don't want to read about boring people though. And I really don't want to read about people doing boring things, like wandering around aimlessly or talking the whole time.
3. Who want something.
This can be anything, even abstract concepts, as long as it's specific. Maybe they want to reconnect with their girlfriend. Maybe they've been captured and want to break free. Maybe their car got stolen. Maybe they want to find a working god drat computer that doesn't have a cyberzombie jacked into it. 'To survive' is vague and bullshit. Give them a specific goal.
So, write about interesting people who want something in a post-apocalyptic setting. You have 1250 words. Signups close on 2359 Mountain time Friday night. Submissions close 2359 Mountain time Sunday night. That's 2 AM Eastern, 11 PM Pacific.
crabrock
sebmojo
Entrants:
Jitzu_the_Monk
WeLandedOnTheMoon! - Flash rule: The world is freezing over, and your protagonist wants to go skiing. Just think of all that fresh powder, man.
Bleusman
Grizzled Patriarch
Broenheim - Flash rule: The day to day struggles of living on a cozy, tropical, island paradise after nuclear armageddon.
QuoProQuid - Flash rule: In the post-apocalyptic-energy-crisis world, fuel is a precious commodity. So how far are you going to go to keep this awesome road trip going?
Pham Nuwen
Thranguy
Ceighk
Blue Wher
YFDHippo
Jocoserious
Killer-of-Lawyers
SadisTech
Titus82
spectres of autism
ZeBourgeoisie
CaligulaKangaroo - Flash rule: Someone must protect the people of a frontier town from one of the unspeakable horrors that now roam the West.
scuz
Ironic Twist
Pantothenate - Flash rule: Humans have lost the ability to harness heat of any sort, and no one knows why. Fires won't start, the sun no longer warms, and anything using steam or combustion (power plants, motors) no longer works. Your protagonist's motivation is righting a wrong.
SurreptitiousMuffin
curlingiron
Wangless Wonder
Bird Tyrant
Boaz-Jachim fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Feb 6, 2016
THIS IS A SIGN UP POST AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE A FLASH RULE PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
WeLandedOnTheMoon! posted:
Flash rule: The world is freezing over, and your protagonist wants to go skiing. Just think of all that fresh powder, man.
sparksbloom
I got an idea. Count me IN for this one.
These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.
flerp
I DON'T ALWAYS
HERDY DUR MUR FLERP FLERPITY
FLOOPIN
I YER DER FLERPITY
THURN DER DERMIN
I'm a suave detective with a heart of gold in hot pursuit of the malevolent, manipulative
MIAMI MUTILATOR
and the deranged degenerates who only want their
15 MINUTES OF FAME.
OCK.
Sure, why not, I'm in.
Boaz-Jachim posted:
you write Fallout fanfic and I get mad.
Quoted for emphasis.
Also thank you for the critique Titus, you're a swell guy.
Broenheim posted:
Flash rule: The day to day struggles of living on a cozy, tropical, island paradise after nuclear armageddon.
QuoProQuid
Tr*ckin' and F*ckin' all the way to tha
ing in this week, because I'm a literal child who can't meet his commitments.
Gimme a flash rule
There's a signpost up ahead, next stop: the shitpost zone
writers should not be afraid of thunderdome
THUNDERDOME SHOULD BE AFRAID OF WRITERS
The living will envy the dead (since the dead can't read horrible stories).
t h u n d e r d o m e
We can talk about it
Or we could get gully, I'll size up your body
And put some white chalk around it
IN with a radioactive for last week's shameful display
The Smart Baseball Dargon Sez:
"Baseball is chaos!"
His bat is signed by Carl "Yaz" Yastrzemski
QuoProQuid posted:
Flash rule: In the post-apocalyptic-energy-crisis world, fuel is a precious commodity. So how far are you going to go to keep this awesome road trip going?
THUNDERDOME LOSER
LOOK OVER HERE!!
THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
I'm in. Let's do this.
Clem.
Siddhartha Glutamate
Wait, was I supposed to come up with a word with in in it?
Legit Cyberpunk
Titus82 posted:
you did
Crits for Strange Log Week, Part 1
klapman - The Fetal Fastness
This was a lot more poignant than I was expecting, given your prompt. You've got a good hook, and you keep introducing these new, interesting elements that make me want to keep reading. There's a neat balance of self-aware goofiness and a deeper, more meditative tone that I dig.
Mechanically, your prose has improved a lot. When you first started in the dome, you had some issues with purple prose / unclear imagery, but you've really pared it down. The imagery here is actually pretty strong; I really liked the bits with the invisible babies carrying away the swords / corpses and all of the soldiers seeing the funeral pyre. The whole thing is kinda surreal, but still internally consistent.
The only real issue I had here is that the first half is a lot stronger than the second; you start out with this strong sense of immediacy and these clear images, but then you get to the stuff with the narrator's son and the narrative eye sort of "zooms out," I guess is the best way to put it. The result is that a lot of action gets compressed and things inevitably become more tell than show, which makes it hard to get emotionally invested in what is meant to be a touching sequence. It almost feels like two different stories bolted together -- I see what you are going for, but you need more space to stretch your legs in the back half for it to be effective.
Not a bad way to start the week!
Amused Frog - Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
Another good hook.
This is a fun idea that just doesn't quite land, for me. I think part of the issue is that you've got what Roger Ebert would call an "idiot plot" - a lot of the narrative arc depends on characters being dumb / making dumb decisions. This can work - for another film-related reference, the Coen brothers pull it off pretty well - but here there just isn't enough meat to make it satisfying. It's pretty obvious early on how this is going to play out, and expectations aren't subverted.
To be fair, part of this is the prompt's fault. You've got an interesting concept here, but when you're talking about death being eradicated, just having a band that doesn't die from random diseases or something feels like it isn't taking that concept to the most interesting place it could go. The image of the audience being all battered and scarred and pockmarked is pretty cool, but I think you should have taken it even further. This is an absurd premise, so go nuts with it.
Your prose is solid enough, and there weren't any issues with clarity. The dialogue didn't quite ring true to me, but I can't really put my finger on why.
Not a bad story, but it didn't do enough to stand out of the crowd this week.
CaligulaKangaroo - The Ablution Feast
Muffin really wanted this to HM, and it was an easy call to make. This was one of the best stories of the week in terms of evoking a strong mood / atmosphere, which really lends itself well to this kind of story. It wears its Lovecraft influence on its sleeve (which is pretty much a given with that prompt) but there's this quiet sense of building dread that I really liked.
The prose is strong, and you know when details are important, and when holding back a little bit can be just as effective. There's some good characterization--the mother and father feel very human. The reverend is kinda leaning towards a caricature, but that Puritan, fire-and-brimstone type of character is one of the most difficult to write well, in my opinion.
The ending is great, too. Sweet, sad, and succinct.
theblunderbuss - Bliss
Your intro here is a little iffy. Since we don't know the bird is supposed to be dead right away, it takes a few paragraphs to get hooked. The mini weather report in the second paragraph doesn't help. In fact, Old Saul himself seems kind of unnecessary - you could have Ciara find the bird herself and it would basically play out the same without leaving the reader to wonder if this guy is ever going to show up again.
Once things pick up, it's a lot easier to get invested. There's some interesting stuff, you establish a strong conflict, and there's a satisfying / logical conclusion that is genuinely pretty creepy. The major issue here is a structural one - you are sort of playing coy with the reader the whole way through, which is a bit frustrating. It's obvious that Ciara knows what is going on and how to fix it, but you keep teasing the explanation out until the very end, which creates a sense of unearned tension. I think if you were just right out in the open with it, you could do some even more interesting stuff with the relationship between these two women. As it is, I just feel like I'm on the periphery the whole time, an outsider looking in.
Pham Nuwen - Get off my magical lawn
This story is just kind of silly in a way that doesn't end up being satisfying - what payoff there is is already heavily implied / pretty much explained early on, and it's just not a strong enough gag to hang a story on in the first place.
The biggest issue here is that the story is almost completely dialogue; it's a guy telling a story to another guy to explain an element of the story, which is almost never going to fly. Without some characterization, some sense of space / blocking / what these people are doing and thinking about, it's pretty much impossible to become invested in them or the situation. This is magnified by the fact that the most interesting characters in the story - the children and their father - are secondary to this very matter-of-fact explanation of what happened to them, to the point that it basically reads like a wikipedia article.
Basically, what you ended up doing was telling a story about telling a story. All of the important conflict and characterization is secondhand or off-screen, so there's not really anything for the reader to interact with.
Masonity - The Umbrella Man
Opening with dialogue is tricky, and it just doesn't work when you immediately break from that dialogue to create this sort of thin framing device. The entire story is dialogue except for those two framing lines, and as a result there isn't a way to visualize anything that is taking place. All I have is two talking heads, one of whom is talking in a grating, almost cartoonish cockney accent. There's no real conflict, no characterization aside from "this guy is a swindler," and no real narrative arc. Basically, it's not even a story at all. Nothing actually happens, and the entire thing culminates in what is essentially a throwaway gag.
I dunno, it's hard to give constructive feedback with this piece because I'm pretty confident that it was just a last-minute rush job. It pretty much breaks every rule of basic storytelling.
HellishWhiskers - The Universal Translator
This was an interesting story, and I'm still not totally sure how I feel about it. The story seems to be setting something up, and then it takes a hard right turn into something else, and it only partially works.
On a mechanical level, your prose is a little hit or miss - some of it feels overengineered, like your using larger, less precise synonyms that tend to break the flow of your lines and make them sound clunky. Sometimes this can work if you are doing it for a very specific effect - there's a David Foster Wallace story called Another Pioneer that does this - but here it doesn't quite seem deliberate. The dialogue doesn't really feel natural (it has a kind of self-conscious, weary-cynic feel), and the stutter is just not a good idea.
It's not irredeemable or anything; the idea is a neat one, and the sheer insanity of this "diplomat" that shows up is great. I think you went out on a limb here and I can appreciate / respect that even if it doesn't stick the landing. I also dig that final line, even if maybe it shouldn't technically work. I think it's like a one-line summary of the tonal whiplash that the story has got going on, and I like that.
Bleusman - A Fellow of Means
I liked this one. This is a good example of creating a narrative voice that contributes to the flavor of the story without feeling particularly intrusive. This is also a pretty good example of a story where the surreal elements feel natural because the characters' reactions to events remain consistent, even if they aren't "realistic."
The main issue here is that you've got these competing conflicts - the narrator's vs. the giant's - and the giant ends up being the more compelling character by quite a bit, which means that the story should have probably been told from his point of view. As it is, the reader ends up feeling like a spectator instead of being immersed in what is going on.
I dunno, I don't have all that much to say about this piece. There isn't a super strong narrative arc, but it's still a charming little story with some strong imagery, a solid voice, and an interesting premise. Pretty good for a debut story!
Ceighk - To The Curious
Opening with character descriptions is kinda like opening with the weather, or a description of someone waking up. That said, you almost make it interesting enough to work here - it sets a tone, and there's a bit of characterization in it, so I can forgive it.
You spend almost half the story setting up backstory and banter in a hand-wavey way that makes it feel unnecessary, and it mostly is. You could get the same thing across in a low fewer words and get to the actual meat of the story earlier, which is important when you are trying to keep the reader's attention. You do a good job of establishing a paranoid atmosphere, though.
The ghost crabs are cool, and you do a pretty good job with the imagery there. Then we get to this portal, and everything is building up and...nothing happens. I guess you are going for a kind of joke ending here, subverting the whole "curious person finds much more than they bargained for" Lovecraftian trope, but the side effect is that you totally kill your story's momentum and basically deflate all of the tension / interest that has been building. It's a gag that could maybe work in a more visual medium, like a TV show, but as the climax of a piece of written fiction it just doesn't work. Instead of being funny, it comes across as the author being afraid to commit to the story they are setting up.
WeLandedOnTheMoon! - Bindings
I think I mentioned this in IRC, but when I started reading this, I was in judgemode and I thought that my lack of a "no erotica" disclaimer had finally come back to bite me. Once I got farther into the story though, I think that intro serves it well. The way it segues into the next few paragraphs paint a really great picture of the kind of relationship we're dealing with.
Your prose is really strong throughout, and you've got some impressive economy of prose. Lots of little bits of characterization, foreshadowing, etc.
The time jumps were a little disorienting on my first read-through, though maybe I was just tired, because the second time I didn't have any problem with it. There's a good narrative through-line here, though I kinda wish I had a bit more insight into the narrator's headspace. It's hard to tell exactly what his motivations / desires are, though I suppose that's understandable when you're dealing with someone that is confused and narcotized, just drifting through life. This story is dark - not quite nihilistic, but pretty grim, and all of the judges were a bit unsure how we felt when we finished reading it. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Definitely in the upper end of this week.
Alright, I've got to get up early tomorrow, so I'll post the rest of this week's crits tomorrow!
take the moon
by Fluffdaddy
im entering
CaligulaKangaroo
MAY YOUR HALLOWEEN BE AS STUPID AS MY LIFE IS
Thanks for the crits!
Also, in!
Any chance I can get a flash rule?
CaligulaKangaroo posted:
Flash rule: Someone must protect the people of a frontier town from one of the unspeakable horrors that now roam the West.
spectres of autism posted:
this is triggering me so hard right now
You can't be angry ALL the time!
Fun Shoe
Never done one of these, might be a good break from bideo gabes.
Am in.
I'm bokeh, you're bokeh
Pantothenate
This is an art gallery, my friend--and this is art.
In. And can I request a surrealist flash rule, or does that defeat the point of flash rules?
Pantothenate posted:
does that defeat the point of flash rules?
If you have to ask......
sure, In.
ok people can stop signing up now
Flash rule: Humans have lost the ability to harness heat of any sort, and no one knows why. Fires won't start, the sun no longer warms, and anything using steam or combustion (power plants, motors) no longer works. Your protagonist's motivation is righting a wrong.
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You Are Here Home Health News Germany is at start of coronavirus epidemic: health minister
Germany is at start of coronavirus epidemic: health minister
FitManitoba - February 26, 2020 at 11:22
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic after new cases sprung up which can no longer be traced to the virus’s original source in China, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday.
He urged health ministries in Germany’s federal states as well as hospitals and employers to review their pandemic planning.
“The infection chains are partially no longer trackable, and that is a new thing,” he told a news conference. “Large numbers of people have had contact with the patients, and that is a big change to the 16 patients we had until now where the chain could be traced back to the origin in China.”
Reporting by Thomas Escritt; Editing by Gareth Jones
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Wisconsin High School Approves Greco-Roman & Girls Freestyle Program
By 5PM Staff
When students resume class at Burlington Catholic Central High School in Wisconsin this September, a new Greco program will be there to greet them.
The Topper Wrestling Club has been approved to begin operations entering the 2019-20 school year, just in time for the dawn of the international style season.
Founded by Bill Kahle, a coach for the Wisconsin club Ringers along with serving on the state’s age-group staff, Topper (or TWC) will feature a year-round Greco-Roman curriculum complete with trips to Europe and all National/World Team Trials tournaments. The objective, as stated by Kahle, is to provide a sustainable, high-level wrestling experience for athletes who not only prefer the classical style, but also have designs on fashioning successful Olympic-caliber careers post-high school.
“There are kids who this is what they want to do,” said Kahle, whose son Cael is a Greco athlete and will also be enrolling in the program. “They say How can I just do Greco? One of the parents (Greg Amborn) pitched it to the board and they loved it. The school liked the opportunity to grow something that is out of the box. They were like, We can be the first to do this? Then yeah, let’s do it.”
One of the key facets of the Topper program’s launch is support from others, which is not in short supply in Wisconsin. Two-time Cadet World Team coach Lucas Steldt has played a pivotal role in assisting Kahle’s vision and will host team members at his club, Combat. In addition, the US National Team leadership has offered to buoy Toppers’ efforts, as well.
“I’ll be using Lucas as a liason,” explained Kahle. “Right now with my guys at Ringers, it’s mandatory that we’re going to Lucas, too. I wanted that to be part of our program, and Gary (Mayabb) and Matt (Lindland) told us that as long as we have a place to stay, we can train there (at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs).”
Kahle will be heading up Topper’s Greco-Roman ambitions. For girls freestyle, that distinction belongs to Kevin Bird.
The Bird name is synonymous with Wisconsin wrestling. Kevin was a state runner-up in 1986 and competed in college at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His son Josh was both a state high school and Fargo National champ — and has been instrumental helping build Burlington Catholic Central’s previous folkstyle team. Bird’s two youngest sons, Jared and Jaden, respectively, are budding grapplers in their own right.
Since overseas training is a big piece in Topper’s puzzle, they are getting started right away. In October, the group is scheduled to travel to Sweden ahead of the Klippan Cup and Malar Cupen, two big tournaments that host age-group competition. Excursions at other training facilities in conjunction with preparing for the aforementioned slate of domestic events will occur later on.
Equally important to the wrestling concerns for parents and prospective students is the educational component. Burlington Catholic Central is currently ranked #12 on Niche‘s list of best college prep high schools in Wisconsin. It’s an institution that prioritizes academics, and graduating seniors routinely receive scholarships to notable colleges, which in Kahle’s opinion, makes this endeavor all the more attractive for everyone involved.
“This is a great school,” he said. “They want to work with the athletes while they are overseas so they don’t fall behind. They want them to succeed in the classroom while having Olympic aspirations. Plus, they think this is a fantastic program because we’re focused on training kids to make World Teams.
“We’re not after state champs. We want World medals. That’s the goal. There are others who say that is their goal, but they aren’t declaring that in their practices. We do. That’s the goal and we’re excited about it.”
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Courageous mum chooses life despite “hopeless” diagnosis for her unborn baby
June 12, 2013 by Michelle Kaufman18 Comments
Toni and her daughter Ava.
The NZ Herald recently reported a beautiful good news story of a courageous young mother who chose to give life to her unborn baby after being told by her doctors that the child she was carrying, if it survived, would only live for a short time after she was born.
In a situation which must have been incredibly frightening, the mother, Toni, was told at a 16 week scan that one side of her baby’s brain was growing faster than the other. At another scan Toni discovered there was no amniotic fluid around the baby. Other scans revealed no facial bones, organs missing and underdeveloped lungs. Toni was diagnosed with Premature Rupture of the Membranes (PPROM), a condition which effects 2 out of every 100 pregnancies.
Toni was told there was no hope.
When medical experts believe there is no hope, the answer generally is to “terminate”.
This brave mother, when told by three medical experts to end the life of her baby, stood firm in her role to protect, love and nurture her little one. She chose life despite the fear of the unknown.
With the support of her family, they discovered online cases overseas which gave them hope. But Janine, Toni’s mother, recalls how adamant the medical professionals were
My daughter was bawling and the woman said: ‘This is not a Woman’s Weekly article, this is not going to be a miracle pregnancy, this baby is not going to survive’.
But at 32 weeks baby Ava was born. She had none of the anomalies diagnosed prior to birth, although she did have a horseshoe kidney, something the scans didn’t pick up. Because Ava was eight weeks premature, she spent time in NICU, but she was strong and was able to go home after two weeks.
At a time when prenatal screening is routine, this story (and the countless more that are similar), should serve as a warning for medical professionals, for parents and for families. All too often, a prenatal diagnosis of an impairment, disability or life-limiting condition ends in abortion. Often this is because of pressure from the medical experts, from a lack of information about the conditions and a fear of the unknown.
But Baby Ava’s story shows that sometimes doctors get it wrong.
And even if they don’t get it wrong, why is the answer abortion?
Motherhood begins at the moment new life is conceived. Mothers love, they protect, they nurture their children. Toni, has shown mothers everywhere, who face the unknown, how to do this courageously.
An update of Toni and Baby Ava’s story can be found here.
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Janine cornelder says:
hey I am Ava’s Nana, mentioned in this webpage, im glad to see that people like you are up to date with stories that affect people on a daily basis. Ava’s case is most certainly a real eye opener
Brave mom and her family !!!. I wonder what would be a father decision in a similar case.
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If a baby is expected to die, why kill Her? Makes Zero sense. Docs are being political. Bravo Toni and Ava!!!!! All life is precious.
rightwingspinster says:
Exactly! I’ve never understood the ‘logic’ that says a child who is expected to have a short life should be deprived of whatever time he or she has left. Insanity!
Krissy (Oakes) Larson says:
Thank you for this comment! Why do medical professionals think they are saving a mother sorrow and grief by ending a life early just because the child will die anyway? The mother will have horrible sorrow and grief regardless but the most haunting question of all is, what if the ultrasound was wrong?
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Jay Cookingham says:
WOW…bless the courage of this MOM…what an example of Father God’s heart!
Maccie says:
In reply to Judy “If a baby is expected to die, why kill Her? Makes Zero sense. ” … well one of the reasons I can think of .. MONEY!!! If they did the termination, they will pocket some of the fee right? hmm… Bravo to Toni and Janine!
RVB says:
I was told at 5 months that my baby was very small and underdeveloped. They wanted to do tests which included inserting a cork-skrew wire into the baby;s skull. I asked the docs what would they do w that info, the answer, perhaps vitamin and nutritional treatments or reccommend an abortion. It seemed I could deal w better vitamins and nutrition and I said option 2 was not an option and I would prefer no wires in my baby;s head. I was forced to sign a paper that said they reccommended I get an abortion since I was refusing the test. Of course it was terrible and filled me w more than the usual anxiety a mom goes through while pregnant….My baby was born 2 weeks late. He was 23″ long and weighed 9lbs9oz!!! He was the most gorgeous baby blond and big brown eyes, very slight learning disability but a brilliant brain. He is now an adult and stands at 6’4″! Those docs are sued and I was later told they have to cover their butts as there are some, who after getting an “imperect,” child will sue the doctors. In my world, every child is perfect. I now tutor special needs children, with great success, and love my work!
Thank you for sharing this!!!
This strikes home so close for me.. My wife (who has a life-long illness which prevented us from having children until the age of 35) found out she was pregnant, then was told repeatedly the child would have multiple severe issues, due to necessary medications, and that his life expectancy would be minimal. We were urged to ‘terminate’ as well..
We quit the first doctor on the spot, believing that GOD is the giver of life, and that it is His choice, not ours.
Yes, it was tense. and hard. and very scarey. We prayed a lot,and sang a lot.
But then our little bundle of love was born. And he had ZERO problems!
Yesterday I watched him win a baseball game, at age 9. And when I think about those naysayers and critics (even in our own family!), I pity them for the guilt they must carry, having wished my son to die.
There is no doubt in my mind that God brought him safely thru the womb, gave him life, and that life is from God, not to be dispensed at the whim of a doctor.
I know of two stories that are similar. At four months my sister was told her child had died. There was no heartbeat. Two different sonograms at different weeks revealed the same thing. She was told to have an abortion for her heath. She refused and now her daughter is about to enter college. She’s is 100% perfect. No health problems at all.
My cousin was diagnosed a few weeks before giving birth with down-syndrome. Abortion was urged. Her child was born healthy–100% healthy.
Doctors misdiagnose all the time. And miracles happen all the time.
Thank you Toni for your strength and teaching the world an important lesson! God Bless You Ava!
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Revival hopes as locals begin to reclaim Fitzroy Street in pandemic
“[We want] to get more daytime trade.”
Lined with palm trees, it begins with parkland made world-famous by a Formula 1 race and ends with picturesque views of Victoria’s busiest beach.
Fitzroy Street St Kilda was predictably quiet on Sunday morning. Credit:Chris Hopkins
Not only is it in one of the state’s most densely populated suburbs, it borders one of the city’s most affluent – St Kilda West.
Yet a walk down the southern end of Fitzroy Street on a late Saturday morning in December revealed it was virtually deserted apart from a rough sleepers’ camp, with rows of empty or shut shops. The backpackers who used to populate it had until Monday been unable to travel to Victoria.
However, another stroll the previous evening showed signs of fresh life with healthy numbers of smartly-dressed locals enjoying new outdoor dining areas.
Albert Park MP Martin Foley said Fitzroy Street’s time as a nightclub spot was over and that it needed business investment to capitalise on young professionals working from home.
Thousands of people on St Kilda Beach on Melbourne Cup Day. Credit:Jason South
“It’s really at the crossroads of what its future’s going to be,” the state government minister said.
According to Port Phillip Council, the vacancy rate between Grey Street and the Upper Esplanade has hovered about 30 per cent for the last few years and not much lower in the ones before that.
But in perhaps a symbol of better times, new bar Chronicles has opened on the site of the much-loved bookshop of the same name.
It’s been said that Fitzroy Street’s demise can be traced back to when the independent bookshop’s owners were priced out in 2009 and replaced with a yoghurt shop that lasted six weeks and the building stood empty ever since.
Chronicles owners Justin Lustman and Loc Fortune, who met working at Curtin House’s The Toff and welcomed their first sit-in customers in November, have created a bar for locals – many of whom have packed out the venue ever since.
“[Fitzroy Street] has passed it’s time with a transient-like customer base and backpackers,” Mr Lustman said.
“All these people that moved here 15, 20 years ago … moved here because it was such a cool, incredible happening suburb.
“Ten years later, [they] have kids and are young families or young professionals and they aren’t really after the 5am going out and getting loose every morning anymore – they are after more of a mature offering.”
Fitzroy Street’s ills have been blamed on everything from expensive rents and parking to rough sleepers.
The 2017 closure of the Gatwick Hotel, a crime-ridden private rooming house on the west side on the street, was hoped to be the panacea, but it’s disadvantaged population has remained.
The strip has long been a heady mix of stylish, grungy, well-heeled and edgy. But as its renowned nightlife largely moved to the city over the past few decades and it was flooded with takeaway shops serving backpackers, it’s underbelly stood out.
Most recently, rough sleepers from the state government’s hotel homeless program have been visible on the street.
Port Phillip councillor and Liberal member Andrew Bond said they had been causing problems for the local community and needed better support services.
Mr Foley, who has held Albert Park since 2007, said new or wealthier residents needed to accept the suburb’s socio-economic diversity and see it as a strength.
“A small minority … have demonstrated a long and well resourced effort to turn St Kilda into Brighton and they’ve failed,” he said.
He said the government’s $5.3 billion social housing and homeless package, which listed Port Phillip as a priority, would help alleviate Fitzroy Street’s social issues.
Mr Blakeley said as locals returned to the street, it’s social issues would be less noticeable.
For Mr Lustman: “the problems are less with those surface area problems and more with … what is on offer.”
Venues such as The Espy and The Prince have been gentrified causing a shift away from St Kilda for live music. Credit:Scott Barbour/Fairfax Media
Backpackers haunts or late-night venues Cushion Lounge, Elephant and Wheelbarrow, Robarta and the Saint Hotel have all recently shut their doors.
Meanwhile, seven more new and renewed venues have opened in the precinct during the pandemic, including a refurbished upmarket Prince Hotel and oyster bar Blu, and four more are soon to come. Almost all are eateries or bars.
Port Phillip Council and the Fitzroy Street Business Association have funded Renew Australia to fill the strip’s empty storefronts with rent-free pop-up shops. The idea is to encourage a daytime trade by bringing in a mix of retailers.
The organisation, which is responsible for reviving Newcastle following the 2008 financial crisis and has similar projects in Geelong and Wollongong, organises 30-day rolling licence agreements with landlords, who can keep up for-lease or for-sale signs.
Project manager Dan Dealy-Hewitt said it was hoped many of licensees would become permanent ventures, bringing life back to the strip in the meantime.
“We’ll be incubating projects from artists, studios, galleries, designers to entrepreneurs … or small businesses that want to trial in a space where they don’t want to be tied down by long term commercial leases,” he said.
Six properties, between Jackson and Acland streets, have signed up to the project so far and Mr Dealy-Hewitt is reviewing applications to fill them.
Retail expert Martin Ginnane, who put Fitzroy Street’s vacancy rate at 21 per cent, but up to 40 per cent at the beach end, said rather than “artsy starts-up”, the strip needed quality daytime attractions to lure in well-heeled residents from West St Kilda and those who move into Tim Gerner’s luxury Saint Moritz apartments around the corner.
“It needs to change with the demographic. Otherwise they’re going to drive out of their apartments … and have nothing to do with the communities they live in,” he said.
“They need fewer pizza joints, they need fewer coffee shops. They need a delicatessen, they need a florist, they need somewhere you can really buy good bread.”
There is widespread hope the opening of the state government’s $30 million Victorian Pride Centre on the corner of Jackson Street early next year will help bring back a sense of community to Fitzroy Street.
“It’s the problem child, historically, but it’s on the cusp of a whole heap of things coming together,” Mr Foley said.
“It’s got one big chance. It’s in our collective hands.”
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Chloe Booker is a city reporter for The Age.
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HTC Launches New Desire 816G Dual SIM With Octa-Core SoC In India For Rs. 19990
HTC has launched the company’s latest smartphone – New Desire 816G Dual SIM variant in India at a price tag of Rs. 19,990. It will be available across India.
At the launch, Faisal Siddiqui, Vice President & Country Head, India at HTC, said,
“The new offering under the HTC Desire series is our next step towards a power packed combination of beautiful design and flagship performance all backed by a powerful 1.7 GHz Octa-Core Processor. The HTC Desire 816G is the best buy amongst big screen devices, packing powerful performance and innovative design perfectly at a great price.”
On the specifications front, it features 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and it is powered by 1.7GHz Octa-Core SoC processor which is paired with 1GB of RAM. It runs on Android 4.4 KitKat with HTC Sense UI 6.0 on top and has 16GB in-built memory which can be expanded further by using microSD card.
On the specifications front, it features 13MP rear-camera with LED flash & 5MP front-facing camera for selfie & video-calling.
It has dual-SIM support and connectivity features 3G HSPA+, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX, GPS with a-GPS.
It has dual-front-facing BoomSound speakers with built-in amplifiers.
New HTC Desire 816G dual SIM specifications
Display: 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels
Processor: 1.7 GHz octa-core processor
Memory: 1GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB with micro SD
Operating System: Android 4.4 (KitKat) with HTC Sense UI
Camera: 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, 1080p recording and 5 MP front-facing camera, 1080p recording
Connectivity: 3G HSPA+, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX, GPS with a-GPS
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HTC Legend Review: Frankly, It Feels Expensive
With HTC's upcoming crop of Androids, you'll be able to separate people into two distinct groups: those who spring for the brainier, better-specced Desire, and those who get bowled over by the beautiful, yet lesser-specced Legend.
HTC Desire: A Premium Nexus One Without the Google
Inspired by the Nexus One (which HTC made), the Desire—or Bravo, if you prefer—has a 3.7-inch…
The Desire (or Nexus One) is the final word in the Androidsphere—it's a mark of someone who knows what they're doing, who wants to show people they NEED that extra computing power. If you compare it to the Legend, you could be justified in saying Legend-salivators are more shallow, ignoring the might of a Snapdragon processor in lieu of a unibody aluminum shell and slim build.
Nexus One Review
The Nexus One is an over-hyped Android phone. But that doesn't stop it from being the best Android…
You'd be wrong, however.
I Mean, It Is Just a Sequel
The internal upgrades are minor, when you consider it next to the HTC Hero, but like the Empire Strikes Back, sometimes sequels are far better than the original. While we found the Hero "tragically flawed" in its slugginess, the Legend's slightly more powerful 600MHz processor behaved—well, like a legend. The 3.2-inch screen has the same amount of pixels as the Hero, but swaps the HVGA for a more superior AMOLED. The 5.0-megapixel camera is still the same quality, but has the much-welcomed addition of a flash. You get the picture—the Legend is building on the Hero's quality in incremental upgrades, but every change, however minor, radicalizes the experience of using the Legend.
HTC Hero Review: Ambitious, But Tragically Flawed
It's the Android phone we've been waiting for. Almost.
It's running Android 2.1, which as any Hero owner knows should be released as an over-the-air update soon. One day. The jump from 1.6 to 2.1 is impressive—it's a lot faster, the multitouch is better, there's greater integration of social networking profiles with contacts, and HTML5 support, amongst other—admittedly small—changes.
HTC Hero Among First To Get Android 2.0 Update
According to HTC's Twitter feed, the no-longer-tragically-flawed HTC Hero is getting a sprucing up…
Plain and simple—the Legend is the most well-built phone I've ever had in my hand. You just know when you feel the weight of it, the cool curved exterior of the unibody aluminum shell, and touch the ultra-responsive touchscreen. It's that sensation when you first tenderly held the original iPhone, which has been long-missing in the market.
The bottom and top of the back is actually made from rubberized plastic though, so there are no issues with wireless signals—unlike the first generation of the iPhone. Removing part of the case reveals a very thin battery and a touch-sensitive catch which keeps the SIM and microSD cards encased. It's a small point, but it's also the most polished example of a phone's innards that I've ever seen.
Just like BlackBerry, HTC is migrating its trackballs to optical trackpads. This is a relief, but in actual fact I barely had to use the trackpad—only when having to make an edit when typing out messages or emails. The screen is just so responsive, with nary a wrongly-actioned command made, that you can imagine HTC forgoing the trackpad altogether at a later date.
BlackBerry Onyx Loses a Trackball, Gains a Trackpad
The leaked-to-all-hell BlackBerry Onyx may have undergone one last change before heading to…
Only eight buttons reside on the Legend's body. The on/off button up top, the two volume controls on the top left, and then on the lower face, home, menu, back and search. They all worked well, though the home, menu, back and search keys did feel a bit cheap in comparison to the high-end feeling of the rest of the handset.
Same Old Camera?
HTC's used the same 5.0-megapixel camera as we saw on the Hero, but the addition of a flash is a new and exciting step for them—strange as that sounds. As you can see from the two photos below, the flash is very strong—too strong, I'd say. However, the quality is decent in lowlight conditions—noisy for sure, but I've seen worse.
My friends in lowlight at a cinema before Alice In Wonderland 3D
In daytime I had a lot more luck. Testing it out on some cakes in my kitchen in the late afternoon sun retained the nice rays of sun across the cakes, with the yellow of the flowers showing up bright. But even at 5MP, the general image performance isn't enough to ditch your point and shoot just yet.
Testing indoors with daylight
More Sense Than HTC Sense
Most manufacturers are skinning Android with their own proprietary interfaces...MOTOBLUR, Mediascape, S-Class, they're ok, but I'd almost rather use Android in its natural flavor than have to put up with some of their issues.
There just ain't no Android phone like a HTC Sense Android phone. It's simply the best skin an Android could ask for, even without the minor improvements seen in the Legend. By far the pick of the bunch is the new "Leap" view—or "Helicopter view" as it was known in-house when designed. It works much like Mac OS X's Exposé function, bringing all seven homescreens up as thumbnails. The feature is very useful, particularly if you just can't remember which screen your mail, or the weather widget, is listed on. The pinch command takes some getting used to, but once you've got the gesture down-pat, it's a godsend.
Leap—or helicopter—view
But with ever feature that will be used often comes one with no point at all. FriendStream is a nice enough widget, which collates all your friends' updates from Twitter, Facebook and Flickr into one feed, but for anyone who's a purist and likes to see every form of update on each social networking site, it will be removed quickly from the homescreen. I preferred using HTC's own brilliant Twitter widget, Peep, for the full Twitter options, and the Facebook app to see every form of action. The Flickr integration is handy, being able to see when my contacts upload photos, but not necessary if you get email notifications already.
Plus, FriendStream just felt slow sometimes—in fact, on a very speedy phone, it felt incongruous in comparison to everything else, often updating with tweets quite a few minutes later than the Twitter widget did. It's not a big problem, but for someone who relies on Twitter heavily as a source of entertainment, it became a source of frustration.
FriendStream
Respectable Battery Life
The Legend ran 36 hours before it died on me. Not too bad, considering I had an hour-long call plus about five shorter ones, sent and received around 20 text messages, and spent almost a whole day browsing the web, checking Twitter, and showing it off to my friends. After the horror of seeing my G1's battery deplete in half a day when I first bought it, the Legend's 1300mAh battery ran to my satisfaction.
The Legend Is The Most Solid Android Phone I've Used
True, other phones may be better specced, but with that premium build it's like comparing a Sony Vaio (not a bad laptop, sure) to a MacBook. Sometimes there's just no contest. While the extra horsepower and added touches of the Nexus One and Desire are nice, I found the Legend more than satisfactory.
It wasn't sluggish, certainly didn't have bugs or issues like the G1 and Hero, and while it'll inevitably slow down and have you cursing the fact you didn't spring for something with a Snapdragon chip, I'm going to award it possibly the highest accolade a reviewer can gift a device: I'm going to upgrade to one.
It's not the best Android phone. That badge still belongs to the Nexus One, or possibly the Desire, when we review it. But it's one of the best all-rounders, when you consider the hardware—and the feeling you're left with once it leaves your hand. I feel bereft without it.
Superb hardware quality
HTC Sense is better than ever
Addition of camera flash
Super-fast and responsive
FriendStream could be faster
Camera flash isn't perfect
The HTC Legend hasn't been announced for the US market yet, with the European launch sometime this month.
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Remember! This is all built on apple technology, so it shouldn't exist. Stealing, people. Stealing!
*PS: Fuck you, jobs-o.
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The Showmanship
Alex Cranz
Gif: Epic Games
The billionaires are fighting. But it’s not a Twitter slap fight between VC goons this time. Nope: The biggest company in the world is getting slapped with a lawsuit filed by an absolute goliath of the video game world. And because we’re all cooped up in our homes worrying about surviving the new school year and golden shower-loving despots and impending economic doom and making it to our next paychecks, we crave entertainment.
But we can’t get it from TV, which largely killed production across the world back in March and will only supply us with a few more shows until 2021. We can’t get it from movies with theaters closed and the ones that are planning to open guaranteed to be flash points for covid-19 outbreaks. Comics are hard to read when one of the two largest publishers just saw itself decimated by an ill-advised merger with AT&T and that knowledge seems to hover around the frames of each page you read. Books provide solace. Blogs do, too—when they aren’t being savaged by that ad apocalypse.
Fortnite May Have Just Laid the Perfect Antitrust Trap for Apple—and They Fell For It [Another Updat...
Everyone is mad about Apple’s App Store guidelines right now, especially when it comes to cloud…
But games have provided comfort in these awful times, and today they provided a new sort of entertainment. Fortnite publisher Epic Games just pulled off a trick with the kind of pizazz you’d expect from P.T. Barnum instead of a massive company valued at more than $17 billion.
First, Epic baited Apple, which has been under increased pressure over its App Store policies after multiple allegations of antitrust behavior. Epic Games publishes a number of games on the iOS platform, including Fortnite, which allows you to purchase in-game currency with real-world money. The problem is that, until today, 30% of that real-world money went directly into Apple’s pockets as its cut of revenue for owning the app store and operating system that Fortnite appears on.
App developers agree to pay Apple 30% to get access to its millions of iOS users, but developers also have to agree not to offer alternative methods of payment that bypass Apple. The toll must be paid, because apparently Apple has spent the last 13 years transforming at least one element of its business into the troll under the bridge.
Apple's App Store Is Due a Reckoning
The long-standing controversy over the so-called “Apple tax” the company imposes on apps in its App
Epic Games decided to say, in essence, “Fuck that,” and started offering Fortnite’s in-game currency, V Bucks, at a heavily discounted rate if purchased directly from Epic instead of Apple.
It was very clearly a threat toward one of the largest and most successful app stores in operation.
Apple responded as Apple does, by swiftly removing Fortnite from its store and citing policy violation, though its official comment was a sharper rebuke than usual.
“Epic enabled a feature in its app which was not reviewed or approved by Apple,” the company said in a statement to the Verge, “and they did so with the express intent of violating the App Store guidelines regarding in-app payments that apply to every developer who sells digital goods or services.”
Apple was right, of course. Because while Eddy Cue or someone was showing Epic what’s what by removing the game from the App Store, Epic Games was arranging a massive new in-game event. And as Fortnite players gathered around giant screens looming in the virtual sky, an adaptation of a familiar commercial appeared.
You’re reading Gizmodo, so I think it is safe to assume you know all about Apple’s landmark 1983 Super Bowl commercial that let it take a stab at the cookiecutter IBM clones that dominated the ‘80s PC market while also showing its incredible acumen for showmanship and advertising. In the commercial, dull drones lifted straight from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis watch a screen with slack jaws until a woman runs into the room, swings a hammer, and shatters the screen—effectively freeing the masses.
In Epic’s satirical take on the iconic commercial, slack-jawed Fortnite avatars watch a cartoonish rotten apple until a woman—the only character in color on screen—appears with an enormous hammer and shatters the screen.
Text then scrolls up from the bottom:
Epic Games has defied the App Store Monopoly. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fortnite from a billion devices. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming “1984.”
Epic is not fucking around. There are no coy little asides. No effort to be political or try and maintain peace. Epic Games set Apple up to piss off millions of Fortnite players and then immediately directed all that wrath at Apple, and tacked on a #FreeFortnite hashtag too.
And just in case you weren’t sure what Epic’s plan was, the company timed the video with the drop of a lawsuit filed against Apple, and then released an FAQ that continued to lay the blame at Apple’s feet. It even included links to stories from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post about Apple’s App Store guidelines and alleged antitrust behavior.
I cannot recall any company—especially one the size of Epic Games—setting up a lawsuit so perfectly. The lawyers I’ve asked can’t recall a lawsuit filed with such flash. It is unprecedented, and I’m sure if Steve Jobs were alive, he would be utterly delighted—just before calling on his cabal to destroy Epic Games and salt the earth where it stood, of course. This is absolutely the entertainment we need in 2020, and the face that today’s developments might one day let developers eke out a better living making iOS apps ain’t so bad either.
Senior Consumer Tech Editor. Trained her dog to do fist bumps. Once wrote for Lifetime. Tips encouraged via Secure Drop, Proton Mail, or DM for Signal.
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Google has entered the fray as well, kicking them out of the Google Play store. So Epic picked a fight with not just one, but two Tech Titans.
Like most of these things, it will probably end with some kind of settlement, but it’s still amusing.
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Matthew Moore played half the holes and had twice the fun on a family trip to England’s beautiful border county.
Honesty box golf for less than £20 a round
The oldest nine hole links in England at Alnmouth Village
Wild and wonderful Warkworth and its ‘Killiecrankie’ gorge
Lunch in a Treehouse at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Castle
Mini-golf in a Duke and Duchess’ garden
Great Scott’s of Alnmouth – a café/deli made with love
Cool Brittania AirBnB in an old school hall
Northumberland is England’s best kept secret.
A soothing quiet county with an ancient Roman wall, revered holy sites and a coastline framed by brooding castles that bore witness to bloody Viking raids and border feuds.
It’s where I like to escape to and get back to my roots.
My Dad is Northumbrian. The gentle drive North reminds me of childhood and visiting my Grandparents.
It’s also a place of quiet unspoilt beaches, understated but excellent golf courses and the kind of market towns and visitor attractions that make it a perfect family-friendly destination.
Any golfer with young children knows that time is precious and rounds on the links are to be cherished.
Northumberland is ideal if you want to play golf on a family break.
I’d been planning an honesty box golf tour of Northumberland for some time and wanted to play links courses that were short, visitor friendly and located on dramatic and beautiful stretches of coastline.
In early Spring 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic turned the world upside down and sent countries into state imposed lockdowns, we booked with AirBnB to stay in the village of Warkworth.
Hugging the banks of the River Coquet, Warkworth is a living flashback to England in the Middle Ages.
A majestic castle stands on a hill at the town’s centre surveying its streets and the view South to Amble, the self-styled ‘friendliest port’ in Northumberland.
Warkworth Castle, Northumberland, England
The streets winding away from the castle and close to the river are true to Warkworth’s original mediaeval layout.
Long narrow gardens run behind old stone houses, a legacy of mediaeval property divisions.
School’s Out – Luxury Northumberland Holiday Accommodation In
Our holiday rental was once the Old School Hall now converted into a chic waterfront holiday cottage.
The only clues to its former identity, a high arched ceiling, large glass windows and a magnificent central fireplace.
It was a perfect location for a family weekend and just a short drive from Warkworth Golf Club and Alnmouth Village Golf Club, two nine hole honesty box links courses with beautiful sea views and a warm welcome to visitors.
Owners Claire and Gareth have created a charming and eclectic holiday let with a sense of style that mixes the Northumberland Coast with cool Brittania.
References to seafaring and fishing blend easily with cultural art, like the large photographic print of a young Lily Allen dancing at Glastonbury, a vintage sixties radio and homage pieces to Britain’s finest fashion designers.
There is even a framed golf glove signed by former World Number One golfer and Ryder Cup hero Lee Westwood, along with a full set of Ping Golf clubs with a hand written tag that simply says “please borrow.”
There was a luxury welcome hamper featuring a selection of tasty treats (succulent olives, cheeses, chocolate coated cinder toffee, hand cooked crisps, craft beers, Tunnock’s tea cakes and a delicious Portugese red from the Alentejo countryside) all lovingly sourced from local delicatessen Scott’s of Alnmouth.
It was an easy choice to spend the first evening in front of the fireplace with a large glass of red, or two, and the contents of the hamper.
Links golf at dawn in the dunes
Shortly before dawn, I slip out for a 6.45am tee time at Warkworth Golf Club.
This nine-hole links was designed by Old Tom Morris of St Andrews, the father of modern green keeping and one of the greatest names in Open Championship history.
It took just five minutes by car from front door to first tee.
The clubhouse was closed but the entrance porch was open. There I found cards, local rules and a simple honesty box.
Honesty Box golf among sprawling sand dunes at Warkworth Golf Club
The opener was tough on a cold morning just before 7am.
A long downhill par three into a stiff prevailing wind with coastal flats and the port of Amble as a backdrop. The weather was wild and a well-hit three wood left me pitching in from short.
Turning back northwards, the second hole enters high dunes with purple heather and parched brown turf framing the humps and hillocks you find on British seaside links.
The 2nd green at Warkworth
At the third, you hit uphill across fescue and heather to a fairway hidden behind a dune ridge.
You then have to find a long green with high sloping sides that feed your approach shot down into the centre of a fast firm green. The next is a driveable four with the wind behind and a great chance for birdie.
The par-five 5th, called ‘Wee Killiecrankie,’ is probably the most memorable hole on the course. From the tee, you fire over a steep-sided coastal gorge created by the flow of water running down to sea.
Known locally as ‘Wee Killie’ or The Birling Chine, the gorge is straddled by a long modern timber bridge and the view back and out to sea is a treat.
‘Wee Killie’ gorge running down to the North Sea and across the par-five 5th
At only 476 yards long, it’s another birdie chance with a favourable wind and the end of a lovely five hole stretch – the best sequence on the course.
The par three 6th takes you back inland away from the coast and plays long against the breeze.
My nine holes were rounded out with three gentle par fours that run back towards Warkworth Castle – once home to The Percy Family, the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland, and one of the most powerful families in the North.
Hole 8 and 17, is called ‘Hotspur’s Castle,’ after Henry Percy, eldest son of the first Earl of Northumberland, who led an unsuccessful rebellion to depose King Henry IV (1399-1413) and died in single combat at The Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403.
Alternative tees provide some different angles and challenges on the second nine and together adds up to 5986 yards and a par of 70.
I was done and home before 9am, ready for breakfast and a full day at Alnwick Castle and Garden, a film location for the Harry Potter movies and current home of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland.
Lunch in a Treehouse at the Hogwarts Castle
If you love film and television, Alnwick Castle should be on your to-visit list.
The film set for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the first two Harry Potter movies, it has also appeared in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Downton Abbey and Transformers: The Last Knight.
It’s a great place to take the kids. They can learn to fly a broomstick, dress up as knights and princesses and stick grown-ups in the stocks.
It is also home to a fascinating restaurant in one of the world’s biggest treehouses.
The Treehouse Restaurant at Alnwick Castle and Garden is run by Searcy’s of London, a dining company whose connection to the Dukes of Northumberland extends back to 1837.
The Treehouse at Alnwick Garden – food by Searcy’s
Once I was able to entice my two sons away from the rope bridges and tunnels that surround the treehouse, we sat down to lunch in a magical setting.
The interior décor is entirely wooden and while simple on the eye, it’s finished beautifully with creeping, twisted branches, soft silvery lighting and warming fire pits.
With 85 covers, The Treehouse is a large space. It’s built from sustainably sourced Canadian Cedar, Scandinavian Redwood, English and Scots Pine.
Our table was set apart in a bay window, perfect for boisterous young boys, and the menu was superb.
The children enjoyed fish fingers, sausage and chips while I feasted on a rump of Northumbrian lamb and butternut squash side salad washed down with a drop of Alnwick lager.
My wife chose the Wood Shed burger and hand cut chips.
Northumbrian Lamb Rump washed down with Alnwick Lager
The service was attentive and discreet while the overall vibe of the restaurant was relaxed and unpretentious. The only drawback to dining in a treehouse is the long spiral climb to reach the toilets at the top of the tower.
A great lunch was finished off with a superfruit salad, two chocolate brownies and a selection of local ice creams.
There are lots of eateries at Alnwick Castle, including classic British fish and chips, but nothing can rival the extra special novelty of dining in a giant treehouse with Searcy’s.
Poisonous rough at Forbidden Garden Mini Golf
Not wanting to leave it too long before getting back on course, the Forbidden Garden mini-golf at Alnwick Garden was a scary challenge.
Skulls, giant spiders, killer bees and devilishly placed rock features all made for a fun hour topped off by my four-year-old bagging his first ever hole-in-one.
Reading the greens is a challenge at The Forgotten Garden Adventure Golf
We kept the crazy golf theme going when we got home, using the “Juliet” walkway in the rafters of the Old School House to practice some long putting before teeing up at Alnmouth Village Golf Club – England’s oldest nine-hole links – the next day.
Alnmouth is a delightful coastal village conveniently served by a railway station on the LNER (London North Eastern Railway) line between London and Edinburgh.
It’s also home to Alnmouth Golf Club, known locally as ‘Foxton,’ which has a fine dormy house welcoming golf groups and 18 great holes on high land looking down over the estuary and bay.
Hallmarks of the Home of Golf
Alnmouth fits snugly into the crook of the estuary running into Alnmouth Bay and its nine-hole links sits on its North Eastern boundary.
It was laid out in 1869 by Mungo Park, another legendary Scottish golfer and Open Champion.
Like St Andrews Old Course, the ‘Home of Golf,’ Alnmouth Village Golf Club starts in the town and finishes in the town, with a narrow side street bearing a passing resemblance to the famous ‘Granny’s Wynd’ and providing a view of the 18th green and flagstick from Alnmouth’s main streets.
At a whisker over 3000 yards, it’s a short but delightful nine holer.
Like Warkworth, it opens with a par three.
The fairways roll and undulate with linksland hillocks and the firm greens are hard to read and usually pacy.
The picture-perfect 7th tee was the highlight of the round. The course climbs high to an elevated tee box looking down over Alnmouth Bay, the town and south to Coquet Island.
At just £15 for nine holes, payable by honesty box or bookable online, AVGC is wonderful value and perfect for holiday golf.
Great Scott – can this breakfast be beaten?
Teeing off at first light can leave you hungry and thanks to the recommendation attached to our welcome hamper, we’d booked a breakfast/brunch at Scott’s of Alnmouth (15-16 Northumberland St, Alnmouth) – located a well hit drive away from the 18th green.
Scott’s – a haven for foodies and coffee lovers
This family run business is a café and deli by day and occasional bistro and wine bar by night.
After a fireside breakfast of coffee, local cured bacon, bubble and squeak topped with a poached egg – it was easy to see why it has attracted numerous awards and built a far reaching reputation.
Some independent eateries have a rare quality of being made with love and after speaking with owner Andrew Scott, it was clear he’s poured heart and soul into creating a place for foodies and coffee lovers to feel utterly at home.
Guests at the Old School Waterfront Cottage receive a welcome hamper packed with Scott’s of Alnmouth goodies and we took the opportunity to restock on Smart Dog Portugese red, pimento olives, sourdough bread and local Northumbrian beers.
There was just enough time for a bracing walk on the beach and a plodge in the surf before heading back to Warkworth to pack up.
The road home took us past Warkworth Castle and offered a quick detour to Amble to explore its Harbour Village with seafood centre, lobster hatchery, eateries and promenade with 15 independent retail pods selling everything from decorative jerry cans to locally produced confectionery.
The latter was used as a location in hit ITV crime drama ‘Vera.’
While filming, lead actor Brenda Blethyn had stayed at the Old School House we’d just reluctantly left behind.
Like its nine hole links golf courses, Northumberland once again proved itself a small and beautiful world.
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For more inspiration or other must-play courses on a Northumberland golf break, check out Coast and Castles Golf Trail featuring beautiful links at Dunstanburgh, Bamburgh and Goswick (a regional qualifying venue for The Open Championship).
If you fall in love with North East England on your visit, then you’ll find details of the best golf courses in Durham, Newcastle and Teesside here: Northern Lights – Golf Guide to North East England
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Episode #9 of the course Deadliest dictators in history
Idi Amin Dada (1923?–2003) ruled Uganda during the 20th century, but he caused a legacy of destruction that continues today. After overthrowing the first prime minister and making himself executive president, Amin ordered an ethnic cleansing that killed nearly 500,000 people out of a population of about 12 million. His actions killed at least another 500,000 through disease, famine, and lingering effects. In eight years, Idi Amin drove Uganda toward ruin until he was overthrown and driven into exile.
Born a member of the Kawka ethnic group in central Uganda, accounts vary about the details of his birth, including its exact date. Not much is known about his youth, but he was probably raised in the Islamic faith and attended an Islamic school. Amin was named for his father, who seems to have been absent from his childhood. His mother may have been an herbalist who attended Bugandan royalty.
Idi Amin takes the oath of office in 1971 in Kampala.
Credit: Getty Images.
Amin joined the British Army in 1946 as a cook and rose through the ranks. He fought for the British in Somalia and Kenya during the 1950s. From 1951 to 1960, Amin also held Uganda’s light heavyweight boxing champ title.
Uganda gained its independence from British colonialism in 1964. Amin’s friend and confidante, Milton Obote, was named the country’s first prime minister. Amin was named commander of the armed forces in 1966. Obote and Amin worked together at first to establish a new Uganda free of colonial rule.
Obote declared himself executive president in 1966 and sent Amin to dethrone the king of Buganda. Distrust grew between Amin and Obote, and in 1971, Amin staged a coup that overthrew Obote and exiled him to Tanzania.
Idi Amin visits the Zairian dictator Mobutu during the Shaba I conflict in 1977.
Credit: http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/odomshaba2.pdf
Amin named himself president and immediately ordered the persecution of the Acholi people, who had been loyal to Obote. He expelled all Pakistani and Indian citizens, which brought on quick economic decline and caused a rippling effect through international markets. Amin also rejected numerous peacekeeping efforts and offers of international assistance.
As portrayed in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), Amin may have been a complicated man. Erratic and uncontrollable, he made purposefully inflammatory remarks about international figures, especially England’s Queen Elizabeth. He made wild claims and drew constant attention, including his offer to lead Scotland in a great revolution and become the King of Scotland. Meanwhile, Acholi people were imprisoned and executed, and thousands of other Ugandans were starving and impoverished.
Idi Amin caricature
Credit: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.07954/
In 1979, Amin attempted to invade Tanzania but failed. Tanzania retaliated, and Amin was forced into exile. He fled first to Libya, then to Saudi Arabia, with his four wives and 30 children. He died in Saudi Arabia in 2003.
After Amin was removed from Uganda, the Acholi people who remained loyal to former Prime Minister Obote performed a retaliatory “cleansing” on the people of Amin’s ethnicity—the Kawka people. Obote used mostly Acholi people in his National Resistance Army in the 1980s, leading to further brutal killings based on ethnicity.
“Through Some Miracle Not Yet Clear to Me: The Nightmare of Living Under the Dictatorship of Idi Amin…and Surviving” by Vincent Musaalo
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The Danser Novels
“View Finder” Excerpt
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You can start your journey alongside BB Danser by following this link to an excerpt of “View Finder” by Greg Jolley
A LIFE THROUGH BOOKS INTERVIEW
January 17, 2021 gregjolley
“The Collectors” by Greg Jolley
January 13th,2021
What is the hardest part of writing your books?
While there are many creative challenges from the initial research to the final edits, I can honestly say it is always satisfying and rarely difficult. For “The Collectors,” my involvement with the publicist’s efforts are a little distracting, but that’s because I’m currently in the middle of a new write. The plus side is hearing from readers and reviewers and learning from their questions and comments.
What songs are most played on your Ipod?
For “The Collectors” it was Steely Dan. The write needed the complex, colorful and edgy jazz and heartbeat rhythms that the band loved to work with. While I didn’t listen closely, I did hear sparks of the caustic lyrics that can only encourage.
Do you have critique partners or beta readers?
I work closely with a hired professional editor before a book goes to my publishers, who then do additional editing. She and I have done several titles together, going through the book three time, back and forth. She is not only brilliant with grammar and punctuation, but invaluable because of her skill at pointing out continuity concerns.
All research. Truth be told, I rarely and only selectively read fiction. I’m in the middle of writing the “Chas Danser” novel so I’m studying the history of the doomed French attempt to establish Fort Caroline, Florida, in 1565. It’s a bloody and tragic story of classing nations and religious fervors.
How did you start your writing career?
It just made sense at the time, having been a compulsive reader through all my youth. I was in my mid-twenties – the days of typewriters – and started by writing sketches of locations, characters and events. After several months, I waded in to the actual write, no genre in mind, working with the skeleton and ingredients I knew I could bring to life. Quite simply, it was life changing.
Tell us about your next release
“Thieves” is scheduled to be released February 15th, 2021. This is the first of three novels making up the Obscurité de Floride Trilogy, which will all be published during 2021. While the schedule is aggressive, I’m positively jazzed to be getting these into my reader’s hands.
Ten Things You Didn’t Know About “The Collectors”
January 2, 2021 gregjolley
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One: This is Pierce Danser’s second novel, the first being “Dot to Dot”, published in 2014. In the prior work, he’s again a determined and self-proclaimed private investigator, making endless mistakes but bravely staying in the hunt.
Two: Pierce Danser and Pauline Place are also center stage in the novel, “Cream of the Wheat” that’s being released in 2022. This novel tells of their earlier lives, when working in the movie industry and trying to find their ways to sanity and love amidst chaos and danger.
Three: believe it or not, during the research for “The Collectors” I came across other museums and collections far more frightening and strange than those of Deung. As always, I am constantly amazed by the workings of minds and passions so far from the norm.
Four: While a few reviewers having commented that this novel is “not for the faint of heart,” and while that is true, “The Collectors” is also a love story. Set in a world of danger and the macabre, the love survives and gets stronger, as all the best ones do.
Five: I happily lost control of the first draft write when mid-way through, Pierce Danser and the other member of the cast took turns grabbing the steering wheel. As is often the case, I became little more than their typing pool as they came to life and told the story that they insisted on. One of the most satisfying parts of being a novelist is when this happens and I’m allowed a front row seat in their movie.
Six: Following Jane Mansfield’s tragic and untimely automobile death, the bumper bar at the rear of long haul trucks began to appear. The ‘Mansfield Bar’ is intended to provide some protection for cars running into the rear of eighteen wheelers.
Seven: “The Collectors” was written in 2016. Because I write seven days a week, there are several Danser novels in deep freeze, so to speak. As the editing of “The Collectors” began in earnest earlier this year, it was a delight to meet up with the cast again and go along on their adventure.
Eight: James Dean was found alive after his horrific accident. In one photograph taken just after the accident, he can be seen in the wreckage of his Porsche, siting up, dazed and staring. He died soon after.
Nine: After my involvement with a few movie productions, writing “The Collectors” was the first time I wrote with cinematic tools I had learned, loving and admiring the focus on visuals and dialogue. This structure and style also surprised me many times, insisting time and again that I knock it off with details and color and kept the stories’ pace rolling fast and true.
Ten: What I am enjoying the most with the novel’s release is hearing the questions and insights from readers. I am always delighted and surprised, be it good or bad. I’m always learning and treasure the gifts that readers take the time to share.
The Avid Reader Interview: Greg Jolley
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Greg Jolley Interview
By Nancy Allen
https://the-avidreader.blogspot.com/2020/12/30-Virtual-Book-Tour-Giveaway-The-Collectors-by-Greg-Jolley-RABT.html#more
For those interested in exploring the subject or theme of your book, where should they start? “The Collectors” is in the same vein as works by Robert Bloch, Stephen King and Charles Addams cartoons. As some reviewers have commented, “The Collectors” is not for the faint of heart. That said, in the book’s strange and macabre world, there is a love story. Like the works of those suggested authors, this book also explores the dance between good and evil.
How did you become involved with the subject or theme of your book? I wanted to explore the unique and often strange and obsessive passion of collectors, to understand the relationship between the objects they desire and what acquiring them satisfied, if it truly did, in the hearts and minds of curators. The months of research were interesting, even when things got strange and creepy.
What were your goals and intentions in this book, and how well do you feel you achieved them? For “The Collectors” I constructed a combination of a roller coaster and haunted-house-ride for my readers. From my vantage point, the story is well built, lyrical and has many dark and dangerous turns leading to an ending that wrote itself. I leave it to readers and reviewers to let me know if it stayed on the tracks.
Anything you would like to say to your readers and fans? Write to me and let’s discuss what you liked and what you didn’t. A huge part of my motivation for writing “The Collectors” and all the Danser novels is those lively and interesting exchanges where I get new insights that can only come from readers.
What did you enjoy most about writing this book? There’s always a fine lift when I get to type “The End,” but before I get there, I love it when the characters take over the story and I become the lowly typist while their adventures sweep us away. I loved working with Pierce Danser again, even though every time I knew he was going to turn left, he grabbed the wheel from my hands and turned the story in another direction.
Can you tell us a little bit about your next books or what you have planned for the future? A three-book trilogy is being published in 2021, a suite called The Obscurité de Floride Trilogy. The three novels are coming out a few months apart and to say I’m jazzed would be an understatement. Each is a work of suspense and while they are stand-alones, they also share the new and vibrant and dark world of what most think of as sunbaked Florida.
How long have you been writing? My first book, “Distractions” was released in 1984, so it’s a been a good while since I entered the Danser’s world. As of now, there are twelve in print with another sixteen completed and awaiting their eventual step into daylight. The main reason my publishers are releasing the books at such an aggressive pace is to get us to where new works are those I’ve recently completed. Personally, I love getting the past stories in reader’s hand and eventually having new ones in their hands sooner.
Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in “The Collectors”? All three main characters were a challenging delight. While I didn’t have a favorite, Pierce was the most familiar. That said, all three were constantly entertaining and shocking. As often happens about a third of the way along, the cast took over the write and I became their story’s typing pool. Pierce Danser: He is always a surprising personality to work with. Big of heart, passionate in love, and often a loose cannon, I pretty much turned him loose. Soon as he put his nose to the sand and started tracking Pauline Place, I was comfortable taking my hands off the wheel. Pauline: She is the famous actress Pauline Place, who was also a pleasure to work with again. She is a rare beauty, strong-willed, no one’s fool and capable of getting in serious trouble – often of her own making – as a challenge to herself and her ways and wits. Deung: Ah, Deung… nothing more enjoyable than entering his twisted and dangerous mind. He was another chance to open the black box containing evil and dark lunacy, compulsions and sociopathic blood lust. Mix in his desire to wed and bed a deceased actress and he scared and revolted me badly more than once.
If you could spend the day with one of the characters from “The Collectors” who would it be? Please tell us why you chose this particular character, where you would go and what you would do. It would be Pauline Place, alongside Pierce at the end of the book. I’d choose her because she spent so much time in the shadows. I would want to head out with them from her perspective, experiencing her take on all that has happened and what she wants and needs to happen next between them.
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A Slice of Oranges presents the Guest Blog by Greg Jolley
Books are Daughters
With the recent launch of “The Collectors” I experienced the same fine emotion I always feel when a book is shared with readers and reviewers. To me, each book is a like a daughter, stepping off the porch barefoot, a bit disheveled, but grinning – perhaps smirking – as she heads out into the real world. As I watch her head on up the road with her battered suitcase and tousled hair, I wish her all the best, confident that I have loved her and done my very best to raise her well. We’ve had our ups and downs, disagreements and arguments, but this was always in the spirit of helping her become the best that she can be.
As always, I hope her journey is good and interesting, just before the screen door slams and I head to my back office, where another young one is waiting to be born.
This is why when I’m asked about having a favorite Danser novel, the answer is always no. How can you and why would you ever favor one darling child over another?
Greg Jolley
“Welcome to the film set, Mr. Kiharazaka. Please mind your step, we’re having a problem with vermin.”
The tall, thin man, fresh from Kyoto, adjusted his stride, placing each step of his spacesuit boots gingerly.
“I’m Rolf. Can I call you Zaka?” the assistant director went on.
“Please, no,” Mr. Kiharazaka replied demurely.
“Will we be going weightless? It was in the original scene.”
“We’re woking on that, yes.”
“Woking?”
“A joke. Sort of.”
A few yards away, green gaffing tape marked the edge of the darkened film set. Rolf spoke into her headset and the lights came up, revealing the interior of the spacecraft: the complex helm and seating for the crew. The second set—the crew table and galley kitchen—was half-lit in the distance.
Mr. Kiharazaka stared with unreserved delight. The crew had accurately replicated the 1990s television series Tin Can’s two most famous locations.
Members of the film crew were already on the set, at their places among the equipment; lights, extended boom mics, and various cameras, some dollied and some shoulder-held. Mr. Kiharazaka had to rotate stiffly in his spacesuit, turning his helmet, visor up, to watch the young, professional film crew. He nodded to some and spoke to none. For the most part, these serious professionals looked right through him, focused on their craft.
“Please step in, Zaka. We’d like you to feel comfortable in both locations.”
“Where is the cast? The Robbins family?”
“Soon enough. Please.” Rolf extended her hand and Zaka crossed the green tape and stepped into the helm, noting that the flooring was white painted plywood. With the flight helmet on, the voices about the set were muted. Zaka stared at the helm, admiring, but not touching, the multiple displays. He stood back of Captain Robbins’s helm chair, taking in all the exacting details of the complex spacecraft controls. Easing between the captain and copilot chair, he turned to Rolf with his white gloved hand out to the second chair, asked, “May I?”
Rolf gave him her buttery professional smile.
“Captain, permission to man the helm?” Zaka asked.
Rolf rolled her eyes, up into the complex scaffolding above. The client was already in role, using the famous and familiar dialogue from the Tin Can series. Since none of the cast was yet on set, Rolf answered for Matt Stuck, the sod of an actor who played Captain Robbins.
“Aye, mate. Take thar helm,” she spoke the next well-known line with a grimace.
Zaka bowed to her voice and twisted around into the copilot’s chair.
She looked on as Zaka began the familiar series of taps and changes on the right side of the helm. She could hear him identifying each click and adjustment he made. He was doing a good job mimicking the terse, focused voice of copilot Sean Robbins, but his inflections were clearly Japanese.
The director, Rose Daiss, entered the soundstage, crossed to the set, and for once didn’t trip on the snakes of cables. She wobbled her large rear into the La-Z Boy with “Director” stenciled on the back. Her nickname was “Bottles” and never used in her presence—it was a reference to the many times she had washed up. Her pudgy face was nip-and-tuck stretched, her skin was rough, but rouged well. She did have good hair.
The director’s personal assistants entered the soundstage and roamed to their places just back of the cameras. They donned headsets and leisurely took up their positions, standing deferentially to Bottles’s side, their faces lit by the glow of their tablets.
Rolf shouted for status among the film’s crews, and they called back equally loud. Lighting, boom mics, and cameras leaned in on the set. Mr. Zaka climbed from the helm and walked back into the spacecraft along the equipment bays on the left wall—the right wall of equipment didn’t exist, providing the view for one of the many cameras. He tapped a brief series on the wall panel and the air lock door opened with a gasp. He stepped through, the door closing at his heels, and crossed the short area of soundstage to the side entrance of the crew and kitchen set. Zaka took in every detail of the reproduced Tin Can galley as he moved carefully through the room. He eased himself into his role and the chair assigned to Ruth Robbins, the flight crew’s matriarch.
The director shouted at her assistants, barking orders and questions, sounding semi-lucid. Rose’s drug-addled, fast-clipped voice received intimidated replies. She was enjoying their pale, cowering expressions while chasing two lines of thought, a mixture of movie-making aesthetics and redundant direction. Her face was beading with drug sweat on her upper lip and brow.
“Where’s my cast?” Rose bellowed, finishing the tirade. That done, she promptly nodded off, delighting Rolf, who then inherited the director’s role.
Zaka was exploring the many displays embedded in the galley table, trying to ignore the shouting.
“Heat it up,” Rolf instructed her underling
The assistant typed a series of brief commands on his tablet and the script dialogue for Ruth Robbins—whom Zaka had paid dearly to portray—appeared. The script was scroll ready and at an angle on the galley table that couldn’t be seen by the cameras.
Rolf heard the cast crossing to the set, a scuffing of moon boots and voices approaching from the soundstage. A sweeping flashlight beam guided their way. The cast moved into the back glow from the lights on the set. Rolf pressed the inside of her cheek between her teeth and bit down. Most of the original cast had been hired or persuaded to appear in the remake of the famous season seven-ending cat fight scene. The brawl between the Robbins’ daughters was nominally, impotently, refereed by the only member of the flight crew who was not a member of the family: the handsome, irreverent, and sociopathic engineer, Greer Nails.
Twenty-two years had been most unkind to the once-famous family members. Greer Nails appeared overinflated; the penchant for food and wine, and dessert, over the past years of dimming celebrity had taken their toll. His formerly idolized face was jowled, reddened, and fat. His spacesuit looked like a white dirigible.
The other cast members were naked save their space helmets. Time and gravity and overindulgence had also taken a toll on their bodies. Greer Nails was the lone holdout from nudity, and with obese good reason.
The scene that Zaka had chosen from the menu provided by the studio had cost him a breathless $3.7 million. An additional $1.3 million was invoiced when he selected the option off the Premiere menu for the cast to be nude except for space helmets. He had expressed his desire to be part of the famous scene’s reenactment, in the role of Ruth Robbins, the space family matriarch. Most of his role was to be aghast at the start of a violent family shouting match and brawl. Later, he would be able to view the vignette time and again, for all eternity, receiving sole ownership of the footage of this and the other short scene as part of the package he had paid for.
Zaka watched his castmates approach, trying to keep his eyes on their helmets, not their nakedness. He was delighted and light headed with his proximity to the famous—the real flesh instead of celluloid, but their memorized faces were distorted by their helmets.
Nods were used in lieu of greetings. They had met during rehearsal earlier in the day. Places were taken, and Rolf reviewed the lighting and camera placements.
The first scene was succinctly re-rehearsed. This was of little use to Zaka, who had the script committed to memory. But the rehearsal helped him dissolve some of his lighter-than-air headiness. The rest of the cast drolly joined the read and walk through, their acting marked by a blend of boredom, professionalism, and chemicals.
Zaka was delighted. Here he was, a real actor with an important part in the infamous scene’s reenactment. It was all he could to not giggle. He somehow found the ability to maintain Ruth Robbins’s dithering mothering role.
Julianne, the slutty smart sister, stepped past Greer and pantomimed the jerk-off gesture that would set off her sibling, “Cy,” as in Cyborg. In the television series, Cy had been Greer Nail’s budding romantic interest.
Zaka was enthralled, but also concerned. He had paid for Captain Robbins to sit at the head of the galley table, and he was nowhere to be seen.A booming, authoritative voice carried from the back of the soundstage.
“Welcome to Tin Can Two, Mr. Kiharazaka. You are certainly star material, mm-hmm!” Fatima Mosley called out.
Fatima was the studio head, noticeably short and burdened by a massive chest that gave her stride a wobble. She was dressed in an elegant and trendy style, including a beret. She had a titanium leg, the original lost to disease. The metal ratcheted when her knee articulated.
“Zaka’s doing a great job.” Rolf called over, not turning from the rehearsal.
“It’s Kiharazaka, please,” Zaka politely corrected Rolf again.
“Actually, it’s Ruth Robbins,” Fatima smiled, causing her cheeks to fill and her eyes to disappear.
Zaka flushed with pride at being addressed as Ruth.
“All is well, mm-hmm?” Fatima asked Zaka.
“Yes, yes. Might I ask? Is Captain Robbins ready? And son Sean Robbins?”
“Why, here’s Sean now,” Fatima answered, her crunched face dissolving downward, revealing her wise, ferret eyes. She didn’t explain Captain Robbins’s absence, and Zaka showed good manners by not repeating his question.
Sure enough, Sean Robbins, the Tin Can’s copilot appeared from the shadows of the soundstage, naked save his helmet and boots, looking slightly sedated—well, a lot sedated. His birdlike wrists hung limp.
There was a white worm of drool creeping from his face, now ravaged by years of amphetamine addiction. He was escorted by two of the bigger grips, who held his scarecrow thin arms and pulled him along, his moon boots sketching the soundstage flooring.
The sisters, Cy and Julianne, did not look pleased to be reanimating their once famous daughter roles, no matter the money. They were clearly drugged to an agitated condition and firing foul slurs, even before the shoot began. Julianne had a wrench tattoo on her naked, once-perfect boob. Cy’s sensual body was scarecrow thin, as though drawn of all blood.
The grips assisted Sean Robbins into the hot lights and seated him at the galley table. He opened one eye and panned it across the cameras and lights aimed on him, then barfed into his own lap.
“Unpleasant, mm-hmm,” Fatima observed.
Zaka did the brave thing—he stayed in role, putting on his best Mrs. Robbins bemused and maternal expression.
“Nice,” Rolf encouraged him.
One of the grips wiped up Sean’s vomit. The other cleaned off his chest. Sean stood up and looked on, patting one of the men on the top of the head.
Rolf called out, “I have the set!”
From the film crews came sharp, short calls, and the boom mics lowered overhead.
“Quiet, quiet!” Rolf delighted in her temporary directing role.
“Lock it up,” she hollered.
“Places,” she shouted to the cast.
“Cameras up!”
“Roll sound.”
“Roll camera.”
A young woman appeared with an electric slate, shouted a brief stream of incomprehensible code, clacked the device, and disappeared.
Zaka did well, not looking to Captain Robbins’s empty seat at the head of the table.
Rolf yelled, “Action,” and the movie magic began.
For Zaka, there was a spiritual lift, even as he stayed in his rehearsed movements. He allowed himself to experience the elation, but stayed in the role of motherly concern.
Julianne entered the scene from the door to the helm. She moved behind Sean, who had a line of dialogue but missed. Staring at Cy, she stepped to Greer’s side and hefted the weight of his groin. Cy transitioned fast and smooth, from agog to madness. She fired forward and attacked, going for the smirk on her sister’s face with a clawed left hand and the space cup in the other.
As scripted, Mrs. Robbins took one step back from her end of the table, her expression alarmed and offended.
Greer was looking down at his groped crotch like he was just then realizing he had one. He leaned back as Cy collided with Julianne, and the brawl exploded with screams and nails and fists. The two careened off the galley counter and shelving, swinging and connecting blows.
If Captain Robbins had been at the head of the table, he would have moved fast to separate the two, looking sad and determined and disappointed. Instead, a bit of ad lib occurred, the two brawlers tumbling low in the shot, fists and knees swinging and pumping. Greer performed the ad lib, turning to the mayhem with a slack expression and barfing on himself again.
Mrs. Robbins went into action. She stomped manfully to her scuffling daughters, arms shooing, intending to break up the chaos on the spaceship floor. She was two strides away when Greer stepped out and pushed her back. Mrs. Robbins resisted, flailing her arms, eyes wide with alarm. Greer held her true. The fight continued, the sisters grunting and gasping. Hair was grabbed, a low fist was thrown. Julianne coughed in pain. Cy let out a cry, “You bitch!”
That was Zaka’s cue. He looked away, eyes upward and spoke the season-ending line, “My daughters. The sluts.”
“Cut. Cut. Cuu. Cuush . . .” Rose Daiss, the replaced director, called out in a trailing off slur. She was ignored.
The brawl continued. A mangy rat crossed the plywood set boards, scurrying away from the fisticuffs. The two beefy grips stepped to the edge of the set, poised to separate the sisters. The brawl looked real enough to them.
Rolf took the director’s prerogative, screaming at everyone.
Biography: Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s. Or goes surfing.
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THE COLLECTORS Interview with Greg Jolley
December 14, 2020 gregjolley
Available December 15th, 2020
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Where did the idea for the book originate? What was the writing process like?
“The Collectors” came from a compelling curiosity with odd collections and museums and, of course, the people who construct them and their motivations, obsessions and compulsions. I researched and interviewed a few curators in an attempt to understand their psychological passion for capturing rare relics and oddities. It was a fresh and foreign mental landscape to explore. There is a strange side to the desire to collect and revere objects of nostalgia as well as fulfilling morbid fascinations with the famous and infamous. Without exception, they loved to talk about the wonder and reverence they felt and the ways they had gone about their collecting. Questions about their motivations were answered evasively, at best.
The write itself took seven months. Three of them were spent doing the research and character and location sketches and getting familiar with my cast. The write itself was that fine daily immersion that makes being a novelist so rewarding.
Introduce us to the main characters in the book. Who was your favorite to write and why?
All three main characters were a challenging delight. While I didn’t have a favorite, Pierce was the most familiar. That said, all three were constantly entertaining and shocking. As often happens about a third of the way along, the cast took over the write and I became their story’s typing pool.
He is always a surprising personality to work with, always turning left when all the road signs and my plans scream, “Turn right!”
Big of heart, passionate in love, and often a loose cannon, I pretty much turned him loose. Soon as he put his nose to the sand and started tracking Pauline Place, I was comfortable taking my hands off the wheel.
Pauline is the famous actress Pauline Place, who was a pleasure to work with again. She is a rare beauty, strong-willed, no one’s fool and capable of getting in serious trouble – often of her own making – as a challenge to herself and her ways and wits.
Deung
Ah, Deung… nothing more enjoyable than entering his twisted and dangerous mind. He was another chance to open the black box containing evil and dark lunacy, compulsions and sociopathic blood lust. Mix in the desire to wed and bed a deceased actress and he scared and revolted me badly more than once.
Movies and filmmaking feature prominently in your book. What is it about movies that fascinates you?
For “The Collectors” it was the continued fascination with the psychology of cameras.
Many of the Danser novels are set within movie productions for two reasons. The first is inspired by the historical Jewish proverb that I paraphrase as, “God loves stories.” I interpret this as meaning that our use of free will and our choices tell the stories he loves to watch unfold.
The second is a question. What is a camera, metaphorically? If our lives are movies of our choices, then we also get to decide which side of the viewfinder we live on. Are we behind the camera, calling the shots as we view our world and our lives? Or before it, center stage, immersed in our stories and delighting in each new experience and decision? Either side of the camera can be a fine and interesting place to live (or narrate) our tales.
Pierce has a fondness for cars, especially Willys and Packards. Are you also a car aficionado?
I’m so not. Lol, I drive a Jeep. That said, automobiles do have a functional mechanical beauty.
To this day, American culture has a strong affection for car brands and models. Why I don’t share this, for the book I needed to explore and better understand that psychological attachment to objects, much like the collectors in the novel do.
The villain Deung is a twisted and chilling character. What inspired him?
It was a fascination with wealthy lunatics who have the means to pursue their macabre compulsions. There are many real-world examples of them. Some of my favorites were in the 1800s, in London; men with their gruesome collections on display. Many of these museums housed true horror shows for both curators and audiences; places to take twisted delight in. The States also has its share of macabre collections and museums of cruelty, crime, violence and, well, evil. Truth be told, they are really hard to look away from.
Deung is a collector of “odd things” and readers have described your book as “not for the faint of any kind.” Without giving anything away, where did your inspiration for his macabre hobby originate from?
He certainly has collecting and acquisition and control issues that I wanted to explore. Same with his bent and twisted mind, where he lives far south of the sanity border. I wanted to better understand how some of darkest of sick minds can calmly believe that their murderous ways make perfectly good sense.
What is it that you enjoy most about writing thrillers and suspense?
I enjoy it all, which is why I write seven days a week, but the pre-write research and sketching is often the most interesting and creative part. During those months, I collect miles of Ingredients, which are snippets of dialogue, mapping locations, choosing the cast, and deciding both theme and structure. From this, the Skeleton of the book forms itself naturally. I usually come in at around ten thousand words before I enter the write. In the case of “The Collectors” I was fortunate to be working with Pierce Danser again, which made the start very easy, knowing that as soon as I turned him loose, the roller coaster had entered the tunnel.
Do you listen to music when you write? If yes, what’s the soundtrack for this book?
What are three things most people don’t know about you?
I rarely read fiction, but consume tons of nonfiction. I have a lifelong passionate love of fiction and consumed most of the best. The reason I decided years ago not to read fiction had to do with the influence on my voice and craft. I’m both careful and selective with what I allow to effect my writing of the Danser novels.
I surf every day after closing the office, needing to enjoy and experience real people in the real world. There’s so much to learn and be inspired by that isn’t available in imagination on its own.
I love all the reviews and reviewers and can’t say enough about how important and meaningful they are. Unfortunately, I can’t read them. I do look at the ratings and I’m sincerely grateful for those, as I am for everyone who graciously takes the time to share their thoughts and insights. My relationship with my readers is of huge importance to me, no matter if they love a book or trash it. The rub is the indirect influence on the daily write. As an example, I recall being taken to task for wrecking four brand new Buicks in “Dot to Dot” which was considered unnecessarily wasteful. When I found myself worrying about this concern a few days later, I knew I had a problem. As with the decision to not read fiction, I’m a bit obsessive with what influences I’ll allow inside the daily writes. That said, I love all the questions about the books and always delight in replying to them.
“Chas Danser
Book One: Vivre au Cinéma”
Seventeen-year-old Chas is an actor who also has a severe neurological injury, experiencing fugues when he smells eucalyptus. (Yes, there are such cases in real life).
He uses that rich, dusty scent to fully immerse himself in the films he’s in, which allows me to work with the craft and tools and magic of movies. In the Chas novel, the film he enters is “French Slaughter” a cinematic telling of the historic, failed attempt of the French to establish a holding in Florida in the 1500s. The Spanish respond to this incursion in the deadliest of ways.
This is book one of a series, using the same movie immersion as its centerpiece, bookended by his real life deadly adventures in the crime and madness of current day Florida.
Please feel free to contact Greg at any to the following location:
Email: gfjolle@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.TheDansers.com
GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8261931.Greg_Jolley\
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November 3, 2020 gregjolley
Pierce Danser is on the hunt for his soon-to-be ex-wife, the actress Pauline Place, who’s disappeared from the Black Island film set in the heat swarmed waters off the Mexican coast. A wealthy “collector” with a black heart and dangerous, evil mind has kidnapped her, planning a forced marriage to complete his manage of twisted museum pieces. As Pierce starts down the winding, dark, and deadly path in pursuit, his journey is a roller coaster through a horror show. No matter the grisly and dangerous obstacles, he is determined to rescue Pauline, even if it means the loss of his own life.
The clock is ticking, his resources are slim and he’s up against a man of great means as well as a twisted, cruel vision.
Cover Reveal! “The Collectors” by Greg Jolley
October 17, 2020 gregjolley
The Danser News
I’m please to share with you the cover of the second Pierce Danser novel, “The Collectors.”
As always, my publisher has done a brilliant job, capturing both the theme and vibe.
By Greg Jolley
Pierce Danser is on the hunt for his soon-to-be ex-wife, the actress Pauline Place, who’s disappeared from the Black Island film set in the heat swarmed waters off the Mexican coast. A wealthy “collector” with a black heart and dangerous, evil mind has kidnapped her, planning a forced marriage to complete his manage of twisted museum pieces. As Pierce starts down the winding, dark, and deadly path in pursuit, his journey is a roller coaster through a horror show. No matter the grisly and dangerous obstacles, he is determined to rescue Pauline, even if it means the loss of his own life. The clock is ticking, his resources are slim and he’s up against a man of great means as well as a twisted, cruel vision.
Here’s hoping you’ll enjoy “The Collectors”
Let me know what you like or don’t?
As always, you can visit with me at
My website: www.TheDansers.com
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/greg.jolley.581
All of the Danser novels are available at: Amazon: http://amzn.to/2o4tIob
Preorder of “The Collectors” is expected to be available by my publisher early November.
You can purchase the novel direct from the BHC Press online store at Bookshop.org.
Link to Greg’s page on the publisher’s site:
https://www.bhcpress.com/Books_Jolley_The_Collectors.html
“Black Veil” by Greg Jolley
August 5, 2020 gregjolley
Épouvantail Press Release: August 4th, 2020
MY READING ADDICTION INTERVIEW
In Black Veil, the two main characters are both determined to keep their secrets draped in darkness. For movie producer Florentino Urbino, he keeps his greed and madness and hunger for fame behind a black curtain that he can draw across his mind. The other main character, SeaBee Danser, has taken to wearing a funeral black veil to protect others from seeing the full extent of her steely resolve to survive, no matter what she must do. How and what we all hide is the primary theme, be it good or evil, light or darkness.
Because Black Veil is about the real and tragic Donner Party, I had two concerns. The first was to treat all members of the party with respect. The second was to find a balance with the amount of factual detail so that the Black Veil story remained true to itself.
How many books have you written and which is your favorite?
I’ve written twenty-five Danser novels. Eleven of them are slated for future publication and the others are on hold for future rewrites before I decide if they will see the light of day. I suspect they will. I love every member of the Danser family – and their stories – too much.
If You had the chance to cast your main character from Hollywood today, who would you pick and why?
I would cast the evil and bizarre Florentino Urbino to be played by Johnny Depp, who would certainly bring to it his own quirks and style. My second choice would be my pal, film director Justin Diemert, who is brilliant with darkness, if he could be persuaded to move to the other side of the cameras.
When did you begin writing?
When I was in my mid-twenties, an excellent age to wade into the waters of the art and craft of novelists.
How long did it take to complete your first book?
Approximately a year and a half. Those were the days of draft after draft, before I developed a bit of confidence and learned from a lot of trials and errors. These days, the writes are a lot smoother. It helps a great deal to write seven days a week. It also keeps me sane and my life balanced between the world of craft and imagination and the real one.
Did you have an author who inspired you to become a writer?
Yes, Richard Brautigan, which is funny because he was as much a poet as a novelist. His experiments and wit and honesty, as well as his minimal prose, lit up my imagination like only a few others (J.D. Salinger, Peter S. Beagle and later, Elmore Leonard).
What is your favorite part of the writing process?
The months of research and gathering of ingredients for each book. These are characters, locations, questions, photographs, quotes and vignettes, all loosely gathered. With Black Veil and the other books, I’ll typically have ten to fifteen thousand words before I start to write the novel. Of course, a lot of this material is cast overboard, as it should be. There is a true delight in the important act of killing our little darlings.
Describe your latest book in 4 words.
A suspenseful cinematic nightmare.
Can you share a little bit about your current work or what is in the future for your writing?
Two weeks ago, I started the novel Small Lunatics which promises to be a fun and challenging write. The book is cast almost entirely with children – Florida street urchins. While I’ve barely started, I do know it’s a story of survival in a world gone crazy because, unfortunately, the adults are still in charge.
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The “Black Veil” Team
Hi ya’s,
I’m so pleased by the reception of “Black Veil.” Now it’s time to offer all my gratitude to the amazing team I work with. First of all, there’s my amazing editor, Nicki Kuzn, who breathes so much lucidity into the novels. Thank you also to the brilliant and creative publicist, Cami Hensley Owner, RABT Book Tours & PR. Thank you Vellum for the wonderful interior design. And to Fay Lane Graphic Design & Book Covers, your creative cover design still moves me.
Quite simply, these four women are invaluable partners in the “Black Veil” success.
One of the recent reviews:
“This was a really great book. The storyline pulled me in from the start and I found the story and characters well written and developed. The story had me in suspense and I didn’t want to put down. A really great story that I would recommend reading.”
A Life Through Books: Greg Jolley Interview
July 23, 2020 gregjolley
For Black Veil as with all off the Danser novels, it’s the work with my private editor before the book goes to my publisher. We have an amazing relationship based on a lot of trust and she is a true professional when it comes to grammar and punctuation. We always go through a book three times before either of us is satisfied and while the work is not hard, it is often humbling and a challenge because I treat punctuation as the song’s rhythm section, which is often breaks a lot of rules.
For this write, it was Los Lonely Boys and The Hellecasters.
I don’t work with beta readers (and I stay a million miles away from writing and critique groups), but I did work closely on Black Veil with my two favorite partners in crime. The first is the brilliant professional editor, Nicki Kuzn, who corrects my abuse of grammar and punctuation rules. The second is Robert Jolley, who is amazingly gifted at continuity edits. I love it when he says, “The gun was in the glove box. How did it get on the kitchen table?”
Candide by Voltaire and The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Montello (a Mary Shelley – Frankenstein study)
Like most of the best adventures, with a dare. Having a deep love of language and word play and stories since I was a child, and being a constant reader, I simple said to myself, “Why don’t you write one?” That was the spark for Distractions, published about two years later.
Tell us about your next release.
The next novel is Thieves, a Molly and April Danser story. It is scheduled for release by Épouvantail Books in December of this year. The sisters have lived a life of crime, mostly thefts from those they believe deserve it the most – social vultures such as 1-800 lawyers. Things turn dark and twisted when an innocent man dies and an ex US Marshal decides that he has to put them down, permanently. Thieves is more of a roller coaster than Black Veil, which is actually more like a haunted house ride.
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Target's post-pandemic strategy looks more like that of Dollar General than Walmart
By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor Apr 28, 2020, 1:38 pm EST April 29, 2020
In 2019, Target (NYSE:TGT) shares were a better investment than Walmart (NYSE:WMT). Its small stores and branded clothing delivered stellar results for Target stock through most of the year.
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In 2020, Walmart is the better bet. Its stores are essential in middle America, with more fresh produce. Target has been recovering for the last month. So far its stock is down 13% for the year. Walmart is up 8%.
The question is whether, assuming the worst is over with the novel coronavirus, Target’s 2019 momentum will resume. Target shares opened on April 28 at about $110, a market capitalization of $56 billion. That’s a price-earnings ratio of 17.3. Target stock has and with a 66 cent per share dividend yielding 2.5%.
Walmart’s 54 cent dividend, by contrast, yields just 1.7%, and its price-earnings ratio is now over 24.
Target’s Strengths
Target says its online sales have doubled during the pandemic, and digital same-store sales are up 275%. Its Shipt service, which can deliver from stores in as little as an hour, has added 80,000 new customers. Online sales for store pick-up are often as high as on Cyber Monday.
The question is whether in-store sales will soon rebound. CEO Brian Cornell thinks they will because Target offers “one-stop shopping.” People can get everything they need in one trip.
Indeed, foot traffic has picked up in late April, according to Placer.ai. Traffic at Target fell more sharply than Walmart’s in March. But it’s picking up faster, up 19.4% for the third week in April from the week before.
Target’s Weaknesses
Target does have problems.
Target decided to increase wages $2 per hour, to compensate for the risks employees run. The risks are real. Target had added $300 million to its employee budget in March and higher wages will now continue through May.
They may be hard to take back. Employees remain restive. It didn’t help that Cornell and his top executives also got raises along with the workers. Many executives in other industries have been taking pay cuts.
A mass Target “sick-out” is planned for May 1, with employee advocates saying Target’s protection of them represents “half-measures.” Shoppers have stopped taking the pandemic seriously, they say. This is despite stores limiting the number of people allowed in and issuing masks and gloves to employees.
Even before the pandemic hit, however, cracks were starting to appear in Target’s strategy. Its Christmas sales were up just 1.4%, marked by weakness in toys and electronics. Many of Target’s stores in urban centers and near universities are smaller than Walmart locations. The university stores are hampered by the fact that most schools remain closed.
Target is doubling down on this strategy, with 36 new stores, some as small as 6,000 square feet. Some will now look more like those of Dollar General (NYSE:DG), whose stock has also been rising through the pandemic. Target also plans to use more robots for stocking shelves and open new warehouses closer to its stores.
The Bottom Line on Target Stock
After the pandemic, Target will look less like Walmart, and more like a hipper Dollar General. Cornell’s strategy has always been to focus on high-quality store brands, with more small stores and an emphasis on online sales.
Analysts and traders always overshoot. Target stock has dropped more from the pandemic than it needed to. It’s now cheaper than Walmart, and much cheaper than Dollar General, which is up 15% on the year.
Dollar General’s success is tied to its location. It’s often the only discount store in low-income and rural neighborhoods. Target’s future is also tied to location, in urban centers and university towns.
Betting on Target stock to keep performing after the coronavirus passes seems a good bet.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a financial and technology journalist since 1978. His latest book is Technology’s Big Bang: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Moore’s Law, essays on technology available at the Amazon Kindle store. Follow him on Twitter at @danablankenhorn. As of this writing he owned shares in DG.
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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is pleased that the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has announced measures that recognize trade finance as a low-risk activity for banks, and says that there is opportunity to further refine the rules to foster the development of trade and the support of SME clients.
The ICC asserts that treating trade finance as a unique asset class to accurately reflect its low risk will help foster more trade and create jobs.
The ICC’s Banking Commission Chair, Kah Chye Tan, said: “It is crucial that the cost of capital between a low-risk, low-margin activity like trade finance is differentiated from higher-risk, higher-margin activity. We have narrowed the gap today and there is an opportunity for us to do more through continuing dialogue. We believe that banks and Basel have the responsibility to develop a robust banking environment to create jobs through trade.”
ICC released its second annual report today detailing default and loss history on trade finance, proving empirically that trade finance is a low-risk banking activity and therefore should be treated accordingly for regulatory purposes. Data provided by 14 of the world’s largest commercial banks on over 11 million trade finance transactions – representing over $2 trillion in trade – going back over five years, including over the global financial crisis, showed only 3,000 defaults. The data covers over 65% of the world’s trade finance transactions. The data shows similar results to the first ever statistics in trade finance default and loss rates, which was developed by ICC in conjunction with the Asian Development Bank and nine commercial banks in 2010.
Mr Kah Chye went on to say: “We trust the Basel committee will find ICC’s new report useful, and that based on this data Basel will take further measures to support trade and job creation by treating trade finance appropriately.”
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Transport Authority to temporarily close its 107 Maxfield Avenue and 119 Maxfield Avenue office locations for sanitisation
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The Transport Authority, out of an abundance of caution, is temporarily closing its 107 Maxfield Avenue office location, with immediate effect; and its 119 Maxfield Avenue office location on Friday September 04, 2020, for deep cleaning and sanitization, in light of three (3) staff members who came into contact with individuals, who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Both offices will resume full operation on Monday, September 07, 2020.
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The Southerner (1945) starring Zachary Scott and Betty Field
February 23, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments
What a marvelous slice of history Jean Renoir's The Southerner was for this lifelong suburbanite. Despite a dreariness, enhanced throughout all the more by Werner Janssen's Oscar nominated score, the story of Sam Tucker and his family's struggle for survival over their first year of farming cotton can't help but uplift through its constant entrepreneurial push for independence.
Zachary Scott as Sam Tucker
In only his second film, sandwiched between scoundrels in his debut effort, The Mask of Dimitrios, and the classic Mildred Pierce, Zachary Scott has yet to be confirmed as the cad we most often think of him as now, but instead shines as the wholesome Tucker, a man who truly believes that hard work alone can carve out success. At The Southerner's open Tucker picks cotton for wages alongside his wife Nona (Betty Field) and Uncle Pete (Paul E. Burns), who collapses moments after the opening credits have played, his body too old to withstand the long days of labor. It's Uncle Pete's dying words, "Work for yourself. Grow your own crops," that light a fire under Sam Tucker, who believes he can do just that.
Betty Field as Nona Tucker
Betty Field, who came West from Broadway and had previously appeared in supporting roles such as soft-haired Mae in 1939's classic Of Mice and Men and the sheltered daughter of Claude Rains in 1942's King's Row, is ever supportive as Sam's wife, Nona, second-billed in The Southerner. Despite a little of Field's native Boston tongue creeping every so often into Nona's southern accent, Field is wonderful as backbone to the Tucker family, her character by turns motherly, supportive, and even sensual. She's in control inside, under the Tucker's precarious roof, managing their two children, Jot (Jay Gilpin) and Daisy (Jean Vanderwilt), as well as Sam's feisty grandmother (Beulah Bondi), and gets her hands even dirtier outside working at the land alongside Sam. It's only when the Spring Sickness (pellegra) threatens the life of her son Jot that Nona suffers a brief breakdown falling into the dirt that all of the Tucker's hopes spring from crying out that she can no longer stand the boy's constant cries.
Images from The Southerner move across the screen as if they were direct from the pages of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men": the dilapidated shack that Sam and Nona dare to make home, the crumbling well seemingly beyond repair and with no water to bear, dried out land soon scarred by Tucker's tools as he turns it over and readies it to plant, wind and storms passing though turning that same land into a ruined swamp. Sam Tucker, so poor that he's forced to fish his property's adjoining lake with his bare hands. Sam's lonely strolls across his unforgiving land with hopes of gathering goods at the expense of neighbors' kindness. And finally life sprouting from the ground as the cotton rises only as preamble to the next natural, and sometimes unnatural, disaster anxious to choke it off before harvest. Renoir hammers home the hopelessness in scene after scene, all the while pushing Sam Tucker forward, looking to farm at any cost because that's what's in his blood.
The Tucker Home
If Sam Tucker is pushed by a native entrepreneurialism, there are those around him who push back with hopes of snapping him out of it. Bondi's Granny is the loudest about it, throwing tantrums whenever life gets especially harsh, even going so far as to call Sam a coward and on more than one occasion threatening to leave because of her ill treatment. But Granny's just old-fashioned and Sam easily puts her out of his mind.
More threatening is his neighbor Devers (J. Carroll Naish), a man who's already accomplished exactly what Sam Tucker has set out to do and isn't eager to see anyone else climb the ranks alongside him. Devers knows how hard it is to reach where Sam hopes to go, however rather than be neighborly he withholds support from the Tuckers with hope that they fail. Beyond having a potential financial stake in the land the Tuckers have settled, Devers is at heart afraid of seeing somebody reach his own status from a lower starting point and even harder work than he gave to get there himself. Beyond his general surliness he takes revenge by refusing Sam's request for milk to save his ailing son and even more grievously by having his nephew Finlay (Norman Lloyd) set their livestock loose to trample Sam's coming crops.
J. Carroll Naish as Devers and Noreen Nash as his daughter Becky
But worse than Devers, a man Sam fights off even when he's armed with a knife, is Sam's best friend Tim (Charles Kemper) who offers him something even more convincing than Granny's mockery or Devers' sabotage and that's temptation. Tim believes that security comes through employment, working for another in return for guaranteed wages. The message he delivers and largely confirms throughout The Southerner is the same warning that Sam's friendly boss, Ruston (Paul Harvey), gives him before advancing Sam his piece of land at the opening: if the little guy gets ruined, that's it, he's through, but if you're working for the big guy you're always going to get paid.
Tim proves this when he quietly rescues young Jot by bringing a cow to the Tucker farm to supply the milk required to make the boy well again. However prior to reaching into his own pocket Tim dangles escape in front of Sam's eyes by telling him he has no doubt that he could secure Sam a job alongside him in the city at $7 per week. Sam is impressed by the wages and appears to waver momentarily, but even with his boy's health hanging in the balance he's not ready to chuck his dream. Tim tries to understand Sam but in the end believes that Sam and those like him are only gambling and that the stakes are too high.
Scott's Tucker with Charles Kemper as Tim
Unfortunately Sam does come off as selfish through this refusal to bargain as we're not even shown his discussing it with Nona, whose mother's instinct undoubtedly would have caved in to this instant relief. Beyond the world views of Granny, Devers, and Tim, Jot's failing health is a tangible reason for Sam to abandon his dreams, but he puts hopes of a better future ahead of his son's health, pushing the idea of entrepreneur as gambler to hazardous extremes. Perhaps it was secure in the knowledge that Tim's offer still stood does Sam trudge forward attempting to borrow milk from Devers who remarkably pours it into a trough of pig chow stating that the pigs come even before himself. Maybe Sam always believed Tim would bail him out, though if he did the character gave no inclination to the audience that he thought so.
Sam continues to insist that the way of life he strives for allows him to feel more free, while Tim buys him a beer and explains that the only freedom available comes through having the most greenbacks you can. As close as brothers neither man is capable of understanding the others beliefs, though in their final scene together it is Tim who finally grasps the greater point and sums it up by saying "It takes all kinds."
The Tucker family gathered around their home's first fire
The Southerer was based on George Session Perry's novel "Hold Autumn In Your Hand" which was adapted for the screen by Hugo Butler and Jean Renoir. Nunnally Johnson and William Faulkner also contributed to the script. Besides Janssen's nominated score, Jack Whitney was nominated by the Academy for Best Sound and also Renoir for Best Director. Zachary Scott easily could have been considered for Best Actor for his very natural performance as Sam Tucker, but the 31 year old budding star was passed over in a year which saw Ray Milland win for his performance in The Lost Weekend.
The Southerner is a story about a cotton farmer with dreams of operating his own farm. We're shown a family who comes to their land with nothing--so little that they cut up Granny's blanket in order to make a coat for their young daughter--and we see how they cope with deep poverty including periods of hunger over the course of an entire year. Grimly realistic on the surface it's the story underneath, the story of a man's drive and determination, which elevates The Southerner from documentary to well-rounded and thought provoking motion picture.
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Patricia Nolan-Hall says
Wonderful article on a beautiful movie.
I like to compare Bondi’s whiney Granny in “The Southerner” to the strong-minded, harding working Granny she played in “So Dear to My Heart”. She was an actress of uncommon depth.
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Hi Patricia, thanks for making it over here (from W-W.com I’d imagine). I felt bad not including an image of Bondi here (had one ready to go of her with Betty Field), but I simply ran out of room. I haven’t seen “So Dear to My Heart” but agree with what you say about her.
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Thanks for an interesting review of a movie I’ve been meaning to catch up with for some time now. I enjoyed learning more about it, especially as I’ve seen Zachary Scott in several other films over the last few months. This looks like a very different role for him.
Thanks for finding me, Laura! Yes, I’m by no means a Scott expert, but from what I have seen he certainly usually does live up to the cad reputation! He’s definitely not that here, just a hard-working guy with dreams and bit of a chip on his shoulder that grows over time.
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“A Good Imagination Gone Wrong”: Reading Anne of Green Gables as a Quixotic Novel
Julie A. Sellers
“That’s a Sentence I Read in a Book Once”: Anne Shirley as a Female Quixote
“It’s So Much More Romantic to End a Story with a Funeral Than a Wedding”: A Performance of Authorship
“Which Would You Rather Be If You Had the Choice?”: A Projection of Reading Stances
“No Ciphering Her Out by the Rules”: Anne of Green Gables as a Quixotic Novel
Table of Contents 1 - “That’s a Sentence I Read in a Book Once”: Anne Shirley as a Female Quixote 2 - “It’s So Much More Romantic to End a Story with a Funeral Than a Wedding”: A Performance of Authorship 3 - “Which Would You Rather Be If You Had the Choice?”: A Projection of Reading Stances 4 - “No Ciphering Her Out by the Rules”: Anne of Green Gables as a Quixotic Novel
This study examines Anne of Green Gables as a quixotic novel by considering how the novel’s rhetoric of a performance of authorship embodies moral, aesthetic, and critical stances toward reading.
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L.M. Montgomery wove her passion for reading and writing into her unforgettable heroine, Anne Shirley, a book lover whose imagination and penchant for the romance of literature repeatedly threaten to blur the line between fact and fiction. Much like Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Anne is rarely content with only reading romantic literature, instead introducing reading into her own world through intertextual references, through discussions of reading, and by enacting reading-inspired adventures, often to her own detriment. Although Anne, a reader-turned-performer of literature, shares much in common with the infamous tilter at windmills, the similarities extend beyond their affinity for chivalrous romance and their attempts to emulate fictional characters as authors of their own narratives. A study of Anne of Green Gables as a quixotic novel reveals how Montgomery employs a performative rhetoric to explore the creative process of writing and to project moral, aesthetic, and critical stances toward reading.
In her study of English quixotic novels, Dorothee Birke identifies the concepts of the performance of authorship and the projection of reading stances as central to understanding how these works elicit critical reflection on both the creation and the reception of texts. 1 For Birke, this performance consists of the rhetorical attitude taken by an author toward her audience, a stance that gives preference to a text’s portrayal of the process and act of communication. The framing of “authorial narration as a performance of authorship means seeing it as a process which foregrounds the logic of a text’s production instead of focussing on the figure of the narrator as a personalized entity with distinct abilities, values and opinions.” 2 This approach acknowledges the author’s anticipated audience, a readership fashioned by social and cultural constraints, and considers the posture taken toward that audience as revealed through the writing process. The authorial audience is an active participant in the construction of the narrative, since it “does not just react to the teller’s communication; instead the audience and its unfolding responses significantly influence how the teller constructs the tale.” 3 The work of literary creation is thus understood as an undertaking that is ultimately public in nature. 4 Like Birke, I am less interested in questions of differentiating between author and authorial narrator than in how the authorial voice “(re)produces the structural and functional situation of authorship.” 5
The concepts of the performance of authorship and the projection of reading stances that Birke applies to the novels in her study draw on previous approaches to reading the quixotic plot as a work concerned with authorship and reflective reading. Although quixotic protagonists are voracious readers, this is not their defining trait; rather, it is their performance of literature, “how they read and how they try to shape their lives according to what they read.” 6 Quixotic characters’ efforts to reinvent themselves are no mere mimesis; rather, they represent the authority with which these readers seek to determine their own actions and identities. 7 Don Quixote’s performance of chivalric literature intensifies uncommon behaviour and highlights his “will to self-creation by self-expression.” 8 This “quixotic fallacy” is not a condemnation of fiction, but, rather, “an index of the unreliability of readers in their relations to what they read.” 9 These novels, therefore, portray specific reading stances as models for reading and reflecting on fiction.
Both the narrative structure and techniques of Don Quixote prioritize Birke’s concepts, for they “entice the reader to share in the creative process and bring out the meaning of the text.” 10 Throughout both volumes of Cervantes’s novel, the narrative voice constantly intrudes in the action and often addresses the reader, further underscoring the fiction in which she has become involved to elicit an active response. The interpolated novels in Don Quixote fulfill this same objective of interrupting the story to encourage a reaction. 11 George Haley points to the Maese Pedro puppet show episode as analogous to the overall novel by studying the interplay between puppet master, performance, and spectator. 12 Maese Pedro pulls the strings to manipulate his characters while his assistant narrates and interprets the tale, adding his own commentary at times. Meanwhile, the puppet master interrupts his assistant to critique his narration and responds to Don Quixote’s criticisms. As a spectator, Don Quixote interrupts the show several times with comments, objections, and corrections. Ultimately, Don Quixote becomes so entangled in the plot that he attacks the characters and destroys the retablo. 13 Like this episode, the novel reveals the relationship between the conscious process of writing and the creative and reflective response of reading.
I will focus my reading of Anne of Green Gables as a quixotic novel on the ways authorship is performed with the domestic romance audience in mind, and how its quixotic plot portrays “reading as an embodied act” 14 to enact three stances toward reading that call on readers to contemplate their own role as consumers of fiction. This approach challenges the notion that Anne’s mishaps “all teach a similar lesson: adopting romance formulas as a basis for real life results in a mortifying comeuppance” through “pure comic romance.” 15 Rather, I argue that the quixotic structure highlights the protagonist as a “self-authorizing” and “self-chronicling actor” 16 who performs, time and again, the role of female creator. Anne’s enactments of romantic literature as well as the stories she tells draw our attention to the creative processes of authorship and serve as an indication that the novel “is self-consciously acknowledging, but also transcending, the genre of popular romance.” 17 This allows the novel to circumvent the limits of that genre’s conventions and address broader social and cultural issues. 18 As Mary Rubio has accurately observed, women writers of Montgomery's time felt apprehensive about their roles as authors within the patriarchal atmosphere of their era, and they embraced a variety of tactics to sidestep reproach; in this way, women writers of popular fiction managed to challenge the ideologies that informed and shaped their culture despite the restrictions imposed by the very genres within which they worked. 19 Montgomery’s melding of the domestic romance with the quixotic plot allows her to feign compliance with the established norms of her society while interweaving “a counter-text of rebellion for those who were clever enough to read between the lines.” 20 I argue, then, that the quixotic plot encourages active reading and reflection, and this deeper participation on the part of the reader results from the attitudes toward reading projected in the novel. 21 These stances equip us not to avoid fiction, but, rather, to consume it appropriately for what it is. 22 In this way, Montgomery takes advantage of the popular genre of domestic romance and projects reading stances that call into question “all of the prevailing ideologies which her early 20th century audience demanded.” 23 Together, these elements create a rich text that moves beyond the surface-level domestic romance, romantic parody, or criticism of obsessive reading. Montgomery’s novel takes her quixotic protagonist as a point of departure to contemplate the creative process as well as different stances toward reading, thus illustrating the reader’s “status as an active producer of meaning rather than only a passive consumer.” 24
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote 25 serves as the blueprint for the character of the avid reader whose reading impacts his sense of reality. The novel recounts the adventures of Alonso Quixano, a hidalgo, or a gentleman of the lesser nobility, who reads chivalrous romances to escape his confining reality. He spends “sleepless nights trying to understand them and extract their meaning,” becoming so immersed in that fictitious world “that for him no history in the world was truer.” 26 His grasp of the line between fiction and reality fades, and “when his mind was completely gone, he had the strangest thought any lunatic in the world ever had … to become a knight errant and travel the world with his armor and his horse to seek adventures and engage in everything he had read that knights errant engaged in.” 27 Of course, his story is ultimately a series of misadventures that leave the poor knight beaten, bruised, and forcibly returned home at the end of the first book. In the second volume, published in 1615, ten years after the first, Don Quixote learns about the publication of his first adventures, and he sets out again, but, this time, he constantly finds himself in the presence of those who have read about his first exploits as well as Avellaneda’s unauthorized sequel. It is Don Quixote's insistence on transposing the fictitious world of chivalrous novels onto mundane realities that leads him to undertake feats doomed to failure and that underscore the complexity of the processes of both reading and writing.
Don Quixote has been the model for a variety of representations of readers addicted to fiction. Although the quixotic character is fundamental to such novels, a fully developed quixotic plot is more complex. The quixotic novel consists of a protagonist who is a voracious reader and whose reading reshapes her understanding of the world around her. As a result, the main conflict revolves around the protagonist’s altered comprehension of the world. Reading is portrayed as a practice and habit of conduct, and the quixotic novel features a wealth of intertextual allusions and quotations. These intertextual references accentuate the enactment of reading, as both the characters and the authorial narrator weave them into the reality of the novel. These allusions place the quixotic novel itself squarely within the cultures and customs of reading and discussing reading. 28 As the protagonist of a quixotic plot, Anne Shirley is an avid reader who views the world through the lens of romantic literature. Reading is an integral part of Anne’s life—a learned behaviour, and one she discusses with a variety of other characters. Like Don Quixote, Anne of Green Gables consists of a series of adventures whose conflicts arise from Anne’s attempts to embody the worlds about which she reads. Rea Wilmshurst has identified over forty literary allusions in the novel, spread among narratorial commentary, intertitles, and the words of the characters themselves, 29 and they situate the novel within the practice of literary consumption and discussion.
Numerous women populate novels in the quixotic tradition, among them Arabella in Lennox’s The Female Quixote (1752), Catherine Moreland in Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1817), Emma Bovary in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856), Gerty MacDowell in Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), and Briony Tallis in McEwan’s Atonement (2013). Each of these characters is “a heroine whose head has been turned by over-reading […] and perceives the world refracted through the prism of her fictional code.” 30 Anne Shirley figures among these quixotic heroines who “seek to replace their mundane lives devoid of excitement, happiness, and/or fulfilment with the fantastic and romanticized world offered by the books that have sparked a new fire in their wild imaginations.” 31 Indeed, Anne’s vivid imagination, which is constantly fed by her insatiable reading, remains one of her most endearing and enduring characteristics. Orphaned as an infant, Anne has not belonged to anyone, and, instead, is taken in and must work for two families before being sent to an orphanage. Books and Anne’s imagination have been her saving grace in these alienating settings, and, despite the ugly realities she has lived, Anne has become adept at escaping them by enacting the worlds about which she reads. Like Don Quixote himself, she is particularly enthralled with chivalrous romance. In fact, “Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot. Those days, she said, were so much more romantic than the present.” 32 It is therefore fitting that CBC’s 2017 television series Anne with an E quotes the opening lines from Don Quixote when Marilla asks for her personal background. 33 Anne is a consumer of the fictions and fashions printed in books and popular magazines, and these romantic texts shape her interactions with the world around her. 34 Unlike Lennox’s Arabella, Anne has not lived an isolated existence; rather, she has seen too much of the world, and it is the ugliness of her realities that encourages her flights of fancy as informed by her reading of fictional narrative and poetry.
Matthew Cuthbert’s and our first introduction to the unexpected arrival at the Bright River station alerts us to Anne’s romantic reading of her world: “You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls,” 35 she remarks of her determination to sleep in the wild cherry tree should Matthew not arrive. The iconic drive to Green Gables is defined by Anne’s imagination, fed by her consumption of romantic literature, which interprets the physical world for her. She imagines a bride in a wild plum tree, friends in the trees at the orphanage, and herself outfitted in a silk dress. 36 Anne admits to having pinched herself “black and blue from the elbow up” 37 to differentiate between the world of her imagination and her dream come true of finally finding a home. To use Anne’s own words, this propensity for “‘imagining things different from what they really are” 38 is what leads this quixotic protagonist into one scrape after another throughout the novel.
Although Anne hardly seems the heroine of a romantic novel to herself, the red-headed orphan girl mistakenly sent to the Cuthberts instead of a boy actively seeks to enact the romance of literature as author of her own narrative. This performance of literature, the way quixotic characters attempt to mould their own lives based on the stories they read, has as a primary aim the alteration or creation of realities and identities. 39 Anne Shirley, like Don Quixote, is an outsider for whom reading fashions a place to belong and to live more fully. 40 As Oriel has observed of Don Quixote, the knight’s unshakable faith in the power of the performative to portray a new identity is such that he propounds a new vision of the definition of self: no longer is one’s identity determined by blood, but, rather, it can be enacted. 41 Anne, too, seeks to perform and create her own identity, rather than to bear the label of “orphan.”
As part of this performance, Anne is attuned to the significance of names as she rewrites and transforms herself and the physical world with fanciful and carefully selected appellations as author and creator of her own story. Just as Don Quixote’s real name is not pinned down, Anne goes unnamed for the ride home from the train station, since it never occurs to Matthew to request that information of the little waif awaiting him. Then, when Marilla at last inquires, Anne aims to name herself: “Will you please call me Cordelia?” she requests of Marilla upon meeting her. “Anne is such an unromantic name.” 42 The request declined, she still insists, “if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an e.” 43 Once her place at Green Gables is assured, Anne identifies herself with her new home: “it’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?” she observes. 44 This epithet smacks of romance and provides Anne with an identity that recalls titles of nobility. 45 Anne’s creative acts do not stop at her own name, for she revels in lighting on the perfect sobriquets for places, too. These labels allow her to claim her surroundings as locales worthy of a romantic story and to make them her own. 46 By the morning after her arrival at Green Gables, Anne has dubbed the cherry tree “The Snow Queen” and Marilla’s geranium “Bonny.” 47 As Anne explores further out, the christenings continue, and she populates the landscape with names inspired by her reading in an attempt to refashion her surroundings into the setting of her own romantic story: the Dryad’s Bubble, Idlewild, Willomere, Lover’s Lane, the Haunted Wood, Violet Vale, and the Birch Path. 48 Anne is so adept at thinking up such names that she reports, “Diana says she never saw the beat of me for hitting on fancy names for places.” 49 The power of this performative speech ultimately lies in others’ acceptance of and references to the rechristened landscape with Anne’s new names as those names “become part of the geography of the narrated text.” 50
The quixotic protagonist seeks to supersede “the virtual existence of print: he longs actually to live in a romance world” 51 by embodying reading. From the moment we meet Anne at the Bright River train station and hear her determination to sleep in the wild cherry tree, we realize that she, like Don Quixote, looks on the everyday world through the lens of her romantic reading. Anne’s yearning to imprint the quotidian world with romantic fiction leads her into countless mishaps that, while mostly less dangerous than the misadventures of Don Quixote, are every bit as unromantic. While, unlike Don Quixote, Anne rarely believes the products of her imagination—the Haunted Wood episode being the primary exception 52 —her daydreaming and desire to inscribe reality with romance do get her into a considerable amount of trouble. From imagining herself as the perfect hostess and inadvertently intoxicating Diana by overacting in this role, 53 to attempting unsuccessfully to walk the ridgepole of the Barrys’ kitchen roof because “[her] honour is at stake,” 54 from the failed attempt to dye her red hair black 55 to her frustrated re-enactment of Tennyson’s “Lancelot and Elaine,” 56 Anne’s attempts at emulating the honour, beauty, and drama of romantic literature are a decided flop. Experiencing such failure is an essential characteristic of the quixotic character, 57 and this undercuts the common themes of the very genre the Quixote emulates.
Anne’s attempts to inscribe the physical world with the romance of fiction flavour her speech and consciously and subconsciously inform her actions. Her outburst at Mrs. Lynde’s comments about her hair reveals the importance Anne places on individual honour and dignity, as in chivalrous literature. To please Matthew, Anne relents and agrees to apologize to Mrs. Lynde, delivering a convincing performance: “Mournful penitence appeared on every feature. Before a word was spoken Anne suddenly went down on her knees before the astonished Mrs. Rachel and held out her hands beseechingly.” 58 Marilla is mortified to discover that Anne relishes the drama of her own performance and “was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was revelling in the thoroughness of her abasement.” 59 Later, when Anne provides a coerced false confession about losing Marilla’s brooch, she enacts a scene that meets her satisfaction as a romantic heroine: “I thought out a confession … and made it as interesting as I could.” 60 Anne’s vow of friendship with Diana—spoken with clasped hands over a garden path they pretend is running water 61 —is a physical and verbal enactment of scenes inspired by her reading. Anne seasons her “eternal farewell” 62 to Diana following the raspberry cordial incident with performative utterances aimed not only at inscribing meaning to the moment but making it more romantic as well. “I used the most pathetic language I could think of and said ‘thou’ and ‘thee',” she later reports to Marilla of this parting; “‘Thou’ and ‘thee’ seem so much more romantic than ‘you.’” 63 Despite being separated from her bosom friend, Anne finds consolation in the romance of their farewell. 64 Anne also sees the drama in her winter evening dash to help cure Diana’s younger sister: “Anne, although sincerely sorry for Minnie May, was far from being insensible to the romance of the situation.” 65 Later, when Mr. Bell cuts down the trees that had formed Anne and Diana’s Idlewild playhouse, Anne “sat among the stumps and wept, not without an eye to the romance of it.” 66 Anne’s view of romance, however, refuses to expand to acknowledge it where it truly is: in Gilbert’s saving the rose that falls from her hair at the school concert, 67 or his rescue of her during her failed portrayal of the Lily Maid. 68 Like Lennox’s Arabella, Anne feels obliged to defend her honour by defying Gilbert to truly speak of or even insinuate a real romance.
Actual performances and the language of performance in narratorial commentary further draw our attention to performativity in the novel. The authorial narrator observes of Marilla following Anne’s outburst to Mrs. Lynde that “[s]he felt no little dismay over the scene that had just been enacted.” 69 Anne’s fit of temper when Gilbert calls her “Carrots” is likewise described as a spectacle: “Avonlea school always enjoyed a scene … Tommy Sloane let his team of crickets escape him altogether while he stared open-mouthed at the tableau.” 70 In these examples, Anne’s affinity for chivalrous romance predisposes her to heated defences of her own personal dignity. Given her proclivity for embodying her own reading, it is no surprise that Anne also relishes actual public performances. She is thrilled to participate in Miss Stacy’s fundraiser concert and, for her, life after the concert loses much of its tang. 71 Later, when Anne recites at the White Sands Hotel benefit as a young woman, she is again “deliciously athrill with the excitement of it.” 72 Together, these performances portray reading as an embodied and not merely a cognitive act, and they reiterate Rosenblatt’s assertion that “[t]he reader of a text who evokes a literary work of art is, above all, a performer, in the same sense that a pianist performs a sonata, reading it from the text.” 73
Stephen Railton argues that authorial literary performance is both self-aware of its given audience and self-conscious of the process of literary creation. 74 The quixotic plot reflects these anxieties through a performance of authorship, following Cervantes’s original model of an embedded consciousness of the creative process. This is achieved in part through a multi-layered narrative structure that draws attention to the fictitious construct of the novel. In Don Quixote, we discover at the end of Chapter 8 (Book I) that the original author of the knight’s adventures was an Arabic historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli. A second author identifies himself as the reader of the first chapters, admitting that he discovered the remaining chapters in Arabic in a market in Toledo and had to hire a translator, himself unreliable, to render the manuscript in Spanish. 75 The interpolated novels also interrupt the action to highlight the creative process of narration and to stimulate an engaged response from the reader. 76 While the chivalrous romances attempt to pass themselves off as history, Cervantes is intent on revealing the presence of the creator—much like the puppet master, Maese Pedro, in Book II. 77
Behind Anne Shirley, there is another puppet master pulling all the strings, another author performing her craft and well aware of her intended audience. Each precisely titled chapter relates another adventure for the quixotic female protagonist who sallies forth to construct her identity as Anne of Green Gables in her new-found home. These intertitles form part of what Gérard Genette identifies as the paratext, those imprecise areas that are “a zone not just of transition, but of transaction” 78 and that negotiate meaning between the audience and the text itself. Intertitles may vary from the humorous Cervantine model that summarizes what will transpire in the chapter to succinct intertitles to numbers or to none at all; whatever their form, they draw our attention to the authorial voice that selects and inscribes them. 79 In Anne of Green Gables, the intertitles follow the Cervantine model of summarizing and setting expectations, although in an abbreviated form. The first three chapters’ titles 80 prepare us, like Mrs. Lynde, Matthew, and Marilla, to be surprised, and highlight the authorial awareness of audience. The narratorial commentary, “those speech acts by a narrator that go beyond providing the facts of the fictional world and the recounting of events,” 81 further underscores the author as performer. We are conscious of the authorial narrator’s role in constructing the text before us in her observations of the thoughts and behaviour of the brook as it passes Mrs. Lynde’s home. 82 Like Mrs. Lynde herself, positioned at the strategic vantage point of her window with her “all-seeing eye,” 83 the authorial narrator is clearly present in the very story she delivers. She anticipates her audience’s reaction to Anne’s arrival in her portrayal of Mrs. Lynde as thinking “in exclamation points” 84 upon learning of the Cuthberts’ intention to adopt an orphan boy. She hints at the surprise awaiting Matthew at the station, 85 empathizes with the ugliness Anne has endured, 86 and even reveals that Anne fails to follow all of Marilla’s directives by forgetting to air the bed on her first morning at Green Gables. 87 Narratorial comments also remind us of the limits of writing. The image of the sea on the buggy ride from Bright River includes a description of its “many shifting hues,” with “elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found.” 88 Likewise, the plain gable room given to Anne is “of a rigidity not to be described in words.” 89 The commentary reveals the authorial narrator’s role as the discretionary documenter in the Bildungsroman she is writing when she mentions in passing a list of Anne’s minor scrapes that she deems too insignificant to relate in detail. 90 The authorial narrator’s observation that “all the silly things that were done in Avonlea that summer because the doers thereof were ‘dared’ to do them would fill a book by themselves” 91 highlights her selectivity in what she does include.
The performance of authorship is also depicted by the characters themselves. Anne is never at a loss to tell or invent a romantic story, some of which even move her to tears. 92 Anne’s ability to retell and (re)create fiction supports creative licence, since she admits to inventing her own ending to a story when she forgets the original version. 93 Rubio has described Anne as an “artist” who “creates a new reality,” not only for herself, but for all those around her. 94 In addition to her own private daydreams, Anne shares stories and events from daily life with others. Often, she interlaces these narrations with commentary as she relates those fancies and admits how they collide with daily life. From forgetting to put flour in a cake 95 to finding a mouse drowned in the pudding sauce she fails to cover because of her daydreams, 96 to burning up a pie warming in the oven because of her reveries of knights and princesses, 97 Anne’s narrated mishaps parallel the narratorial commentary of the novel.
The Story Club that Anne and her friends begin also encourages conversations about the writing process and about their intended audience. In fact, Waterston argues that the Story Club element “is the mark of Montgomery’s assurance as creator of fiction.” 98 Anne’s story, “The Jealous Rival; or In Death Not Divided,” is her own romantic effort to write a love story worthy of the genre of domestic romance. 99 However, her own experience is so lacking that she must turn to outside sources (the eavesdropping Ruby Gillis) to know how to write the proposal scene; when the requested suggestion fails to meet her expectations, she imagines it for herself instead. Anne interrupts her retelling of her own story of Malcolm Andrews’s unromantic proposal to Ruby Gillis’s older sister with narratorial commentary, just as we see her do throughout the novel. Despite this romantic information, Anne prefers to kill off her characters, observing, “It’s so much more romantic to end a story with a funeral than a wedding.” 100 Indeed, Anne’s commentary on the creative process foreshadows the novel’s own ending in Matthew’s death and the postponement of a romantic relationship between Anne and Gilbert. 101 The guiding influence of Miss Stacy also encourages conversations and reflection on the writing process. Under her tutelage, Anne recognizes the incompatibility between the worlds she attempts to create, as informed by her reading, and the world in which she lives: “It was silly to be writing about love and murder and elopements and mysteries. Miss Stacy … won’t let us write anything but what might happen in Avonlea in our own lives.” 102 This commentary reflects the creative production of the novel itself, which contains nothing but what might have happened in the fictional setting of Avonlea and the lives of the characters who inhabit it.
The authorial narrator’s commentary regarding Marilla is especially insightful to the concept of a performance of authorship. She introduces Marilla as “a woman of narrow experience and rigid conscience,” observing that “there was a saving something about her mouth which, if it had been ever so slightly developed, might have been considered indicative of a sense of humour.” 103 The process by which Marilla’s personality thaws is directly related to Anne’s attempts (and ultimate failures) to embody reading. Anne’s melodramatic reaction to being told the Cuthberts expected a boy brings out on Marilla’s face “a reluctant smile, rather rusty from long disuse.” 104 As the novel progresses, Marilla is constantly containing both smiles and laughter at Anne’s interpretation of the world of Avonlea as well as her failed attempts to enact reading in that world. It is, in fact, Anne’s tears over the future she writes in her imagination of Diana as a married woman who will leave her bosom friend that finally cause Marilla to “burst into … a hearty and unusual peal of laughter.” 105 Although Marilla chastises Anne for her candid assessment of other characters, she admits to herself that she has read them in the same way. Duty urges Marilla to reprimand Anne, but she “was hampered by the undeniable fact that some of the things Anne had said, especially about the minister’s sermons and Mr. Bell's prayers, were what she herself had really thought deep down in her heart for years.” 106 In addition to these unspoken common views, Marilla rereads (remembers) and narrates Anne’s exploits as part of their shared narrative before briefly relating the story of her own failed romance with John Blythe. 107 Anne’s embodied reading has made Marilla a more thoughtful and compassionate reader of her own life, and by end of the novel, Mrs. Lynde avers that Marilla has become downright “mellow.” 108
In her study of quixotic novels, Birke explains the projection of reading stances as a tool for analyzing textual self-awareness and “to negotiate views of what it means to be a reader of fiction.” 109 This concept builds upon Rabinowitz’s view of the “authorial audience,” a “more or less specific hypothetical audience” for whom authors “design their books rhetorically.” 110 The notion of the authorial audience takes into account the impact of “readers’ prior knowledge of conventions of reading” and how this knowledge impacts “their experiences and evaluations of the narratives they confront.” 111 These projections of the authorial audience suggest stances toward reading through the interpretation of textual elements in light of discovering what they reveal about how we read. Additionally, characters who read contribute to these projections through their own attitudes and the way they contemplate the ties between the audience and author of a work. 112 These stances toward reading embrace Rosenblatt’s use of the term as that which “suggests a readiness to respond in a particular … way.” 113 Rosenblatt situates these responses along a continuum with non-aesthetic, efferent reading (for information or to inform actions after reading) at one end, and aesthetic reading (concerned with the reader’s experiences as she reads) on the other. Most reading occurs between these extremes, and the reader’s focus, and by extension, her reactions, shift fluidly among the different facets of the text. 114 Studying the reading stances projected in quixotic plots provides insight into the consumption of fiction by the novel’s intended audience.
In Anne of Green Gables, three stances toward reading are projected: one moral, another aesthetic, and, a third, critical. These postures reflect the forms of the Platonic triad of truth, beauty, and goodness, as expressed by Anne in her question of Matthew on their first drive home, 115 “Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?” 116 André Narbonne sees the representation of the Platonic triad in the novel as the projection of a moral lesson that rejects Romanticism’s exaggerated sentimentality and accepts duty as the ideal as readers “cease living in a false world of abandonment and find meaning instead in the real.” 117 Instead of teaching a solely moral lesson, I argue that Anne’s question, which Narbonne has described as “the epic question of the novel,” 118 represents three stances toward reading: moral (goodness), aesthetic (beauty), and critical (truth).
A moral stance toward reading is most evident in the utilitarianism of the rural community of Avonlea where hard work and conformity take precedence over imagination; it is this stance that most closely mirrors Montgomery’s apparent conformity to the domestic romance genre of her time. Our introduction to Avonlea is in the personage of Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a “notable housewife” whose “work was always done and well done.” 119 Never is Mrs. Lynde idle, for in addition to the numerous groups she runs or in which she participates, she has time to knit quilts—“sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices.” 120 Still, it is Marilla who most fully embodies this utilitarianism. Marilla’s explanation of her and Matthew’s decision to adopt a ten- or eleven-year-old boy is centred on both moral and practical considerations: “We decided that would be the best age—old enough to be of some use in doing chores right off and young enough to be trained up proper.” 121 Marilla’s original arguments against keeping Anne are solidly based in utilitarian considerations: “What good would she be to us?” she demands of Matthew. 122 Once Marilla agrees that Anne may stay, she undercuts Matthew’s observation of Anne as “such an interesting little thing” by insisting, “It’d be more to the point if you could say she was a useful little thing.” 123 Marilla’s frustrations with Anne’s flights of fancy, the polar opposite of her pragmatic understanding of duty and work, are borne out time and again: Anne beholds a beautiful tree where Marilla sees only fruit plagued by worms; 124 Anne’s rapturous speech to Matthew about the upcoming Sunday-school picnic interferes with Marilla’s timetable for Anne to work on her sewing; 125 Mr. and Mrs. Barry’s invitation to take Anne to the concert with Diana and sleep over in the spare room collides with Marilla’s fear that the outing will “unsettle her for a week.” 126 Indeed, Marilla feels so bound to her duty of providing Anne with a moral upbringing that the authorial narrator observes she “was as fond of morals as the Duchess in Wonderland.” 127 As Anne matures, she increasingly embraces a more utilitarian stance herself. She talks less and uses shorter words, 128 prepares “hot biscuits that were light and white enough to defy even Mrs. Rachel’s criticism,” 129 and even admits to Gilbert her stubbornness in holding a grudge. 130 Her dutiful stance is most clearly portrayed in Anne’s renunciation of her Avery Scholarship as she embraces her duty to Marilla, Green Gables, and, by extension, the community of Avonlea as its teacher. This is the expected denouement for readers of the domestic romance, and it foresees Anne’s romance with Gilbert, upholding the social expectations and those of the genre at the same time that the other reading stances and Anne’s strength as a female author undermine this status quo.
The second stance is aesthetic, and, in it, the reader’s focus is on what she experiences during the act of reading itself. 131 This stance envisions reading as an interactive experience that seeks an individual interpretation during the reading process, regardless of any practical information derived from a text. This is the approach that “indicates that the best kind of meaning is a personal meaning” 132 when reading and interpreting literature. It is such a response to reading that concerns Mrs. Barry when she bemoans that Diana “reads entirely too much.” 133 Despite Mrs. Barry’s concerns, reading is an important and integral activity practised by and shared among multiple characters in the novel. Anne’s enactment of romantic reading reveals this aestheticism as she models her interpretation of her own world on her approach to reading literature and popular magazines. This is the reading experience of the here and now, of art for art’s sake, and often, Anne’s aesthetic interpretations of her world leave her enraptured, as in the case of the White Way of Delight, 134 the beauties of the shore road, 135 her discoveries in and around the Green Gables property in her first fortnight at the Cuthberts’, 136 and her response to the prima donna’s performance in Charlottetown. 137 Anne’s attention to all things lovely is paramount, and in her first prayer she beseeches God, “please let me be good-looking when I grow up.” 138 The flowers she adds to her hat on the way to Sunday school, 139 her desire to have a pretty dress with puffed sleeves, 140 and even her disastrous attempt to dye her hair a “beautiful raven black” 141 reveal Anne’s eye for beauty. With her “love of wildflowers and celebration of beauty for beauty’s sake, Anne is an aesthete” 142 whose appreciation for all things lovely is an enactment of the authorial narrator’s “purple prose.” 143 Anne also interprets others’ actions with an eye to their aesthetic value, and sometimes finds them lacking—Mrs. Lynde’s criticisms of her hair 144 and Gilbert’s unwelcome nickname 145 being two prime examples.
Additionally, Anne’s speech is punctuated with intertextual allusions and comments about her reading, revealing the centrality of art in her life. We know that she is reprimanded for reading Ben Hur during class because she is so enthralled with the romance of the chariot race, 146 and we know that other girls loan her novels. 147 Anne discusses her reading with her friends, Miss Stacy, Mrs. Allan, and Marilla. Likewise, Anne and the other members of the Story Club read their creations to each other. These conversations and interactions reveal that for Anne, reading is not merely a cognitive act, but, rather, an intimately individualized activity fundamental to her daily life and that offers topics and content worthy of discussion in the reading community Anne inspires and builds. Kelly Blewett has described this attitude toward reading as one that “happens out in the world,” 148 focusing on the Lily Maid adventure as her example. Anne’s aesthetic interpretation and eventual dramatization of Tennyson’s poem contrasts with the traditional approach to its study employed in the Avonlea school: “They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them.” 149 Although Anne claims she is through with romance at the conclusion of this adventure, Matthew cautions Anne, “Don’t give up all your romance.” 150 This gentle admonition supports an aesthetic posture toward reading, for “to deny one’s imaginative faculties and batten down to a totally practical existence is to kill one’s soul.” 151 This stance upholds the view that women’s reading can bring them aesthetic pleasure and not only a moral by which to live.
The critical posture toward reading encourages the authorial audience to read deeper than the surface level, to look beyond the novel’s apparent conformity to the norms of the domestic romance, and by extension, the patriarchal culture. Mrs. Lynde provides us with our first example of a critical reading stance. Seeing Matthew calmly and inexplicably driving by on a June day when he should be working, Mrs. Lynde knows “she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.” 152 From the start, Mrs. Lynde serves as an example of the critical reader who digs below the surface. She models how to read when she pulls together all the various clues she has observed: the time of day and year; Matthew bedecked in his good clothes and driving the sorrel mare and buggy; the place settings and meal laid out on the table. 153 When at last Marilla reveals the truth about Matthew’s destination and purpose, Mrs. Lynde insists on an equally discerning stance toward understanding the expected orphan boy. She says: “You’re bringing a strange child into your house and home, and you don’t know a single thing about him nor what his disposition is nor what sort of parents he had nor how he’s likely to turn out.” 154 If we replace “child” with “novel” in Mrs. Lynde’s observations, we can apply an equally critical stance toward reading and evaluating the unknown text before us. Likewise, the authorial narrator encourages a critical stance by differentiating between what an “ordinary observer” would have noticed of the young girl waiting at the train station and what an “extraordinary observer” would have deciphered. 155 Marilla is also capable of understanding nuances, for we are told that she “was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne’s history and divine the truth.” 156 Matthew, the quintessential old bachelor, engages in a critical read of the sartorial when he observes Anne and her friends and realizes her dresses are somehow different. 157 Anne’s reads (assessments) of everyone from Mrs. Blewett as “a gimlet” 158 to Mrs. Barry as “obstinate” 159 and Superintendent Bell as unimaginative in his prayers 160 also project a critical and questioning posture toward reading. So sure is Anne of this questioning stance that she even calls into question Shakespeare’s affirmation that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” doubting that “a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk-cabbage.” 161 Anne models the right to question the norms of her society, and this effectively parallels Montgomery’s use of the domestic romance as a “safe space in which to write” while “[giving] … sharp critical digs to a social system prejudiced against women.” 162
The three stances toward reading projected in Anne of Green Gables reflect the epigraph to the novel from Browning’s “Evelyn Hope.” As a threshold to the novel, this epigraph comments both on the title and the text. 163 The reference to Browning’s poem recalls its speaker’s final actions and words: he encloses a leaf in Evelyn Hope’s lifeless hand, confident that she “will wake, and remember, and understand” its meaning. 164 This image is an invitation to read the pages (leaves) with an eye to deeper understanding. Like Anne’s “epic question” 165 about beauty, intellect, or goodness, the epigraph also mirrors the Platonic triad. The novel is multi-dimensional, and the epigraph invites the authorial audience to read it through the lens of the interwoven forms of spirit (goodness), fire (truth), and dew (beauty).
For the reader of Anne of Green Gables, these stances toward reading at first support and ultimately subvert the conventions of domestic romance and the dominant patriarchal system of Montgomery’s time. Mary Rubio’s study of the techniques Montgomery employs to undercut the very genre in which she writes underscores this ebb and flow between apparent conformity and subtle subversion. As Rubio points out, “This deviousness was necessary because many women readers would have been quite disturbed by a frontal attack on the social system which they took for granted … but they were not averse to seeing oppressive patriarchal power structures satirized.” 166 They can laugh at the scrapes Anne finds herself in as a result of quixotically assuming the creative authorship of her own life without feeling their own cultural norms challenged. Various of the strategies Rubio indicates are reminiscent of other quixotic plots: the use of oral storytelling, placing critical commentary in the mouths of characters of seemingly little importance such as an orphan child, a focus on ideas and characters over action, and a narrator who intrudes directly in the action. Ultimately, Montgomery has to cater to the demands of her reading public, and Anne must conform to the cultural norms of her time by marrying and starting a family. 167 Despite this generic ending, Anne’s quixotism runs beneath the flow of the happy ending, encouraging her female readers to explore her story, and others, through multiple angles, and to become authors of their own narratives. Just as Anne enacts the Lily Maid scene, her own story “is akin to a costume for the girl reader to try on, a persona with which to play.” 168 A multi-faceted approach to reading and interpreting texts, as demonstrated by the stances projected in the novel, undercuts the apparent moral of the story and prescribed happy ending. 169 170
Reading Anne of Green Gables as a quixotic novel promotes a reflective interaction with the text, based on its portrayal of the processes of writing and reading. This performance accentuates the various stances toward reading projected in the novel, and, together, these postures provide a more complete interpretation than any single one alone. Just as Avonlea evolves from being “a community of atomized individuals,” 171 the characters adopt each other’s approaches so that the pragmatic and moralistic Marilla, the aesthetic Anne, and the critical Mrs. Lynde together form a whole, a community of readers. This emphasis on community is highlighted in the allusion to Tennyson’s “The Palace of Art” in the final chapter. 172 The authorial narrator references Tennyson’s poem when she describes the setting before Anne as she walks home from the cemetery as “a haunt of ancient peace.” 173 In the poem, a soul inhabits a rich palace in solitude, a condition and location that allow her infinite opportunities to explore beauty and intellect. Yet after a time, the soul begins to languish in her solitude, and she opts to abandon her “lordly pleasure-house” for a modest cottage, hoping to again live in community “with others.” 174 Anne, like the soul of the poem, embraces the beauty of the community before her, and the duty and truth that accompany it, and “she gratefully opened the gates of her soul to it.” 175 Stephen Railton points to the tension between solitary artistic production and awareness of audience, observing that “literary creations should mean finding and freely enjoying a territory of one’s own imagination, but in fact it means moving in just the opposite direction: toward others.” 176 As Elizabeth Epperly has observed, “Anne is not meant to live forever in appreciation of scenery and tranquility alone; she is destined to interact with many others.” 177 Anne’s acceptance of her duty and movement away from her solitary imaginings accentuate this paradox of authorship, and the multiple reading stances underscore the novel’s apparent conformity to the genre of domestic romance.
Despite the temptation to interpret the novel as a moral lesson, of the three stances toward reading projected in Anne of Green Gables (moral, aesthetic, and critical), none prevails over any other. Instead, the stances are interwoven throughout this quixotic plot and reflect the “to-and-fro movement of the attention from one aspect to another of the responses activated by the text.” 178 The characters representing these different postures constantly check each other to underscore the multi-faceted and fluid nature of reading responses: the aesthetically sensitive Anne reminding Mrs. Lynde that unfiltered criticism of her red hair is unwarranted; Mrs. Lynde undermining Marilla’s pure utilitarianism by becoming Matthew’s accomplice in making a beautiful, puffed-sleeve dress for Anne; and Anne’s hair being shorn at Marilla’s hand, following her attempts to dye it, are symbolic of trimming away the excesses of her aestheticism.
Although Anne’s enactments of reading skirt the line between fact and fiction, she generally recognizes her stories and daydreams for what they are. She understands that her fancies are just that—until they intrude fully upon her physical reality, as in the Haunted Wood episode. 179 Then, the authorial narrator reveals that “her terror was very real,” 180 and as the title of that chapter suggests, Anne’s “Good Imagination” has “Gone Wrong.” Although Anne’s unrestrained efforts to enact a ghost story in a Gothic setting succeed in frightening her, it is not her aestheticism itself that has “gone wrong,” but, rather, her one-dimensional approach to reading and creating a story. This episode significantly occurs on Anne’s one-year anniversary at Green Gables, and it serves as a reminder to strike the balance among the reading stances projected throughout the novel. Anne’s endeavours to create art for art’s sake are not only criticized by Marilla, but also by the authorial narrator in the selection of this intertitle. Anne’s imagination has led her astray, not because of her aestheticism and creativity, but, rather, because it embodies a single posture toward reading. This intertitle reminds us not to embrace a single reading stance, nor to confuse Montgomery’s “medium” (the domestic romance) “with her message.” 181
This multi-faceted model to reading the writer and writing the reader, to paraphrase Birke’s title, recalls Mrs. Lynde’s later words to Marilla of Anne:
I never would have thought she’d have turned out so well that first day I was here three years ago ... I did make a mistake judging Anne, but it weren’t no wonder for an odder, unexpecteder witch of a child there never was in this world, that’s what. There was no ciphering her out by the rules that worked with other children. It’s nothing short of wonderful how she’s improved these three years, but especially in looks. She’s a real pretty girl got to be … 182
It is Mrs. Lynde, the “all-seeing eye” 183 and overly critical reader of the first scene, who blends the three stances in these lines: she acknowledges the limits of her criticism while recognizing both Anne’s usefulness and her beauty. Mrs. Lynde reminds us that one-dimensional attitudes toward reading—those “that worked with other children” 184 —will fall short in our interpretations of Anne who is in a category all her own. Montgomery works subtly within the domestic romance genre to offer a rich representation of the female author and women readers. Reading Anne of Green Gables as a quixotic novel illustrates how Montgomery’s rhetoric of a performance of authorship embodies moral, aesthetic, and critical reading stances to explore both writing and reading as creative endeavours.
About the Author: Dr. Julie A. Sellers, a specialist in adult second language acquisition and Latin American popular culture and identity, is an Associate Professor of World and Classical Languages and Cultures (Spanish) at Benedictine College. She is also a Federally Certified Court Interpreter (Spanish/English). Dr. Sellers has published three books on Dominican music and identity, and on language acquisition and interpreting skills in a variety of publications. In addition to these topics, Dr. Sellers has applied her work in literature and identity to studies of Anne of Green Gables. She was the 2017 Kansas World Language Association’s Teacher of the Year.
Acknowledgements: The author wishes to thank Dr. Michael Stigman and Prof. Veronica Charbonnet for reading early drafts of this article; Dr. Filiberto Mares Hernández, P.J. Vaske, and Christopher Renna for reading the original conference proposal based on this study; librarian Jane Schuele who helped me obtain a number of sources through Interlibrary Loan; the Atchison Public Library for allowing me to share my research with the local community; artist Claire Schroettner for the beautiful artwork that accompanies this article; and my dog, Mozzie, for sitting at my feet while I read for this study. Special thanks to Dr. Lesley Sieger-Walls for years of shared dreams, ambitions, and now memories based on our Anne-inspired escapades.
Banner image derived from Drawing of "Anne of Green Gables and Don Quixote." 2019. Claire Schroettner.
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So in that lesson, we just saw the basics of the new programming paradigm that comes with machine learning and deep learning, and how instead of like expressing rules in a programming language, we can start getting data and using labeled data to open up new scenarios like activity recognition. Then for a little bit of fun, we actually started doing our first piece of code. We built a super simple neural network that fit data like an x and y data onto a line but that was just "Hello, World". Right, Andrew? So fitting straight lines seems like the "Hello, world" most basic implementation learning algorithm. But one of the most amazing things about machine learning is that, that core of the idea of fitting the x and y relationship is what lets us do amazing things like, have computers look at the picture and do activity recognition, or look at the picture and tell us, is this a dress, or a pair of pants, or a pair of shoes really hard for humans, and amazing that computers can now use this to do these things as well. Right, like computer vision is a really hard problem to solve, right? Because you're saying like dress or shoes. It's like how would I write rules for that? How would I say, if this pixel then it's a shoe, if that pixel then its a dress. It's really hard to do, so the labeled samples are the right way to go. Yeah. One of the non-intuitive things about vision is that it's so easy for a person to look at you and say, you're wearing a shirt, it's so hard for a computer to figure it out. Because it's so easy for humans to recognize objects, it's almost difficult to understand why this is a complicated thing for a computer to do. What the computer has to do is look at all numbers, all the pixel brightness value, saying look at all of these numbers saying, these numbers correspond to a black shirt, and it's amazing that with machine and deep learning computers are getting really good at this. Right, so it's like with the code that we just used in the previous lesson as you mentioned, it provides a template for everything that we can do with deep learning by designing a Neural network in the layers to be able to recognize patterns like this. So maybe we can do that with clothes recognition today. What do you think? Yeah. So in the next video, you'll learn how to write code to take this paradigm you've already saw in a previous video, but to now apply it to recognizing clothes from labeled data. Please go on to the next video.
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Music in The Girl’s Own Paper – 8 Apr 2017
Posted on April 8, 2017 by Judith BargerMay 6, 2017
Instruments and Instrumentalists in
Part One: The Banjo
Although not a music journal, The Girl’s Own Paper (TGOP), published in London by the Religious Tract Society beginning on 3 January 1880, clearly considered music a worthy topic, which readers encountered in music scores, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, illustrations and replies to musical correspondents. Music in The Girl’s Own Paper: An Annotated Catalogue, 1880 – 1910 lists the many musical references found in the magazine.
During TGOP’s first decade, ‘how to’ primers on playing musical instruments appeared, from singing a song in Volume 1 to playing the zither in Volume 10. Piano, violin, organ, harmonium, harp, guitar, concertina, mandolin, banjo and xylophone rounded out the list. Of all the primers, only those for singing, pianoforte and violin appeared more than once, suggesting that these were the preferred forms of music making to which TGOP readers should – or did – aspire. This blog and the next focus on two very different instruments – the banjo and the organ – to show how TGOP chose to educate and entertain its readers about them.
That readers were interested in the banjo is evident in the magazine’s replies to correspondents’ questions about the instrument. Before the primer on how to play the banjo appeared in 1889, three correspondents had asked about the instrument, though their actual questions were not printed. The magazine’s editor told Maria Orford, who likely was choosing between the banjo and the mandolin, that the latter would be more suitable, because the banjo ‘is scarcely a nice instrument for a girl’. [Volume 6] * W.F.C. received a more neutral reply – she could apply at any music shop for banjo music. [Volume 6] Dinah, whose means were limited, hoped to find a banjo for ten shillings; the editor hoped a music shop might could help her. [Volume 8]
Just because the primer ‘How to Play the Banjo’ by Frank Mott Harrison appeared in Volume 10 does not mean that TGOP gave its stamp of approval to the instrument. To Harrison the instrument was essentially for amusement rather than serious playing, with limited music of a calibre higher than ‘marches, breakdowns, and jigs’. [p. 134] He did not discourage young women from taking up the banjo, however, if their tastes matched the repertoire available for the instrument. The magazine’s editor, however, did. For him, it was a matter of the banjo’s suitability.
When in 1892 correspondent Grateful Reader sought the editor’s advice about choosing an instrument among the banjo, guitar, concertina and organ-accordion, she was told, ‘Neither the banjo nor the guitar is by any means suitable for leading sacred music at a mission meeting. You might as well play the bones like a Christy Minstrel! A concertina or organ-accordion would be very suitable for such a purpose, and more easily learnt.’ [Volume 13] By 1895, however, the editor had rethought the instrument’s suitability and simply advised Helen of Troy, ‘We see no reason why you should not learn the banjo, provided your mother approves.’ [Volume 17]
Over the years, several correspondents – Martha, Madcap, Flora, Edythe, A.A.C., Would-Be Musician, Kerry – asked questions about the banjo and its music. The instrument’s popularity among readers was reflected in the illustration ‘The Banjo Enthusiast’ printed on the Answers to Correspondents page of 20 February 1892, shown below. [Volume 13] It must have taken some moxie for correspondent Wee-One from British Guinea to make her unknown request in 1894. The editor replied: ‘We have not got any kind of banjo, nor can we give you a practical demonstration of what you want to know; so you had better go to a shop for musical instruments and see for yourself. We are sorry we cannot assist you.’ [Volume 15] Nor could the editor assist correspondent Snowdrop a few weekly issues later, whose questions about prices of instruments, including the banjo, and costs for lessons could not be answered in the magazine. He advised her, ‘You should attend to your spelling, which is of more consequence than accomplishments.’ [Volume 15]
‘A Banjo Enthusiast’,The Girl’s Own Paper Vol. 13, p. 336 (Lutterworth Press)
The banjo makes occasional cameo appearances in TGOP fiction. In ‘Nobody’s Holiday; or, An August and September Spent in Good Company’, in the 1889 extra summer issue Rosemary, Hester Grey hears a ‘pandemonium of discords’ in the music making of lodgers, one of whom is learning to play the banjo. [Volume 10, pp. 42–4] Camilla Blake, in ‘A Chameleon’ by Alice Macdonald, finds the piano ‘awfully slow’, drops it and takes up the banjo instead. [Volume 13, p. 247] In ‘Our Café Chantant’ by M.F.T. in the Extra Summer Part of 1901, Rose Amberly agrees to sing and play the banjo for a variety entertainment organized to assist Silas Burns whose cottage burned down. [Volume 22]
In Sarah Doudney’s 1902 ‘Silent Strings’, the banjo player is a young man. When their father dies, the four Wilmer siblings have to split up the family. Brother Drew’s solution to raise their spirits is to sing a tune with a rousing chorus, which he accompanies on his banjo. After this last song, however, Drew leaves the banjo behind. The instrument’s silent strings are a metaphor for the silent strings in many lives that are, as sister Kate muses, ‘full of music that has never been called out of them’. [Volume 23, pp. 30–31]
Like Drew, who left his banjo behind when he left his siblings, after ‘Silent Strings’ appeared, TGOP left the banjo behind. Content about the organ and organists, which was more conspicuous in the magazine, had a longer life and is the subject of the next blog.
* Complete citations may be found in Judith Barger, Music in The Girl’s Own Paper: An Annotated Catalogue, 1880 – 1910 (Routledge, 2017).
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WINDA and UTS at Berlinale
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by Pauline Clague and Gillian Moody
NATIVe Stand partners, promoting Indigenous Cinema at European Film Market in Berlinale
In February the European Film Market takes place a s a part of the Berlinale Film Festival. Winda and UTS this year participated in the NATIVe Stand and the Fellows Program by inviting an Indigenous Producer to attend the Indigenous Lab to pitch to market a feature script ready for market. The NATIVe Stand is also a opportunity to promote Indigenous films and to show the breath and many facets of our industry to give a strong voice to the filmmakers in our regions. There are twelve members of the NATIVe Stand, which has been going for five years, but this is the first time Australia was a part of the Stand through it’s connections with Winda and the other International festivals around the world, with imagineNATIVE bringing together as many of the voices from the Indigenous space to the stand. As Berlinale’s Indigenous Spotlight this year was the Pacific, we thought it was important to add the Australian voice to the Stand and Fellows program.
The Stand helps to promote Indigenous voices to the International stage, led by imagineNATIVE (Canada) the largest Indigenous Film Festival in the world, it’s other partners are the Sami Film Institute (covering the Sapmi from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia), Vision Maker Media (USA), Sundance Native Program (USA), Maoriland Film festival (NZ), Indigenous Media Initiatives (South America), Pacific Islanders in Communications (Hawaii) New Zealand Film Commission (NZ), Greenland Film Makers (Greenland), Sakha Film (Russia) and Winda Film festival (Aus).
Each member supported the stand and filmmakers in attendance at the festival, giving them a space to pitch and engage with the world markets.
I caught up with Gillian Moody the recipient of the fellows program to see what the experience was like for her.
“Firstly I’d like to thank WINDA and Jumbunna UTS for providing the opportunity for me to be the first Australian NATIVe Fellow to attend the NATIVe Programme at the European Film Market and Berlinale 2019. It is always so inspiring to gather with likeminded Indigenous filmmakers from around the world!”
What is your role and what project were you pitching to EFM?
Pauline Clague and Gillian Moody at the NATIVe Stand next to the feature film Gill was promoting at the Market that she is in development for “Ginderella” by Adrian Wills.
I am a producer and company owner of Kalori Productions which currently has a slate of feature projects at varying stages of development and a short film in production.
The project I was pitching at the EFM is Ginderella, which is currently moving into 4th draft. My aim is to attract an international distribution and sales company to our film as this is a requirement of funding within Australia when financing the film through federal financing avenues. Ginderella is supported by the Indigenous Dept. of Screen Australia who have contributed to development to date. They are keen to continue their support and together we are hopeful to have the next draft be ready to put out for financing from. Therefore as we are currently developing this next draft, I was able to soft pitch the project with a few pre-scheduled meetings and cold pitch both Ginderella and other projects to companies as I wandered around the EFM spaces.
One meeting was extremely important to me as I was able to re-connect with a sales company whom I had spoken to about the project at Cannes in 2018. To have the opportunity to meet face to face and provide an update of where we are at with the project is invaluable as our industry relies heavily of relationships and sustaining contact. I also had other meetings with sales agents who are also keen to stay in touch and receive the script.
It also gave me the opportunity to consider distribution/sales options for a documentary project that was completed in 2018. The EFM provides access for all formats with Feature being its main focus and TV Drama and Documentary also.
How many of the fellows were there?
NATIVe Fellows at Berlinale 2019 Back Left to Right: Nina Paninnguaq S. Jacobsen – Greenlandic producer from Greenland, Tyler Hagen – Metis producer from Canada, Sergio Rapu – Rapanui producer/director from Easter Island. Front Left to Right: Gillian Moody – Aboriginal producer from Australia, Lisa Marie Kristensen – Sapmi producer from Norway, Desray Armstorng – Māori producer from Aotearoa New Zealand and Brook Swaney – Blackfeet Tribal Member & Salish Descendent producer/director from the USA
There were 7 fellows in the producers program in 2019 including myself. They 6 other fellows were:
Tyler Hagen – Metis producer from Vancouver Canada. Tyler was participating in the fellows program with his film The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open a feature film screening in the Generation Program of the festival. Tyler also introduced us to the filmmaking team behind the feature, writer/directors Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and his wife Kathleen Hepburn along with his co-producer and the films DOP.
Sergio Rapu – Rapanui producer/director from Easter Island. Sergio currently lives in the USA but originates from the small Island of Easter Island in his words ”famous for the big stone heads”. Sergio has a documentary that is starting to do the festival circuit Eating Up Easter a film that looks at the globalizing affects Tourism has on small communities. He was looking to connect with distributors and sales agents for his film.
Brook Swaney – Blackfeet Tribal Member & Salish Descendent producer/director from the USA. Brook has been working on her documentary Daughter Of A Lost Bird across 7 years, a film that explores one womens’ connection with her mother and her Indigenous bloodlines as an adult after having been adopted as a child. Brook was also keen to meet with distirbutors and sales agents for her project which is currently in post-production.
Nina Paninnguaq S. Jacobsen – Greenlandic producer from Greenland. Nina is one of very few Producers in Greenland and therefore is often approached for her expertise, she collaborates with both local and international people/companies. Nina came to EFM with 13 projects on her slate. But her fellow project was “Alanngut Killinganni” which will be her first feature as a producer.
Desray Armstorng – Māori producer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Desray has produced documentaries, factual series, music videos, web series’ and award-winning short films and was attending with Stray her co-producer and director Dustin Feneley’s feature film screening at the EFM Market.
Lisa Marie Kristensen – Sapmi producer from Kautokeino in the northernmost part of Norway. Lisa is a documentary producer who works with a small collective of filmmakers in her home town. She is currently producing her first full length documentary Báttit.
Do you think the experience at market is a helpful one?
Just generally to have an opportunity to attend a festival and market the size of Berlinale and EFM is an important experience, whether it be to observe how the market works or experience a screening with a festival audience, both enable a producer to be prepared for the future. The landscape of filmmaking is constantly changing and evolving and the EFM and Berlinale also provide access to ways of educating yourself on the current changes and trends. All of this information and experience only goes to helping producers understand how to plan for financing, marketing of their films and how a market or festival can be best utilised for your projects in the future.
The support I had in having my travel and accommodation covered was immeasurable as this can often be an obstacle and strain for independent producers, the fellowship also provided a stipend to cover my time and expenses whilst on the ground, again to have this provided helps to alleviate the strain of being away from the day to day work and allows you to dedicate your time and mind to preparing for and attending the Fellows Lab. Is also makes you feel valued and secure when traveling overseas. The support given to being able to print flyers and business cards prior to the trip was fantastic as this provided me with materials that I could hand out at meetings and in networking. I also must day that having Pauline in attendance was a great bonus for me also, we provided support to each other across the festival.
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You're Going To Get Fewer Early Game Reviews From Everyone
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Bethesda Softworks, makers of Skyrim, Dishonored and other fine games and franchises, is the latest game publisher not rushing to have their games reviewed, at least not by game reviewers. It’s something all gamers should factor in as they assess when and how they’ll find out if a game is worth their time and money.
In a blog post today Bethesda global content lead and former games journalist Gary Steinman explained that Bethesda “value[s] media reviews” but will now only send out review code of their games a day before launch, making it physically impossible for all but the shortest games to be reviewed the day they’re out.
“With the upcoming launches of Skyrim Special Edition and Dishonored 2, we will continue our policy of sending media review copies one day before release,” Steinman wrote, explaining that the company had already done that with last spring’s Doom. “While we will continue to work with media, streamers, and YouTubers to support their coverage–both before and after release–we want everyone, including those in the media, to experience our games at the same time.”
That puts Bethesda in the same neighborhood as 2K Games, which provided media review codes for Mafia III, Civilization VI and other big fall releases at midnight New Zealand time on launch day this fall. That meant that reviewers had access to their Friday-launching games at 6 or 7am ET the Thursday before.
Bethesda blacklists Kotaku, so their change here is unlikely to affect our ability to review their games. As for 2K, we’d have loved to have reviewed Civ VI for release day but won’t suffer from publishing an informed review of it days later.
There are many reasons for this move toward release day review copies, some of them perfectly good. But before getting to that, it’s necessary taking a brief detour and point out that Bethesda’s post today is, to put it nicely, misleading. While review copies may not have been sent to media yet, Bethesda sent finished retail code to at least one YouTuber a month ago. As YouTuber Grohlvana explained at the start of an October 21 video of the game, “So Bethesda got in contact with me. Yes, the Bethesda, and said that since I had been such a great supporter of all of their series, they decided to send me Skyrim The Special Edition early, about a month early, honestly. They sent me the game. They, like, overnighted it. I got the Xbox One edition very early in the morning, like, at 10 am, and I was able to produce some videos for it.”
So much for “everyone” experiencing their games at the same time. Grohlvana’s explanation allows for another take on Bethesda’s actions, showing that the publisher may be slow to enable games media reviews but was eager to hook up an enthusiastic YouTuber with a finished copy of the game a month before anyone else. Publishers love working with enthusiastic YouTubers these days, and why not? Game makers are delighted to leverage the excitement of YouTubers, who themselves provide a worthy service to gamers by putting gameplay footage of new games online. For many game publishers, YouTubers are what the so-called “enthusiast press” used to be: fans just thrilled to have access and eager to color within the lines while raving about video games. It’s an oversimplification, of course, and there are and always have been good independent-minded people doing uncompromising work in both fields. But the trend toward favoring access to YouTubers has been obvious for years.
It’s hard to blame publishers for wanting to avoid having their games reviewed prior to launch. Many games with extensive online systems and big day-one patches can’t be fairly and thoroughly assessed before they come out. An increasing number of games have one of those or both. Pity the game designer who worked for years on a game’s online multiplayer that a reviewer barely tried or couldn’t even properly test in the rush to run a day-one review. At Kotaku, we’ve been running late reviews intentionally for years, holding back for any game that we didn’t feel we could fairly assess until after release. Others outlets have done the same, eschewing the rush. This fall is rife with “pre-review”s and “provisional reviews” running at outlets such as Rock Paper Shotgun, Polygon and IGN.
Some games, however, can still be fairly assessed prior to release, and it’d be nice if companies made their decisions on a game-by-game basis. Some do, and some also release their day-one patches at day negative-two or thereabouts, to give reviewers a chance to play the game in its updated state. The platform-holders, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, all tend to be very good about providing review copy access days and weeks ahead of time.
Game publishers are, of course, interested in maximizing sales, which they seem determined to do by increasing pre-release hype. Even publishers that are getting more conservative about reviews tend to be excited to offer lots of access for previews and pre-release trailers. (About a month before Civ VI came out, we were offered a chance to preview a large portion of that game. We declined, preferring to wait for the finished game.)
Publishers are also finding creative ways to lock in players’ dollars early, before they might even stumble across a review. These days, we have beta access doled out as a pre-order reward. Bethesda will let you play Dishonored 2 a day before launch, as long as you pre-order it. EA let people jump into Battlefield One three days early if they paid $20 to be an “early enlister,” though EA’s review embargo at least lifted before then.
Game makers are entitled to send out copies of their games whenever they want, and if they’ve determined that their games can’t be judged prior to release, so be it. If that reflects a truth of the medium not relevant to books, movies and music, so be it. Media and fans will have to condition themselves and learn to distinguish between when the last minute review offerings are legitimate and when it’s a maneuver around critical media. The challenge for editors and reviewers will be to allow those who need to play the game and assess it to do so without feeling rushed, to be unworried by the fact that they may still working on the review while gamers are already buying and playing the game.
Ample review lead time is preferable. We can’t always expect game publishers to provide it. Worst case, though, reviewers get their copies of games on release day. We prefer covering games after they’re out, anyway. That’s where the players get involved and where things really get interesting.
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So you want everyone to experience your half assed unfinished or broken games at the same time AFTER people have dropped money it on it. Got it.
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November 12, 2019 October 6, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments Arley Sorg, Josh Pearce
This review doesn’t need to lead with much of a recap, because you’ve seen it all before: evil AI sends a killer robot back in time to assassinate the future savior of humankind. Plucky human resistance sends a protector back in time to stop the killer robot (from the future!). Carnage. Mayhem. Explosions.
The difference this time is that the evil AI is called “Legion” instead of “Skynet,” the target is a young woman in Mexico City named Dani (Natalia Reyes), the resistance sends an augmented human named Grace (Mackenzie Davis) to protect her, and the new Terminator is something called a REV-9 (Gabriel Luna). Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as a T-800 cybernetic organism with decidedly aged living tissue over its robotic endoskeleton.
Josh: I have questions.
Arley: Please save your questions for the end.
The Terminator franchise has proven itself caught in an infinite loop in both narrative and meta-narrative forms. The machines rise up because humans use advanced technology from the future to bootstrap an AI…which then sends advanced technology from the future back in time. The resistance is led by John Connor who is only born because… a soldier sent (by John) from the future impregnates his mother. Like the Star Trek: TNG episode “Cause and Effect”, they’re caught in a “temporal causality loop”—a loop with no entry point. And now that the audience has come to expect certain things from these movies—”I’ll be back,” “Come with me if you want to live,” a car chase at the 20-minute mark, a showdown in an industrial setting at the end—the filmmakers keep serving up the same movie on repeat; another loop with no exit point.
Arley: This whole thing is an action movie. The original Terminator was a science fiction horror movie with action notes, and some thoughtful commentary or philosophy. But this one is flat-out action, any commentary is heavy-handed or clumsy or muddled, and even the science fiction is so thin as to be non-existent or ridiculous. All the action scenes looked like superhero battles, not just in the sense of the power of the fighters, but also in the way that those scenes were shot. In the underwater scenes, the REV-9 looked like Aquaman. I mean, maybe it makes some sense that a robot would move that quickly and fluidly, but it doesn’t work well in this movie.
Josh: Well, like you said, the first movie was horror, but none of the sequels are. The stop-motion jerkiness of the original robot made it uncanny and creepy. CGI makes the Terminators less scary. With CGI, you don’t need fancy camerawork or shadows to hide things, so the monster is fully revealed all the time and moves so fluidly (doing parkour and shit), which leaves nothing to the imagination, and the imagination is the scariest thing.
Arley: The horror (in the original) is the slow-paced, inexorable pursuit of something that can’t be stopped or reasoned with.
Josh: Like It Follows (great horror movie). Same problem with the Alien franchise, starting with Alien 3. CGI aliens shown in full-body, instead of using puppets from the shadows. Also like Alien 3, the beginning of Dark Fate completely erases all the accomplishments of its preceding film—in this case Judgment Day. What is even the point, then? I suppose Sarah Connor gets closure and some kind of completed character arc, but multiple characters keep saying the point of their actions is “make your own fate” although that’s demonstrably not true: oh you defeated Skynet and changed the future, but this exact same other future came into being, complete with Terminators and a chosen one narrative.
Arley: Okay. I did have fun, and people in the theater had fun, it was obvious from their reactions. But I wouldn’t call this movie good, and I wouldn’t call it science fiction except by the weakest, most lenient terms. And I wouldn’t call it innovative by any stretch. Plotholes and inconsistencies are going to create universal reactions. People clapped and shouted but came out of the theater ranting about all the problems.
Josh: It certainly wasn’t the worst Terminator movie I’ve seen.
Dark Fate does hint at possible alternate storylines that could expand beyond the recycled plots seen so far: all this time, Sarah Connor has been hunting Terminators that are continuously being sent back; the T-800 has been pretending to be human for nearly 30 years; and even some of the future battle scenes looked interesting.
Arley: I liked the future scenes the most. I wanted a whole movie set in that future.
Josh: Isn’t that what Terminator: Salvation was?
Arley: I can’t even remember. I must have blocked it out.
Josh: Though I guess if you want a good Terminator future movie, you could just rewatch Screamers.
Arley: That was a good movie.
The most obvious variance that Dark Fate presents is the focus on three women as the main characters. Grace and Sarah’s tag-team defense of Dani plays to their strengths and keeps the dynamic moving along, but every time the action slows, the weakness of their chemistry shows through. The emotional beats fall flat or are unrealistic. Sarah and Grace’s constant sniping continues far past initial tolerable levels (because we certainly couldn’t have two powerful women in the same movie without them being at each other’s throats the whole time).
Arley: I was excited for Linda Hamilton’s return but, for me, she is just good enough in this. She delivered all the “cool lines” as expected. I like seeing her badassery, which hearkens back to T2 (totally a positive) but that’s undermined by the way the women can’t get along well together. However, all three of their physical performances are great.
The deaths of Dani’s father and brother are forgotten almost immediately, and not even her uncle seems to care enough to mourn. She instead latches onto Grace, screaming, “I’m not going to watch you die!” before the movie is even halfway over, having known each other for less than 24 hours. Grace’s love for Dani is more understandable, given that she has known her longer in the future, but the converse seems unlikely.
The feminist message, as presented, is fine—women have value other than their wombs—but it was telegraphed heavily from the beginning, so the reveal of the savior wasn’t all that shocking. It’s still a chosen one story, but at least the chosen one isn’t a white guy with the initials “J.C.”
Josh: James Cameron.
Arley: I think gender is really great in this movie, mostly. But you do have the factor of: three women, two are badasses, and they still have to go to Arnold for help. Compared to Mad Max: Fury Road, where the women don’t need Max to save them. Were there any female writers on this at all?
Josh: I thought Arnold was great, by the way. Excellent humor. He was the most natural, or at-ease, performance in the whole film, but I guess he’s been doing Terminator movies more than all the other actors.
Arley: The Terminator’s family moments are more emotional and effective than the moments between actual humans. He has more humor and pathos and humanity than any other character.
Josh: I also liked Gabriel Luna’s performance, though he was too charismatic to convince me that he was a robot most of the time. I didn’t understand how he was talking his way past everything. Was he absorbing people’s memories? The movie skims right past his abilities and limitations.
Arley: Why does the REV-9 need physical contact to mimic a person? And if its clothes are part of its body, why does it show up from the future naked? There were so many problems with the SFnal ideas. The more they explained the more it didn’t make sense. They gloss over that one scene by saying, “Future shit”—I loved that line! I wish they’d done that more, especially since a lot of times it’s reasonable that the characters themselves might not know or understand something. Instead the narrative gave so many dumb explanations for things that didn’t need explaining. Trust your audience to come up with their own theories.
Josh: The answer, of course, is nanomachines, AKA magic. It’s a ratchet—once they used nanotechnology in Terminator 3, they could never go back, just have to keep trying to escalate. I came across an interview with Tim Miller about the making of this movie: he put Joe Abercrombie, Neal Asher, Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, and Warren Ellis in a room together to come up with ideas. Almost all of them have done wildly varied and imaginative nanomachine stories (The Polity series, Slant, The Diamond Age, Transmetropolitan), so the nanotech in Dark Fate could easily have been a thousand times better. Oh, and then Miller says, “We had sort of a f—ed up process, in that we had decided what these action set pieces were, but the script was still being written.” So that gives you a pretty clear idea of what this movie’s about.
Arley: Those authors also, you know, are capable of forming a plot, telling a story. I’m guessing their ideas were grabbed and cobbled together and so much of what they contributed was discarded. Some of the action was good. I liked the underwater stuff, Aquaman aside, and Arnold coming to the rescue was a fun (albeit potentially gender-problematic) sequence.
Terminator: Dark Fate is already projected to lose money, the first movie in the franchise to not turn a profit, despite a heavy marketing campaign as well as a release date with few other action-genre competitors. The marketing is actually a detriment to the viewing experience, since the trailer gives away so much that one might imagine they can see the future as they watch this movie. Soon as one action scene finishes, you’re checking it off against the list of things seen in the trailer and tallying how many more set pieces are left. One in particular, showing the REV-9 in a CBP detention center, gives away a significant amount of plot: the heroines declare that they’re going to sneak across the border from Mexico into Texas, but we already know that’s destined to fail before it’s even started.
Josh: The original Terminator attacked a police station and killed a bunch of cops because he was explicitly a bad guy. The second Terminator attacked police but did not kill them because he was nominally a good guy. The T-1000 (who gets my vote as the most villainous Terminator except for maybe the original) didn’t have a wholesale slaughter scene, but the REV-9 in Dark Fate is allowed to kill a bunch of CBP agents. Do you think that’s because CBP is safe to be vilified right now?
Arley: That ties into something I want to say about the portrayal of race in Dark Fate. I felt like the movie was really wishy-washy in its messaging vis a vis gender and race. I agree that they’re painting border patrol as bad guys. However, let’s cycle back: the bad robot is brown. He’s Latino, and the Latina girl is being saved by white ladies. Dani automatically knows how to cross the border illegally, implying that anyone brown knows these things. There are literally trainloads of people crossing the border illegally, which plays on the phobic fears and assumptions of people who are already visualizing that kind of thing. Oh and her uncle is a coyote. So they’re painting border patrol as bad guys, but they’re also painting all brown people (and their families) as illegal immigrants who are casually coming across the border in hordes. So there’s racism and also the vilification of the border patrol as assholes.
Josh: Well, we’re nearly at the end, so let’s recap what we liked: I liked Arnold and the design of the REV-9. The way its skeletal version stood up was uncanny and creepy! The Terminators in the future, with the tentacles, were interesting, brief as they were. I also thought Mackenzie Davis was pretty solid—I enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire, which was the first thing I saw her in, and she was great in Blade Runner 2049. This is the first time I’ve seen her in an action role, and I thought she handled it really well.
Arley: Her skin was cool, with the grids showing that she has mesh underneath. Future battles were awesome, and I was engaged with the underwater scene with the Humvee. There were some good lines. I liked seeing women in action roles, as well as women in different kinds of roles in general.
Josh: Time for some questions. So Arnold’s organic material ages on its own? Does that mean he’ll one day be like a 2,000-year-old mummy on a polymetallic alloy skeleton? If Legion has access to nanomachines, why not gray goo the past? How does Grace not know that cell phones are tracking devices? Couldn’t they have used the power cell from Arnold, as was the plot of Terminator 3? And so on, there are a ton of others. Also, isn’t it highly unlikely they’d just blast their way onto an AFB by driving the wrong way through the gates, and then make it up the loading ramp of a C-5 without any problems? These places have crash barriers for a reason.
Arley: Having grown up in an Air Force family, let me tell you: they fucking check ID. They’re not just going to let you drive through because some guy on the radio is screaming about it.
Josh: I find myself rolling my eyes at a lot of implausible stuff, but then I remember that the entire premise of the franchise is “killer robots from the future” and then I remember to put it all in context. This was a solidly average killer robot movie.
Arley: It’s unfortunate that we only have time to cover so many movies, because there were a few out at the same time (Doctor Sleep, for example) that are more interesting than Dark Fate. That we’d be trashing far less.
Let’s rank the Terminator series:
Josh: The original, Judgment Day, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Salvation, Dank Fart, Terminator 3, and then Genysis. (I like Judgment Day the most, but the original is a better movie. Sarah Connor Chronicles and Salvation get points for originality and trying to do something.)
Arley: Original, T2, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dark Fate, and then the other three lump together as completely forgettable.
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Metrics details. The state has taken several measures to improve situations of inequity for women who get married early; however, the practice is still a common part of the tradition and culture. The aim of this study was to explore the factors leading to child marriage in Sarawak state, Malaysia. Participants were recruited through purposive and convenient sampling with the use of data from a reproductive health clinic and recruitment in villages.
Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. Four overarching themes were identified: health risk behaviour, family poverty, early marriage as fate, and family disharmony. In-depth understanding of the unique factors leading to child marriage locally will facilitate the introduction of new approaches to interventions to eradicate child marriage in Sarawak state, Malaysia. Peer Review reports.
This study focused on child marriage in Sarawak state, Malaysia. However, in practice, if any Muslim below the abovementioned ages in Malaysia wants to get married, he or she can do so by obtaining the consent of his or her parents or guardian and the approval of a judge in the religious court Shariah. What makes it difficult to eliminate child marriage is because the voices of those who are affected by child marriage are difficult to hear due to their vulnerability in society. Thus, the prevention of child marriage has not been a subject of public and political debate.
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iBook 2001 and Mac OS X 10.03 Pre-Installed
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Have been using my new iBook with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.0.3 for nearly 3 weeks and would like to contribute the following experiences.
Did a fresh System restore of Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X from the restore CD's so as to throw out the possibility that it was a software problem that was causing such instability and bad performance on the iBook while using X.
Restore process works fine.
Booted into 9.1 as standard and then restarted into X.
Clamshell mode not supported in X as previously mentioned.
If you do boot in clamshell mode in X it will sleep when it gets to the login prompt which also cuts off my Apple Pro Keyboard and mouse.
Nine times out of ten the keyboard fails to activate again even if you disconnect it and connect it again. Logging in or restarting is then only
Possible from the main keyboard.
Speed is nothing short of woeful in fact it is so bad
that the machine basically shouldn't be qualified to run Mac OS X (IMHO).
I feel that if this is the way Apple wants to show of it's new operation system then it really needs to do some different thinking itself.
Shipping Mac OS X as good as it may be on a machine that just isn't capable of running it defies logic. My iBook is running with 384 megs of RAM and it just doesn't cut it.. Period.
General Mac OS X stability on the iBook is terrible. Opened Sherlock and it crashed on first run. Stuffit Expander crashes when you try and de-compress a file the first time I ran it and so on. If you do manage to get Stuffit to run and de-compress the file, you can't find the file in the finder in the expansion destination. If you view it in the terminal it is there but not in the finder. The file cant be found until you move it in Terminal and then it appears. Surely an easy thing for an absolute beginner to do eh ?
Pre-Emptive multi tasking and protected memory are nice in X but why bother when you can open apps faster in 9.1 than what X offers with multi-tasking, restart the whole computer faster than what it takes to startup some 3rd party applications in X ?
Sure X has all of these "buzz" words but it just isn't worth it until it is equally as fast as 9.1, apps open as fast / faster than what 9.X does and it has equal or greater performance that what Mac OS 9 does.
From what I can see Apple has many system updates coming out soon for X and 9.X but as 9.1 in itself isn't blistering on the iBook, I really think that no matter how much Apple "tweaks" Mac OS X, it will never be a viable alternative on Apple's latest consumer laptop offering.
I have since removed Mac OS X from my X partition and won't be installing it again on this machine anyway. It just isn't worth the time or effort.
I KNOW that X runs so much better on G4's and DP G4's but c'mon, why put it on a 66Mhz Bus 500MHz G3 and make the product look bad ?
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Introduction to LeSS
Why LeSS?
Sprint Planning One
Sprint Planning Two
Coordination & Integration
Potentially Shippable Product Increment
Overall Retrospective
Product Backlog Refinement
Initial Product Backlog Refinement
LeSS is not Scrum
Principles Overview
Large-Scale Scrum is Scrum
Empirical Process Control
Continuous Improvement Towards Perfection
Whole Product Focus
Queueing Theory
Organizing by Customer Value
Role of Manager
Teaching Problem Solving
Manager as Scrum Master
Thinking About Testing
Acceptance Testing
Specification by Example
Three Principles
Feature Team Adoption Map
Staying Sane
7 Organizational Design Principles
Huge Adoption
Requirement Areas
Area Product Backlog
Area Product Owner
Organizational Structure for LeSS Huge
Scrum Overview
Scrum Roles
Tracking Sprint Progress
Starting the Next Sprint
Managing Releases
Common Challenges
Application or Product Focus
Appendix A: Additional Reading
Appendix B: Terminology
Scrum Assessment
LeSS Assessment
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(this is chapter 2 of the book “Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS”)
There are two ways of constructing a [design]:
One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies,
and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
C.A.R. Hoare
One-Team Scrum
Scrum is an empirical-process-control development framework in which a cross-functional self-managing Team develops a product in an iterative incremental manner. Each timeboxed Sprint, a potentially shippable product increment is delivered and, ideally, shipped. A single Product Owner is responsible for maximizing product value, prioritizing items in the Product Backlog, and adaptively deciding the goal of each Sprint based on constant feedback and learning. A small Team is responsible for delivering the Sprint goal; there are no limiting single-specialized roles. A Scrum Master teaches why Scrum and how to derive value with it, coaches the Product Owner, Team, and organization to apply it, and acts as a mirror. There is no project manager or team lead.
Empirical process control requires transparency, which comes from short-cycle development and review of shippable product increments. It emphasizes continuous learning, inspection, and adaptation about the product and how it’s created. It’s based on understanding that in development things are too complex and dynamic for detailed and formulaic process recipes, which inhibit questioning, engagement, improvement.
In the Scrum Guide and Scrum Primer, the emphasis is for one Team; the focus is not many Teams working together. And that naturally leads to thinking about large-scale Scrum.
LeSS is Scrum applied to many teams working together on one product.
LeSS is Scrum—Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) isn’t new and improved Scrum. And it’s not Scrum at the bottom for each team, and something different layered on top. Rather, it’s about figuring out how to apply the principles, purpose, elements, and elegance of Scrum in a large-scale context, as simply as possible. Like Scrum and other truly agile frameworks, LeSS is “barely sufficient methodology” for high-impact reasons.
Scaled Scrum is not a special scaling framework that happens to include Scrum only at the team level. Truly scaled Scrum is Scrum scaled.
…applied to many teams—Cross-functional, cross-component, full-stack feature teams of 3–9 learning-focused people that do it all—from UX to code to videos—to create done items and a shippable product.
…working together—The teams are working together because they have a common goal to deliver one common shippable product at the end of a common Sprint, and each team cares about this because they are a feature team responsible for the whole, not a part.
…on one product—What product? A broad complete end-to-end customer-centric solution that real customers use. It’s not a component, platform, layer, or library.
• Background •
In 2002, when Craig wrote Agile & Iterative Development, many believed that agile development was only for small groups. However, we both (Craig and Bas) became interested in—and got increasing requests—to apply Scrum to large, multi-site, and offshore development. So, since 2005 we have teamed up to work with clients to scale up Scrum. Today, the two LeSS frameworks (smaller LeSS and LeSS Huge) have been adopted in big groups worldwide in disparate domains:
telecom equipment — Ericsson & Nokia Networks
investment and retail banks — UBS
trading systems — ION Trading
marketing platforms and brand analytics — Vendasta
video conferencing — Cisco
online gaming (betting) — bwin.party
offshore outsourcing — Valtech India
In terms of large, what’s a typical LeSS adoption case? Perhaps five teams in one or two sites. We’ve been involved in adoptions of that size, of a few hundred people, and up to a LeSS Huge case of well over a thousand people, far too many development sites, tens of millions of lines of C++, with custom hardware.
More LeSS Learning
To help people learn and based on our experiences with clients, in 2008 and 2010 we published two books on scaling agile development with the LeSS frameworks:
Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum — explains the thinking, leadership, and organizational design changes.
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multi-site & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum — shares hundreds of concrete experiments for LeSS, based on our experience with clients; experiments in product management, architecture, planning, multi-site, offshore, contracts, and more.
This book—Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS—is the third in the LeSS series, a prequel and primer. This book synthesizes, clarifies, and highlights what’s most important.
Besides these books, see less.works for online learning resources (including book chapters, articles, and videos), courses, and coaching.
• Experiments, Guides, Rules, Principles •
The first two LeSS books emphasized: There are no such things as best practices in product development. There are only practices that are adequate within a certain context.
Practices are situational; blithely claiming they are “best” disconnects them from motivation and context. They become rituals. And pushing so-called best practices kills a culture of learning, questioning, engagement, and continuous improvement. Why would people challenge best?
Therefore, the earlier LeSS books shared experiments we and our clients have tried, and we encouraged—and encourage—this mindset. But over time we noticed two problems with the only-experiments mindset:
Novice groups made unskillful decisions to their detriment, adopting LeSS in ways not intended, with obvious problems; e.g. groups created Requirement Areas with one team each. Ouch!
Novice groups asked, “Where do we start? What’s most important?” They understandably couldn’t see the key basics.
Based on this feedback we reflected and returned to the Shu-Ha-Ri model of learning: Shu—follow rules to learn basics. Ha—break rules and discover context. Ri—mastery and find your own way. In a Shu-level LeSS adoption, there are a few rules for a barely sufficient framework to kick-start empirical process control and whole-product focus. These rules define the two LeSS frameworks that are introduced soon.
To summarize and build on these points, LeSS includes:
Rules—A few rules to get started and form the foundation. They define the key elements of the LeSS frameworks that should be in place to support empirical process control and whole-product focus. e.g. Hold an Overall Retrospective each Sprint.
Guides—A moderate set of guides to effectively adopt the rules and for a subset of experiments; worth trying based on years of experience with LeSS. Guides contain tips. Usually helpful and are an area for continuous improvement; e.g. Three Adoption Principles.
Experiments—Many experiments that are very situational and may not even be worth trying; e.g. Try… Translator on Team.
Principles—At the heart, a set of principles—extracted from experience with LeSS adoptions—that inform the rules, guides, and experiments; e.g. whole-product focus.
The LeSS guides and experiments are optional. Guides will probably be helpful and are recommended trying. But bypass or drop those that limit further improvement or just don’t fit.
A good way to look at LeSS is visualized in the LeSS complete picture:
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The LeSS complete picture will order the way we introduce LeSS:
LeSS principles, up next
LeSS frameworks (defined by the rules), in the rest of this chapter
LeSS guides, in the following chapters of this book
LeSS experiments, already available in the first two LeSS books
• LeSS Principles •
The LeSS rules define the LeSS framework. But the rules are minimalistic and don’t answer how to apply LeSS in your specific context. The LeSS principles provide the basis for making those decisions.
Large-Scale Scrum is Scrum—It isn’t new and improved Scrum. Rather, LeSS is about figuring out how to apply the principles, rules, elements, and purpose of Scrum in a large-scale context, as simply as possible.
Transparency—Based on tangible “done” items, short cycles, working together, common definitions, and driving out fear in the workplace.
More with less—We don’t want more roles because more roles leads to less responsibility to Teams. We don’t want more artifacts because more artifacts leads to a greater distance between Teams and customers. We don’t want more process because that leads to less learning and team ownership of process. Instead we want more responsible Teams by having less (fewer) roles, we want more customer-focused Teams building useful products by having less artifacts, we want more Team ownership of process and more meaningful work by having less defined processes. We want more with less.
Whole-product focus—One Product Backlog, one Product Owner, one shippable product, one Sprint—regardless if 3 or 33 teams. Customers want valuable functionality in a cohesive product, not technical components in separate parts.
Customer-centric—Focus on learning the customers real problems and solving those. Identify value and waste in the eyes of the paying customers. Reduce wait time from their perspective. Increase and strengthen feedback loops with real customers. Everyone understands how their work today directly relates to and benefits paying customers.
Continuous improvement towards perfection—Here’s a perfection goal: Create and deliver a product almost all the time, at almost no cost, with no defects, that delights customers, improves the environment, and makes lives better. Do endless humble and radical improvement experiments toward that goal.
Lean thinking—Create an organizational system whose foundation is managers-as-teachers who apply and teach lean thinking, manage to improve, promote stop-and-fix, and who practice Go See. Add the two pillars of respect for people and continuous challenge-the-status-quo improvement mindset. All towards the goal of perfection.
Systems thinking—See, understand, and optimize the whole system (not parts), and use systems modeling to explore system dynamics. Avoid the local sub-optimizations of focusing on the efficiency or productivity of individuals and individual teams. Customers care about the overall concept-to-cash cycle time and flow, not individual steps, and locally optimizing a part almost always sub-optimizes the whole.
Empirical process control—Continually inspect and adapt the product, processes, behaviors, organizational design, and practices to evolve in situationally-appropriate ways. Do that, rather than follow a prescribed set of so-called best practices that ignore context, create ritualistic following, impede learning and change, and squash people’s sense of engagement and ownership.
Queuing theory—Understand how systems with queues behave in the R&D domain, and apply those insights to managing queue sizes, work-in-progress limits, multitasking, work packages, and variability.
• Two Frameworks: LeSS & LeSS Huge •
Large-Scale Scrum has two frameworks:
LeSS. 2–8 Teams
LeSS Huge. 8+ Teams
The word LeSS is overloaded to mean both Large-Scale Scrum in general and the smaller LeSS framework.
The Magic Number Eight
Actually, eight isn’t a magic number, and if your group can successfully apply the smaller LeSS framework with more than eight teams, great! But we haven’t seen that… yet. It’s just an upper-limit empirical observation. And in some cases, such as varied complex goals with multi-site inexperienced foreign-language-only teams, it could be less than eight.
In any event, at some point, (1) the single Product Owner can no longer grasp an overview of the entire product, (2) the Product Owner can’t balance an external and internal focus, and (3) the Product Backlog is so large that it becomes difficult for one person to work with.
When the group hits that tipping point, it may be time to change from the smaller LeSS framework to LeSS Huge. On the other hand, we suggest first trying to get better, smaller, and simpler, before getting huger.
Common Across the Frameworks
The LeSS and LeSS Huge frameworks share common elements:
one Product Owner and one Product Backlog
one common Sprint across all teams
one shippable product increment
The following two sections of this chapter explain the frameworks; the smaller LeSS framework is next, and LeSS Huge starts further on.
• LeSS Framework Summary •
The smaller LeSS framework is for one (and only one) Product Owner who owns the product, and who manages one Product Backlog worked on by teams in one common Sprint, optimizing for the whole product. The LeSS framework elements are about the same as one-team Scrum:
Roles—One Product Owner, two to eight Teams, a Scrum Master for one to three Teams. Crucially, these Teams are feature teams—true cross-functional and cross-component full-stack teams that work together in a shared code environment, each doing everything to create done items.
Artifacts—One potentially shippable product increment, one Product Backlog, and a separate Sprint Backlog for each Team.
Events—One common Sprint for the whole product; it includes all teams and ends in one potentially shippable product increment. Details are explained in the upcoming stories, and in separate chapters.
Rules & Guides—Rules for a barely sufficient scaling framework for empirical process control and whole-product focus. Guides may help.
• LeSS Stories •
Learning LeSS—One way to learn is by reading in-depth exposition, and readers preferring that can comfortably skip ahead to the introduction to LeSS Huge, and then on to following chapters. Others who like stories, keep on reading.
Simple stories—These stories don’t explore the complexities of large-scale development—from politics to prioritization—that we experience when consulting. Later chapters unpack those boxes. Here are intentionally plain and simple stories just to introduce the basics of a LeSS Sprint. If you want thrilling dialog and drama, read a Lean book.
Rules & guides—In the stories you will notice that the margins refer to related LeSS rules and guides, to clarify and make connections.
Two perspectives—Following are two related stories focusing separately on two key perspectives, to introduce some flows more simply:
The flow of teams through a LeSS Sprint.
The flow of customer-centric items (features).
LeSS Story: Flow of Teams
This story focuses on the flow of teams through a Sprint, rather than the flow of items. In reality the majority of time in the Sprint is working on development tasks, not meetings. However, this story emphasizes meetings and interactions, as the goal is an understanding of how multiple teams work together during LeSS events, and how they coordinate day by day.
Mark walks into the room where his team (Trade) works and sees Mira, who says, “Good morning! Just a reminder, we’re the team representatives for this Sprint, and Sprint Planning One starts in 10 minutes.” “Right,” says Mark, “Meet you in the big room.”
It’s time for a common Sprint Planning One. Around the big room are 10 team representatives from the five teams in this product group. They all work on their flagship product for trading bonds and derivatives. Sam, the Scrum Master of teams Trade and Margin, is also there. He’s planning to observe and coach as needed. (RULE: There is one product-level Sprint, not a different Sprint for each Team.)
Many Sprints earlier, everyone from all the teams attended Sprint Planning One. That was more useful when the group was not very good at getting items clear and ready, nor at creating broad knowledge across the teams. Back then, Sprint Planning One was used to answer a lot of major questions that everyone needed to hear. But lately that’s been much improved, and so now the group is experimenting with using rotating representatives, in what has become a simple and quick meeting with only a few minor questions that tend to pop up. If the new approach doesn’t work well, it will probably be raised in an Overall Retrospective, and another experiment for Sprint Planning will be created. (RULE: Sprint Planning consists of two parts: Sprint Planning One is common for all teams while Sprint Planning Two is usually done separately for each team. Do multi-team Sprint Planning Two in a shared space for closely related items.)
Paolo walks in and says “Hi!” He’s the Product Owner and also the lead product manager. Paolo lays out 22 cards on a table and says, “Here’s the big themes: German market, order management, and some regulatory reports. I’ve laid them out in my priority order. I think everyone here understands why these are the priorities, since we’ve been discussing this a lot in Product Backlog refinement. But please ask again, if it’s not clear.” (RULE: Sprint Planning One is attended by the Product Owner and Teams or Team representatives. They together tentatively select the items that each team will work on for the next Sprint.)
Mira and Mark walk over to the table (along with the other representatives) and pick two cards for items related to German-market bonds. Over the last two Sprints their team clarified these items in detail, in single-team Product Backlog refinement (PBR) workshops.
And they pick two more items related to order management that both Team Trade and Team Margin understand quite well. Both teams worked together in multi-team PBR workshops on these items. Why? The teams wanted to decide as late as possible the choice of team-to-item, during some future Sprint Planning. This increases the group’s agility—easily responding to change—and their broader whole-product knowledge fosters self-organized coordination.
A minute later, Mary from Team Margin, on scanning another team’s cards, asks their representatives, “Do you mind if we do that report? We did something very similar last Sprint and I bet we can get it done quickly. Could you swap for this German-market item?” They agree.
After a few minutes, the teams finish choosing and swapping based on their interests, strengths, and desire to group related items for focus.
Sam (the Scrum Master) says, “I notice that Team Margin has the top four priority items. Could that become a problem?” A quick discussion ensues in which the group realizes there’s a chance that one of the highest-priority items for the product could get dropped if things don’t go smoothly for Team Margin. They decide to distribute a few of the highest-priority items across more teams (constrained by which teams know which items), making it more likely that top items will get done.
The representatives have chosen a total of 18 cards, leaving four lowest priority items on the table. Paolo looks over the unchosen item cards, picks up two of them, and says, “These two are pretty important to me this Sprint. Maybe I should have given them a higher priority to begin with, but I didn’t, and now I’d like to change my mind. Let’s find a way to swap them with some items you’ve already chosen. And of course, if a team gets lucky and finishes early, please pick up the unchosen items.”
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In parallel, Mira, Mark, and the others think hard about final minor points to clear up for their items, and write some questions on flip-chart papers on the walls around the room. Paolo roams around to different areas, discussing. Everyone mingles and contributes. After about 30 minutes, all the minor questions that could be answered have been.
The group forms a standing circle to wrap up. No one raises any coordination topics, so eventually Sam says, “I notice that Teams Trade and Margin and NotDerivative have picked up strongly related order-management items.” Mira says, “Hey, let’s get Trade, Margin, and NotDerivative together for a multi-team Sprint Planning Two. We’ve got opportunities to work together.” That’s agreed. The meeting ends.
Team and Multi-Team Sprint Planning Two
After a break, two of the five teams hold their own single-team Sprint Planning Two meetings to create their own Sprint Backlogs, designing and planning their work for the Sprint. (RULE: Each Team has its own Sprint Backlog.)
In contrast, Teams Trade, Margin, and NotDerivative hold a multi-team Sprint Planning Two together in a big room, since they are implementing strongly related items—which were also previously clarified together in multi-team PBR—and they foresee value in working closely. (RULE: Do multi-team SP2 in a shared space for closely related items.)
They talk together in a 10-minute session to set the stage, identifying shared work (common tasks) and design issues. Then they start the clock for a timeboxed 30-minute design session, agreeing to visualize: more sketching on the whiteboard, less talking without drawing. During this time, more shared work is also discovered and written on the board.
Ding! After 30 minutes lots of unexplored details remain, but the teams move on anyway. Each team heads to a different corner of the big room where each starts its own focused Sprint Planning Two, talking more about detailed design issues and creating their own Sprint Backlog with cards. Further coordination is handled by an advanced variation of the just talk technique in LeSS: just scream.
During the talking, the teams realize the need for an in-depth multi-team Design Workshop. They agree to hold one later that day.
Multi-Team Design Workshop
After Sprint Planning and another break, Mira and Mark from Team Trade, and a few people from Team Margin and Team NotDerivative hold a timeboxed one-hour multi-team Design Workshop for a deeper dive into a common and consistent design for their work. Around a large whiteboard they sketch and talk together towards some clarity and agreement on a design approach and common technical tasks. Fortunately, the conclusions don’t seriously impact their existing Sprint plans, but they feel uncomfortable with their process, recognizing they could have predicted the need to resolve these big design questions earlier.
Development Activities Supporting Coordination and Continuous Delivery
After Sprint Planning, the teams dive into developing items, with an emphasis on communicating in code. All the teams are integrating continuously. The continuous integration of all code across all teams creates the opportunity to cooperate by checking who else made changes in the component being worked on. That’s useful, because the group uses integration as a way to inform and support their coordination.
For example, early during the second day of the Sprint, Mark, a developer on Team Trade, pulls the latest version locally and quickly checks the latest changes related to the component they are working on now. He discovers changes related to code added by Maximilian from Team Margin. He knows that team is working on a strongly related item, so he is not especially surprised. Since the code has communicated that now there’s a need to coordinate and who he needs to talk with, he immediately visits Team Margin down the hall. They just talk about how to work together to benefit from one another’s work. (RULE: Prefer decentralized and informal coordination over centralized coordination.)
For the item that Team Trade is developing, and in fact for every item in every team, they have written the automated acceptance tests before starting to develop the solution code. Thus, in addition to integrating the code continuously, they’re also integrating the automated tests. These acceptance tests are run frequently by team members, and so when any of them fails, the teams are immediately signaled to coordinate. The code is telling them, “Hey! There’s a problem! You need to talk and work it out.”
Naturally, another major benefit of the group’s practice of integrating continuously, automated testing, and stopping-and-fixing whenever the build breaks, is that their product is more or less continuously ready to deliver into production. There’s no separate integration team or testing team that would add delay, handoff, and complexity. (RULE: The perfection goal is to improve the Definition of Done so that it results in a shippable product each Sprint, or even more frequently.)
On the second day of the Sprint, Sam and the other Scrum Masters, the Product Owner Paolo, a site manager, and a representative from most of the teams, all get together for a maximum 90-minutes Overall Retrospective related to the last Sprint. (RULE: An Overall Retrospective is held after the Team Retrospectives to discuss cross-team and system-wide issues, and to create improvement experiments.)
Why didn’t they hold this Overall Retrospective before this new Sprint started? They could have, but they normally end a Sprint on a Friday and start a new one on Monday (in contrast to Sam’s suggestion that they try a Wednesday–Thursday boundary). And on the last Friday, they held both the Sprint Review and the team-level Retrospectives. After that they didn’t have the energy to hold an engaged Overall Retrospective at the end of the day. So they’ve opted for an early next Sprint. Sam privately thinks this delay is not a great idea—he’d rather they started Sprint Planning a little later after this meeting—but he wants the group to discover that for themselves.
They focus on a system-wide issue and improvement: how to coordinate, share information, and solve problems across the entire group during the Sprint? Previously they have tried Scrum-of-Scrum meetings and didn’t find them very effective. Sam explains the technique of Open Space, and they agree to try it this Sprint.
Activities for Coordination
(RULE: Cross-team coordination is decided by the teams.)
The fourth day demonstrates a variety of coordination ideas in LeSS:
In LeSS, each Team holds a Daily Scrum as usual. To support coordination between Teams Trade and Margin, Mira goes as a scout to observe Team Margin’s Daily Scrum and then returns and updates her team on what she learned. And someone from Team Margin does the opposite.
As agreed in the Overall Retrospective, the group holds a 45-minute Open Space meeting for coordination and learning, preceded by drinks and snacks. Sam acts as facilitator to teach the group how to hold an Open Space meeting. Everyone is welcome, but most teams decide to send only a few representatives. Mira and Mark from Team Trade join in. The group plans to try an Open Space once a week.
The Test community, with volunteers from most teams, gets together for a half-hour to hear Mary’s proposal to try a new automated acceptance-testing tool. They enthusiastically agree, and Mary volunteers her Team Margin to do the actual experimental work next Sprint, since they are really interested in learning this.
Mira is a member of the Design/Architecture community. There’s no design workshop needed this Sprint related to overall architecture, but she wants to hold a half-day spike in the next Sprint for a new technology. She posts her idea on the community collaboration tool, and suggests the community do the spike together with mob programming to increase their shared learning.
The build system seems to have a weird bug. Time to stop and fix! This Sprint, Team Trade is responsible for it, and it’s one of Mark’s secondary specialties, so he volunteers to fix it and asks another team member to pair up with him to help his colleague learn more about it.
Later, Mira and a few other team members visit the customer support and training group, who work closely with hands-on users. Her team has finished their first item and they want to get early feedback from people closer to customers. One of the trainers is free and he plays with the new feature. Team Trade leaves with a few ideas to make it better.
Later in the day Mark and the rest of Team Trade are doing tasks for their second item. Mark has just completed a 10-minute TDD cycle and has clean stable code after a micro-change. Once again—about every 10 minutes—he pushes the tiny change to the central shared repository (to “head of trunk”), to integrate continuously with his team and all others. He glances over to their big visible red-green screen on the wall and sees that the build system is passing all the tests for the entire group.
Overall Product Backlog Refinement
(RULE: Do multi-team and/or overall PBR to increase shared understanding and exploiting coordination opportunities when having closely related items or a need for broader input/learning.)
On the fifth day, Mark and Mira join an overall PBR workshop, with representatives from each team, and Paolo, the Product Owner. Paolo starts by sharing his current thinking on product direction and where to go next in the short term and, most importantly, why. To help them understand his reasoning, he reviews his prioritization model with the group, that factors in profit impact, customer impact, business risk, technical risk, cost of delay, and more.
Paolo asks for feedback and ideas from the group for upcoming direction, and the group discusses what items to refine next. Although he knows that he’ll make the final priority calls, Paolo works hard to engage the teams in understanding his thinking, and also to learn from their thinking. He wants the teams to also be involved in owning the product.
The group then splits a few big new items, doing lightweight clarification (more will follow later), and planning poker estimation as a way to learn more about the items—rather than to create estimates.
The representatives from three teams (including Trade and Margin) decide to later do multi-team PBR together for some items to increase their shared understanding and because they are strongly related. And representatives from two other teams choose items to focus on separately in team PBR sessions.
Multi-Team PBR and Team PBR
(RULE: All prioritization goes through the Product Owner, but clarification is as much as possible directly between the Teams and customer/users and other stakeholders.)
On the sixth day, everyone in three of the teams gets together for a multi-team PBR workshop in the big room.
Although their main business is creating and selling their trading solution, the company has a small group of bond traders that use it, with relatively small positions that keep them engaged but without high risk. This way the company has better insight into market trends as well as some expert users that can easily talk with the development teams.
Tanya and Ted are the traders who told Paolo about a trend that led to the items being refined in the multi-team PBR session. So they both join, as experts to help the teams learn and clarify the new items.
The other two teams, in discussion with some other traders, hold separate PBR workshops to complete clarification of some items already under refinement and to start on some new ones. Also, one of the company’s three lawyers specializing in financial regulations and compliance joins one of these teams to help them in clarification.
As a last step in the PBR meetings, people take photos of everything on the walls and whiteboards. They add those to the wiki pages that are used to record everything for each item. Plus they update and clean up the text and tables in the wiki pages that were quickly added during discussions.
A Chat About Team-Level Backlogs and Product Owners
After the multi-team PBR workshop, Mike (who just joined the company) sees Sam by the coffee machine and walks over to talk. Mike says, “Hey Sam. I’m interested in your opinion on something. In the refinement workshop we just finished, of course I noticed that we were working directly with some of the traders to clarify together. But isn’t that inefficient? In my last company, every team had its own Product Owner who did the story writing, wireframes, and specifications, and then gave them to us to implement. Then we could just focus on the programming. And each team had its own Product Backlog that the team’s Product Owner prioritized. But I don’t see that here. Why is it different?”
Sam says, “Interesting questions. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions to explore this?”
“Let’s first consider one Product Backlog versus many team-level backlogs. Suppose each team had its own backlog. How easy and effective is it for one truly overall Product Owner to have an overview? And how much knowledge will a team have of the requirements and designs of items in a different team’s backlog?”
Mike replies, “I can answer that pretty clearly from my last company. Not much.”
Sam continues. “Now suppose there are eight teams and eight team backlogs. What if, from the higher company or product perspective, for some reason, the items in two of the eight team backlogs are actually by far the most important or highest priority. Maybe there’s some change in the market so that this situation comes up. So some questions for you: Can the six teams working in the lower-priority backlogs easily shift to start working on the high-priority items in the other two backlogs? And is it likely that the group will even see this problem, given that they are locked in to each team having their own backlog and local priorities?”
Mike answers, “Our teams at my old place only worked on their own team item backlog. They couldn’t shift to others. But why would they want to? Isn’t that inefficient?”
Sam responds, “Well, from a company perspective, the teams are only working ‘efficiently’ on low-priority stuff because of their narrow knowledge created by each focusing in a different team backlog and because the overall priority and overview isn’t visible. Let me ask you some questions: Does that seem inflexible or flexible—agile? And does that optimize people working on the highest-impact stuff from the company perspective?”
Mike pauses, “Oh! I think I get it. It’s actually not being agile, even though our group said they were doing agile. We weren’t responsive to the highest-value changes overall. And my old team Product Owner said she was prioritizing for highest value in our team backlog. But now I see that my team was just busy efficiently working on what could be low-value stuff when you look at it from a higher level.” (RULE: There is one Product Owner and one Product Backlog for the complete shippable product.)
Sam says, “Exactly. So that’s one of several reasons why we have one Product Backlog here, and no team backlogs, even though there are many teams. In short, it supports whole-product focus, system optimization, and agility. And of course it’s simpler, and it’s easy to see what’s going on across the group.”
“Also,” Mike comments, “I noticed it was much harder in my prior company for all the teams to really work together at the same time, since we were working on very different goals in asynchronous Sprints. Here it feels like all the teams have more of a common focus and direction in one Sprint together.”
“Exactly!” Sam replies, then continues.
“Here’s another question: If there’s only one Product Backlog and one real Product Owner who prioritizes it, but each team still had its own so-called Product Owner who per definition is not prioritizing a team backlog—since there isn’t one—then what do they do all day long? “
Mike replies, “Well, in my last company it was the job of the team-level Product Owner to talk to the users and write the stories for the team, so they could focus on efficiently programming while the team Product Owner worked on gathering and writing requirements.”
Sam asks, “Mike, before you learned about Scrum terms such as ‘Product Owner’, what would you have called middlemen in between the developers and real customers—the ones collecting requirements and then giving them to developers?”
“I joined my last company before we adopted Scrum there.” Mike answers, “And back in the day, there was a group of business analysts who did that. After we adopted Scrum, we were asked to call them the Product Owners.”
“Today in your PBR workshop,” Sam asks, “Did you talk with the traders who were there?”
“Let me think back.” Mike replies, “Yeah, I was talking with Tanya about her idea to analyze trading Russian corporate bonds. It seemed a little confusing so I asked her, why? She explained it was because of concerns around money laundering in offshore accounts. Now, she didn’t know that we’ve been recently working on some other features that integrate with new EU and USA regulatory databases to assess this. So I proposed to her a different approach, which I think—and she agrees—will better solve the problem.
“Now that I think about it,” he reflects, “that probably wouldn’t have happened in my last company, since we rarely talked directly with users.”
(RULE: The Product Owner shouldn’t work alone on Product Backlog refinement; she is supported by the multiple Teams working directly with customers/users and other stakeholders.)
More Development
Minute by minute and day by day the teams develop code, integrating continuously combined with full test automation. They stop and fix when the build breaks, working towards their perfection goal of having a done shippable product they can continuously deliver to customers. Therefore, when the Sprint is nearly over and the teams are preparing to join the Sprint Review, there’s no late mad rush of effort to integrate and test a big batch of code—it’s been integrated and tested all along.
(RULE: There is one product Sprint Review; it is common for all teams.)
Finally it’s the last day and time for an all-together Sprint Review. Who’s there? Paolo (the Product Owner, lead product manager), all the internal bond traders, a few trainers and customer service representatives, a few people from Sales, and four users from external clients who pay lower annual rates in exchange for participating regularly in these reviews. Also, there’s all the team members.
Because there are many items to explore, the group starts with a one-hour bazaar—something like a science fair—with many devices set up in the room, each available for exploring different sets of items. Some team members stay at fixed areas to collect feedback while everyone else uses and discusses the new features.
After an hour, the group comes together to discuss the questions and feedback, in a session led by Paolo. After that, they discuss future direction. Paolo shares what’s going on in the market and with competitors, and his thoughts on where to go next, and asks for advice.
Team Retrospectives
(RULE: Each Team has its own Sprint Retrospective.)
After a break, Team Trade (and all other teams) hold separate team-level Sprint Retrospectives. They decide that holding a multi-team Design Workshop with Team Margin after Sprint Planning (rather than earlier) was far from ideal in this case, because major issues were left unexplored until the last minute—issues which could have seriously blocked or complicated development. So for the next Sprint they decide that during their PBR sessions they will strive to identify items that have major design issues worth discussing with other teams. And if so, hold a multi-team Design Workshop as soon as possible.
Sprint done! Sam invites Team Trade to join Mira and him at the Belgian-beer pub down the street—Mira’s favorite—to celebrate her birthday. (RULE: Beer is Belgian Tripel Karmeliet.)
Some key points from the story:
it emphasized flow of people and teams through a Sprint in LeSS
it connected story elements to specific LeSS guides and rules
for a reader who knows Scrum, the events should be familiar
the story shows whole-product focus, even with many teams
the activities emphasized team-based learning and coordination
develop items by integrating continuously so that communicating in code supports decentralized coordination and just talking, in addition to continuous delivery
teams clarify directly with users and customers, to reduce handoff and increase understanding, empathy, and ownership
LeSS Story: Flow of Items
This story focuses more on the flow of items (features) through part of a Sprint, primarily during refinement and development.
Portia wraps up her meeting with the government regulator and heads to the airport, and home. She’s another product manager; she helps Paolo, and specializes in regulatory and audit trends.
Later, Portia meets with Paolo. Writing on cards, she summarizes the new rules that are going to impact their product, and what clients she thinks are going to want certain features first. Paolo points to the five cards and asks, “So this covers all the work, as far as you know?” Portia smiles and says, “This is regulatory. It’s never finished or clear.”
Paolo asks, “Can you put these in the Product Backlog for me, unordered at the bottom for now?”
A week later Paolo tells Portia, “Soon, I want to start delivering some parts of the big regulatory requirement for bond derivatives. In the next Sprint’s Product Backlog refinement workshops, I’m going to ask for some teams to focus on that. You know the most about it, so please be at the overall PBR and at whatever team refinement workshops where they want you. Also, can you set up a wiki page with links to the new regulatory docs, to share with the teams?”
“Already done,” answers Portia.
Overall PBR
Paolo kicks off a quick overall PBR workshop, “We’ve got lots of work around new regulations. Soon we need to deliver related items because of a legal deadline end of fiscal year. We’ll know better after some splitting and estimation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it ultimately involves three or more of the teams for implementation, and lots of time.”
The group splits the new giant item into only a few large parts, to learn major elements. More splitting will happen later in a single-team or multi-team PBR session. Portia heads to the whiteboard; on the left side she writes “regulations for bond derivatives.” Then in conversation with the group, they sketch a tree diagram with four arms representing a splitting into four major sub-items. But they don’t go any deeper—they’re avoiding over-analysis.
Next, the group creates four cards for the new items, and everyone together estimates them with planning poker and relative-size points, baselining the points against existing well-known items in the Product Backlog. Their main goal is not to create estimates but to surface questions and drive more discussion, which they do with Portia.
Next, Paolo asks, “So Portia, of these four big ones, which one first?”
She points to the second card. “Over-the-counter exotic bond derivatives.”
Paolo says, “We need to start delivering some of that as soon as possible. It’s moving way up the Product Backlog. So I’d like one team to take a bite into this, next Sprint. Who’s interested?”
Team Trade volunteers.
Finally, team members from three other teams decide to hold a multi-team PBR workshop for related items.
Team PBR: Biting In
The next day Team Trade holds a team PBR workshop with Portia. They have only one of the four giant items to focus on: New regulations for over-the-counter (OTC) exotic bond derivatives. Sam (their Scrum Master) is also there. Portia says, “This is a gigantic complex item, in an area that frankly nobody is really clear about. It’s going to take us a long time to split this up, really understand it, and specify it well.”
Sam asks, “Do we really need to understand all of it? And will all that analysis teach us more, or could it actually delay our learning?”
He reviews with them the idea of Take a Bite: to just split off one tiny fragment, really understand that, and implement it quickly. Sam concludes, “You know, diagrams don’t crash and documents don’t run.”
With Portia, the team splits off one tiny bite of a thin customer-centric end-to-end item.
From now on they will focus on that tiny bite, clarifying and implementing it. Only after implementation and feedback will they return much later to more splitting and refinement. Using specification by example Portia and Team Trade spend the rest of the day chewing on their bite.
Multi-Team PBR: Rotation Refinement
One outcome of overall PBR was the decision to take a bite with Team Trade. Another was the decision for three teams to hold a multi-team PBR workshop for related items, to increase learning and the agility of multiple teams knowing and thinking about the same items.
In addition to everyone from the three teams, the internal traders Tanya, Ted, and Travis join to help the teams start clarifying about a dozen new items. (RULE: All prioritization goes through the Product Owner, but clarification is as much as possible directly between the Teams and customer/users and other stakeholders.)
To start, they form three temporary mixed groups with people from each team. The mixed groups start clarifying different items in separate areas in the room, each with a whiteboard, big wall space, laptop, and projector. Tanya is with one group, Ted another, and Travis, the third.
Then they do rotation refinement: After 30 minutes, a timer goes ding! One group walks over to the other’s area, and vice versa, but Tanya, Ted, and Travis don’t move. The timer is restarted, the traders explain the current results to the incoming groups, and they continue clarifying.
Throughout the day, as different items become relatively clear—or are left with hanging questions that will have to be explored later—new items are introduced at a work area. Some of the bigger items are split into two or three new smaller ones.
A few times during the day, the groups stop their clarification and do some estimation, mostly to learn and to prompt conversation. They’re using relative (story) points; to remain synchronized against a common baseline, they calibrate against some already completed and well-known items in the Product Backlog.
Updating the Product Backlog and Product Owner
The day after the PBR workshops, Portia and a few team members
update the Product Backlog with the new split items derived from the original ones, and delete the originals
add links to the new wiki pages of item details, created in the PBR workshops
record new estimates, and items ready for implementation
Later, Portia and those team members meet with Paolo to review the Product Backlog changes and to answer his questions.
Take a Bite on a giant item to learn from delivery of something small and to avoid premature and excessive analysis.
Do multi-team PBR for items, for shared knowledge across teams, which increases organizational agility, broadens whole-product knowledge, and fosters self-organized coordination.
Strive for whole-product focus, even with many teams.
Next—The next section shifts to the LeSS Huge framework, used for large groups of many teams.
LeSS Huge Framework
• Requirement Areas •
With 1000 or even just 100 people on one product, divide-and-conquer seems unavoidable because of the complexity of so many requirements and people. Traditional large-scale development divides these ways:
single-function groups (analysis group, test group, …)
architectural-component groups (UI-layer group, server-side group, data-access component group, …)
This organizational design yields slow inflexible development with (1) high levels of waste (inventory, work-in-progress, handoff, information scatter, …), (2) long-delayed ROI, (3) complex planning and coordination, (4) more overhead management, and (5) weak feedback and learning. And it is organized inward around single-skills, architecture, and management, rather than outward around customer value.
But in the LeSS Huge framework when above about eight teams, division is around major areas of customer concerns called Requirement Areas. This reflects the customer-centric LeSS principle.
Size—A Requirement Area is big, usually with between four and eight teams, not one or two. The following Area Feature Teams section explains why.
Dynamic—Requirement Areas are dynamic. Over time an area will change in importance, and then it grows or shrinks with teams joining or departing—most likely to or from another existing area.
Example—For example, in a Securities product (to trade stocks), these could be some major areas of customer interest—Requirement Areas:
trade processing (from pricing to capture to settlement)
asset servicing (e.g. handling a stock split, dividends)
new market onboarding (e.g. Nigeria)
Conceptually in the one Product Backlog, a Requirement Area attribute is added, and each item is classified into one and only one area:
Requirement Area
B market onboarding
C trade processing
D asset servicing
F market onboarding
Then people can focus on one Area Product Backlog (conceptually, a view onto one Product Backlog), such as the market onboarding area:
Common Sprint—Does each Requirement Area work separately in its own Sprint, with delayed integration until a far-future date? No.
In LeSS Huge, Integrate Continuously in One Common Sprint
There is one product-level Sprint, not a different Sprint for each Requirement Area. It ends in one integrated whole product, and all the teams across all the Requirement Areas are striving to integrate continuously across the entire product.
• Area Product Owners •
In LeSS Huge one new role is introduced. Each Requirement Area has an Area Product Owner who specializes in that area and focuses on its Area Product Backlog.
Large product groups usually have several supporting product managers specializing in different customer areas, and some of these are likely to serve as the Area Product Owners. Sometimes the Product Owner also serves double duty as an Area Product Owner for one area; that’s more likely in small less huge LeSS Huge groups!
• Area Feature Teams •
Area feature teams work within one Requirement Area (e.g. asset servicing), with one Area Product Owner focusing on the items in one Area Product Backlog. From a team’s perspective, working in the area is like working in the smaller LeSS framework—they interact with their Area Product Owner as though she were the Product Owner, and so on.
The team members come to know the customer domain of that area well. And fortunately, the items of one Requirement Area tend to cover a semi-predictable subset of the entire code base, thereby reducing the scope of what they have to learn well within a vast product.
Key point about size: Many feature teams work in a Requirement Area.
A Requirement Area normally has four to eight teams.
An implication is that a Requirement Area is big.
The Magic Number Four
First, why does a Requirement Area have a suggested upper limit of eight teams? See The Magic Number Eight.
What about the lower limit of four teams? Why not one or two teams? Naturally, four isn’t a magic number, but it strikes a balance so that the product group is not composed of many tiny Requirement Areas.
What’s the problem with many tiny areas? They reduce visibility into overall product-level priorities, increase local optimizations, increase coordination complexity, require more positions, and create teams that are too narrowly specialized and lack the flexibility (agility) to take on the emerging highest-value items from a company perspective. Furthermore, in a tiny area the Area Product Owner is increasingly likely to act as a business analyst between the users and one or two teams.
Are there any reasonable exceptions to the lower limit of four? Yes:
An early transitional situation when the group is incrementally growing a new area that is fully expected to ultimately have four or more teams. Then, start small and simple with one team.
When re-balancing teams from an area with a decreasing demand to one with an increasing demand causes an area to go from four to three teams. Ultimately, merge two reduced small areas back into a new larger area.
Example Requirement Areas and Teams
In summary, a Securities product could have
one Product Owner and three Area Product Owners, all together forming the Product Owner Team
six feature teams in the trade processing area
four feature teams in the market onboarding area
four feature teams in the asset servicing area
• LeSS Huge Framework Summary •
Each Requirement Area works as a (smaller framework) LeSS implementation, each working in parallel in one overall Sprint. We sometimes summarize a Sprint in LeSS Huge as a stack of LeSS.
From the viewpoint of a team in one area,
LeSS Huge looks like (smaller) LeSS regarding events.
As with LeSS, there are rules and optional guides for LeSS Huge; those are introduced in the following stories and fleshed out in later chapters.
Roles—Same as LeSS, plus two or more Area Product Owners, and four to eight Teams in each Requirement Area. The one Product Owner (who focuses on overall product optimization) and the several Area Product Owners form the Product Owner Team.
Artifacts—Same as LeSS, plus a Requirement Area attribute in the one Product Backlog and thus an Area Product Backlog view for each area.
Events—There is still only one common Sprint for the product; it includes all the teams and ends in a common potentially shippable product increment.
• LeSS Huge Stories •
Learning LeSS Huge—Readers who prefer exposition can comfortably skip ahead to following chapters, bypassing these stories.
Simple stories—These are intentionally plain and simple stories just to introduce basics in LeSS Huge.
Two topics—Following are two stories with distinct topics:
Creating and growing a new Requirement Area to deal with a new gigantic requirement.
Working with multi-site teams. (This happens in the smaller LeSS framework too, but is especially common in LeSS Huge.)
• LeSS Huge Story: A New Requirement Area •
Priti welcomes Portia to her first day in her new job. As a mid-level Operations manager in the Securities division of the large trading company as well as Product Owner for their internal Securities system, Priti is also responsible for finding and retaining talent for her Product Owner Team of Area Product Owners. And she thinks Portia is a fantastic find, as her expertise is exactly what is required for dealing with some new huge requirements.
During the recent job interview—when Portia was still a product manager specializing in regulatory issues at a company that made a system for trading bonds—Priti had laid out the situation. “Portia, after the last crash, the regulators are coming down hard and they require us to be compliant with Dodd-Frank. Right now, we don’t know what it exactly means or how it will impact our system. You’ve got incredible knowledge of this space, and a great professional network with the regulators. I would love it if you would join our group and help us figure out how to deal with this.”
A Big Surprise
A few days later… Priti welcomes Portia, Peter, and Susan into her office. Peter is Area Product Owner for market onboarding, and Susan is a Scrum Master from the trade processing area.
Priti says, “As you know, Dodd-Frank is coming, and it’s huge. What you don’t know is that this morning the regulators called us and they want us to take action now. I’d been working under the assumption we could start next year. So we’re going to have to adapt, big time.
“I don’t think anyone is clear what it means in detail—even the regulators. And we don’t know how it will impact our system and how much work this is going to take, other than, a lot! But now Portia’s joined us and she has a better understanding of this than anyone, although she’s totally new to our systems. So, how can we help her start tackling this mountain of work?”
Susan asks, “You guys understand the Dyslexic Zombies, right?”
Peter and Priti nod. Everyone knows about them—and it isn’t just their name. The Dyslexic Zombies have probably the broadest experience of all the teams. They’ve been around for years and they were a true pain in the ass when they adopted LeSS. The team contained two former members of their now-abandoned architecture group and a couple of people who had been working on the system for over fifteen years. Those people’s resistance to the LeSS adoption was legendary as they were afraid they’d lose their “system perspective.” To their surprise, the opposite happened! Because of their deep knowledge they continuously get tough items to develop. And they regularly participate as expert-teachers in current-architecture-learning workshops with newcomers, and Mario—one of the former PowerPoint architects—is now coordinator for the architecture community. When fed enough beer, he’ll admit that working closer with code and tests has increased his real understanding of the system.
Susan continues, “If any team can quickly help Portia get a better understanding of the size and impact of Dodd-Frank, it’ll be the Zombies. And they led the work on Sarbanes-Oxley a few years ago. Tomorrow is their PBR session. They are just about wrapped up on a new feature. Why don’t we re-direct the meeting to include them in a discussion on Dodd-Frank, and soon after, ask them to focus full-time on it?”
Refining with Zombies
Next day at the refinement meeting with the Zombies, Portia explains the situation, “You’ve probably all heard about the Dodd-Frank legislation. But here’s the surprise: We’ve just been told by the regulators that they want us to take action ‘now’ and demonstrate significant compliance by the end of the year. Otherwise they might restrict our trading.”
The Zombies are visibly surprised. They had heard rumors but didn’t expect such a rush!
Mario says, “OK Portia, give us a quick summary of what this means. And how is it different from Sarbanes-Oxley?”
Portia picks up a pen and starts sketching on a whiteboard. After about 45 minutes, she is finished with the overview and the Zombies looked a little stunned.
“End of the year, they said?” says Mario. “If the whole group started today, it wouldn’t get finished. This is huge!”
He takes a pen and at the whiteboard starts a rough sketch of their system, talking with the other Zombies about the impact it might have.
He says, “Portia, let’s also use this as a chance to help you understand the system better. Ask away.”
Portia says, “Can you hold on for a second? Let me start a video recording to help me remember this.”
Michelle, a veteran in the team, says, “We’d better start on some real development soon and learn more as we go because otherwise we’ll end up analyzing forever. I’ve seen this story before.”
Susan, their Scrum Master, says, “Reminds me… Tom DeMarco once said that the reason for every failed project is that it started too late.” Everyone laughs. She continues, “So here’s a suggestion: take a bite.”
Creating a New Requirement Area
The next day, Portia, Priti, and rest of the Product Owner Team meet. Portia shares a summary of the scope as she understands it now.
Priti says, “This is even bigger than I expected, and we need to show some tangible progress to the regulators within a few months, and major progress before fiscal year end—seven months from now. To state the obvious, they’re now authorized to require more from us, and with the power to shut us down. As you know, just last month the CEO made it crystal clear that new regulatory requests take priority over any other concern. It’s my experience that our goodwill and flexibility with the regulators goes up if we can give them something early, and be transparent and responsive. So that’s what we’re going to do.”
Priti continues, “It seems to me that we’ll need a new area for this big surprise. And of course that’s probably going to impact some of our existing high-priority goals, since we’ll have to shift some teams. Let’s prepare for a deeper discussion of overall prioritization impact in a couple of days. But for now, I’d like your input about spinning up a new area.”
After a short discussion, it’s clear that everyone recognizes the importance of creating a new area.
Priti then says, “Portia, I know you are new to us, but do you think you would be able to handle the Area Product Owner responsibility for this?”
Portia nods.
Priti continues, “Peter, do you think the Zombies could start work on this? And we’ll need them to learn more Dodd-Frank and figure out the impact on our system before we can add more teams to this.”
Peter says, “I don’t think we’ve got any choice.”
Priti says, “OK Portia, so currently we’ve got a few items in Peter’s Area Backlog, the one huge item I think you called “remainder of Dodd-Frank” and the tiny item which the Zombies and you split off of it. Please ask Peter to show you how to set up a new area in the Product Backlog and move the items over to it.”
Priti continues addressing the group, “The next Sprint starts in three days. Let’s move the Zombies into your area and get started on this monster. Probably in a couple of Sprints we’ll be ready to—and need to—grow your area by moving in another team. Folks, please think about two major concerns: First, preparing for a serious prioritization impact meeting in a few days. And second, what other teams will be good candidates for the new area.”
Sprint Planning in the New Requirement Area
Each Requirement Area holds its own Sprint Planning meetings, all more or less in parallel. In Portia’s new area, she starts her Sprint Planning by introducing two unfamiliar faces to the Zombies.
She says, “Gillian and Zak have been in contact with the regulators regularly and will help us flesh this thing out. They’ve agreed to help us now in Planning, during our PBR sessions, and as much as they can spare daily during upcoming Sprints.”
She continues, “Here’s my tentative plan of attack for the next two Sprints. First, together we need to learn more about Dodd-Frank, and also split it into some major and manageable pieces so we can start to clear the fog and get a better sense of priorities.
“Second, we implement the smaller bite we’ve taken, starting this Sprint. That’ll give us better information about the real work and the impact on our product. And we’ll have some concrete visible progress.
“Third, we prepare for more teams to join our area. What do you think of this approach? Other suggestions?”
During the short discussion, Mario says to his team, “Let me give a bit more context, because I represented our team in the recent Product Owner Team meeting with all the Area Product Owners and Priti. To start with, it’s just us to start. We’re going to take the lead on early implementation, and getting the big picture of the item, and understanding the overall impact on our architecture.”
Michelle interrupts, “Like a tiger team working on a new product?”
“Yes, like that,” says Mario. “Think of Dodd-Frank support as a new product that needs to be continuously integrated into the rest of the product. But we’re in a hurry and it’s a ton of work, so in a few Sprints one more team will join us and shortly after, probably two more teams. We keep developing too, but we’ll be the leading team, which means we’ll need to bring the other teams up to speed and make sure we keep the overall product in mind.”
Michelle says, “It’s starting to sound to me like we’re going to become the architecture and project management team!”
Mario laughs, “No. I’m done with that. We’re still a normal feature team, but besides development we’ll focus on mentoring and bringing the new teams up to speed as fast as possible. But let’s be clear: team coordination and management is still the responsibility of each team.”
The First Sprint in the New Requirement Area
Their first Sprint is an unusual balance of clarification versus development, but nevertheless quite useful in this extreme situation. They spend almost half the Sprint in clarification with Portia, Gillian, and Zak. That’s because even for this extremely small bite, trying to understand what is wanted in the obscure realm of new government regulations—with no direct access to the politicians and policy writers—required a lot of investigation, reading, discussion, and communicating with outsiders. They expect that in future Sprints, the amount of time needed for clarification will soon drop down to a more common 10% or 15% of their Sprint.
And so they also only spend about half the Sprint developing one small item. But the discussion and the learning from coding pays off. Slowly but surely they start to split Dodd-Frank apart—at least the parts that any of them can understand.
While implementing the small item they had bitten off first, they spend much of the time together at whiteboards to discuss the overall design implications on the system. The team moves frequently back and forth between the code and the wall.
Sprint Review in the New Requirement Area
The overall Securities product group works together in one Sprint, with one final shippable product increment. But each Requirement Area holds its own Sprint Review, all more or less in parallel.
In Portia’s area, during their Review, she, Gillian, and Zak explore the one “done” item that the Zombies have managed to complete and integrate into the overall product. They had originally forecast two items, but Portia is impressed that they got even one done, given how fast this new work was thrown at them.
The Second Sprint
In the second Sprint they’re able to make slightly better progress on items, though they once again spend a lot of time clarifying together with Portia, Gillian, and Zak.
In the middle of the Sprint they hold a multi-team PBR session with the second team that is planned to soon join the area, teaching them about Dodd-Frank. They hold a current-architecture learning workshop to introduce the team to the major design elements already in place.
The Zombies know how big the work is and look forward to more help.
Product Owner Team Meeting
A few Sprints later… It’s time once more for the per-Sprint Product Owner Team meeting. They use it to align and coordinate between the different Area Product Owners, and for Priti to give guidance.
The Area Product Owners each share in turn their situation and upcoming goals. When it’s her turn, Portia says, “To none of our surprise, the progress is little and the surprises are big. But the fog is clearing and the teams and I are getting our heads around the work. Gillian and Zak have been tremendous help.”
Pablo, the Area Product Owner of asset servicing, comments on some close item relationships he now sees between their areas. Portia agrees to meet with Pablo and some team representatives later.
Priti asks, “Portia, about our upcoming Sprint. What are your goals?”
Adding a Third Team
Two Sprints later… At the Product Owner Team coordination meeting, Priti says, “As you know, Portia’s area still has only two teams. I know that Pablo would like to keep his six teams in asset servicing, but Dodd-Frank is just too important to me this year. So we’re going to move one team from Pablo’s area into Portia’s. Pablo, please ask for a volunteer team from your group and let me and Portia know.”
Some key points from the story in LeSS Huge:
The Product Owner is responsible for finding Area Product Owners and developing their talents.
The Product Owner is responsible for deciding to start, grow, or wind down Requirement Areas.
Requirement Areas are large, normally requiring four to eight teams, but during initial startup they may be smaller, especially if initiated with one team using a Take a Bite approach.
A Leading Team works solo to tackle a gigantic item until they understand the domain and development, and then they coach more incoming teams to help with the vast work.
• Multi-Site Teams: Terms & Tips •
Next is a LeSS Huge story involving multi-site teams. But first, some clarifying definitions, because the common term distributed teams confusingly means several things. The clarifying terms are as follows:
dispersed team—One team of (e.g. seven) people spread out in different locations; either different rooms, buildings, or cities
co-located team—One team working literally at the same table
multi-site teams—One co-located team working at one site, and another co-located team working at another site
Second, an observation and guidance:
A dispersed team is rarely a real team; it is much more likely a loosely connected groups of individuals. The communication and coordination frictions are higher, and they seldom jell as a team.
When your product group is 50 or 500 people, dispersed teams aren’t necessary. Each team of seven-ish people can easily be co-located. However, some teams may be in different sites, so that the product group has multi-site teams. Dispersed teams are usually the result of bad organizational decisions and ignorance about the cost of not having co-located teams. (Rule: Each team is (1) self-managing, (2) cross-functional, (3) co-located, and (4) long-lived.)
• LeSS Huge Story: Multi-Site Teams •
Portia is the Area Product Owner for a new Requirement Area in a Securities trading system. The new area started with just one team for focus and simplicity. A few Sprints later Portia’s area adds a third team. Her first two teams are based in London with her. But her third new team, HouseDraculesti, is based in Cluj Romania at a major development site for the company.
Why not add a third team from the London site? That would have avoided the many aggravations and efficiency penalties that can come from multi-site development within one area—costs potentially so high that adding a team can effectively result in deleting a team.
But on the positive side in this case, Cluj is only two time zones from London, and everyone there speaks English well. And they are all strong developers with Computer Science degrees, in a city that values long-term and hands-on engineering mastery. Also, this is a dedicated internal development site for the company, so these are experienced internal teams that have in-depth knowledge of the product and domain.
And bottom line, Priti (the Product Owner) didn’t want any of the other London teams to shift from their current areas.
Priti knows that multi-site teams are a new situation for Portia, and so at their next meeting, she says, “Please ask your Scrum Master to talk with Sita, and also ask Sita to coach some of your events. She’s a Scrum Master in asset servicing, and she’s observed their multi-site situation for a few years. She knows the importance of Scrum Masters co-located with their teams, and she’s helped facilitate many multi-site meetings.”
Priti continued, “Also, we’ve had a super profitable year, so I’m providing funding for you and the Zombies team—at least those that can travel—to spend a Sprint in Cluj as soon as possible. Work closely with them, all in one room. The Cluj team could come here to London, but you want to send a strong signal that they are important, at their site. Try to avoid making them feel that London is more important than Cluj. Oh—and you’ll want to regularly visit every few months.”
Multi-Site Sprint Planning Part One
A few Sprints later, Portia walks into the room. There’s a computer projector attached to a laptop, displaying via video a room in Cluj. The whole team in Cluj are sitting and waiting. Sita suggested it would improve learning and engagement if the entire Cluj team participated in multi-site meetings for the first few months of their addition to the area.
All the team representatives have tablets or laptops with them.
Portia begins. “Welcome and let’s get started. My offer of items this Sprint are highlighted in the shared spreadsheet. Can you all see it? I think you all understand why these are the themes and priorities, since we’ve been discussing this in PBR and it reflects your input and mine. But please ask again if you’d like clarification. Other than that, you’re invited to enter your team names beside the items you want.”
That done, the group enters a Q&A phase to wrap up lingering questions about the items. The London representatives tape up some flip-chart papers and start writing questions. The Cluj team members enter their questions in separate sheets of a shared spreadsheet. Portia spends some time at the different paper flip charts, discussing answers and sketching on the paper. And she spends some time at the spreadsheet, typing in answers for the Cluj team, while also talking with them face-to-face via the video session.
After about 30 minutes the separate questions have been resolved, and Portia asks everyone to come back together. She says, “Any issues or questions that you want to discuss together, before we wrap up?”
Multi-Site Overall PBR
People enter the workshop room in London for multi-site PBR. Two projectors are set up. One shows a video session of the workshop room in Cluj. The other displays a browser on Portia’s computer.
Portia says, “Let’s get started. I want to focus on splitting some items. I’ve invited Zak to join us because he knows quite a lot about this.”
Using a mind-mapping, browser-based graphics tool, Zak starts to create some branches, while discussing with the group.
Afterwards, they use a shared spreadsheet to discuss and write a single example for each of the new split items, so that the people at both sites gain a lightweight but concrete understanding of the details. Later, the group does estimation of the new items, using especially big planning poker cards that can be easily seen by the cameras and video when held up.
Some key points from the multi-site story in LeSS Huge:
Multi-site teams frequently create both obvious and subtle frictions and costs that are surprisingly large in their negative impact.
Qualities that reduce the friction of another site include similar time zone, internal dedicated site (not outsourced), developers that are fluent in the same spoken language, a location and culture that highly values long-term hands-on developer excellence.
A Scrum Master must be co-located with their teams.
Each site must feel like a peer, not a second-class citizen.
Sites must be visited regularly and cross-pollinated.
In meetings, strive for face-to-face with video tools.
The use of shared-document tools make it easy for everyone to modify artifacts together and at the same time.
Rather than asking, “How can we do agile at scale in our complex and awkward organization?”, ask a different and deeper question, “How can we simplify the organization, and be agile rather than do agile?” And since truly scaling Scrum starts with changing the organization rather than changing Scrum, the next major section focuses on understanding and adopting a simpler customer-focused LeSS organization.
This is followed by major sections on a more customer-focused product and Sprint in a simpler LeSS organization.
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ASPECT BIOSYSTEMS ANNOUNCES US $20 MILLION SERIES A FINANCING TO ADVANCE ITS LEADING PLATFORM FOR 3D BIOPRINTING OF HUMAN TISSUE
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – January 9, 2020 – Aspect Biosystems (“Aspect”) (“the Company”), a biotechnology company pioneering microfluidic 3D bioprinting of human tissues, today announced a US $20 million Series A financing round. Radical Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs developing and applying deep tech to solve global problems and transform massive industries, led the round with participation from existing and new investors, including Pangaea Ventures, Pallasite Ventures, and Rhino Ventures. Aspect will use this capital to advance multiple tissue therapeutic programs, expand its technology platform capabilities, and grow its world-leading team.
Aspect’s broadly applicable technology platform enables the creation of living human tissues with unprecedented control, flexibility, and precision. In addition to Aspect’s internal tissue therapeutic programs for regenerative medicine, the Company works with its global partners to create high-value solutions that will transform medical research and clinical practice.
“We are thrilled to close this important institutional financing round with a group of world-class investors who believe in our bold vision,” said Tamer Mohamed, CEO, Aspect Biosystems. “This funding speaks to the power of our technology and strategy in addressing multiple applications in therapeutic discovery and regenerative medicine, and will allow us to accelerate internal innovation and expand our global partnerships. With our technology platform, interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, and leading collaborators, we are developing a new wave of solutions that have the potential to transform how we heal injury and disease.”
“We are very excited to partner with the excellent Aspect team to support the growth of their world-leading 3D bioprinting platform and the development of breakthrough technologies aimed at radically transforming human health,” said Jordan Jacobs, managing partner, Radical Ventures.
About Aspect Biosystems
Aspect Biosystems is a privately held biotechnology platform company pioneering the microfluidic 3D bioprinting of human tissues. The Company’s proprietary technology has the potential to shape every aspect of human health by enabling the creation of human tissues for medical research, therapeutic discovery, and regenerative medicine. Aspect is focused on partnering with academic institutions and biopharma companies to facilitate high-value discovery and development. The Company is also advancing internal tissue therapeutic programs for regenerative medicine, with an initial focus on metabolic diseases and musculoskeletal injuries and disorders. Learn more at www.aspectbiosystems.com.
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Radical Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in bold entrepreneurs developing and applying artificial intelligence and other deep technologies to invent the future. Based in Toronto, Radical Ventures launched a US $350 Million fund in 2019 focused on Series A investments. Radical Ventures was created by the founders of leading artificial intelligence company Layer 6 (acquired by TD Bank Group), who also co-founded the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Learn more at www.radical.vc.
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Adlington Hall & Gardens: May 2019
Adlington Hall, set deep in the Cheshire countryside, is a unique record of design over the centuries. Despite passing its entrance many times in my youth, I had never been to see it. This was a chance that could not be missed. The day dawned and the weather was perfect.
My first impression was, ‘what a wonderful Tudor house’. This was the east side of the house, the outside of which has been extensively renovated so it looks pristine. Green oak has been used to replace damaged wood and wattle and daub used for the infill. Interestingly the wood was grey, its natural colour. In the past it was apparently coated in linseed oil which developed a fungal growth which gave a black appearance and the Victorians perpetuated this by using paint!
Another surprise, as we walked around to the south side where the main entrance was situated, was the grand Georgian façade. This conveniently named the family members responsible – Charles and Hester Legh 1757. Incidentally, Charles amongst many other works also built a brew house. This supplied the small beer to The Legh Arms on the Macclesfield road and the barrels were rolled along the tunnel connecting the two buildings! The picture shows the entrance to the tunnel.(left)
Sadly, much of Charles’ creation at Adlington was demolished in 1928. So we have lost two projecting bays on the south side as well as the west side of the courtyard. Enough building was left to keep the square footprint that we see today, along with the courtyard.
In the courtyard a plaque informed us that the house had been used as a maternity hospital during WW2. Apart from that period and a time when the parliamentarians seized it, the house has been in the Legh family for about 700 years. It must be said that were it not for the downsizing in 1929, the family would not by now be still owning and living in this wonderful house.
There are many rooms, paintings, furniture and ornaments to admire. A bit of an eclectic mix in fact, as old and new jostle with each other. Perhaps the most outstanding room is the Great Hall which was completed in 1505. It incorporates two carved oak trees, remains of the original hunting lodge. Our first sight of the hall was from a gallery high up. This allowed an appreciation of the height of the hall as well as a good view of the ceiling decoration of shields. The huge murals on the walls are wonderfully bright. Probably in no small part because they were plastered over (possibly in the Civil War) and only discovered in 1859 when the plaster was damaged by a shuttlecock! The 17th century organ, which had been played on by Handel, is probably the most important surviving instrument and in its original, beautiful condition. It is regularly played even today.
After our sumptuous scone with clotted cream and jam, a walk in the gardens was a must. However, a visit into the maze was a step too far even to find the unicorn! The laburnum arch was perfectly in flower while the water garden and rose garden were not to be missed. I was tickled by the small statue of Napoleon.
All in all, a wonderful visit.
Many thanks to Judith Wilshaw for organising this visit.
Text and article photos by Hilary Humphrey-Taylor
Gallery photos by Bill Beard, David Burridge and Arthur Procter
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“Rieb Kear (to Marry)” by Adam Joseph Nazaroff
A Khmer wedding will last for three days.
I told the officiant for the third day of Kim and Phan’s wedding that it was because Cambodians had a lot to celebrate. She hadn’t been to the other two days, the ones that carried meaning for our parents. Only this, the third day, the one inspired by the West that made my generation feel normal. In two years, the officiant and I will have our own wedding. It will be only a single day, and after the outdoor ceremony, when my family gathers at a buffet serving grey meat drizzled with a dark brown gravy they will ask where to put their ang pav—the red money-filled envelopes meant to bring luck to our marriage—and I won’t have an answer for them.
The wedding party and guests had begun pouring Hennessey over ice held in cheap tumblers because the venue didn’t allow people to serve shots of liquor. Bodies writhed on a dimly lit dance floor, and people shouted between tables about who had become more intoxicated.
Standing in a corner with my club soda, I asked the officiant how much she charged for weddings, and she answered it was eight hundred, plus gas money. It had been an emotional service, and she spoke well of the couple.
Her clients filled out a questionnaire, she said. She tried to get to know them as best she could, but there was only so much you could say.
It was strange, I said, without meaning any offense. It was all very – impersonal. Khmer weddings celebrated an intimate community, I told her.
She said it must be wonderful to be a part of something like that.
I said that it was, and how great it would have been had she seen the other days of Kim and Phan’s wedding, and all the colorful ceremonies, songs, and dances which shaped them. How food had been prepared outside of Kim’s parent’s home by neighbors and friends: big pots of curry bubbling sweet and sour, woks of frying oil with tiny treats tended by an aged woman, and piles of fresh herbs picked that morning to go in soups or be wrapped with pork in thin sheets of porpear prai.
When I spoke of the Cambodian delicacies she smiled and mentioned how much she loved Asian food. I think a lot of Americans say that. But when they come to my parent’s home and smell the pungent spices and sauces we cook with, they cover their noses and look away. And when we have our own house I won’t be able to cook the food I grew up with because she will say that she can’t stand the smell, even when the windows are open.
I told her that on the first day of a wedding, the family kneels and are blessed by monks who sprinkle them with water. And afterwards, among fruit, candles, and flowers all arrayed on golden trays, the couple—dressed in white and blue—serve their parents tea and bless them in our native tongue.
In five years my own son’s first words will be in English, not Khmer. And in ten years he will barely know his grandparents because he can’t speak with them, so when they say they love him he will look to his mother and me. When they attend his college graduation they won’t be able to tell him how proud they are, and the gifts they bring will seem small and perfunctory. At their funerals he won’t be able to understand the monks who chant for their souls, and he will walk away still not knowing who they were.
On the second day, I told her, Phan’s entire family had come to Kim’s house in a procession bearing food on silver trays, and a hired dancer lithely moved among the offerings to showcase their richness.
In 1977, my father had fled through the jungles of northern Cambodia, and drank stagnant water at nights, and ate late-summer fruit that had rotted on the forest floor. And now, on summer nights when we hear people shouting at one another in the apartments I grew up in, my father tells me of Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge. How he lounged by seasonal rivers with friends and gathered kafir limes to use as soap. And I tell the officiant how lucky my parents are, because my father had been called to the fields to be executed like his older brother, the one who had been shot in the back of the head, who had known it was coming and still walked sheepishly ahead of the armed soldiers. But my father ran into the jungle with others from his village. They ran, he tells me, until they reached the Thai border.
There was also a hair-cutting ceremony—Gaat Sah—for the couple on that second day. The officiant looked a bit shocked that any bride would let someone cut her hair during her wedding, but I explained it was symbolic, and that it was meant to free the couple of their past burdens. I said it with a smile that she will come to love, but my chest feels hollow when I think of my parents who can’t escape their past. I used to hear them crying at night, and when they light incense for my grandparents who never made it across the ocean my mother leaves the room and always returns with fresh makeup.
I will ask the officiant to be my wife in less than a year, while we walk along a trail overlooking a craggy beach. She will say that she loves me. My parents married one another long before they loved each other, and only because their parents had told them to. And on the day of Kim and Phan’s wedding, as I introduced myself to the woman I would spend my life with, I didn’t consider any of this.
Adam Joseph Nazaroff lives in San Jose, California, with his wife, dog, and newborn son. For twelve years he was an anthropologist and archaeologist. Nowadays he likes to tell stories about California’s diverse and vibrant communities. He has been a finalist in Glimmer Train’s very short fiction contest.
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Skating out in the clean, crisp winter air surrounded by trees or mountains is a unique feeling. A far cry from the crowds and Christmas-carol soundtrack of an urban ice rink, gliding silently over the surface of a vast frozen lake is exhilarating. From Canada to Switzerland, winter transforms already stunning lakes into the world’s most spectacular natural skating surfaces. Whether in far-flung pockets of Alaskan wilderness or big cities like Stockholm, these frozen lakes all turn a simple winter sport into an enchanting commune with nature.
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The Jura Region lies in a 190-mile arc of limestone hills along the border of France and Switzerland. In the steep Vallée de Joux, at an altitude of almost 3,300 feet, is Lac de Joux, an enormous alpine lake, which during the colder months becomes the largest natural ice skating rink in Europe.
Ringed by barren alpine forest, the lake’s surroundings possess a stark, frost-tinged beauty. Even when large numbers of visitors descend on the Jura Mountains in the peak months of February and March, the sheer vastness of the lake means speed skating in the wide open of Lac de Joux is nothing short of thrilling.
Lake Morey — Vermont, United States
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Skating the entire length of Lake Morey’s frozen perimeter is a full-on, 4.5-mile expedition. Strap on a pair of Nordic skates (a Scandinavian invention that’s basically a cross-country ski boot with long blades attached to the bottom, ideal for traveling over uneven or snowy ground) and take on the longest Nordic skating trail in the United States. The path skirts along the edge of a dense birch, pine, and maple forest. Look out for the resident bald eagles, easily spotted perched in the bare branches over winter.
Lake Morey Resort maintains the trails and also offers Nordic skates for rent, as well as lessons for beginners. The resort also brings a Zamboni (the ice resurfacers used in hockey rinks and indoor skating areas) out to the lake to prep several outdoor “rinks” ahead of mid-winter ice hockey tournaments.
Lake Louise — Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
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Set beneath the rugged, snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, with the magnificent Victoria Glacier looming large in the distance, Lake Louise is one of the most picturesque places in a park with no shortage of world-class natural attractions.
A popular spot for all kinds of winter activities, from December to mid-April, Lake Louise is maintained by the Fairmont Chateau hotel’s ground crew, which helps ensure the lake surface is safe for visitors to venture out on. You can also rent ice skates right by the lake. For a truly serene experience, dance across the ice after dark when most of the tourists have retreated to the warmth of the Fairmont Chateau fireside.
Vermilion Lakes — Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
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This chain of lakes just west of Banff is renowned for breathtaking sunrises and sunsets, and it’s a haven for hikers and photographers during the summer months. In winter, though, the lakes are a peaceful alternative to the bustling holiday hub of Lake Louise.
Against a panoramic backdrop of craggy mountain peaks, skaters can expect to have the three lakes almost entirely to themselves. While it’s imperative that you test the depth and strength of the ice first, it’s reassuring to know that the water is little more than knee-deep in most parts, should you suddenly find yourself in the unenviable situation of seeing the surface starting to split apart underneath you.
Lake Bogstadvannet — Oslo, Norway
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Several lakes in the wooded forests on the outskirts of Oslo are popular winter skating spots. Bogstadvannet is only the second largest among them, but it’s one of the most popular. On any stormless winter day during the few hours that the sun is out, you’ll find ice skaters there. Hemmed in by thick Nordic woodlands, stunning Bogstadvannet is only 20 minutes from the middle of Oslo.
Lush, green, and flanked by sandy beaches in summer, in winter Bogstadvannet becomes a picturesque natural ice skating rink. Early in the morning, you can see the silhouettes of skaters emerging from shrouds fog floating across the surface of the lake. Skating on Bogstadvannet is equally magical in the afternoon before the winter sun sinks behind the forested hills in the distance.
Lake Mälaren — Stockholm, Sweden
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You don’t have to travel far from Sweden’s capital to find yourself surrounded by world-class natural ice skating rinks. Just outside the city, the frozen waterways of the Stockholm Archipelago and its surrounding lakes combine to create one of the planet’s most epic ice-skating environments. Within minutes from the capital city, you can set out on a cross-country skate adventure for days on end.
Just an hour’s drive out of Stockholm, you can embark on a Nordic skating adventure on the crystal clear black ice of Lake Mälaren. Spanning 440 square miles in total, it’s the fifth largest in Europe. While much of the lakeshore is densely wooded, the Mälaren region is also extremely rich in history. A number of beautifully preserved monuments from the Imperial Age still stand at the lake’s edge, among them the imposing, onion-domed Gripsholm Castle. Where else but Sweden can you ice skate on one of the world’s most beautiful lakes and find yourself zipping past the fairytale-like facade of a baroque 17th-century castle?
Evergreen Lake — Evergreen, Colorado
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Most natural skating areas in the continental US are on smaller lakes and ponds in the northern midwest states and in the Northeast. However, a very big body of water where you can enjoy an authentic natural ice skating experience is Colorado’s mighty Evergreen Lake. It spans 40 acres and is encircled by dense thickets of lodgepole and ponderosa pine that stay verdant and vibrant year-round — hence the lake’s name.
Evergreen may be one of the world’s largest groomed outdoor ice skating rinks, using a Zamboni to make the icy surface usable for local ice hockey teams, as well as for visiting families on a leisurely afternoon skate. You can rent ice skates on site. Since it’s only a 40-minute drive west of Denver, Evergreen is an easy day trip — although cozy wood cabins for an overnight stay aren’t far from the lake shore.
Portage Lake — Alaska, United States
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The frozen wilderness of Alaska is the ultimate destination for backcountry skaters in pursuit of the perfect expanse of pristine wild ice. In south-central Alaska, hardcore adventurers seek out solidified rivers, lagoons, and even ice caves for an adrenaline fix, weaving their way across a frozen minefield of icebergs and snowdrifts. The very deep Portage Lake in Chugach National Forest is paradise for wild ice chasers. Three miles long and almost a mile wide, it’s situated at the foot of Portage Glacier, a monolith of shimmering blue Arctic ice. If you’re so inclined, you could also ride across the frozen lake on a fat bike outfitted for winter conditions.
Great Slave Lake — Northwest Territories, Canada
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Canada has no shortage of magnificent natural ice skating destinations, and few are more spectacular than the Arctic lakes of the Northwest Territories. Great Slave Lake, near the regional capital of Yellowknife, is the 10th-largest lake in the world. In winter, it solidifies into a glittering frozen expanse, stretching as far as the eye can see. You can ice skate on the lake for close to half of the year. In late March, it hosts the Long John Jamboree, inviting skate-clad revelers to enjoy a final blast before the spring melt.
Just 250 miles shy of the Arctic Circle, the shape-shifting lights of the aurora borealis sometimes appear in the night skies above Yellowknife, illuminating the surface of Great Slave Lake with pulsating streaks of cosmic color.
Lake Baikal — Eastern Siberia, Russia
It may be no quick jaunt, but if you can manage to make it to Siberia, you’ll be rewarded with the most stunning ice skating experience on Earth. The world’s deepest lake, home to around a fifth of the world’s freshwater, covers a staggering 12,248 square miles. Baikal is larger than Belgium and contains more water than all the North American Great Lakes combined. What makes this World Heritage-listed wonder even more remarkable is that the entire surface is completely frozen over in winter. Between November and April, Lake Baikal becomes the biggest ice skating rink on the planet.
The ice averages over a foot thick and is so translucent that you can peer straight through it into the ink-black, unfrozen depths of the abyss below. In 2012, five adventurers — among them photographer Daniel Korzhonov — set out on a 250-mile, two-week journey, crossing Lake Baikal from north to south on ice skates. We suppose if you’ve flown that far to ice skate, you might as well make the most of it.
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Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women
Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don't.
There is much more consensus among men about whom they find attractive than there is among women, according to a new study by Wake Forest University psychologist Dustin Wood.
The study, co-authored by Claudia Brumbaugh of Queens College, appears in the June issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"Men agree a lot more about who they find attractive and unattractive than women agree about who they find attractive and unattractive," says Wood, assistant professor of psychology. "This study shows we can quantify the extent to which men agree about which women are attractive and vice versa."
More than 4,000 participants in the study rated photographs of men and women (ages 18-25) for attractiveness on a 10-point scale ranging from "not at all" to "very." In exchange for their participation, raters were told what characteristics they found attractive compared with the average person. The raters ranged in age from 18 to more than 70.
Before the participants judged the photographs for attractiveness, the members of the research team rated the images for how seductive, confident, thin, sensitive, stylish, curvaceous (women), muscular (men), traditional, masculine/feminine, classy, well-groomed, or upbeat the people looked.
Breaking out these factors helped the researchers figure out what common characteristics appealed most to women and men.
Men's judgments of women's attractiveness were based primarily around physical features and they rated highly those who looked thin and seductive. Most of the men in the study also rated photographs of women who looked confident as more attractive.
As a group, the women rating men showed some preference for thin, muscular subjects, but disagreed on how attractive many men in the study were. Some women gave high attractiveness ratings to the men other women said were not attractive at all.
"As far as we know, this is the first study to investigate whether there are differences in the level of consensus male and female raters have in their attractiveness judgments," Wood says. "These differences have implications for the different experiences and strategies that could be expected for men and women in the dating marketplace."
For example, women may encounter less competition from other women for the men they find attractive, he says. Men may need to invest more time and energy in attracting and then guarding their mates from other potential suitors, given that the mates they judge attractive are likely to be found attractive by many other men.
Wood says the study results have implications for eating disorders and how expectations regarding attractiveness affect behavior.
"The study helps explain why women experience stronger norms than men to obtain or maintain certain physical characteristics," he says. "Women who are trying to impress men are likely to be found much more attractive if they meet certain physical standards, and much less if they don't. Although men are rated as more attractive by women when they meet these physical appearance standards too, their overall judged attractiveness isn't as tightly linked to their physical features."
The age of the participants also played a role in attractiveness ratings. Older participants were more likely to find people attractive if they were smiling.
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I suggest an idea approximately has an impact on. A long time ago, while things had been yet to be named, a schizophrenic sees an imaginative and prescient. He transmits it to the world. He has such religion in his imaginative and prescient that other people start to see what he sees. They are given his concept, false impression it to various tiers to healthy their very own pastimes. The vision becomes a society’s motive, and the sane then try and imitate the insane to achieve its promise.
This could be the history of cults, communism, excessive love for nature, the notion of enlightenment, and that each one lifestyle within the universe is interconnected by means of a force which also resides in the base of the human spine, and that the entirety is an insignificant illusion, and that misery is the inescapable fate of lifestyles, and even the concept of meditation, which used to intend a right trance once I became a boy but has now been downgraded with the aid of a mysterious white authority as simply “watching your breath”. Have you noticed, the defining aspect of our most powerful ideas is that we will constantly fall brief of comprehending it?
What if many stuff that we name philosophies nowadays had emerged from an intellectual sickness? What if influencers are influential chiefly due to their mental anomalies? The sane seeking to emulate the insane—what if all our tumults get up from this?
In The Collected Schizophrenias, a young American writer named Esmé Weijun Wang tells the story of her very own schizoaffective disease. She has been hospitalized in numerous instances. She has dodged invisible demons, which had been not metaphorical, and seen a educate hurtle toward her and vanish. She makes one passing observation: “Sometimes I come across folks that don’t believe in mental illness…Often, they declare that such diagnoses are oppressive to those with precise capabilities…I am frequently informed with outstanding sincerity that in other cultures, someone who could be diagnosed with schizophrenia in the West might be lauded as a shaman and healer. Have you ever considered, they ask, that schizophrenia might be a religious character, and no longer an illness?”
She taunts at the notion that a torturous disorder ought to be improper for expertise, however right now she also hopes that her intellectual condition is a pathway to “spirituality”. What is obvious is if she had now not revealed her mental disorders and alternatively written about, say, the which means of existence, she could have portrayed, in a tremendously influential manner, a hopeless international. Thousands of writers earlier than her with intellectual disorders executed simply that, and there are lots today who keep shaping the perspectives of the world because of their intellectual situation. An experience of doom is some distance more fascinating than the mirth of healthful thoughts.
This is one of the essential forces behind the prevailing paranoia around politics and the fear of “the return of fascism”. This is the reason why many intellectuals frequently invoke George Orwell, who wrote gloomy stories about the destiny of civilization. Intellectuals try to see experience in his prose, but the truth is he turned into completely incorrect approximately politics and the prevailing international, which is a massively better place than his thoughts conjured. Orwell, not particularly, had extreme fitness issues.
About 15 years in the past, a take a look at by Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston cautioned that the agony of tuberculosis and other misfortunes affected his mental state. Orwell himself had told his pals that he could’ve been more pleased had he no longer been so unwell. Yet, he managed to steer destiny intellectuals precisely because of his paranoia. In the arts, a happy fact does not travel as a way as a gloomy lie.
The cutting-edge world of humanitarian lament, too, includes players who’ve been recognized with a range of intellectual
disorders that makes them exceptionally persuasive narrators. There is a famous notion that their struggling makes them feel extra deeply about the problems of others. This is a fantasy. Empathy is merely a form of self-absorption and self-obsession. The sick create a dismal world because that’s what they see and that is what comforts them.
Recently, while Some Das, a student of scientific psychology, changed into interning at a psychiatric care center, she located in a Facebook post that many sufferers with extreme mental illnesses have been “hyper-clued into political information”. They spoke with more clarity approximately politics and elections than approximately their personal lives. This phenomenon points to the possibility that the modern obsession withthe news can be an expression of a illness even in people who do no longer show off any symptoms of mental sickness. People aren’t consuming news, they’re eating anxiety
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The State Places Mendocino County Back Into the Purple Tier
There has been an unprecedented increase in COVID-19 cases throughout California, particularly within the last 10 days. Mendocino County has also seen a rise in cases. Within the last seven days, our county’s case rate (average number of new cases per day) has jumped by 69%. Because of this surge, Mendocino County Public Health was alerted by the state that our county has officially re-entered Purple Tier 1, or “widespread” COVID-19 community risk status, effective Tuesday, November 17, 2020.
In line with new state guidelines, our new tier assignment is based on a seven-day average with a four-day lag. As of today, 41 of the 58 counties in California are now in the Purple Tier 1 as a result of the state’s revision.
“We’re disappointed that due to the new criteria developed by the state, our data requires we move back to the Purple Tier,” says County Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren. “This impacts all Mendocino County residents. If your family has not been affected by the virus, it does not mean they never will be. It is when we as individuals let our guard down that COVID-19 has an opportunity to spread. Mendocino County is experiencing a dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases, which is being fueled by household spread and continued gatherings. We urge business owners to abide by Public Health Guidelines. This includes limiting facility capacity as required, and prioritizing the health of your patrons. We also urge individuals and families to not engage with indoor gatherings of any size, even if no one reports feeling ill. This virus is deadly, and can spread quietly through asymptomatic carriers.”
In alignment with the state's Purple Tier 1 category, the following industries must abide by these guidelines in order to slow the spread of COVID-19:
Restaurants must operate by means of takeout or outdoor dining only, while abiding by social distancing requirements, as well as facial covering requirements when not consuming food.
Gyms must operate outdoors only, while abiding by social distancing and facial covering requirements.
Places of worship must operate outdoors only, while abiding by social distancing and facial covering requirements.
Retail stores are limited to a maximum of 25% capacity, while abiding by social distancing and facial covering requirements.
Skilled Nursing Facilities may no longer have in-person visitors.
Schools may remain open for on-campus instruction, if they had already opened on-campus instruction while the county was in the Red Tier. Such schools are urged to ask staff to test for COVID-19 regularly. If a school did not re-open on-campus instruction in the Red Tier, their campus must remain closed.
The state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy lays out a clear picture of what the different tiers mean to each business sector. For a complete list of allowable activities under the Purple Tier 1, please visit www.covid19.ca.gov. As a reminder, all businesses must complete a COVID-19 self-certification process prior to opening for the first time at www.mendocinocountybusiness.org.
“Mendocino County staff started preparing a COVID-19 pandemic response months ago, building a strong county response team,” said County CEO Carmel Angelo. “We are here as disaster service workers and will continue to serve the public, 24/7, as long as our COVID-19 pandemic response is needed.”
The state is re-starting the time clocks for all counties, requiring that Mendocino County spend at least 21 days in the Purple Tier 1, and meet Red Tier 2 requirements for two consecutive weeks before advancing to the next less restrictive tier. To help continue the progressive re-opening process, the public is urged to wear a mask, practice social distancing and frequent handwashing, stay home when sick and avoid gatherings. The public must follow isolation and quarantine requirements.
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The White House slammed Hillary Clinton for her criticism of First Lady Melania Trump's anti-cyberbullying 'Be Best' program.
The White House slammed Hillary Clinton for her criticism of First Lady Melania Trump’s anti-cyberbullying ‘Be Best’ program.
During an interview with Bravo last week, the former Secretary of State mocked Mrs. Trump for launching a children’s wellness campaign oft-criticized due to her husband’s own behavior on social media.
“I think she should look closer to home,” Clinton remarked.
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham replied to Mrs. Clinton’s assertion in exclusive comments to the Daily Caller.
“She of all people should refrain from doling out relationship advice,” Grisham pushed back. “Her bitterness and envy were on full display.”
Her bitterness and envy have been on display for about four years now.
Is this the most Bitter Betty in the history of Bitter Betty’s?
Hillary lashes out at our amazing First Lady, criticizing her hard work and success. https://t.co/1dGxcx3X5e
— Wayne Dupree ?? (@WayneDupreeShow) March 8, 2020
Melania Leads By Example
While the White House and President are more than willing to engage in back and forth with bitter political enemies, Melania prefers to lead by example using grace and class.
The First Lady has responded to critics of the ‘Be Best’ initiative in the past with the kind of poise you’d expect to see.
“It is not news or surprising to me that critics in the media have chosen to ridicule me for speaking out on this issue and that’s OK,” she said in 2018.
“I remain committed to tackling this topic because it will provide a better world for our children.”
“I think she should look closer to home.”
Hillary Clinton made a targeted dig at first lady Melania Trump during an appearance on a late-night talk show Thursday evening.https://t.co/YvjfFyGST1
— CNN (@CNN) March 6, 2020
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During the interview, a viewer asked Clinton to comment on various clips seemingly showing Mrs. Trump swatting her husband’s hand away.
Echoing Grisham’s comments, the former Secretary of State said, “I am the last person to comment on anybody’s relationship.”
That may rank as the smartest thing Bill Clinton’s wife has ever said.
Envy of Melania must be a trait amongst former Democrat first ladies, as Michelle Obama has also consistently whined about her. Of note, Mrs. Obama has repeatedly complained about the gift Melania gave her on Inauguration Day.
Obama said the gift contributed to a hectic day, also noting that her daughters insisted on a sleepover the night before.
“We’re leaving, you’ve got to take all your stuff, pick up the blankets and the bears,” she said, “and they were all crying and I was just like ‘get out, we’ve got to go.'”
“So, there was that and then there was the Tiffany’s box,” she said. “It was just a lot.”
Mrs. Obama insists the gift-giving was a breach of protocol, despite video showing her doing the exact same thing in 2009.
Michelle has also dismissed Melania in the past, claiming she alone is America’s “forever First Lady.”
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Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. There is a pair spawned from Hell. Darlings of the left. What more proof do you need to know how insane and delusional the left is?
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Health | January 23, 2019
10 Deadly Viruses And Bacteria Created In Labs
Scientists are at it again. This time, they are creating new viruses and bacteria in their laboratories. Scientists usually prefer altering already-existing or extinct bacteria and viruses to produce new strains that will defeat our immunity, vaccines, and drugs.
Sometimes, they prefer creating new viruses and bacteria from scratch. However, these strains are not always dangerous to humans even though they could be deadly to animals like mice and even to other bacteria.
10 Horsepox
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Scientists at the University of Alberta have created horsepox, a lethal virus closely related to the equally deadly smallpox. Unlike smallpox, horsepox does not affect humans and is only fatal to horses.
The scientists created the virus during a six-month study sponsored by pharmaceutical company Tonix. The researchers purchased DNA pieces via mail order and arranged them to form the virus. The entire project was not expensive. The DNA pieces used to create the virus cost just $100,000.
The study caused a dilemma at the time it was revealed. Other scientists were concerned that governments or even terrorists could use the knowledge to create smallpox virus for biological weapons. A smallpox epidemic could become deadly for us today. We no longer get vaccinated for it because we eradicated the disease in 1980.
The researchers clarified that they created the virus because they wanted to develop improved smallpox vaccines. Tonix later revealed that it had produced a smallpox vaccine with the horsepox virus.
Other scientists say that the researchers could have extracted horsepox from wild horse populations instead of creating it from scratch. Tonix said they would have done just that if they had known they had natural access to the virus.
However, lead researcher David Evans said they recreated the virus because Tonix would have been unable to commercialize the horsepox virus taken from the wild.[1]
9 Black Death
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Between 1347 and 1351, millions of Europeans were afflicted with a mysterious disease that killed over 50 million people. Today, we know this disease is the Black Death, which is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria. Although the Black Death is still around, it is not as potent as it used to be.
A few years ago, researchers from several schools, including the University of Tubingen in Germany and McMaster University in Canada, recreated the deadly bacteria from DNA samples extracted from the teeth of a victim who died during the plague. They got only 30 milligrams of the bacteria from the teeth, but that was enough to recreate it.
As a result, researchers confirmed the original bacteria’s relationship to the Black Death around today. Some scientists had claimed that the bacteria were of different strains, but they are now confirmed to be the same. The one we have around today only became less deadly after it mutated.[2]
8 Polio
Like their counterparts at the University of Alberta, scientists at the State University of New York have created a deadly artificial virus by buying DNA pieces via mail order. This time, it is polio—and it is as potent as the natural one. Mice exposed to the artificial polio got sick just as they would have if exposed to natural polio.
The laboratory-created polio was controversial among scientists. The researchers who produced it had taken its code from databases available to almost anybody. Other researchers fear that people with ulterior motives could develop their own artificial polio, which is much easier to make than other dangerous viruses like smallpox.
Smallpox’s genetic code is 185,000 letters long while polio’s is just 7,741 letters long. Although we are already at the brink of eradicating polio, scientists fear that we will still need to be vaccinated against the disease because it could be recreated.[3]
7 Mousepox
A few years ago, researchers at the Australian National University and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) produced a deadly mutated strain of mousepox by mistake. Mousepox is another lethal virus that belongs to the same family as horsepox and smallpox.
The researchers were trying to develop birth control for mice at the time that they mistakenly created the virus. They inserted a gene that promoted the creation of interleukin 4 (IL-4) into mousepox, which they injected into some mice. The mice were vaccinated and were not supposed to be harmed by the mousepox.
Instead of making the mice infertile as researchers had expected, the weakened virus turned lethal and destroyed the immune systems of the mice, killing them in nine days. The new mousepox was so dangerous that it was resistant to vaccination. Half of the other vaccinated mice exposed to the mutated mousepox also died.
The researchers were so scared by their invention that they did not want to publish their findings. They even met with the Australian military to confirm if it was safe to publish.[4]
Scientists fear that human smallpox could also mutate and become deadlier if injected with IL-4. However, they are unsure because no one has tried it yet. We know it’s only a matter of time before some scientist does.
6 SARS 2.0
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a lethal virus. More than 700 people were killed during a SARS epidemic that infected 8,000 people in 29 countries between 2002 and 2003. Now, scientists have made it deadlier.
The new mutant SARS virus was created by a group of researchers led by Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina. They call it SARS 2.0. The researchers developed the virus by adding some protein to the naturally occurring SARS. SARS 2.0 is immune to vaccines and treatments used to cure the naturally occurring SARS virus.[5]
The team said that the research was necessary because the natural SARS virus could mutate and become immune to our vaccines. By creating a deadlier and mutated virus, we could develop stronger vaccines that will save us from a more lethal SARS epidemic—that is, if the natural SARS ever mutates.
However, other scientists are concerned because the SARS 2.0 that is supposed to save us from a deadly SARS epidemic could start that epidemic if it ever escapes from the lab.
5 MERS-Rabies Virus Hybrid
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Scientists have created a MERS-rabies hybrid virus. The idea is to use the virus to develop a vaccine that will protect us from both viruses. Rabies is a deadly disease that can be transmitted to humans through the bites of infected dogs that usually have the virus in their saliva.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a new virus that appeared in Saudi Arabia a few years ago. It is closely related to SARS and is spread from bats to camels and, finally, to humans. MERS infected 1,800 people at the time of its first epidemic and killed over 630. Its fatality rate is around 35 percent.
As we mentioned in the previous entry, SARS infected over 8,000 people during a 2003 epidemic but killed just over 700. Although SARS caused more deaths in absolute terms, it has a lower fatality rate than MERS. Only about 10 percent of SARS victims died. And for now, we do not have any vaccine for MERS.
To create the MERS-rabies hybrid, researchers took some proteins from the MERS virus and added it to rabies. They used the new virus to develop a new vaccine that made mice resistant to rabies and MERS. They believe that the vaccine can also be used for humans and camels at risk of getting MERS.[6]
4 Phi-X174
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Phi-X174 is another artificial virus we have produced in laboratories. It was created by researchers at the Institute of Biological Energy Alternatives in Rockville, Maryland. The researchers modeled the artificial virus after the natural phiX virus. PhiX is a bacteriophage, a category of viruses that infect and kill bacteria. However, it has no effect on humans.[7]
The researchers created the artificial virus in 14 days, yet it resembles the natural virus so much that it is impossible to tell them apart. The researchers hope that the new virus is the first step in developing mutant and artificial bacteria that can be used for the benefit of man.
3 Unnamed Virus
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Researchers from University College London and the National Physical Laboratory have created an unnamed virus that kills bacteria and behaves like a real virus. Like phi-X174, it is a bacteriophage but deadlier.
The unnamed virus attacks any bacteria around it. Within seconds, it breaks into smaller parts that attach and create holes on the bodies of the bacteria. The holes quickly become larger, forcing the bacteria to leak their contents. The bacteria die soon after.
Despite its scary potency, the unnamed virus is not dangerous to humans and did not attack human cells during tests. However, it could enter human cells just like natural viruses. Researchers hope the results will be used to treat and study bacterial diseases in humans. The virus could also be used to alter the human gene.[8]
2 Bird Flu
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Some Dutch scientists have created a mutant and deadlier version of the already-lethal bird flu. Natural bird flu is not easily transmitted among humans. However, the researchers altered it so that it could be. To test their new virus, the researchers exposed some ferrets to it. Ferrets were chosen because they had similar bird flu symptoms to humans.
Ten generations later, the already-changed virus mutated again and became airborne. Natural bird flu is not an airborne disease. The study was controversial in the science community. It became even more so when the Dutch researchers attempted to publish the process to create the deadly virus.[9]
Although scientists fear that terrorists could use the study to produce a deadly biological weapon that could kill half the people in the world, the researchers involved say that the study was necessary to allow us prepare for a mutated bird flu epidemic.
1 H1N1 Virus
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In 1918, the world witnessed the arrival of a deadly flu epidemic. This was the H1N1 virus. By the time it was over, up to 100 million people were dead. The flu caused blood to seep into the lungs of victims. They released blood from their noses and mouths before drowning in the blood inside their lungs.
The flu returned in 2009. But it was less lethal even though it was mutated and deadlier than it should have been. Scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka took samples of the mutated strain that caused the 2009 epidemic and used it to create a deadlier strain that was resistant to vaccines. This strain was similar to the one that caused the 1918 epidemic.[10]
Kawaoka was not planning to produce a more lethal version of the flu at the time. He only wanted to create the original version of the flu so that he could study how it mutated and was able to bypass our immunity. The deadly virus is stored in a lab and could become fatal if ever released.
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Ben Affleck 'Never Thought' He and Jennifer Garner Would Divorce
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner married in 2005 and have three children together. Their divorce was finalized in 2018, and Affleck still considers the divorce to be one of his biggest regrets. While on Good Morning America, the actor admitted that he “never thought” he would get divorced.
Ben Affleck never thought he and Jennifer Garner would divorce
In February 2020, Affleck appeared on Good Morning America for an interview with Diane Sawyer. In the interview, he discussed his divorce, alcoholism, and his movie The Way Back.
“I never thought that I was going to get divorced. I didn’t want to get divorced. I didn’t want to be a divorced person. I really didn’t want to be a split family with my children,” Affleck said. “And it upset me because it meant I wasn’t who I thought I was. And that was so painful and so disappointing in myself.”
Affleck told Sawyer that he is working to make his kids a priority.
“I really don’t want my children to pay for my sins,” he said. “I took the last half of the year off and I just got to be dad. Drive them to school, pick them up. Go to the swim meet, come home. You know, that’s where the parenting happens. It’s in the cracks. It’s in the moments where you’re just taking them back from soccer and they say something profound or they talk about how they’re really feeling about something.”
Ben Affleck regrets his divorce from Jennifer Garner
While speaking with The New York Times, Affleck reflected on his battle with alcoholism and his marriage with Garner.
“I drank relatively normally for a long time,” he said in the interview. “What happened was that I started drinking more and more when my marriage was falling apart. This was 2015, 2016. My drinking, of course, created more marital problems.”
To this day, Affleck still feels guilty and regrets the divorce.
“The biggest regret of my life is this divorce,” Affleck said. “Shame is really toxic. There is no positive byproduct of shame. It’s just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.”
While Affleck acknowledges that he has regrets about the ending of his marriage, he tries to not dwell on the past.
“It’s not particularly healthy for me to obsess over the failures — the relapses — and beat myself up,” he told The New York Times. “I have certainly made mistakes. I have certainly done things that I regret. But you’ve got to pick yourself up, learn from it, learn some more, try to move forward.”
The two still co-parent their children
While Garner and Affleck are divorced, the two still work hard to co-parent their three children. Affleck has always been adamant that Garner is a terrific mother. After his interview aired on Good Morning America, Sawyer read out a note that Affleck wrote for Garner.
“What I want to say publicly and privately is, ‘Thank you. Thank you for being thoughtful, considerate, responsible, and a great mom and person,’” Sawyer read.
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The Use of Judgment in Pride and Prejudice
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Lisa Grabowski
As Tony Tanner states in his introduction to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, “the most important events are the fact that a man changes his manners and a young lady changes her mind” (pg. 7). In the novel, Austen focuses on the nature of judgment: how people judge another person based on first impressions, and that person’s behavior towards others and themselves. Through the whole of the novel, Austen develops the relationship between two of the main characters, Elizabeth Bennett, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, and how their feelings for each other change. In seven key passages, found on pg. 66-67, 123-124, 128-129, 236-237, 273, 284-285 and 374-375, Austen marks Elizabeth’s changing attitude toward Mr. Darcy. One can see how Austen develops these changes by examining the nature of the judgment made in each passage, how each passage fits into the structure of the novel, and by evaluating the kind of prose used in each passage.
Structurally, the first passage, on pg. 66-67, comes very early in the novel, and everyone is giving their first impressions of Darcy and his friend Bingley, who recently began residing at Netherfield, the Bennet’s neighboring property. This passage follows the chapter about the Meryton assembly (ball), where Mr. Darcy turned down Mr. Bingley’s suggestion that he dance with Elizabeth, saying that “she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men” (pg. 59). In this section, Charlotte Lucas, Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth, and Jane Bennet are discussing Darcy’s mistreatment of Elizabeth, pitying Elizabeth, and agreeing that Darcy is rude. Austen uses the prose technique of conversation to allow everyone to present their opinions, especially Elizabeth. Mrs. Bennet relates that “everybody says that [Darcy] is ate up with pride,” and advises Elizabeth never to dance with him. Charlotte discusses Darcy’s pride, saying that he has an excuse for it. “One cannot wonder that so very a fine young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favor, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud.” Elizabeth, perhaps influenced both by the negative opinions of her companions and by her feeling that she’d been done a wrong at the ball, pronounces her first judgment of Darcy, that she could easily forgive his pride, had he not mortified her own. In this passage, then, Elizabeth is making a character judgment of Mr. Darcy, based on his actions toward her, and also on the judgments of her friends and family.
Another instance of Elizabeth judging Mr. Darcy occurs on pg. 123-124, and pg. 128-129. In both passages, Austen again uses conversation as a means of allowing characters to discuss their thoughts and opinions, and to form judgments about others. The first passage, on pages 123-124, is part of Elizabeth’s conversation with Wickham at her Aunt Philips’ house. Elizabeth and Wickham discuss Darcy’s character, and Wickham tells Elizabeth of Darcy’s poor treatment of him. Wickham blames Darcy for not granting him the living bequeathed to him in the late Mr. Darcy’s will because of an intense dislike and jealousy, and Elizabeth is shocked at Darcy’s behavior. “I had not thought Mr. Darcy so bad as this- though I have never liked him, I had not thought so very ill of him- I had supposed him to be despising his fellow creatures in general, but did not suspect him of descending to such malicious revenge, such injustice, such inhumanity as this!” Wickham makes Darcy appear even worse by saying that Darcy promised his father, when his father was on his deathbed, that he would provide for Wickham. Elizabeth is surprised that Darcy’s pride didn’t make him act justly towards Wickham, and feels that Darcy was dishonest by breaking his promise.
Her bad opinion of Darcy in this situation is confirmed in a later conversation with her sister Jane, on pages 128-129. Elizabeth relates her conversation with Wickham to her sister, who is reluctant to believe that Mr. Darcy behaved so badly. Jane says, “interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other. It is…impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side.” While her sister wishes to give both Darcy and Wickham the benefit of the doubt, Elizabeth already has her mind made up that Darcy is to blame. She cannot believe that Wickham could have concocted such a story, since names, facts, etc. were given. She takes her perception that there was “truth in [Wickham’s] looks” as evidence that a judgment may be pronounced, and she feels that “one knows exactly what to think,” that is, that Wickham told the truth and Mr. Darcy is in the wrong. In these two passages, Austen adds to the rising action of the novel by increasing the tension in Darcy and Elizabeth’s relationship through Wickham’s revelation of Darcy’s supposed behavior towards him. Elizabeth makes judgments on Darcy’s morals and emotional values, that he is not only proud but dishonest and unjust as well. She forms her judgments from information she gets from others about Darcy, without allowing Darcy to tell his side of the story.
When Elizabeth finally learns of Darcy’s role in Wickham’s situation, she realizes that she has behaved unjustly herself, by being prejudiced towards Darcy, and making judgments when it would have been better, as Jane had said, to suspend judgment until she knew all. Elizabeth finds out the true nature of Darcy’s relationship with Wickham in the form of a letter from Darcy. At this point in the book, the climax has just occurred, in which Darcy made a proposal of marriage to Elizabeth, which she refused, accusing him of purposely keeping Bingley and Jane apart, which made her sister miserable, and of mistreating Wickham. It is because of these accusations that Darcy feels compelled to write Elizabeth a letter explaining his actions. Upon his admission that he did try to keep Bingley from becoming involved with Jane, Elizabeth is upset with Darcy, but when she learns of Wickham’s reckless, foolish behavior in wasting the money for schooling that Darcy supplied him with, she feels upset not with Darcy, but with herself. In the passage on pg. 236-237, as the truth of Darcy’s words sinks in, Elizabeth grows ashamed of herself, as she realizes the prejudice with which she has judged Darcy from the beginning. “How despicably have I acted!…How humiliating a discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly…I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself.” Austen uses Elizabeth’s monologue as the turning point in her feelings towards Darcy. Though she does not love him yet, she no longer hates him. It marks a change in Elizabeth herself as well, as she realizes that the way she has been judging others is unjust, prejudiced, and vain.
When Elizabeth sees Darcy again, it is some time later, when she is visiting his estate, called Pemberley, with her aunt and uncle, the Gardiners. On pg. 273, Elizabeth is trying to recollect her senses after unexpectedly encountering Mr. Darcy. Austen uses the voice of the third person narrator to reveal to the reader Elizabeth’s thoughts in this moment. First, Elizabeth feels ashamed of herself for coming there, and wonders what Darcy thinks of her. “And his behavior, so strikingly altered, - what could it mean? That he should even speak to her was amazing! – but to speak with such civility, to inquire after her family!” Elizabeth is struck by his kindness and apparently altered conduct, since he actually invites her uncle, who is of the middle class, to fish on his property. Before, Darcy had been very class-conscious, and Elizabeth finds it hard to believe that it must be on her account that he is being so generous (pg. 276). In this passage, Elizabeth makes no direct judgment of Darcy, because she does not know what to think.
While she is staying in Derbyshire, Darcy comes to visit her and her relatives, bringing with him his sister and Bingley. In the bottom paragraph on pg. 282, Elizabeth examines Darcy’s behavior during the visit, and finds him, instead of haughty, courting the good opinion of her middle class relations, whom he had openly disdained before. In the passage on pg. 284-285, Austen again uses a third person narrator to share with the reader a scene in which Elizabeth is exploring her feelings for Darcy. Beginning with the bottom paragraph on pg. 284, Elizabeth lays awake for over two hours, trying to make out her feelings. She discovers that, because of his recent behavior, she feels respect and esteem for him, and above all, gratitude. “Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.” In this passage, Elizabeth is using her reason to make out her feelings, and is basing her judgment of them on his conduct both towards herself and her relatives. The passage marks another turning point, as Elizabeth teeters on the brink of love for Darcy, questioning for the first time whether she should employ the power she assumes she still possesses, to bring on the renewal of his addresses (his proposal of marriage). The reader has a clear sense of the novel being in the stage of falling action, as they begin to see that Darcy and Elizabeth may end up together after all. Elizabeth judges not only her feelings, but also reassesses Darcy’s character as one more generous and kind than she had previously given him credit for.
At the moment when it seems that there is hope for Elizabeth and Darcy, tragedy strikes. Elizabeth’s sister, Lydia, runs away with Wickham, and Elizabeth mourns the event on pg. 295, where the narrator tells the reader that Elizabeth feels her power over Darcy is sinking, since the weakness of her family is again showing itself as disgrace. Elizabeth also admits to herself that she has love for Darcy: “never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.”
The resolution of the novel comes when Elizabeth and Darcy come together again after the recovery of Lydia, thanks to Darcy’s knowledge and financial assistance. The final passage, on pg. 374-375, traces Elizabeth’s love for Darcy, and his for her, at last to fruition. Elizabeth ventures to thank Darcy for his intervention on behalf of her sister, to which he replies that it was really for her that he acted. He then courageously tells her that he still cares for her, but wants to know how she feels. This is Elizabeth’s chance to win Darcy as a husband, and Austen changes style from the form of conversation to the third person narrator. “Elizabeth feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak;…and gave him to understand, that her sentiments had undergone so material a change…as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure, his present assurances.” By using the narrator in this situation, Austen allows the reader to know what Elizabeth is feeling, rather than what she says. Elizabeth’s wise, accurate judgment of her own feelings and those of Darcy have led to happy consequences, a reverse of their encounter at the climax of the novel when her prejudiced judgments led to unhappiness for them both.
In Pride and Prejudice, one of the main subjects presented is that of judgment. The novel presents the changing relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy, resulting at last in their marriage. At the beginning, Elizabeth makes judgments of Darcy’s character and values based on his treatment of herself and others. However, her prejudice towards Darcy, due to his pride and her partiality towards Wickham, blind these judgments. Austen presents Elizabeth’s judgments in situations of conversation and third person narrative throughout the structure of the novel. Examining key passages traces a change in Elizabeth. By the end of the book, Elizabeth has learned the error of her ways, and is able to make accurate, sensible judgments of her feelings and attitudes.
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New books and recommended reads
Hooligween / July 11, 2017
Strong female protagonists are all the rage in this week’s new book round-up, but they’re also accompanied by a range of alpha-male former soldiers, covert agents and good old fashioned DCIs. Check out our selection of a dozen intriguing new titles and recommended reads, which include psychological thrillers, police procedurals, international espionage, domestic psychodrama, short stories, psy- and sci-fi thrillers and murder mysteries – set in England, the Americas and exotic locations (not all of them on this planet!)
DARK WATER by Simon Thould
A girl goes missing and her frantic mother begs for help from the one man with the ruthless skills to track her down. Alex Rafter, former sniper, is reluctant to go back to a life he is trying to forget but his own nightmares compel him to search for the girl’s sake. Rafter and his back-up embark on a murderous hunt which leads them from the wilds of the New Forest to the squalid back streets of Southampton. Along the way Rafter is offered assistance by a drug addict and would-be lover, but this could be a distraction… or worse. It becomes a race against time to find the girl before she is lost forever to the heartless world of people traffickers.
HOUSE OF SPIES by Daniel Silva
Although the Gabriel Allon thrillers have become less credible and rather routine as the series has matured, Daniel Silva can be relied upon to spin a solid story. This time, his hero – Mossad agent, assassin, and art restorer Allon – is out for revenge, determined to hunt down the world’s most dangerous terrorist. A shadowy ISIS mastermind known as Saladin has committed terrorist attacks in Europe and America, and leaves a trail of carnage through London’s West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but Allon follows a loose thread back to a drug dealer, living the high life in the south of France…
RED IS THE COLOUR by Mark L Fowler
The death of a bullied schoolboy in the early 1970s ripples down the decades when, 30 years later, one of his tormentors is brutally murdered in Stoke on Trent. The mismatched investigating officers are at odds: DCI Tyler has skeletons in his cupboard and left London to escape his past. The detectives reveal corruption and a cover-up – but can they put aside their differences to catch the murderer?
FEMME FATALE by Dominic Piper
When PI Daniel Beckett brutally foils an assault on a young girl, it leads to an offer of work from a sinister and unlikely source in London’s Chinatown. What starts out as a straightforward missing persons’ case soon takes on a more ominous aspect as he discovers a trail of blackmail, sadistic violence, conspiracy and murder, plus an influential, privileged and poisonous presence that seems to permeate all spheres of society.
The perpetrators, however, do not expect to encounter someone like Beckett; an intelligent, amoral and fearless individual with a skill-set developed during a covert and violent past. If you like your anti-hero to be hard, fast and snarky, then Beckett’s definitely your boy.
Full review coming soon
THREE MINUTES by Roslund and Hellström
Gritty and explicit, the DCI Ewert Grens series of Scandi action thrillers can be relied upon to pull few punches. Informed by the authors’ first-hand experience of the criminal underworld (or so we’re told), they’re a long way from the low-key slow-burn melancholia of traditional Nordic noir.
A disgraced Swedish agent is hiding from the authorities and the Polish drug mafia in Columbia. He becomes entangled with the local drug cartel – then the US DEA sign him up as an undercover informant. His precarious balancing act rapidly unravels when an American politician is kidnapped and he’s forced to turn to acerbic Swedish detective Ewert Grens – his former enemy, but now the only ally he might have.
BROKEN BRANCHES by M Johnathan Lee
Modern gothic is entwined in familial intrigue in this domestic psychodrama. Ian Perkins was never his parents’ favoured son, and he left the rural family home without looking back. Years later he returns with his own young family, seeking desperately to mend the fractures in his marriage and piece together the secrets in his parents’ past. But sinister forces in the isolated farmstead seem determined to separate him from his distraught wife. Could the whispered stories of a family curse be true?
DECEIVED by Heena Rathore
Betrayal and uncertainty saturate the pages of this psychological thriller. A vulnerable young woman, still haunted by the murder of her family, hopes to start a new life with her lover. But as a revenge-driven psychopath plots and stalks a new victim, who can she depend upon? Her friends? Her family? Her lover? Her fragile sanity and life itself are threatened by deception and duplicity…
A PENNY FOR HER HEART by Alretha Thomas
Two strong female characters take it in turn to narrate this thoroughly modern mystery whodunit in the USA. A murder in city hall might be politically inspired – or it could be related to something rather more personal. Detective Rachel Storme soon finds herself delving into the underbelly of politics in search of the killer. No one is above suspicion, not even the mayor in a case so chock-full of dark and sinister twists and turns, it has Storme questioning her own competence.
This is the third Rachel Storme novel, but can be enjoyed as a stand-alone.
MATTERS ARISING FROM THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODY by Simon Petrie
A blend of hard sci-fi and criminal investigation, set in a future human society in a hostile environment where a young woman’s worst enemies may be the people she depends upon. Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan’s lethal, chilled atmosphere. On the isolated moon of Saturn, investigator Guerline Scarfe must determine why Tanja died in this future noir novella.
MISSION KHYBER by Nik Morton
The third outing for psychic spy Tana Standish finds her in Afghanistan in 1979, under-cover, outgunned and behind enemy lines – just as civil unrest erupts and Soviet influence increases. As Tana makes new friends and new enemies in her constant fight against injustice, so old foes plot to ensnare her…
Tana owes her life to a Soviet psy-agent, Yakunin, although they’ve never met. Now Yakunin is threatened and Tana must respond, even though she knows this is surely a trap. Expect a tense battle of wits and some stand-out action sequences alongside plenty of authentic and well-researched historical background.
THE LATE SHOW by Michael Connelly
From the author of the mega-successful Harry Bosch books, this new series introduces yet another strong female protagonist, this time a young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD. Detective Renée Ballard works the notorious graveyard shift; a thankless job, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of tragedy and violence, handing over her investigations as the sun rises, never getting closure.
Some nights are worse than others. And tonight is the worst yet. Two cases: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspect. Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn. But what she doesn’t know is how deep her dual investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, her department and her past…
THREADS IN DEW by Katja Bohnet
This collection blurs the boundaries between crime, horror and speculative fiction. In one story, a young man is stabbed and wonders why God is living in a room in a third-rate hostel. In another, a couple wander around an indefinite space between worlds. A woman whose fear of flying escalates sharply in an airplane lavatory. A couple of young adults on an idyllic island in the Pacific, are stalked by a predatory surfer. A psychopath seeks a new victim while trying to figure out how to best self-medicate. A series of sparse and sharp short stories which explore the darkest corners of the human experience: raw, brittle and dystopian.
Find THE STONER STORIES at Amazon
More ripping reads will follow in our next round-up. Authors / publishers: feel free to send us details of your new publication for possible inclusion in future listings (but please take note of our comments about co-operative reciprocation over on the contact page)
July 11, 2017 in News. Tags: crime, daniel silva, ebooks, espionage, hardboiled, harry bosch, horror, michael connelly, mystery, new books, noir, nordic noir, psychic, psychological thriller, roslund and hellstrom, scandi crime, science fiction, serial killer, speculative fiction, spy, thriller
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Must-See Movies
Films on Sugar
Fed Up is a documentary that focuses on the causes of obesity in the United States. It presents evidence showing that the large quantities of sugar in processed foods are an overlooked root of the problem. It points to the moneyed lobbying power of “Big Sugar” in blocking attempts to enact effective policies to address the issue. This eye-opening documentary examines the underlying causes behind the obesity epidemic, including the marketing strategies of major U.S. food producers. The film is effective at demonstrating the seriousness of our current epidemic of obesity. Throughout all past ages, food had been scarce and populations were often hungry or starving. Since World War Two, for the first time in human history, people have access to too much food in the USA! We know that people gain weight in a world where foods have become easier to access and relatively cheap, foods have become increasingly palatable with increasing caloric content, and our culture increasingly values pleasure while also becoming sedentary. No big surprise that this combo leads to gaining weight. But how did 60% of the country get so fat? 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight, with 1 in 3 adults considered obese. Childhood obesity has become an ever-more serious medical issue in the United States. The film includes touching video self-portraits by young people who belong to the almost 17 percent of children and adolescents, ages 2 to 19, who are considered obese. Lack of interest in accepting any kind of personal responsibility for this historic result is stunning. Everyone who is truly culpable gets a pass — i.e., our know-everything leaders — and the obese parents who raise obese children. Pssst…Why aren’t they in the least bit curious as to how they’ve become 300 pounders when their ancestors were all normal? This film is an expose of the food industry’s pedaling of sugar-rich junk food to kids and the epidemic of obesity that has resulted from it. It rightly points to the chief villain in our food choices–sugar–as addictive and toxic. Sugar is clearly added to food products that historically had none in an effort to elicit a crave factor, so you can’t stop eating them. Experts in the film compare the addictiveness of sugar to cocaine – a fascinating concept! And seeing how it affects the brain was disturbing for me. It is true that sugar is addictive — which is one reason why it is so hard to eat healthy after eating junk food for years. The film presents a strong case against the hidden sugar is processed foods that results in too much sugar intake. Dr. Robert Lustig has given a famous sugar lecture on YouTube that you can watch, and there are other films concerning this issue. When all the facts come together the results are astounding. Americans primarily consume processed foods, and are ignorant as to what healthy food actually is. The widespread aversion to “health food” is revealing, because who in their right mind would reject food that is good for health? The film nailed it when said, “Nobody is comparing junk food with cooked food, but only other junk food…like ‘Now available 50% less fat!’ Junk food is junk — even though it may be slightly less junky!” This is a great documentary about how the food industry really works. Experts in the film indict the food industry for their abhorrent pattern of marketing foods that are making America sick, and as a result accelerating the costs of health care. It may not be totally fair to demonize the food industry, which has done a lot of good by providing a greater variety of safer food to more people at lower prices. As recently as 70 years ago during the Great Depression many people couldn’t get enough to eat, and in many parts of the world that is still true today. Originally processed foods served the useful purpose of having longer shelf-life than fresh foods which spoiled quickly, thereby avoiding losses and increasing profits. It is true that adding refined sugar is just giving people what they have craved ever since their ancient ancestors were living on wild fruit in the forest and developed a taste for sweet that helped them survive. But the food industry has crossed a moral line by adding sugar to food products that historically had none to elicit the addictive crave factor in order to increase consumption of their products, and thereby increase sales and profits. We must share the responsibility with the food industry for junk food proliferation, because their less-healthy offerings continue to appear on food store shelves in response to public demand, since large numbers of people have chosen to buy those products because they don’t know any better. People need to understand that eating ‘non-food’ is very unhealthy and leads to diseases. However, I’m sure the food companies are already starting campaigns to destroy the information in this expose Fed Up. It’s up to the consumer to decide. Something important failed to happen 30 years ago. This film shows how the first dietary guidelines issued by the U.S. government 30 years ago overlooked the role of dietary sugar in increasing risks of obesity, diabetes, and associated ill-health outcomes, particularly in children. Look at the labels on food — sugar doesn’t have any RDA percentages listed. Curious! Since these guidelines effectively condoned unlimited addition of sugar to foods consumed by children, sugar consumption has greatly increased, obesity has skyrocketed, and generations of children have grown up far fatter than their parents. These children face impaired health and shorter lifespans as a result. The World Health Organization proposed Maximum Daily Sugar Intake Recommendations in their Health Research Report. It is a stunning eye opener to realize that both Democrat and Republican congressmen in Washington united to threaten the World Health Organization with withdrawal of our 300 million dollar annual funding support if they did not remove the Maximum Daily Sugar Intake Recommendations from their Health Research Report, and succeeded in getting them removed from the Report. I always knew they were self-serving, but I did not think that they would actively support spreading illness throughout the U.S. citizenry merely to garner campaign contributions from sugar and food lobbyists. They say it’s personal responsibility of what to eat or not eat — BUT if the food industries discredits all the medical information about junk food in order to make more money, then what is a parent or anyone expected to believe? How can everyone be expected to make the right food choices? So we must stop leaving it to the government and taxpayers to protect us from junk foods. Parents should pick up a book on nutrition and read it to educate themselves. As the relationship between the high-sugar diet and poor health has emerged, entrenched sugar industry interests with almost unlimited financial lobbying resources have beaten back attempts by parents, schools, states, and Congress to provide a healthier diet for children. It is no secret that American government works in tandem with big corporate and industry players either through subsidiaries or lobbyists. But prepare to be outraged and disgusted with our government for their complicity in the obesity epidemic we face. It is abhorrent that many politicians support food companies that are making America sick, and as a result accelerating the costs of health care. And the documentary points out how even Michelle Obama’s “Move” Campaign for better health in the war on childhood obesity was co-opted by the junk food giants. In the film it is sad to see these doomed overweight children exercising like mad to little avail! Watching this you can’t help but notice the similarities between how nicotine and cigarettes were targeted to our children much the same as sugar-filled junk foods are being advertised now. A very good parallel is drawn with the tobacco industry, how they continued to fight for decades against the overwhelming evidence that their product cause cancer. Now the big food industry is doing something similar, desperately calling efforts to modify food, particularly processed junk food, as the actions of ‘a nanny state’. I completely agree that this sounds like “big tobacco” back in the 80’s and 90’s. So please don’t buy into the lies of the food companies. Do your food homework, learn what is and isn’t healthy, make right choices, and learn how to eat healthy. Everyone who is just beginning research on this issue will find this documentary an excellent primer. The film is clear, concise, and filled with great information on this issue. It definitely possesses valuable information with segments from credible experts. I think this movie is very informative and eye-opening. The film will undoubtedly do some good by helping raise public awareness of childhood obesity and of the danger of hidden sugars in processed foods. This is about getting out the right information. I believe vital components in reclaiming our health are discussing America’s lack of food intelligence, our increasing consumption of fast foods, why we believe it is acceptable to serve and eat processed junk, and exploring when and with what generation this change has occurred. This film gets its warnings across loud and clear — we need to change what we eat. It is very eye-opening. This documentary gave me something to think about. I don’t believe that I will clean my cupboard or be able to rid myself of sugar completely, but I will start to think about how much sugar my family and I consume. In fact we can make the decision to not eat those junk foods, and we should do so, especially if we want to get or stay healthy. I stopped eating junk food the day after seeing this film, but went back to eating it two days later. Now I have been off of processed and packaged foods since the New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve learned it IS cheaper to eat real food as opposed to processed foods. I agree with the concept of “lifestyle changes” as I just spent the last year changing everything about my diet by cooking for myself and getting off processed foods, sugars, caffeine and going to whole foods & low carb. I lost 56 pounds in this year long process and am now healthier than ever at the age of 56. In the spirit of moderation, I try to eat a healthy diet, but I enjoy an occasional sugary treat or fast food meal, and I appreciate the convenience of packaged, processed foods when I don’t have a lot of time to shop and cook. I see no compelling reason to think it is impossible for people to lose weight on a diet that is overall nutritious and calorie controlled but that allows small amounts of even the “worst” foods. If we just go back to cooking and eating real food, we could start to reverse these terrible trends of unhealthiness and obesity. At what point does the responsibility for child obesity fall upon the parents? What happened to personal responsibility? The parents in this video should be wiser and stronger about their own diets, then their children’s. Most telling was the father of a teenager who is over 400 pounds saying, “I have no control over what he eats” while the child’s mother says, “Bigger is beautiful and it’s a sign that you’re healthy”, and all the while the child is too large to do much beyond lumber to a chair and watch TV. These fat kids are victims! Our country has yet to address the issue of toxic foods being served to our children in school cafeterias. Our school does community snacks where every day the kindergarten and first grade kids are given fruit loops, pretzels, Oreos, 100 calorie snack which are considered healthy! Aside from the school setting, children are dependent on what their adult parents purchase and serve them. Personal and parental responsibility is almost written off in favor of business culpability, after showing kitchens full of chips and soda — and fat kids eating Nutella. If it’s hereditary it’s one thing, but ruining our children’s health with one’s own hands is inexcusable. Can we not say it’s another kind of child abuse when we put our children in such a miserable state? I watched this doc with my kids so that they understand I am not such an evil mom to emphasize healthy eating rather than Cheerios for breakfast. I pack fruits as snacks and let them eat a junk snack served at school once in a while as a treat. (Is there still a concept of treat nowadays?) A great documentary. It is very informative and well done. This is a film that every parent should see to understand the way in which they could be risking their children’s health, and their own, with excessive and dangerous sugar consumption. This makes a very compelling argument. The film lays out what’s wrong, and some possible solutions — to take or leave at our discretion. This movie is absolutely a MUST SEE for all Americans, a must-see for everyone who values their health. Watch it with kids — it’s must-education, in my opinion. Every parent and child in America should have an opportunity to view this together. This is well-worth your time for your own well-being and that of your children. Definitely worth a look. I recommend watching it. I urge you to see this movie and make up your own mind. Produced and narrated by American journalist and TV personality Katie Couric. Documentary 2014 PG 90 minutes.
Killer at Large:
Why Obesity is America’s Greatest Threat
Documentary 2008 NR 1hr44m. This probing documentary explores the ever-expanding issue of obesity in America from individual, political, scientific and cultural perspectives. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the US today. But how did 60% of the country get so fat? 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight, with 1 in 3 adults considered obese. Childhood obesity has become an ever-more serious medical issue in the United States. The film includes touching video self-portraits by young people who belong to the almost 17 percent of children and adolescents, ages 2 to 19, who are considered obese. There are poignant moments, such as a 12 year old girl having liposuction. The film gives a range of reasons why we have this issue regarding obesity in America: school junk food, too much sugar, lack of information about high fructose corn syrup, portion sizes, television, intense advertising aimed at children, cozy cartoon characters hawking sugar, parents, food companies, politics, lobbying, greed, and economics. See Full Review
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Documentary University of California Television (UCTV). Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
The Secrets Of Sugar – Documentary
Documentary. We’ve heard for years about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there have never been recommended limits for sugar on Canadian food labels, despite emerging research that suggests the sweet stuff may be making more of us fat and sick.
Has the sugar industry been hiding an unsavory truth from consumers? A small but influential group of medical researchers is stirring up the health debate, linking sugar not just to rising obesity rates but also to a host of diseases including cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s. We put a family of four on a healthy diet to try to beat their sugar habit and track the surprising results. We talk to leading scientists — and their critics. And we ask the food industry why those ingredient labels are far from clear when it comes to how much sugar is really on your plate.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-miwEGr6nQ
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2
Documentary 2014 NR 1hr29m. With the help of experts, Joe Cross details the eating and lifestyle changes that can help others match his weight loss and health achievements. You definitely need to watch the first movie to get a good grounding of what this one is about. After that, this is an awesome next step on how to move beyond the juice-fast and into the lifestyle while dealing the with pitfalls that are bound to happen. The movie is highly entertaining and merely looks back at the what has happened in the lives of the people and communities Joe visited in the original movie. It takes an honest look at the successes and failures of those ordinary people and paints a very realistic picture of the struggle many people go through to get healthy. The advice is 100% true. A plant-based diet does truly revolutionary things for your health, weight, happiness, and overall well being. Love the message. Very well done!
Books about sugar addiction:
Sugar Blues
Sugar Nation
Little Sugar Addicts
Why Diets Fail: Because You’re Addicted to Sugar
Suicide by Sugar
Overcoming Sugar Addiction
Beat Sugar Addiction Now
The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program
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Meeker County
Mark Warren Esq. Arrested
Leave a Comment / Meeker County / By Dennis Partridge
On the 23d. Mark Warren Esq., county Atty. for Meeker county, was arrested at Monticello and returned to Forest City under guard, on the grave charge of being a “Copperhead.” Copperheads were supposed to be in league with the Indians as well as the South. Warren was furloughed at Forest City.
On the night of the 27th, while Jesse V. Branham jr., was standing guard at the creek just out of Forest City on the south, A. C. Smith, E. S. Fitch and Mark Warren taking a circuit of the guard, came up to sentinel Branham, and while conversing with the sentinel, Warren disappeared in the starlight and was not seen again till the next spring. When Warren departed Jesse duly exercised his lungs in affectionate efforts for his return, but concluded not to follow him many miles south that night as it was too dark to use a needle gun!
When Warren returned he had a couple of Indian ponies and said he had been off on the plains as a guide for Col. Sibley. He was a singular genius-the world would never have been complete without Educated as a lawyer in the office of Hon. T. M. McShafter, then of Vermont-since of California-he early settled on a preemption claim in the town of Rice City in this County, where he lived a number of years, was County Commissioner at times, exhibiting in business transactions a good sound judgment, made but little improvement on his farm, was at peace with all the world, no enemies, a democrat from childhood, his time was principally divided in his cabin between praying and swearing-’twas difficult to tell which service he engaged in with the most zeal. He was one fall a Democratic candidate for the Legislature and instead of electioneering for votes, kept steady at his work, and one day while he was carrying the hod, tending mason at Greenleaf, the Hon. Thomas Cowan from St. Peter, who was that season stumping this Congressional District, arrived at Greenleaf and running against a man working mortar with a hoe, enquired for Hon. Mark Warren, candidate for the Legislature from this District.
Mark looked at Cowan for a moment encased in black broad cloth and kid gloves, then dropping his hoe, raised both hands above his head and exclaimed, loud enough to be heard half a mile, “I’m your man by God sir.” Should friend Warren still be in the land of the living and his eve chance to meet this, he will be after us with a sharp stick for some part of his “descriptive roll.”
On the 30th, (Saturday) a detail was made of 24 men to go to Hutchinson with the view of obtaining the guns left there by Whitcomb, but the paucity of their defensive implements induced the Hutchinson boys to hold on to the guns.
The detail returned to Forest City on Sunday the 31st. On the first of September another detail was made of 17 men of the company and several citizens for the purpose of visiting Green Lake, and for the ostensible purpose of relieving a family said to be on the island in said lake in a helpless condition. It probably should have been Norway Lake as there are no islands in Green Lake where a family could have been secreted.
The history of this detail is not material as it returned the same day reporting a skirmish at Swede Grove with the Indians. Two Indians reported killed and one of our men Sam. Hutchins, wounded in the thigh by a musket ball.
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Art Critic John McDonald praises James Rogers survey show
SMH Art Critic John McDonald gave a rave review of James Rogers mid-career survey exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra in a full page article for Spectrum.
"James Rogers is always a standout in Sculpture by the Sea; his new show is a revelation"
"When one pauses to reflect on the housr of hard labour that have gone into the cutting, welding and crafting of Rogers' sculptures, it's amazing how lively they feel. The pain has been burnt away, leaving onlye the pleasure, and that sensation is ours to share"
Tunnelvision is at the Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, until September 27.
Tom Adair covers Good Weekend's "52 Weekends Away" — SMH and The Age
Weekender by Melbourne artist Tom Adair was featured on the cover of the Good Weekend's 52 Weekends Away issue in the SMH and The Age, 14–15 November.
"Weekender" is part of a new series of works by the artist. The paintings will be on show in the N\H Project Space from 18-21 November.
Caroline Zilinsky wins a second major 2020 art prize—the Evelyn Chapman Art Award
Caroline Zilinksy is celebrating her second major art prize win this year. She's just been announced as winner of the Evelyn Chapman Art Award with her painting Heiress to the Pied Piper, 2020. In May this year Caroline also won the preeminent portrait prize for women artists, the Portia Geach Memorial Award.
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Election: Hand Recount Begins
Friday, November 13, 2020
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CITY COUNCIL'S ACTION ON GARBAGE CONTRACT FOLLOWS YEARS OF DEBATE
TIFTON GOES WITH RYLAND ENVIRONMENTAL
By FRANK SAYLES JR.
Tifton Grapevine
Tifton City Council's decision this month to give the city's trash and recycling contract to Ryland Environmental is the culmination of multi-year intense discussions about garage pickup within the city.
On Nov. 2, City Council accepted Ryland’s proposal for a five-year fixed-price contract at $19.33 per household per month. Current contractor Golden Environmental, whose contract ends in December, had requested a three-year contract raising rates by 50 cents per household for a total of $19.91 a month.
Under its current contract. Golden charges $19.41 per month for each household.
Council said Ryland will work with the city to create a transfer station for trash rather than continuing to send all garbage to the landfill, whose remaining life expectancy is seven years. With a transfer station, trash is collected at the station and then trucked to a landfill elsewhere in another county.
Eighteen months ago, Council’s Solid Waste Committee had first made the recommendation to contract with Ryland for the services.
As a City Council member at the time, I served on the Solid Waste Committee with Councilman Johnny Terrell and several city staff representatives. We spent months reviewing proposals for city garbage and waste pickup, arriving at a unanimous recommendation.
“We spent a lot of time going through the RFPs (Request for Proposals),” I had said at the May 6, 2019, council workshop in presenting the committee's recommendation. “We tried to look at everything. We always give consideration to local businesses whenever we do this. However, the committee wanted to look at what’s best for the citizens of Tifton right now and for the future, and I think that’s what we did.”
But that recommendation to contract with Ryland was dead on arrival at that time within City Council, whose majority was poised to retain Golden Environmental as the garbage contractor. Golden is a Tifton company and was coming to the end of a five-year city contract; Ryland is headquartered in Dublin.
At City Council's May 20, 2019, meeting, Councilmen Jack Folk and Wes Ehlers moved to give Golden another five-year contract for garbage services but for the city to take over yard and bulk waste collection in-house, creating a department to handle it. Estimates were that the new department would have cost the city $600,000 up front, with the hiring of personnel and purchasing of equipment; however, proponents said the department would soon pay for itself.
With no enthusiasm among most council members at that time to change contractors, Terrell and I offered a compromise to give Golden Environmental a one-year contract extension through December 2020, allowing the city to further study the feasibility of handling yard and bulk waste collection in-house. That was approved by a 3-2 vote, with Mayor Julie B. Smith joining us in agreement.
With Golden’s contract soon ending this year, council recently directed City Manager Pete Pyrzenski to reach out to waste-collection companies for proposals. Pyrzenski told council that Ryland was the low bidder and handles trash collection across the Southeast.
“They know what they’re doing,” Pyrzenski said. He added that he looked at the proposals from a business perspective and for “what’s best for our government… We’re at a crossroads. This is a business-smart decision."
Pyrzenski said that Ryland will make Tifton its regional hub with a new office and 10 new jobs.
In choosing Ryland at council’s Nov. 2 meeting, Vice Mayor Ehlers said council was “looking at more than price,” and Councilman Folk said the decision “makes a lot of sense” to taxpayers.
Some of us had said that more than 18 months ago.
Frank Sayles Jr. was a member of Tifton City Council from January 2016 until January 2020.
ELECTION HAND RECOUNT
BEGINS TODAY AROUND GA
All 159 counties in Georgia will begin an election recount by hand at 9 a.m. today (Friday), as ordered by Ga. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The count must be completed by 11:59 p.m. next Wednesday.
Tift County Election Supervisor Leila E. Dollison said the hand recount in Tift will begin at 9 a.m. in the county election board office at 222 Chesnutt Ave, Building B. She said the public may view the process within a designated public-viewing area in the building. Individuals are prohibited from interfering in the process, cannot touch ballots, cannot take photos or record the process, Dollison said.
Raffensperger, who is self-quarantining after his wife tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday, said the hand recount "will help build confidence ... with the margin being so close."
According to the latest figures from the secretary of state’s office, Joe Biden received 14,116 more votes than Donald Trump out of nearly 5 million ballots in Georgia. No one has yet called the state for either candidate.
Dollison said Tift County had only minor issues with the election, primarily with some voters submitting more than one application for absentee ballots. She said five organizations sent out applications for absentee ballots to voters, which caused some confusion as some voters believed they were actual ballots or were a followup to their previous applications.
No one received more than one official absentee ballot in Tift County, Dollison said.
14-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN SHOOTING DEATH OF
15-YEAR-OLD TIFTON GIRL
A 14-year-old has been arrested and charged with felony murder in the shooting death of a 15-year-old Tifton girl, Tifton Police announced Thursday night.
Autumn Connell, a student at Tift County High School, died Thursday at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., after being transferred there in critical condition from Tift Regional Medical Center, police said.
Authorities said they are not releasing the name of the 14-year-old charged with felony murder because of the juvenile's age.
At about 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, Tifton Police responded to gunshots in the 1000 block of Lee Avenue. Upon arrival, officers found Autumn Connell with a gunshot wound.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Autumn’s family," Tifton Police said in a written statement Thursday night.
"As we seek to understand the reason why something like this has happened to another one of our children, we must come together as a community to work together," the statement read.
A joint investigation with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Tifton Police Department is still underway. Although an arrest has been made, authorities ask anyone with information to contact the Tifton Police Tip Line at 229-391-3991 or the GBI Tip Line at 1-800-597-TIPS (8477).
TIFT COUNTY SEES 15 NEW CASES OF COVID THURSDAY
Fifteen new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Tift County on Thursday, increasing Tift’s total cases since the pandemic began to 2,050, the Ga. Department of Public Health (DPH) reported.
During the past two weeks, Tift had 80 new cases and, as of Thursday, 67 coronavirus-related deaths.
The DPH said that among the Tift countians who were tested for COVID-19 in the past two weeks, 8.8 percent of them were positive.
Statewide, Georgia reported 2,547 new cases on Thursday and 70 additional deaths. Since the pandemic began, Georgia has reported 380,190 total cases and 8,403 deaths, the DPH said.
LAWMAKERS MAKE PROGRESS ON VETERANS ISSUES,
CONGRESSMAN SCOTT SAYS
By BONNIE SAYLES
Congressman Austin Scott, R-Tifton, spoke of positive changes for veterans during Tifton’s Tribute to Veterans on Wednesday, Veterans Day.
Scott told of his grandfather, “my favorite veteran,” who was a prisoner of war for 18 months during World War II.
“He was a B-17 pilot flying out of North Africa. When he returned, he spent a little better than five years trying to prove to the VA (Veterans Administration) that he was in the military. He’d been a POW, was wounded in battle and had five air medals and a Purple Heart. He came back to fight the bureaucracy at the VA," Scott told the audience.
"I will tell you quite candidly that just a few years ago, we were still hearing those stories from the VA. Now I feel that we have made some good progress with the VA. There are still some veterans waiting for care, and we are doing everything we can to reduce the amount of red tape.”
In another situation, Scott told of a young disabled veteran, who lost both legs in Afghanistan who wanted to go back to work, but said he would lose his Social Security benefits if he took a job.
“So we wanted to fix that,” Scott said. “We wrote a bill called the Purple Heart Right to Work Act. They deserve it. I believe we have so many suicides because we have too many injured veterans who spend too much time sitting around the house, because the rules prohibit them from doing what they need to do to get back to work.
“We have a tremendous bipartisan group that signed on that legislation,” said Scott, who serves on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee.
Scott also noted that there is positive news coming on the potential for a coronavirus vaccine, and he advised citizens, “Don’t let your guard down” in the meantime.
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Dr. Thomas D. Fausett Jr., left, is sworn in as president of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians by Dr. Howard McMahan.
ADEL DOCTOR BECOMES PRESIDENT OF GA FAMILY PHYSICIANS ACADEMY
The Georgia Academy of Family Physicians has named an Adel physician as president.
Dr. Thomas D. Fausett Jr., was sworn in during a socially distant ceremony on the front portico of Southwell Medical in Adel.
Fausett operates a private independent practice in Adel and is on staff at Southwell Medical and Southwell Health and Rehabilitation Center, both in Adel.
He becomes the 73rd Georgia Academy president. He previously was an assistant professor of medicine at Mercer University, Emory University, Augusta University (then known as Georgia Regents), Albany State, and Valdosta State universities.
In Cook County, his home county, Fausett has served as a member and chair of the Board of Health and is department chair of Southwell Medical.
CALLED TO CARE AIDS CHILDREN
IN FOSTER CARE, CO-DIRECTOR
TELLS TIFTON ROTARY CLUB
Hannah Rucker, co-director of Called to Care of Tift and Turner counties and guest speaker at the Tifton Rotary Club meeting Wednesday, explained the mission of the nonprofit organization – to meet the physical needs of vulnerable children in the foster care system.
The Georgia Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS) will "let us know their needs, and we will do our best to meet them,” she said.
An example is the “journey bag” she displayed, a bookbag filled with different items, depending on the age and needs of each child.
The organization started in Tifton during 2014 when local resident Laura Maxwell felt a calling, during a church service, to help children. The organization now serves 20 counties in South Georgia.
Currently serving 114 children in Tift and Turner counties, the local chapter aided 417 children in the past year, including those in 36 local foster homes. Online training and courses for foster parents are offered free of charge, and the chapter rents office space from Tifton First Baptist Church.
The organization is launching its year-end campaign within a few weeks in hopes of making up funds missed from canceling fundraising events during the pandemic. For more information about the chapter, Rucker said to look to social media for "Called to Care."
EXCHANGE CLUB HEARS ABOUT JOURNEY FROM PHYSICAL TO DIGITAL NEWSPAPER
At the Exchange Club of Tifton’s weekly meeting Monday, Frank Sayles Jr., editor and publisher of the Tifton Grapevine, talked about his journey from physical newspapers to a digital one.
Sayles, who was publisher of The Tifton Gazette for a dozen years, has been a publisher and editor at newspapers throughout Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia.
He was a longtime political reporter and editor at The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., where he was Statehouse bureau chief, covered Southern governors’ conferences, congressional hearings and interviewed four presidents of the United States.
Growing up in Norfolk, Va., Sayles at age 12 began a neighborhood “newspaper," via typewriter and carbon paper, chronicling pickup football games and school happenings.
“I feel like I’ve come full circle now in some ways,” he said. “The Tifton Grapevine is a way for me to cover my community and to connect our community."
The Grapevine is a twice-a-week digital newspaper with 6,800 email subscribers and is also available online where thousands more folks read it. It is free and is sustained by local advertisers.
Sayles said his wife, Bonnie, began the Grapevine a decade ago as a digital service for local events and restaurant specials. In 2013, Sayles began enhanced local news coverage in the Tifton Grapevine and set a regular schedule for its release each week. It has been steadily growing ever since.
During the past two decades, Sayles has been active in the community, serving on Tifton City Council, on the Downtown Development Authority, on the Tifton-Tift County Chamber of Commerce board as vice chairman, as president of several organizations, including the United Way of South Central Georgia, the Tift Area YMCA, the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, the Tifton-Tift County Public Library Foundation, the Tifton Rotary Club and currently serves as a board member on the Tifton-Tift County Tourism Board.
He noted that he took a circuitous path to Tifton after moving to South Carolina twice, to West Virginia twice and to Georgia on three different occasions – all with the newspaper business.
“Tifton is the place we were meant to be,” Sayles said.
ROTARY CLUB SPONSORS 'LAST MILE FOR POLIO' BIKE RIDE SUNDAY
In commemoration of World Polio Day, the Rotary Club of Tifton is sponsoring the "Last Mile for Polio" bike ride on Sunday, Nov. 15.
The 5.5-mile family-friendly bike ride begins at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church's Sixth Street parking lot in Tifton. The route includes curated, educational and historic stops. The entry fee is $15 per individual and $25 per couple (which includes children).
All proceeds go the Rotary Polio Plus Program to help eradicate polio worldwide, which is a major project of Rotary Clubs across the globe. Rotary is proud to be instrumental in the eradication of polio in 99 percent of the world. Only two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, still report cases.
Rotary International launched the initiative 30 years ago. Made possible by donations to the Rotary Foundation and End Polio Now, Rotary members have given more than $2.1 billion and endless volunteer hours to protect children from the paralyzing disease.
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Southwell/Tift Regional Health System (TRHS) is conducting a health needs assessment and is asking members of the community to participate in a web-based survey by Nov. 23.
Go to www.MySouthwell.com/Survey
English and Spanish versions of the survey are available. Complete the survey by Nov. 23, 2020, to be eligible for a drawing for three great prizes:
$200 VISA gift card
$100 Walmart gift card
$50 Darden restaurant gift card (good at Longhorn, Olive Garden, and other locations)
Winners will be announced on Nov. 24. You can also participate anonymously. Thank you for your feedback!
Student Tristen Clements, left, and Chris Daniels, ABAC manager of instructional technology, examine a camera in the new media studio.
ABAC READYING STATE-OF-ART MEDIA STUDIO
Students interested in television broadcasting, radio, or producing will soon have access to a state-of-the-art media studio at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Chris Daniels, manager of instructional technology, said the studio will be completed in a few weeks. Installation of the set, lighting grids, and practice tests are still underway.
“We are excited about the new studio and want to provide opportunities for students to be involved from the ground floor,” Daniels said.
The 1,100-square-foot studio in the recently renovated Carlton Center will be accompanied by a modern control room with stations for students to run lighting, audio, and graphics. Students enrolled in journalism classes and members of the Stallion TV production team may also use the new equipment to practice switching and producing.
Just down the hall from the studio is a new audio/podcast recording booth, ABAC radio station WPLH, Stallion student media, a print-layout/conference room, and a post-production editing suite.
As a part of a $21.4 million project with the construction of the new Fine Arts Building on campus, the Carlton Center has undergone a complete renovation during the past two years.
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TIFTON GRAPEVINE'S DOG OF THE WEEK
This dog is currently on stray hold at the Tift County Animal Shelter. If not reclaimed, will be available for adoption or rescue at the Animal Shelter, located at 278 Georgia Highway 125 S. It is open to the public for adoptions from 1-6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
For more information, call 229-382-PETS (7387).
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205 Belmont Ave., Tifton, 229-382-6055
YOUR WEEKEND
...at a Glance
Drive Thru Flu Clinic, 8-10 a.m., Tift County Health Department, 305 E. 12th St.
Tift County High Blue Devils football vs. Colquitt County High Packers, 7:30 p.m., Brodie Field, Tifton
Tiftarea Academy Panthers football @ Southland Academy, 7:30 p.m., Americus
Wiregrass Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-Noon, Ga. Museum of Agricuture, Tifton
Cane Grinding & Syrup Making, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Ga. Museum of Agriculture, Tifton
Bobby L. Jones, 87, Moultrie
The Rev. James Edgar Rowe, 87, Willacoochee
Sheron Elizabeth Wood, 64, Irwinville
Chung-He Varnadoe, 78, Adel
Mary Ruth Austin Giddens, 86, Lexington, Ala.
Rodolfo Martinez, 66, Tifton
Donald Jimmy “Donnie” Cooper, 67, Tifton
Raymond Moser, 82, Sparks
J.C. Harper, 90,
Jeremy DeBerry, 29, Adel
Linda Kay Daniel, 73, Hull
Nolan Clifford Wilcox, 83,
Sarah Ann Smith Oliver, 74, Fitzgerald
Butch Williams, 76, Dixie
Thomas Kenneth Moody, 82, Tifton
John Peter Ruse, 90, Tifton
Fred Thomas Day, 73, Cordele
Richard “Cory” Bromlow, 41,
Thomas L. Rodgers, 79,
Lynn Forbes Bailey, 71, Tifton
Rachel Darlene Castleberry Morgan, 59, Ty Ty
Geneva "Pinky" Browning Harper, 88, West Berrien Community
Angela Mackey, Ashburn
Patricia Lee Boyse McRae, 95, Nashville
Sandra Britt Johnson, 76, Ashburn
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Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman’s Daughter Bonnie Wears Beth Chapman’s Ashes
Bonnie Chapman, Duane "Dog" Chapman's daughter with wife Beth, shared new details about her mother's final days and let her Instagram followers know of her own struggles before and after the 51-year-old died in June.
Now 21 years old, Bonnie Chapman revealed how devastating losing her mother has been while admitting 2019 was a very bad year even before a death she admits she was not prepared for, despite two years of therapy.
Beth Chapman died in June 2019 at the age of 51 after a battle with cancer.
"This is very hard to relive, but seeing my mother in her hospital bed, skin and bones, it shook me to my core," Bonnie Chapman writes in a lengthy note on Instagram. "I apologized for being a brat and she shook her head and assured me I wasn't. That's my last memory with her."
Stitches, a burn, coming out as gay, her best friend's suicide and troubles at college made any promise of a good year in 2019 bleak, but mid-June, Beth's death sent Bonnie into a dark spiral, she says — one she says she's only now coming out of.
"To this day my heart aches for my mama, I miss her," she writes. "Every cell in my body misses her. I know she's in a better place with no pain, and that's all I could want."
"I'm sad to never see her again, but I wear her ashes around my neck every day since. She's still with me."
A small vial can be seen hanging from Bonnie's neck in a recent photo:
Beth and Duane Chapman were the stars of several television reality shows, including Dog the Bounty Hunter. In 2018 the first season of Dog's Most Wanted premiered on WGN. The season followed Duane Chapman and his team as they chased fugitives, but also chronicled Beth's cancer journey, and ultimately, her death and memorial. It's not clear if there will be a second season of the show. Duane — "Dog" — has had his own health setbacks in recent months and indicated he has been told to slow down.
Together Beth and Duane had two kids, daughter Bonnie and son Garry. They also have several children from previous relationships.
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Past members of "The Real World," "Road Rules," "Are You the One?," first time cast members called 'Fresh Meat,' relatives of these members, and past members from other shows compete against each other for the chance to win a cash prize.
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The Challenge Season 27 Episode List
Episode 0 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Meet the New Blood
Release Date: 9 Nov. 2015
Join the cast and get to know the new faces as the veterans of The Challenge, The Real World, and Are You The One? introduce their bloodlines and gear up for the most dramatic season yet.
Episode 1 - Battle of the Bloodlines: There Will Be Blood
Release Date: 2 Dec. 2015
The cast arrives in Turkey and learn they'll be competing alongside their family. The first night leads to a scandalous hookup, and a physical clash between brothers could send them packing before the game even begins.
Episode 2 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Bad Blood
Players must face their fears head-on when creepy crawlers get too close for comfort. One team begins to crack under the pressure when personal attacks against each other lead to an emotional meltdown.
Episode 3 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Camilanator: Judgement Day
Release Date: 16 Dec. 2015
TJ throws a shocking twist that changes the whole game. A dangerous challenge lands two players in the hospital, and one's condition worsens later on when they collapse unexpectedly.
Episode 4 - Battle of the Bloodlines: #Corneesa
Cara Maria's ex, Abram, enters the game with his brother and threatens to be the biggest wild card. A scorned veteran confronts her rookie hookup when she overhears some harsh confessions.
Episode 5 - Battle of the Bloodlines: A House Divided
The divide between the veterans and a team of hot-headed rookies comes to a volatile head. At the club, KellyAnne's allegiance sets another veteran off and their insults cross the line.
Episode 6 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Dirty Little Secret
One team's performance falls apart when they fail to communicate during the challenge. Bananas pulls a jaw-dropping move that makes the entire house question his loyalty.
Episode 7 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Blood Brothers
Release Date: 6 Jan. 2016
Abram confronts Cara Maria over the cheating rumors, and reaches his boiling point of insanity. The results after voting fuels the existing hatred between two teams and sets up the most intense elimination yet.
Episode 8 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Blood Is Thicker Than Mud
Release Date: 13 Jan. 2016
The cast is joined by CT and Diem's sister, Faith, to pay tribute to beloved challengers, Diem and Knight. Bananas worries that his manipulative strategy is beginning to backfire.
Episode 9 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Blood Versus Love
The Challengers must hold their breath in a terrifying underwater challenge as they compete for the last time in two large teams. Players are shocked when CT and Zach arrive in the game.
Episode 10 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Out for Blood
Players are reunited with their bloodline teammates and must compete in a grueling endurance challenge with shocking results. TJ stuns the competitors with news of a location change.
Episode 11 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Tear Down This Wall
Release Date: 3 Feb. 2016
After the competitors arrive in Berlin, simmering tension erupt, causing players to lash out at one another. The competitors must race across speeding trucks in order to win a spot in the upcoming final challenge.
Episode 12 - Battle of the Bloodlines: True Blood
Release Date: 10 Feb. 2016
The final three teams learn that they will be competing in the first-ever final challenge to take place in the heart of a major city. With money on their minds, the players begin part one of the finale.
Episode 13 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Family Matters
The competitors must endure a series of demanding checkpoints as they battle each other all day - and all night - for their share of the $350,000 prize. One pair is crowned champions of Battle of the Bloodlines.
Episode 14 - Battle of the Bloodlines: Reunion
Bananas, Aneesa, Cara Maria and more Bloodlines sit down to discuss hook ups, fights, and Cara and Abram's roller coaster relationship. Hosted by Nessa.
Episode 15 - Battle of the Bloodlines: The S#!% They Should've Shown
The Challenge cast comes together to take you behind the scenes, share secrets and show some shameless never before seen footage.
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Davidson Community Players Haunts Theatre with its Festival of Ten-minute Halloween Plays
by Press Release | Oct 16, 2019 | Arts & Entertainment, Davidson Community Players
Have a cold beer and enjoy an evening of short plays. Join Davidson Community Players for its third annual celebration of local playwrights with Boos and Brews, an evening of ten minute plays featuring eerie Halloween fun. The play festival runs October 24-26, 2019 at the Actors Lab, 20700 North Main Street, Ste. 112, Cornelius. All performances begin at 8:00 p.m.
Boos and Brews features short ten-minute plays written by regional playwrights whose works were selected by a panel of readers considering numerous submissions. Audience members will choose the best play for a cash award at the end of the production. These plays all have one major theme in common—ghoulish fun! A selection of beer will be available for purchase at each performance.
For further information, please contact DCP’s artistic director, Sylvia Schnople, at 704-892-7953 or at her email.
Davidson Community Players is a non-profit organization established in 1965 to produce theatre that entertains, enriches, and encourages community participation in the dramatic arts. They have served the Lake Norman region for over fifty years with high quality and award winning entertainment. They are supported throughout the season by Arts and Science Council, The McIntosh Law Firm, Davidson Wealth Management, and Randy Marion Cadillac.
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Based in Los Angeles, Nick Kennerly is a violinist, composer, singer/songwriter, session musician and arranger. Nick has performed alongside many renowned artists including Elton John, David Crosby, Glenn Frey, John Fogerty, Machine Gun Kelly, blackbear, Sonu Nigam and Said the Sky. Kennerly has also toured extensively with Grammy winning artist Rostam(formerly of Vampire Weekend) opening for artists such as Haim and The National. He has also recorded violin for Rostam and other artists such as Justin Bieber, Big Sean, Khalid, Kaskade, Jhené Aiko, Max Schneider, Gnash,and Leven Kali. The songs on which he recorded for Big Sean and Leven Kali also feature artists such as Jeremih, Jojo, Thundercat, The-Dream, Starrah and Casey Veggies. Read more.
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Amsterdam · Brewery Tour · Double Fisting · Drink for Drink · Dutchman · The Warmoesstraat · Dec 06, 2017
Nippy Goes on a Brew Tour
When you think of Amsterdam, you don’t automatically think of beer. However, as the home of Heineken and the land of all things sinful, a beer in Amsterdam is never far away.
Amsterdam also has a wide range of craft breweries, and one rainy Saturday night, Nippy was ready for a tasting. He texted me and told me to organize a group to go on a bike tour of four different breweries in the city: Brouwerij ‘t IJ, de Prael, Bier Fabriek, and Brouwerij Troost.
I heeded his wishes, and organized an event. I should have known better, but I guess you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Nippy was nervous to meet my friends, so before joining us at Brouwerij ‘t IJ, he drank a bottle of wine by himself while watching Shrek. When he showed up at the bar, he was aggressive, to say the least.
Brouwerij ‘t IJ is one of the most famous spots in Amsterdam, located in an old windmill. Their beer is delicious, but also really strong. This hotspot also closes at 8pm, so you have to get there early, and be ready to drink a lot before cut off time.
Nippy bonded immediately with my friend Auke, a tall 6’4” Dutch man who can hold his alcohol. They started going drink for drink, something that’s never a good idea to do with Auke.
Auke and Nippy ordering their 6th drink.
At the stroke of 8:00, Nippy ran out of his drink and we decided to move onto the next bar, a cafe called de Prael. Our friend Liva joined us at this location, and I think she was a little disturbed by how drunk we were after only one brewery.
"Show me scared. Now show me pure fear. Horror. Excellent."
After a serious conversation about what language Liva, who is Latvian, and her Swedish fiancé were going to raise their children in, Nippy was ready to move on. At this point he was about 9 beers in and feeling pretty confident about himself. He turned to his new best friend Auke and said “Dearest friend, what do you say about cycling to the next brewpub? I hear their beer is marvelous!” Auke, a steel tank of a human and still sober, was confused why Nippy was acting so weird all of a sudden, but agreed that it was time to move on. We said goodbye to Liva, and climbed onto our bikes. Nippy chose to ride along with Auke, because apparently I’m old news.
One of the negatives of our brew tour was that we had to cross through one of the busiest parts of town. The Warmoesstraat is an old alleyway that used to serve as one of the main thoroughfares through the city, but is now filled with burger shops and other drunk food restaurants. It is also swarming with tourists who are traveling by foot, something that’s infuriating to anyone who is on a bike on a Saturday night.
Nippy was having none of it. All he wanted to do was get to Bier Fabriek as quickly and efficiently as possible. As a result, he started shouting at people from the bike as Auke tried to navigate his way through the throngs of people.
“Hey! What are you doing!? You’re in my way!”
“This is a street, not a sidewalk! GET IT RIGHT!!”
“Ajca;jclajdkaljcakhda;cjugggggghhhhhhhh”
The last one was the funniest, and somehow it stuck. The rest of our bike ride was spent growling at passersby in an attempt to get them out of our way.
Once we got to Bier Fabriek, all bets were off. At this point we were definitely inebriated, but still having fun. This brewery is right in the heart of the city, and is infamous for their floors, which are absolutely covered in peanut shells. It was the perfect spot for Nippy, who at this point was too intoxicated to care about being tidy.
Double fisting at Bier Fabriek like a Golden God.
Bier Fabriek was where Nippy started winding down. His drink-for-drink challenge was not going well. They were about 13 drinks deep. Auke was just getting started, but Nippy was starting to lose his mind. He was loud. He was boisterous. He was complicated. At one point, I think he was crying about being too drunk. Honestly, who knows what was happening.
Eventually, Nippy returned from the bathroom with some smudged mascara around his eyes and apologized for being so dramatic. We were all kind enough to not say anything, and decided that it was time to clear the air and move to the next bar.
At Brouwerij Troost, we met up with more friends, by Nippy was too far gone to pay attention. He was tired. He was hungry. He wanted bed more than anything. I tried to entice him to eat a burger, but it was to no avail. Nippy was toasted.
I took Nippy home after Troost, helping him wobble his way up the stairs and get into his bed comfortably. He asked me to stay at his place and offered to sleep on the couch, but I just patted his head and left a water glass and two Advil on his bedside table. I shoved a bucket next to his bed in case he needed it, then quietly let myself out and biked back home. It had been a long night, and I was excited to get back to my own bed. It had been another fun night in Amsterdam thanks to Nippy’s creative ideas, and it was only a matter of time before the next adventure came.
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Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health Found Not Responsible For Injury To Nurse In Public Street
By John H. Geaney on October 18, 2019 in Compensability with 0 Comments
In an important decision, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided on October 16, 2019 that a nurse who was walking from work premises to a parking lot following her shift at Jersey City Medical Center/ RWJBH was not in the course of employment when she was struck by a motor vehicle. Christina Adinolfi Shea, partner with Capehart Scatchard, won the trial before the Honorable Lionel Simon, Judge of Compensation, and then argued and won the appeal. Caroline Yount, Esq., assisted on both briefs.
Emily Manuel worked as a nurse for Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health (RWJBH) and was seriously injured when struck by a motor vehicle using a public crosswalk. She sustained hip and pelvic fractures, a concussion and other injuries. She finished her shift at 7 p.m. and then walked across the street to the parking lot where she normally parked. She filed a workers’ compensation claim contending that her injury on Jersey Avenue was covered under workers’ compensation because she was walking from work premises to an alleged employer controlled parking lot. RWJBH denied the claim from the outset and argued that the case was governed by the Supreme Court decision in Hersh v. County of Morris, 217 N.J. 236 (2014). RWJBH denied that it controlled the parking area, nor maintained that area. The PIP carrier also joined in the case seeking reimbursement for approximately $150,000 of medical bills it paid to Ms. Manuel.
The factual background on the parking lot is critical to appreciate. In 2010 RWJBH made on-site parking unavailable to non-essential employees and offered these employees parking in the Marina Lot located across the street from the hospital. That lot was owned by Assured Resource Management, LLC. (hereinafter Assured). RWJBH rented 158 parking spots in the 450-space Marina Lot and paid Assured $13,000 monthly for these parking spots. RWJBH made a biweekly payroll deduction from the employees who were authorized to park in the Marina Lot, such as Manuel, to cover the lease costs. Employees had to submit an application for permission to park in the lot.
RWJBH provided an optional shuttle service to transport hospital employees from the Marina Lot to the hospital’s entrance. Those employees who did not use the shuttle could walk across Jersey Avenue by means of a public crosswalk. RWJBH did not control the means of ingress and egress from the Marina Lot to the hospital.
Under the terms of the lease, RWJBH issued parking passes to employees who parked in the Marina Lot. The hospital designated those employees who were permitted to park there. The hospital reserved the right to provide an on-site traffic director during morning and evening rush hours, but the hospital never actually posted a traffic director on the site because it would have needed municipal approval. RWJBH had no control over snow removal, repairs or maintenance of the Marina Lot. Employees of RWJBH could park in the streets near the hospital, in another lot known as the ED lot (owned by RWJBH) or in the hospital’s visitors’ spots for a fee.
The Hon. Lionel Simon heard the testimony of petitioner and a witness for RWJBH and found that the injury was not compensable for the following reasons:
While there was language in the lease agreement that allowed RWJBH to exercise limited control of the parking garage, the garage owners actually exercised daily control and maintenance of the garage.
Manuel was injured on a public street not under the control of RWJBH.
Manuel was not directed to park in the Marina Lot.
Manuel could have used the shuttle bus but chose not to do so.
Petitioner appealed as did the PIP carrier. The Appellate Division found that this case was controlled by the decision in Hersh. Both cases involved injuries on public streets, and both involved situations where the employer did not own the parking lots in question, nor control the lots. Further, in neither case could the injured worker prove that that the employer derived a direct business benefit from facilitating employee parking in the garage. In Hersh, the County paid for the parking lot but in this case, the employees ultimately paid for the parking by payroll deduction. Both cases also involved no special hazard in crossing the street. Many other employees crossed the street who parked elsewhere. The Court said, “Here, there are sufficient credible facts to show that RWJBH lacked control over the crosswalk used by Manuel, and the Marina Lot, and therefore, her injuries are not compensable under the premises rule. Furthermore, Manuel’s injuries resulted from a vehicular accident that occurred on a public roadway over which RWJBH had no control.”
The Appellate Division specifically affirmed the reasoning of Judge Simon to the effect that the hospital did not require its employees to park in the Marina Lot, and in fact, petitioner declined to use the shuttle service and could have availed herself of other parking options.
The case is an important one in that it shows the strength of the decision in Hersh. Further, the Court found that it did not ultimately matter that the lease agreement had some language about potential hospital control through a traffic director since the hospital never actually appointed a traffic director in the first place.
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DRUID attracts a $ 2.5 million Series A investment
NoCash \ Finantare \ DRUID attracts a $ 2.5 million Series A investment
The new round of financing will be used to launch new conversational automations, to further develop artificial intelligence components, and to accelerate international expansion. „We are incredibly confident and motivated to amaze the whole world with our technology.”
DRUID, a company specialized in developing intelligent virtual assistants (chatbots) for Enterprise organizations, announces the attraction of a new round of financing of 2.5 million dollars. The round was led by GapMinder Ventures fund with $ 2.2 million. The rest of the amount was invested by Early Game Ventures and private investors. Thus, DRUID becomes one of the best-capitalized startups in Romania, with total investments worth 5.8 million dollars attracted since its launch in 2018.
Accelerated demand for smart virtual assistants occurs in a context where organizations are increasingly focusing on superior customer interaction throughout any digital communication channel and the need for employees to quickly and relevantly access relevant information, spread in several computer systems for increased productivity.
Smart virtual assistants use natural language to take charge of virtually any information or document in an organization’s systems. DRUID technology allows companies to quickly develop such intelligent virtual assistants, saving time and money by automating simple but time-consuming employee activities and improving the user experience through fast and smart responses.
Available in over 45 languages, DRUID offers hundreds of conversational templates that serve specific roles and processes within any industry. DRUID virtual assistants help people communicate more efficiently with robots or computer systems through natural, simple, and intelligent language.
Recurring DRUID revenues increased by 580% in 2020 compared to 2019, in the context in which the market for conversational solutions based on artificial intelligence has an average growth rate of 22% over the next four years, reaching $ 13.9 billion in 2025, according to a Marketsandmarkets study.
Through its global partnership with UiPath, the market leader in robotic business process automation (RPA), DRUID provides conversational skills to the world’s first hyper-automation platform. Strategic alliances with EY, PWC, Deloitte, KPMG, and an extensive network of over 50 system integrators and automation solution providers on all continents allow the rapid implementation of DRUID technology in any country in the world.
„The new round of financing will be used to launch new conversational automations, to further develop artificial intelligence components, and to accelerate international expansion. DRUID’s ambition is to become the most important conversational AI provider from Europe and to deliver a virtual assistant for every employee. We are incredibly confident and motivated to amaze the whole world with our technology”, said Liviu Drăgan, CEO of DRUID.
“We are driven to invest in technology companies uniquely positioned to grow exponentially. DRUID’s technology is transformational in its ability to provide true conversational solutions assisted by artificial intelligence for internal and external processes on a large variety of verticals, allowing a high level of pre-integrations with many platforms. This new technology is inexpensive and versatile, ultimately enabling massive cost savings and growth stimulators for Enterprises that intend to accelerate their digital transformation. We are proud to become part of a journey that will shape the future of conversational solutions, and we are happy to be with the entrepreneurs who developed this startup”, said Dan Mihaescu, Founding Partner of GapMinder VC.
“This new round comes one year after our initial investment in DRUID. We are happy that this year the company has made remarkable progress in many areas, particularly in international expansion. The amounts invoiced by DRUID multiplied almost ten times in December 2020 compared to December 2019, so we consider that it has proven that it has used wisely the amounts invested so far. We look with confidence into DRUID’s ability to maintain a rapid growth rate, supported by the new capital injection”, said Radu Stoicoviciu, Early Game Ventures Partner.
Taguri: Druid intelligent virtual assistants
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23: Setting your Facebook relationship status to "It's Complicated"
We dug deep into our feelings to find the songs that best summed up our most complicated relationships.
"Good Things" by The Menzingers
"Ministry of Alienation" by Unkown Mortal Orchestra
"Your Visits Are Getting Shorter" by Bloc Party
22: Baseball Walk-Up Songs
We celebrate opening day of baseball season with our personal walk-up songs.
"Party Hard" by Andrew WK
"The Horror" by RJD2
"All Along The Watchtower" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Opening Day of Baseball Season in Cincinnati, Ohio
21: Cooking Your Favorite Meal
This week we share our favorite recipes and songs to groove to while cooking them.
"Bad Decisions" by Two Door Cinema Club
"Brand New Key" by Melanie
"Get It Together" by Beastie Boys feat. Q-Tip
Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Suki's Spinach and Feta Pasta
20: Friendly Fire
This week we sniped three of each others' favorite songs for the playlist.
"Daylight" by Matt & Kim
"One More Time" by Daft Punk
"Born To Die" by Lana Del Ray
"The View" by Lou Reed & Metallica
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19: Lou Reed
A celebration of rock legend Lou Reed.
"I'm Waiting For The Man" by The Velvet Underground
"Rock and Roll" by The Velvet Underground
"Some Kind Of Nature" by Gorillaz featuring Lou Reed
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56 games reviewed
66.1% of games recommended
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A- - Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
though only an evolution and not a further revolution to the Spider-Man formula, Miles’ journey is full of heart, is riveting to play through and a joy to just kick back and immerse yourself in.
B+ - Astro's Playroom
As well as being an excellent demonstration of the future ahead for owners of the PS5, Astro’s Playroom serves as an excellent, albeit brief platformer. You’ll find that just as the game really begins to come into its own, it ends, and that’s an almighty shame, but will likely you leaving salivating at the prospect of what is to come for Astro Bot and friends.
B - NBA 2K21
NBA 2K21 is the best that basketball simulations have ever been, yet the game buckles under the weight of intense microtransactions designed to bleed you dry.
B - Battletoads
Battletoads doesn’t stick around for a long time, clocking at approximately 4-5 hours in length, with that number varying somewhat dependent on difficulty level or proficiency at certain game types. What hurts this 2020 take on a beloved franchise is an inability to stay to course for long enough to whet the appetites of long time fans.
A- - Ghost of Tsushima
The world is enormous, filled to the brim with rich content to explore. It can be a bit much sometimes with the number of artefacts you can find or haikus to sit and devise bloating things a little bit, but players will be blown away by the deep storytelling and unbelievable style and personality that Ghost of Tsushima brings to the table.
A or higher - Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition
It’s hard not to be awestruck by what Monolith Soft has achieved in revitalising this classic Wii title, bringing it to a new generation and giving it the tender love and care that it so obviously deserves.
C - AFL Evolution 2
In spite of all of its flaws, there’s still this immeasurable something about the AFL Evolution 2 experience that continues to pull you in. Perhaps it’s the arcadey experience in a simulation skin, or maybe it’s just the players love of the sport that’s carrying them through, but there is still enjoyment to be found here, you just need to be prepared to overlook the plentiful flaws to get to that point.
B - Twin Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Adventure
With Twin Breaker, the team at Lillymo, along with Moriarty and Maldenado, have constructed a wonderful take on a time-honoured genre that has been woefully underserved in recent years.
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B+ - DOOM Eternal
A far more brutal experience than its predecessor, Doom Eternal isn’t for the weak, but master the ruleset and you’re in for a hell of a time.
A or higher - Dreams
A playing experience like no other, with Dream Shaping tools that revolutionise the way we need to look at game development. Dreams is something truly special.
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RallyCast Episode 92 - Dirtfish Media's Colin Clark
RallyCast Episode 91 - Our Annual Chat with Co-Driver Alex Kihurani
RallyCast Episode 90 - Alex and Rhianon Gelsomino Return
RallyCast Episode 89 - Olympus 2020 Part 2
RallyCast Episode 88 - Olympus 2020 Part 1 with Regional Overall Winner Dave Clark
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IndyCar – More Drivers Confirmed for 2010
February 23, 2010 February 23, 2010 Doug Patterson
Today, we got confirmation that Viso and Mutoh were confirmed full-time drivers in the IZOD IndyCar Series for the 2010 season. E.J. Viso was announced today as the second full-time driver at KV Racing Technologies joining their other full-time driver, Takuma Sato, and part-time driver, Paul Tracy. Hideki Mutoh was announced as Newman-Haas-Lanigan Racing sole full-time entry for 2010. We had been expecting Mutoh’s confirmation for some time, but Viso’s confirmation is good news for a series that has really struggled for good news lately.
KVRT Announces EJ Viso As Their 2nd Driver
“We are very excited to have E. J. join our driver line-up for 2010,” said General Manager Mark Johnson. “We have been in talks with E. J. for quite some time now and successfully tested him at Sebring. Over the last two seasons he has impressed both Jimmy (KVRT co-owner Jimmy Vasser) and I with his race craft and growth as a driver. E. J. brings IndyCar and oval experience to our team, which will be extremely valuable as we progress through the season. I would also like to welcome commercial partners PDVSA, Herbalife, CANTV and SBA Airlines to the KVRT organization. We look forward to working with all of them.”
EJ Viso came to the IZOD IndyCar Series in 2008 with HVM as a part of blendification. In that 2008 season, EJ showed some serious speed, but he also had a propensity for tearing up race cars, especially on the ovals. In 2009, his second year with the team, it was obvious that his racecraft had improved, but his results certainly hadn’t. At the end of the season, it was clear to all that HVM and Viso were not a good fit. KVRT in 2009 showed with their sole pilot Mario Moraes that they could be a serious contender and had strong gains in speed and consistency. Viso could be exactly the type of driver KVRT needs to put them on the podium this season.
NHL Announces Hideki Mutoh As Their Sole Driver
“Hideki has shown he is able to adapt quickly to new challenges by finishing second overall in the Firestone Indy Lights series in 2007 when he competed on an oval for the first time,” said Carl Haas on behalf of the team. “The 2008 battle for the IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year in the newly-unified series was very close with Hideki emerging as the winner. In his two years in the IndyCar Series he has earned several podium finishes and we are looking forward to adding more.”
Hideki Mutoh, Honda’s Formula Dream driver, came to American Open-Wheel Racing in 2007 and competed in the Firestone IndyLights Series. He won two races that year, one on the road course at IMS and one on the Kentucky Speedway oval. Those two wins combined with five other podium finishes put him second in the 2007 championship behind Alex Lloyd who dominated the season. Mutoh made his debut with Panther Racing in the last race of the year in Chicago. His strong 2007 season in Lights and an impressive performance with Panther Racing at Chicago landed him a ride with the incumbent championship team, Andretti Green Racing. His 2008 season was very lack-luster, having only one top-five finish at Iowa where he finished 2nd. 2009 was a little better for Mutoh. He scored four top-five finishes in a year that was less than stellar for the once dominant AGR. Unlike the Viso/KVRT paring which has so many obvious positives, its hard to tell if the Mutoh/NHLR paring will be fruitful or not. NHL certainly has the historical pedigree for being a top contender, but their performance in 2009 was a significant step backwards from what they showed in 2008.
Both of these drivers have shown that they have the skills to perform at the highest level, although both have some challenges to overcome. We’re excited for both drivers and wish them luck in 2010. The best news is that we have two more confirmed participants for a series that is really struggling right now.
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Review: The Lord of the Rings (1978)
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The Lord of the Rings * by Ralph Bakshi
Released by Warner Bros. on 2 August 1979
Length: 2h 12m
Cast: John Hurt, Anthony Daniels, William Squire, Simon Chandler, Dominic Bird
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The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.
On Koninginnedag (Queensday) I bought this movie on VHS and I decided to go and watch it with a friend of mine that day. We didn’t get to finish it because of the coronation of our new King, but last night we decided to watch it with another friend when we decided to stay up the whole night.
The Lord of the Ring is basically about Frodo Baggins, who has inherited a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo. This ring once belonged to Sauron, who wanted to destroy Middle Earth. Sauron was defeated, and the ring passed onto Isildur, a mortal man. Centuries later, the ring passed into the posession of Gollum, who then loses it inside his cave in the Misty Mountains, where Bilbo finds it.
In this movie, Frodo gets the task of bringing that dangerous ring to Rivendell. Together with his friends Samwise Gamgee, Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took he sets out for Rivendell, but the journey is dangerous. In Bree they meet a ranger called Aragorn (who looks like an Indian, and he is also not wearing any trousers), who takes them further to Rivendell.
There, the council of Elrond decides that the ring must be destroyed, and the Fellowship of the Ring is formed. The four hobbits travel together with wizard Gandalf, dwarf Gimli (who’s just as tall as all the others), elf Legolas, and Aragorn and Borromir (who looks like a Viking complete with a big beard and a viking helmet, and also not wearing trousers).
This animation movie covers both the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers, though they leave out quite a lot (but hey, it’s only two hours long). Some parts were incredibly weird, and at some points the background just randomly changed into some clouds, or pictures of the universe.
All the hobbits look incredibly adorable, except for Sam, who actually looks like he’s got a potato for a nose (okay maybe he just really likes potatoes). Though I think the people that coloured the movie had a bit of a dilemma, with Merry and Pippin. It looked as though they had forgotten which one of them had blonde hair, and which had brown. At some points both of them are blonde, and later on Pippin has brown hair again. Legolas really does not look like an elf (none of the elves looked like elves in my opinion), and it really bothered me that Gimli was almost the same size as all the other people from the fellowship (except for the hobbits of course, they were actually small). Also, none of the men actually wear trousers. (That’s how we knew which of the people were men, and which were not)
Another thing that bothered me was that some names were pronounced very differently from what I was used to (Sauron was pronounced as ‘Soron’, Balin was ‘Beylin’, etc), and at some points they even said ‘Aruman’ in stead of ‘Saruman’. There were parts in the movie where real people were used, but they had used an effect over them that made them look like they were drawn, but it just looked really weird.
This movie ends at the end of the second book, the Two Towers, when the battle for Helmsdeep is over, and I was a bit bummed, because I wanted to see the rest of the story in animation form as well. Luckily, there is another Return of the King animation movie. Not from the same makers, as far as I know, but those who made ROTK also made a Hobbit animation movie. So I want to watch those too.
Out of five stars, I’d give this movie three stars, because even though I did like it, it was really odd at some points, and it just ends way too abruptly. Oh well.
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My Hero Academia Season 5: Is It Getting Delayed?
My Hero Academia Season 5 was announced soon after the previous season finished. It has been a favorite fan anime since it started in 2016. My Hero Academia is based on a popular superhero manga by Kōhei Horikoshi. It follows the story of a young schoolboy named Izuku Midoriya, who was born without quirk(superpower) in a world filled with superheroes. Midoriya gets chosen by Hero No. 1, All Might, to be his successor. It is the journey of Midoriya to become the greatest hero.
The Announcement of Season 5 for the TV anime, My Hero Academia was made on April 4, 2020. The last episode of Season 4 also aired on this day. The production already started with the following team continuing from the previous season;
Director: Masahiro Mukai
Character Design: Umakoshi Yoshihiko
Animation Studio: BONES
Teaser for My Hero Academia Season 5
Previous Storyline:
Midoriya obtained All for one from All Might after strength training and joined the best Hero School, U.A. He is taught by All Might and other teachers to control his new power. Midoriya has problems with this new quirk as its power is too explosive. It causes damage to his body. However, he keeps up with other classmates by pushing to the boundary. U.A soon gets attacked by the League of Villians who want to kill All Might. This is prevented due to the efforts of Pro Heroes and Midoriya and his Classmates.
The attacks on All Might do not stop here. All Might is weakened by his fight with a villain in the past, but in his next encounter with a strong villain, All For One, All Might pushes all his power out to defeat him. He lost all his powers and retired from the Hero No. 1 rank.
Midoriya, who was weak at the start, is now getting used to One For All. His quirk is getting more reliable. The previous season largely focused on the Shie Hassaikai Arc. Midoriya, who is now an intern for Sir Nighteye, encounters a Yakuza group, Shie Hassaikai, who is making a Quirk damaging drug. He has to group up with the best students of the U. A to save a little girl whose blood is being used to make this drug and stop this group. The previous season also had the Remedial Course Arc, U.A. School Festival Arc, Pro Hero Arc that featured some more intense battles of heroes against the villains.
Key Visual for Season 5
Season 5 will feature the further arcs that have already been covered in the manga. The next arc in the line-up would be the Joint Training Arc that features a fight between Class 1-A and Class-B. During this battle, Midoriya will unlock new abilities of One for All, which have never been used like this before. It is an upcoming season to look forward to.
Release Date for My Hero Academia Season 5
My Hero Academia new season would be expected to release in the spring of 2021. However, due to production halts in studios all over Japan due to the current pandemic, this date may be pushed even further. This Season is expected to have around 25-30 episodes. This means that the season will take about six months to air on the television. The expected delayed release of My Hero Academia Season 5 would be late 2021. This is only a prediction that can change depending on how the pandemic changes.
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Jun’ichi Suwabe as Shouta Aizawa
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Best Action Shows On Netflix To Stream: Similar Shows To Money Heist
Himanshu Bhardwaj
Action shows are the most beloved shows, one can watch the show for its fast-paced story and action sequences. Netflix is adding more shows to its library to stock up the action department, so the action fans get hooked to the Netflix and its original shows.
Here is all the best action show which are streaming on Netflix Now!
1. Narcos
3 seasons, 30 episodes | IMDb: 8.8/10
Narcos is a gripping tale of Pablo Escobar, a small-time weed smuggler who later on becomes one of the biggest drug lords in the world and a narcoterrorist. It has a fast-paced action tale of how he has risen among the ranks and taken down by the DEA, the main story of the first two seasons. The third season focuses on Cali Cartel after the fall of Escobar, and DEA trying to shut down this Cartel. A spin-off series named Narcos; Mexico is also released which focuses on the catastrophic Mexican war on drugs and weed.
2. Daredevil
Daredevil launched the Marvel Universe on Netflix and can easily be said the best among all rather the best action show that Netflix has ever produced. Charlie Cox plays Matt Murdock who loses his eyesight early in his life in a road accident and then, later on, takes the vigilante identity as Daredevil. This show has well-crafted action scenes that are the need of the hour for this fast-paced series and good acting and story serves as the plus point for this show. If you haven’t watched this then you must if are a fan of old school action films in general.
3. The Punisher
Jon Bernthal is the near-perfect casting as his comic book counterpart, he was first introduced as punisher in Daredevil season 2. The show met with favorable reviews and was praised for its action and gripping story, which do justice to the Punisher. But it was canceled after 2 seasons as the contract between Marvel and Netflix expired and the launch of their own streaming service Disney + last year. We can expect him to return on the big screen in the near future as Disney can introduce him in future MCU films.
4. Money Heist (La Casa De Papel)
The most recent hit which has achieved its place among the pop culture fans, now it has a cult following. The Salvador Dalí masks and the red jumpsuit, one can see it anywhere in the comic con and other pop culture conventions. The show is set in Madrid, a man known as The Professor recruits a team of 8 people who have their code names based on the different cities of the world to loot Royal Mint of Spain by performing a heist. The show is fast and has an intense storyline which will take you to the depth of a heist and get you on your feet after the show ended in order to applause the series.
5. The Witcher
1 season, 8 episodes | IMDb: 8.3/10
Toss a coin to your witcher is the first line comes to find when the fans of this series think of hit, it is a powerful ballad that now becomes a cultural hit and now had many covers of this song all over the internet. Fans of video games and books are all in love for this series and eagerly waiting for the second season which will premiere somewhere in 2021. Geralt played by Henry Cavill travels around the world to slay demons and monsters in order to survive as a witcher. The first season is just an introduction to this vastly popular word, we will get more of him and his team in the latter seasons.
6. Jessica Jones
Jessica Jones is the action show that all marvel fans wanted, set in the same universe as that of Daredevil, 3 seasons of the show is filled with plot twists, car chase sequences, superhero swinging action and a little bit of romance between Jessica and Luke Cage. Krysten Ritter plays Jessica in the series who is suffering from PTSD after getting out of the control of Killgrave played by David Tennet. It is based on alias comic book series of Jessica and is more on the detective side of the Marvel universe
7. The Umbrella Academy
1 season, 10 episodes | IMDb: 7.9/10
The Umbrella Academy is a series that is based on its original comic book by Gerrard Way, first as a limited series. The series deals with various emotional and dramatic moments over an action story. It generally met with positive reviews but got criticized for its tone and slow-paced storyline. The visuals of the show are on par with other great series in the list, the second season will release in the near future. The story revolves around a group of siblings who are united for their father’s funeral, all of them have different superpowers and a monkey named Pogo is the caretaker of the house.
8. Titans
Titans web Show was announced at Sandiego comic con and was getting hype both in positive ways as some people liked the production, and looks of all superhero but also a negative one as some fans didn’t like the Starfire casting. All things aside it is a show that every DC fan should like as it has more adult themes and humor rather than family-friendly CW arrow verse. If you have watched any of the old Titans animated series then you will feel connected with this series. Great casting and especially the action sequences are well done, a must-watch for all DC fans.
9. The Flash
6 seasons, 134 episodes | IMDb: 7.7/10
The Flash is a tv show that has started as casual viewing show but Instantly it has garnered success and has an increasing fan base. It is rated as top tv shows among the DC fans and according to IMDB. Grant Gustin has now become an icon among DC fans and fans want him to play The Flash in the upcoming flash film. It has 6 seasons till now and two more seasons are planned, The one thing stopping this show from being truly perfect is its same time-travel plotlines.
10. Luke Cage
Mike Colter reprises his role as Luke Cage who was earlier, shown as a side character in Jessica Jones is back and now leads his own series. The series tells us the story of Luke, how he gets his powers and more back story, the first season features Mahershala Ali playing Cottonmouth and the main villain is Diamondback. Season 2 is a big improvement that dives into the more heroic side of Luke and a better plot and supporting characters sadly it was canceled after just 2 seasons.
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Kennesaw, Ga., October 13, 2020 (Business Wire) – Quadient, a leader in helping businesses create meaningful customer connections through digital and physical channels, announced today that MWI Animal Health, a part of AmerisourceBergen and a leading distributor of animal health products, selected the CVP Impack to be installed at its fulfillment centre in Edwardsville, Kan., this month. As one of the largest animal health distributors in the United Kingdom and the United States, MWI provides veterinarians and other animal health care providers with next- or same-day distribution services on nearly all its products. MWI’s goal is to provide the highest level of convenience, affordability and selection while maintaining the highest level of accuracy.
“MWI Animal Health continually seeks innovative solutions or services that better position the company to support our customers’ evolving needs,” said Mark J. Shaw, president of AmerisourceBergen’s Animal Health business. “Through this new solution, we expect to increase our operational efficiencies and environmental sustainability efforts, while also continuing to ensure our customers receive the orders they need when they need them.”
Through this new solution, we expect to increase our operational efficiencies and environmental sustainability efforts, while also continuing to ensure our customers receive the orders they need, when they need them.
Mark J. Shaw | President of AmerisourceBergen’s MWI Animal Health
As an in-line automated packaging solution, the CVP Impack will support MWI’s continued efforts for driving greater efficiencies throughout the warehouse and reduce its environmental impact while allowing the company to meet its principal goal of fast and convenient delivery.
To do this, the CVP Impack measures, constructs, seals, weighs and labels various dimension single- or multi-item orders of either hard or soft goods in one seamless process. It creates custom-fit parcels that reduce or eliminate the need for void fill, allowing businesses to lower material costs of corrugate and other packaging by an average of 38% and lessen their environmental impact. The CVP Impack packs orders at a rate of up to 500 parcels per hour and only requires one operator, all while adhering to social distancing requirements. Due to the fit-to-size parcels created by the CVP Impack, shippers experience reduced dimensional weight and can achieve up to a 50% reduction in shipping volume. This results in an average of 32% savings in freight costs.
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“We know how important cost savings and sustainability are to shippers and are proud to support MWI Animal Health,” said Sean Webb, director of automated packaging solutions at Quadient. “With the CVP Impack’s custom fit-to-size parcels and requirement of only one operator, MWI Animal Health will experience savings in material and shipping costs while reducing its overall environmental impact. Customers will also enjoy the fast delivery and the ability to fully recycle or reuse each parcel the CVP Impack creates. It is truly a win-win for all.”
With the CVP Impack’s custom fit-to-size parcels and requirement of only one operator, MWI will experience savings in material and shipping costs while reducing its overall environmental impact.
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One Audience SDK Data Statement
by Photofy Staff | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog
On November 13th, 2019, Google alerted Photofy that it had violated Google’s terms of service by having a third party application that could access data on its platform. We investigated and found the app in question was OneAudience, an audience intelligence service. OneAudience has an SDK (software development kit) weakness that could potentially be exploited to get user information such as email, user name etc. The service was installed to our app in mid-2017, and only on the Android version. OneAudience put out a statement and has since shut down its SDK. No data was breached from Photofy and Photofy does not share data with any third party.
OneAudience was immediately removed from our Android app by our development team (Nov 13, 2019 3:25 AM) after we were notified by Google that it was a bad acting SDK. We have received no evidence, nor do we suspect that accounts were accessed through the Photofy application via this SDK. Additionally, no user data was ever accessed from Photofy at any time.
Twitter posted a public statement about the incident here: https://help.twitter.com/en/sdk-issue. Twitter has never been an option for app sign in for Photofy.
Facebook also removed Photofy access with no description of the problem at hand and no way to remediate the issue. We have sent Facebook several requests for information, none of which have been answered to date. We will be conducting a full review of all third party SDKs used in the Photofy application to further protect users data.
We connect to social media outlets solely for the purpose of sharing user created content. On certain outlets we may connect to allow users to select content they have stored there. Our goal is to always operate the app with the minimal amount of data possible and to never use data other than to provide services to our users. We have no advertising, geo-tracking, etc., used to drive revenue and do not share or sell any user data.
We will be removing Facebook as a sign up and login option and only use the Apple or Google platforms as alternatives to direct login. Moving forward, we will no longer make use of social sign ins other than those operated by the app store creators.
If you have any questions or concerns about this incident please contact us at support@photofy.com. We will also provide a complete report of the user data we have for your Photofy account by email request. We value our user’s privacy and strive to protect it in every way possible.
Our goal is simple, to be the easiest way to create and share content, period.
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Lorentz Bruun Construction is performing a full renovation of a space at the corner of Southwest Washington Street and Southwest 5th Avenue in downtown Portland. The 2,219-square-foot space, designed by Callison Architects, PC, will house a Chase Bank. Work on the project began July 5, and the bank is projected to open October 12.
Ryan Baty, a journeyman laborer with Bremik Construction and a member of Laborers Local 296, removes a window from a building at the corner of Southwest Washington Street and Southwest 12th Avenue in Portland on Tuesday. Bremik is remodeling the storefront of the vacant space, which will include new windows and a glass canopy.
The American Institute of Architects is creating a database of stalled construction projects, such as the proposed One Waterfront Place development in Northwest Portland, to connect developers with investors seeking opportunities.
Tom White, a journeyman carpenter with Cor Construction and a member of Carpenters Local 156, drills holes for anchor bolts for the seismic upgrade of a roof at Floyd Light Middle School in Portland on Wednesday.
Tory Merrill, a journeyman carpenter with Cor Construction and a member of Carpenters Local 156, works on the seismic upgrade of the roof of Floyd Light Middle School in Portland on Wednesday.
Members of the Glisan Commons project team, from left, Aneshka Dickson of R&H/Colas Construction, Sarah Zahn of Human Solutions, Joan Heinemann of Ride Connection, Dave Otte of Holst Architecture, Hermann Colas, Jr. and Andrew Colas of R&H/Colas Construction, Jean DeMaster of Human Solutions, and Philip Dochow of Housing Development Center stand at the location of the proposed housing project in Northeast Portland on Wednesday.
Housing and homeless services organization Human Solutions hopes to partner with other local nonprofit organizations to develop a $33 million project on a piece of land at the corner of Northeast 99th Avenue and Glisan Street. The project will include 60 units of workforce housing developed by Human Solutions, 60 units of senior housing developed by REACH, a parking structure and 16,000 square feet of office space for Ride Connection.
John Williams, a former mayor of Oregon City, is collecting signatures for a ballot measure that would require major urban renewal decisions in Clackamas County to be put to go before voters.
Siding contractors Celedonio Silva, left, and Felix Silva install waterproof flashing membrane on a window at McCoy Village in Northeast Portland on Friday. General contractor LMC Construction is performing a full renovation on the apartment complex's eight buildings. The units are being updated with new windows, doors, flooring, cabinets, plumbing, and fixtures, as well as a new fire sprinkler system, exterior sheetrock, outside play areas, and landscaping. Work on the site began last month, and is scheduled to be completed next February.
Two groups of apartment buildings comprising the McCoy Village complex on Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard in Portland are being renovated by LMC Construction. Work will begin Monday on a cluster of four buildings, pictured at left, on the north side of Northeast Prescott Street, while work continues on another cluster of four buildings south of Prescott, pictured at right.
A cluster of apartment buildings at the McCoy Village complex in Northeast Portland is being renovated by LMC Construction.
LMC Construction is renovating the 55-unit McCoy Village apartment complex in Northwest Portland. Work started last month on the full renovation, which is scheduled to be completed next February.
A 13,621-square-foot building in Southeast Portland, which was built in 1978 for Palm Abrasive Co., is for sale at an asking price of $2.1 million. The two-story, flex structure features large, glued laminated beams, and a layered rock and paneling exterior.
Chris Schoonover, a job site supervisor with Earthquake Tech, drives bolts into a foundation anchor plate while retrofitting a home in North Portland on Monday.
Paul Madison, an employee of Portland-based retrofitters Earthquake Tech, tightens a bolt on a universal foundation plate while retrofitting a home in North Portland on Monday.
Graham Roy, senior vice president of Rider Levett Bucknall and principal of the firm’s California and Oregon offices.
Stephen Green, left, Portland Development Commission's relationship manager for N/NE Portland, and developer Roslyn Hill stand on a brownfield site in St. John's where Hill is looking to build a multiuse housing project.
A drilling crew collects core samples from a barge on the Willamette River on Wednesday. In-river samples are being collected in the locations of temporary piers for the detour bridge that will be built to accomodate traffic while the Sellwood Bridge is replaced.
Crews aboard a drilling barge collect core samples from under the Willamette River in Portland on Thursday. Samples are being collected where temporary piers will be located for a detour bridge being built around the Sellwood Bridge.
Wes Schreiber, an electrician with Whiskey Hill Electric, wires lines for a motorized window shade at the site of a future Chase Bank branch in downtown Portland on Thursday. Chase Bank is looking to open 30 branches in the Portland Metro area over the course of the next three years.
People gather in the recently-completed June Key Delta Community Center for the building's grand opening celebration in North Portland on Wednesday. The center is the first African-American-owned community building to pursue certification from the Living Building Challenge, a program launched by the Cascadia Green Building Council.
The recently-completed June Key Delta Community center, built on a former brownfield site in North Portland, has been in the works for 20 years.
North Portland residents Ki Von Schiller, left, and Flo Miller look at a display of photographs showing the construction of the June Key Delta Community Center during the center's grand opening celebration on Wednesday.
Kaiser Permanente's Westside Medical Center, being built by general contractor Andersen Construction in Hillsboro, will include a 126-bed hospital. The medical complex is tracking LEED Gold certification and is due to be completed next spring.
Crews with Andersen Structures work on the parking structure of the Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro on Wednesday. The structure will feature a rainwater collection system in which water is stored in a tank, then pumped to irrigate plants and fill a landscaped water feature in front of the complex's medical office building.
The eight-story parking garage at Kaiser Permanente's Westside Medical Center might be the tallest building in Hillsboro, according to Travis Baker, project director for general contractor Andersen Construction. Green screen features will be incorporated into the structure's façade in order to soften its impact and help it fit the neighborhood.
Miguel Valencia, left, a supervisor with Neil Kelly, watches as insulator Tom Carroll installs an insulated attic access door in a Southeast Portland home on Friday.
Tom Carroll, an insulator with Neil Kelly, puts the finishing touches on an insulated access panel, which will insulate and air seal a crawlspace, while working at a Southeast Portland residence on Friday.
The 23,000-square-foot Boxlift Building, located near the convergence of NE Martin Luther King Boulevard and NE Grand Avenue, is being renovated by general contractor B&G Builders for The Exeter Group. Three sides of the two-story building received full exterior storefront remodels, including new stucco, windows, lighting, and canopies. Extensive seismic renovations have been added, including a shotcrete sheer wall and a pair of 70-foot-deep high strength micropiles. The second-floor commercial loft spaces have been fully remodeled, with the first-floor retail/commercial space to follow. Project partners also include Waterleaf Architecture, TM Rippey Consulting Engineers, and Alder Geotechnical Services. Realtors Doug Bean & Associates are representing the building’s ground level retail/commercial spaces.
The 8,150-square-foot Michael G. Building, located at 827 S.W. Second Ave in downtown Portland, is for sale for $1.1 million. Built in 1892 in the Italianate architecture style, the building features two floors and a mezzanine, and currently houses a variety of multicultural food vendors.
Southbound traffic on Interstate 5, left, is diverted over a temporary bridge just north of the Terwilliger Curves in Southwest Portland. Northbound traffic, center, has been shifted to the former southbound lane in preparation for demolition of the Iowa Stret Viaduct's former northbound lane, right.
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Coronavirus, Garfield County, Glenwood Spings, Uncategorized
Garfield County backs off its ‘critical’ reclassification; leaves staying open up to individual businesses
December 16, 2020 By Scott Weiser
GLENWOOD SPRINGS–The Garfield County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) on Wednesday radically revised its resolution passed in response to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) placing the county under ‘Level Red’ restrictions on the state’s COVID-19 dial.
Last Thursday Complete Colorado reported that the BOCC passed a resolution to shift restaurants, gyms, fitness centers, recreation and noncritical retail into the same critical business category as grocery stores, gas stations and big-box retail stores, thus allowing those businesses to avoid shutting down as demanded by Level Red status.
At that meeting Commissioner Tom Jankovsky expressed shock and disappointment with the state’s action.
“From my perspective, this is discriminatory against this particular business type and the people that work for them. It affects people that are in the middle class, working hard, trying to get through Christmas,” said Jankovsky. “This is a shut-down through the holidays. For me to agree to do that would be immoral.”
According to Yvonne Long, Garfield County Public Health Director, there has been a “significant” increase of 807 new COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks for a total of 3,168 cases and 23 deaths from the virus overall.
“We are definitely seeing the repercussions from the Thanksgiving holidays,” said Long Monday. “When we do our contact tracing and we ask the question if you were at a Thanksgiving gathering, more likely than not, the answer was yes, with family and friends. We can feel pretty confident that there was a lot of transmission through the holidays.”
According to the health department the majority of deaths in the county have occurred in those over age 65.
Commissioners argue that there is no scientific basis for closing down inside dining while allowing churches, big-box stores and grocery stores to remain open.
In a redraft of the resolution enacted effective immediately at a special Wednesday morning meeting of the BOCC, the county says, “No epidemiological evidence justifies the disparate treatment of restaurants as opposed to, for example, big box stores, or of movie theaters or gyms as opposed to grocery stores. Without that evidence, there is no way to reconcile these decisions that effectively put restaurants and gyms alone out of business.”
The resolution also warns businesses that the county’s resolution does not override or prevent actions by the state under Governor Polis’ executive orders and that they accept the risk that the CDPHE or other state agency may take action the county cannot control or interfere with.
Garfield County Attorney Tari Williams told Complete Colorado Tuesday that commissioners are concerned that the Level Red restrictions as applied to the state’s classification of businesses under the CDPHE dial scheme impacts 14th Amendment equal protection rights of business owners.
“In Garfield County, at this time, it does seem to put an undue burden on restaurants and gyms, as opposed to the other various categories,” said Williams. “We are concerned that there may be legitimate equal protection concerns in the way that the level red restrictions could effectively shut some businesses down while allowing others to operate at level orange without change.”
According to CDPHE outbreak data analyzed by Complete Colorado, as of the December 9 report, eight staff members at three restaurants, all sit-down facilities, have been confirmed as having the virus and one staff member was suspected of having it. The first outbreak was resolved as of July 7, and the latest outbreak was resolved as of November 6. There are no active cases involving restaurant staff as of December 9 in Garfield County and there have been zero cases among customers and no deaths associated with restaurants since March.
Statewide, since March, total customer infections in restaurants are 61, and have increased by ten, from 51 to 61, since December 3, as reported in the CDPHE’s outbreak data file.
The new resolution says that according to CDPHE and county COVID-19 dial metrics, Garfield County only exceeds one of the three stated CDPHE metrics for Level Red classification.
“Garfield County’s metrics place its incidence rate at Level Red, its test positivity at Level Orange, and its hospitalizations at Level Yellow,” says the resolution. “As of December 10, 2020, the County’s metrics did not require it to move to Level Red.”
Instead, the BOCC said that the decision whether operate under Level Orange or Level Red restrictions would be up to individual business owners, but those affected by the CDPHE’s action, such as restaurants, that choose to operate under Level Orange restrictions must post signs “in a prominent location at the entrance” to inform customers of their operating level.
The resolution includes warnings to citizens that certain businesses may not be following Level Red standards.
“We’re trying to take care of the citizens as well as businesses,” said BOCC President John Martin. “But again, it’s going to be a determination by each individual if you wish to patronize a store or not. So please, you’re responsible for yourself as well.”
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Tags: CDPHE, Garfield County, Governor Polis, Level Red restrictions, Scott Weiser
Author: Scott Weiser
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Weekly Roundup: June 15, 2018
June 15, 2018 / papercatpress
Happy June, and happy Pride month! Welcome to Paper Cat Press’s Weekly Roundup. In the Weekly Roundup, I provide links and summarized information about the crowdfunded projects, creator opportunities, and resources that have caught my eye over the week. I hope you enjoy!
News || Helping Others || Awards || Recent Webcomic Debuts || Crowdfunded Projects || General || Animation || Comics, Illustration, and More || Conventions and Events || Designers || Fan Zines || Mentorships & Fellowships || Residencies, Retreats, and Workshops || Scholarships, Sponsorships, and Grants || Teaching || Typesetting || Voice Acting || Writing and Editing || Youth || Resources || Deals || Giveaways
Paper Cat Press’s “Links” pages is currently offline as it undergoes construction. Thank you for your patience!
Project Wonderful has announced that it will be closing down on August 1.
Today is the last day for comics professionals to vote in the Eisner awards.
The Broken Pencil Zine Awards are accepting submissions of zines, comics, and micro-journals through July 1. There is a submission fee of $25 for the first zine submitted and $10 for zines thereafter, with a maximum of three zine submissions per person, and it includes a year subscription to Broken Pencil Magazine.
Check out this list of 2017 Webcomic Debuts and find a new series to read!
Taking the Lane is raising funds on Kickstarter to fund the production of True Trans Bike Rebel issue #15. The issue features true stories from transgender and nonbinary contributors about the influence that bicycling has had in their lives. Submissions are also open for additional contributors through June 15. Tier options include a digital wallpaper, a physical copy of the zine, cat posters, previous issues of Taking the Lane, additional feminist books and zines, custom art, and more. The Kickstarter ends on June 15.
Gwen Benaway, in collaboration with Bedside Press, is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes. The anthology features 150 pages of fantasy written by trans femme authors. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, a color bookplate, prints, and copies of Love Beyond Body, Space and Time, Passage, and Holy Wild. The Kickstarter ends on June 17.
Jessamine Press is currently running a Kickstarter to fund the production of MALAISE: A Horror Anthology. Nine writers with identities marginalized in mainstream publishing contributed short horror fiction between 7000 and 10,000 words. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, prints, and a bookplate. The Kickstarter ends on June 19.
Comic creator Ngozi Ukazu is back with another volume of Check, Please!, the popular webcomic series following Bitty and Jack’s college life, romance, hockey games, and pie pursuits. This third volume will be printed in full-color hard- and softcover editions and will be available later in the year from publisher First Second. Tier options include digital and physical copies of books 1, 2, and/or 3, a signed bookplate, prints, pennants, a bonus 18+ comic, and more. The Kickstarter ends on June 21.
Jenn Arledge is hosting a Kickstarter to fund the production of Alex Priest: Vampire Hunter | Issues 1-3. Genderqueer vampire hunter Alexander Priest and their ex-girlfriend Janelle Garcia must work together to battle magic-wielding demons and vampires. Tier options include digital and physical copies of all three issues, prints, and a cameo in the comic. The Kickstarter ends on June 22.
Jen Dugan is hosting a Kickstarter to fund the production of comic Circadia #2. Circadia is a 5-issue comic that follows Zara, who must navigate dreams that start to have real-world consequences. Tier options include digital and physical copies of issues 1 and/or 2, stickers, prints, an enamel pin, and more. The Kickstarter ends on June 22.
Comic artist Hari Conner is crowdfunding on Kickstarter to produce the first volume of their webcomic Finding Home. The ongoing webcomic follows Chepi and Janek as they travel through the forest and their own memories and fears. This Kickstarter seeks to collect its first four chapter into a softcover 140-page full-color book. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, a bonus comic, a behind-the-scenes PDF, an enamel pin, a t-shirt, custom artwork, and more. The Kickstarter ends on June 22.
Iron Circus is hosting a Kickstarter to fund its upcoming anthology FTL, Y’all!: Tales From the Age of the $200 Warp Drive. The book will feature 25 stories and over 350 pages of comics exploring what might happen if an affordable faster-than-light engine was made public on the internet. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book. The Kickstarter ends on June 22.
SpiderForest Webcomic Collective is hosting a Kickstarter to fund its comic anthology project Threads: A Gallery of Rogues. The anthology features at least 124 pages of 15 short standalone comics about rogues created by the comic creators of the collective. Tier options include digital and physical copies of the book, a tote bag, prints, the SpiderForest coloring book, an enamel pin, and more. The Kickstarter ends June 25.
Did you or will you table in an artist alley in the US this year? Take the 2018 Artist Alley Convention Survey here. The results of the 2017 survey are available here.
If you worked on and were paid for creating comic books in 2017, fill out Creator Resource’s 2017 anonymous page rate survey.
The 2018 Font Purchasing Habits Survey is open. Receive 15 free fonts for submitting your information.
The Comic Tea Party is a weekly book club for webcomics. Participate in the Discord chat weekly on Thursdays at 5pm to 7pm PST. Sign your comic up for a chance to have it read and discussed in the group!
JiMi Agency’s group order for broken prism bookmarks, posters, and sticker sheets is open until June 22.
Lion Forge Comics is hiring a number of positions, including HR Manager, Publishing Operations Assistant, Social Media and Community Manager, and more.
(New York, NY) Yen Press is looking for a production editor on a 12-month product basis.
The Color Stylists of IATSE Local 839 ask for your support in seeking pay equity. Sign their petition to improve rates for color stylists in the animation industry.
The ADCAN Awards are accepting submissions from animators and filmmakers through August 15. Winners will be flown to LA for mentorship and workshop opportunities.
(Burbank, CA) Cartoon Network Studios is seeking a Production Assistant and a Production Manager.
(Kilkenny, Ireland) Cartoon Saloon is looking for an animator, an animation supervisor, a production coordinator, and more.
(Canada) DHX has job openings for key animators, lighting artists, storyboard artists, and more in Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver.
(Burbank, California) Disney TV Animation is seeking an art director, a background painter, a color stylist, a location designer, and a storyboard artist. Be sure to check their website for both creative and office positions with Disney!
(Glendale, California) Dreamworks is hiring an Animator, a CFX Artist, a Modeler, a Visual Development Artist, and much more.
Laura Price shared tips for applying to animation studios.
(Burbank, California) Nickelodeon is hiring a background designer, a background painter, a character designer, storyboard artists (1) (2) (3) (4), and more! They’re also accepting applications for internships!
(Emeryville, CA) Pixar Animation Studios is seeking a Character Designer.
Titmouse is looking for an After Effects compositor in Los Angeles, CA. They’re also seeking a 2D animator, background layout artists and painters, and more in Vancouver, Canada.
(Burbank, California) Walt Disney Animation Studios is hiring a stereoscopic compositing artist.
There’s a group project to reanimate The Dover Boys.
You can find a directory of currently open animation jobs at animatedjobs.com and updated listings at The Animation Guild.
Threadless is accepting artwork for the following design challenges: Dark Humor, due today, June 15; and Seasons: Summer, due June 22; and Miniatures, due June 29.
The 12th Annual International Manga Award is accepting submissions of manga through today, June 15. Winners will receive a ten-day trip to Japan for the award ceremony.
Art School Sick Daze is accepting proposals for written or visual work exploring art education in relation to the experience of disability, chronic illness and/or neurodiversity through today, June 15. Selected contributors will receive £50 each.
Illustra Ciencia is accepting illustrations created in 2017 or 2018 based on science or nature for the Internacional Award on Scientific and Nature Illustration through June 20.
(NSFW!) Shousetsu Bang Bang is seeking writers through June 19 and artists through June 23 for their upcoming issue themed “Perchance to Dream.”
The Biodiversity Drawing Contest is accepting entries from artists worldwide through June 30. Artists may submit work in one of two categories: scientific design and nature drawing.
The Future Generation Art Prize is accepting entries from artists between 18 and 35 through July 1. The main prize winner will receive $100,000 overall, with $60,000 as a cash prize and the remaining $40,000 as an investment in their practice. Up to 5 special prizes winners will collectively receive up to $20,000.
SacAnime is hosting two art contests – one for the program cover/badge art, and another for a t-shirt design. Entries are due by July 1, and selected winners will receive a free badge, artist alley table, and helper badge for the 2019 Winter convention.
TCAF and the Entreviñetas Festival are accepting applications from Canadian and Columbian artists for the collaborative Blind Date (Cita a ciegas) project. The selected artists will jointly develop and create a comic on the theme of “conversation” and receive payment in cash. Applications are due July 1.
Clip Studio Paint is hosting an International Illustration Contest. Submit artwork with the theme “hats and caps” through July 4 for a chance to win up to 50,000 JPY, Clip Studio EX, Clip Studio Pro, and “gold” for purchasing Clip Studio services.
Dates Anthology is accepting submissions for their third anthology with the theme “Adventure” through July 6. Contributors will be paid $50 per page and will receive 5 complimentary copies of the book.
ArtStation is hosting the Golden Ticket Challenge through July 9. Students or professionals may enter artwork with the theme “Land of Wonder.” Winners may receive tickets to the Trojan Horse was a Unicorn 2018 festival in Malta, including roundtrip flights, accommodations, and meals, a Wacom MobileStudio Pro, a 1-year subscription to ArtStation, and more.
Key Colours 2018 is accepting submissions of previously unpublished 24-page children’s books for children aged 2-7 worldwide through July 16. The award recipient will receive 7500 euros and will be published by Clavis Publishing House.
The Association of Illustrators is accepting submissions from artists worldwide for the 2019 Poster Prize for Illustration through July 16. Award recipients may receive up to £2,000 and a feature on a London Transport Museum poster to be displayed on the London Underground.
The Asexual is accepting essays on Asexual History through July 31 and submissions of art and writing for A(gender): An Anthology through August 1.
The Nib is seeking pitches for their upcoming quarterly zine. Pitches for “Empire” are due August 30; pitches for “Scams” are due November 30.
Lee & Low books are accepting submissions for their New Visions Award through August 31. Cash prizes and a standard publication contract will be given for a middle grade or young adult novel (including graphic novels) by a writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer.
The Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours is accepting entries from illustrators worldwide through August 31. Award recipients may receive up to $10,000, plaques, and features in exhibitions.
The Art Zine Prize for 2018 is accepting submissions through September 1. Artwork can be submitted as figurative art, abstract art, and urban art, and a people’s choice award will be given to a fourth prize recipient.
Webtoon is hosting “Discover Creator” comic contest with cash prizes of up to $80,000. Submit your comic between June 11 and September 13 for a chance to win. See the rules for details on categories and episodes required for qualification.
The Bennett Prize is accepting submissions from women fine art figurative painters through September 28. There is an entry fee of $50.
The Embracing Our Differences 2018 Art Contest is accepting submissions from artists at all career stages through October 15. Three prizes of $1000 each will be given to selected entrants, whose works will be featured in a gallery show in early 2019.
The PAVE 2018 Student Design Competition is accepting submissions from college-level students studying retail planning, design, visual merchandising, and branding programs. Submit by November 1 for a chance at cash prizes.
Lilies Anthology is accepting submissions to their 7th volume “Lily Bulb” through January 22, 2019. The theme of the anthology will be the environment and should represent female/lesbian romance, relationships, and/or sexuality. They’re also currently seeking countdown artists!
Argot Magazine is seeking written and illustrated submissions about queer and marginalized experiences.
(New York, NY) Artisan Books, a division of Workman Publishing, is seeking a Design Manager.
Black Girls Create is looking for submissions of written, drawn, filmed, photographed, or any other expression of creative work from black creators showing what their time at Hogwarts would’ve looked like! They are also seeking black women creators and pop culture critique and commentary from black women creators.
The Brave Some is seeking submissions of short stories, prose, essays, reviews, and visual art by black and/or brown women and femmes.
Broken Pencil is accepting submissions of international zines for exhibition at the Canzine festivals through September 20.
Carnation Books is accepting submissions of queer genre fiction and welcomes fanfiction writers seeking to transition into publishing original writing content. They are actively seeking submissions with asexual or aromantic main characters. They are also seeking cover artists and plot and style editors.
ComicsMNT is seeking pitches for features. They are also seeking to interview comic artists on their process and comic retailers.
(Glendale, CA) Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media is seeking a lead artist and associate artist to assist with mobile game production.
(Chicago, Illinois) Jackbox Games is seeking a lead artist.
(Brooklyn, NY) Kickstarter is seeking an Art Director.
Lion Forge is seeking a Senior Editor for children’s books. Editors may work remotely or in the St. Louis, MO office.
The New Southern Fugitives is seeking submissions of fiction, book reviews, essays, poetry, photography, and visual art from creators in the South.
(NSFW!) Oh, Joy! Sex Toy is seeking guest comic submissions, especially on the subjects of HIV, AIDS, and related prep, menopause, miscarriage, prostate exams, and sex toy reviews. Artists are paid $110 per comic page.
Pink Narcissus Press is seeking cover artwork for SF/F speculative fiction.
Pusheen Corp is looking for a Senior Art Director and a Senior Artist/Illustrator.
Sally of Hand Over Your Fairy Cakes is accepting submissions for “Thanks, Random Man, Your Opinion is Noted,” a zine sharing unsolicited business advice given by clueless men.
Zine-O-Matic, a zine subscription service, is open for zine submissions!
Check out Arts for LA, College Art Opportunities, Graphic Competitions, or Hey, Art Friends for more exhibition, residency, and grant opportunities. See Find Anthologies for a list of anthologies with open submissions and to submit anthologies of your own. Chris Arrant regularly shares location-based jobs in comics (mostly editorial, office, or design work). Check the #ComicJobs hashtag! Check Comic Ops to see opportunities specifically for comic creators. Zine Submissions and Zine Scene have great lists of zines, too!
Con or Bust has free tickets available for people of color for a number of upcoming conventions, including the Locus Awards weekend, Nine Worlds, and Geek Girl Con.
Conosaurus is LIVE! Browse cons by location, date, and other variables! Check it out and support their Patreon! Here’s their Weekly Digest #62!
Chuck Serface is offering 50 WorldCon memberships to LGBTQ fans and creators. You can apply or donate here.
Anime California Con is accepting applications for their artist alley.
DC ZineFest (July 21) is offering grants to marginalized members of the zine community offering $50 and a quarter table at the event.
Indigenous Comic Con is accepting vendors.
Nerdtino Expo in Philadelphia, PA is accepting exhibitors.
The San Francisco Zine Fest is now accepting applications to their artist alley through today, June 15.
Comic Arts LA is accepting applications through June 24.
Anime Milwaukee is accepting artist alley applications through June 29.
Emerald City Comic Con is accepting applications for its artist alley tables through July 27.
Short Run Comix and Art Festival is accepting exhibitor applications through July 31.
The Spokane Zine Fest is accepting applications through August 1.
Geeks of Color is looking for a graphic designer.
(Milwaukie, OR) Dark Horse is looking for a Production Designer and a Graphic Designer.
The Kokuyo Design Awards are accepting entries of product designs through June 22. A grand prize winner will receive 2,000,000 JPY and three runners-up will receive 500,000 JPY each.
(West Bend, WI) The Museum of Wisconsin Arts is seeking a graphic designer.
(San Francisco, CA) Viz Media is seeking a Designer.
(Glendale, CA) The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) is hiring a graphic designer.
The Gaymer Girls Zine: A Charity Zine about canon LGBTQIA girls in video games, is accepting applications from artists through June 15. Contributors will receive a free copy of the zine
Looking for more fan zines to submit to? Check out Find Anthologies and ZineAppCalls for more! Have a finished zine project you want to advertise? Check out Zine RTer!
The AHL Grace Charity Foundation Research Fellowship 2018 is accepting applications from young in-career art historians, curators, or students completing their master’s or Ph.D. in art history or cultural studies and with a strong interest in Asian Contemporary Art through June 30.
The PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship is accepting submissions through July 1. The six writers selected will receive $10,000 each with the option to request up to $5000 more for travel and research so that they may create works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and catalyze public debate.
The Bitch Media Fellowships for Writers are accepting submissions through July 31.
The BLOOOM Award is accepting submissions from artists through July 31. One selected artist will receive a year of mentorship and attendance to an international art fair, and additional finalists will present their work at Art Düsseldorf.
The Customs House in Brenton, Nova Scotia is seeking seven craft artists in residence.
The Sonoran Arts Residency is accepting applications from artists through today, June 15. Artists will receive complimentary studio space, a room at the Sonoran Desert Inn and Conference Center, and access to community activities, but must pay for their travel, food, and supplies.
The Vermont Studio Center is accepting applications from writers and artists for a number of fellowship programs, some which include stipends, through today, June 15. Every VSC residency opportunity includes private room, private studio space, all meals, and full access to evening programs and events.
Gallery Aferro is accepting applications from artist parents for their Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship through June 23. Studio space will be provided for the parent artist for free for 6 months and comes with a $1000 stipend.
PlySpace is accepting applications from creators through July 1. There is a $25 application fee. Studio space and living space will be provided free of cost, but residents are responsible for their own meals. Each resident will receive a $500 travel stipend.
The Monson Arts residency program is accepting applications from artists and writers for two fall residency sessions through July 7. Selected residents will receive private studio space, a private bedroom, three meals a day, and a stipend of $1000. There is a $25 application fee.
UK residents are invited to apply for Penguin Random House’s WriteNow workshops. Writers may apply through July 9, and illustrators can apply through July 23.
The Center for Cartoon Studies is accepting applications for their Cornish CCS Fellowship Residency through August 15.
The Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is accepting applications through today, June 15. The recipient will receive $1500 to assist them in career and writing development.
The John Locher Memorial Award is accepting applications from political cartoonists aged 18-25 through June 15. The recipient will receive $1000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the annual Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
Underrepresented writers in the UK are invited to apply to The Creative Future Literary Awards 2018 through June 18. Prizes include cash, mentorship opportunities, anthology publication, and more.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) Apprenticeship Program is accepting applications from mentors and apprentices through June 29. Accepted pairs will receive a $3000 grant.
The AHL-Wolhee Choe Memorial Art Writers Grant 2018 is accepting applications from writers who write about contemporary visual art, particularly related to artists of Korean heritage, through June 30. The recipient should have a project slated for publication before November 2019 and will receive $3000.
The GLAS Animation Grant Program is accepting applications from US-based animators through June 30. Two $2500 grants will be awarded to help created independent animated short films.
The Louise Meriwether First Book Prize is accepting submissions of complete manuscripts through June 30. Selected manuscripts will receive a $5000 advance and publication by Feminist Press.
The NATTO (National Art & Trade Tuition Opportunity) Scholarship is accepting applications through June 30. Three recipients will receive prizes of $1000, $500, and $250 respectively to be used towards art education.
Solve at MIT is accepting solutions for a series of challenges through July 1. Selected solvers will receive a $10,000 grant and access to partnerships, networking, and events.
The Working Artists Organization is accepting applications from visual artists for a $1000 grant through July 17. There is a $25 entry fee.
The Washington Award is accepting applications from artists in the fields of dance, music, or the visual arts through August 3. Recipients will receive $10,000 with a chance to win an additional $5000.
Western Washington primary and secondary school educators and librarians are invited to apply for the C4C3 Grant to bring more graphic novels and comics into the educational process.
Melanie Gillman shared this list of Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies for Cartoonists! Thanks, Melanie!
The Spare Change Grant Program offers one grant of $25 each month to a person of color and/or gender minority to be used for covering application costs for residencies and calls for submissions. Apply by the 25th of each month for a chance at the award.
Springboard for the arts offers an Emergency Relief Fund for personal and community disasters. Artists in Minnesota affected by the Roberts’ Shoes Building fire are invited to apply.
(Portland, OR) Miss Anthology is seeking comic instructors to teach their summer workshops.
Hope Nicholson is seeking Indigenous voice actors with Audible ACX accounts for the audiobook edition of Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time.
ImageOutWrite is accepting submissions of previously unpublished fiction, nonfition and poetry now through today, June 15. Works should feature some aspect LGBTQ+ lives. Selected contributors will receive one magazine as payment and retain their rights following publication.
Iridium Magazine‘s reading period is now open through today, June 15. They accept genre and speculative fiction featuring a QUILTBAG+ cast at $0.03/word.
Black from the Future: A Black Speculative Fiction Anthology is accepting submissions through June 30.
The Louise Meriwether First Book Prize is accepting submissions from women of color and nonbinary writers of color who are unpiblished residents of the Uited States or its territories. Submit by June 30 for a chance to rceive a $5000 advance and publication from The Feminist Press.
(NSFW!) Cleis Press is accepting submissions for their first volume of Best Bondage Volume of the Year through July 1. Selected authors will receive $75 and two copies of the published book. Cleis Press is also accepting submissions for the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year Volume 5 through August 1. Selected submissions will be published and their writers will receive $200 and 2 copies of the published book.
Vulture Bones is seeking speculative fiction from trans and nonbinary voices through July 1. Contributors will be paid $5 per article.
(Brooklyn, NY) Atlas Obscura is looking for two paid Editorial Fellows. Apply by July 2 for consideration. They’re also seeking fellows for Gastro Obscura, with one focusing on Food & Drink.
NineStar Press is currently seeking holiday-themed short stories of 10,000-40,000 words. Submit by July 31 for consideration.
The Asexual is accepting submissions of art and writing for A(gender): An Anthology through August 1.
The NHMC Television Writers’ Program is accepting applications from scriptwriters for a five-week workshop preparing Latinos for writing jobs on television shows through August 5. The program will take place in Burbank, CA from October 8 to November 9. A $250/week stipend will be provided for participants.
Lee & Low books are accepting submissions for their New Voices Award and New Visions Award through August 31. For the New Voices Award, cash prizes and a standard publication contract will be given for a children’s picture book manuscript by a writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer. For the New Visions Award, cash prizes and a standard publication contract will be given for a middle grade or young adult novel (including graphic novels) by a writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer.
Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology is accepting submissions of YA fiction through September 1. Contributors will be paid $250 per accepted submission.
The Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival 2019 Short Fiction Contest is accepting submissions from authors through October 1. Work must be based on the theme “Saints and Sinners.” There is a $20 entry fee.
(New York, NY) Abrams Books is seeking an Editorial Assistant.
Anime News Network is looking for Freelance Editorial Contributors and Convention Correspondents.
BenBella Books is seeking a fulltime nonfiction editor for remote work.
Black Girls Create is looking for submissions of creative work from black creators showing what their time at Hogwarts would’ve looked like! They are also seeking black women creators and pop culture critique and commentary from black women creators.
Carnation Books is accepting submissions of queer genre fiction and welcomes fanfiction writers seeking to transition into publishing their original writing content. They are actively seeking submissions with asexual or aromantic main characters. They are also seeking cover artists and plot and style editors.
Catapult is seeking a Managing Editor in New York, NY with remote work considered.
Choice of Games is hiring writers for their new line of interactive romance games.
Creator Resource is a new website looking to share resources for comic book creators, writers, and editors. Check it out!
Dovetail Press is looking for a remote developmental editor to work part-time on young adult titles for remote work.
(Glendale, CA) Disney Publishing Worldwide is seeking an Associate Editor to edit titles for a broad age range.
Geeks of Color is looking for news reporters, writers, and music bloggers.
(New York, NY) Hachette Book Group is looking for an Editorial Assistant for Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. They’re also seeking a Senior Editor for the Orbit imprint.
(New York, NY) Harlequin is seeking an Editor or Senior Editor for new imprint Park Row Books.
The Blend at Hello Giggles is looking for personal essays and interviews from LGBTQ perspectives all month (and beyond).
(New York, NY) Hooked is looking for a full time Assistant Editor.
Latinx Publishing is seeking more mentors for its 2018 Writer/Mentor program.
Lillium Publishing is accepting fiction manuscripts, either standalone books or series.
(St. Louis, Missouri) Lion Forge is seeking an Editorial Assistant for Children’s educational books and an Editorial Assistant for Children’s Books.
Longreads is seeking pitches for personal essays, interviews, reading lists, and more.
Lore Lush Publishing is accepting manuscript submissions in a number of genres. Diverse and inclusive works are prioritized.
The Mary Sue is looking for Contributing Writers of all levels of experience.
NineStar Press is seeking submissions of romance, erotica, and literary novels.
Otto Radio is seeking a Commissioning Editor to acquire fictional content for audio fiction.
Radish Fiction is seeking freelance writers of romance, fantasy, sci-fi, ya, and paranormal stories.
Three-Lobed Burning Eye is seeking original speculative short stories and flash fiction for their Fall issue. Accepted authors of short stories will receive $100 and for flash fiction authors will receive $30.
(New York, NY) W. W. Norton & Company are seeking an Editorial Assistant.
Are a fan of webcomics? The Webcomic Whisperer is looking for guest posts!
Cow House Press is seeking a summer intern for May through August.
(Portland, OR) Miss Anthology is hosting free comic workshops this summer in for youth ages 9-18. They are also accepting submissions for 2018 Miss Anthology through June 30.
The Pretty Lightroom Presets Scholarship Program is accepting applications from high school seniors, students transitioning into college, or current college students through June 15. Create an Adobe Lightroom tutorial of 800-100 words for a chance to win $500.
This goal of getting 100 Rejections really inspired some friends and I.
The 2018 Artist Alley Convention Survey is open for responses! Here are past survey results. Find out which conventions were rated highest by engagement, sales, amenities, and other information, all in easy-to-understand charts and simply written information. Thank you Kiriska for putting this together!
Atla Hrafney shared a great thread on getting paid work! Thanks, Atla 🙂
Autodesk Sketchbook is now free! It’s a good time to try out the drawing program and see how it can work for you.
Becca Hillburn of Nattosoup shared blog posts on networking as a webcomic creator at conventions, the responsibilities of self-employed artists, monetizing webcomics in a gift economy, and the process of her recent illustration for WebComicChat. Be sure to check Becca’s Youtube channel for new video interviews with independent artists, walkthroughs with dip pen nibs, tutorials, and more.
Carey Pietsch shared tips for comic creators from a lecture they recently gave. They also shared this handy comics planning spreadsheet!
Clara Fernandez-Vara shared this list of tools to make narrative games.
The Creative Independent shared A Study on the Financial State of Visual Artists Today earlier this week. The results were not promising, and indicate that most visual artists subsist either below the poverty line or with the help of family or support networks.
Sign up for Draw This to receive free reference photos in your email each week. Join the free life drawing livestream every Friday at 4PM PST!
The Etherington Brothers shared 100 of their “How to Think When you Draw” tutorials.
Fai wrote a comprehensive Zine Organizing Guide. Thanks, Fai!
George Rohac shared his list of Manufacturer Reviews and a Print Buying Crash Course.
The Getty, The Guggenheim Museum, and The Met all offer free digital resources, books, and artwork online.
Grace Fong shared this informative thread on working in the animation industry. Thank you Grace!
H.D. Harris has an ebook available on his Gumroad with tips and tutorials on using Clip Studio Paint!
Helioscope shared information on how their studio space got started and has continued to run!
IdesofMerch offered advice on drawing panel borders and speech bubbles in Clip Studio Paint.
Have a hard time saying no to work? Jessica Hische created a template for emails regarding difficult client situations.
Jetpens shared a blog post on Manga and Comic Art Supplies.
Brushes by Kyle T. Webster are available on Adobe’s website. Apparently they work on older, non-CC versions of Photoshop. Test it out and see if it can work for you!
Nilah Magruder created (and recently updated) this awesome list of literary agents who represent illustrators. Niki Smith also has a list of agents who represent creators of graphic novels. Thank you Nilah and Niki!
Ever had your work stolen? RitheGuardian created a free DMCA takedown template!
Sam shared a new pack of watercolor papers!
Shay shared these great tips on selecting zines to participate in (I follow these too!). They also created this incredible spreadsheet for zine templates… wow! Thank you, Shay!
Strangely Katie shared this great list of ways to develop a creative project outside of drawing or otherwise directly making! Thanks, Katie!
Sweaty Palms created a list on how to pitch to anthologies.
The Toronto Comics Anthology shared their process for organizing anthology projects.
The Void Academy shared this guide on How to Ask for What You Need as a freelance creative.
Yoshi Yoshitani shared a great thread on pricing commissions!
Anatomy3D has a 50% off sale on their figure pose packs.
Every Monday, Barnes and Noble offers deals on manga. Be sure to check it out!
Daiya Manga lists great deals for manga and anime!
Book Riot is giving away a $500 gift card to your favorite book store. Enter by June 21 for a chance to win.
Goodreads constantly offers giveaways for a variety of titles in all genres. Check out these giveaways for comics and graphic novels, like these ones for Bad Girls, Hasib the Queen of Serpents, Minding the Store, and Passing for Human.
JetPens is giving away a Father’s Day Writing Kit, which includes a Kaweco Liliput Fountain Pen, a lined Rhodia Pad, and more, through June 20. Submit your email and answer the question for a chance to win.
Seven Seas has a new survey for June. Fill out the survey to be entered into a raffle to win a copy of any book Seven Seas has published so far in 2018!
Sparkler Monthly is hosting its monthly survey for June. Fill it out for a chance to win a Sparkler paperback of your choice!
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Papers of Abraham Lincoln Digital Library
Bond County, Illinois
County: Bond
The Illinois Territorial Assembly carved Bond County out of Madison County in 1817. The first county seat was at a town called Perryville. In 1821, the Illinois General Assembly divided Bond County, leaving Perryville on the Fayette County side of the line. The legislature appointed a commission to fix a new seat for Bond County, and the commission chose the site, acquired the land, and it was named Greenville.
"An Act Forming a New County out of the County of Madison," 4 January 1817, Laws of Illinois Territory (1817), 28-31; "An Act Forming a New County out of the Parts of Counties therein Contained," 14 February 1821, Laws of Illinois (1821), 164-67; William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882), 30-32, 74-76.
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By Charles Henty March 29, 2019 April 12, 2019 Uncategorized/You might like
2014 Architect : Patalab Client: Private Cascade House was a major reinvention project of an an early 18th century Grade II listed building within the very heart of London’s Hampstead village, comprises existing retail premises over ground and first floors, with a new generous two-bedroom dwelling above. ParryPage was brought
By Charles Henty March 28, 2019 March 29, 2019 Uncategorized/You might like
We make a habit of moving projects older than 5 years to our archive section. We do because we want you to focus on what we are doing now than what we have done, However we feel it is still important to document what we have achieved and done in
This is a range of smaller or temporary projects that we have worked on. These include projects such as art installations and art construction but also small pieces of technical joinery that we feel deserve a look.
Royal Thai Embassy
In 2015, Parrypage was chosen by Architect UberRaum to carry their vision for an updated look of the Thai embassy.
The works include the consular and visa sections as well as the Embassy’s musical performance space, which is regularly used for high-profile receptions and cultural events.
The Kanye West Art Stand was a furniture piece ParryPage were commissioned to produce in conjunction with Patalab’s Founder & Director Uwe Schmidt-Hess for a private client.
110 Elgin Crescent was a massive dwelling renovation. Brought on to the project by Architecture and interior design studio Chester Jones, Parrypage carried out not only superficial alterations but large scale transformations such as a re-levelling of all the floors through out, installation of large structural steel work, floor layout alterations, full rewiring and plumbing of the entire building, demolition of existing conservatory and construction of replacement conservatory, Complete replacement of the 4 existing staircases.
The reception desk at the serpentine was built and engineered by Parrypage and designed by David Adjaye.
The desks construction is 3 powder coated mild steel units bolted together and to the floor. The surfaces of the desk are made of 6mm toughen glass sandwiched between threaded brass pins, these allow the glass sections to be easily removable.
Heath House was a major transformation project, taking a quite traditional detached house, modernising it and adding a whole extra floor.
Parrypage was selected by Patalab to build and install all the joinery for the project as they felt our precision and technical ability was what they needed.
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Opening Charge
September 4, 2019 Eck Visitor's Center
All Souls' Mass and Dinner
November 5, 2019, 5:30 p.m. Badin Hall Chapel
In keeping with PLS tradition, the names are read of both deceased graduates of the Program and deceased faculty members and their families. Following mass, faculty and students gathered in the South Dining Hall for a community meal.
Cronin Award Banquet
Time and location to be announced.
The Cronin Award Banquet celebrates the memory of deceased PLS professor Edward J. Cronin. The recipient of the Cronin Award will be announced at the Banquet. This award is given to the student who submitted the finest piece of writing for ordinary course requirements.
Senior Dinner
The Senior Dinner gathers graduating students and faculty for conversation and farewell. The recipients of the Nutting Award, Bird Award, Clements Award, and Rogers award are announced at the Dinner.
The Program of Liberal Studies hosts a gathering of all PLS and General Program Alumni during the University of Notre Dame reunion weekend.
The PLS/GP Reunion will be held on Saturday.
Continental Breakfast 9:30 a.m.
119 O'Shaughnessy
Seminar 10:45 a.m.
Each summer, the Program of Liberal Studies and General Program alumni/ae gather on Notre Dame's campus, eager to engage their teachers, the authors of the Great Books.
The Program of Liberal Studies coordinates the events which are centered on seminars that explore the week's theme.
SOLD OUT! PLS will be offering a special symposium in London. The symposium in London will feature trips to various sites in and around London alongside seminar discussions of related texts, all led by PLS faculty.
To register, follow this link to the Conference Center’s “Calendar of Events”. Listed under July 2020 events.
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Vietnam’s 2020 economic growth slips to 30-year low due to COVID-19 By Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
By Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s economic growth slowed this year to its weakest in at least three decades, buffeted by the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters and a sluggish global economy, government data showed on Sunday. The economy expanded 2.91% this year after having posted gross domestic product growth above 7% for two consecutive years, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said in a statement. The country likely posted a trade surplus of $19.06 billion in the year the GSO said. Average consumer prices rose 3.23%. “This is the lowest GDP growth level in decades. However, amid the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is considered a success for Vietnam, with the growth rate among the world’s highest,” the GSO said. “We’ve successfully battled against the virus but at the same time kept our economy open. The pandemic is more or less under control in Vietnam.” With strict quarantine and tracking measures, Vietnam quickly contained coronavirus outbreaks, allowing economic activity to rebound faster than in much of Asia. The country has recorded 1,440 coronavirus infections, with 35 deaths. The processing and manufacturing industry grew 3.98%, remaining the main growth driver for the economy, while services sector rose 2.34% and the agricultural sector was up 2.68%, the statement added. Exports and foreign investment were robust.
For October to December, the economy grew 4.48% from a year earlier, the slowest rate for a fourth quarter since at least 2011, the statistics office said. It revised third-quarter growth to 2.69%, up from 2.62%.
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A general introduction to the EHRI country reports can be found on the EHRI project website.
Archival Situation
EHRI Research (Summary)
During the Second World War, Argentina officially remained neutral for most of the conflict. A significant portion of Argentina’s population was of German origin and Nazi propaganda was highly influential, especially in the predominantly German communities in the northeast of the country. In March 1945, Argentina declared war on Japan and its ally Germany, just before their capitulation.
Between 1918 and 1933, 79,000 migrated to Argentina thanks to its relaxed immigration policies. However, rising numbers of Jewish refugees contributed to the tightening of immigration laws in 1938. Shortly before the start of the Second World War, the Argentinian government sent a secret circular to its consuls in Europe ordering them to deny visas to Jewish applicants. The impact was significant; between 1933 and 1943, only 24,000 Jewish refugees were officially admitted into the country, while 20,000 Jews entered Argentina illegally. In 1939, Argentina’s population was 14,397,000. According to the census of 1947, there was a Jewish population of 249,330 out of a total population of 15,893,827.
The General Archive of the Nation (Archivo General de la Nación) was established in 1821 by a government decree. Archival documents are also stored in provincial and municipal archives and libraries (including the National Library), and in church and parish offices. Jewish community archives may also hold important Holocaust-related collections.
EHRI has identified several Holocaust related archival institutions: Museo y Archivo Histórico Regional de las Colonias Judías, Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), Archivo de la Fundación IWO-Instituto Judio de Investigaciones, Museo del Holocausto. Relevant Holocaust material is held by Carmen Rosenblatt de Kogan (private collection) and by AMIA - Centro Marc Turkow. However, EHRI is yet to determine the exact nature and significance of Holocaust-related holdings in these institutions, as well as those of the Archivo General de la Nación (General Archive of the Nation) and the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship).
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AMIA - Asociación mutual israelita Argentina
AMIA - Jewish Community in Argentina
Level 4, Pasteur 633, Buenos Aires
General Archives of the Nation
Av. Leandro N. Alem 246 , Buenos Aires
Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica Argentina
Aguero 2502, Buenos Aires
Carmen Rosenblatt de Kogan
Carmen Rosenblatt de Kogan (private collection)
3142 Colonia Avigdor, Entre Rios, Colonia Avigdor
Centro Marc Turkow-Amia
Marc Turkow-Amia Center
Ayacucho 632 30, Buenos Aires
Fundación IWO - Instituto Judio de Investigaciones
IWO Foundation - Institute for Jewish Research
Yiṿo in Argenṭine
Ayacucho 483, Buenos Aires
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores [Archivo del MRECIC, Ministro Plenipotenciario]
Ministry of Foreign Relations
Juncal 847, Buenos Aires
Museo de la Shoa
Shoah Museum
Montevideo 919, Buenos Aires
Holocaust Museum
Fundación Memoria del Holocausto
Museo y Archivo Historica "de las Colonias Judias"
Museum&Historical Archives of the "Jewish Coloni
Villa Dominguez, Entre Rios province
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