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Apps for Inclusion: New Knight contest to build the digital public square
On Tuesday the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a new contest to develop online and mobile applications that will help people improve their lives through better access to government/community info and services.
The Apps for Inclusion Challenge “encourages technology innovators to review government and community services and develop tools that will improve lives by making it easier for citizens to receive these services through mobile and online applications.”
This announcement came during an event co-hosted by the Knight Foundation in which the FCC previewed its forthcoming National Broadband Plan. The FCC will be “in partnership” with the Knight Foundation on Apps for Inclusion.
Contest entry criteria and deadlines have not yet been announced. However, the Knight Foundation will commit a total of $100,000 in prize money. A panel of experts will review applications and pick winners. The public will have a vote through several “people’s choice awards.”
Stay tuned for further details.
By Amy Gahran, 03/09/10 at 2:14 pm
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Crowdsourcing your business: Financial Times idea contest to boost subscriptions
Here’s an intriguing notion—ask the crowd you’d like to have pay for your product for ideas on how to get more of them to pay for it. That’s the approach legendary pink business broadsheet Financial Times has taken by using a “social think tank” called Idea Bounty to help find digital marketing ideas to boost new subscriptions to FT.com.
The crowdsourcing contest has an actual bounty—it carries a top prize of $5,000 and offers 10 short-listers full-year subscriptions to the paper. It’s a pretty simple process: register, submit an idea, then wait to hear back. In this case, you’d know after the July 25 deadline if yours was the plan to win the paper gobs of new online readers.
Idea Bounty, part of Cape Town, South Africa-based Quirk eMarketing, has run such crowd-sourcing contests since late 2008 for Levi’s, Red Bull, BMW, Unilever and others, but this appears to be its first news project. Winning ideas end up belonging to the client, so it’s not so apparent what they are or how well they worked. But the site is reported by technology site Memeburn to have generated 6,000 ideas for 11 projects so far.
Financial Times, meanwhile, already has 140,000 digital subscribers using the site via metered paywall, and according to a long writeup in the Los Angeles Times, has been seeing subscription revenues grow, with 15% more subscribers than a year ago.
Hat tip to Matt Buckland of Creative Spark, which runs the Memeburn site that reported the contest.
By A. Adam Glenn, 06/28/10 at 10:51 am
Hillman Opens Submissions for Social Justice Journalism Prize
A journalism prize for investigative reporting with a social and economic justice bent is now accepting submissions for its 2011 awards. The annual Hillman Prize, sponsored by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, has categories for online, newspaper and magazine publishing, as well as broadcast TV/radio, photojournalism, film and non-fiction books. The winner receives $5,000, plus travel to New York for an awards ceremony next May 19.
Among 2010 winners were healthcare policy bloggers Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic and Ezra Klein of The Washington Post, the Bloomberg News series “The Fight for Transparency,” High Country News’ “The Dark Side of Dairies,” photo series from The Denver Post and a segment from PBS TV series NOW.
The contest judges are a high-powered lot, including a Washington Post/Los Angeles Times editor-at-large, a senior editor from the New Yorker, the editor and publisher of The Nation, a senior producer for CNN and others.
Deadline for submissions is Jan. 31, 2011. No fee is required. Submit or nominate work here.
By A. Adam Glenn, 11/09/10 at 12:23 pm
“Planet Inspired” contest: YouTube users play mix n’ match with National Geographic content
In its Planet Inspired YouTube contest, National Geographic shows how a media organization can build engagement and issue awareness, while also extending the relevance of its established brand to a new generation of digital collaborators. The secret? Encouraging the public play with its multimedia archives…
Through Nov. 15, YouTube users can submit short montage videos compiled from clips and images from a library of National Geographic content, combined with their own pictures or video. Submissions must focus on one of four themes: oceans, endangered species, freshwater, or exploration. Videos can include text captions written by the user, and audio from a library provided by National Geographic.
The goal here is not to help people create journalism, but to help them feel a sense of engagement and identification with National Geographic. The language around this contest is highly emotional and personal: “Choose the issue you feel most passionate about; the story of our planet you want to tell. Then select images, clips, music, plus your own original content to create a message that moves hearts and minds.”
That’s an important point: It’s pretty hard to build a brand, or engage an audience or community, without passion. While your journalism may not be an appropriate place to express or incite passion, it can be interesting to let your community reflect their passion back at you by layering their creativity onto your content.
This particular contest focuses on gorgeous imagery and global issues. However a news organization that happens to have rich photo or video archives might consider trying something similar for issues of special significance to their region: a sports team, a major storm, local business or schools, an annual festival or parade, local history, the local landscape, etc.
National Geographic made this contest very easy for people with little or no video experience by building a user-friendly web-based tool that allows people to select, upload, organize, and caption clips and produce a finished video. That kind of tool requires some web development work, but if you build it right it can be reused for multiple contests. This approach also doesn’t make it too easy for people to use your content in unauthorized ways.
The deadline for submissions is Nov. 15. A panel of National Geographic judges then will choose 10 finalists. YouTube votes will determine the grand prize winner, which will be announced Dec. 17. The grand prize is a National Geographic weekend photography workshop (an existing revenue-generating event series) plus a $1,000 gift certificate from The North Face.
Android apps contest brings together journalists, programmers
In a contest to foster journalism innovation - or even help birth a new breed of journalist-programmer - the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri is bringing together journalism students with computer science, engineering and business students to create new apps for Google’s open-source Android mobile operating system.
The several month-long competition, sponsored by Google, Adobe, Sprint, and Hearst Corp., is in its fourth year, having previously developed apps for the iPhone and for Adobe. One winning idea from last year’s contest is now in development as a potential business at Hearst.
The contest form itself is nicely innovative. Students form ad-hoc, cross-disciplinary teams, with project management from Hearst employees. Adobe provides tools for generating Android apps, while Sprint provides help from developers and phones for testing apps. The winner ultimately gets to present its idea to Google execs in California next spring.
The Neiman Journalism Lab blog has a detailed writeup on the contest and its interdisciplinary approach.
By A. Adam Glenn, 12/07/10 at 6:31 am
WeMedia PitchIt Challenge for news entrepreneurs: Apply by Feb 4
Today, WeMedia started accepting applications for its PitchIt Challenge—a competition for news entrepreneurs. Two winning pitches each will receive up to $25,000 to invest in their big ideas…
“We want to find the best startups and help launch them with advice from funders, investors, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs, attendees and media,” writes WeMedia.
Apply now! Deadline for entries: Feb. 4
Learn more about this contest.
This contest is open to for-profit and nonprofit projects. Finalists will pitch their ideas live before a panel of expert judges and a live audience at WeMedia NYC (Apr. 6).
First Knight-Mozilla Tech Challenge now open: Unlocking video
The first phase of the Knight-Mozilla Technology Challenge launched this week. Through May 6, the program is accepting online submissions of ideas to create tools to help news organizations find new ways to use video in storytelling beyond embedding a “TV in a web page”...
According to the Unlocking Video challenge page: “New open video tools make it possible to pull data from across the web right into the story. Information related to the video can literally ‘pop’ into the page. And videos themselves can change, dynamically adapting as stories evolve. The challenge is to use these tools in ways that serve the story. How can we enrich news video through things like added context, deeper viewer engagement, and the real time web? What are the untapped possibilities inherent in many-to-many, web video?”
Regarding how news organizations could put these ideas to use:
“How might you tell a story by pulling in video, data and other material from across the web?”
“How can semantic video help audiences dig deeper into other forms of context and content?”
“How do we create compelling narrative experiences—and avoid overwhelming viewers with too much information?”
This challenge is one of three to be held this spring—the others are reinventing comments, and future news apps. This series is designed to identify 15 fellows “who will be embedded in leading newsrooms around the world. These fellows will create new tools, ideas, and news experiences that benefit both readers and newsmakers—all using open technologies.”
Fellows must commit to spending a year on site with one of the program’s news partners (currently: Boston.com, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, BBC News, and Zeit Online). At a meeting last night in San Francisco, Nathaniel James (news technology program manager for Mozilla’s Drumbeat initiative) said that the salary would be in the range of $65,000, and that relocation funding and support would be available.
Deadline for video challenge entries: May 6. Ideas then will be voted on by the public and a panel of experts.
James said that in 2012 ten additional news partners will be announced. While the first few partners are mostly large established media organizations, the program will seek more diversity in the size, type, and focus of additional news partners. According to James, the selection process for news partners begins in September. Learn more and stay tuned for more info.
The News for Digital Journalists blog is made possible by a grant to USC Annenberg from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
By Amy Gahran, 04/27/11 at 5:20 am
Knight Community Arts Journalism Challenge: Apply by Aug. 18
Local arts journalism is evolving quickly, just like every other kind of news and information. To spur and guide this evolution, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts recently teamed up to launch an eight-city competition seeking new models for local arts journalism in the digital age…
A Knight press release explained that the new Knight Community Arts Journalism Challenge will award prizes up to $100,000 total for projects that “use the latest tools for storytelling and engaging readers to create model programs that could be replicated in other communities.”
Projects must focus on or directly benefit at least one of the following cities:
Charlotte, N.C.
San Jose/ Silicon Valley, Calif.
Applicants need not reside within a target city.
Deadline: Midnight ET, Aug. 18
First round winners will receive up to $20,000 to create an action plan to develop their idea. These projects are eligible to win up to $80,000 for implementation in the contest’s second round.
Individuals, non-profits and businesses are eligible to apply. Partnerships between legacy and emerging media organizations are encouraged. There is no limit to the number of applications that you can submit.
“No idea is too unusual,” said Dennis Scholl, Knight’s vice president for arts.
Knight News Challenge 2.0: applications open Feb. 27
For five years the original Knight News Challenge stimulated innovation in news, information, and community engagement. Today the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation unveiled the revamped program…
The new Knight News Challenge will comprise three smaller, more focused competitions. Each Challenge will last 8-10 weeks, beginning to end.
The first Challenge opens for applications Feb. 27, deadline March 17. First-round winners will be announced in June 18 at MIT.
The second contest (an open competition, casting a wide net for new ideas) will launch later this spring.
The dates and topic of the third contest have not yet been determined.
This year’s first News Challenge will focus on the concept of networks. John Bracken, director of journalism and media innovation for the Knight Foundation, explained what Knight means by networks:
“In the course of our work, we often come across proposals to ‘build a Facebook that connects X and Y.’ We want to move away from that. There are a lot of vibrant networks and platforms, on- and off-line, that can be used to connect us with the news and information we need to make decisions about our lives. This challenge will not fund new networks. Rather, we’re asking you to describe ways you might use existing platforms to drive innovation in media and journalism.”
Knight News Challenge 2012 from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
By Amy Gahran, 02/09/12 at 12:44 pm
Knight News Challenge 2012: To apply, answer 7 questions on networks
Today the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation began accepting applications for the first part of the revamped Knight News Challenge. To apply, explain your idea on the theme of “networks” by answering seven questions on a special Tumblr site…
This year the News Challenge will comprise three smaller, more focused competitions. Each Challenge will last 8-10 weeks, beginning to end. The application deadline for the first Challenge is March 17. First-round winners will be announced June 18 at MIT.
By “networks,” Knight means “ideas that build on the rise of existing network events and tools that deliver news and information and extend our understanding.”
In this video, Michael Maness (Knight VP of Journalism and Media Innovation) elaborated on the “networks” theme. For example: “Storify didn’t invent Twitter,” he said, “they just found a new way of using it.”
Later this spring, Knight will launch the second Challenge (an open competition, casting a wide net for new ideas). The dates and topic of the third contest have not yet been determined.
Learn more and apply now
Deadline: March 17
News and announcements from the Knight Digital Media Center.
RTNDA/Gannett award for innovative community watchdog journalism
Knight News Challenge on Mobile: applications now open
What “mobile first” means to BreakingNews.com
Review: RCFP “first aid” app for journalists
Civic Data Challenge: Apply by July 29
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Audio-Prosthesis
The Panasonic Emotions Testing Line, by “nomadic” development designer JIŘ� ČERNICK�, is a conceptual SD audio-prosthesis that aims to grasp the issue of the emotional deficits in society.
The device is a substitute, personal container for the emotions of users who are not able, or do not want, to experience life through their own emotional perceptions. It looks like a Walkman-type device with headphones that does not play music inside, but rather outside, of the head. The device facilitates the user’s emotional communication with the world around him. It is not designed for his/her personal use only but is equipped with a tiny amplifier.
Suite Soil Digital Media
Two New Commissioned Audio Works
Concert, June 30, 2006, 8:00 p.m.: A live stream of the June 30th concert is available at this link under SPIKED.
Guy van Belle (Bratislava): “slashtops”: The concert program “slashtops” consists of real time manipulations with sound transforming light to sound and sound to light in three parts to investigate the relationship between sound and image, audio art and the visual, a persistent tension in the arts for generations. The first part of the program is a trilogy of arrangements between synthetic and real sounds the source material and inspiration based on recordings made in Quebec based on the movement of the artbots that comprise ‘thoughts go by air’. A second source of audio content comes from Munich based on sounds from the city environment and a third from Bratislava, around Zlaty Piesky (an industrial – recreational – commercial area). The second component of the program is based on a translation of light into sound using the computer as an instrument. The third part of the program is a concert version of the installation TICS, which is a translation of light into sound and back to light, with a score based on the novel ‘istanbul’ by the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (2006).
Talent-Spotting in Virtual Worlds
“…At Radio 1 we want to bring a new level of social interaction to our virtual broadcasts. We are hoping that the bands featured on-air will have their own custom-built avatars, playing in the virtual world. So if we have the Red Hot Chilli Peppers playing a gig, visitors to a Radio 1 virtual space will see avatars of Anthony Kiedis and Flea, mimicking the action in the real world.
We also believe it is crucial that the virtual audience can interact with the event. It is about replicating the “liveness” of an event, not just broadcasting it. Additionally, Radio 1 wants to find ways of allowing the audience in these worlds to actually affect the real event. I see no reason why they cannot be asking their musical heroes questions, alongside virtual Radio 1 DJs, either via Instant Messenger or VoIP. This deeper social interaction, that mirrors real world events, would do much to enhance the ripples that resonate around digital communities.” From Talent-spotting in virtual worlds by Daniel Heaf, BBC.com.
Sonic Interface by Akitsugu Maebayashi
Past Remixed with Present
“Our experience of reality is strongly dependent on the synchronicity of our senses. We must, for instance, hear or touch what we see while we see it, in order to be able to determine reality and in order to decide what to do or how to react. The decoupling in time of sight and sound – like when we first see the lightning and then hear the thunder – can create a disturbing irritation when it affects our immediate surroundings: imagine that you would only hear the cars passing you on the street after they have already past, or that you hear conversations which were held minutes ago in a different location from where you are.
Sonic Interface experiments with human perception by amplifying and manipulating the synchronicity of auditory environment. Equipped with a portable hearing device made of a computer and headphones, the user is invited to walk around the city’s public spaces such as squares, shopping malls, and underground stations. The random urban sounds that he hears are first transmitted to the headphones without modification, but then the computer programme begins to create an artificial sonic environment from the sounds that it picks up.
INTERVIEW: LOREN CHASSE
PHOTOGRAPHING ACOUSTIC SPACES
“The American Loren Chasse is one of the most important international artists working in the areas of environment and sound. His ability to listen and to transform an object into �musical instrument� is the most identifying feature of his work.
If field recordings are more and more common in �experimental� music, then Loren Chasse does not only have a different way of using sound, but he manages to �photograph� with his microphone the acoustic spaces in which he works.
Chasse shifts the traditional frontier of art by blurring the differences between music and sound art, if it can even be assumed that they exist. Beyond his activities as a musician and his several collaborations, he is a teacher in the San Francisco School District where he organizes workshops on skilled and creative listening.” From INTERVIEW: LOREN CHASSE, PHOTOGRAPHING ACOUSTIC SPACES by Luca Bergero. This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released on March 2006, and has been edited for republication on newmediaFIX.
Sonic Graffiti
Geo-tagged musical graffiti
Chia Ying Lee’s Sonic Graffiti invites urban artists to collaborate and create music together, while allowing the passersby to enjoy it as well. A system of devices enables graffiti artists to create and geo-tag music in the urban space with real spray cans:
– The sound cap has to be snapped on the top of spray cans to spray out sounds and do simple sound manipulations with gestures. Users create music by overlaying/remixing various paint/sounds from the caps. Each cap can store up to 4 sounds in its memory card. They can be loaded from computers or portable devices like iPod, mobile phone, etc. Gestures to manipulate sound include fade in/out and scratch. Several artists spraying at the same time can create a sound composition.
A Monument to South African Youth
On 16 June 2006, South Africa celebrates the 30th anniversary of Youth Day. The act of remembrance is shaped by a multitude of senses ranging from sight, sound, physical touch and smell. This year Gallery MOMO invites you to join us in commemorating Youth Day through the experience of sound. Nathaniel Stern, Jo�o Orecchia, Shane de Lange, Johan Thom and Dinkies Sithole will work together to create a Memento – a sound sculpture to commemorate Youth Day. At 16:00, one hour performance, drinks served. 52 7th Ave, Parktown North, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The artists will draw from their own, particular experience of life in contemporary South Africa to formulate a personal, aural response to the celebration of Youth Day. For example, both Shane de Lange and Nathaniel Stern are best known as artists working with digital media to create art: de Lange creates experimental sound by appropriating and sampling sounds from various sources including music, the body and even the sounds of a paper bag; Stern is known as a new media artist who uses interactive digital technology, often drawing the viewer and the artwork together in a new interactive, symbiotic whole.
Zipper Orchestra
Ziptease
Zipper Orchestra is an interactive video installation that combines the Conductor Musical Score as a physical controller and the Zipper Actions Collage Video as musical display.
The screen is filled with 9 video clips from different people zipping and unzipping their clothes. By moving 9 physical sub zippers and 1 main zipper attached in a canvas, users can control the individual zipper motion in the screen as a conductor. The main long zipper will control 9 motions all together. As the audience zips and unzips zippers on the musical score different pitch of string instrument come out from the speaker.
A work by Joo Youn Paek (who also made the polite umbrella!), in collaboration with Gabe Barcia-Colombo (sound design) and Leif Mangelsen (software tech). [blogged by Regine on we-make-money-not-art]
Invisible Maze
You Make It
Jeppe Hein’s Invisible Maze installation is just what its title says: invisible. The promised maze is there but it only materialises as we move around in it. Visitors are equipped with digital headphones operated by infrared rays that cause them to vibrate every time they bump into one of the maze’s virtual walls. Thus, the exhibition is perceived as a both minimalist and a spectacular playground. The maze structure spans six different variants, all of them referring to labyrinths from our common cultural history. From the medieval labyrinth in Chartres to Stanley Kubrick’s fateful dead end from the film The Shining to Pac-Man. The maze changes from day to day, inviting visitors to make repeat visits.
Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen will present Jeppe Hein: Invisible Maze 10 June – 27 August 2006. The exhibition represents a further development of the exhibition Invisible Labyrinth which attracted 50,000 visitors during its two-month run at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris last year. Via Art Daily. Thanks Joshua. Other work by Jeppe Hein: Distance.
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Beamish Porter in India
I'm not convinced as to the accuracy of the quote that follows. Some of it is clearly bollocks. Which raises the question, can we believe any of it?
It's a bit weird, because the bit that interests me is merely a footnote. A footnote about Porter in a Dublin jail:
"Before proceeding to the biographical account of this extraordinary person, which it is my intention to give, I think it proper previously to state the very singular manner in which our friendship had its commencement. One evening, in the month of October, 1812, I had the misfortune, from some circumstances here unnecessary to mention, to be conveyed for a night's lodging to the watch-house in Dublin. I had there the good fortune to meet Mr. Odoherty, who was likewise a prisoner. He was seated on a wooden stool, before a table garnished with a great number of empty pots of porter.*
* We beg leave to hint to our Irish correspondent, that if the pots were empty, they could scarcely be termed pots of porter.— Blackwood. [And I beg leave to hint that, in the watch-house in Dublin, in 1812, such a liquid as porter was not at all likely to be in request. The drink of that region would inevitably be — whiskey punch. In 1812, very little malt liquor was used in Ireland. Most of what was made was exported to the British army then under Wellington in the peninsula, to the British West India islands, and to the East Indies. The soldiers drank it, of course, as if it were so much "mother's milk"—only a great deal stronger. In the West Indies, where the drought was great, the draughts were copious. In the East Indies, whenever what was called Cork porter and Fermoy ale happened to arrive, in anything like good condition, it brought a great price, and was imbibed freely. But, in those days, brewers had not arrived at the present certainty of making ale as drinkable on the banks of the Ganges as in London, Dublin, Cork, and Edinburgh, In 1812, London porter was scarcely exported to the East or West Indies: Edinburgh ale was not known much beyond the city of its birth; and the supplies were sent from the porter brewery of Beamish and Crawford, of Cork, and the ale brewery of Thomas Walker & Co., of Fermoy. The last-named concern has wholly ceased, but Cork city rejoices in Beamish and Crawford's porter brewery, whence it also taken one of its parliamentary representatives (1855), in the person of Frank Beamish. At present, the pale ale of Bass and Alsop — rival houses in the small English town of Burton-upon-Trent — is the favorite tipple in British India, where one man asks another to "take a glass of Bass" with him, just as, elsewhere, he would invite him to take a glass of champagne. It is surprising that in Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay, some capitalist does not commence an ale and porter brewery, and go in to make a fortune thereby. Long after Odoherty's time, Guinness's Dublin porter came into note in rivalry with "London Stout." The story goes that Guinness had no great note until the full body of one particular brewing attracted the attention of those who malt. On cleaning out the vat, there were found the bones and part of the dress of one of the workmen, who had been missing for some weeks. Guinness, it is said, sang small about the matter, but to give his porter the required body, instead of boiling down a man, as before, substituted a side of beef, and has continued the ingredient from that time to this. So, after all, even a tee-totoller must admit that Guinness's porter is but a malted description of — beef-tea! — M."
"Miscellaneous writings of the late Dr. Maginn, Volume 1" by William Maginn, 1855, pages 3 - 4.
There's a clear claim there that Porter from Cork - in particular Beamish and Crawford's Porter - was exported to the East Indies at a very early date: 1812. I know that Guinness exported their Stout to India a couple of decades later. But this is the earliest mention of Irish Porter in India. Just a shame it's from someone who can't spell Allsopp properly.
Then there's the stuff about the workman dissolving into Guinness. Obviously totally untrue, as all stories like this inevitably are. If for no other reason than that at the period in question putting anything other than malt, hops, sugar, yeast and water was illegal. And the authorities took the rules pretty damn seriously.
Labels: 19th century, Allsopp, Bass, Beamish and Crawford, Guinness, India, India Porter, Irish Porter, pale ale, Porter
I've never been there. Never drunk a beer brewed there.
One colleague. My first programming job, at Legal and General. She was from Bolton. Notlob. I can remember that joke being made.
What a place to work, Legal and General. For the canteen. Hot food - great choice - and a fully licensed bar. Shepherd Neame on cask. For 20% less than the pub price. Nice. Especially having cask, drink of the gods.*
"Dad, do you want to hear some really weird Japanese music?"
"No, I'm trying to make a very subtle point about cask beer"
"Listen to this, dad"
"It sounds like a a really, really, really, really annoying ringtone (nyan cat)"
"It's a pop-tart cat, going through space with a rainbow flowing out of its bottom. Can you imagine how annoying it gets after a while?"
"No imagination necessary, Andrew."
This is the quote I wanted to share::
"The leisure of the young is largely concerned with courtship—and dance halls provide no alcohol. Once mated, the leisure of a considerable section of the male population (the pub-goers) is concerned with "I pass a couple of hours in 'ere ow't road o't' wife."
Bolton. It's assuming mythic proportions for me.
* And plebs like me.
Labels: japan, nyan cat, poptart, rainbow, ringtone
Pub numbers decline in Bolton
Pub numbers. Pub closures. A very topical topic. But one that's been kicking around for longer than my lifetime.
This is a very specific look at pubs in a particular Lancashire town. In particular, how many of them there were. I'm bringing this quite specific account because it's typical of the developments in pub numbers across the UK in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. The same pieces of legislation had much the same effect everywhere. Principally, a sharp reduction in the number of pubs and virtually now new licences ever issued.
At the time this piece was written in the late 1930's, there were 304 pubs in Bolton.
"In this book historical material is only being used to illustrate facts about the contemporary pub, and not for the sake of trying to include a "history of the pub" as such. Now, in order to understand more fully the factors of pub distribution, and to deal with the basis of the different types of pub that are examined later, we require some relevant history.
Some Worktown pubs can be traced back from before the Industrial Revolution. There is a list of 61 names and addresses of pubs existing in 1824. Nineteen of these are still in existence, same names and addresses.
Mackies Worktown Directory and Almanack for 1849 gives the following list:
Inns 117
Beerhouses 188
Beerhouses supposed to exist without a licence 15
Inns and Beerhouses where thieves and prostitutes resort 20
Inns and Beerhouses where gambling is practised 13
Inns and Beerhouses having musical entertainments 14
That is, ignoring the pubs without licences, Worktown had one more licence in 1848 than in 1937. Only, then there were 170 inhabitants per pub, now 559.
Said Mr. Taylor, Coroner for the Borough, 1848, in a speech to the licensing magistrates:
These ale and beerhouses would hold every man, woman, and child in the Borough . . . there is a drinking place for every 25 houses . . . such are the present resources for selling drink — or poison — some called it by one name, some by the other.
By 1854 there were another 25 beerhouses in existence, though the number of full licences had remained the same; and the absolute number of pubs continued to rise, until in 1869 there were 452 of them.
By then there was also a powerful and militant temperance movement in existence. At a packed meeting of 2,000 people in the new Temperance Hall the Rev. C. Garrett declaimed "No working man in Lancashire need be without clothes, but if he will insist in clothing the landlord and landlady in purple and fine linen, he must be content to remain in poverty and rags". Since 1830 there had been no restrictions whatever on the issue of beer licences; this policy remained the same for 39 years, when the Act of 1869 empowered the magistrates to refuse to grant the renewal or issue of beer licences; and another Act of 1872 still further restricted the conditions of issue and renewal of licences. The general basis of the present day licensing system had been established. From that time it is possible to trace statistically the ratio between pub and population variation.
Though in 1869 there were nearly half as many pubs again as there had been in existence twenty years earlier, the amount of full licences had only increased by 6, from 117 to 123. Next year, when the Act came into force, 69 beerhouses were abolished right away. The diagram opposite shows that the population: pub ratio has never subsequently decreased, steadily rising from 210 people per pub in 1870 to its 1935 figure of 559.
For nearly thirty years after the new act came into force, the absolute number of pubs continued to fall, while the population was still rising. In 1898 the borough boundaries were enlarged, which besides adding to the population increased the number of pubs by 61. (The break in the curves on the diagram, that are joined by dotted lines, indicate this.) For a few years the absolute number of pubs increased again slightly, but after 1903 began a long, steady fall, decreasing on an average by about three pubs every year. And in 1928, after a period of stagnation, the population too began to fall."
"The Pub and the People" by Mass Observation, 1943 (reprinted 1987), page 73.
The Beer Act of 1830 ushered in an, historically considered, untypically liberal licensing regime. Basically anyone could open a beer house, that is a pub that only sold beer and no spirits. Unsurprisingly, the number of pubs rocketed. From the 1869 Act mentioned onwards, increasingly strict legislation was introduced, mostly designed to close beer houses. It was a task that continued into the 1980's. Sometime around then beer houses finally disappear from the licensing statistics, having fallen to just a couple of hundred in the 1970's. As you can see from the table below.
You'll notice that Bolton was very close to the national average for the number of pubs per head of population in the 1930's: 1 per 559 people, when in 1938 the average was 519.
Pubs in England and Wales
fully-licensed pub
beer house
Total Pubs
Total on Licences
Off Licences
On and Off licences
pop. per pub
Statistical Handbook of the British Beer and Pub Association 2005, page 62
Statistical Handbook 1974, page 48
Labels: 1930s, 19th century, beerhouse, pub
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Forward to the Sky development evolution
By Wei • 2014-10-04 Forward to the sky
It has been an year since this game development started. Thank everyone for following the development and sharing your thoughts. It encourages us a lot! And yeah, finally, the game is going to be finished in a few months!
During the year, the game design has been modified many times for different reasons. The two greatest changes were gameplay and stage design.
When we started the game, the initial goal was to make a game which you act as Princess, punch through monsters in the sky tower and earn crystals to explore skills. A game focused more on fighting with different skills. However, as the development continued, we noticed there were a lack of something and it will not be fun enough if we focused this game on the fighting part. We tried different things, failed many times and eventually we found action and scene interaction ( puzzles and mechanisms) actually made this game better.
Since the gameplay changed, we have to changed the stage design to fit the gameplay as well. In the very began, we were going to build 24 stages with each taking 5 minutes to be finished. Stages were going to be small so you can quickly pass through each and play with new skills. But after the gameplay has changed, the origin design didn’t work anymore. We spent some time collecting similar thing into one stage and only kept the fun design. In the end, we have bigger stages containing more mechanisms and longer play time.
Of course, the art has been improving as well. Just look at the following images, what a revolution!
Now, we are finally near done. The next step will be launching a greenlight campaign ( hopefully Steam don’t kill the greenlight yet before our launch! ) and continue to polish the game at the same time.
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Antagonista TV 2K+9: Antagonista ON the TV!
It's hard to believe it's been almost two months since the last post here on Reason, but how about this for breaking the silence....
If you're not yet familiar with the "micro-blogging" world of madness that is Twitter, Suspect Paki, who first pointed yours truly in its general direction and whose own #Gaza Tweets were featured in the New York Times, explains what it's all about: If blogging was cocaine, then Twitter is crack.
Eagle-eyed Reason readers will already have noticed a new feature in the left hand sidebar of Reason, Antagonista Reason'd Tweets which contains real-time updates of The Antagonist's latest witterings on Twitter.
Running in parallel, yesterday, a little discussion about the position of poet laureate was instigated by laureate candidate in the running Wendy Cope, who suggested that the post of laureate should be abolished because poetry can't be written to order. The Channel 4 News team (who produce by far the best news programme on any UK TV channel) begged to differ and farmed out a couple of Tweets to their 2,800 or so followers on Twitter:
channel4news So the favourite to succeed Andrew Motion as poet laureate says you can't write poetry to order. We think otherwise, oh Twitter-verse
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channel4news ...so, Twitter-verse: 'A poem to lift the spirits of a nation'. Up to 140 characters minus @channel4news The best featured tonight.
'A poem to lift the spirits of the nation' seemed like an interesting challenge, as well as an opportunity to reach the Channel 4 News audience with a message of hope and a succinct synopsis of the ethos behind this blog. So, text editor and character counter at the ready, a short entry was soon submitted.
At 5.30pm yesterday, things began to roll. The daily Snowmail arrived containing a link to "some of the best entries so far: http://bit.ly/Foge", which amazingly included the entry above, and a Channel 4 News Tweet advised:
"Studio run through of our Twitter verse feature. Time allowing Krishnan will read two of our favourites. Stand by @antagonise, @supercoolkp"
Surprised? Yes, very! Then, when Channel 4 News went to air, viewers were treated to the amazing sight of Channel 4 News' anchor man Krishnan Guru-Murthy sat in front of a revolutionary meme:
Below is a brief video snippet in which the daily news' requirement for the repeated repetition of "boom and bust" subliminally replaces the "bust and boom" that was actually written, taken from the full report that can be seen here courtesy of Channel 4.
Congrats also to fellow Twitterer supercoolkp for making it onto the show. Top marks to the Channel 4 News team for embracing the interactivity of cutting edge Internet technology and, of course, for their excellent taste in poetry. Thanks folks!
Viva la people's revolution!
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Home > News > Sustainability and subsistence systems in a changing Sudan
Sustainability and subsistence systems in a changing Sudan
Dr Philippa Ryan, Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, The British Museum, Principal Investigator
Philippa sampling a 3,100 year old hearth in a large villa.
Professor Katherine Homewood, Department of Anthropology, UCL, Co-Investigator
Nubian agricultural practices are rapidly changing due to infrastructure development, technological and environmental changes. Our project explores how comparisons of present-day and ancient crop choices can inform on risk management within agricultural strategies of small-scale riparian Nile village settlements. Research is focused on present-day Ernetta island (620km north of Khartoum) and nearby 2nd millennium BC Amara West, which was also located on an island during its occupation. Today, as in the past, islands are important due to their agricultural potential. Compared to further north in Egypt, there are fewer areas of wide floodplain suitable to traditional floodplain agriculture in the Middle Nile Valley.
We have been interviewing Nubian farmers to investigate the characteristics of customary agriculture and in what ways these have been impacted by new farming methods, population movements, dam and road-building – as well as changing patterns of imports and trade. Interviews were undertaken in February and March of this year, and have so far focused on the car- and electricity-free island Ernetta. Several farmers we met were over 80 years old and we have begun to outline several phases of change in crops grown over the last century. Key agents of change have included the introduction of new crops, the shift in irrigation techniques from the water wheel to water pumps (1950s-1970s) and the impact of bird attacks on certain crops.
Removing crop weeds from wheat, Ernetta
We have been finding out about customary harvesting, threshing, storage and food preparation practices as well as about land-use and irrigation. We discussed what animals people keep, how this has changed and foddering/grazing practices. Despite the changes, some practices have remained relatively traditional till very recently. For instance, harvesting is still done by hand, and a threshing machine was only introduced to the island in the mid-2000s. There seems to be shifts in farming approaches amongst the older and younger generations of farmers, with a potential loss in knowledge about how particular crops have been used in the past. We are examining our evidence for temporal changes alongside ethnographic and historical sources. For comparative purposes, we are also carrying out interviews in nearby river-bank farms, as well as in other locations in northern Sudan.
The ancient town of Amara West was also originally situated on an island like Ernetta. Geomorphological evidence suggests a river channel north of the site drying during the site occupation, which would have exposed the settlement and agricultural fields to encroaching sands. (Find the complete report here.) The town has well-preserved architectural phases, together with associated plant remains, spanning this timeframe. (For further information, click here.)
Ful (broad bean) fields after harvest, Ernetta island
Charred seeds are providing information about a wide range of taxa, whilst phytoliths (opaline silica casts of plant cells) preserve information about plant parts that rarely survive charring. We are studying the plant remains to investigate whether or not the increased localised aridity impacted agricultural and plant-use strategies. Little is published or known about agricultural practices prior to the 1st Millennium BC, and the evidence from Amara West is providing new information about crops grown for the 2nd millennium BC.
The subsistence information from the Amara West and the farmer interviews will be situated within a long temporal review of crop choices in the region. Crop diversification is one way of managing agricultural risk given that using a number of cereals and pulses with different growing tolerances (such as to heat or water stress) helps to buffer against crop failure. This includes reviewing archaeobotanical literature for ancient plant use as well as twentieth Century sources to better understand more recent changes. Combining the ethnographic and archaeological record aims to establish firstly which of today’s crops have a particularly long established history in the region, and secondly whether some of these are being grown less in recent decades.
Animal enclosure, Ernetta island
For instance, hulled barley is found in abundant quantities at Amara West and was grown as a food cereal until the mid-twentieth century but is now grown mostly by older farmers, and only for animal fodder or for making a drink thought to have medicinal properties. This study aims to create a long-term perspective of adaptive solutions and how these are relevant to the future, and aims to record and promote local knowledge of sustainable natural resource exploitation.
Research and fieldwork at Amara West is made possible with the permission of the National Corporation of Antiquities & Museums (Sudan).
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/sudan/amara_west_research_project/sustainability_and_subsistence.aspx
Wheat fields, Ernetta
This entry was posted in News and tagged ECR, Environment & Sustainability, Funded award on 24th November 2014 by Christine Boyle.
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The Sudden Outpost, Galleria Cesare Manzo Roma, 2009
Reflections on cinema can be traced throughout Carola Spadoni’s work. First as a filmmaker directs videos and films including Al confine tra il Missouri e la Garbatella/Freddy and Victor blind date (1997) and Giravolte/Freewheeling in Roma (2001); later with the installation works Dio è Morto/God is Dead (2003), Live Through This (2006) and echo’s bones/ossi d’eco (2007) she focuses on the idea of a mise en espace of cinema. The Sudden Outpost, the exhibition at the Cesare Manzo Gallery in Rome, marks a new phase in the artistic career of Carola Spadoni.
Through banners, embroidered fabrics and blankets, assemblages, photographs, light box, super 8 and videos the artist takes us on a journey through the popular cultures of Italy, America and India. It is one great narrative assemblage, a work inspired by the idea (typically American) of patchwork. The background is her Roman upbringing and the New York years, the traveling, the cultural passions and life experiences. The similitudes and contradictions that this path opens.
Raw packaging paper is the backdrop to this sudden outpost where the banners host recent and current slogans, symbolic and trivial phrases, always debuking and pungent.
The fast American landscapes of the lightboxes are prints from the Super 8 Kodakrome frames, a type of film discontinued by Kodak: like many artists today, Spadoni is fascinated by obsolete technology of the past. A Mandala made of fabrics (silk, shantung, cotton, tulle) and inkjet prints from photos is mounted on the wall (on the occasion of the Eurasia exhibition at the Museo Mart of Rovereto the same concentric form, larger and multicoloured was laid on the floor): some of the photos shot in Jaipur the capital of Rajasthan, depict images of instruments used to measure time, others show us images from the Thar desert. One of Carola Spadoni’s work strategies is to bring into new context parts of the work that has already been done, an example are the photos taken from Dio è Morto (God is Dead), an anti-western featuring a quiet and unceasing female protagonist. Likewise for the maze of ordinary, found, or preserved materials.
A key to this rich and complex multimedia installation is in Stay gold, a photo shot in Arizona which the artist has preserved for the last fifteen years. This photo looks at a sort of backstage, the back of a billboard in an backstreet somewhere, a squalid and charming corner. This is one of the typical borderline milieu chosen by the artist, at the same time real and imaginary places. Stay gold is an American idiom, a warning not to become soured and to keep an integrity, which is extended from singular to plural, individual to group: “Stay as you are”.
Laura Cherubini
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A nest to feather
Story by Steve Adler and Shannon Springmeyer
Photos by Matt Salvo, Steve Adler
and courtesy of Rob Jaret and Barn Owl Box Company
Owl boxes offer shelter to beneficial birds
Take a walk with Rob Jaret around his Marin County property any given summer evening, and you're almost certain to have company. Silent in flight and stark against the dusk with their white faces and undersides, barn owls glide through the trees like spirits, peer down with their keen eyes from overhead perches and let off noisy screeches. Jaret might spot five or six of the birds a night.
"They're very unusual creatures," he said. "To me, they're the most mystical and beautiful of all of the birds."
These California natives not only project a fascinating mystique, but their voracious appetites and superior hunting skills also prove useful to their human neighbors by helping keep rodent populations in check.
Rob Jaret, a volunteer for the nonprofit Hungry Owl Project, checks on one of the three owl boxes he has erected on his Marin County property. The winged predators help keep rodent populations in check. Photo: © 2017 Matt Salvo
Safe haven for helpful birds
As a volunteer for the nonprofit Hungry Owl Project in Marin County, Jaret is determined to do his part to support the birds. He's installed three owl nesting boxes on his 3-acre property adjacent to woodlands, providing habitat and shelter. He also fosters orphaned owl chicks, scaling the 15 feet to the box each night to deposit thawed mice and gophers as food. Jaret estimates he's hosted anywhere from 50 to 100 owls since he became involved eight years ago. One of the most rewarding aspects is seeing owls he's fostered return the following year to raise their own families in his boxes.
"It's just a great experience," he said. "I love doing it. I tell a lot of people it's the most fun thing that I do."
Installing nesting boxes where appropriate is an effective way of supporting barn owls, which typically nest in tree cavities. According to Alex Godbe, founding director of the Hungry Owl Project, barn owls are generally found in or near open fields and meadows, but sometimes nest in urban areas as well, especially when open spaces are nearby. Nesting boxes provide a home to owls in areas where there are fewer mature trees with large cavities, she said.
Driven by the mission of supporting the population of barn owls and promoting their use for pest control, the Hungry Owl Project installs specially designed nesting boxes in residential areas, parks and open spaces and on school grounds and agricultural land.
According to Godbe, a single family of barn owls can consume between 3,000 and 5,000 rodents in a single four-month breeding cycle. She noted the owls aren't a standalone solution to rodent control, but can be successful as one part of an integrated pest management approach, which is an ecosystem-based strategy relying on a combination of techniques to solve pest problems.
Chris Storm, director of viticulture for Vino Farms in San Joaquin County, calls barn owls a "silent partner in the vineyard." Vino Farms has installed more than 500 owl boxes on more than 100 vineyards to help control destructive gophers. Photo: Steve Adler
A silent partner
Owls can be particularly useful for pest control in agriculture. They silently patrol the night skies over vineyards, orchards and farm fields in search of destructive gophers, voles and other rodents that munch on crops, chew through irrigation lines and cause general havoc on the farm.
Chris Storm, director of viticulture for Vino Farms, is familiar with the benefits of partnering with the native predators. Family-owned Vino Farms has installed more than 500 owl boxes on their more than 100 vineyards throughout California. The winged allies target gophers, whose mounds create an uneven driving surface for tractors, interfering with farming operations. In most years, other forms of rodent control are unnecessary.
"It's kind of cool to have this sort of silent partner in the vineyard," Storm said. "That owl is patrolling the vineyard at night and I'm patrolling it during the day, so it's kind of a team effort."
The use of owl boxes for pest control has been common among California winegrape growers for about 20 years, Storm said. When he joined Vino Farms in 2006, owl boxes were already being used. Each year, they add more. Not only are the owls effective, but hosting them fits into the farm's efforts to employ an integrated pest management approach and increase biodiversity.
"If I can increase predatory raptors, like kestrels, like owls, like hawks, and insectivorous birds like Western bluebird, then I've created a more stable ecological system," Storm said. "You have more of an equilibrium between pest and prey."
Storm said the owls are a haunting, but welcome sight around the vineyards at dusk.
"They're almost a little spooky," he said. "But every time I see one, I think, 'Ah, go to work, little buddy. Get us some gophers.'"
Storm said it's gratifying to spot owl pellets, the balls of indigestible fur and bones that owls regurgitate, a sign both that rodents are being eaten and that owl chicks are thriving.
Barn owl hatchlings, left, look up at a camera mounted inside their owl box. A family of barn owls can consume up to 5,000 rodents in a single four-month breeding cycle, says Alex Godbe, founding director of the Hungry Owl Project. She poses above with Gazeau, a great horned owl the group rescued after a debilitating injury. Photo left: courtesy Rob Jaret. Photo right: © 2017 Matt Salvo
Worldwide impact
Barn owls, found on every continent except Antarctica, are wide-ranging in their hunting patterns and will take up residence wherever there is a good supply of prey, said Mark Browning of the Pittsburgh Zoo. As a field researcher who has made a lifetime career of studying barn owls, he's worked in California with cooperators such as Storm, as well as in Florida, Malaysia and Israel. Browning said his research confirmed that barn owls "provide a highly effective, inexpensive and nontoxic alternative" to other methods of rodent control.
"Growers of almonds, walnuts, cherries and other nut, fruit and row crops are already using sophisticated nest box programs; sugar cane growers as well," he said. "They adapt their hunting methods, so the barn owls can be very effective in all types of orchards and other crops."
For Storm, the rewards of partnering with the birds are far-reaching. He's intrigued by the idea that what's being done on a California farm can benefit not only the farm's immediate environment and neighbors, but have ripple effects around the globe.
"These owls are one of the only species that's ubiquitous across the globe. And what we do here affects their migration," Storm explained. "The owl that's raised on our farm at Cosumnes River could end up in Florida. We're improving our farm, we're farming in a more ecological sense and we're also providing a service to others as that owl spreads out across the world, really."
Steve Adler and Shannon Springmeyer
Photo: courtesy Barn Owl Box Co.
Want to do your part to support barn owl populations? These beneficial birds of prey will return the favor by helping keep rodents in check. The Hungry Owl Project offers several tips for how to get started.
If you have a mature tree with a straight trunk or a post and sufficient open space nearby to provide hunting ground for barn owls, your yard may be a suitable location for an owl nesting box. Never install boxes on utility poles or near busy roads. Be aware that owls can be noisy in and around their nests at night. Keep boxes at least 100 feet away from bedrooms, as well as swimming pools or bodies of water. Make sure no rodenticides are being used in the area.
To build your own nesting box, you can order box plans for barn owls, bluebirds, bats and Western screech-owls from the Hungry Owl Project, available by mail or PDF. For more information, visit www.hungryowl.org.
For a ready-made option, the boxes sold by the Barn Owl Box Co. are lightweight but durable and capable of withstanding weather extremes. Visit Mark Browning's website at www.barnowlbox.com for more information.
Browning encourages anyone who's interested to get started right away.
"The moment you start thinking about starting an owl box program, go ahead and start erecting boxes," he said. "The barn owls in the area will start scoping them out immediately for potential roosts and target them for nesting in the spring."
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I'm protesting today outside VOX office, George Square, Glasgow
I'm doing a solitary protest today outside the VOX (voices of experience) office on George Square, Glasgow. I'm demonstrating about the attempts made by VOX board members to silence my voice (SHUT UP! go to bed), the lack of respect given to critical voices by VOX governance and the conflicts of interest in the VOX governance.
"VOX is a National Mental Health Service User Led organisation, we work in partnership with mental health and related services to ensure that service users get every opportunity to contribute positively to changes in the services that serve them and wider society."
I don't believe that VOX has made room for people like me in their membership, survivors of mental illness and psychiatry. It has become increasingly difficult for my voice to be heard in VOX matters. My activism and campaigning has resulted in bullying by VOX board members in Emails and discrimination at meetings. My protest will be a way of me having a voice and is a matter of principle.
The straw that broke this camel's back came via a two pronged attack. A combination of arrogance, ignorance and condescension. An unctuous mixture. I took the bullying, the badmouthing and the backstabbing but the condescension is a step too far.
So I have resigned from the membership of VOX as a matter of conscience. I can't be a member of a group that supports (doesn't stand against) forced treatment in psychiatric settings. It would be condoning the force used against my sons, my mother and me. In my opinion VOX should be speaking out about and against human rights abuses in psychiatric treatment, rather than being a focus group for government and NHS.
Posted by Chrys Muirhead at 7:54 am
Labels: bullying, forced treatment, human rights issues, protest, Scotland, speaking out, survivor
Anonymous May 22, 2013 11:13 pm
What should VOX be doing to stand against forced psychiatric treatment?
Chrys Muirhead May 23, 2013 6:19 am
For a start VOX could/should allow the voices against forced treatment a space to speak out rather than only having voices that think force is OK. That would be a start. Space for people to speak out about human rights abuses in psychiatric treatment, what's happened to them and how they feel about it.
I recently attended a VOX focus group, before leaving the membership, and the VOX paid worker spoke about us reaching a 'consensus' on the topics we were discussing. Then in an Email after this a VOX board member spoke to me about the majority view of VOX members. This isn't helpful and in fact is nothing to do with having a voice or listening to the VOX membership.
All the views of the VOX membership should be taken into account not just the dominant voices, otherwise it is just like the patriarchal psychiatric system where decisions are made on our behalf and our voices aren't listened to. Where the non-compliant are made to comply, using force if necessary. And this is what happened to me as a member of VOX. I was bullied and attempts were made to silence me, for being non-compliant.
Non-compliant equals non-conformist in the 'real' world, something I've always been and is the main reason that I was able to resist psychiatry and survive 'mental illness'. I didn't break free from the system just to be put into a straitjacket by VOX.
Anonymous May 30, 2013 11:17 am
Can you imagine no circumstances in which compulsory treatment may be beneficial for a person even when they don't think it is beneficial?
Chrys Muirhead May 30, 2013 11:27 am
It's not a matter of imagination but, in my opinion, a matter of treating people as persons, individuals, listening to them, getting to know them, forming a relationship, hearing their story, asking what happened.
My experience of psychiatry and psychiatric inpatient treatment was none of these things. It was about taking the psychiatric drugs or being made to, being compliant, doing what the psychiatric staff said, regardless of what I wanted, in what to me and others was an oppressive regime.
It was also about peers supporting peers, patients supporting patients, solidarity in our oppression. I remember this well and how the support of fellow patients made a difference to my inpatient experience. However not all patients were supportive and not all psychiatric staff were oppressive. It's the system that's oppressive. We don't need to be aligning ourselves with an oppressive system. That's my way of seeing it, having had every family member of mine go through psychiatric and be forcibly treated.
Last sentence should read "go through psychiatry and be forcibly treated."
Is there a place for psychiatrists in an alternative system?
Chrys Muirhead May 30, 2013 5:22 pm
The psychiatrists have a place, in the psychiatric system. An alternative would be an alternative to the system. Bringing in alternatives and de-medicalising mental distress would take the pressure off the system to socially control the mad people, helping to bring about the paradigm shift that many of us are working towards. Or that's how I see it.
Some people believe in psychiatry, it's biomedical model of mental illness, diagnoses/labels, medication/drugs, need for compulsory/forced treatment. Others of us don't. Why should I and other non-believers have to obey the 'church' of psychiatry? Be forced to comply, take disabling drugs, be disrespected and bullied. Things written about us in 'medical' notes that misrepresent our motives, badmouth and slander our reputations. And all because we don't believe it. In religious terms that would be persecution.
Anonymous June 06, 2013 1:31 am
Is VOX just a very tame talking shop? Why do we never hear questions about how much psychiatrists earn compared with put upon social care workers and other people who work in mental health? Why are consultant psychiatrists worth six figure sums when others working in mental health earn chicken feed by comparison? Is it not time to ask these kinds of questions? Is it not time for the salaried workers and board members of organisations like VOX to demand answers to these questions? Why is the NHS and its staff beyond reproach? We as a society need to give vulnerable people help, but when are we going to stop putting the NHS and its workers on a pedestal and ask difficult questions about what they do and how the pots of money are divided up? Surely we can be opposed to cuts to services and still question whether the services we are forced to accept are meeting our needs? Maybe we should be asking the VOX board members and staff what the organisation has achieved since it came into existence and make them more accountable to the membership? When are they going to stop pussy footing around, get the finger out and start asking the awkward questions which nobody in a position of authority, whether in government or in the NHS, wants to answer?!
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LEGO Lord of the Rings overview
by Bruce N H » Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:57 pm
Over the last several months, we've taken a look at all of the LEGO Lord of the Rings sets:
9469 - Gandalf Arrives
79005 - The Wizard Battle
9472 - Attack on Weathertop
79006 - The Council of Elrond
9473 - Mines of Moria
10237 - Tower of Orthanc
9476 - Orc Forge
9474 - The Battle of Helm's Deep
9471 - Uruk-Hai Army
9470 - Shelob Attacks
79008 Pirate Ship Ambush
79007 - Battle at the Black Gate
Promos, polybags, gear
There are also a couple of Bag End sets, though those were marketed as part of the Hobbit series, so I've left those off this list (we'll do the Hobbit sets at some future point).
The rumor is that we won't see any more Lord of the Rings sets (though has this ever been confirmed by LEGO?). So, at the end of the run, what is your overall impression? What were the high and low points? What other sets did they miss out on including? Give your thoughts on the line as a whole.
Re: LEGO Lord of the Rings overview
by Brickninja » Sun Nov 16, 2014 8:57 pm
One word: Gondor.
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by Athos » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:27 pm
I really liked the line. It had some great sets (Bag End, Helms Deep, Orthanc, Gandalf's cart) and some neat figures. Even some of the not so great ones were neat looking sets (Shelob) or had some good parts (Moria). I do wish they'd continued the line.
Minis Tirith is a pretty big example of something they missed… Bree would have been nice too...
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by Brickninja » Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:15 pm
Bruce N H wrote: Hi all,
About the line ending, I have word from a LEGO employee that they will not be making sets anymore , but the license has not yet expired, so an Ideas set is feasible.
by Azaghal » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:23 am
Brickninja wrote: About the line ending, I have word from a LEGO employee that they will not be making sets anymore , but the license has not yet expired, so an Ideas set is feasible.
And on that note, I see that the impressive Minas Tirith MOC I posted a while back is just a few hundred supporters away from consideration.
Overall, I've been really impressed with all the LotR sets I've gotten - looking at the list, I'm somewhat surprised it's as short as it is, they seemed more numerous.
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by TeufelHund » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:30 am
The first wave of sets was good and covered a lot of bases - the entire Fellowship (albeit spread across a lot of sets), a decent orc army builder, a nice castle-like big set, some fantastic minifigs and new accessories...but they lost their way with the second wave. If you asked a fan what they wanted top of the list would be Iconic stuff like the Witchking (& Fellbeast!), Balrog, Gondor-related stuff and some important characters like Faromir, Eowyn etc. Instead we get a Pirate Ship and the Mouth of Sauron who wasn't even in the theatrical version of the trilogy...
The Hobbit sets have covered a few more bases and the UCS Orthanc was very good, but most fans will be a bit disappointed about what could have been in the end.
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by Kev » Mon Nov 17, 2014 2:17 pm
Gondor is the big miss. I feel like there was an intended 3rd wave that got dumped after the poor showing of the second wave. Probably Gondor.
I wish they would do a CMF series to fill out the line. Lots of great characters to do. Like the Simpsons, they could always come back to LOTR and get a license to do a CMF series in the future.
by Mark of Falworth » Mon Nov 17, 2014 2:25 pm
Some interesting points all around. I'm not a big fan of Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit, so these sets don't peak my interest as far as story/characters are concerned. However, they have introduced some really nice parts into the realm of castle building. So I'm happy about that.
I know some people will be upset if the line ends without some of the aspects and scenes they really wanted to see on the store shelves, I think folks should be absolutely thrilled they got all the sets they did! A couple years back it was pretty tough to make purist LOTR figs and mocs. (Unless you're Blake)
by AK_Brickster » Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:20 pm
Helm's Deep is one of my favorite sets of all time. A really good castle parts set with tons of gray and sand green parts, and the official build was fun too.
Other than that, the series gave us a ton of amazing minifig parts, particularly the intricately printed torsos and legs. I believe that Weathertop was the first set to give us the new posable horses. We also got "the One Ring", and lots of new weapons (new spear, longbow, new sword mold for Sting, and I think the first appearance of the longsword as well).
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by rogue27 » Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:16 pm
Azaghal wrote: I see that the impressive Minas Tirith MOC I posted a while back is just a few hundred supporters away from consideration.
Huh, neat. I signed up for LEGO Ideas just to give you a vote. I always wanted figures and shields bearing the Tree of Gondor.
LEGO's Peter Jackson/Tolkien product line was solid. Bag End and Helm's Deep are really cool sets, and the line provided a lot of great parts for a medieval/fantasy setting. However, I also look forward to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit to go away with the hope that traditional LEGO Castle sets can return.
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by Sir Erathor » Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:24 pm
I forgot to mention Helm's Deep. Easily the best LEGO set I've ever bought, love it to this day and would gladly buy another one if I got the chance. The weapons and new pieces have been a fantastic addition to a castle fan's collection.
It will be very sad to see it end, especially since the final film is released this December too.
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by RedBrick » Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:02 am
They have released some very good sets. A nice, kind of matured variant of the castle theme, which added a lot of variation.
I totally regret not having started with it earlier - trying to catch up though. It did hurt a bit to see the shelves flooded with starwars and only one or two different lord of the rings sets (if any), so - yes: the end isnt surprising. Still a shame!
But i am happy of the sheer amount of new and pretty cool parts and minifigs. I think that is a big advantage of lego licenseware in general.
So in conclusion: pity pity its not getting continued - i have no idea what to expect of a new castle theme though. The last were quite overshadowed by lord of the rings. now with that theme gone question is if there is enough interest in the fantasy/medieval direction in general to expect good sets or will they go on with another lukewarm castle generation?
by Bruce N H » Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:22 am
I guess I didn't add my own thoughts on this line.
On the one hand, I'm not really thrilled with licensed themes. I'd rather have LEGO make their own fantasy line, and let people expand it with their own imagination. Also, having an official line in some way limits some people's imaginations as to how LEGO creations should look. If there is one "right" LEGO interpretation of a fig or a setting, that implies that all other interpretations are wrong. I'm actually more talking about kids here, not experienced AFOLs. I remember that I first came out of my dark age before the Peter Jackson movies came out, and I started building Lord of the Rings MOCs. Then the movie came out and a large proportion of the comments I got were that I got this or that wrong (e.g. - "your Legolas is wrong because he doesn't have long hair" - where again in the book does it say that he has long hair?). Having an official line only cements this in place.
That said, the set designs were excellent. As others have noted, the Helm's Deep set is one of the best castles ever, especially with the small expansion set as an add-on. I think LEGO was really smart to have two concurrent castle lines - the LotR license at an advanced building level appealing to advanced kids and AFOLs, and the non-licensed castle sets for younger builders. In addition to great designs, as others have noted, the Tolkien sets introduced lots of detailed figs, new accessories, the rearing horses, gothic half-arches, and other new elements.
There were several misses, IMO:
-Of course Gondor. The rumors are that a final wave of Gondor sets was squashed, which is sad. The most obvious set would be Eowyn, Witch King, and Merry along with a brick-built fell beast. My ideal line would include a modular series to show the attack on the city. Set 1 would be the gates and Grond (the battering ram). Set 2 would be a portion of wall and a siege tower. Set 3 would be a portion of wall and a trebuchet (for throwing severed heads into the city, of course). The wall portions would be able to hook to the gates, and you could buy as many as you want to make a larger city wall. Of course each set would come with a couple of orcs, a couple of Minas Tirith soldiers, and a named character (Gandalf the White at the gates, Faramir in one of the wall sets, maybe Denethor (or Imrahil) in the other) (sure, Denethor never made it to the walls, but I don't think they'd realistically make the citadel, and that would give his fig).
IMO they could have ditched the ship set if they'd instead had some representation of the city itself, either the modular series I suggest or even a large set.
-A stand-alone Ent set. Sure, there's one in Orthanc, but that's a set that many could not afford to get, but they'd be happy to get a Treebeard. Also, you could buy multiples (maybe varying up the design a bit) and have an army of Ents to attack Isengard.
-More Moria. IMO they should have had three Moria sets. One for the western gate, with the watcher in the water. The one they did with the Chamber of Mazarbul. The third would of course be Gandalf vs a brick-built Balrog (maybe along the design they had in the video game).
-Pose-able stubby legs. The Lord of the Rings and even more so the Hobbit sets were the best chance for us to ever get these, with the great number of key characters of shorter stature. Various customizers have shown that it is possible. Why, LEGO, why, must any Hobbits, Dwarves, or just kids in non-fantasy sets be doomed to a static existence?
If I ruled the LEGO set design world, they would have come out with three waves:
-Gandalf's Arrival - existing set
-Bag End - existing set in the Hobbit line
-Weathertop - existing set
-Council of Elrond - existing set
-Moria 1 - western gate, watcher in the water
-Moria 2 - existing set
-Moria 3 - Gandalf vs Balrog
Two Towers:
-Treebeard - stand alone ent similar design to that in the Orthanc set, along with Merry and Pippin
-Helm's Deep - existing set
-Helm's Deep add-on - existing set
-Orc Forge - existing set
-Orthanc - existing set
-Shelob - existing set
-Maybe if they wanted another small set, something like "Warg attack", sure, not in the book, but a simple set with a warg, an orc, a rohan soldier, and a named character
-Eowyn vs Witch King (with brick-built fell beast)
-Minas Tirith 1 - gate, Gandalf, battering ram
-Minas Tirith 2 - wall section with siege tower
-Minas Tirith 3 - wall section with catapult
-maybe the Corsairs of Umbar - existing set
-Battle at the Black Gate - existing set
-Something with Frodo and Sam, either at the Cracks of Doom or in the Tower of Cirith Ungol
Sure, there are tons of additional settings (Bree, Lorien, Meduseld, more Shire) and other figs (esp Galadriel, though we finally got her in the Hobbit sets) that would be possible, but I was trying to describe something that could actually be feasible along the lines of what they did produce.
by Sir Erathor » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:56 pm
Bruce, I'd almost totally agree with you - my brothers, friends and I used to discuss our ultimate LotR line all the time and we pretty much had the same sort of set ideas.
Just to say, would Shelob not be in the RotK line, since the sets go by the films? In its place I would have had a medium-sized scene featuring part of the Golden Hall of Edoras with a Theoden fig before Gandalf 'heals' him.
I actually think that changing the stubby legs would change the 'feel' of the LEGO itself, but it would certainly help make some more action packed/realistic scenes. Just my thoughts.
by BoradorIV » Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:30 am
I'm not overly fond of the idea of dividing the waves up by movie. A lot of important characters didn't appear until Two Towers (Eomer, Theodon, Eowyn, etc) and it'd feel even MORE incomplete with every wave...
As for the Lord of the Rings line as a whole?
A pretty good line if you ask me. Every set was detailed, well designed, and had a decent price point for it's size (and for being licensed, that really makes it feel like a good deal). An excellent figure selection, and every figure was incredibly detailed and accurate to the film.
If I had one complaint of this line, it's the common one; too short. Ended too soon. So much was missed. I'm happy we got as much as we did, since it seemed impossible before, but still, no Gondor is a bit glaring.
Oh well, bright side. What we did get was great!
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Events for Gloriae Dei Cantores
March 15, 2013 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: 25th Anniversary Concert Series. Gramophone Magazine describes Gloriae Dei Cantores as "Particularly lovely, pure and radiant," and the Chicago Tribune says "Rapturous a capella passages." Gloriae Dei Cantores performs Frank Martin's exquisite Mass for Double Choir, J.S. Bach's Lobet den Herrn, Benjamin Britten's beloved Festival Te Deum, and works by Carlos Chavez and Braxton Blake. For tickets call 508-240-2400. Church of the Transfiguration 5 Bay View Rd., Orleans MA 02653
March 16, 2013 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: 25th Anniversary Concert Series. Gramophone Magazine describes Gloriae Dei Cantores as "Particularly lovely, pure and radiant," and the Chicago Tribune says "Rapturous a capella passages." Gloriae Dei Cantores performs Frank Martin's exquisite Mass for Double Choir, J.S. Bach's Lobet den Herrn, Benjamin Britten's beloved Festival Te Deum, and works by Carlos Chavez and Braxton Blake. For tickets call 508-240-2400. Church of the Transfiguration 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653
April 26, 2013 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Britten, Grieg, Bach, Howells. A concert including Benjamin Britten's beloved Rejoice in the Lamb, Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's rarely performed "Four Psalms," and works by J.S. Bach and Herbert Howells. For tickets call 508-240-2400. $35 general admission, $30 seniors, free for students. 5 Bay View Drive, Orleans MA 02653 (View flier)
April 27, 2013 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Mozart: Mass in C Minor and Faure: Requiem. “They sing with evident love and devotion in every breath.” The Boston Globe says the choir evokes “vast and serene magical spaces,” the Los Angeles Times praises their “seamless ensemble and seductive phrasing.” $35 general admission; $30 for seniors; free for 18 and under. Pre-concert lecture 6:45 pm. Church of the Transfiguration, Rock Harbor, 5 Bay View Dr, Orleans MA 02653 (View flier)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: An evening of multi-cultural masterpieces. Representing Budapest, Brazil, Britain and America—a program featuring the Missa Brevis by Kodaly, Cherubic Hymn by Hanson, Brazilian Psalm by Berger, and Lo the Full, Final Sacrifice by Finzi. $35 general admission; $30 for seniors; free for 18 and under. Pre-concert lecture 6:45 pm. www.gdcchoir.org Church of the Transfiguration, Rock Harbor, 5 Bay View Dr, Orleans MA 02653 (View flier)
8:00 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Gloriae Dei Cantores Concert. Vaughan Williams’ haunting Mass in G Minor, William Walton's The Twelve, and works by J.S. Bach and William Mathias—exquisite choral works with orchestral accompaniment. Dinner 5:30 pm; Pre-concert lecture 7:15 pm; Concert 8:00 pm. Dinner and Concert: $60; Concert only: $35 (Seniors $30). Concert free for students and 18 and under. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier)
September 28, 2013 (Saturday)
March 7, 2014 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Lenten Concert. J. S. Bach: “Jesu der du Meine Seele” and Dieterich Buxtehude: “Membra Jesu nostri” with orchestra in a Lenten concert of sacred choral music. “Lord, I believe, help my weakness, let me never despair; You make me stronger when sin and death assail me. I will trust in your goodness until I joyfully see you in sweet eternity.” Pre-concert lecture at 6:45 pm. Reception following the concert. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
March 8, 2014 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Vaughan Williams' powerful plea for peace, Dona Nobis Pacem. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Jossie Pérez, mezzo-soprano; Andrew Nolen, bass; full orchestra; with choral works by Bach, Mozart, and Poulenc. Pre-concert lecture at 6:45pm; reception following the concert. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Summer Concert: Sviridov, Bach, and Howells. Georgy Sviridov: Three Choruses from Tsar Feodor Ioannovich; Ineffable Mystery; J.S. Bach: "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied"; Herbert Howells: Mass in the Dorian Mode. Pre-concert lecture at 6:45pm; reception following the concert. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
October 31, 2014 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Works by Gerald Finzi. Gerald Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; Welcome Sweet and Sacred Feast; Lo the Full Final Sacrifice; For St. Cecilia. With orchestra and tenor soloist. Tickets: $35 (Seniors $30), free for students and under 18. Church of the Transfiguration, Rock Harbor, Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
February 6, 2015 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Winter Chamber Concerts. In the midst of a deep, cold winter, experience an evening of warmth and light. Sacred music of the early Renaissance that tells of the life and teachings of Christ. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
February 7, 2015 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Winter Chamber Concerts. In our stress-filled lives, how do we carve out time for peace and reflection? Early Renaissance music by Palestrina, de Lassus, and others, and Poulenc's "Motets for the Season of Lent." Flier photo: Steve J. Sherman. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Elijah. Feliz Mendelssohn: Elijah (in German). Martha Guth, soprano; Jossie Pérez, alto; Limmie Pulliam, tenor; Andrew Nolen, bass; Richard K. Pugsley, conductor. Pre-Concert Lecture at 6:45pm. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Drive, Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
January 22, 2016 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Gloriae Dei Cantores Concerts. Repertoire spanning the globe from South America to Estonia, including Arvo Pärt: Magnificat; The Beatitudes; Tribute to Caesar; I am the True Vine; The Woman with the Alabaster Box; Orlando di Lasso: Dixit Martha ad Jesum; Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Fremuit spiritu Jesus; J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm; Carlos Chavez: Arbolocu, the sequester; Pablo Casals: O vos omnes; Jean Berger: The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee; Healey Willan: Rise up, my love, my fair one. Pre-concert lecture 6:45pm; reception following. $35 general admission ($30 for seniors; free for students and 18 and under). Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
January 23, 2016 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Lenten Concerts. Maurice Duruflé:, Requiem, Arvo Pärt: L'abbe Agathon; De profundis; Francis Poulenc: Motets for the Season of Lent; Litanies à la Vierge Noire; Charles Martin Loeffler: "By the Rivers of Babylon". Pre-concert lecture 6:45pm; reception following. $35 general admission ($30 for seniors; free for students and 18 and under). Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: All Saints' Concert. W.A. Mozart: Requiem; Benjamin Britten: The Company of Heaven. Martha Guth, soprano; Kathryn Leemhuis, alto; Aaron Sheehan; tenor; Andrew Nolen; bass; Richard K. Pugsley, Director. With full orchestra. Pre-concert lecture at 6:45 p.m. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 ⓘ
October 29, 2016 (Saturday)
November 25, 2016 (Friday)
4:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Services of Advent Lessons & Carols. An evening candlelit service of Scripture and carols Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 ⓘ
November 26, 2016 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores/Elements Theatre Company [MA]: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Opera: The Pilgrim's Progress. Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim’s Progress, fully staged with orchestra. The opera is the featured event of an international symposium celebrating the arts and commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. Soloists include Richard K. Pugsley, Andrew Nolen, Paul Scholten, Eleni Calenos, Kathryn Leemhuis, Martha Guth, John E. Orduña, Doug Jones, and Aaron Sheehan Tickets; $40-$75. Church of the Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
November 3, 2017 (Friday)
November 4, 2017 (Saturday)
December 1, 2017 (Friday)
December 2, 2017 (Saturday)
July 6, 2018 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Gloriae Dei Cantores Summer Concerts. Sacred choral works by Ēriks Ešenvalds and Arvo Pärt. Pre-concert lectures at 6:45PM. Tickets: $35; $30 for seniors; free for students and 18 & under Church of The Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
July 7, 2018 (Saturday)
August 24, 2018 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Pärt’s Passio. Arvo Pärt: Passio With guest soloists and instrumentalists. Pre-concert lectures at 6:45PM. Tickets:$35; $30 for seniors; free for students and 18 & under Church of The Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 ⓘ
4:30 PM. Gloriae Dei Cantores [MA]: Advent Lessons & Carols. Candle-lit services open this season of Advent with readings, prayers, and carols sung by Gloriæ Dei Cantores—a tradition for over thirty years. Extended organ prelude Dec. 1 at 3:30 pm. Doors will open one hour before the service; no tickets required. Church Of The Transfiguration, 5 Bay View Dr., Orleans MA 02653 (View flier) ⓘ
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Celebrity Summit Cruise Recap Share A few weeks back I had the pleasure and excitement to go on a media sailing for the new Celebrity Cruises Summit – the ship just underwent a $500 million renovation in just about a month! How insane is that?! The ship, which had its inaugural sailing back in 2001, got a major facelift complete with tons of luxury accomodations, details, restaurants, and more. I hadn’t been on a cruise in several years, so this was such a special treat and it totally ignited the cruise bug in me again. Cruises are such a great way to see a handful of places at once which having so many necessities, activities, and things right at your fingertips on board! Going to give you guys a quick overview of the trip – my sister Julia came with me and it was also so special to have some QT sister time in the mix! We boarded the ship and headed right to our stateroom to drop off our bags, then headed out to explore the ship a little (of course had to stop at the pool deck!) to get our bearings on where things were + grabbed a bite to eat in the main dining area, Oceanview Cafe . Can we just talk about Ocean View for a second? HOLY. FOOD. You guys – every single thing you can possibly imagine, from Mexican to fresh fish, pasta stations, charcuterie, salads, stir frys, international cuisines and literally everything in between. Julia and I spent a good 10 minutes walking around the entire cafe (which is hardly a cafe if you ask me!) scoping out our options before we even grabbed a plate. We ended up grabbing just a few small bites since we had a group dinner planned for later that evening – but everything we got was so delicious and fresh! Our main activities and things were planned out for us since this media sailing was just two nights – our first night entailed a welcome cocktail reception, a show in the theatre (December 63 – a tribute to Frankie Valli + The 4 Seasons), and a group dinner at Qsine. I shared lots of these things in real time on stories while aboard so will just quickly walk through some of the highlights!+ December 63 – an hour long performance that included some of the best Frankie Valli hits and commentary. I SO enjoyed this since my guy and I recently went to see Jersey Boys in NYC! These 4 guys did such a great job on the songs and characters – a must see if you are on a Celebrity Cruise! + QSine – oh. my. gosh. One of the most exquisite meals I have ever had. This was a group dinner for all of us influencers on board, and it completely rocked our palettes to say the least. I don’t even remember how many courses total it was.. maybe 9? Each course was a different cuisine from around the world – ranging from seafood bites (like sushi rolls, lobster popovers, crab rangoons, and escarole meatballs) to an Asian Fusion course (egg rolls, teriyaki chicken, orange chicken, and stir frys), to Indian Cuisine and currys, to All American sliders and fries. I totally stuffed myself on the front end of the meal (not realizing what we were in for) and by the end, couldn’t possibly fit one CRUMB more in my mouth! I would go back on the Summit just for this meal, hands. down. Such a unique experience that our group absolutely loved! One of my favorite spots we peeked at the first night is The Retreat Lounge which is an exclusive area for all suite class guests. It has a sundeck (shown above), stylish pool chairs + cabanas, hot tub, and pool butlers who are gracious to serve drinks + food 24/7! It’s like it’s own little oasis on board and I loved the quiet, cozy vibe compared to the busyness of the main ships decks. It’s a great little ‘retreat’ to escape to if you want a break from the lively happenings elsewhere! Our second day, we woke up early to take advantage of the gorgeous weather, and found ourselves right near the island of Tortola – I feel like that’s a place you only ever really hear about so was totally giddy when I heard this from another guest on board! We grabbed breakfast at the Oceanview Cafe – YES, to their omelettes stations, fresh fruit, and crispy home fries.. and then planted ourselves out at the pool for the afternoon to catch some rays. The main pool deck has live bands that play all day long, as well as pool butlers who can grab anything if you ask! There’s also an outdoor food spot for quick grab + go things.. or you can walk right inside to the Oceanview Cafe – it’s on the same deck! After a day out at the pool, Julia and I got ready for another full night of activities..+ Cosmopolitan Restaurant – our dinner was in the main formal dining room our second night. This has a set menu you can order anything on the menu from.. we took full advantage and ordered salad, appetizer, and dinner! Julia got dessert but I couldn’t fit one more bite.. ha seems to be a theme of the trip here right?! This was good, but personally I enjoyed QSine more the first night! *Since our sailing was only two nights, we didn’t get to try every single restaurant on board. All guests were booked dining prior to the trip, to make sure all could be accommodated on such a short sailing. There’s a sushi spot, Italian restaurant, Luminae (the cafe in the Retreat Lounge), and Blu which is ‘clean cuisine’.. Given that the few restaurants we did have were so delicious, I am sure that all of these are just as good too! + American Ballet Performance + Violinist – our show for the second night was incredible and one of a kind! Celebrity has partnered with the ABT and has select sailings with performances on board over the next year or so. We were also treated with an incredible violinist performance – violin isn’t my favorite but I have a whole new appreciation for the instrument after this! Our last morning we had to disembark, but not before filling up on another amazing breakfast spread at the Oceanview, and then Julia and I stopped down at Cafe al Bacio – the ships coffee spot that also serves gelato and pastries. Girls had to get their ice coffee, ya know?! Thanks so much to the Celebrity Cruises team for hosting us – though a quick trip, it was SO worth it to experience the new ship.. and like I said, I totally have the cruise bug in me again! The Picks:
Chef Rakhee Vaswani Brings Her Cuisine to Dubai Beach Hotspot
Chef Rakhee Vaswani Brings Her Cuisine to Dubai Beach Hotspot Chef Rakhee Vaswani Brings Her Cuisine to Dubai Beach Hotspot By Friday, 26 April 2019 Popular chef, TV personality and YouTuber Rakhee Vaswani’s unique fusion recipes will be a feature at Le Meridien Al Aqah Le Meridien Al Aqah Beach resort
In case you are a foodie, love long drives and itch to go for a short holiday every now and then, there is good reason for you to drive down to the scenic Le Meridien Al Aqah Beach Resort in Fujairah. Imagine, lazing by the sea, looking at the vast expanse of the ocean and relishing some delightful bites and drinks while sipping masala chai, all made by a super chef? Blissful? Well, that’s exactly the objective that the resort hopes to achieve with its collaboration with celebrity chef Rakhee Vaswani.
For those who love watching cookery shows, Rakhee is a familiar and popular figure. She has had a long and abiding passion for food and it was this passion that led her to set up Palate Culinary Studio, a cooking school in Mumbai where budding chefs, amateurs, professionals and food enthusiasts are trained. Rakhee has her strong Indian roots intact when it comes to cooking but her panache with world cuisines often lead her to experiment with traditional dishes to create something more exotic. So a regular chaat is given a twist with the addition of avocado paste to it (and believe us, it tastes delicious!), the indulgent but heavy biryani is packed into a small crispy wrapping that’s easy to pop into your mouth and the textures of cheese cake and biryani get fused to form a unique, eggless east-meets-west dessert. “It’s all about love and passion,” says Rakhee, adding her favourite quote about fusion. “Fusion, for me, means a marriage between two ingredients, or between an ingredient and a cuisine or between two cuisines,” she says.
Chef Rakhee Vaswani with a guest
It was this creativity that was on full display at the preview of her culinary magic at Gonu Bar & Grill at Le Meridien Al Aqah Beach Resort recently. With the destination being quite popular among Indians for weddings, events and staycations, the idea is to bring a twist to the menu featuring Indian street food and classic delicacies. The plan is to integrate these into the main menu with live counters, special treats and the like.
Tangy tidbits, amusing fusion food (think black chickpeas and hummus sandwich!), traditional, tried and tested recipes (how about Tandoori prawns or a bite-sized dabeli pav?), this is a delicious trip worth taking. Check out the pics and drool!
Crisp, delicious prawns peppered with peri peri flavours
The absolutely delicous biryani parcels with dip
Melt in the mouth Galauti kebabs
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Food-delivery apps score big in IPL
[br][br][br]Indian food-tech players, including Zomato and swiggy, are currently batting on a good wicket on the back of the ongoing IPL.[br][br]The average number of daily orders on food-tech platforms has jumped by 18.2% till now from pre-IPL days due to numerous consumption occasions created by the league, revealed data from RedSeer Consulting. The 50-day league hosts at least one match everyday.[br][br]With final rounds of IPL and the ICC World cup to follow, the momentum gained by the food-tech majors is expected to pick up pace, helped by none other than thousands of restaurant partners on their platforms that have menus curated especially for the IPL.[br][br]“During IPL 2018, snackable items like pizza, french fries, and ice-creams witnessed a 50% increase in orders compared to the previous year. This year too, the trend has been similar. While local cuisine has been quite popular during the matches, snackable items have witnessed a considerable increase in orders from last year during both snack and dinner hours. Some of the top 10 dishes ordered during the season this year are chicken biryani, paneer butter masala, pav bhaji and samosa,” said Srivats T S, VP (marketing) at Swiggy, which is the associate sponsor of India’s biggest cricketing league.[br][br]Bangalore has taken the lead in the total number of orders placed during the first fortnight of the IPL, followed by Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Delhi, according to the Swiggy. Even for Swiggy’s arch rival Zomato, the order frequency, as well as early dinners and evening snacks, have shot up significantly. [br][br]“This IPL season we have witnessed some relatively newer food delivery trends. Dinner (7-11pm) hours are usually busiest but with the IPL matches starting at 8 pm every day (and at 4pm on the weekends) our order frequency for early dinners and evening snacks has increased,” said Sandeep Anand, CMO, food delivery at Zomato.[br]
More than 80 percent off the dishes you mentioned were invented in majha Punjab not India INDIAISM said: ↑ Firstly Hindi is derived from sanskrit…
Secondly Hindi is just one of our 22 official language..
Thirdly 90% of our food is mughali cousine…I never knew mughal cousine included Butter Chicķen(which was btw invented by an Indian after independence) , Tandori Chicken, Dosa, sambar, Idli, Dhokla, Lal maas, Gatte ki Sabzi, Mirchi ka salan,Sarson ke saag, Shahi Paneer,Malvani mutton curry etc…You should know one thing Mughlai cuisine is just one of the many cuisine we have in India…. Click to expand…
Southern Cuisines Of The World
Southern Cuisines Of The World April 26, 2019 Share South African famous dish Potjiekos – Credits: https://www.geckoroutes.com
Both geography and tradition shape the culture of food all over the world. When you combine multiple cultures and rich histories, you’ll find that the world is one big table of deliciousness. From east to west, north to south, there is always incredible fare just waiting to be enjoyed.
In this hearty account, we’ll take you on a tour of the authentic flavors of Southern Cuisines – rich, aromatic, colorful, savory and made with exquisite ingredients. South American Cuisine Brazilian Feijoada – Credits: https://maracahostel.com.br
South America is home to a wide array of plants. So, it’s not surprising that this part of the world had already forged their own tastes before the first European settlers docked on South American ports. The locals grew corn, beans, potatoes, plantains, chili peppers, avocados, quinoa, cassava and, much to everyone’s delight, chocolate. Over time, Latin American food gradually adopted the influences of its European colonizers, the majority being from Spanish, Italian and Portuguese foods. Later, the migration of Asians and Africans also modified the cuisines of South America.
It’s a huge continent, which means there are plenty of feasting options. For example, take the famous Ceviche in Peru. Ceviche is a seafood dish made from raw fish, lime or lemon juice, onion, chili or other spices. The acidity of the marinade cooks, or cures, the fish. This dish is skillfully prepared and served cold.
If you travel to the east, you’ll discover the luscious Feijoada . This black bean stew cooked with sliced pork and beef is a big favorite in Brazil. The stew is best cooked over low heat in a thick clay pot. The feijoada reflects a strong Portuguese influence and is eaten with rice, cabbage, farofa (toasted cassava or corn flour mixture) and orange slices. It’s also typically served on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Asados is one of Argentina’s traditional cuisines, enjoyed around the world. It’s a variety of barbequed meat on a platter. The meats usually include steaks, ribs, chorizo and is accompanied by mollejas (sweetbreads), chinchulines (chitterlings) and morcilla (blood sausage). What makes this dish special is the asado technique. The meat is cooked on a parilla, slowly grilled and smoked to help keep its flavors.
South American food is closely shared among the different countries that comprise this continent. Of course, there are slight variations in preparation and taste. South African Cuisine South African famous dish Potjiekos – Credits: https://www.geckoroutes.com
The food from southern Africa is a fusion of many cultures. Primarily influenced by the indigenous tribes, South African cuisines initially featured millet, maize, sorghum, potatoes, cattle meat and different types of edible insects. As Dutch colonizers came and went, European cooking influenced local dishes. However, it was not just the Europeans who contributed to South Africa’s delicious fare. Slaves from the Malay-Indonesian region brought along their local spices, and Indian laborers shared different versions of curries. When you eat a delicious South African meal, what actually melts in your mouth is a beautiful blend of influences.
Potjiekos is one such food that is worth tasting. Potjiekos is a meat stew where beef is usually the star, but chicken, venison and mutton work well, too. Vegetables and alcohol (wine, beer or sherry) are added to create a depth of flavor. Potjiekos is cooked outdoors for hours in a potjieko over burning coals.
If you ask any Namibian who has the best Biltong in Africa, they won’t hesitate to tell you they do. Biltong is an aromatic, air-dried meat. Its taste is enhanced by natural spices and vinegar. The best kinds of biltong are those made from young cattle.
Another popular dish is the Seswaa of Botswana. This is basically a meat stew served over polenta or boiled cornmeal. Cooks boil the meat with peppers and onions for about 2 hours, shred it, and then add salt. It’s served on top of the polenta and morogo (African spinach).
Meat is an important ingredient in most African cooking. Hence, it is used widely and often prepared for special celebrations. South Asian Cuisine Kottu from Sri Lanka – Credits: https://www.theflavorbender.com/
What comes to mind when you think of South Asian cuisine? If it’s spices and herbs, then you’re on the right track. Spices and herbs are constants in South Asian cooking, dating back to the Indus period. Religious beliefs and culture played a significant role in the evolution of South Asian cuisine. Vegetarianism is widely practiced across the region, and vegetables like potato, eggplants, peas and okra are popular ingredients. Milk products such as yoghurt and ghee have also been used throughout the region’s history. South Asian food draws influences from its colonists, the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia.
India is known for its famous Chicken Biryani . There are a lot of variations to this dish, but its main components include chicken, Indian rice, a distinct marinade, and spices. It looks appetizing and is very tasty, but don’t be surprised at how spicy it is!
In the northern country of Nepal, Momo is an absolute must try. It’s a type of dumpling and is a national delicacy. The filling is delicious, usually made from minced meat, onions, garlic, ginger and cilantro. The dumpling is either steamed or fried and then served with a sauce made from tomato, ginger, spices and turmeric.
Kottu is often the first choice when craving a delicious fast food in Sri Lanka. It looks like fried rice except that it’s made from flat, crispy bread known as godamba roti. You usually get to choose what ingredients you want to mix in. Kottu is served with a spicy curry sauce that you can use as a dip or can pour over the dish.
Most of the food from South Asia has a spicy kick. Its aromas are amazing, with beautiful scents of herbs and carefully-mixed spices. Southeast Asian Cuisine Gado-Gado from Indonesia – Credits: https://www.geckoroutes.com
Countries in Southeast Asia have their own distinct dishes, but there are similarities between them, too. Countries often borrow ideas from their neighbors. While some countries were colonized by the Europeans, other countries have managed to keep their own heritage, drawing only a little influence from foreign settlers. Southeast Asian cuisine is a good mix of foreign influence, other Asian customs and the local practices of preparing food. Its most popular staple is rice.
Thailand is highly regarded for their sumptuous food. One of its longest-running menu items is Padthai . Padthai is a rice noodle dish that is stir-fried with meat, tofu, mung bean sprouts and scallions, then topped with crushed peanuts. The sauce used to build its sweet and tangy flavor is actually tamarind paste.
If you happen to be in Indonesia, ask for a plate of Gado-Gado . It’s quite popular, not to mention delightful. Gado-Gado is a salad with a mixture of vegetables, tempeh or tofu and a boiled egg served in spicy peanut sauce. It’s a popular dish for breakfast as it’s full of vitamins that give a kickstart to your day!
In the east, you’ll find the Philippine archipelago that’s known for Chicken Adobo . Adobo is from the Spanish word ‘adobar’ which means marinade. Typically, chicken is slowly cooked in vinegar , crushed garlic , bay leaves , black peppercorns and soy sauce .
Southeast Asian cuisine is unique in that it always combines two or more flavors, which gives diners a more intricate tasting experience. The Famous, The Spicy and The Weird Vindaloo – One of the spiciest dishes in the world – Credits: https://www.taste.com.au/
Since every culture has its own ideas, what seems like a regular dish for some regions may be something unusual to others.
In Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, Dulce de Leche is a famous dessert. It’s a sweet, caramel milk confection that’s used to glaze donuts, toast, muffins and other pastries.
Vindaloo , an Indian dish, is one of the spiciest dishes in the world. It incorporates meat, potatoes, vinegar, red chili and bhut jolokia. Bhut jolokia is known as the ghost chili and scores a whopping 1,001,304 on the Scoville heat rating.
In Africa, the Mopane Worm is served in most restaurants. It’s normally fried with tomatoes, onions and garlic. For those who are not exotic eaters, this dish might not look too appetizing. After all, it’s made of worms! Surprisingly, these worms have a very delicate blend of earthy and salty flavors.
Food is an amazing exhibition of creativity and skill, as people can take ordinary ingredients and combine them to make something magical. It’s exciting to discover each culture’s interpretation of what makes a fabulous meal.
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Jom Buka Puasa | Sumptuous Iftar Buffet @ The Cafe, Berjaya Hotel, Penang
Other Apps By : Chha Berjaya Penang Hotel which is strategically located in the capital city of Penang Island is a part of the ‘I-Stop Midlands Park’ business and entertainment complex, the hotel provides a great accessibility to an array of fascinating shopping and entertainment options, tempting local delicacies, heritage and cultural sights. Berjaya Penang Hotel represents a stay in the heart of culture and heritage with its own authentic uniqueness. This year, as the Ramadhan is approaching, Berjaya Penang Hotel is bringing delicious Malaysian authentic cuisines back for this fasting month. The Cafe offers an exciting array of Kampung dishes, made with fresh and also from the finest quality of ingredients for the holy month of Ramadan. The menu is rotated on a daily basis so diners can sample try on different treats during each visit. Berjaya Penang Hotel always keep close to their local roots by bringing in local Penang food to their high class hotel setting. I would say that at Berjaya Penang Hotel is where you can find most of the local street food of Penang served at a luxurious hotel environment with its original street taste but with affordable pricing. For this sumptuous iftar buffet at The Cafe in Berjaya Penang Hotel, some of the must not miss dish is their chef creation Malaysian Malay Kampung dishes such as Gulai Nangka Muda Ikan Bilis, Rendang Daging Nusantara, Gulai Ketam Nanas, Gulai Kambing, Sup Tulang Berempah with Roti Benggali, Masak Lemak Belimbing Buluh and variety of rice such as Nasi Bukhari, Nasi Tomato, Nasi Briyani and Nasi Lemuni. Gulai Kambing Kawah Gulai Nangka Muda Ikan Bilis Daging Rendang Nusantara Ayam Masak Merah Resepi Bonda Prawn Masala Stir Fried Brown Cuttlefish Kong Poh Style Fried Mixed Vegetables The flavourful Rendang Daging Nusantara, which is a stewed tender meat in coconut milk and aromatic spices garnished with tomato wedges and onion rings is also one of the chef’s recommended dish. Other than that, the Gulai Nangka Muda Ikan Bilis, which is simmered Ikan Bilis with natural starch harmonizing the Indian spices and coconut milk to give a creamy vegan dish, the Bubur Lambuk, which is the original recipe inherited by the Muslim Chef’s family consists of rice boiled into a thick congee with a medley of spices, seafood and beef are some of the featured dish for this round Iftar Buffet. Laksa Buyong Bubur Lambuk Sup Tulang Lembu Pak Long Buffet dinner at Berjaya Penang Hotel is divided into sections with different food and this actually makes deciding what to eat next during the buffet easy. There is this section where they serve some prawns, fish, chicken and lamb. The Chef will be at this action station to BBQ the food of your choice and serve it to you hot from the BBQ area. May it be a main course or some Satay for a quick bite, Berjaya Penang Hotel got you covered. There are some random dish apart from the main course that allows diner to try on different types of local Penang cuisine. Though the main focus of Berjaya Penang Hotel is to serve Malaysia Malay Kampung dish but they do mix things up with some local’s Chinese favorite like the Fried Wantan and Hokkien Mee With Condiments to add variety to the buffet. Fried Wantan Hokkien Mee With Condiments Ikan Kering, Air Asam, Sambal Kicap Cili Padi, Sambal Belacan and Cincaluk is also available at one section of the buffet for any diners who would like to spice up their food taste. I like how Berjaya Penang Hotel takes every little small details in their food serving into consideration. For my opinion, a buffet would not be complete without something sweet for everyone to try on and here at Berjaya Penang Hotel, they have variety of dessert, cake and drinks for everyone. Since this is an Iftar Buffet, Berjaya Penang Hotel takes the initiative to add in some local Kuih and also Kurma, which is something light as a kick start for all to Berbuka Puasa. Rojak Buah Ice Kacang Ice Cream The main objective of Jom Buka Puasa Buffet at Berjaya Penang Hotel is to give a perfect opportunity for family and friends to spend their meaningful time together while enjoying sumptuous foods. The Jom Buka Puasa Buffet promotion is valid from 8 May until 2 June 2019 every day at 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm. The buffet is priced at RM 60.00 nett per adult, RM 45.00 nett per senior citizen and RM 30.00 nett for children aged 5 to 12 while children below 5 years old get to dine for free. For Booking Or Further Information : 04 – 2207373 Jom Buka Puasa Buffet Dinner : Adult : RM 60.00 nett Senior Citizen : RM 45.00 nett Children : RM 30.00 nett ( age 5 – 12 ) Children below 5 years old get to dine for free. Promotion : Buy 5 Free 1 (adults) Available : 8 May – 2 June 2019 7.00 pm – 10.00 pm
Taimur Khurram said: ↑
90% of your food is literally Mughlai cuisine.
No, I’m not. Hindi is derived from Urdu, which the Muslim elite used to speak. As a result, it has quite a few Farsi, Arabic and even Turkic loanwords (but nowhere near as many as Urdu itself).
Because it did. This is an undeniable historical fact. Click to expand… Firstly Hindi is derived from sanskrit…
Thirdly 90% of our food is mughali cousine…I never knew mughal cousine included Butter Chicķen(which was btw invented by an Indian after independence) , Tandori Chicken, Dosa, sambar, Idli, Dhokla, Lal maas, Gatte ki Sabzi, Mirchi ka salan,Sarson ke saag, Shahi Paneer,Malvani mutton curry etc…You should know one thing Mughlai cuisine is just one of the many cuisine we have in India….
Sandals aims to be the American Idol of resorts
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Now, I’m spoiled for life. I don’t know how I can ever go back to staying at any other kind of luxury beachfront property.
That’s because I just spent time at Sandals Montego Bay, a top-notch all-inclusive, luxurious, adults-only property that offers its guests everything you’ve ever dreamed of in a beach vacation.
Despite the fact that Sandals has been in business since 1981, the laudable hospitality group remains a game-changer that yes, if you’re a first-time guest, will change your mind about beach resorts, hotels, and well, vacations in general. Especially at all-inclusives, which sometimes get a bad reputation for being too-mass-market.
Sandals is anything but that.
I interviewed Adam Stewart, CEO, who told me that Sandals resort in Montego Bay was their original location, founded in 1981 by wildly successful entrepreneur “Butch” Stewart, Adam Stewart’s father. Sandals Montego Bay has recently been upgraded and updated, resulting in an ultimate property to exceed all of your expectations.
“We’ve perfected the all-inclusives,” Mr Stewart told me. “We are fixated on the consumer experience. We are obsessed with customer care and aim to be front-and-centre of the best trends.”
“We’re The American Idol of hospitality,” he added. “Everything we do is so that we are the best.”
And indeed it is one of the best resorts I’ve ever stayed at. So the question is — Why would you ever go back to paying cost-plus at a luxury beach hotel when everything you crave is included at a first-class, posh Sandals resort on the water?
What Don’t You Love About Jamaica, Mahn?
Personality plays a huge factor in hiring, as Sandals seeks to hire individuals who are enthusiastic and excited about what they do at Sandals. The impact on you, the guest? An immensely pleasurable experience, from a staff that genuinely cares and graciously attends to your every need. Of course, the Jamaican people themselves are the epitome of graciousness, and their gratitude for life — and their tourists — overflows out of them like a beautiful waterfall at Dunn’s River Falls, one of the island’s top attractions. (Yes, we hiked it and it was wonderful.)
So it’s no surprise that Sandals properties have a HUGE return rate — averaging about 55 per cent of all guests. My husband Bill and I are not surprised. Just about everyone that we met at the Montego Bay resort raved about the Sandals organisation, and were loyal, dedicated customers. One man, from Canada, told me that he has been visiting all of the Sandals resorts, everywhere in the world, for the past 30 years. Another couple said that after they discovered Sandals, they couldn’t go anywhere else. After they stayed 70 nights over a period of several years, they earned a free week’s stay, and they were thrilled beyond belief.
Other guests arrive and simply request to be put in the best room in the house. At Sandals Montego Bay, in high season, that would be the Beachfront Millionaire one-bedroom butler suite with an outdoor soaking tub, at US$1,259 per night/per couple. (Next door at Sandals Royal Caribbean are the dreamy overwater bungalows with butlers and infinity pool: US$3,331 per night/per couple.) So now, you don’t have to hightail it to Bora Bora to get the world’s best bungalows. They are a lot closer at Sandals.
Sandals has 19 total resorts in the Caribbean, including its family-friendly, all-inclusive Beaches Resorts, and when you’re staying at the Montego Bay property, you can also hop over to the Sandals Royal Caribbean next door, as well as the nearby Sandals Inn, to take advantage of their superb sands, cuisine, and much more. It’s called the “Stay at one, play at three” programme, and a shuttle provides a quick ride between the properties every 45 minutes.
Your Louis Vuitton Wallet Will Like This
With all that it is included at Sandals, and all the incredible value that you get for your money, most other luxury hotels pale by comparison. Who wants to pay for everything as you go along, from a mere coffee to a five-star dinner? Sandals eliminates all that — and with aplomb.
At Sandals, in a (coconut) nutshell, you receive five-star service no matter what category of room you book. There are no resort fees, no hidden fees, no upcharges, plus a variety of high-end restaurants that you can enjoy on property, along with premium spirits, unlimited watersports, and for some of the suites, English-trained Jamaican butlers to make your trip even more memorable. Righto — Sandals is the Aston Martin of unforgettable experiences.
As far as beach vacations go, Sandals has thought of everything to pamper you. The Millionaire Suites, for example, are beachfront, allowing you to access the soft sands and azure waters faster than you can say “Splash.” Orange rafts float in the water, so you and your significant other can laze together and enjoy the sunshine while you stay soaked.
There are other rooms where you can emerge from your room and plop yourself right into a swim-up pool, where more floats are available. Hammocks and in-water swings are placed all around the property. Everything is designed so that you’re waterlogged — in a good way — the whole day. Staying here is like being on a luxury cruise ship, where you stash your wallet in the safe and forget about it.
Yet at Sandals resorts, you have the added advantage of land-based access to the beach 24/7. Just get up in the morning, put on your bathing suit, and hit the beach — and the beachside, barefoot-allowed, restaurants and bars. Plus, there’s a no-tipping policy (except for your butlers). With all of this, it’s no wonder, then, that “We earn multiple wows per day,” says Mr Stewart.
One of the little things that impressed us — and I’m not easy to impress — was that the in-room amenities by in-house brand Red Lane are all sulfate-free. That means no harmful additives in your shampoo and conditioner. My stressed strands were thankful, and it was one of those tiny things, and great attention to detail, that added up for a superb stay.
Ah! Spa! And Cuisine!
The spa itself, Red Lane, is another winner. “We look at our spa menu like a chef looks at a culinary menu,” says David Erlich, the corporate director of all the Sandals spas. “We look at our environments, and our menus are unique, with a lot of tropical curation.”
Indeed, I enjoyed a deeply relaxing facial with Red Lane products that including a cleansing milk and oil application, exfoliation with a papaya pineapple enzyme mask, an antioxidant firming mask, Vitamin C serum, deep pore cleaning, plus an illuminating serum. I emerged lightened, brightened, and tightened!
As far as the cuisine goes, we were extremely pleased with the high-end restaurants and the variety and quality of food available. I interviewed Paul Bauer, the group manager of food & beverage standards, and he emphasised and underscored just how important cuisine is to the Sandals group as a whole. “We are always pushing the envelope… We have to ensure that our standards are in place from hotel to hotel. Modern all-inclusives have to up their game, and we pay attention.”
For example, you can dine — with no added upcharge — at Butch’s Steak and Seafood, where you can enjoy first-class lobster, shrimp and other delectables, as part of the all-inclusive package. By comparison, such a dinner-for-two at a non-inclusive resort would cost around US$250, while a cruise ship would most certainly charge you an added US$35 fee. Throughout the Sandals resorts, you can experience simply great food — everything from Thai to French, to Indian, or just goodies from the donut shop. Why not partake of a frozen yogurt or soft-serve ice cream? And you know what’s coming soon? Vegans, take delight — a plant-based restaurant is right on the horizon (literally), along with a juice bar and even Greek food.
When it comes to alcohol, you’ll find that Sandals offers six varietals of Robert Mondavi pouring wine, says Mr Bauer, along with super-premium-spirits that include Glenlivet 12, Glenfiddich 12, Maker’s Mark, and Remy Martin VSOP. Yes, there is a Manager’s Wine List for an upcharge (the only upcharge at the resort), but chances are, you won’t need it.
At Sandals Royal Barbados, you will thrill to the Sky Bar and its unprecedented smoked cocktails. You read that right — how about a pineapple margarita filled with Jack Daniels smoke? In all, says Mr Bauer (whose nickname is “Hawkeye” as he can spot a culinary problem from 40 miles away), company-wide Sandals offers 35 types of beers and 24 types of restaurants. And, for a little more wow factor, here’s something else: When you are wearing your little black dress, the staff will exchange your white napkin for one in black, faster than you can say “Chanel,” so that your outfit doesn’t get covered in lint. All these small advantages add up for a remarkable experience.
OK — now down to the nitty-gritty. Was our trip perfection? No, and there are a few things we would like to see changed. For example, the luncheon deli meats in the Bayside restaurant were not of the high-quality we would expect at a luxury resort. At lunch one afternoon, they also ran out of most meats and had to go to room service to obtain tuna fish for my wrap sandwich. At the beach grill, the service occasionally was very slow at lunchtime, which was frustrating, as you spent time waiting around when all you wanted to do was to be in the water.
Yet, we’re not deterred, and urge you to enthusiastically embrace Sandals for your next vacation.
I’ll have to stop writing now. I’m impressed beyond words. And I’m dreaming about the little French cafe and its authentic Nutella crepes.
— This article was published on Forbes.com. Debbi Kickham is a luxury travel writer and a luxury marketing expert. She is former editor of Robb Report Magazine, loves to report on luxury, and has never met an overwater bungalow she didn’t like. For more information on Debbi, visit www.GorgeousGlobetrotter.com, and follow her at @SATWgal
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Move Over Italian! 10 Desi Dishes To Make On Your Next Date Night
Whenever there is an impending date night or a cookout with your partner our mind always goes to cooking something fancy and decadent that can set the mood, highlight a conversation, and most importantly taste heavenly. And more often than not, we think of Western cuisine -whether it is a roast or pasta or pudding. However there are some delectable Indian dishes that are perfect for a date night. We tell you which!
1. Khandavi
This smooth fancier cousin of dhokla is light, savoury, and really pleasing to eye! So try it for sure!
2. Herby Potatoes
Potatoes are an Indian staple, and at the event of a sudden date night at home, you can simply roast some potatoes and put the choicest of masalas for some chatapatta taste!
3. Uthappam
If your date loves South Indian fare but you don’t have time to go full out, make a mini uthappam that has the elements of coconut and suji plus veggies, and is still super light!
4. Paneer Tikka
Wait! This should definitely be on your list for date night. Regardless when it is or with whom. Paneer Tikka is the food of Gods, especially vegetarian Gods!
5. Biryani
You can’t go wrong with biryani . Well you can go completely wrong or not at all. More likely it’s the latter. Just enjoy some buttery rice with your favourite mutton, chicken, fish, aloo and soak in some love!
6. Naan
The wonderful thing about Naan is that even if you serve a bland daal with it, the smoothness of the naan will carry the meal to victory town. So whatever your curry maybe; make sure there is naan with it!
7. Chicken Tikka
Winner winner chicken dinner! You cannot go wrong with this. And you cannot feel unloved post this. Chicken Tikka is gooey, chewy, and aromatic. Don’t miss prepping this up.
8. Prawn Curry
For some coastal flavour- opt for some thick prawn curry that melts in your mouth as you dig into it. The herbs, the fragrance, the taste; they all come together in a wonderful way.
9. Phirni
This is a tad difficult to make especially regarding how much sweetness and consistency there should be. But once you perfect it, there is no better way to ending your meal.
10. Shahi Tukda
Or you could go deep into the world sweet dishes, and prepare shahi tukda that drips in honey and caramel and dry fruits, and is absolutely lip-smacking.
‘It’s up to me to preserve it’: How Canadians are keeping cooking traditions alive
In a heated pan of cumin seeds and kidney beans, Smita Modi mixes turmeric, red chili powder and coriander powder. She’s making rajma, a popular curry that is made in variations depending on where you live in India. This version is from Gujarat, the state where Smita is originally from. Story continues below
Smita’s daughter Shetu is filming her for a YouTube series she started a few years ago; it details Smita’s vegetarian Indian recipes, and was originally conceptualized by her father.
“He’s always worried about the art of Indian cooking being lost outside of India,” Shetu Modi told Global News. “Also, lots of people love my mom’s cooking and we thought it would be a good idea to share her recipes with family and friends, and hopefully others.”
Gujarati people can be found in cities like Toronto and Montreal, but the food isn’t often seen in Indian restaurants.
“ While some of the recipes are common in Gujarati homes, no one makes them exactly like my mom does,” Shetu explained.
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“I’ve never had some of the dishes outside of home like the fusion dishes of kidney bean and corn pasta and spicy macaroni. Those meals would be completely lost if we didn’t document how they’re made.”
She and other children of immigrants not only enjoy eating home-cooked meals from their parents’ countries, but also fear that one day these dishes may be lost in a culture of fusion. Some, like Shetu, have decided to make videos of their moms’ best dishes so they can remember how to make them, while others have attempted to recreate these recipes themselves. Fear of losing culture
For Salima Jivraj, editor-in-chief of Halal Foodie , there is a legitimate fear of losing the Indian and East African recipes in her family. The Toronto-based woman, who also founded the Halal Food Festival, added there aren’t many restaurants in the city that cater to this type of cuisine.
“It’s up to me to preserve it in my own home. With my parents living in another province, it’s really all on me,” she said. “I want my kids to have the same values and experiences I did growing up. The easiest way is through my mother’s cooking.”
Jivraj’s aunt owned a restaurant in Vancouver called Zeenaz that served this type of cuisine.
“She did most of the cooking as well and all recipes were her’s that she learned from her parents and in-laws growing up in Tanzania and Kenya,” she said. “ My cousin saw her mother getting older and had the realization that once she passes, aside from losing her mother, she’s losing a part of her identity of being East African/South Asian. We all feel that way now that we’re parents ourselves.”
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To honour her culture and the dishes that come with it, Jivraj is set to release a 150-page cookbook full of her aunt’s recipes, a collection that was put together years ago. The cookbook includes recipes like makai paka (a coconut corn curry) and ugali (an African cornmeal).
“Because my aunt was aging and her daughter is also busy, it fell off their list of priorities… boxes of [recipes] are literally collecting dust in storage,” she explained. “This cookbook is the only way I can preserve some of my culture. I also want my kids to carry some of this on as well, understanding that the teachings will continue to get diluted.” How generations cling to food
Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, academic coordinator of Caribbean studies at Ryerson University, said food is very important to people’s identities, but not everyone attaches themselves to it right away.
“What I found is that the second generation sometimes wants to distance themselves from the food of their parents and that’s in particular if you’re living in a place like Toronto; there’s the world in food available here,” she said.
So even though these children grow up eating whatever their mothers or grandmothers are cooking in the kitchen, they also have an interest in trying foods from other cuisines, especially being in diverse classrooms.
But when this generation has children, they want their kids to have the same meals they did growing up.
“And that’s when they might seek out how to cook them or try to procure the ingredients that they need for certain kinds of traditional foods.”
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For Jennifer Francis-Smikle of Markham, Ont., there is a fear that her eight-month-old daughter will not be able to eat the same meals she did growing up.
“It will be important for my daughter to learn because once her elders are gone, who will be there to teach her authentic Jamaican cooking?” she continued.
Francis-Smikle wants to eventually film her family members cooking staples because for her, food is a reminder of home.
“I remember being sick and my mom making Jamaican pumpkin soup… it’s full of chicken, pumpkin, flour dumplings and noodles,” she said. “If I were to make that for my daughter, I’d be lost.”
When you don’t live in a large city like Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, not only are you limited in diverse takeout options, but it can be hard to find certain ingredients as well.
“That could limit your ability to continue culinary traditions,” Francis-Smikle said. How to preserve these dishes
Hernandez-Ramdwar said there’s good news: it’s getting trendy to cook again, and more second-generation Canadians are finding ways to cook these meals themselves. This could mean watching YouTube videos, getting lessons from their parents or even experimenting on their own.
And if you don’t want to cook from scratch, there’s also the option to cook these meals faster — you can buy curry “sauces” in jars or even microwave a frozen meal or boil ready-made dumplings.
She added in some countries, with an older generation dying out, young people are changing the way they eat.
“We have to start preserving the recipes from a generation, even a generation ago or two generations ago, because you know in a moment nobody is going to remember how to cook this dish,” she said.
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But how do we do this? In 20 years from now, a typical Gujarati dinner that Shetu’s mother Smita is cooking in 2019 may not be the same dish. As much as second-generation Canadians can preserve on their own, Hernandez-Ramdwar added it’s also about creating new staples for generations in the future to enjoy.
“The track has been fusion,” she explained. “When you take a place like Toronto, where there’s so many different ethnicities and so many different cuisines, the trend is to blend and mix and mould and create these different fusions.”
And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
“ Just like what happens with language. We’re going to end up with these new dishes and only, like, food experts or, like, food sociologists are going to be able to give you the genealogy of food,” she explained. “Maybe [they will be able to] trace food back to where it came from but maybe [they] won’t. It is really an important project to preserve the original recipes.”
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Two heads of different religions (Edward Norton, Ben Stiller) find themselves in the same predicament when they both fall for the same woman (Jenna Elfman). Speculating over their religious beliefs, Rabbi Jacob Schram (Stiller) and Priest Brian Finn (Norton) ponder over the incredible temptation posed by their reunion with Anna Riley (Elfman)
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Weekly Summary : Interface!
The major theme that ties this week’s material together includes how on the Web, interface (“a point of interconnection between two independent systems” Mushon) is being shaped in a way that break the balance of power depriving users (as one side of the 2 systems) of their power. The Web is often considered as an open and free media yet users’ experience does not seem to be under their control…
Dan Ariely, Are we in control of our own decisions?
Israeli Professor Dan Ariely teaches Behavioral Economics at MIT. Passionate about rationality, he is the author of Predictably Irrational. Ariely performed this presentation in December 2008. It is obviously meant to push his audience to question itself. He wants people to recognize and understand their limitations…
Visual illusions are a physical limitation people are well aware of. They can demonstrate it yet they cannot escape it. Therefore they adapt to it.
Cognitive illusions would also be mistakes that we cannot avoid but worst as we cannot demonstrate and understand them.
However some people well aware of this weekness take advantage of it to influence others… Using different examples (organ donation forms, tour operator advertisings, doctors’ instructions and the hottest guy to date…) Ariely demonstrates how you can shape the message you send in such a way that you help people figure out what they want. Here are little tips : working on the format of the question you ask, emphasizing the default option, presenting a worst option than yours etc. While everybody remains in the illusion that they decide, you almost decide for them.
Ariely concludes on a very positive note: what if we put our pride aside and aknowledged our cognitive limitations? Then we would be able to design a better world.
Ariely takes for granted that understanding the cognitive illusion we are submitted to would allow us to adapt to it. But these two illusions are not the same at all: visual illusions are very specific and defined while cognitive illusions come down to rationality which is much harder to demarcate and control… Do you still think Ariely’s argument is relevant?
Also, how to raise awareness on cognitive illusions when it could be the mean for some people to acquire so much power over others?
Chris Messina, The death of the URL
Chris Messina is a designer who believes in the open web. He is a member of Open ID and maintains a blog, he works at Google (for the record!). In this post Messina makes a plea on behalf of the URL. He wants to make people realize that URL could disappear which would put our freedom on the Web in jeopardy. To make his point the designer uses 6 examples:
Web TV. A simplified, toned version of computer : no browser, no keyboard, no mouse. It will be “user friendly” but allow no flexibility at all.
Litl, chromeOS, JoliCloud, and Apple Tablet… The design of these tools is definitely “cool”. Yet it leads to “a predetermined set of options” always restricting our freedom on the Web.
Top Sites. This features provides you with a selection of the websites that you visit the most. As convenient as it is it prevents us from thinking. We don’t even need to think about the most accurate website to find what we are looking for. Everything on our browser tend to be preset, predetermind. We are becoming passive users.
Warning interstitials and short URL frames. The annoying format of those warnings that we experience everyday contributes to deter us from clicking through certain link. Another way of restricting our freedom.
The NASCAR or this tendency to turn everything into logos for the sake of simplicity. Another abstraction of URL
App Stores or “a cleaved out and sanitized portion of the web”. Big business has the power. Companies, brands are taking control of the digital environment. “The hardware makers got into the content business” and are turning the Web into a shopping mall.
Messina concludes by reminding why there is so much at stake with URL: it allows anyone to create a website and to propagate it. URL empowers users, if users loose access to it they will be cast out of the Web.
Messina also cleary stresses on the interface that are the key issue of the Web: the battle to win “the universal interface for interacting with the web is just now getting underway ”
What do you think of Messina’s plea? Do you think the Web will be just like TV, reducing its audience to passivity?
Do you feel that you lose control, that you are driven to a predetermined set of options?
As Messina, do you think companies are responsible for the death of the URL and that they have interest in it?
I feel that the discrepancies between different types of users will be increased and that some people are going to be able to preserve their freedom while other will lose the freedom of their experience. What about you?
Andrew Rasiej & Micha L. Sifry, Social networking, new governing
This article written in March 2009 clearly defers from the two other documents as it is mostly optimistic regarding the power of users on the Web.
The authors draw their argument on Facebook. The social network has reach such a number of users that it plays a key role in our societies: “it is a meaningful platform for political engagement”. But “is Facebook a public square or a private mall?”. In response to users complaints about a unilateral control of the site, Zuckerberg decided not to change the website but to include users in the website policy and organized a “virtual town hall”. Zuckerberg said he wantes to develop “new models of governance”. So far so good but in reality this seem a bit fake:
It is very unlikely that Facebook will mobilize 30% of its users to take part in the company’s governance.
Facebook did not promote this new development at all. (Indeed, who heard about that?)
It seems that Facebook took very little risk. However, the two social entrepreneurs founders of Personal Democracy Forum consider Zuckerberg’s proposal as the first step towards “an overall change in expectation about the relationship between digital landowners and digital tenants.”
A year after their article, I am wondering what the authors would have to say about Zuckerberg’s declaration “privacy is no longer a social norm”? This declaration give me very little hope in the new democracy Facebook could provide us with…
Mushon Zer-Aviv, Interface as a conflict of Ideologies
This essay dives into the very question of interface.
Interface as “the point of interconnection between two independents systems” is all about balance. The design, the way the interface is built should aim at respecting and protecting the equilibrium between the two sides. However, interfaces are often used by one system to gain power over the other. Therefore interfaces are at the center of a major conflict on the Internet.
Encoded/ Decoded. The Web highlights the importance of interfaces yet we have been using them forever to communicate and interact between us. Languages for instance are a major interface. Referring to Ferdinand de Saussure M. Zer-Aviv explains how language has been conceived as a circuit on which messages could be exchanged as long as the interface is equally shared. However Stuart Hall has demonstrated that language relies on a system of codes and that “the codes used for encoding and decoding are often different”. There are 3 defined types of codes:
Dominant Code: the sender shapes the interpretation od the receiver (Mass Media, advertising do that all the time as we cannot change the message)
Negotiated Code: the receiver understands the message but does not completely buys into it
Oppositional Code: the receiver understands the message but refuses it and uses another code to decode the message in oppositon to the goal of the sender.
The Web’s Communication Diagram. In theory “the Web is a revolutionary tool for gaining ownership of media” as it provides different types of communication: one to one, many to many, one to many. But it has also made the hierarchy at work in those communication system much more complicated. Indeed the identities of the systems interacting are harder to clearly indentify on the web. The identities are somehow blurred. While the comment interfaces on blogs seem to leave room for users, “the only identity represented through the dominant interface (the website) is that of the publisher.” Most of the time on the web, interfaces fail to maintain the equilibrium between the two independent systems.
Commons-Based Peer Production – A new Ideology. The example of Wikipedia the free encyclopedia based on Benkler’s principle of Commons-Based Peer Production: “no one person controls how the resource is used, they are either open to the public or a defined group”. There is not one single author and the quality of content is protected by the moderation.
The Revolution will not be verified. Wikipedia is a wonderful proof of what common based peer production can achieve. However, Wikipedia’s strength relies in its “tightly policed ideology“. When people edit in Wikipedia they accept and relay Wikipedia’s ideology. The system works because wikipedia’s editor are strong advocates of Wikipedia’s identity (the respect of the power editors have been entitled to in the benefit of “the greater good”). And indeed, the system has proven to fail when reproduced in the LA Times. Even if the control is distributed there is always “one side who holds the key” and has the power to break the balance. The interface is the carrier of an identity and therefore carries a message in itself.
Unknowns Knowns in On-line Urban Space. Even though in theory HTML is simple and accessible to everybody, for practical purposes we experience the web through web pages that are “in the hands of the identity behind it”. Everything on the Web is privately owned and therefore under control. Because of these web pages, “the web has never had any public place” directly accessible. This part relates a lot to Ariely’s presentation: as well as we cannot aknowledge our cognitive limitations, there are things we “don’t know we know”. We don’t know we could think of the web in a different way that the one we get.
Cracks in the walls. Even if everything is under control, some things are a bit flexible and give hope for a little bit more of openness on the web.
The RSS feed which gives mobility and visibility to content
Application Programming Interface (API) when “the powers of one software can be shared by another”
Those new features are participating to the development of the metaweb which creates “a public space on the web” leading to more flexibility, mobility and participation. Through metaweb users could “retrieve their agency in the interfaces”. Interfaces would not be freezed anymore but the result of an on-going process in which all users can take part.
After having analyzed the interface and all that is at stake, the author suggests to enter into conflict to retrieve the balance in the interconnection between systems through two approaches . A tactical approach consits in destabilizing by questioning something established. It enables able to trully modify and improve the system (the example of Google bomb). A less spectacular but efficient approach is the strategic media one. It is much more sustainable and consits in “influencing the system from within”. Greasemonkey for instance allow users with coding skills to add, remove or fix features on the page, as well as it allows to insert content from other sites into the page.
And indeed you can contribute to the metaweb!
Mushon as contributed to the creation of ShiftSpace “an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web”. It allows users to move out of their passivity for a much more active and interactive experience of the web. They have the opportunity to react, produce content and share it among Shiftspace users.
This text bring us back to the role of design. What is good design? Is it what prevents us from thinking?
Private interests seem to be responsible for the loss of control of the users on the web. Can we think of a another Web (Web 3.0?) which could not be privately owned?
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“Delivered in Beta”: a documentary on open design & innovation.
On this and last week’s topics, I wanted to share this documentary that talks about open design and innovation. It was created in Berlin during Social Media Week, which took place Feb 1-5 simultaneously in Berlin, London, Sao Paolo, Toronto, San Francisco and New York. In the video, a bunch of designers share their thoughs on open design and Beta prototypes. Interesting because ideas and authorship in graphic and industrial disign, as well as art, tend to be touchy subjects…
“I think what excites me most is being able to access everything and change everything… the ultimate form of collaboration. It means I can collaborate without necessarily having to agree with people”. -Jay Cousins
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The architect as activist
Written by Peggy Deamer
Peggy Deamer, on behalf of The Architecture Lobby, introduces their manifesto.
As professionalized architecture eradicates the discourse of design as labor, it does so in capitalism’s favor, not to the advantage of the profession. On the one end, the discourse of the lone genius with single authorship, creativity and talent and, on the other end, the willingness of everyday practitioners to work long, unregulated, and underpaid hours for the “sacrifice” we make for society are aspects of capitalism’s ideology’s success. The system prevents us from identifying as workers and, as a consequence, we remain ignorant of our exploitation by others who aren’t so uninformed and can profit from the value of our work.
The Architecture Lobby is an organization that argues for the value of architecture as productive work - aesthetic, technical, social, organizational, environmental, administrative, fiduciary - and architects as productive workers. The goal is to build on this fundamental understanding of value to become perceptive operators in our contemporary political economy.
It has not always been the case that architecture ignored labor. 19th century architects developed their designs with particular regard to the expertise, knowledge and creativity that the various trades -skilled and unskilled - brought to their projects; they saw their immaterial work as part and parcel to the subsequent material labor. In the US, members of the AIA in the 1930’s called for the organization to become a union. When this did not come to pass, the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians (FAECT) - formed in 1933 and terminated in 1948 - took up the need for architectural labor advocacy. In other words, it is neither God-given nor “natural” to think that architecture isn’t part of a labor discourse.
Still, it has taken a number of convergent events to make clear that today action had to be taken. Advances in technology that foreground the work of fabricators has put the expertise of those usually at the back end of construction and previously dismissed as mere “subcontractors” now at the forefront of design expertise; “manual” labor can no longer be shunned as inferior, post-design work. The labor practices of professions that approach their work habits, fees and hiring practices in a more enlightened manner become more and more obvious; lawyers advertise their family-friendly policies to attract the best graduates and medical residents unionize to be relieved of inhuman hospital hours. Artist who protested the slave labor building the new Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi by refusing the exhibiting of their works put the indifference of architects to these same conditions in sharp relief. The ongoing willingness of bright architecture graduates claiming their willingness to work for next to nothing for a firm they admired because they knew the firm earned next to nothing have only intensified in the new economy. All of this has made clear that our refusal to identify as workers has relieved us of any familiarity with labor discourse or labor’s role in a neoliberal context. In response, the Architecture Lobby produced this manifesto:
We are precarious workers; these are our demands!
1. Enforce labor laws that prohibit unpaid internships, unpaid overtime; refuse unpaid competitions.
2. Reject fees based on percentage of construction or hourly fees and instead calculate value based on the money we save our clients or gain them.
3. Stop peddling a product - buildings - and focus on the unique value architects help realize through spatial services.
4. Enforce wage transparency across the discipline.
5. Establish a union for architects, designers, academics and interns in architecture and design.
6. Demystify the architect as solo creative genius; no honors for architects who don’t acknowledge their staff.
7. Licensure upon completion of degree.
8. Change professional architecture organizations to advocate for the living conditions of architects.
9. Support research about labor rights in architecture.
10. Implement democratic alternatives to the free market system of development.
The Lobby recognizes that the organization of work has moved on from the time when the economy was driven by manufacturing and labor unions were the preferred method to assure job security and proper compensation. What the new form of organizing and collective advocacy are is unknown but vigorously contested. We have internal debates about whether the decline of unions is a result of the economy’s move from manufacturing to service to knowledge production or whether it is merely ideology’s good work to make unions seem unseemly and old-fashioned. We know that the gig economy is neoliberalism’s pretty face on increased precarity and loss of class identification but wonder if its new model of self-accualization at least breaks the back of exploitive, firm-based “professionalism”. We embrace the label of “knowledge workers” but question neoliberalism’s espousal of its hegemony.
But we do know that architects need to regroup, reorganize, and reinvent themselves. We need to refuse the use of contracts that structurally keep architects and contractors in antagonistic relationships that serve only the developer; we need to use the tools of and share in open sourcing; they need to ensure that those outside the cultural elite have access to architectural education; we need to move beyond (rich) client-driven practices; and we need to resist ever more strongly the move to the right that lies at the heart of our professional organization, the American Institute for Architects (AIA). And here, the election of Trump has pushed new debates.
On November 9, 2016, the AIA, claiming to speak for its 89,000 members, backtracked on years of blustering about diversity, inclusion, and equity with an unqualified statement that they would work with a Donald Trump administration. To the Architecture Lobby and many other architects, this proved beyond a doubt that the AIA’s supposed commitment to diversity and inclusion is not at all about equity, but rather a cynical public relations ploy. And it backtracked on its commitment to sustainable building as Trump’s policies have done away with all environmental regulation and endanger the very cities that we not only live in but are sworn to protect.
The AIA has subsequently issued apologies for its initial Trump embrace. But architects need governmental work and the AIA refuses to take a stand on the inhumane and egregious Border Wall that lies at the heart of “infrastructure’s” call. When President Trump issued a preliminary RFP - request for proposals - for design prototypes of the long-promised Wall on March 20, dozens of prominent architecture and engineering firms threw their hats in for a chance at the multi-billion-dollar project. The concerns that architects voiced in November of professional collusion with the administration’s partisan agenda proved dishearteningly prescient and well-founded.
The Architecture Lobby wrote letters to the press denouncing the AIA’s initial endorsement of Trump. And when, on March 10, the first round of Border Wall proposals from architects and engineers were due, the Architecture Lobby called for a day of action organized under #NotOurWall. It included a 45-minute walkout of workers in architecture firms - regardless of whether that firm had submitted a wall proposal - to indicate a refusal to conduct business as usual and instead, debate the reasons we wanted to become architects, digest the meaning and obligations of architecture, write kand call our congress(wo)men to indicate our refusal to participate in this use of our expertise and the tax payers’ money, and sign a petition to never engage in any and all Wall activities.
The Architecture Lobby believes it is possible to push architecture towards a truly inclusive profession, one with organizations that can stand up for the needs of all its members on the basis of their humanity. In lieu of taking egregious advantage of the symptoms of our national problems - the election of Trump - we as architects can use this moment to reflect on our role in constructing the elite vs. everyman dichotomy that has divided us. In lieu of presenting and thinking of ourselves as part of the elite, we can show that we, too, are workers of precarity and concern; that we, like all workers, can and must fight the 1% and all others who threaten human rights and the rights of nature. Only a bottom up approach built on the principles of radical democracy, economic justice, and quality of life for all can achieve that vision and advocate for the needs of architecture workers and the public we serve.
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Peggy Deamer is a professor of architecture at Yale University and a practicing architect. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, an activist organisation that argues for the value of architectural work within and without the profession.
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'Open Letter'
White House Denies Clearance of Jay-Z Cuba Trip
Jay-Z may not care about the public outcry surrounding his trip to Cuba, but the White House apparently does. After the rapper released a new track, “Open Letter,” defending his vacation with his wife, Beyoncé, Twitter was abuzz dissecting the lyrics. In particular, critics picked apart the claim that he received clearance from the White House before departing. Press Secretary Jay Carney spoke out Thursday afternoon to deny the claim, quipping: "I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury." Carney then confirmed that no one “from the president on down” had anything to do with the trip to Cuba.
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Raaz Reboot collection day 4: Emraan Hashmi’s film sees a dip, collects Rs 20.70 crore!
Emraan Hashmi, Kriti Kharbanda and Gaurav Arora’s Raaz Reboot may have been one of the most exciting films of the HIT Raaz franchise, but it failed to impress the audience. However, looks like the film has performed decently at the domestic box office. This is only coz of the Raaz franchise factor! Raaz Reboot started off on a great note as it collected Rs 6.30 crore on day 1. But it saw a dip on day 2, collecting only Rs 5.49 coz of the poor word of mouth publicity. Raaz Reboot again saw a growth on day 3 as it earned Rs 6.30 crore, ending with a weekend collection of Rs 18.09 crore. Emraan Hashmi’s film, however, failed to cross the crucial Monday test as it saw a drop in occupancy and collections. The movie just made Rs 2.61 on day 4, to take its total tally to Rs 20.70 crore.
As trade analyst Taran Adarsh revealed about Raaz Reboot‘s collection in his tweet, “#RaazReboot Fri 6.30 cr, Sat 5.49 cr, Sun 6.30 cr, Mon 2.61 cr. Total: Rs 20.70 cr. India biz.”
While this is an average collection on paper, Raaz Reboot has performed better than expected. Emraan Hashmi’s film was expected to collect Rs 15 crore over the weekend, but it collected about Rs 18.09 crore. As our trade expert – Akshaye Rathi (exhibitor and distributor) revealed to us earlier, “Raaz Reboot should make around Rs 5 crore on day one and about Rs 15 crore over the weekend.”
And even though Raaz Reboot saw a dip, it has still a week and another weekend too. So, Emraan Hashmi’s film will easily be profitable. Raaz Reboot has been made on a budget of Rs 26-27 crore, which the film will easily achieve. As Askaye revealed to us earlier, “I believe Raaz Reboot has a COP (cost of production) of not more than Rs 20 crore and including marketing it must be Rs 26-27 cr at best. Considering that, it is a fairly decent number.”
However, Raaz Reboot could have had an even better outing at the box office if the film would be decent. Our reviewer saw the film and while he liked Emraan Hashmi’s performance, the storyline was very BLAH. In fact, there was no horror in the film at all.
On the other hand, Amitabh Bachchan‘s Pink has collected Rs 25.29 crore in 4 days and is already in profit. Pink has been loved the masses and with a good word of mouth publicity, it will have a good run at the box office. Anyway, tell us what you guys have to say about both the film – Pink and Raaz Reboot in the comments section below! Also check out what the other people had to say about Raaz Reboot in the video right here:
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In Which Bix Beiderbecke Is Asked to Work on Behalf of America’s Farmers
Bix died and was born again a metaphor. He has become, as we've seen, a trance, emotion & love, courage & memories; he’s a riddle wrapped in an enigma; he’s a pickup line. (Jazz, for that matter, is politics, freedom, and blogging.) Now, Bix is a shining example of the "general discourse of pluriactivity" and an apparently troubling trend that encourages Iowa farmers to embrace said pluriactivity . . . which is what again?
Dictionaries are innocent of this word, but German research papers are not. According to one, the term is 20 years old and coined as an attempt “to gather under an often loosely defined concept a plurality of atypical employment forms, going from multi-salaried employment (the same job for several employers), to combination of statuses (employed and independent) and/or professions (peasantry and commerce), via polyvalent employment (several professions for several employers).”
What does this have to do with Bix? “I firmly believe that there are thousands of Bixs in Iowa, and other agricultural states,” the anonymous MySpace blogger writes, “who in their adolescence are wrongly dissuaded of their multiple talents simply because their community leaders cant envision a way to gainfully express them.”
What does this have to do with pluriactivity?
Maybe, your son or daughter is a great painter. Fine. But painting is a hobby, not a profession, so focus on math so goes the conventional wisdom.
I can accept that. I can accept that beat poets, free jazz improvisers, abstract artists and the like will always have trouble making a living here in Iowa. New York, San Francisco and Paris are great places for people with those interests to find their niche. But what about agriculturists? In Iowa, of all places, shouldnt agriculture be a viable pursuit?
It should. I’m still not clear what this has to do with Bix, but the cause is good so I’ll shut up. Except to say that the wonderful photo (that accompanies this blog post about Bix & pluriactivity) is not of Bix but of trombonist Jack Teagarden.
SPEAKING OF MYSPACE: Bix, like everyone else in the world, has his own page. He lists his musical styles as “Indie/Grindcore/Christian” and lets visitors know that “I like to play the trumpet and blow my horn. I also like to drink whiskey and tute my whistle.”
He has 96 friends.
IMAGE: One of Bix’s friends—at least in real life—was Pee Wee Russell. And that’s one of Pee Wee’s paintings above. Pluriactivity in action: When he wasn’t barking through his clarinet, he was “producing a series of seemingly abstract canvases that were actually accurate chartings of his inner workings.”
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Vinyl records are a sound purchase.
Published on 17 January 2017 by Zoe Thompson (author), Jonaqline Addai (editor)
In the dawn of the digital revolution, with smart phones, Spotify and iTunes taking over the musical air waves, it may come as a shock that Vinyl is more popular than it has been in 25 years.2017 looks to be the year of the Vinyl as it becomes a billion-dollar industry according to financial consultants Deloitte’s.
They claim around a fifth of physical music product sales will be Vinyl, along with 7 per cent of the £15 billion global music industry.
Cassettes and CDs looked to wipe out vinyl but it seems the tables have turned.
Vinyl shop owner Tim Scullion believes the feeling of a CD and cassette just can’t compete with vinyl “there’s just something, they’re not as tactile as the paper cover of a record.” Mr Scullion, the owner of Hastings ‘Wow and Flutter’ says they struggled to keep the popular classics, such as Fleetwood Mac and The Beatles, in stock because they sold out so fast.
The death of many musical icons in 2016 seems to have sent people to their roots as Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ sold more than double the copies of Adele’s ’25.’
HMV’s vinyl sales surged by more than half in 2016 according to the stores chairman, Paul McGowan.
But fans and collectors don’t seem as happy with this. Vinyl collector Brett Pegg doesn’t quite believe HMVs vinyls are all they’re scratched up to be. “A lot of the newer vinyl’s, of older music as well, is taken from the CD masters, so you’re basically buying glorified CD,” he said.
Even though the popularity of vinyl is rapidly moving up the music consumer charts, consumers don’t seem to be giving their purchases a spin with a BBC poll revealing almost half of people admitting they have not played their vinyls in the last month.
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Kwame Kilpatrick Faces Up To 20 Years In Prison After Being Convicted On 24 Counts Of Racketeering, Extortion, And More
Last week, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was finally convicted on 24 charges, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, mail fraud, and filing false tax returns. The 5 month trial also found Bobby Ferguson, a contractor and friend of Kilpatrick who was given several city contracts illegally, guilty on 9 charges. Kilpatricks father Bernard was also found guilty on one tax charge. Kwame is facing 20 years in prison and is being held without bail as they consider him a possible flight risk. He is currently awaiting sentencing, but no date has been set for the hearing.
Ferguson was given $84 million in contracts by Kwame Kilpatrick, which forced people to hire Ferguson as a subcontractor if they wanted to be awarded city deals.
Count One: (All Three) Racketeering conspiracy: Joining together to conduct a criminal enterprise, which in this case the prosecution dubbed the “Kilpatrick Enterprise,” an alleged scheme of kickbacks to enrich themselves using the mayor’s office. It’s punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Kwame Kilpatrick: Guilty
Bobby Ferguson: Guilty
Bernard Kilpatrick: No verdict
Count Two: (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Extortion in the sewer lining contract. Extortion carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Count Three: (K, Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Extortion in an amendment to the sewer lining contract. Extortion carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Count Four: (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Extortion in the Baby Creek/Patton Park contract. Extortion carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Count Five: (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Attempted Extortion Oakwood Pump Station contract.
Count Six: Dismissed
Count Seven: Extortion (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Extortion in the Outfalls contract. Extortion carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Kwame Kilpatrick: No verdict
Count Eight: Extortion (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Extortion in an asbestos abatement contract. Extortion carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Kwame Kilpatrick: No verdit
Count Nine: (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Extortion in repair of eastside water mains. Extortion carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Count 10: (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Extortion in eastside sewer repairs. Extortion carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Kwame Kilpatrick: Not guilty
Bobby Ferguson: Not guilty
Counts 11-14: Dismissed
Count 15: Attempted Extortion (B. Kilpatrick) Sludge contract.
Bernard Kilpatrick: Not guilty
Count 16: Bribery (K. Kilpatrick, Ferguson) Soliciting funds for personal purposes.
Kwame Kilpatrick has also been found guilty on one wire fraud count, as well as one tax count and several mail fraud charges.
Kilpatrick left Detroit’s City Hall in 2008 after pleading guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice related to a text message sex scandal with a former employee. He served about a year in jail for those crimes and agreed to pay the city of Detroit $1 million in restitution. In August 2011, only a week after he was paroled, Creative Publishing Consultants Inc out of Tennessee released a book that was co-written by Kilpatrick, titled Surrendered: The Rise, Fall & Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick. However, the Wayne County prosecutor pushed the state courts to see to it that any proceeds that Kwame would have received from the book go to repaying the $1 million he owes to the city of Detroit.
In January the ex-mayor also spent a weekend in jail for violating his parole by not reporting cash gifts he received in 2012.
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Transformation in Trani – Bringing the Past to Life
Published by Gavin Tulloch on January 16, 2017 January 16, 2017
Returning to Trani early in January on a storm-clouded but pleasant winter day we took the opportunity to divert to visit Castel del Monte.
From your first view of the pale limestone edifice coming up the road from 10 km away towards the ‘massive’ atop the low mountain, Castel del Monte is there to be seen. It is a lighthouse for wanderers, crusaders, and even sailors out to sea 20 km away, for seekers and searchers. As we get closer the octagonal architecture of the ‘castle’ and the pale limestone construction become apparent and it is obvious that Frederick II had this constructed as a mathematical exercise. We read that the golden ratio is a basis for the construction.
Walking around the castle exposes the eight octagonal towers connecting the central octagon. Entering the edifice the geometry is overpowering, an octagonal courtyard, pentagonal rooms. The only splash of colour is on the window and door frames produced in ‘breccia corallina’, a composite of magenta red corallite and limestone cement. Why use this erodible material, what other purpose did it fulfil? This is not a hunting lodge. This is not a Turkish Bath or a defensive castle. There are no elements to support those theories.
It seems that this castle was designed by Frederick II and his sages for an esoteric purpose (possibly related to the crusades), and with his death just one year after its completion, its design role in his kingdom may never have been fulfilled. It seems that similar errors of assumption were made by Evans with his attribution of the Mycenaean mausoleum of Knossos in Crete to be a palace of the kings – which in effect it was, but not one for the king’s lifetime.
In Castel del Monte, it is the ‘water’ troughs at (medieval man) waist height around each room and the dam-like steps between each pentagonal room that are so convincing that this is a building for meditation or esoteric/religious ceremony not war. The ultimate purpose of the transition from room to room may not be known unless historians can decipher the mission for his life that Frederick assumed after the 4th crusade. Whatever else its purpose seems to have been translation and transformation.
About a half hour drive away we reconnect with Frederick II in the castle of Trani, nestled at the shore of the Adriatic Sea. This castle of Trani has been transformed several times over the nearly 800 years since its commencement in 1230, and it was not a regular haunt of Frederick but of his favourite (illegitimate) son Manfred.
Frederick was a wandering king, over all of Apulia and south through Sicily to his now final resting place in the cathedral of Palermo where he cohabited with a young woman for the past 765 years. Why he travelled so continuously, whether it was in pursuit of or to escape his many ladies, or in search of the miraculous, we have to ask him in our dreams. His life, though, had many condensations in stone – castles, and Trani is one of the most continually useful. At this time it holds a wonderful exhibition of Archimedean history, mathematics and physics, sufficient to enthral and challenge all old enough to read and not too old to forget.
Just a few minutes across the piazza along the sea wall stands the Cathedral of Trani. It is a curious yet magnificent construction, a transformation of the need to have a cathedral to compete with other religions in the locality? Why else do we find the cathedral of Trani dedicated to a Greek pilgrim who just happened to expire in Trani? So keen were the local populace and the Vatican for a grand site of worship that the structure was consecrated before being completed. The style is of a basilica and is bereft of any stained glass windows, or in effect of any decoration but an occasional icon and relic, plus a pair of magnificent bronze doors preserved to the side of the basilica.
This cathedral emanates peace, it does not express any conflict, its wooden beams and roof stand high above the worshippers. Visitors all appear to be affected by the quiet grace of the building.
Also in the piazza, across towards the old city from the entrance to the cathedral is the Museum of Trani, a Diocesan and Synagogic museum transformed and expanded by a ‘private counsellor’ of the city, Natale Pagano. This Trani native, a man of great enthusiasm and energy, contrived a transformation to add the history of typewriters donated from his private collection to SECA Foundation.
For us, the history of the typewriter is the story of transformation, not just of the evolution of the mechanically marvellous typewriter to the electronic keyboard, but of the transformation role of the typewriter in transmission of knowledge and stories.
As I wandered around admiring the hundreds of typewriters and typing devices, I was drawn to consider the role of these devices as transforms of the voice, of stenographers notes and of the written word. Devices of enormous complexity, first realised by Sholes in 1873 in USA, typewriters have revolutionised communication as much as Marconi did with telecommunications, and as much as the automobile has for transport.
The typed word, sentence, paragraph and story – outcome of digitisation of keys by hand, seem so much more than a Fourier transform of sound. Consequently, I was amused to find a keyboard with a wooden box where the keys represented notes and a tune could be composed from words of a sentence. The song of communication can be found in Trani.
Each time we visit Trani we find more places of wonder among the pale limestone blocks, sites and collections celebtrating transformation and renaissance. Yet it maintains images of the past. The story of its fishermen in maintaining its history as an Adriatic city is still to come.
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Atheists against free will
Leftist-atheist-evolutionist Jerry Coyne writes in USA Today:
You may feel like you've made choices, but in reality your decision to read this piece, and whether to have eggs or pancakes, was determined long before you were aware of it — perhaps even before you woke up today. And your "will" had no part in that decision. So it is with all of our other choices: not one of them results from a free and conscious decision on our part. There is no freedom of choice, no free will. And those New Year's resolutions you made? You had no choice about making them, and you'll have no choice about whether you keep them.
The debate about free will, long the purview of philosophers alone, has been given new life by scientists, especially neuroscientists studying how the brain works. And what they're finding supports the idea that free will is a complete illusion.
He also brags that his fellow atheists agree with him. He says that atheist materialist philosophy requires physical determinism, and neuroscience research says we sometimes start making a decision a couple of seconds before we are consciously aware of it. (He says that brain scans show mental activity as much as seven seconds before a decision is completed.)
If this is depressing, Coyne assures us that there are two advantages to believing that we are mindless automatons; we have an increased appreciation for evolution and we gain empathy for all the other mindless automatons:
There's not much downside to abandoning the notion of free will. It's impossible, anyway, to act as though we don't have it: you'll pretend to choose your New Year's resolutions, and the laws of physics will determine whether you keep them. And there are two upsides. The first is realizing the great wonder and mystery of our evolved brains, and contemplating the notion that things like consciousness, free choice, and even the idea of "me" are but convincing illusions fashioned by natural selection. Further, by losing free will we gain empathy, for we realize that in the end all of us, whether Bernie Madoffs or Nelson Mandelas, are victims of circumstance — of the genes we're bequeathed and the environments we encounter. With that under our belts, we can go about building a kinder world.
No thanks. Those are not advantages to me. But ignoring the moral, religious, and psychological issues, my concern here is whether there is really proof of physical determination. It is a strange assumption considering that the overwhelming consensus among physicists is that the world is not deterministic. They say that probabilities are essential to quantum mechanics. Those probabilities do not necessarily settle the free will question; see the Free will theorem for a discussion.
Einstein did not believe in either quantum mechanics or free will. He was a determinist. Most physicists say that he was proved wrong.
I accept quantum mechanics, but I deny that it requires either a probabilistic or determinist view. It says nothing about free will. I think that it disproves Coyne's argument that a scientific worldview requires denying free will. Quantum mechanics is our most fundamental physical theory, and it does not require the sort of determinism that Coyne describes.
Update: Coyne now complains about new proposed laws about the teaching of evolution, because he sees them as a threat to his view of evolutionary science.
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