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Dr. Ken Bellous teaches pastoral care, usually co-teaching courses with his wife, Dr. Joyce Bellous. Ken has extensive ministry experience, including at the national level. ken@practisingcollaboration.com
Dr. Lyle Buyer teaches homiletics at Taylor. An alumnus of Taylor (NABC/NABDS), he earned his DMin at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. Lyle is the long-serving Lead Pastor of McKernan Baptist Church near the University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB. lyle@mckernanbaptist.ca
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Are Wrist Microchips Really in Our Future?
Posted on March 1, 2013 by Dennis Palmer
When a store’s customer scans a debit or credit card, the transaction hinges on identity verification; the presumption that the customer has a right to draw on a card’s account and that they are who they say they are. The gap between this presumption and reality is where fraud and identity theft proliferate, but what if the gap could be closed?
Advocates of human bio-chipping claim to be able to do just that with technology that literally verifies a buyer by scanning the shopper’s own body. In this scenario, embedded underneath the skin on each person’s wrist, a “microchip” lies waiting to be scanned by a reader.
Fact or Fiction?
Can we expect to see wrist-embedded microchips or “human barcodes” in the future? Is this technology fact or fiction? The answer currently lies somewhere in between. As is often the case with futuristic technologies, the technical capacity for implanting microchips has long well-outstripped confidence in the product’s viability for mass use in humans.
So-called “biochips” are in fact already widely used in the medical industry for a wide range of applications. Bodily integrated circuits are like entire laboratories embedded on a tiny chip, capable of complex, speedy and reliable diagnostics and monitoring. The medical use of biochips, however, remains relatively specialized, shying away from mainstream applications related to security and identification.
In 2004, the company VeriChip received FDA-approval to manufacture the first human-implantable microchip for identification and record-keeping. By 2010, following a steady uproar by libertarians and public interest groups, the FDA had caved to pressure and rescinded its stamp of approval. Civil liberties advocates and reluctant politicians played a role in shuttering the perceived attempt to make living barcodes of humans.
Concerns about privacy-invasive applications for bio-chipping have accumulated over the last decade. Would this technology encourage extralegal tracking of individuals? The concept is flagged with Orwellian overtones for many, seeming to provide the basis for allowing shadowy corporations, police and government officials unfettered access to each person’s movements. Enthusiastic advocates instead imagine a “spoof proof” world where technology eliminates the possibility of fraud, theft and numerous other crimes.
So far, each idea of systematically chipping human beings for identification and tracking purposes has been proposed, debated, and left unresolved and unfeasible. Nevertheless, there is a definitive trend in the biotech and security sectors focused on developing ways to confirm identity beyond a shadow of a doubt and in the blink of an eye using the human body.
A Biometric Future
Forms of biometric identification are poised to carve out a niche in consumer markets in the foreseeable future. Will biometrics inexorably lead us to human-implantable microchips?
Probably not. The idea of using of embedded microchips in particular for everyday exchanges remains unpopular. Whereas, the biometric industry is overseeing a bloom of new technologies that are likely to confront fewer regulatory obstacles and make more money.
The latest “touch payment” technologies that scan fingerprints at the point-of-sale, for example, are already in motion. New York biotech company BIOPTid Inc. is preparing what its CEO calls “human barcode” technology, which will allow scanning of fingertip sweat glands for consumer purchases.
Are these methods fundamentally less invasive than implanted biochips? Perhaps. After all, the idea of scanning is not as disturbing as implanting. Nevertheless, the fate of consumer privacy remains unclear as largely untested technologies, from cloud-based computing to biometric shopping, appear on the horizon.
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A new global campaign to address cyberbullying
© Dariusz Sankowski
A multi-stakeholder meeting to discuss the creation of a new global campaign to address cyberbullying and create the framework for a healthy online space took place in London, 26-27 March 2017.
Children and adolescents across the world increasingly connect using electronic channels such as phones, Internet, social networking sites, apps and online games. The vast majority of the online experiences are positive, but unfortunately, some can be negative. Many of the negative behaviours that they can experience in the real world can also happen online. Examples of cyberbullying include mean, unwanted or embarrassing text messages, emails, pictures or videos, and could also take more subtle forms such as exclusion.
Young people are the most affected by online violence
A Microsoft research conducted in 2016 among adults and teenagers in 14 countries shows that 65% of the respondents had been victims of at least one online risk, especially of unwanted contact.
The survey clearly states that young people are more at risk to experience online violence than adults are. In fact, by having higher levels of online interactions they are more exposed to trolling (deliberately provocative messages on a newsgroup or message board to cause general disruption and argument), bullying and to suffer social and academic loss.
The research also provides gender-disaggregated data. It shows that while boys are more likely than girls to be at risk of digital incivility, girls had a greater propensity to lose trust both online and offline and suffer from health problems, such as stress and sleeping disorders.
Cyberbullying undermines the full achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education
Traditional bullying and online bullying are closely connected, both denying equal access to education and acting against the provision of safe, non-violent and inclusive learning environments for all children and adolescents (UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 target 4.a).
The necessity for national education sector to get involved is clear. Evidence from one study shows that 62% of interviewed digital users did not know or were unsure about where to find help when cyberbullied.
Based on available evidence, participants who gathered in London to develop the new campaign to address cyberbullying agreed that the focus should be on children and young people. However, there is also a major opportunity to increase the engagement and support of adults, including parents, teachers, school administrators, youth leaders, coaches, health professionals and others.
A global campaign to address cyberbullying
The call for a global campaign to face this issue was first announced during the International Symposium on School Violence and Bullying. It was co-organized by UNESCO and the Institute of School Violence Prevention at Ewha Womens University in Seoul in January 2017, during which the UNESCO Global Status Report on School Violence and Bullying (SVB) was released.
The Global Cyberbullying Campaign, supported by the NGO ‘No Bully’, wants to engage creative collaboration, decentralized action, and to make available adaptable messages and materials, as well as to provide clear guidance to help drive transformative change. The participants that attended the London meeting came from around the world and included social media and other industry representatives, researchers, civil society partners, young people, ministry of education officials and UNESCO.
This promising initiative could link closely with UNESCO’s programme of work on school violence and bullying (SVB), as part of efforts to protect the health and well-being of young people from online bullying.
The campaign is currently under further development with a planned launch later in 2017.
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SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study— The North Atlantic Experiment
Eric Lindstrom , Frank Bryan, Ray Schmitt
Published Online: October 2, 2015
@article{article, author = {Eric Lindstrom | NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA and Frank Bryan | Oceanography Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA and Ray Schmitt | Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA}, title = {SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study— The North Atlantic Experiment}, journal = {Oceanography}, year = {2015}, month = {March}, note = {}, volume = {28}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.01}, }
TY - JOUR AU - Eric Lindstrom | NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA and Frank Bryan | Oceanography Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA and Ray Schmitt | Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA PY - 2015 TI - SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study— The North Atlantic Experiment JO - Oceanography VL - 28 UR - https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.01 ER -
In this special issue of Oceanography, we explore the results of SPURS-1, the first part of the ocean process study Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study (SPURS). The experiment was conducted between August 2012 and October 2013 in the subtropical North Atlantic and was the first of two experiments (SPURS come in pairs!). SPURS-2 is planned for 2016–2017 in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean.
The scientific motivation behind SPURS arises from the desire to understand the patterns and variations of salinity at the ocean’s surface. To first order, surface salinity patterns reflect the overlying patterns of evaporation and precipitation that force the freshwater balance in the upper ocean (Wüst, 1936). Maps of the net difference between evaporation and precipitation (E–P) appear to be quite similar in pattern to surface salinity. If the surface salinity is determined only by (E–P), then the ocean itself might serve as crude “rain gauge.” In fact, it is already known that ocean circulation in the form of wind-driven surface currents must be accounted for in understanding surface salinity patterns (surface salinity maxima are offset poleward of subtropical E–P maxima due to Ekman currents induced by the trade winds). In addition, ocean mixing processes also affect the temporal evolution of surface salinity. SPURS was designed to examine the salinity balance in the upper ocean through observation of salinity and ocean circulation on a variety of scales.
Lindstrom, E., F. Bryan, and R. Schmitt. 2015. SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study—The North Atlantic Experiment. Oceanography 28(1):14–19, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.01.
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Bingham, F.M., J. Busecke, A.L. Gordon, C.F. Giulivi, and Z. Li. 2014. The North Atlantic subtropical surface salinity maximum as observed by Aquarius. Journal of Geophysical Research 119:7,741–7,755, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JC009825.
Bryan, F., and S. Bachman. 2015. Isohaline salinity budget of the North Atlantic salinity maximum. Journal of Physical Oceanography 45:724–736, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0172.1.
Busecke, J., A.L. Gordon, Z. Li, F. Bingham, and J. Font. 2014. Subtropical surface layer salinity budget and the role of mesoscale turbulence. Journal of Geophysical Research 119:4,124–4,140, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009715.
Gordon, A.L., and C.F. Giulivi. 2014. Ocean eddy freshwater flux convergence into the North Atlantic subtropics. Journal of Geophysical Research 119:3,327–3,335, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009596.
Hernandez, O., J. Boutin, N. Kolodziejczyk, G. Reverdin, N. Martin, F. Gaillard, N. Reul, and J.L. Vergely. 2014. SMOS salinity in the subtropical North Atlantic salinity maximum. Part 1. Comparison with Aquarius and in situ salinity. Journal of Geophysical Research 119:8,878–8,896, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009610.
Schanze, J.J., R.W. Schmitt, and L. Yu, 2010. The global oceanic freshwater cycle: A best estimate quantification. Journal of Marine Research 68:569–595, https://doi.org/10.1357/002224010794657164.
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PAR'SHAT LECH LECHA: The Ten Trials of Abraham. Pt 1
ויעתק משׁם ההרה מקדם לבית־אל ויט אהלה
He left that place, went to the hill East of Beit-El
and pitched his tent.
The English in this text reads 'his tents', because it refers to Abraham's tents. But when looking at the Hebrew text we notice that, though the text seems to refer to Abraham, the possessive suffix at the end of the word 'tent אהל', is feminine written as 'o'elah אהלה thus saying: 'her tent' in the feminine singular. The Midrash (a Jewish book of biblical commentaries) comments that this teaches us that Abraham first pitched the tent of his wife, and then his own. From there we we see that when a husband needs to do something for himself and for his wife, he should take care of his wife's needs first.
The sages have encapsulated Abraham's life in what is called 'THE TEN TRIALS OF ABRAHAM.' These trials were not herculean types of trials having to do with physical strength, endurance through suffering; neither were they about personal wit, religious practice, correct doctrine, or spirituality. These trials had more to do with the same type of tests each and everyone of us goes though each day. They were tests of ethical integrity and virtue.
Our Rabbi, Teacher, Master, and Redeemer Yeshua's taught his disciples in these word, "If you are children of Avraham, then do the things Avraham did! Joh 8:39. In essence, 'The proof is in the pudding!' He said. Those of us who claim descendance from Abraham, be it biological or grafted in, need to honor that descendance by doing what Yeshua coined as 'the things Avraham did.', or in Hebrew, 'כמעשי אברהם עשיתם 'do after the deeds/actions/works of Avraham.'
Let us then take the time to study these things that Avraham did.
How did he handle the intense trials that Hashem allowed to go through?
First, let us go through the enumeration of the ten trials of our Father Avraham:
The call from his homeland
The famine in Cana'an
The abduction of Sarah in Egypt
The war with the four kings
The long wait for a son and his marriage to Hagar
The commandment of circumcision
The abduction of Sarah by Abimelech
The exile of Hagar after she gave birth
The exile of Ishmael
In my book, what made Avraham so great in not necessarily his connection with HaShem nor his loyalty and obedience. Many believers are, and have been tested with as great if not greater demands from HaShem, but we and they all had Avraham to look back upon for inspiration. Abraham on the other hand was the first. Unlike us, he did not have a reference point.That is why he is often called 'The Father of faith. Like a pioneer in uncharted territory, He blazed the trail for us. Let's take a look at some of the things he went through.
1. The call from his land
We learn a lot about Avraham from he Letter to the Hebrews. It says,
By trusting, Avraham obeyed, after being called to go out to a place which God would give him as a possession; indeed, he went out without knowing where he was going. By trusting, he lived as a temporary resident in the Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Yitz'chak and Ya`akov, who were to receive what was promised along with him. For he was looking forward to the city with permanent foundations, of which the architect and builder is God. By trusting, he received potency to father a child, even when he was past the age for it, as was Sarah herself; because he regarded the One who had made the promise as trustworthy. Therefore this one man, who was virtually dead, fathered descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the grains of the sand on the seashore. All these people kept on trusting until they died, without receiving what had been promised. They had only seen it and welcomed it from a distance, while acknowledging that they were aliens and temporary residents on the earth. For people who speak this way make it clear that they are looking for a fatherland. Now if they were to keep recalling the one they left, they would have an opportunity to return; but as it is, they aspire to a better fatherland, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. By trusting, Avraham, when he was put to the test, offered up Yitz'chak as a sacrifice. Yes, he offered up his only son, he who had received the promises, to whom it had been said, "What is called your 'seed' will be in Yitz'chak." For he had concluded that God could even raise people from the dead! And, figuratively speaking, he did so receive him.
(Heb 11:8-19 CJB)
On the same concept, Yeshua said,
Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times more, and he will obtain eternal life. (Mat 19:29 CJB)
Another version of Mat 10:29 says,
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid." Luk 14:26
These verses have often caused people to think that it is OK to prioritize religious activities over family responsibilities. I have seen, and still see today families broken due to this erroneous understanding of Yeshua's statement and of Avraham's actions. It is not about one replacing the other, but about stating that our for HaShem is so great that by comparison the love we have for our families pales. In truth, taking proper responsibility for our families is one of the greatest and proof testimony of our love for HaShem .
Leaving home and family may seem to many today as a freedom statement, but in the days of Avraham people lived in a tribal society, several generations under the same roof. People just didn't get up and leave home. Let's look at what Avraham's motivations may have or not have been
Avraham leaving was not the result of an attempts to independence nor of acrimonious relations with his family. Even with his new belief and discovery of HaShem, Avraham stayed many years subject to his family and fulfilling his family obligations.
Abraham remained subject to HaShem's will and did not try to do things on his own.
In the same manner, our new-found faith should not cause family break-ups. Yeshua did say that family divisions would be caused due to our discipling to him, but this division does not have to end up in break ups; if it does, we should be able to come to the Father and said that we have gone to the 'nth degree of humility and submission in ordered to ensure that it would not happen.
As an example, we as humanity have a broken relationship with the Father, but He took upon Himself the blame and payment of our transgressions in the figure of Mashiach in order to preserve the relationship. Yeshua taught that if we do the the same with those with whom we have problems, we will be: ... perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Mat 5:48
2. THE FAMINE IN CANA'AN
When Abraham arrived in Cana'an, the land was occupied.
He did not force his stay thinking, "I got a revelation straight from God that me and my children should inhabitant this land." He believed the Word, but he waited on his God to fulfill it. Paul agreed with that M.O. he said, for God is the one working among you both the willing and the working for what pleases him. Php 2:13
It's like Murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong went wrong: the land was occupied, and a famine struck. Abraham didn't doubt his message because, the message he received was real, not a emotional premonition based on wishful thinking.
Only something real like that can provoke this kind of faith.
Avraham did not blame God but was entirely subjected to the doings of the Almighty.
3. THE ABDUCTION OF SARAH IN EGYPT
In Egypt, his plan to conceal the true nature of his relationship with Sarah in order to protect his life went awry. We may be quick to blame Abraham for a big mistake and a sort of lie
As a side note, I think that we should be careful before condemning the fathers. The Torah forbids speaking evil of the leaders of our people. Also they are not there to defend themselves so the judgment is made in absentia. We are not in their shoes so we cannot exactly judge. What would WE have done in the same situation? Probably worse. We must remember that it is by Abraham's virtue and ways that we inherit Messiah, so somehow, what HasShem has called clean, may we not be found to call unclean. Sometimes we just don't fully understand a situation, and most of the time, it is none of our business to judge anyways.
Avraham wisely weighed the situation: HaShem had given him no other resources but Egypt -- He would be killed for his wife because for Pharaoh, adultery was very big sin, so he got around it by killing a husband in order to steal his wife, because murder was not a big deal for Pharaoh.
Abraham estimated that murder is worse than lying, and that the weight of his death and of the covenant God made with him was more serious of a sin than the lie to protect it. (Even Yeshua spoke of lesser and weightier commandments.)
Abraham had more respect for the covenant than for his own righteousness, which is just like yeshua who having not sinned made himself sin so He could fulfill the covenant.
4. THE QUARREL WITH LOT
Lot acted selfishly toward his uncle who had helped him make something of himself but Abraham didn't retaliate. He let Lot have first choice, even though again, the Land was his by divine right.
Both the Master and Paul taught the same thing:
But I tell you not to stand up against someone who does you wrong. On the contrary, if someone hits you on the right cheek, let him hit you on the left cheek too! If someone wants to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well! And if a soldier forces you to carry his pack for one mile, carry it for two! When someone asks you for something, give it to him; when someone wants to borrow something from you, lend it to him.
How dare one of you with a complaint against another go to court before pagan judges and not before God's people? Don't you know that God's people are going to judge the universe? If you are going to judge the universe, are you incompetent to judge these minor matters? Don't you know that we will judge angels, not to mention affairs of everyday life? So if you require judgments about matters of everyday life, why do you put them in front of men who have no standing in the Messianic Community? I say, shame on you! Can it be that there isn't one person among you wise enough to be able to settle a dispute between brothers? Instead, a brother brings a lawsuit against another brother, and that before unbelievers! Actually, if you are bringing lawsuits against each other, it is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
Talmud: "The disciples of Abraham our father are generous, poor in spirit, and humble." m.Avot 5:19
5. COURAGEOUS LOYALTY/THE WAR WITH THE FOUR KINGS
After being cheated and wronged by Lot, Abraham still went to rescue him
Abraham not only freed his nephew but also all the peopler from Sodom and Gomorrah.
He refused to take anything from the loot. It was an act of total random selflessness.
Because of these acts, HaShem continued blessing Abraham and confirmed His covenant with him.
5. BUILDING A FAMILY
Polygamy was acceptable in the world in the days of Abraham, but seeing his wife barren and as an obstacle to the great divine covenant, Abraham passed the test in choosing to remain with Sarah
The 'Hagar' idea was Sarah's. It may seem a strange idea to us, but it is very close to today's idea of surrogate mothers artificially inseminated
Sarah wanted a baby; she had no choice in her barrenness; unlike many women who today chose to not have children or wait till their 30's, thus not giving the best of their strength and years to their children, but keeping it for themselves.
They both were willing to sacrifice to great length in order to see the covenant fulfilled. It is commendable for Sarah, Hagar, and Abraham who loved Sarah.
6. CIRCUMCISION
I may not need to emphasize how a man circumcising himself at over one hundred years old may be a test. Try it using the same tools Abraham did, and without anesthetics.
It is then that Adonai, accompanied with two angels, came came to visit him.
Adonai appeared to Avraham by the oaks of Mamre as he sat at the entrance to the tent during the heat of the day. (Gen 18:1 CJB) The expression ,'... during the heat of the day' is usually understood as ' at the height of the post-circumcision fever.'
IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN LEARN FROM THE ACTS OF FATHER AVRAHAM?
PAR'SHAT NOACH: Judging Righteous Judgments!
וירד יהוה לראת את־העיר ואת־המגדל אשׁר בנו בני האדם׃
וירד יהוה לרא וירד יהוה לראת את־העיר ואת־המגדל אשׁר בנו בני האדם׃
In Midrash Tanchuma Rashi suggests that HaShem did not actually need to come down to view the tower built by the people. Rashi then suggests that the Almighty did so in order to teach us all a very valuable lesson: not to condemn people or give a definitive assessment of a situation until we investigate and understand the entire situation.
All of us judge. We all feel that it is our business to judge others, even when it is really none of our business. We especially do it in the matters of religion, theology, and politics. Though the Tanach warns us of the evil practice of taking a reproach against someone (Ps 15:3), we are quick to judge people on the basis of hearsay or circumstantial evidence. In a court of law, there is no room for hearsay nor even for circumstantial evidence. Therefore according to what we talked about last week, 'viewing people as Hashem's Image', we should view a person favorably unless we have carefully investigated the matter and have established beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is guilty of the charges against him. Also, we must be sure that our judgment is not corrupted by personal bias, personal interests also called 'bribes', opinions, etc...
'Judge everyone favorably'
Pirkey Avot 1:6
In many ways, we assign to ourselves the business of drawing judgement on people and situations even when we lack the elements that allow us to do so. We go by hearsay, gossip, Internet posts, someone else's bias opinion, or even our own so called 'gut-feeling'. As such, we often render judgments about others based on partial, incomplete, or bias data.
If we make is our business to judge, (and it is really none of our business), like HaShem we must take the time to approach the situation and see it close-up. Here is a little anecdote to illustrate the point.
In this day and age, social media has rendered it easy to make harsh accusations against others anonymously or from afar without coming closer to the situation as HaShem did in the case of checking the what was going on in Babel. The conversation seems most toxic when it concerns politics, and sad to say, religion.It is with those subjects that we seem to be ignoring Master's injunction concerning disputes and disagreements,
People often use this text to accuse Ham of homosexuality, but the text makes absolutely no mention of it. This accusation is actually anachronistic, based upon reading the text with the lens of today's culture and not according to its own.
As a result, I remember hearing preachers teach that the descendance of Ham that mostly ended up in Africa (Genesis 10: 6-7), has a particular propensity towards homosexuality. This reasoning can be easily countered by looking at the mores and history of the great empires of the West (Japheth's descendants) who greatly indulged in that sin.
Not so long ago, and sad to say even till today, people justified enslaving the blacks because of a so-called curse put upon Ham by Noah. The truth again is that the curse was not put on Ham, but on Cana'an, one of the sons of Ham. This curse found its fulfillment when the Children of Israel who were former slaves of Egypt, the descendants of Mizrayim who was Cana'an's brother (Gen 10), subjugated the Cana'anites who then became the 'servant of servants.'
This shows us how people again have drawn very serious conclusion about other people using faulty, incomplete, and in this case, erroneous data. Why did they do it? Because it was already in them to do it. It is the belief of this writer that, 'Lie' has no power on he who is hungry to stay anchored on 'truth'.
Jewish teachers teach that the sin of Ham was that his first reaction when he saw his father's compromising and vulnerable situation. was to publicize it to his brothers. Why did he do it? Your guess is as good as mine, but the text tells us of the diametrically opposite reaction of Shem and Japhet who not wanting to even see their father, walked backward and covered his indiscretion. King Solomon teaches us about that in,
PAR'SHAT B'RESHIT: To Be Made in HaShem's Image!
The sages often wondered about that passage. "What is the 'Image' of HaShem ..." they ask, seeing as He is incorporeal?. This led to the idea of the Adam Kadmon, the original 'blue print' that Hashem created for man. The sages referred to this blue print as the 'First Adam' which is alluded to in:
as well as in,
Paul was familiar with the Biblical idea of, 'As it is below, so it is above", that the reality below is a representation of the heavenly reality. It is in those terms that Moshe was required to build the Tabernacle. As such, we see the same basic representation of the Temple model when we read what prophets such as Ezekiel, and John saw when 'invited' to the Throne Room It goes therefore to say that when HaShem created man, He must have used the model of a 'Heavenly Blue-Print', a created Blue-print who is His perfect 'Image'. In those terms, Paul says of created man,
, and the woman is the glory of man.
1Co: 11:7 CJB
... and just as we have borne the image of the man of dust,...
1Co: 15:49 CJB
But because He was victorious against all tests and temptations, Yeshua ...
... himself suffered death when he was put to the test,
he is able to help those who are being tested now.
Heb: 2:18 CJB
Paul, Yeshua's emmissary challenges us who have inherited the infection of Adam's sin to now also take the nature of the Heavenly Adam ...
... albeit, like Yeshua Himself, we also learn through the agency of suffering. So Paul teaches not to chaff against our present suffering, but whether the suffering is legitimate or not, to accept it as the means by which HaShem transforms us into His Image. We always must look at ourselves with the eyes of the thief on His side at Mount Golgotha, the one who said,
Ours (suffering) is only fair; we're getting what we deserve for what we did. But this man did nothing wrong."
(Luk 23:41 CJB)
We must also remember Paul who unjustly suffered at the hand of both the Romans authorities and that of his Jewish brethren when he says,
we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called in accordance with his purpose; because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers; and those whom he thus determined in advance, he also called; and those whom he called, he also caused to be considered righteous; and those whom he caused to be considered righteous he also glorified!
(Rom 8:18-30 CJB)
Ya'akov the earthly brother of the Master concurs with Paul saying,
Regard it all as joy, my brothers, when you face various kinds of temptations; for you know that the testing of your trust produces perseverance. But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.
"Adonai made me as the beginning of his way, the first of his ancient works. I was appointed before the world, before the start, before the earth's beginnings. When I was brought forth, there were no ocean depths, no springs brimming with water. I was brought forth before the hills, before the mountains had settled in place; he had not yet made the earth, the fields, or even the earth's first grains of dust. When he established the heavens, I was there. When he drew the horizon's circle on the deep, when he set the skies above in place, when the fountains of the deep poured forth, when he prescribed boundaries for the sea, so that its water would not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, I was with him as someone he could trust. For me, every day was pure delight, as I played in his presence all the time, playing everywhere on his earth, and delighting to be with humankind.
(Pro 8:22-31 CJB)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing made had being.
(Joh 1:1-3 CJB)
John even taught the Jewish idea that the 'lamb' was slained before the foundation of the world,
Everyone living on earth will worship it except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb slaughtered before the world was founded.
(Rev 13:8 CJB)
This Image of HaShem that we are meant to recapture is not a physical appearance nor something only having to do with clothing, culture, and lifestyles. Humanity (or 'adam-ity') obviously comprises many different races, and cultures, and even physical differences such as morphology and gender. But in spite of all these differences, all of us are made in the Image of HaShem, and we, like Yeshua does, should learn to see the Image of HaShem in each and every individual that we meet no matter what He looks like. It is easy to imagine the 'Image of HaShem' in someone that looks and lives like us, but less natural in someone who belongs to another race, social group, religion, culture, and even sometime the other political party.
The way we apply this idea of seeing everyone as made in the Image of Hashem is to do acts of chesed חסד kindness. The Chofetz Chayim says that, "The very survival of humanity is dependent on chesed/kindness. Every person, without exception [at some time or another] needs the help of his fellow man." How do we show chesed? By, without respect to social, religious, ethnic, or political groups being willing to:
These are some of the things which help us practice respecting man as the Image of HaShem. Teaching along the same lines Yeshua says,
I tell you that whenever you did these things for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did them for me!'
(Mat 25:40 CJB)
Yeshua says that to love HaShem and our neighbor, which is done by showing chesed, was the greatest commandment of the Torah, even those upon which the whole rest of the Torah balances. When defining the concept of these commandments, He gave a story. It was the parable of the Good Samaritan, a man who at his own risks and expenses stopped to rescue another man, a man who actually hated him and considered him the scum of the earth because he was a Samaritan. Yeshua used that concept to teach us about HaShem's love for us. Why? Because we ourselves were at one time in enmity with HaShem because of our sinful nature, but He ...
... demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners [enemies].
(Rom 5:8 CJB)
Yeshua also teaches about that perfect heavenly 'Image of HaShem' we all long to return to; our perfect heavenly nature; and one day we will. But what does returning to that perfect nature looks like? yehsua teaches about it. He says,
The Chofetz Chayim taught that the survival of humanity depended on us being able to act towards people remembering that they are created in HaShem's image. I personally believe that the survival of HaShem's congregation depends on it. If we don't learn this, we are not special at all; we are exactly like the rest of the world. This idea is what makes us fifferent; holy and set apart. It represents the difference between being 'common', or 'holy'. Common is being like the rest of the world; holy/kadosh/קדוש is to be separated by being different in our lifestyles.
What reward do you get if you love only those who love you?
Why, even tax-collectors do that!
And if you are friendly only to your friends,
are you doing anything out of the ordinary?
Even the Goyim do that!
Mat 5:46-48 CJB
BY SEEING EACH AND EVERYONE AS CREATED IN HIS IMAGE ...
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Former civil rights activist and political street vendor Charlie Saulsberry is dead at 70
Posted on March 22, 2015 by Thorne Dreyer
Charlie, who was well-known around the UT campus in late-’60s Austin, ‘was a lefty, but always a heretic.’
Charlie Saulsberry. Drawing by Miriam Lizcano / The Rag Blog.
By Dick J. Reavis | The Rag Blog | March 22, 2015
Charlie Saulsberry, 70, a familiar figure on the UT-Austin campus during the late ‘60s, died Monday, March 16, in Alabama. Strokes and kidney failure brought about his death.
Saulsberry was known to thousands of UT students because every weekday on a Guadalupe Street sidewalk just steps outside the University Co-Op bookstore, he laid out a variety of books, pamphlets, and cause buttons, and spent the day selling them to passerby. His books and pamphlets included titles like How the United States Got Involved in Vietnam and Red Star Over China. His buttons carried slogans like “War Is a Drag!”
During the three semesters that he ran the makeshift stand, he jibed and conversed with hundreds of students who remember him if only because an impediment caused him to cut short the last syllables of words he spoke. To engage in a conversation with Charlie one had to lend an ear, but those who listened to him benefitted because he was a self-taught and unique commentator in a milieu of polarized and stylized opinion. He was a lefty, but always a heretic.
Saulsberry had grown up in Demopolis, a small town in the Alabama Black Belt.
Saulsberry had grown up in Demopolis, a small town in the Alabama Black Belt. In junior high he had applied for a card at the municipal library and been turned down because of his race. In high school he had become the ghetto’s village atheist, had marched from Selma to Montgomery with Dr. King, and had afterward become a leader in efforts to convulse the region; he repeatedly landed in jail.
In 1966, when a group of white civil rights workers from UT returned from summer duty in Demopolis, he’d come with them, in part because, to protect her other children from her fears of Ku Klux terror, his mother had banned him from her house. Charlie’s speech impediment and his arrest record had barred him from local employment.
In Austin Saulsberry made his living from the sidewalk sales, and after a time, from participation in an anti-poverty-era job-training program, always securing cheap or free housing from people he had met at his spot on the Drag. He spent most of his evenings in the left-wing milieu of African-American student organizations and UT’s burgeoning chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). A single story summarizes his life and that of Austin, back in the day.
On a Saturday evening, April 27, 1968, Leo Northington, an African-American UT student who had been hired as a musician at a North Austin bar, showed for work a few minutes early. He went inside to wait for the other band members, all white. A boxing match between a black fighter and a white fighter was showing on a television screen. According to Northington, when the black fighter won the bout, Don Weedon, who operated a Conoco station nearby, at 34th and Guadalupe, beset Northington, the only black man in sight, pummeling him until the bar’s manager intervened.
Northington took his case not only to the police, but also to a student organization at UT, Afro-Americans for Black Liberation (AABL). It called for a boycott of the station, alleging that Weedon had a contract to provide fuel to university vehicles.
Austin police arrest Grace Cleaver during demonstration at Don Weedon’s gas station in Austin in April 1968. Photo by
Belmer Wright / The Rag.
For nearly a week two figures in the protest movement, Larry Jackson, who was prominent in the local chapter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Grace Cleaver of AABL, agitated for action. [The Larry Jackson of SNCC is not the person of that name who has been in Austin news recently.] They called for a demonstration on Friday, May 3.
As Larry Jackson interposed himself between a cop and the squirming Cleaver, another black male jumped onto the cop’s back.
That afternoon some 200 people, mostly members of AABL and SDS, sat down on the station’s parking lot. Austin police descended there too, and, spotting Cleaver, handled her roughly. Jackson, now an East Austin community leader, rose from the driveway to interpose himself between a cop and the squirming Cleaver. As he did, another black male jumped onto the cop’s back. A short-lived tussle ensued and when its parties separated — the assailant having run off — the cops handcuffed Jackson and hauled him away.
About 30 people who had remained seated on the driveway put up only passive resistance as, one by one, they were arrested and chauffeured to jail, where they were held only a few hours before being released on personal recognizance. [Full disclosure: I was one of them.] A half-dozen were tried as a group and found guilty of mere trespass. Afterward, most of the others paid $50 fines on the same charge and put the incident behind them.
Jackson, however, was accused of a more serious offense, assault on a police officer. He was innocent — and the authorities had to know as much. He had struck nobody, pushed nobody, threatened nobody, merely having tried to stand between Cleaver and the cop. When he went to trial on May 27, his attorney arranged for the showing of a black-and-white film of the event.
Charlie Saulsberry ran the movie projector for the courtroom screening; he volunteered to do that. He stood not more than six feet from the jury box. When the projector got to the segment showing the assault on the cop, he stopped his machine, reversed it, and played the scene several times, both at the projector’s usual speed and in slow motion.
When the jurors returned they gave the adage ‘justice is blind’ a new meaning.
Then Jackson’s attorney, Bobby Caldwell of Houston, rose and asked the jury, “Don’t you see that the man who assaulted the officer was a larger black male than Larry Jackson?” Jackson was about six inches shorter than the assailant, who stood 6’1” — Charlie Saulsberry. After the screening and summations, the six white jurors retired for less than half an hour. When they returned they gave the adage “justice is blind” a new meaning.
They convicted Jackson.
As the trial showed, Austin was then still an unpretentious part of the South, undistinguished by the rise of country music outlaws and as yet uninspired by slogans like “Keep Austin Weird.” What seemed weird in those days, at least to those who would later put their imprint on the city, were characters like Weedon and his friends at court.
Saulsberry headed west in the early ‘70s, spending more than 20 years as a janitor at the University of Utah, never to see Texas again. Among the activities that he later reported were two runs for state representative on a single-plank platform. Saulsberry lost both races, but got what he wanted: health coverage for the University’s custodial staff.
But because he was out of touch with both his Alabama family and his Austin friends, his high school graduating class listed him as dead in its anniversary bulletins, and did not see him again until he returned to Demopolis in 2010 to convalesce from a stroke and to manage the decline that has now resulted in his death.
[Dick J. Reavis is a retired Texas journalist who now lives in Dallas. His account is indebted to Gary Thiher, whose 1968 Rag story about the Weedon incident reformed his memory of the Weedon affair.]
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5 Responses to Dick J. Reavis :
Alice Embree says:
Thank you, Dick. What a walk down memory lane. R.I.P. Charlie.
Jim Simons says:
You may not remember that I was co-counsel with Bobby Caldwell in Larry Jackson’s trial you wrote about. More accurately I was second chair. In 1968, I was shunned by white lawyers (no great loss) for sitting second chair to a black lawyer. If I remember correctly, Grace Cleaver was represented by uptown white lawyer Frank Maloney but got no different result than Larry did with his bi-racial radical
lawyers.
Mariann Wizard says:
Wow, trip down memory lane indeed — I’m trying to remember, Dick, if Charlie was in your van on the trip back from the Bloomington IN SDS NC meeting when it seemed like we were never gonna get out of the snow — there were a lot of us piled in the back trying not to freeze!
I enjoyed conversations w/ Charlie in part because of his speech impediment; more correctly, enjoyed watching his cogent observations force others to strive to understand that final word that so often was cut short. He had a unique viewpoint on many issues, and, as the story you tell about the Don Weedon incident shows, a great sense of humor.
Jim’s comment made me laff; another memory trip: Frank Maloney may have been “uptown,” but when I voluntarily took a lie detector test after George’s murder (insurance plot &/or love triangle being favored scenarios of the lying pigs who were actually concealing the real perp’s identity at the time), it was Mr. Maloney who went with me, and you better believe I was treated with kid gloves at the cop shop; he was at my side every minute.
I don’t believe he billed me for that, either; a good guy, recommended by another “uptown” fellow, Thomas Watkins, Esq., himself recommended by my spiritual advisor, Rev. Bob Breihan.
Did not know Charlie had marched w/ Dr. King at Selma; so good to know that; it turns out I’ve met quite a few of those marchers through the years. I wonder, did he see the recent movie, and what did he think of it?
And Dick, you’re such a card; “full disclosure” my fanny; it was you who brought Charlie to TX from Demopolis, with yr toothbrush in yr overall pockets; ha ha, he blew a lot of white students’ minds, and they all needed blowing.
I’m glad he got back to Alabama at the end. Utah?? Unreal!
Shirley R Crowe. MSW says:
Mr Reavis. Your blog which featured Charlie Salisbury was a very enjoyable read. My name is Shirley Crowe and I work for Homestead Hospice near Demopolis Al. I visited Mr Charlie while he was on our services and was at his bedside when he passed. Thank you for your article. I have posted it on my FB wall for other staff to read Charlie was a quiet mN with a sweet soul. He is truly missed by our staff and his family
James Carey says:
I had the pleasure to meet Charlie here in Utah through my wife. He spent a few Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners with us. He was always the last to leave! I was always blown away by his knowledge of world events. He knew as much about Irish socialist history as I knew myself. He was an absolute gentleman and a pure soul. RIP Charlie. Very glad that I got to meet you and consider you a friend.
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ANKARA, Jan 11 (KUNA) -- U.S. F-16 jet-fighters arrived Thursday in Incirlik Air base in southern Turkish city of Adana after, the first time in three years.
According to Local Cihan News Agency, at least 16 F-16 jets joined by early warning system AWACS airplane, as well as tanker airplanes landed here at Incirlik coming from an American base in Germany.
An official at the U.S. embassy in Ankara announced that the planes arrived here for purpose of conducting exercises with the Turkish military in line with agreements between the two states.
Incirlik base was used as a northern recon base for American forces during the Iraqi war in 2003 and since then the base served as a logistic backup for the U.S. army.
Namik Tan, spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also confirmed that the U.S. planes arrived for exercises' purposes. (end) tk.
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Looks like positioning for a new wave or airstrikes.
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This book is the third in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in contract.
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Four Fantastic Four Comic Runs That Might Inspire Less-Awful Fantastic Four Movies
Housekeeping! First, make sure you don’t miss new posts from Jeff (on Red Sonja) and Graeme (on autobio comix) below. Second, also don’t miss Graeme’s similarly-themed (but much better-written!) post over at Wired; he and I only overlap on one run, so you shouldn’t be TOO bored. Now fire up the existentialators and let’s gooooooooooooooo!
So the Fantastic Four cratered at the box office again, a flame-out so spectacular that it makes their widely-mocked last outing (“a juvenile, simplistic picture”) look like The Dark Knight by comparison. This has led to a whole bunch of thinkpiecing and podcast chatter wondering what this means for superhero movies in general and what it says about the Fantastic Four specifically.
Should the movies have followed the comics more closely? Less closely? Is a body horror take appropriate for the property? Maybe it should be all high-gloss pop? But wasn’t that what the last ones were? Maybe it’s impossible to make a good Fantastic Four movie AT ALL! And so on.
Full disclosure: I haven’t actually seen the current movie. But I have found myself compulsively reading (and listening to) these dissections of the aftermath, and — in true internet pundit fashion — have decided that I totally have the answers despite only having a third-hand approximation of the problem. And my basic answer is this: they started off with the wrong comics.
For all that this isn’t adapted from any particular set of Fantastic Four comics, it seems pretty clear that they’re using the Ultimate Fantastic Four as their starting point: younger lead characters; childhood friendship between Reed and Ben; working together at an institute; Doom being their peer; the Storm’s father being involved; etc. And those comics, for all the palpable talent lined up behind them (Bendis! Millar! Ellis! One of those Kubert people!), were not particularly memorable. It was the first major-character misfire (i.e., not that stupid Ron Zimmerman book) in the Ultimate line, and no amount of flailing ever seemed to cause it to make a dent in the gestalt psyche of comic fandom.
Which makes it a questionable foundation on which to build the edifice of a movie that had plenty of other potential problems as well. You understand the impulse — who wants to watch OLD PEOPLE in a superhero movie, amirite?!? and superhero teams with silly names????!? — but it’s the same impulse that missed the mark in the Ultimate comics.
But Fantastic Four is a comic that’s been published for something like 54 mostly-uninterrupted years. Surely somewhere in that vast catalog of lunacy there are some ideas that might better inform a film? (Or a Netflix series? Or whatever Oculus Rift thing we’re doing by the time someone feels brave enough to try again with these characters?)
Yes. Yes, there are. Since binging on the movie’s autopsy reports, I’ve spent some time thinking about my favorite Fantastic Four stories, and trying to figure out what elements made them work for me — I’m an intermittent reader of the book — and how they might translate to the screen. So here, in the spirit of this poor, beleaguered piece of comic book IP and fine internet listicles everywhere, a countdown of four fantastic comic book Fantastic Four eras that might have something to offer the big-screen FF.
4) Fantastic Four #304-332, by Steve Englehart/John Harkness, with Keith Pollard, John Buscema, Joe Sinnott, and a bunch of other people
It might seem bizarre to suggest that the movie FF take its cues from this run, which was so snakebit and harried by Marvel editorial that Englehart wound up switching to his John Harkness pseudonym, basically his own personal Alan Smithee. But there’s a reason that this was the first extended run of Fantastic Four that I ever bought: it’s because the solution to the Fantastic Four being old isn’t to make them young — it’s to actually let the group evolve.
This run, at least before it gets totally gutted halfway through, centers on Reed and Sue leaving the team, with their spots being filled by Crystal and Ms. Marvel (who would promptly be turned into a female Thing), moving Ben and Johnny into then-unfamiliar leadership roles (and further mutating Ben in the same incident that Thing-ified Ms. Marvel). (This was the house ad that got me to buy the book, for example.) It was a book about change, and growth, and mutation. And, like most Englehart books (and most Marvel books at the time, in the first blush of the X-Men-ification of the entire Marvel line), it was about insane levels of melodrama.
(It was also very much a body horror, at least for a time — the panels above are pretty much nothing but melodrama and body horror.)
It’s a run that reads very strangely now, and not only because of Englehart’s frustrations and Marvel’s meddling. (There’s a storyline mid-run that covers many of the same beats as Jonathan Hickman’s current Secret Wars project — Molecule Man! Doom! The Beyonder and some other omnipotent beings! Semi-comprehensible quasi-deep monologues! — only smashed into a couple of issues, and that’s tonally completely divorced from everything else that was going on.)
But it’s a Fantastic Four series that brought in new readers (I can testify to at least one!) and showed very clearly how to evolve the Fantastic Four without losing everything that makes the book the Fantastic Four. Matt Fraction’s FF series followed a similar path; it always felt slightly more divorced from the base concept to me, but you could certainly slot that one into this space and make the same point.
If you’re interested in a more in-depth take on this, there’s a four-part recap of the run starting here.
What to take? A willingness to swap out the original Fantastic Four. An appreciation for melodrama.
What to leave behind? The editorial meddling. The Beyonder, Kubik, and the Shaper of Worlds, and their ten trillion words of exposition. The anachronistic Arab-sheikh stereotype villain Fasaud.
3) Marvel Knights 4 #1-7, by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Steve McNiven
I think one of the problems with putting the Fantastic Four in movies is that the people making the movies seem to think the four are superheroes. It’s an understandable mistake, as they have superpowers, dress in costumes, and fight bad guys … but it’s a mistake nonetheless. It’s tough to find mid-film action setpieces for the FF, because their setup rarely lends itself to, say, fighting muggers, or going on patrol — the sorts of mild digressions you can drop into the middle of a movie to showcase the special effects budget.
This weird little run of comics took a very different approach, recasting the FF as a family sitcom/dramedy where the leads just happened to have superpowers. The conceit was that the team went bankrupt and lost their headquarters and all their fancy tech, and then had to make their way in the real world, to varying degrees of success and amusing failure.
It’s a book that gets by on brio as much as anything else — Aguirre-Sacasa was still very new to comics at this point, and you can feel the energy of him learning on the fly — ably aided by some stellar artwork from a just-pre-superstardom Steve McNiven. There are moments where the book really just flat-out doesn’t work … but there are also moments where classic FF tropes get a totally new spin, as when Reed pulls his classic “absorbed in the lab” routine and forgets that he’s now a stay-at-home-dad with responsibilities.
I wouldn’t advocate adapting the story directly, but the conceit is a good one, and would make for a Fantastic Four movie that felt completely distinct from the X-Men and Avengers films (although maybe not from The Incredibles, which was released the same year as these stories).
(One sentiment that underlies both of these first two entries is the idea that we could have a Fantastic Four movie that presupposes the existence and career of the original FF without having to see the goddamned origin again. This is a property that, in addition to umpty-thousand comics, has managed to generate four separate animated series across four separate decades, along with three released feature films, one legendary unreleased feature film, and countless toy tie-ins, Slurpee cups, etc. I really think we can safely assume people know the basic story by now.)
What to take? The concept of focusing on the Fantastic Four as normal people in a normal world while de-emphasizing the fighting and supervillains and all that.
What to leave behind? The rough spots. The editorial heavy-handedness that undercut this book before it even launched (it was originally slated to replace Mark Waid’s popular, enjoyable run). Johnny’s ill-fated fixation on Keanu Reeves.
2) Fantastic Four #542-553, by Dwayne McDuffie Paul Pelletier
I’ve got this pet theory that interstitial runs almost always make for deceptively good comics. That is, if you’re coming off one run by a big-name creator, and you’ve got a gap before another big-name creator comes on board, whoever it is that gets slotted with the thankless task of filling that gap will turn out work that is solid at worst, and often better than the big-name runs on either side of it.
There are plenty of examples of this — Chris Roberson’s solid post-J. Michael Straczynski, pre-New 52 work on Superman; Kieron Gillen’s post-JMS, pre-Matt Fraction work on Thor (which was so well-received that it went on to spawn its own iconic run) — but this McDuffie run on FF will always be the best for me. Like Roberson and Gillen, he’s following JMS, and he’s theoretically preceding Mark Millar (although Millar’s run was also beset by all kinds of disruptions), and he just takes the opportunity and goes to town with it.
Like in the Englehart work, this plays with the idea of who can be in the FF, but this time we tie the concept more firmly into the wide Marvel Universe, as Storm and Black Panther (married at this point, making them appropriate Reed/Sue surrogates) join up. In fact, one of the defining elements of the book is how joyously it plays with the entirety of the Marvel Universe, from the weird cosmic beings all the way down to Gravity, hero of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It’s a breezy, fun read, and a delightful way to spend 12 issues or so with these characters.
What to take? The FF as established in a wider, weird world. The idea that the FF can incorporate other heroes. The brisk, funny, smart tone of the book as a whole. (In a much better, happier world, the late McDuffie’s own TV experience, combined with this run, would’ve made a strong argument for making him the showrunner on a hypothetical Netflix FF series. We live in our own dark future.)
What to leave behind? Gravity. The late storyline featuring people travelling back in time from a dark future. I am so, so tired of dark futures.
1) Fantastic Four #337-354, by Walt Simonson
With all apologies to the main two contributors to this site and their Herculean ongoing analysis of what’s generally considered to be the iconic FF, this is my definitive Fantastic Four run, and nothing else comes even close. Simonson is one of my favorite writer/artists on superhero books. Issue #352 in this run, in which Reed has a non-linear fight through timestream with Dr. Doom through one track of the comic while the rest of the characters make their linear way out of Doom’s traps in the other, is a strong contender for my favorite single-issue superhero story of all time. I’m kind of a mark for this, is what I’m saying.
But I think the potential cross-media appeal goes beyond my personal fondness. Something like 70,000 words ago I mentioned that the failure of the movie had led to much navel-gazing about if the FF is a superhero team, or a family story, or a science explorer story; I’ve also suggested above that it should be a comedy, a melodrama, or a large-scale Marvel crossover. Simonson’s run is every single one of those things and more.
In just 13 issues (#347-349 are a bizarre, Art Adams-drawn gimmick starring the Ghost Rider, Wolverine, the Hulk, and Spider-Man; #342 and #351 are fill-ins), Simonson manages to squeeze in fun extrapolations off the Kirby/Lee concepts (the radical cube becomes a radical dodecahedron! someone finally uses the ultimate nullifier!), some Steranko-esque pop-art effects, a Judge Dredd pastiche, a wholesale retconning of Dr. Doom that is subsequently completely (and unjustly!) ignored, an extended fight between the U.S. military and some dinosaurs, the resolution to plots begun in his aborted Avengers run, appearances by Thor and Iron Man, a fight with Kang, the truth of the Dreaming Celestial, the death of Galactus, and, oh by the way, legitimately likeable and engaging versions of Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben.
And it’s all done in Simonson’s slashing, kinetic art style, totally removed from the book’s usual reliance on the more staid line of a Joe Sinnott or John Byrne.
This is the Fantastic Four I want to see in a movie: a group at the peak of their powers, exploring because they can, righting wrongs when they have to, palling around with Thor and Iron Man, just generally doing cool stuff and really seeming to enjoy it. It’s not iconic like Simonson’s Thor run, and it hasn’t stuck with the characters for years like Byrne’s run, but if we’re talking about an approach to the property to be detached and used in other media, this is without question the way I’d like to see it go.
(One telling note from these last two suggestions is that the Fantastic Four as a group is much better when they’ve got the rest of the Marvel universe around them. It allows them to establish their own niche in the hierarachy of a superhero-centric world, which, in turn, helps them not just be generic Dudes In Tights Fightin’ Crime. Like every other amateur pop-culture writer on the internet, I have at least a vague understanding of the rights situation that keeps the FF separate from the Marvel cinematic universe; I’m just noting that it would be to everyone’s tremendous benefit to get that squared away ASAP if people actually want to have successful FF movies. The X-Men metanarrative can — and arguably should — stand apart from the Marvel universe and still thrive. The FF … less so.)
What to take? Everything. Go full Zack Snyder shot-for-shot and replicate all 13 issues. (Seriously, though, don’t this. It is always terrible. But take the core ideas, attitudes, and storylines.)
What not to take? The bit with Ghost Rider and Wolverine and the Hulk. It wasn’t funny the first time around.
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3 comments on “Four Fantastic Four Comic Runs That Might Inspire Less-Awful Fantastic Four Movies”
LAndrew Aug 14, 2015
I am eternally heartened to find so many people coming out and saying that Englehart run was a favourite. It was the first time I really followed the book and inculcated a love in me of the times when FF would run in wacky configurations for a bit. Even at the time I could see it was built on quicksand, but I enjoyed it.
Plus Stegosaurus Thing was some nifty design.
But the Simonson run was some quality stuff. I’d love to see a crazy high-concept movie wherein they adapted the issue that has Reed and Doom fighting at irregular moments in time, but I dunno how you’d do it cinematically, as it both sidelines the other 3 members and probably would be like watching Memento on PCP.
Matt Terl Aug 14, 2015
Yeah, I feel like trying to adapt issue #352 would run you smack into the Watchmen problem — so much of what makes it clever has to do with how it understands the medium of comics that the only way to truly adapt it is have it approach film the same way.
The obvious example is the bit where the cover is actually an essential, integral moment in the story that’s never otherwise fully explained if you’re not paying attention. Tough to replicate in a movie. (But WHAT IF you put that moment on the poster to the movie/the DVD case/the OnDemand icon, including the timestamp, and treated it the same way?!?!?!?! And what if you told the movie in linear time but had Reed and Doom popping in and out in their out-of-sequence sequence, and offered the OnDemand/DVD option of watching their fight in order?!?!?!!? AND AND AND)
God, I love that run of comics.
mb Sep 1, 2015
very happy to see this, Matt! Simonson’s FF run is my favorite ever, and it seems to be a blind spot for both Graeme and Jeff. Looking forward to them having their faces melted off by it when they finally get to his run on the Baxter Building podcasts
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Star Wars Box Set rumour (Now with 100% Less Rumor!)
by happydude3 on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:04 pm
I for one, am happy as a clam. Those happy, happy bastards.
from www.thedigitalbits.com:
"Also today... a follow-up on something we've been telling you to expect for quite while now. 2007, as you may well be aware, is the 30th anniversary of the original Star Wars' debut in theaters. You'd have to be stupid not to know that Lucasfilm is going to have big DVD release plans with which to celebrate the anniversary, and we've been telling you that was the case for many months now.
Indeed, during our last visit to the Ranch for the DVD release of Episode III, producer Rick McCallum confirmed that a box set of all six films was going to happen eventually, and animation director Rob Coleman even let it slip that the puppet Yoda from Episode I had already been replaced with a new CG Yoda to match Episodes II & III for the "future" release. T-Bone over at Star Wars Universe recently speculated about this box set, and we've been quietly checking in with our industry sources on it as well.
Well, we've confirmed it: There IS a big, ultimate, 6-film Star Wars anniversary DVD box set planned for 2007. There will be more changes to the films, and there will be LOTS of new, never-before-seen special features - all the good stuff that was held back by Lucasfilm from the original Trilogy DVD release a few years ago. Think deleted scenes and more.
We don't know if good, genuinely-REMASTERED versions of the original theatrical editions of the films will be included or not (though how you could call the set "ultimate" without them, we don't know).
We don't expect high-definition versions yet, as those formats are just too new. We don't have ANY other details for you yet, so please don't ask. But as you consider whether or not to purchase the "limited edition" DVDs due on 9/12... we thought you should know that more IS absolutely on the way next year."
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by Brocktune on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:08 pm
GGGGGGAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
motherfuckers!
i think its time i just started having my paycheck direct deposited into lucas's bank account.
although, what he really deserves is to have my fuckin jack booted foot direct deposited into his money grubbing ass.
but who the fuck am i kidding?
like im not gonna buy it.
by Chairman Kaga on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:15 pm
Hmmmm If they include deleted scenes for the OT like Luke building his saber at the beginning of Jedi and released it with both versions of the OT films I think it would be worth the wait.
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by austenandrews on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:19 pm
Guess I'll cycle my current ones into the kids' discs.
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Yeah, now I'm not sweating ignoring this new set coming out in September. I'm one (probably of the few) who applauds Lucas' marketing approach of keeping the franchise alive, although I completely empathize with the folks it pisses off. But I personally can't wait for any new footage even marginally related to Star Wars so this will be well met, indeed. Holy crap, I just realized I sound like I belong in a Ren Fair.
I don't empathize with them. If people feel the need to purchase multiple versions of movies over and over again they deserve to get taken for a ride.
It kinda depends on the cost. If I spend $150 on one set and the next year they release a better set, that would irk me. If I spend $15 a disc? Eh, that's not worth sweating over.
by bamf on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:33 pm
Ya, and its all going to be pan-scanned. Anamorphic wide screen will come out the following year, but only half of the series. The year after that it will be the ultra super edition with all films in anamorphic widescreen, but only in a 2 channel stereo mix. Then Blu-ray takes off and...
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by Fried Gold on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:39 pm
Moans
Buys it.
by darkjedijaina on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:57 pm
gah. a new CGI Yoda to match the newer ones?
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BAD ASH
Just in The Phantom Menace.
by wonkabar on Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:58 pm
I just want those godamned Biggs scenes
for those of you that give a shit about the OT cutscenes, but dont want to spend the cash, i give you T-Bone
the website has undergone a little reconstruction since the last time i was there, but that shit is stiil gold!
by magicmonkey on Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:10 pm
Yup, all I'd buy it for is deleted scenes, if Yoda is replaced then that is shit. But, should please the kids I guess. Finally I get to see Luke and Biggs sharing a cup of Tatooine tea.
darkjedijaina wrote: gah. a new CGI Yoda to match the newer ones?
Over the crap puppet from Phantom Menace....hell yes.
i was actually hoping that lucas would shoot all new puppet yoda scenes to replace the cgi yoda in eps 2 and 3.
Chairman Kaga wrote:
i just think it's ce-rap to change shiz like that for a 'new edition'. you make the movie. the movie is great or okay or bad. don't keep going back and changing stupid little crap, y'know? i mean, if you're only concerned about making money, go ahead...but i won't buy it. and i'm a huge fan of SW. but i refuse to pay money for shiz like that. in fact, i never bought the dvd versions of the OT. granted, when my VHS wears out, i probably will...but, y'know.
Brocktune wrote: i was actually hoping that lucas would shoot all new puppet yoda scenes to replace the cgi yoda in eps 2 and 3.
This time, marionettes.
austenandrews wrote: This time, marionettes.
in the cantina band this time:
by buster00 on Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:04 am
austenandrews wrote:
Howdy Doody Time, it is...mmmm....
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by Shane on Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:33 am
After all the anticipation, excitement and decades of obsessing over star wars, I just don't care.
I think I am now just tired of it all.
I waited forever in line for ep I, I came dressed up and got a second job at night flipping burgers to buy more toys.
I watched the OT every day after school as a kid. I lived Star Wars for decades, and I don't think I can bring myself to even want the big boxed set.
I wanted deleted OT scenes for years, and would have bought it one million times over. This is just too little too late for me.
Georgie boy has somehow managed to leave a bad taste in my mouth. And I don't have a problem with the new trillogy as much as some. I just think the guy is an ass and he really knows how to burn me out of something I once held dear.
by monorail77 on Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:07 am
I'm buying!
I had promised myself NOT to buy the ones coming out this Sept, because of the shit quality and refusal to remaster. But I was beginning to cave. "Maybe I'll just buy Star Wars" I said "Just so I can see the Death Star blow up like it should, without those stupid rings."
But this news strengthens my resolve. I will merely RENT the Sept ones (if I can find them!) and wait for the 2007 sets!!!
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Oh, and can not wait for the 2007 TV show (live action, one hour drama) nor for more Clone Wars animated toons!
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by Chilli on Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:52 am
Nope. Not buying. Not giving any more money to the idiot who turned my moderate affection for the prequels into blistering hate, and made one of my five worst films of all time in ROTS.
Star Wars TV show... McCallum describing it as 'Deadwood in Space' is the biggest piece of BS press I've ever read.
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by Shane on Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:49 pm
Deadwood in space is the perfect way to go with the series, but I don't think it will be. In fact I am not looking forward to the series either.
by Tyrone_Shoelaces on Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:52 pm
Deadwood in space? I'll believe that when David Milch is running it. Like George is gonna let a Jedi call someone a cocksucker.
by minstrel on Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:54 pm
I won't be buying the set. I already have all of these movies. And you know what? I never, ever watch any of them. I just sorta remember them, and in some cases, not very fondly.
by moose4787 on Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:33 pm
As much as this erks me, I will still buy it, if for no other reason than to see Han shoot first. I will also get the 6 pack or what ever it is because I have reframed from buying the new ones on dvd becuase I knew that somthing like this would be comming out. And you know there are going to be awasome bonues features and hopefully new commentarys.
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by sonnyboo on Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:06 pm
Shane wrote: I wanted deleted OT scenes for years, and would have bought it one million times over. This is just too little too late for me.
Then buy the official CD-Rom set called "BEHIND THE MAGIC" and you an see all the Episode iV deleted scenes and it's legit. According to the STAR WARS INSIDER, the original editor of A NEW HOPE had made a 2.5 hour rough cut (pre FX shots) that played too slow and that's why Richard Chew & Marcia Lucas were brought in with Paul Hirsch to re-edit. A single black & white print of that cut still exists in the Lucasfilm archives and there were a LOT of little tidbits & small changes to it (IE vignettes of aliens screwing around in alleys of Mos Eisley etc.). This is where some of the cut footage found on the aforementioned CD-Rom set (and bootlegged online often) came from.
The quality & ability to restore (it's black & white and only exists that way) will be hard, so keep your expectations on deleted scenes pretty low.
I have not bought the 2006 DVD's with the original cuts because I have them on laserdisc from 1995 with THX remastered sound (4.1 only and non-anamorphic).
As I have tried to state before - it is NOT possible to make a true anamorphic remastered version of the originals. The negatives and even interpositives are deteriorated past recovery. They recovered what they could for the 1997 SPECIAL EDITIONS, and that's why there are re-shoots (IE the dewbacks & revised sandcrawler scenes) because there the original negative is missing from the optical house that did the original transitions in 1977, etc. Similarly many elements from the original trilogy just plain do NOT exist today. That's one of the reasons they remastered them in 1997 and did restoration on what they could. The only negatives that exist today are the SPECIAL EDITION.
The debate can still rage on with George's choice to remaster it solely as the special edition rather than simultaneously make an original as well, but as it stands today - IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to remaster the original.
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by Fried Gold on Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:41 pm
Or maybe not:
The Digital Bits wrote: You know that mega-bombad 9-disc Ultimate Star Wars Saga box set that's been in the works for a few years now? The one that was expected to be released later this year to celebrate the 30th Anniversary? Yeah... maybe not so much anymore. We've been hearing from multiple sources now that the folks up at Lucasburg were surprised enough at the lackluster sales of last year's Star Wars Trilogy DVD re-run ("Now with Han shoots first!") that they're afraid they might have gone to the Sarlacc Pit one too many times, so to speak. There's talk apparently that the box set could get delayed a year or two to amp up demand for the films on disc again. Don't know how serious this all is, but that's the word that's blowing in the wind.
I just don't get Team Lucas anymore. They release the same DVDs we all already own last year and try to pull the "Hey, we're doing you all a favor by giving you the special non-anamorphic, zero-effort original versions as a bonus item!" and then they're actually flummoxed when they don't sell. What the REST of us know, is that they didn't sell because they were crap, and because everyone is waiting for the damn box set.
Ugh. I hate being the guy who has to bring you frustrating Star Wars DVD news, but it seems like it happens EVERY damn year. Please don't Force choke the messenger. I'm feeling a bit like Captain Needa these days...
Many Bothans died to bring you this information.
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by LaDracul on Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:42 pm
I really wish I knew about this last year...
Are they going to put the lost Biggs and Cammie scene in?
BTW, the gal that played Cammie was also in the beginning of "Rocky Horror".
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by so sorry on Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:44 pm
On the next After School Special, Luke's uncle touches him in his special place...
by DaleTremont on Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:54 pm
When I first glanced at this I thought it said "Hella good Star Wars Sex Bot rumour."
Oh well =)
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by Brocktune on Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:03 pm
those stupid fucks should have just waited to put the han shoots first versions on this fucking set.
gentlemen.
by Fried Gold on Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:04 pm
Touched By A Jedi
by havocSchultz on Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:04 pm
DaleTremont wrote: When I first glanced at this I thought it said "Hella good Star Wars Sex Bot rumour."
In that version - Greedo always shoots first...
May the Force Cum With You
This is not the sex you're looking for...
by DinoDeLaurentiis on Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:13 pm
"Leia? She's a my SISTER, eh? HOLY CRAPPA!"
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by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:16 pm
Not another farking one!!!
I only came to this thread to ask one simple question...
Does it have the ROTS extended Space Battle? That's all I wanna know.
I really can't be arsed to read the rest of this thread.
STAR WARS The Laser Disc Edition?
by TheButcher on Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:19 pm
Time for another special edition!
Yoda's Death In Newly Discovered STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI Behind-The-Scenes Clip
Another clip from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi laser disc, that contains rare behind-the-scenes footage, has been released.
This one feature Luke Skywalker asking Yoda if Darth Vader is his father.
Star Wars Original Trilogy Blu-ray Rumors
by TheButcher on Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:06 am
The Digital Bits:
About All These Original Star Wars Blu-ray Rumors…
Bill Hunt wrote: Now consider this: Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise in 2012 for $4 billion. That’s billion with a ‘B’. And they intend to continue with Saga with new episodes that tie directly into those original films. This isn’t another prequel trilogy aimed at a new generation of kids – they’re shooting squarely at Gen-Xers with these new films. The same Gen-X that's built up all those bad feelings surrounding Star Wars over the years. What do you suppose is the quickest and surest way to wipe out all that ill will in one stroke, and at the same time ensure that nearly every of those kids who first discovered Star Wars back in the 20th Century (now 40 and 50-something adults) jumps on the bandwagon for the new sequels?
Of course, Disney is going to release the original, unaltered films!
Are you kidding? The folks at Disney have $4 billion riding on this little investment and they aren’t stupid. The only reason the original versions haven’t been properly released before this is that George Lucas didn’t want it to happen… but Lucas is no longer in control of such decisions. There’s simply no way Disney would have paid $4 billion without the right to do what they wanted to with this franchise. And what they want to do is exploit the crap out of it for years to come.
Bottom line: We’d be absolutely shocked if the original, unaltered Star Wars films don’t A) return to theaters, B) get released on Blu-ray and DVD, or C) both, prior to the theatrical debut of Episode VII in December 2015. I mean seriously. You don’t need to be a Jedi or a Sith to see that the Force is strong in this rumor.
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by so sorry on Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:18 am
Mixed feelings on this news.
When a film that I love gets the "blue-ray" treatment, what I look for is a review of how the Blue Ray transfer is handled. Its not worth it to me unless there is a jump in quality of the picture. All the extras and bonuses and shit that big blu-ray releases have, that's all fine and well, but really its about the picture/sound quality. So from that point of view I would hope that there would be some work done to the OT to up the quality to make it worth my money. SO...there were some things in George's reissues that weren't the worst things in the world (like cleaning up the tie fighters flying around with black boxes around them), but of course his changes to the movie itself were downright terrible (Han shooting first, the addition of Jabba etc etc etc).
by TheBaxter on Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:22 am
as someone who still refuses to buy the OT on blu-ray (when they added the Vader "NOOOOOOOO" to ROTJ, that straw broke this camel's back; i haven't even watched that version of the film yet) i would welcome these with open arms. when they first announced that Disney was buying the rights to SW, my first thought wasn't "hooray, more SW films" it was "hooray, now we can maybe finally get the original films on blu-ray without all that added crap."
i'd like to see digital restoration, a surround mix (based on original sound elements), cleaning up of the fx, etc. basically all the standard stuff that gets done on these reissues but that doesn't actually change or alter the film, the story, or the characters themselves. but if given the choice between lucas's v8.1.3b version of the films, and the original unchanged films with no "clean-up" work done, i'd gladly take the latter.
the funny thing is, lucas so mishandled the whole thing that he's turned his whole fanbase against his own preferred versions of the films. if he'd done like PJ did with the LOTR films, putting out the theater cuts alongside the "expanded" versions, people would probably like the expanded versions just as much or maybe even better. i mean, most people would rather watch PJ's expanded LOTR films than the theatrical versions. but by refusing to release them he's turned them into a sort of "holy grail" that the fanbase has mythologized into something greater than it really is.
and i still firmly believed the ROTJ "NOOOOOOOOOOO" was inserted purely as a big "FUCK YOU" to all the fans who complained about his beloved prequels.
by Spandau Belly on Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:40 am
If they can put out an edition of BLADE RUNNER with five different cuts of the movie, I don't see why a film that is infinitely more popular can't warrant the same treatment.
I also would fall in with the middle group who prefer the updated effects, but doesn't like the changes to the content of the films.
Bill Hunt wrote: they intend to continue with Saga with new episodes that tie directly into those original films. This isn’t another prequel trilogy aimed at a new generation of kids – they’re shooting squarely at Gen-Xers with these new films.
I don't think I agree with Bill Hunt on his assumption about the new trilogy. I think Disney is just as interested in pleasing the kids who grew up on the prequels as they are interested in pleasing the middle-aged dudes who grew on the originals.
Maybe Abrams himself is more interested in winning back the older audience, but there are other fingers in this pie.
by TheBaxter on Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:29 pm
i think they want to get as many from both groups as possible. casting the old-timers for the OT crowd, and hoping the PT generation is cool enough with these films (and maybe became fans of the OT films as well) to show up too. hell, by the time this film comes out, it will have been a decade since ROTS, so i'm sure they're hoping to get a whole 'nother new generation into these films as well.
there are other fingers in this pie.
that's what she said.
by Fievel on Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:47 pm
TheBaxter wrote: the funny thing is, lucas so mishandled the whole thing that he's turned his whole fanbase against his own preferred versions of the films. if he'd done like PJ did with the LOTR films, putting out the theater cuts alongside the "expanded" versions, people would probably like the expanded versions just as much or maybe even better. i mean, most people would rather watch PJ's expanded LOTR films than the theatrical versions. but by refusing to release them he's turned them into a sort of "holy grail" that the fanbase has mythologized into something greater than it really is.
I completely agree with this. I'll use another film as an example - E.T. I actually loved the added bathtub scene when it was re-released in 2002. The expression in E.T.'s digital eyes was great and I laughed out loud at that scene. The guns-to-walkie-talkie's fiasco was an atrocious change, but if I was to watch it, I'd love to see that bathtub scene in spite of the walkie talkies.
Spandau Belly wrote: If they can put out an edition of BLADE RUNNER with five different cuts of the movie, I don't see why a film that is infinitely more popular can't warrant the same treatment.
Absolutely. More money in their pocket, too.
Mainly two new groups - the college aged people that grew up with the prequels and the young kids that have been watching The Clone Wars.
Probably could include the potential audience of the new show Rebels (my 6 year old is going apeshit over the previews). I guess people like my son fall in a new group - kids of people who grew up with the OT.
by TheButcher on Fri Aug 22, 2014 2:33 am
Star Wars ‘Despecialized Edition’ in the Works
with Stephen Hawking?
Why I Doubt Disney Is Releasing The Unaltered STAR WARS OT On Blu
Devin Faraci wrote: Comicbook.com is reporting that Disney plans to release the original Star Wars trilogy in their original, untouched form, on Blu-ray. The report claims that Disney has been hampered by getting the orginal negatives into good shape. There's one problem with this report:
Disney doesn't own Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi. Fox does. They also own the distribution rights to the Prequels.
The rights to Empire and Jedi and the Prequels will revert to Lucasfilm (and thus Disney) in 2020, but Fox will retain the rights to Star Wars forever. In perpetuity. And they'll never give it up. Will they work with Disney to do some sort of release? Sure - there's a lot of money to be made. But unless a deal has been quietly made to give Disney the distribution rights to the original trilogy, there's no chance the Mouse House is working on a rerelease. Now, if the report said that Fox was working on a new Blu, I might believe it. But if the sources don't even know who owns the movies, how can they know anything about remastering or release plans for them?
And there's one more wrinkle I've heard from sources at Fox: as long as George Lucas is alive they're not willing (or able? I'm not clear here) to go against his wishes and release the untouched originals. That was the situation earlier this year, when a rumor about a rerelease of the untouched originals was circulating. Unless something has changed in-house I wouldn't expect movement on these in the immediate future.
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The new boogeyman in Silicon Valley politics? The IPO. – Vox.com
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If you thought an initial public offering was all bell-ringing, confetti-dropping, and champagne-popping, think again.
Silicon Valley is girding for another political battle with the liberal city at its core, San Francisco, in a contest that could turn that celebrated pinnacle of success in tech — the IPO — into a boogeyman.
In a new fault line that reflects the uncomfortable politics of tech opportunity and wealth inequality, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is on pace to put before voters a ballot initiative this November that has quickly become known as an “IPO tax.”
But it isn’t really an IPO tax — at least if you’d imagine that an IPO tax would be a source of new revenue levied against an executive or investor enjoying their IPO riches, like a capital gains tax. Instead, it is an increase in the preexisting payroll-like tax that employers will have to pay to 1.5 percent, or $15 on every $1,000, of the value of any compensation that the employer pays in shares.
Yet the initiative speaks to how the new wealth creation by the tech industry has become a useful political weapon. Calling this an “IPO tax” might not be accurate — nor is it actually a levy on the tech sector, per se — but it is good marketing. And how the initiative is being sold in San Francisco tells you a lot about the temperature these days, and how the Big Bad IPO has become a villainous creature.
“What’s disappointing is the blatant misleading of the title,” said Rodney Fong, the CEO of San Francisco’s Chamber of Commerce, which is leading the pushback. “By using the phrase IPO, it’s assumed it is just [a tax on] the ones that are going to go public.”
The IPO has increasingly become a piñata for critics of a freewheeling tech industry, a stock debut that draws attention to the size of billion-dollar companies and to the many millionaires they create.
Ride-hailing service drivers capitalized on the runup to Uber’s much-scrutinized IPO last week by drawing a contrast between the new riches of its executives and their own discontent over low wages and lack of benefits. A small number of residents in Venice, California, protested outside Snap’s headquarters in advance of its IPO, saying the company was “exploiting our neighborhood for their gain.” One of Lyft’s IPO roadshow meetings in San Francisco was picketed.
More broadly, the IPO is a pressure point, a moment of vulnerability as a company transitions from private ownership to public scrutiny. Spotify, for instance, felt heat from investors in advance of its IPO to strike long-term deals with the major record labels.
This all comes to the fore at a sensitive time in a sensitive place. Silicon Valley has been on edge about the amount of wealth to be unleashed into its neighborhoods and startups in the busy 2019 IPO season, which — once lockups expire on stock sales — will turn thousands of early employees and early investors into real-life, not-just-on-paper millionaires.
That uneasiness would already be pervasive even if it weren’t for the reinvigorated conversation in the Democratic Party about Big Tech and more broadly about growing income inequality — especially in places like San Francisco, where billionaires live a few blocks from people experiencing chronic homelessness — which has made the situation even more delicate. Then you can throw in that Democratic presidential candidates are calling out tech companies for being too big and powerful.
So “the IPOs” has become a shorthand for how a region riven by inequality is preparing to stomach even more.
The sole solace might be that this is all taxable. The state of California predicts that it will rake in about $700 million in taxes related to this year’s tech IPOs, not including the new IPO tax. And in that crisis, there is an opportunity for politics.
Gordon Mar, the San Francisco supervisor who drafted the proposal, said the IPO tax was not his marketing and that he wasn’t trying to cater to tech skeptics. He told Recode it was merely a “convenient public name” for the measure that was born out of his desire to “look at how we could mitigate the impact of the IPO earthquake.”
Mar’s mission is admirable: He is trying to raise what he predicts would be an extra $100 million to $200 million from the proposed tax’s first two years to address widespread social ills in San Francisco through a new “shared prosperity” fund to support things like affordable housing and education.
But Mar is already backpedaling.
He revealed in an interview that he was actually in the process of paring back — perhaps significantly — what he described as a first draft of the motion. He acknowledged that, as written, the initiative would assess a tax on all stock compensation from San Francisco-based public companies — say, a worker at Wells Fargo who is paid partially in stock — when he said he was actually intending to focus more modestly on the current pipeline of tech IPO candidates.
So why did Mar take such a big swing? Well, he described this as “the simplest way to draft it” and crucial to “getting on the fast track.” But that rush and lack of detail may have drawn a bunch of other companies into the dragnet and has led to widespread confusion in tech circles, especially because the measure would be enforced retroactively.
“It was my understanding that the impact would be fairly minimal and the most impact would be on the companies that are holding IPOs — because that’s when there’s such a concentrated number of employees with stock options being exercised,” he said. “That’s something I think we’re going to look into: how the measure would impact a broader set of companies here in San Francisco.”
Another possible issue in the drafting: As written, the initiative seems to assess a tax against stock as soon as it vests — even if the actual stock option is not exercised. Asked whether that was his intention, Mar said he at first did not fully appreciate the difference.
“That’s even something that I don’t fully understand — having not been in the position of having stock compensation myself,” he admitted. He’s now planning to revisit that.
If the Chamber of Commerce can convince Mar to change his proposal, then maybe they’ll avoid a political fight. But as of now, Mar seems to have enough support from the Board of Supervisors to pass the initiative measure and put it before voters in November.
The fight over an IPO tax has elements of a powder keg waiting to be lit. In late 2018, technology companies went to war with one another over Proposition C, a ballot measure passed last November that levies a new tax on some San Francisco companies to raise money for programs to combat homelessness, which affected more than 28,000 people in the Bay Area in 2017. That fight uncorked an at times vicious, personal fight between some of the city’s most prominent figures.
But so far, both sides are biting their tongues. A spokesperson for Marc Benioff, the garrulous billionaire who vocally (and, to some, abrasively) advocated for Prop C last fall, said he didn’t have anything to add on the IPO tax proposal.
Benioff’s opponents during that political battle — primarily Stripe and Jack Dorsey at Twitter — have so far held their fire. Both San Francisco-based companies declined for now to take a stand on the proposal. Also declining to weigh in were city IPO pipeline candidates like Airbnb and Postmates, which told Recode in a lengthy statement that the public and private sectors should be “working together” on this but then did not respond to requests for comment about whether they actually supported or opposed the proposal. That reticence should tell you something.
The business world might also explore potential legal challenges. Some experts say that a retroactive tax like this — if passed in November, it would go into effect retroactively on May 7, 2019, the day before Uber’s IPO — could be considered unconstitutional as a so-called ex post facto piece of legislation.
Jared Walczak, a tax policy analyst at the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation, said “there’s long been a gray area” in federal law about taxes that try to roll back the clock.
“There is some bar that you have to clear to tax retroactively that exceeds the bar that you will need to clear to impose a tax prospectively,” he said. “Certainly, there could be an avenue for a challenge.”
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley has to prepare for what could be a new reality.
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and other critics predict that if the city initiative is approved, more tech companies will alter their compensation practices. They may rely more heavily on cash compensation as opposed to stock, which would cap employees’ financial upside if they happen to be working at the next hot company. Another unintended consequence, in the eyes of skeptics, is that San Francisco companies could start finding ways to change where their employees are officially headquartered to avoid the new bill.
Area wealth advisers told Recode that their clients have been bringing up the city proposal to them in recent weeks, watching and waiting to see whether it earns enough support on the board and then passes in November. But there’s nothing the employees can actually do in practice — they can’t force their employers to leave San Francisco, of course — so there’s limited use in worrying about it.
While few in the business community expect a corporation to pick up their stakes and relocate, they do say it could tip the balance for future startups trying to decide where to pitch their tents.
To some, like Mar, that might be okay. Critics of Big Tech think it has for too long coasted on city services without being a good neighbor, and are now facing increased pressure to assess their civic responsibilities.
Robert Nelsen, a biotech venture capitalist who works with some companies headquartered in San Francisco, said he was supportive of city corporations paying more in taxes to improve things like mental health. But not this way.
“If you wanted to think about the most volatile tax that you could possibly imagine, it would be an IPO tax,” Nelsen said, worrying that San Francisco wouldn’t draw any revenue in a downturn and might draw too much revenue in a bull market. And, he predicted, it would encourage new companies to found startups outside of San Francisco: “We have that choice all the time. It’s easy to put companies five miles away or four miles away.
“Bad tax policy is kind of like a viral disease,” he said. “It’s hard to get rid of.”
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Undercover Boss Delivers another New Customer for Isuzu Truck
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Swindon based parcel and pallet delivery company UK Shuttle are the latest company to switch over to the Isuzu brand following the appearance of Nikki King on the C4 ‘Undercover Boss’ programme last year. The Isuzu Forward N75.190 4 x2 curtainsided rigid that joined the 25-strong transport fleet at UK Shuttle at the end of 2011 is the first Isuzu truck to be purchased by the Swindon company, who were suitably impressed by Nikki’s unique approach and commitment to customers.
As UK Shuttle’s Chairman Bryan Rose said, “To be honest, we hadn’t got Isuzu on our radar when we were looking at new 7.5 tonners but, after seeing Nikki’s passionate television performance, we felt compelled to include Isuzu on our purchasing list for the first time. The wisdom of that decision is clear for all to see as our first Isuzu has given us the payload we expressly wanted as well as achieving significantly reduced fuel consumption in comparison to the vehicle it has replaced.”
The new Isuzu 7.5 tonne rigid at UK Shuttle will operate as part of its TPN (‘The Pallet Network’) fleet, the UK’s leading palletised freight distribution network, offering next day and 48-hour pallet collection and delivery services all over the UK.
The debutant Isuzu 7.5 tonne rigid was specified with the manufacturer’s popular Easyshift automated transmission. It was fitted with a curtainsided body and features a rear tuckaway tail lift. UK Shuttle is looking to run the vehicle for a five-year working life, covering in excess of 50,000 miles per annum.
“The degree of interest in our products as a result of the C4 ‘Undercover Boss’ television series has been very flattering. In addition to the large number of e-mails and messages immediately following the programme going ‘on air’, the subsequent reaction to its content shows that operators clearly relate to our unique approach to customer CARE. So much so it’s now starting to influence vehicle acquisition policy,” said Keith Child, marketing director at Isuzu Truck UK. “Obviously we are delighted to welcome new customers, such as UK Shuttle, to the Isuzu fold for the first time and we’re confident that they will benefit from the proven operating benefits of the Isuzu 7.5 tonne model range.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 9, 2018) – For the 24th annual Circle K Speed Street presented by Coca-Cola, Circle K, Toyota, Coca-Cola and the 600 Festival Association have teamed up to make a positive community impact.
Until Saturday, May 12, students and parents within the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools district can nominate a deserving high school teacher for a chance to win a new 2018 Toyota Camry. Nominations can be submitted through Circle K’s free app, available through Apple iTunes or Google Play stores. Teachers will be selected on the basis of a quality and thoughtful nomination.
“Circle K is a global company that contributes, invests and believes in the communities we serve,” commented Misti Mason, senior marketing manager at Circle K Southeast. “We are in awe of the daily service that our teachers provide the Charlotte Mecklenburg School district and are delighted to have this phenomenal opportunity to give back. From deserving students and teachers to the folks within the Classroom Central organization, we honor each of you!”
The giving doesn’t stop there. A recent survey concluded that teachers spend an average of $500 of their own money to pay for school supplies. Coca-Cola Consolidated is donating $500 gift cards to the twenty teachers who were chosen as finalists.
“Teachers inspire our children in classrooms every day,” said Christi McGee, vice president of communities at Coca-Cola Consolidated. “As Charlotte’s local bottler, Coca-Cola Consolidated is honored to support our teachers because we appreciate the heroic work they do for our community.”
Three finalists will receive VIP treatment on May 24 at Circle K Speed Street presented by Coca-Cola. Prior to Judah & the Lion taking the stage in Romare Bearden Park in uptown Charlotte, the winning teacher will be announced and presented with keys to his/her 2018 Toyota Camry, compliments of Circle K. The two remaining finalists will receive free Circle K gas for a year.
In addition, Circle K will reward 30 local students with $1,000 scholarships. Since April, principals from area public high schools have nominated deserving seniors who will be attending a university, community college, trade or technical school in the fall. The 30 selected students will receive VIP tickets to Judah & the Lion and be recognized on stage.
As an extension of Circle K’s salute to teachers and students, the 600 Festival Association is donating $1 from every ticket sold to the May 24 concert to Classroom Central, a local nonprofit that equips students living in poverty to effectively learn by collecting and distributing free school supplies.
Classroom Central will be present all three days at Circle K Speed Street presented by Coca-Cola and collecting supplies in its newly-unveiled ClassVROOM Central mobile free store truck.
“The 600 Festival prides itself on creating unforgettable experiences and giving back to the Charlotte community,” said Jacqueline Gafrarar, executive director of the 600 Festival. “It is a true honor to recognize teachers that are the backbone of this community, deserving students and an organization like Classroom Central.”
From May 24 to 26, Circle K Speed Street presented by Coca-Cola will provide family-friendly fun with access to racing’s brightest stars, musical entertainment, a variety of food and beverage vendors, a kids’ zone, and interactive displays from sponsors including Circle K, Coca-Cola, GEICO, North Carolina Education Lottery, PNC Bank, Vacation Village Resorts, HARIBO Gummy Candy, Swisher Sweets and more.
In addition to Judah & the Lion, Chase Rice, Easton Corbin, Dustin Lynch and Brett Young will headline the Coca-Cola stage Friday, May 25 and Saturday, May 26. To purchase tickets, click here. For a complete list of entertainment and live music on both the Coca-Cola and Mello Yello stages, visit http://600festival.com/speed-street-schedule/.
Prior to the 24th annual event, the community can enjoy Haulers on Union Parade and Fan Fest presented by Freightliner in Concord May 17; and the Little 600 at GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville May 22. Both events are free.
For more information on the 2018 600 Festival Association events, visit www.600festival.com or follow us on Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram.
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Airbus Savors Positive Month After Paris Air Show Sales
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MIAMI – Airbus has released its order and delivery numbers for June 2019, which has been dubbed as “a significant mid-year boost,” largely attributed to the success it had at the Paris Air Show last month.
Read More: PAS19: Day Four Recap – Airbus Sells 400+ Planes, Overall Orders Decay
The manufacturer secured 145 single-aisle jetliner orders for the A320 and A220 families, some of which was handed to the new A321XLR variant that was launched at the show.
A total of 44 units of the new variant were ordered, with the likes of American Airlines ordering 20 (plus 30 options), Qantas opting for 10, Iberia for eight, and Aer Lingus for six.
The American Airlines order was that of significance as it would shut down any progression for the new NMA aircraft Boeing intend on launching in the next few years.
Even so, the A321XLR will begin deliveries in 2023, which is still two years before the NMA is launched on the other side of the pond, offering a significant headstart to proceedings.
As for the A320neo family, 86 units were sold, featuring 23 A320neos and 13 A321neos to an undisclosed customer.
Other orders came from the likes of Saudi Arabian Airlines, who ordered 30 A320neos, followed by All Nippon Airways for 18 units of the same type as well as concluding with two A320neos for Atlantic Airways.
The A220 also saw some success in June, with JetBlue Airways ordering 10 more -300s, followed by Delta Air Lines adding to the order book with five more -300s.
Deliveries On The Rise
As far as deliveries are concerned, a total of 76 planes were delivered in the month of June, 54 of which belonged to the A320neo/ceo family.
Highlights of interest in that segment were the first A321neo for JetBlue, with the A220 striking again with six more units delivered.
On the wide-body front, the A350 took center stage when it came to numbers. 10 units were delivered to different carriers, including both the -900 and -1000 variants.
Highlights of the month were for the inaugural -900s for both China Southern Airlines and Japan Airlines, who will be beginning its domestic networks with these aircraft.
Concluding the wide-body count was the deliveries of five A330neo aircraft as well as one A380.
Current backlog for the manufacturer remains at a very strong 7,276 aircraft as of the end of June. This is broken down to 5,871 A320 Family aircraft, 473 A220s, 605 A350XWBs, 275 A330s, and 52 A380s.
Overall, June was a very strong month for Airbus, not just on the order side through the help of the Paris Air Show, but on the delivery side as well.
Production remains consistent to be able to provide such numbers. Deliveries will most definitely dip for July due to the manufacturer showcasing a lot of orders at the show.
For now, Airbus can continue to boost its numbers, especially in the wake of a period stricken with the crisis on the other side of the pond has crippled the competition.
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1 Topic by Arlington Beech 25th Mar 2008 22:58
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Registered: 25th Mar 2008
Topic: Special Forces in CR
I've been reading here for a while and decided to join to chat to you all.
I've noticed you're all very knowledgeable about all matters 007 and I've seen a few references to Bond having a Special Forces connection in CR. I've obviously missed that and just wondered where it came from ?
2 Reply by Asp9mm 26th Mar 2008 11:04
Re: Special Forces in CR
If you go on to the Official Casino Royale site, there is a downloadable dossier of James Bonds career, plus evalations. In that, it states that he served a period of time in the SBS (Special Boat Service).
3 Reply by 7289 26th Mar 2008 14:54
From: Beau Desert
For those of us who are not so familiar with the UK armed forces, maybe someone can explain the mission of the SBS.
Hope it's not chipp'in paint off HM yacht!!!
Last edited by 7289 (26th Mar 2008 14:54)
Bond's Walther PPK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SimIUgsMQQk
Bond's Beretta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5BcvbSzCzI
The Handguns of Ian Fleming's James Bond
Pretty much the same as your Navy SEALS. They are responsible for most of the stuff the SAS gets credit for
5 Reply by Arlington Beech 26th Mar 2008 20:56
Thanks guys. I'd thought it came from the film and wondered how I'd missed it, thanks for clarifying that.
I'll see if the dossier is still available to read. I'm assuming that it's been created for the marketing of CR, its not based on Fleming material ?
6 Reply by emtiem 26th Mar 2008 21:19
emtiem
From: Surrey
You can find it on 007.com under 'dossier'.
7 Reply by Loeffelholz 31st Mar 2008 23:47
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Registered: 1st Jul 2005
Back when this dossier was on the CR website, I transcribed it and made it into a PDF file. Anybody who wants a copy---just send me a PM with your email address
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8 Reply by superado 9th Jun 2008 23:07
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From: Regent's Park West (California
I think the SBS is an apt update to Bond's role and capacity in WWII in naval intelligence, though the SBS was formed then, just as the SAS was (which in turn was subsequently desolved and then reactivated). The SBS in WWII were actually very similar to the commando activities carried out by Fleming's 30 Assault Unit, particularly by the covert MO of their missions, vs. the more prominent raiding done by the Army and Marine Commando. I think giving Bond an SAS background would have been cheap and exploitive storytelling and I like how Bond has been portrayed as different and at times in competion w/the SAS.
"...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
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'Substantial convergence of criminal procedure has occurred in recent developments in the common law and civil law legal families
‘Substantial convergence of criminal procedure has occurred in recent developments in the common law and civil law legal families.’
Critically discuss with reference to at least three criminal jurisdictions, including examples from the common law and civil law legal families.
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California's statutory law sets up that work, having no predefined term, might be fired freely by either the business or representative. Cal. Lab. Code § 2922 (2017). This assumption is liable to opposite proof, for example, an inferred or communicated understanding that a work relationship will proceed inconclusively. The issue for this situation is whether Reynaldo Perez had a suggested contract of work with Malloy's Department Store that could be ended just for cause. In the event that a business has made a suggested or communicated contract for lasting work, that worker might be restricted just for good aim. While deciding whether an inferred understanding exists, the court will take a gander at various elements. These include: faculty approaches or practices of the business, representative's life span of administration, confirmations by the business for proceeded with work, and practices of the business. Formal handbooks and manuals laying out work terms are additionally given thought. An inferred pledge of good confidence secures the gatherings' entitlement to get the advantage of their understanding, however does not really make some other obligation outside of the agreement. Pugh was found to have had an inferred concurrence with See's Candies in light of his term of business, absence of feedback for work, affirmations given, and his manager's recognized strategies. Pugh v. See's Candies, Inc., 116 Cal. Application. 3d 311 (1981). Pugh was much of the time told that on the off chance that he completed a great job, his future with the organization was secure. There was likewise a strategy where managerial staff would just be terminated for good motivation. Pugh was not given an explanation behind his end, nor was it in light of good purpose. The court found that an inferred contract existed, and Pugh was wrongfully ended. Id. Freely arrangements in organization manuals are critical in deciding the strategies of a business. "Parol prove is permissible to clarify, supplement, or even repudiate the terms on a unintegrated assention" Guz v. Bechtel Nat'l, Inc., 8 P.3d 1089 (Cal. 2000). At the point when a business has approaches in formal handbooks, it "create[s] an unmistakable and uniform other option to heedless works on, comprehension, and plans inside the organization." Id. Guz was told by a Bechtel official that the organization keeps away from discretionary firings. Be that as it may, the court found that the organization did not forgo its entitlement to release its workers freely in light of this announcement. Id. The court places incredible confidence in what is incorporated into formal handbooks while deciding whether work is freely. An authority can't forgo those strategies essentially by making his or her own game plans. Guz got no guarantees that he would be held aside from great purpose. His long business, raises, advancements, and great audits were not sufficiently adequate to demonstrate that an inferred contract existed where he was never again a voluntarily representative. The court found that the inferred agreement of good confidence did not shield Guz from end. Id. Perez was utilized at Malloy's for an aggregate of 20 years, reliably got great assessments, had pay increments, and on one event was given confirmation his activity was protected on the off chance that he continued performing at a specific level. Perez was told right off the bat in his work by the leader of Malloy's that his activity would dependably be sheltered, and that the organization doesn't "simply terminate individuals." The length and achievement of his business may likewise profit his contention for a suggested contract. The organization's application shape contained vague dialect which could be deciphered as an agreement for proceeded with work. It expressed that "Malloy's contracts and holds dedicated individuals." However, both the application frame and worker manual repeat that business is freely. The application expressed "our work relationship will end at whatever point we discover that it should." The worker manual had comparable dialect, expressing that a representative could be terminated whenever, for any reason. It is likely that the worker manual and occupation application shape will be given awesome thought. Malloy's reasonable approach of work freely was delineated in these archives and repudiate any guarantee that was made to Perez right off the bat in his profession. As in Guz v. Bechtel Nat'l, Inc., 8 P.3d 1089 (Cal. 2000), a worker handbook is permissible in court to clarify or repudiate terms of a "unintegrated assention." For Perez's situation, the handbook will probably negate the president's announcement that his activity would dependably be protected. Perez concurred with the organization president that he approved of his reassignment. He kept working in this situation for a whole year. There was never a reasonable understanding that Perez would just be let go for admirable motivation, and there was no sign this was Malloy's organization strategy. Thusly, it is improbable that the court will find that Perez had an inferred contract of work that could be ended just for cause.>
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Handing back control
An Event Apart Seattle was most excellent. This year, the AEA team are trying something different and making each event three days long. That’s a lot of mindblowing content!
What always fascinates me at events like these is the way that some themes seem to emerge, without any prior collusion between the speakers. This time, I felt that there was a strong thread of giving control directly to users:
Sarah and Margot both touched on this when talking about authenticity in brand messaging.
Margot described this in terms of vulnerability for the brand, but the kind of vulnerability that leads to trust.
Sarah talked about it in terms of respect—respecting the privacy of users, and respecting the way that they want to use your services. Call it compassion, call it empathy, or call it just good business sense, but providing these kind of controls in an interface is an excellent long-term strategy.
In Val’s animation talk, she did a deep dive into prefers-reduced-motion, a media query that deliberately hands control back to the user.
Even in a CSS-heavy talk like Jen’s, she took the time to explain why starting with meaningful markup is so important—it’s because you can’t control how the user will access your content. They may use tools like reader modes, or Pocket, or have web pages read aloud to them. The user has the final say, and rightly so.
In his CSS talk, Eric reminded us that a style sheet is a list of strong suggestions, not instructions.
Beth’s talk was probably the most explicit on the theme of returning control to users. She drew on examples from beyond the world of the web—from architecture, urban planning, and more—to show that the most successful systems are not imposed from the top down, but involve everyone, especially those most marginalised.
And even in my own talk on service workers, I raved about the design pattern of allowing users to save pages offline to read later. Instead of trying to guess what the user wants, give them the means to take control.
I was really encouraged to see this theme emerge. Mind you, when I look at the reality of most web products, it’s easy to get discouraged. Far from providing their users with controls over their own content, Instagram won’t even let their customers have a chronological feed. And Matt recently wrote about how both Twitter and Quora are heading further and further away from giving control to their users in his piece called Optimizing for outrage .
Still, I came away from An Event Apart Seattle with a renewed determination to do my part in giving people more control over the products and services we design and develop.
I spent the first two days of the conference trying to liveblog as much as I could. I find it really focuses my attention, although it’s also quite knackering. I didn’t do too badly; I managed to write cover eleven of the talks (out of the conference’s total of seventeen):
Slow Design for an Anxious World by Jeffrey Zeldman
Designing for Trust in an Uncertain World by Margot Bloomstein
Designing for Personalities by Sarah Parmenter
Generation Style by Eric Meyer
Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS by Rachel Andrew
Designing Intrinsic Layouts by Jen Simmons
How to Think Like a Front-End Developer by Chris Coyier
From Ideation to Iteration: Design Thinking for Work and for Life by Una Kravets
Move Fast and Don’t Break Things by Scott Jehl
Mobile Planet by Luke Wroblewski
Unsolved Problems by Beth Dean
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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Going Offline—the talk of the book
I gave a new talk at An Event Apart in Seattle yesterday morning. The talk was called Going Offline , which the eagle-eyed amongst you will recognise as the title of my most recent book, all about service workers.
I was quite nervous about this talk. It’s very different from my usual fare. Usually I have some big sweeping arc of history, and lots of pretentious ideas joined together into some kind of narrative arc. But this talk needed to be more straightforward and practical. I wasn’t sure how well I would manage that brief.
I knew from pretty early on that I was going to show—and explain—some code examples. Those were the parts I sweated over the most. I knew I’d be presenting to a mixed audience of designers, developers, and other web professionals. I couldn’t assume too much existing knowledge. At the same time, I didn’t want to teach anyone to such eggs.
In the end, there was an overarching meta-theme to talk, which was this: logic is more important than code. In other words, figuring out what you’re trying to accomplish (and describing it clearly) is more important than typing curly braces and semi-colons. Programming is an act of translation. Before you can translate something, you need to be able to articulate it clearly in your own language first. By emphasising that point, I hoped to make the code less overwhelming to people unfamilar with it.
I had tested the talk with some of my Clearleft colleagues, and they gave me great feedback. But I never know until I’ve actually given a talk in front of a real conference audience whether the talk is any good or not. Now that I’ve given the talk, and received more feedback, I think I can confidentally say that it’s pretty damn good.
My goal was to explain some fairly gnarly concepts—let’s face it: service workers are downright weird, and not the easiest thing to get your head around—and to leave the audience with two feelings:
This is exciting, and
This is something I can do today.
I deliberately left time for questions, bribing people with free copies of my book. I got some great questions, and I may incorporate some of them into future versions of this talk (conference organisers, if this sounds like the kind of talk you’d like at your event, please get in touch). Some of the points brought up in the questions were:
Is there some kind of wizard for creating a typical service worker script for any site? I didn’t have a direct answer to this, but I have attempted to make a minimal viable service worker that could be used for just about any site. Mostly I encouraged the questioner to roll their sleeves up and try writing a bespoke script. I also mentioned the Workbox library, but I gave my opinion that if you’re going to spend the time to learn the library, you may as well spend the time to learn the underlying language.
What are some state-of-the-art progressive web apps for offline user experiences? Ooh, this one kind of stumped me. I mean, the obvious poster children for progressive webs apps are things like Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. They’re all great but the offline experience is somewhat limited. To be honest, I think there’s more potential for great offline experiences by publishers. I especially love the pattern on personal sites like Una’s and Sara’s where people can choose to save articles offline to read later—like a bespoke Instapaper or Pocket. I’d love so see that pattern adopted by some big publications. I particularly like that gives so much more control directly to the end user. Instead of trying to guess what kind of offline experience they want, we give them the tools to craft their own.
Do caches get cleaned up automatically? Great question! And the answer is mostly no—although browsers do have their own heuristics about how much space you get to play with. There’s a whole chapter in my book about being a good citizen and cleaning up your caches, but I didn’t include that in the talk because it isn’t exactly exciting: “Hey everyone! Now we’re going to do some housekeeping—yay!”
Isn’t there potential for abuse here? This is related to the previous question, and it’s another great question to ask of any technology. In short, yes. Bad actors could use service workers to fill up caches uneccesarily. I’ve written about back door service workers too, although the real problem there is with iframes rather than service workers—iframes and cookies are technologies that are already being abused by bad actors, and we’re going to see more and more interventions by ethical browser makers (like Mozilla) to clamp down on those technologies …just as browsers had to clamp down on the abuse of pop-up windows in the early days of JavaScript. The cache API could become a tragedy of the commons. I liken the situation to regulation: we should self-regulate, but if we prove ourselves incapable of that, then outside regulation (by browsers) will be imposed upon us.
What kind of things are in the future for service workers? Excellent question! If you think about it, a service worker is kind of a conduit that gives you access to different APIs: the Cache API and the Fetch API being the main ones now. A service worker is like an airport and the APIs are like the airlines. There are other APIs that you can access through service workers. Notifications are available now on desktop and on Android, and they’ll be coming to iOS soon. Background Sync is another powerful API accessed through service workers that will get more and more browser support over time. The great thing is that you can start using these APIs today even if they aren’t universally supported. Then, over time, more and more of your users will benefit from those enhancements.
If you attended the talk and want to learn more about about service workers, there’s my book (obvs), but I’ve also written lots of blog posts about service workers and I’ve linked to lots of resources too.
Finally, here’s a list of links to all the books, sites, and articles I referenced in my talk…
DOM Scripting , 2005
Bulletproof Ajax , 2007
Going Offline , 2018
adactio.com
Resilient Web Design
The Prime Number Shitting Bear
Clearleft
Una Kravets
Sara Soueidan
dConstruct Archive
What the heck is a “Progressive Web App”? Seriously. by Ben Halpern
Building Progressive Web Apps by Diogo Cunha
Before You Build a PWA You Need a SPA by Mark Muskardin
Tweet by Jake Archibald
What is a PWA by Salva de la Puente
Naming Progressive Web Apps by Frances Berriman
Progressive Web App Checklist by Google
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
An Event Apart in Seattle continues. It’s the afternoon of day two and Beth Dean is here to give a talk called Unsolved Problems :
Technology products are being adapted faster than ever. We’ve spent a lot of time adopting new technology, but not as much time considering the social impact of doing so. This talk looks at large scale system design in the offline world, and takes lessons from them to our online work. You’ll learn how to expand your design approach from self-contained products, to considering the broader systems in which they exist.
Fun fact: An Event Apart was the first conference that Beth attended over ten years ago.
Who recognises this guy on screen? It’s Robert Stack, the creepy host of Unsolved Mysteries. It was kind of like the X-Files. The X-Files taught Beth to be a sceptic. Imagine Beth’s surprise when her job at Facebook led her to actual conspiracies. It’s been a hard year, what with Cambridge Analytica and all.
Beth’s team is focused on how people experience ads, while the whole rest of the company is focused on ads from the opposite end. She’s the Fox Mulder of the company.
Technology today has incredible reach. In recent years, we’ve seen 1:1 harm. That’s when a product negatively effects someone directly. In their book, Eric and Sara point out that Facebook is often the first company to solve these problems.
1:many harm is another use of technology. Designing in isolation isn’t new to tech. We’ve seen 1:many harm in urban planning. Brasilia is a beautiful city that nobody wants to live in. You need messy, mixed-use spaces, not a space designed for cars. Niemeier planned for efficiency, not reality.
Eichler buildings were supposed to be egalitarian. But everything that makes these single-story homes great places to live also makes them great targets for criminals. Isolation by intentional design leads to a less safe place to live.
One of Frank Gehry’s buildings turned into a deathtrap when it was covered with snow. And in summer, the reflective material makes it impossible to sit on side of it. His Facebook office building has some “interesting” restroom allocation, which was planned last.
Ohio had a deer overpopulation problem. So the solution they settled on was to introduce coyotes. Now there’s a coyote problem. When coyotes breed with stray dogs, they start to get aggressive and they hunt in packs. This is the cobra effect: when the solution to your problem makes the problem worse. The British government offered a bounty for cobras in India. So people bred snakes for the bounty. So they got rid of the bounty …and then all those snakes were released into the wild.
So-called “ride sharing” apps are about getting one person from point A to point B. They’re not about making getting around easier in general.
Google traffic directions don’t factor in the effect of Google giving everyone the same traffic directions.
AirBnB drives up rent …even though it started out as a way to help people who couldn’t make rent. Sounds like cobra farming.
Automating Inequality by Virgina Eubanks is an excellent book about being dropped by health insurance. An algorithm did it. By taking broken systems and automating them, we accelerate disenfranchisement.
Then there’s Facebook. Psychological warfare is not new. Radio and television have influenced elections long before the internet. Politicians changed their language to fit the medium of radio.
The internet has removed all friction that helps us behave cooperatively. Removing friction was once our goal, but it turns out that friction is sometimes useful. The internet has turned into an outrage machine.
Solving problems in the isolation of our own products ignores the broader context of society.
The Waze map reflects cities as they are, not the way someone wishes them to be.
—Noam Bardin, CEO of Waze
From bulletin boards to today’s web, the internet has always been toxic because human nature is toxic. Maybe that’s the bigger problem to solve.
We can look to other industries…
Ideo redesigned the hospital experience. People were introduced to their entire care staff on their first visit. Sloan Kettering took a similar approach. Artwork serves as wayfinding. Every room has its own bathroom. A Chicago hostpital included gardens because it improves recovery.
These hospital examples all:
Designed for an intended outcome.
Met people where they were.
Strengthened existing support networks.
We’ve seen some bad examples from urban planning, but there are success stories too.
A person on a $30 bicycle is as important as someone in a $30,000 car, said Enrique Peñalosa.
Copenhagen once faced awful traffic congestion. Now people cycle everywhere. It’s the fastest way to get around. The city is designed for bicycles first. People rode more when it felt safer. It’s no coincidence that Copenhagen ranks as one of the most livable cities in the world.
Scandinavian prisons use a concept called restorative justice. The staff plays badminton with the inmates. They cook together. Treat people like dirt and they will act like dirt. Treat people like people and they will act like people. Recividism rates in Norway are now way low.
Design for dignity and cooperation.
Solve for everyone in a system.
Policy should reflect intended outcomes.
The deHavilland Comet was made of metal. After a few blew apart at the seams, they switched from rivetted material. Airlines today develop a culture of crew resource management that encourages people to speak up.
Plan for every point of failure.
Empower everyone on a team to solve problems.
Policies affect design. We need to work more closely with policy makers.
Question access. Are all opinions equal? Where are computers making decisions that should involve people.
Forget neutrality. Technology is not neutral. Neutrality allows us to abdicate responsibility.
Stay a litte bit paranoid. Think about what the worst case scenario might be.
Make people better curators. How might we allow people to assess the veracity of information for themselves? What if we gave people better tools to affect their overall experience, not just small customisations?
We can use what we know about people to bring out their best behaviours. We can empower people to take action instead of just outrage.
What if we designed for the good of the community instead of the success of individuals. Like the Vauban in Freiburg! It was squatted, and the city gave control to the squatters to create an eco neighbourhood with affordable housing.
We need to think about what kind of worlds we want to create. What if we made the web less like a mall and more like a public park?
These are hard problems. But we solve hard technology problems every day. We could be the first generation of builders to solve technology’s hard problems.
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It’s the afternoon of day two of An Event Apart in Seattle. The mighty green one, Luke Wroblewski, is here to deliver a talk called Mobile Planet :
With 3.5 billion active smartphones on Earth, we’re now faced with the challenges and opportunities of designing planet-scale software. Through a data-informed, big-picture walk-through of our mobile planet, Luke will dig into how people use computing devices today and how the design of our products needs to adapt to this reality. He’ll cover key issues like app on-boarding and performance in enough detail to give you clear ways to improve first time and subsequent use of your mobile apps and sites.
Luke has been working on figuring out hardware and software for years. He looks at a lot of data. The more we understand how people use technology in their daily lives, the better we can design for them.
Earth is the third planet from the sun, and the only place that we know of that harbours life. Our population is at about 7.7 billion people. There are about 5.6 billion people in our addressable market (people over 14 years old). There are already 5 billion mobile subscribers in there. That’s interesting, but which of those devices are modern smartphones? There are about 3.6 billion active smartphones. Compare that to about 1.3 billion active personal computers—the vast majority of them Windows devices (about 1.2 billion). Over the next four or five years, we’ll have about 5 billion smartphone users and a global population of 8 billion.
The point is that we can reach a significant proportion of the human species. The diversity of our species makes it challenging to design for everyone.
Let’s take a closer look at these 3.6 billion active smartphones. About 25% of them are iOS devices. 75% of them are Android. Bear in mind that these are active devices—what’s actually being used. That’s different to shipping devices. Apple ships 15% of smartphone, and Android ships 85%, but the iOS devices tend to have longer lifespans (around 2 years for Android; around 4 years for iOS).
The UK has 82% smartphone penetration. Compare that to India, where it’s 27%. There’s room to grow.
Everywhere you look, the growth of these devices has led to a shift of digital things overtaking analogue. Shopping, advertising, music, you name it. We’ve seen enough of these transitions happen, that we should be prepared for it.
So there are lots of smartphones, with basically two major operating systems. But how are people using these devices?
In the US, adults spend about 2.3 - 3.5 hours per day on their mobile devices. Let’s call it an even 3 hours. That’s a lot of time. Where does that time come from? Interestingly, as time spent on mobile devices has surged, time spent on other media has only slowly declined. So mobile is additive. It’s contributing to more time spent on the internet rather than taking it away from existing screen time.
Next question: what the hell are people doing during those 3 hours per day on smartphones? Native apps get about 169 minutes of time compared to only 11 minutes on the web. There are about 2 million native apps on Apple, and about 2 million native apps on Android. But although people have a lot of apps, people only use about half them. Remember folks, downloads does not equal usage. Most apps don’t make it past the first opening. Only a third make it past being opened ten times.
Because people spend so much time and energy on these apps, and given the abysmal abandonment, people start freaking out about “engagement.” So what do they reach for? Push notifications. Either that or onboarding.
Push notifications. The worst. I mean, they do succeed in getting your attention: push notifications do increase the amount of time spent in your app …but there’s a human cost.
Let’s look at app onboarding. Take Flickr, for example. It walks through some of the features and benefits of the service. But it doesn’t actually help you much. It’s a list of marketing slogans. So why do people reach for onboarding?
If you just drop people into an interface and talk to them about it, they’ll say things like “I don’t know what to do. I’m lost.” The Intuit team heard this from people using their app. They reached for onboarding to solve the problem. They created guided tutorials and intro tours. Turns out that nobody would read these screens and everyone would try to skip them. What the hell, people!?
So they try in-context help, with a cute cartoon robot to explain the features. Or they scribble Einstein’s equations over the interface. Test this. People respond with “Please make it stop.”
They decided to try something simpler: one tip that calls out a good first step. That worked.
Vevo used to have an intro tour. Most people were swiping through without reading. They experimented with not running the tour. They got a 10% increase in log-ins and a 6% increase in sign-ups.
Vevo got rid of their tour, but left the sign-in/registration step. You can’t remove that, right?
Well, Hotel Tonight experimented with not doing registration. Signing up was confusing people—it’s Hotels Tonight, not Accounts Today. When they got rid of accounts, they saw a 15% increase in conversions.
Ruthlessly edit.
Google Photos used to have an in-depth on-boarding experience. First they got rid of the animation. Then the start-up screen. Then the animated tutorial. Each time they removed something, conversion went up. All that was left from the original onboarding was a half screen with one option to turn on auto-backup.
Get to your product value as fast as possible. Of course that requires you to know what your core value is. And that’s not easy to figure out.
Google Maps went through a similar reduction, removing intro screens and explanations. Now they just drop you into the map.
It’s not “get rid of everything”. It’s “get rid of everything that gets in the way of the core user action.”
Going back to the Intuit example, that’s exactly what they did in the end. That one initial tip was for the core action.
But it’s worth discussing how to present this kind of thing. If you have to overlay a tooltip for an important UI feature, maybe that UI feature should have a clearer affordance. People treat overlays as annoyances. People ignore or dismiss overlays when they’re focused on a task. It’s like an instinct to get rid of them. So if you put something useful or valuable there, it’s gone.
The core part of your application should feel like the core part of your application. It’s tough because stakeholders want to make things “pop.” We throw contrast, colour, and animation at things. But when something sticks out from the UI, people ignore it. Integrate the core action into the product UI. When elements feel foreign to a product UI, they are at best ignored, or at worst dismissed.
These is why cohesive design matters. It’s not about consistency. It’s about feeling integrated. In many cases, consistency can be counter-productive.
Some principles for successful onboarding:
Get to to the product value as fast as possible. Grubhub needs your address. Pinterest needs your interests.
Get rid of everything that doesn’t lead to that product value. Ruthlessly edit. Remove all friction that distracts the user from experiencing product value.
Don’t be afraid to educate contextually. But do so with integrated UI.
Luke talked a lot about what’s happening in mobile apps, and mentioned that the mobile web only gets 11 minutes to the native’s 169. But let’s dive into this, because people sometimes think that a “mobile strategy” comes down to picking between these two. 50% of those 169 minutes are spent in your most used app (Facebook). 78% of the time is spent in the top 5 apps. Now the mobile web doesn’t look so bad. It turns out you can get people to a mobile web experience much, much faster than to a native one. The audience size is much, much, much higher on the web (although people will do more in a dedicated native app). So strategically both are useful—the web can attract people to native.
Back to our planet, and those 3 hours of usage on smartphones every day. People unlock their phones around 80 times a day. The average time people sleep is about 8 hours. So for every 12 waking minutes, you’re unlocking your phone. Given this frequency, it’s unsurprising that most sessions are very short—most under 30 seconds.
Given that, if things are slow, you’re going to really, really, really hate it. Waiting for slow pages to load is what really pisses people off.
The cognitive load and stress of waiting for slow pages is worse than waiting in line in a store, or watching a horror movie. That’s an industry that’s all about stressing people out by design! But experiencing mobile delays is more stressful! Probably because people aren’t watching horror movies every 12 minutes.
Because mobile delays are such a big deal, many mobile apps reach for loading spinners. But Luke saw that adding a spinner to his product increased complaints of slow loading times. Of course! The spinner is explicitly telling people, “Hey, we’re slow.”
So the switched to skeleton screens. This should feel like something is always happening. Focus on the progress, not the progress indicator. Occupied time feels shorter than unoccupied time.
A lot of people have implemented skeleton screen, but without the progressive loading. Swapping out a skeleton screen to a completely different UI all at once doesn’t help. The skeleton screens should represent the real content.
This is a lot of work; figuring how to prioritise what to load first. Luke isn’t talking about the techical side here, but the user’s experience. Investing in getting this right makes a lot of sense.
Let’s look a little closer at this number: people interacting with their phones 80 times a day. The average user touches the device 2,617 times a day. A power user touches the device over 5,000 times a day. Most touches are within one app.
90% of the touches are dealing with one thumb. Young people tend to operate with one hand. For older people, it’s more like 60%.
This is why your interface targets need to work for the thumb.
On phones, 90% of the time you’re dealing with portrait mode. Things at the top of the screen on larger devices are hard to reach. Core actions gravitate to the bottom of the screen.
Opera Touch is a new browser designed specifically for one-handed use. The Palm Pre’s WebOS was also about one-hand usage. Now that’s how iOS and Android work: swiping up from the bottom.
So mobile usage is:
One-handed/thumb.
In portrait mode on large screens.
Design accordingly.
What’s next? What do we need to be aware of so we don’t get caught with our pants down?
We can use the product lifecycle chart to figure this out. There’s an emergent phase, then a growth phase, then consolidation in a mature market, and then that gets disrupted and becomes a declining market.
Mobile devices—hand computers—are in a mature consolidated market.
Desktop and laptop computers are in a declining market.
Wrist computers and voice computers are in a growth market.
Small screens get used more frequently, but for shorter periods of time than large screens. Wrist and voice computers are figuring out what their core offerings are.
In the emergent category, it’s all about exploration. We have no idea how things will turn out. We just don’t know. But we do know that we are now designing for lots and lots of different devices.
For today, though, focusing on mobile is still a pretty good idea.
To summarise:
It’s a mobile planet.
Understanding real world usage helps you design.
Prep for what’s next
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Scott Jehl is speaking at An Event Apart in Seattle—yay! His talk is called Move Fast and Don’t Break Things :
Performance is a high priority for any site of scale today, but it can be easier to make a site fast than to keep it that way. As a site’s features and design evolves, its performance is often threatened for a number of reasons, making it hard to ensure fast, resilient access to services. In this session, Scott will draw from real-world examples where business goals and other priorities have conflicted with page performance, and share some strategies and practices that have helped major sites overcome those challenges to defend their speed without compromises.
The title is a riff on the “move fast and break things” motto, which comes from a more naive time on the web. But Scott finds part of it relatable. Things break. We want to move fast without breaking things.
This is a performance talk, which is another kind of moving fast. Scott starts with a brief history of not breaking websites. He’s been chipping away at websites for 20 years now. Remember Positioning Is Everything ? How about Quirksmode ? That one's still around.
In the early days, building a website that was "not broken" was difficult, but it was difficult for different reasons. We were focused on consistency. We had deal with differences between browsers. There were two ways of dealing with browsers: browser detection and feature detection.
The feature-based approach was more sustainable but harder. It fits nicely with the practice of progressive enhancement. It's a good mindset for dealing with the explosion of devices that kicked off later. Touch screens made us rethink our mouse and hover-centric matters. That made us realise how much keyboard-driven access mattered all along.
Browsers exploded too. And our data networks changed. With this explosion of considerations, it was clear that our early ideas of “not broken” didn’t work. Our notion of what constituted “not broken” was itself broken. Consistency just doesn’t cut it.
But there was a comforting part to this too. It turned out that progressive enhancement was there to help …even though we didn’t know what new devices were going to appear. This is a recurring theme throughout Scott’s career. So given all these benefits of progressive enhancement, it shouldn’t be surprising that it turns out to be really good for performance too. If you practice progressive enhancement, you’re kind of a performance expert already.
People started talking about new performance metrics that we should care about. We’ve got new tools, like Page Speed Insights. It gives tangible advice on how to test things. Web Page Test is another great tool. Once you prove you’re a human, Web Page Test will give you loads of details on how a page loaded. And you get this great visual timeline.
This is where we can start to discuss the metrics we want to focus on. Traditionally, we focused on file size, which still matters. But for goal-setting, we want to focus on user-perceived metrics.
First Meaningful Content. It’s about how soon appears to be useful to a user. Progressive enhancement is a perfect match for this! When you first make request to a website, it’s usually for a web page. But to render that page, it might need to request more files like CSS or JavaScript. All of this adds up. From a user perspective, if the HTML is downloaded, but the browser can’t render it, that’s broken.
The average time for this on the web right now is around six seconds. That’s broken. The render blockers are the problem here.
Consider assets like scripts. Can you get the browser to load them without holding up the rendering of the page? If you can add async or defer to a script element in the head, you should do that. Sometimes that’s not an option though.
For CSS, it’s tricky. We’ve delivered the HTML that we need but we’ve got to wait for the CSS before rendering it. So what can you bundle into that initial payload?
You can user server push. This is a new technology that comes with HTTP2. H2, as it’s called, is very performance-focused. Just turning on H2 will probably make your site faster. Server push allows the server to send files to the browser before the browser has even asked for them. You can do this with directives in Apache, for example. You could push CSS whenever an HTML file is requested. But we need to be careful not to go too far. You don’t want to send too much.
Server push is great in moderation. But it is new, and it may not even be supported by your server.
Another option is to inline CSS (well, actually Scott, this is technically embedding CSS). It’s great for first render, but isn’t it wasteful for caching? Scott has a clever pattern that uses the Cache API to grab the contents of the inlined CSS and put a copy of its contents into the cache. Then it’s ready to be served up by a service worker.
By the way, this isn’t just for CSS. You could grab the contents of inlined SVGs and create cached versions for later use.
So inlining CSS is good, but again, in moderation. You don’t want to embed anything bigger than 15 or 20 kilobytes. You might want separate out the critical CSS and only embed that on first render. You don’t need to go through your CSS by hand to figure out what’s critical—there are tools that to do this that integrate with your build process. Embed that critical CSS into the head of your document, and also start preloading the full CSS. Here’s a clever technique that turns a preload link into a stylesheet link:
<link rel="preload" href="site.css" as="style" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'">
Also include this:
<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="site.css"></noscript>
You can also optimise for return visits. It’s all about the cache.
In the past, we might’ve used a cookie to distinguish a returning visitor from a first-time visitor. But cookies kind of suck. Here’s something that Scott has been thinking about: service workers can intercept outgoing requests. A service worker could send a header that matches the current build of CSS. On the server, we can check for this header. If it’s not the latest CSS, we can server push the latest version, or inline it.
The neat thing about service workers is that they have to install before they take over. Scott makes use of this install event to put your important assets into a cache. Only once that is done to we start adding that extra header to requests.
Watch out for an article on the Filament Group blog on this technique!
With performance, more weight doesn’t have to mean more wait. You can have a heavy page that still appears to load quickly by altering the prioritisation of what loads first.
Web pages are very heavy now. There’s a real cost to every byte. Tim’s WhatDoesMySiteCost.com shows that the CNN home page costs almost fifty cents to load for someone in America!
Time to interactive. This is is the time before a user can use what’s on the screen. The issue is almost always with JavaScript. The page looks usable, but you can’t use it yet.
Addy Osmani suggests we should get to interactive in under five seconds on a 3G network on a median mobile device. Your iPhone is not a median mobile device. A typical phone takes six seconds to process a megabyte of JavaScript after it has downloaded. So even if the network is fast, the time to interactive can still be very long.
This all comes down to our industry’s increasing reliance on JavaScript just to render content. There seems to be pendulum shifts between client-side and server-side rendering. It’s been great to see libraries like Vue and Ember embrace server-side rendering.
But even with server-side rendering, there’s still usually a rehydration step where all the JavaScript gets parsed and that really affects time to interaction.
Code splitting can help. Webpack can do this. That helps with first-party JavaScript, but what about third-party JavaScript?
Scott believes easier to make a fast website than to keep a fast website. And that’s down to all the third-party scripts that people throw in: analytics, ads, tracking. They can wreak havoc on all your hard work.
These scripts apparently contribute to the business model, so it can be hard for us to make the case for removing them. Tools like SpeedCurve can help people stay informed on the impact of these scripts. It allows you to set up performance budgets and it shows you when pages go over budget. When that happens, we have leverage to step in and push back.
Assuming you lose that battle, what else can we do?
These days, lots of A/B testing and personalisation happens on the client side. The tooling is easy to use. But they are costly!
A typical problematic pattern is this: the server sends one version of the page, and once the page is loaded, the whole page gets replaced with a different layout targeted at the user. This leads to a terrifying new metric that Scott calls Second Meaningful Content.
Assuming we can’t remove the madness, what can we do? We could at least not do this for first-time visits. We could load the scripts asyncronously. We can preload the scripts at the top of the page. But ideally we want to move these things to the server. Server-side A/B testing and personalisation have existed for a while now.
Scott has been experimenting with a middleware solution. There’s this idea of server workers that Cloudflare is offering. You can manipulate the page that gets sent from the server to the browser—all the things you would do for an A/B test. Scott is doing this by using comments in the HTML to demarcate which portions of the page should be filtered for testing. The server worker then deletes a block for some users, and deletes a different block for other users. Scott has written about this approach.
The point here isn’t about using Cloudflare. The broader point is that it’s much faster to do these things on the server. We need to defend our user’s time.
Another issue, other than third-party scripts, is the page weight on home pages and landing pages. Marketing teams love to fill these things with enticing rich imagery and carousels. They’re really difficult to keep performant because they change all the time. Sometimes we’re not even in control of the source code of these pages.
We can advocate for new best practices like responsive images. The srcset attribute on the img element; the picture element for when you need more control. These are great tools. What’s not so great is writing the markup. It’s confusing! Ideally we’d have a CMS drive this, but a lot of the time, landing pages fall outside of the purview of the CMS.
Scott has been using Vue.js to make a responsive image builder—a form that people can paste their URLs into, which spits out the markup to use. Anything we can do by creating tools like these really helps to defend the performance of a site.
Another thing we can do is lazy loading. Focus on the assets. The BBC homepage uses some lazy loading for images—they blink into view as your scroll down the page. They use LazySizes, which you can find on Github. You use data- attributes to list your image sources. Scott realises that LazySizes is not progressive enhancement. He wouldn’t recommend using it on all images, just some images further down the page.
But thankfully, we won’t need these workarounds soon. Soon we’ll have lazy loading in browsers. There’s a lazyload attribute that we’ll be able to set on img and iframe elements:
<img src=".." alt="..." lazyload="on">
It’s not implemented yet, but it’s coming in Chrome. It might be that this behaviour even becomes the default way of loading images in browsers.
If you dig under the hood of the implementation coming in Chrome, it actually loads all the images, but the ones being lazyloaded are only sent partially with a 206 response header. That gives enough information for the browser to lay out the page without loading the whole image initially.
To wrap up, Scott takes comfort from the fact that there are resilient patterns out there to help us. And remember, it is our job to defend the user’s experience.
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The unstoppable engine of An Event Apart in Seattle rolls onward. The second talk of the second day is from the indominatable Una Kravets. Her talk is called From Ideation to Iteration: Design Thinking for Work and for Life . Here’s the description:
Have you ever had a looming deadline and no idea where to start? Do you have a big task to face but are having trouble figuring out how to get there? Have you ever wanted to learn a technology, or build a side project but didn’t know what to build? In this talk, Una will go over an actionable approach and several techniques for applying design thinking to our work and every aspect of our lives. This includes ideating product features, blog post ideas, or even what general direction we want to move toward in our businesses. We’ll go over traditional approaches and breakout techniques that will leave you feeling more in control and ready to reach your goals.
Let’s see if I can keep up with this…
Una’s going to talk about design thinking. Una does a variety of different work outside her day job—a podcast, dev doodles, etc. Sometimes at work she’s given big, big tasks like “build a design system.” Her reaction is “whut?” How do you even start with a task like that.
Also, we make big goals sometimes. Who makes new year’s resolutions? But what does “get more fit” or “earn more income” even mean?
In this talk, Una will break things down and show how design thinking can be applied to anything.
A stategic, solution-based approach to solving problems.
It’s a process. It’s iterative. It’s used by IBM, Apple, GE, and it’s taught to students at a lot of different universities.
Tim Brown of Ideo points out that there’s a Venn diagram of feasability, desirability, and viability. In the middle is the point of innovation.
The steps are:
Empathise — develop a deep understanding of the challenge
Define — clearly articulate the problem.
Ideate — brainstorm potential solutions.
Prototype — design a protoype to
Test — and iterate.
Una feels that the feedback part is potentially missing there. IBM uses a loop diagram to include feedback. Ideo uses these steps:
Frame a question
Gather inspiration
Generate ideas
Make ideas tangible
Test to learn
Another way to think about this is how the teams interact. There’s divergence and convergence throughout. Then there’s the double diamond: design, deliver, discover.
Ideo wrote a book called Design Thinking for Libraries . It has some useful tools and diagrams. Una found this fascinating because it wasn’t specifically about products. In healthcare, GE Health used design thinking for their Adventure Series MRI scanners—it resulted in 80% less need to use sedatives. The solution might seem obvious to us in hindsight, but it wouldn’t have been obvious to medical professionals in their everyday busy lives.
Design thinking is bullshit, says Natasha Jen. She describes how it’s become an over-used term that has lost its value. Una can relate—she gets annoyed when there’s too much talking and not enough doing. Design thinking is not diagrams and sticky notes. It’s a process. It’s very much about doing something to shift perspective. It’s another tool in our toolkit, even if it has become an overused term like “synergy.”
Back in 2014, when Una was working at IBM, she thought design thinking was stupid. It seemed to be all talk, talk, talk. It felt tedious. It was 75% talking and 25% development. The balance wasn’t right.
But it’s also true that solutioning too early leads to cruft. If you end up going back to the drawing board, maybe the time could’ve been better spent doing some design thinking up front. Focus on the problem, not the solution.
Now some developers might be thinking that this is outside their area. But it can really help you in your career. It can help you choose technologies. Also, everyone on the team, regardless of role, is responsible for the product.
1. Empathise
Understand your users and the challenge. This could be a task that a user is trying to accomplish, or it could be you trying to get a raise.
Sometimes we forget who our user is. The techniques in this first step helps us solve their needs, not our needs.
You might have many users that you’re trying to help, but try focusing in on a few. You can create personas. When Una was working at Digital Ocean, the users were developers. The personas reflected this. Do the research to get to know your users.
Next, you can create an empathy map for your users. What are their goals? What are their hopes? What will they gain from your product?
Connect the empathy map to a specific context—a goal and or a scenario that the user is going through.
Bear in mind that there are many layers to your user. There are conscious rational thoughts, but also subconscious emotional thoughts. Empathy mapping helps you understand how to best communicate with your user.
Una shares a real-life scenario of hers: create a new shop-able product that increases time on site. That’s a pretty big goal. She creates a persona for a college-educated woman working in the medical field who commutes on the subway, keeps a skin-caring routing, and is getting into cake-making. Next, Una creates an empathy map for this persona. What she says, thinks, feels, and does. All of this is within the context of browsing your fashion media website casually at work.
2: Define
The problem statement should be:
Human-centred,
Specific, but not too technical (don’t solutionise too soon),
Narrow in scope.
How can we best create a product-highlighting web experience that Rosalyn will enjoy to increase her time on site?
You can use a tool with two columns: As-Is and to-Be. The first column is what users currently do. The second column is what you want to achieve.
3. Ideate
This is the fun part. Good old-fashioned brainstorming is good here. Go for quantity here. Get loads of ideas out.
There’s also a “worst possible ideas” game you can play at this stage. It can be a good ice-breaker.
Have a second round of brainstorming where you play the “yes, and…” game to build on the first round.
When Una was working on The Zoe Report, she found that moodboards were really useful. The iteration cycle was very fast. A moodboard allowed them to skip a lot of the back and forth between design and development. They built the website without any visual design mock-ups. They prototyped quickly, tested quickly, and shipped quickly.
Journey-mapping is the next tool you can use in this ideation phase. Map out the steps between the start and end of a user journey. Keep it simple. This is a great time to refine your product and reduce complexity.
Next, start sketching out ideas. Again, this is a great time to uncover issues and solve problems before things get too defined. But remember, when you’re showcasing your ideas in sketches, too many ideas can lead to analyis paralysis.
Oh dear. Jam. Jam. Jam. Jam. Jam. Yes, Una is using the paradox-of-choice jam example …the study who’s findings could not be reproduced.
4. Prototype
Go forth and build. A prototype can exist on a number of different axes:
Representation—the form it takes.
Precision—the detail it contains.
Interactivity—the extent a user can interact with it.
Evolution—the life stage it is at.
There are lot of prototyping tools out there. Prototypr.io helps you find the right tool for you. It breaks things down by fidelity and life cycle.
But not all prototyping has to be digital. Paper prototyping only needs pen, paper, and scissors. Some tips:
Use a transparency sheet for forms.
Use well-visible and mid-tip pens.
Draw up your prototype in black and white—people can get caught up in colour.
But on the web, Una recommends getting to digital as quickly as possible because interaction is such a big part of the experience. That’s why Una likes to prototype in code. But this is still a rapid prototyping phase so don’t get too caught up in the details.
Testing with internal teams is fine during the ideation phase, but to understand how users will relate to your product, you need to test with representative people. We are not our users.
As well as the user, have a facilitator, a computer, and a scriber. As a facilitator, it’s a good idea to reduce the amount of input you give a user. Don’t hand-hold too much or you will give away your pre-existing knowledge. Encourage your user to be verbal.
Sessioncam is a tool for creating a heatmap of where people are interacting. There are also tools for tracking clicks or mouse hovers. These all feel so utterly icky to me.
The metrics you might be looking to gather could be click-through rate, time-on-site, etc. But, Una cautions, be very wary of adding all these third-party scripts to your site and slowing it down. Who’s testing the A/B tests?
On Bustle, Una wanted to measure interactions on mobile. They tested different UI elements for interactions. They ended up updating the product with a horizontal swiping component. They were able to improve the product and ship a more refined experience.
6. Review and iterate
Una feels that this step is the most important. Analyse your successes and failures, and plan to improve.
Technology changes over time so what’s feasible and viable also changes.
Design thinking on the daily
You can use design thinking in your everyday life. Maybe you want to learn JavaScript, or write blog posts, or get more fit. Una used design thinking brainstorming to break down her goals, categorise and organise them.
“Get better at JavaScript” is a goal that Una has every year.
Empathise. In this situation, the user is you. You can still create a persona of yourself. Define. Why do you want to get better at JavaScript? Is it about making better use of your time? Ideate. There are so many different ways to learn. There are books and video courses. Or you could have a project to focus on. Break. It. Down! Create actionable steps and define how you will measure progress. Match the list of things you want to learn with the list of possible side projects. Prototype. Don’t take it literally. Just build something. Test. You’re testing on yourself in this case. Review. Una does an annual review. It’s a nice therapeutic exercise and helps her move forward into the next year with actionable goals.
Another goal might be “Write a blog post.”
Empathise. Your users are your potential readers. Who do you have in mind? Make personas. Define. What’s the topic? Ideate. If you don’t know what to write about, brainstorm. What are you working on at work that you’re learning from? Select one to try. Prototype. Write. Test. Maybe show it to co-workers. Review. How did it go? Good? Bad? Refine your process for the next blog post.
Here’s a goal: “Buy a gift for someone.”
Empathise. What does this person like? What have they enjoyed receiving in the past? Define. Is the gift something they’ll enjoy for a long time? Something they can share? Ideate. Bounce ideas off friends and relatives. Prototype. In this case, this means getting the gift. Review. Did they like it?
“Get Fit.”
In this case, the review part is probably the most important part.
Marie Kondo asks “Does this spark joy?” Ask the same question of your goals.
Remember, design thinking is not just about talking, and sticky notes. It’s about getting in the right headspace for your users.
Design thinking matters—because everything we do, we do for people. Having the tools to see through the lens of those people will help you be a more well-rounded person.
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Alright! It’s day two of An Event Apart in Seattle. The first speaker of the day is Chris Coyier. His talk is called How to Think Like a Front-End Developer . From the website:
The job title “front-end developer” is very real: job boards around the world confirm that. But what is that job, exactly? What do you need to know to do it? You might think those answers are pretty cut and dried, but they’re anything but; front-end development is going through something of an identity crisis. In this engaging talk, Chris will explore this identity through the lens of someone who has self-identified as a front-end developer for a few decades, but more interestingly, through many conversations he’s had with other successful front-end developers. You’ll see just how differently this job can be done and how differently people and companies can think of this role—not just for the sake of doing so, but because you’ll learn to be better at your own jobs by understanding how other people are good at theirs.
I’m going to see if I can keep up with Chris’s frenetic pace…
Chris has his own thoughts about what front-end dev is but he wants to share other ideas too. First of all, some grammar:
I work as a front-end developer.
I work on the front end.
Those are correct. These are not:
I work as a front end developer.
I work on the front-end.
And this is just not a word:
Frontend.
Lots of people are hiring front-end developers. So it’s definitely a job and a common job title. But what does it mean. Chris and Dave talked to eight different people on their Shop Talk Show podcast. Some highlights:
Eric feels that the term “front-end developer” is newer than the CSS Zen Garden. Everyone was a webmaster, or as we’d say now, a full-stack developer. But if someone back then used the term “front-end developer”, he’d know what it meant.
Mina says it deals with things you can see. If it’s a user-facing interface, that’s front-end development.
Trent says that he thinks of himself as a web designer and web builder. He doesn’t feel he has the deep expertise of a developer, and yet he spends all of his time in the browser.
So our job is in the browser. You deal with the browser (moreso than other roles). And by the way, there are a lot of browsers out there.
Maybe the user is what differentiates front-end work. Monica says that a back-end developer is allowed not to care about the user if their job is putting a database together. It’s totally fine not to call yourself a front-end developer, but if you do, you need to care about the user.
There are tons of different devices and browsers. It’s overwhelming. So we just gave up.
So, a front-end developer:
Is a job and a job title.
It deals with browsers, devices, and users.
But what skills does it involve?
It’s taken for granted that you can use a computer. There’s also the soft skills of interacting with co-workers. Then there are the language-specific core skills. Finally, there are the bonus skills—all the stuff that makes you you.
The languages you need to strongly understand to read, write and maintain them.
HTML and CSS. Definitely. You don’t come across front-end developers who don’t do those languages. But what about JavaScript?
Eric says it’s fine if you know lots of JavaScript but it’s also fine if you don’t write everything from scratch. But you can’t be oblivious to it. You need to understand what it can do.
So let’s put JavaScript into the bucket of core skills too.
Peggy believes that as a front-end developer you need to have a basic proficiency in accessibility too. This is, after all, about user-facing interfaces.
Bonus skills
The Figma team have a somewhat over-engineered graphic of all the skillsets that people might have, between “baseline” and “supplementary”.
Perhaps we all share a common trunk of skills, and then we branch in different directions.
Right now though, it feels like front-end development is having an identity crisis. It’s all about JavaScript, which is eating the planet.
JavaScript is crazy popular now. It’s unignorable. Yes, it’s the language in the browser, but now it’s also the language in loads of other places too.
Steven Davis says maybe we need to fork the term front-end development. Maybe we need to have UX engineers and JavaScript engineers. Can one person be great at both? Maybe the trunk of skills forks in two very different directions.
Vernon Joyce called this an identity crisis. The concepts in JavaScript frameworks are very alien to people with a background in HTML, CSS, and basic interactive JavaScript.
You could imagine two people called front-end developers meeting, and having nothing in common to talk about. Maybe sports.
Brad says he doesn’t want to be configuring build tools. He thinks of himself as being at the front of front-end development, whereas other people are at the back of front-end development.
This divide is super frustrating to people right now.
Michael Schnarnagl brings up the point about how it’s affecting hiring. Back-end developers are being replaced with JavaScript engineers. Lots of things that used to be back-end tasks are now happening on the client side. Component-driven design, site-level architecture, routing, getting data from the back end, mutating data, talking to APIs, and managing state—all of those things are now largely a front-end concern.
Let’s look at CodePen. There’s a little heart icon on each pen. It’s an icon component. And the combination of the heart and the overall count is also a component. And the bar of items altogether—that’s also a component. And the pen it sits under is a component. And the page it’s in is a component. And the URL for that page is a component. Now the whole site is a front-end developer’s concern.
In the past, a front-end developer would ask a back-end developer for an API endpoint. Now with GraphQL, the front-end developer can craft a query to get exactly what they need. Sure, the GraphQL stuff had to be set up in the first place, but that’s one-time task. Once it’s set up, the front-end developer has everything they need.
All the old work hasn’t gone away either. Semantics, accessibility, styling—that’s still the work of a front-end developer as well as all of the new stuff listed above.
Hiring is a big part of this. Lara Schenk talks about going for an interview where she met 90% of the skills listed. Then in an interview, she was asked to do a fizzbuzz test. That’s not the way that Lara thinks. She would’ve been great for that job, but this single task derailed her. She wrote about it, and got snarky comments from people who thought she should’ve been able to do the task. But Lara’s main point was the mismatch between what was advertised and what was actually being hired for.
You see a job posting for front-end developer. Who is that for? Is it for someone into React, webpack, and GraphQL? Or is it for someone into SVG, interaction design, and accessibility? They’re both front-end developers. And remember, they can learn one another’s skills, but when it comes to hiring, it has to be about the skills people have right now.
Peggy talks about how specialised your work can be. You can specialise in SVG. You can specialise in APIs and data.
We’re probably not going to solve this right now. The hiring part is definitely the worst part right now. One solution is to use plain language in job posts. Make it clear what you’re looking for right now and explain what background you’re coming from. Use words instead of a laundry list of requirements.
Heydon Pickering talks about full-stack developers. Their core skills are hardcore computer science skills.
Brad Frost concurs. It tends not to be the other way around. The output tends to be the badly-sketched front of the horse.
Even if there is a divide, that doesn’t absolve any of us from doing a good job. That’s true whether it’s computer science tasks or markup and CSS.
Despite the divide, performance, accessibility, and user experience are all our jobs.
Maybe this term “front-end developer” needs rethinking.
The brain game
Let’s peak into the minds of very different front-end developers. Chris and Dave went to Dribbble, pulled up a bunch of designs and put them in front of their guests on the Shop Talk Show.
Here’s a design of a page.
Brad looks at the design and sees a lot of components of different sizes and complexity.
Mina sees a bunch of media objects.
Eric sees HTML structures. That’s a heading. That’s a list. Over there is an unordered list.
Sam sees a lot of typography. She sees a type system.
Trent immediately starts thinking about how the design is supposed to work in different screen sizes.
Here’s a different, more image-heavy design.
Mina would love to tackle the animations.
Trent sees interesting textures and noise. He wonders how he could achieve those effects without exporting giant image files.
Brad, unsurprisingly, sees components, even in a seemingly bespoke layout.
Eric immediately sees a lot of SVG.
Sam needs to know what the HTML is.
Here’s a more geometric design.
Sam is drawn to the typography.
Mina sees an opportunity to use writing modes.
Trent sees a design that would reflow and reshape itself well.
Eric sees something with writing mode, grid, and custom fonts.
Here’s a financial mobile UI.
Trent wants to run it through a colour-contrast analyser, and he wants to know if the font size is too small.
Here’s a crazy festival website.
Mina wonders if it needs a background video, but worries about the performance.
Here’s an on-trend mobile design.
Monica sees something that looks like every other website.
Ben wonders whether it will work in other parts of the world. How will the interactions work? Separate pages or transitions? How will it feel?
Here’s an image-heavy design.
Monica wonders about the priority of which images to load first.
Here’s an extreme navigation with big images.
Ben worries about the performance on slow connections.
Monica gets stressed out about how much happens when you just click on a link.
Peggy sees something static and imagines using Gatsby for it.
Here’s a design that’s map-based.
Ben worries about the size of the touch targets.
Monica sees an opportunity to use SVGs.
Here’s a card UI.
Ben wonders what the browser support is. Can we use CSS grid or do we have to use something older?
Monica worries that this needs drag’n’drop. Now you’ve got a nightmare scenario.
Chris has been thinking about and writing about this topic of what makes someone a front-end developer, and what makes someone a good front-end developer. The debate will continue…
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Alright, it’s time for the final talk of day one of An Event Apart in Seattle. The trifecta of CSS talks is going to finish with Jen Simmons talking about Designing Intrinsic Layouts . Here’s the description:
Twenty-five years after the web began, we finally have a real toolkit for creating layouts. Combining CSS Grid, Flexbox, Multicolumn, Flow layout and Writing Modes gives us the technical ability to build layouts today without the horrible hacks and compromises of the past. But what does this mean for our design medium? How might we better leverage the art of graphic design? How will we create something practical, useable, and realistically doable?
In a talk full of specific examples, Jen will walk you through the thinking process of creating accessible & reusable page and component layouts. For the last four years, Jen’s been getting audiences excited about what, when, and why. Now it’s time for how.
I’m not sure if live-blogging is going to work given the visual nature of this talk, but I’ll give it a try…
How many of us have written CSS using display: grid? Quite a few. How many people feel they have a good grip on it? Not so many.
Jen has spent the last few years encouraging people to really push the boundaries of graphic design on the web now that we have the tools to do so in CSS. But Jen is not here today to talk about amazing new things. Instead she’s going to show the “how?” The code is on labs.jensimmons.com.
Let’s look at laying out a header. You might have a header element with a logo image, the site name in an h1, and a nav element with the navigation. The logo, the site name, and the navigation are direct children of the parent header. By default we get everything stacked vertically.
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Why should we care about starting with semantic HTML? It matters for reusability and accessibility, but also for reader modes in browsers. These tools remove the cruft. If you mark up your content well, it will play nicely with reader modes. Interestingly, there are no metrics around how many people are using reader modes (by design). Mozilla has a product called Pocket that’s a “read later” app. It can also turn saved articles into a podcast for you. Well marked up content matters for audio playback.
Now let’s start applying some CSS. Fonts, colours, stuff like that. Everything is still stacking vertically though. It’s flow content. This can be our fallback layout. Now let’s apply our own layout. We could use float: left on the logo. Now we need some margins. We can try applying widths and floats to the h1 and the nav. Now we need a clearfix to get the parent to stretch to the full height of the content. It’s hacky. floats suck. But it’s all we had until we got flexbox. But even using flexbox for this kind of layout is a hack too. What we really need is CSS grid.
Apply display: grid to the header. Use Firefox’s dev tools to inspect the grid. Seeing the grid helps in understanding what’s going on. We’ve got three grid items in three separate rows. Notice that we don’t have margin collapsing any more. We can get rid of margins and use grid-gap instead. But we want is three columns, not three rows. We’ll try:
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr;
Looks okay. Not exactly the spacing we want though. We want the logo and the navigation to take up less space than the site name. We could translate our old percentage values into fr equivalents. 8% becomes 8fr. 75% becomes 75fr. 17% becomes 17fr. But the logo and the nav never shrink below their actual size. Layout isn’t working like we’re used to. The content will never get smaller than the minimum content size. So the amount of space assigned to each column is no longer linear.
Let’s change those fr units to percentages. Now we need to get rid of our gaps. But now when the layout gets small, everything squishes up. This is what we need breakpoints for. But now we can do something else. Let’s make the logo max-content. That column will now be the size of the logo. The other columns can remain `fr:
grid-template columns: max-content 3fr 1fr;
Let’s also define the last one—the navigation—as max-content. We can toss auto in for the middle content (the site name):
grid-template columns: max-content auto max-content; }
Let’s layout the navigation horizontally. The best tool for this is flexbox. The li elements are the flex items. So the ul needs to be the flex container.
Looking good. Let’s allow items to wrap onto another line:
flex-wrap: wrap;
Let’s change that navigation from max-content to auto so that it doesn’t get too long:
grid-template columns: max-content auto auto; }
(How you want the navigation items to wrap determines whether you use flexbox or grid. Both are perfectly valid choices. There’s nothing wrong with using grid for the small stuff.)
Just look at how little code we need for this layout!
Let’s try a different layout. We’ll put the navigation on a new row.
grid-template-columns: min-content auto;
grid-template-rows: auto auto
Let’s get the logo to span across both rows:
.logo {
row-span: 2;
Need to finesse the alignment of the navigation? No problem. Play with align-self property on the nav element.
Again, look at how little code this is!
But these layouts are safe. We need to break out of our habits. What about disjointed text? Let’s take the h1. Apply some typography and colour. Also apply overflow-wrap: anywhere. Now the text can break within words.
We can take this further. But to do that, we have to wrap all of my letters in separate spans. Yuck!
Apply display: grid to the h1 that contains all those span children. Say grid-template-columns: repeat(8, 1fr) to make an eight-column repeating grid.
Let’s make it more interesting. We can target each individual letter with grid-column and grid-row. There are many ways to tell the browser where to place grid items. We can tell them the start lines. By default it will take up one cell.
Let’s add some images. Let’s rotate items. Place items wherever we want them. Mess around with the units to see what happens. Play with opacity when elements overlap. See the possibilities!
But, people cry, what about Internet Explorer? Use @supports
/* code for every browser */
@supports (display: grid) {
/* code for modern browsers */
Set up a fallback outside the @supports block. Toggle grid on and enough in dev tools to see how the fallback will look. If this kind of thinking is new to you, please watch youtube.com/layoutland where Jen talks about resilient CSS.
Let’s try something else. Jen got an email announcement for an event. It had an interesting bit of layout with some text overlapping an image.
Mark up the content: some headings and images. By default the images are displayed inline. The headings are displayed as blocks.
Think about where your grid lines will need to go. How many lines will you need? How about setting your columns with 1fr 3fr 3fr 1fr? Now how many rows do you need? You define and the grid on the container and tell the items where to go. Again, it’s not much code. Tweak it. How about setting the columns to be 1fr minmax(100px, 400px) min-content? You have to mess around to see what’s possible. You can use all sorts of units for columns: fixed lengths (pixels, ems, rems), min-content, max-content, percentages, fr units, minmax(), and auto. Play around with the combinations.
Jen shows a whole bunch of her demos. Check them out. Use web inspector to play around with them.
And with that, the first day of An Event Apart Seattle is done!
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The CSStastic afternoon of day one of An Event Apart in Seattle continues with Rachel Andrew. Her talk is Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS . The description reads:
For years we’ve explained that the web is not like print; that a particular idea is not how things work on the web; that certain things are simply not possible. Over the last few years, rapid browser implementation of advances in CSS have given us the ability to do many of these previously impossible things. We can use our new powers to build the same designs faster, or we can start to ask ourselves what we might do if we were solving these problems afresh.
In this talk, Rachel will look at the things coming into browsers right now which change the way we see web design. CSS subgrids allowing nested grids to use the track definition of their parent; logical properties and values moving the web away from the physical dimensions of a computer screen; screen experiences which behave more like an app, or even paged media, due to scroll snapping and multidimensional control. By understanding the new medium of web design we can start to imagine the future, and even help to shape it.
I’m not sure if it even makes sense to try to live-blog a code talk, but I’ll give it my best shot…
Rachel has been talking about CSS at An Event Apart for over three years now. Our understanding of the possibilities of CSS has changed a lot in that time. Our use of floats for layout is being consigned to history. It’s no less monumental than the change from tables to CSS. Tableless web design often meant simplifying our designs. We were used to designing in a graphic design tool and then slicing it up into table cells. CSS couldn’t give us the same fine-grained control so we simplified our designs. It got us to start thinking of the web as its own medium. That idea really progressed with responsive web design.
But perhaps us CSS advocates downplayed some of the issues. We weren’t trying to create new CSS, we were just trying to get people to use CSS.
What we term “good web design” is based in the technical limitations of CSS. We say “the web is not print” when we see a design that’s quite print-like. People expect to have to hack at CSS to get it to do what we want. But times have changed. We have solved many of those problems (but that doesn’t mean we got all of them!).
Rachel spends a lot of time telling designers: you never know how tall anything is on the web. It used to be a real challenge to get the top and bottom of boxes to line up. We’d have to fix the height of the boxes. And if too much content goes in, the content overflows. Then we end up limiting the amount of content at the CMS side. We hacked around the problem. A technical limitation influenced our design, and even our content management. Then we got flexbox. Not only did the problem disappear, but the default behaviour is exactly what we struggled with for years: equal height columns.
How big is this box? You’ve seen the “CSS is awesome mug”, right?
Our previous layout systems relied on percentage lengths for widths. Those values had to add up to 100%, and no more. People tried to do the same thing with flexbox. People made “grid systems” with flexbox that gave widths to everything. “Flexbox is weird!”, people said. But the real problem is that flexbox is not the layout method you think it is. It’s for taking a bunch of oddly-sized things and returning the most reasonable layout for those things. It assigns space in a smart way. That solves the problem of needing to give everthing a width. It figures it out for you. If you decide to put widths on everything, you’re kind of working against flexbox.
We’re so used to having to hack everything in CSS, we had to take a step back with flexbox and realise that hacks aren’t necessary.
CSS tries to avoid data loss. That’s why the “CSS is awesome” text overflows the box. You don’t want the text to vanish. Visible overflow is messy, but it’s better than making some content disappear.
In the box alignment specification, there’s the concept of safe and unsafe alignment. Safe:
align-items: safe center;
You give the browser permission to align items to the start if necessary. But you can override that with unsafe:
align-items: unsafe center;
Overflow is going to happen. Now it’s up to you what happens when it does.
The “content honking out of the box” problem described in the “CSS is awesome” meme is now controlled with min-content:
width: min-content;
The box expands to encompass the widest content.
You have many choices. But what if the text isn’t running left to right? It might not be a problem we run into for English text. For years, CSS had that English-centric assumption baked in. Now CSS has been updated to not make that assumption. The web is not left to right. Flexbox and grid take an agnostic approach to the writing mode of the document. There’s no “top”, “bottom”, “left” or “right”. There’s “start”, “end”, “inline” and “block”. Now we have a new spec for logical properties and values. It maps old physical values (top, bottom, etc.) to the newer agnostic values.
So even if you use writing-mode to flip direction, width is still a width. Use inline-size instead of width and everything keeps working: the width maps to height when you apply a different writing-mode value. Eventually we’ll use those flow-relative values more than the old values. Solutions need to include different writing modes.
There is no fold. We’ve said that for years, right? But we know where the fold is. We’ve got viewport units that represent the width and height of the browser viewport. We can start to make designs that make use of the viewport. You can size a screen full of images exactly to fit the visible space. Combine it with scroll-snap to get the page views to snap as the user scrolls. You get paged layout. That’s interesting for Rachel because she’s used to designing for paged layout in print versus continuous layout on the web.
What’s next for CSS grid? Grid layout has been the biggest problem-solver of recent years. But that doesn’t mean it has solved all the layout problems. New problems appear as we start to work with CSS grid. We often end up nesting grids. But the nested grids don’t have any knowledge of one another. We’re back to: you never know how tall things are on the web. We need a way to have a relationship. Some kind of, I don’t know, subgrid.
You could use display: contents. It removes a box from the visual display allowing grandchildren to act like children. The browser support is good, but there’s a stonking accessibility bug so don’t use it in production. Also you can’t apply visual styles to anything that’s got display: contents on it. But grid-template-rows: subgrid will solve this problem. The spec is in a good shape. We’re waiting for the first browser implementations.
You will hit problems. Find new technical limitations. It’s just that we can’t do that stuff yet. We get the new stuff when we create it. Write up the problems you come across.
We’re finding the edges. Rachel is going to share her problems.
Rachel wants to put some text into her image grid. No problem. But then if there’s too much text, it might not fit in a height-restricted row. We can adjust the row to not be height-restricted, but then we lose the nice viewport-fitting layout.
In continuous media—which is what the web is—content inside multicol gets longer and longer. You can fix the height of the container but then the columns get created horizontally. What if you could say, I want my multicol container to be, say 100vh high, but if the content overlows, create a new 100vh high container below. Overflow in the block dimension. Maybe that’ll be in the next version of the multicol spec.
Multicol doesn’t solve Rachel’s image grid situation. What she needs is a way for the text to fill up a box and then flow into another box. The content needs to be semantically marked up—not broken into separate chunks for layout—and we want the browser to figure out where to break that content and fill up available space.
It comes as a surprise to people that a lot of paged media—books, magazines—are laid out with CSS. It’s in the paged media module. Prince is a good example of a user agent that supports paged media. There’s the concept of a page box: a physical page into which content can go. You get to define the boxes with physical dimensions like inches or centimeters. You create a bunch of margin boxes with generated content. Enough pages are created to hold all the content. You create your page model and flow the content through it.
Maybe apps and websites with defined screens are not that different from paged contexts. There have been attempts to create CSS specs that would allow this kind of content-flowing behaviour. CSS regions was one attempt. There was -ms-flow-into and -ms-flow-from in the IE and Edge implementations. You had to apply -ms-flow-into to an iframe element.
Regions needs ready-prepared boxes for the content to flow into. But how can you know how many boxes to prepare in advance? You don’t know how big things will be on the web. Rachel has been told that there’s nothing wrong with the CSS regions spec because you can define a final bucket for all leftover content. That doesn’t seem like a viable solution.
CSS regions predated CSS grid and didn’t take off. Now that we’ve got grid, something like regions makes a lot of sense.
Web design has been involved in a constant battle with overflow. Whether it’s overflowing boxes, or there (not) being a fold, or multicol layout. Rachel thinks we can figure out a way to get regions to work. Perhaps regions paved the way for something better. Maybe it was just ahead of its time. There are a lot of things hidden away in CSS specs that never made it out: things that didn’t make sense until more advanced CSS came along.
Regions—like multicol—relies on fragmentation. Ever tried to stop a heading behind the last thing on a page in a print stylesheet? We need good support for break-inside, break-before, and break-after.
We create new things to solve problems. Maybe you don’t see the value of something like regions, but I bet there’s been something where you thought “I wish CSS could do this!”.
Rob wrote up a problem that he had with trying to have a floated element maintain its floatiness inside a grid. He saw it as a grid problem. Rachel saw it as an exclusions problem. Rob’s write-up was really valuable to demonstrate the need for exclusions. Writing things up is hugely valuable for pushing things forward. Write up your ideas—they’ll show us the use case.
Ask “why can’t I do that?” Let’s not fall into the temptation of making things grid-like just because we have CSS grid now. Keep pushing at the boundaries.
Many of things Rachel has shown—grid, exclusions, regions—were implemented by Microsoft. With Edge moving to a Chromium rendering engine, we must make sure that we maintain diversity of thought in the standards process. Voices other than those of rendering engines need to contribute to the discussion.
At a W3C meeting or standards discussion, the room should not be 60-70% Googlers.
More than ever, the web needs diversity of thought. Rachel isn’t having a dig at Google. This isn’t a fight between good and evil. It’s a fight against any monoculture. So please contribute. Get involved. Together we can work for the future of the web platform.
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It’s time for the afternoon talks at An Event Apart in Seattle. We’re going to have back-to-back CSS, kicking off with Eric Meyer. His talk is called Generation Style . The blurb says:
Consider, if you will, CSS generated content. We can, and sometimes even do, use it to insert icons before or after pieces of text. Occasionally we even use it add a bit of extra information. And once upon a time, we pressed it into service as a hack to get containers to wrap around their floated children. That’s all fine—but what good is generated content, really? What can we do with it? What are its limitations? And how far can we push content generation in a new landscape full of flexible boxes, grids, and more? Join Eric as he turns a spotlight on generated content and shows how it can be a generator of creativity as well as a powerful, practical tool for everyday use.
Wish me luck, ‘cause I’m going to try to capture the sense of this presentation…
So we had a morning of personas and user journeys. This afternoon: code, baby! Eric is going to dive into a very specific corner of CSS—generated content. For an hour. Let’s do it!
He shows the CSS Generated Content Module Level 3. Eric wants to focus on one bit: the pseudo-elements ::before and ::after. What does pseudo-element mean?
You might have used one of these pseudo-elements for blockquotes. Perhaps you’ve put a great big quotation mark in front of them.
blockquote:: after {
content: "“";
/* placement styles here */
Why is Eric using ::after? Because you can. You can put the ::after content wherever you want. But if your placement styles fail, this isn’t a good place for the generated content. So don’t do this. Use ::before.
Another example of using generated content is putting icons beside certain links:
a[href$=".pdf"]::after {
content: url(i/icon.png);
height: 1em;
margin-right: 0.5em;
vertical-align: top;
But these icons look yucky. But if you use larger images, they will be shown full size. You only have so much control over what happens in there. I mean, that’s true of all CSS: think of CSS as a series of strong suggestions. But here, we have even less control than we’re used to. Why isn’t the image 1em tall like I’ve specified in the CSS? Well, the generated content box is 1em tall but the image is breaking out of this box. How about this:
a[href]::after * {
max-height: 100%
This doesn’t work. The image isn’t an element so it can’t be selected for.
The way around it is to use background images instead:
height: 1em; width: 1em;
background: center/contain;
background-image: url(i/icon.png);
Notice there’s a right margin there. That stretches out the width of the whole link. That’s exactly the same as if there were an actual span in there:
a[href$=".pdf"] span {
So why use generated content instead of a span? So that you don’t have to put extra spans in your markup.
Generated content is great for things that work great when they’re there, but still work fine if they’re not. It’s progressive enhancement.
You’ve almost certainly used generated content for the clearfix hack.
.clearfix::after {
Ask your parents. It’s when we wanted to make the containing element for a group of floating elements to encompass the height of those elements. Ancient history, right? Well, Eric is showing an example of a certain large media company today. There are a lot of clearfixes in there.
Eric makes the clearfix visible:
border: 10px solid purple;
It looks like a span: a 10 pixel wide box. Now change the display property:
Now it behaves more like a div than a span.
The big question here is: who cares?
Let’s say we’re making a site about corduroy pillows (I hear they’re really making headlines).
<h1>Corduroy pillows</h1>
<p>Lorum ipsum...</p>
We can add a box under the header:
header::after {
content: " ";
You can do stuff with that extra content, like using a linear gradient:
background: linear-gradient(to right, #DDD, #000, #DDD) center / 100% 1px no-repeat;
The colour stops are #DDD, #000, and #DDD. You get this nice gradiated line under the header. You can chain a bunch of of radial gradients together to get some nice effects. You could mix in some background images too. Now you’ve got some on-brand separators. You could use generated content to add some “under construction” separators.
By the way, ever struggled to keep track of the order of backgrounds? Think about how you would order layers in Photoshop.
How about if we could use generated content to make design tools?
div[id]::before {
content: attr(id);
Now the generated content is taken from the id attribute. You can make it look like Firebug:
content: '#' attr(id);
font: 0.75rem monospace;
border: 1px dashed red;
padding: 0 0.25em;
background: #FFD;
You can even make the content cover the whole box with bottom and right values too:
background: #FFD8;
(And yes, that is a hex value with opacity.)
Let’s make it less code-y:
font: bold 1.5rem Georgia serif;
Throw in some text-shadow. Maybe some radial gradients. We’re at the wireframe stage. Let’s drop in some SVG images to show lines across the boxes.
How about automating design touches?
padding: 0.75em 1.5em;
background: #EEE;
font: medium Consolas, monospace;
Let’s say that applies to:
<pre class="css">
You can generate labels with that class attribute:
pre::before {
content: attr(class);
padding: 0.25em 0 0.15em;
font: bold 1em Noah, sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
Let’s align it to the top of it’s parent with negative margins:
margin: -0.75em -1.5em 1em;
Or you can use absolute positioning:
Now let’s change the writing mode:
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
Now the text is running down the side, but it’s turned on its side. You can transform it:
transform: rotate(180deg);
But if you this, be careful. Your left margin is no longer on the left. Everything’s flipped around.
You could also update the generated content according to the value of the class attribute:
pre.css:: before {
content: '{ CSS }';
pre.html::before {
content: '< HTML >';
pre.js::before,
pre.javascript::before {
content: '({ JS })();';
It’s presentational, so CSS feels like the right place to do this. But you can’t generate markup—just text. Angle brackets will be displayed in their raw form.
But positioning is so old-school. Let’s use CSS grid:
grid-template-columns: min-content 1fr;
grid-gap: 0.75em;
margin: -1em 0;
padding: 0.25em 0.1em 0.25em 0;
Heck, you could get rid of the negative margins by putting the code content inside a code element and giving that a margin of 1em.
You can see generated content in action on the website of An Event Apart:
li.news::before {
content: attr(data-cat);
background-color: orange;
The data-cat attribute (which contains a category value) is displayed in the generated content.
Cool. That’s all stuff we can do now. What about next?
Well, suppose you had to put some legalese on your website. You could generate the numbers of nested sections:
h1 { counter-reset: section; }
h2 { counter-reset: subsection; }
Increment the numbers each time:
h2 { counter-increment: section; }
h3 { counter-increment: subsection; }
And display those values:
h2::before {
content: counter(section) ".";
content: counter(section) counter ":" (subsection, upper-roman);
Soon you’ll be able to cycle through a list of counter styles of your own creation with a @counter-style block.
But remember, if you really need that content to be visible for everyone, don’t rely on generated content: put it in your markup. It’s for styles.
So, generated content. It’s pretty cool. You can do some surprising things with it. Maybe ::before this talk, you didn’t think about generated content much, but ::after this talk ,you will.
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Following on from Jeffrey and Margot, the third talk in the morning’s curated content at An Event Apart Seattle is from Sarah Parmenter. Her talk is Designing for Personalities . Here’s the description:
Just as our designs today must accommodate differences of gender, cultural background, and other factors, it’s time to create apps, websites, and internal processes that account for still another strand of human diversity: our very different personality types.
In this new presentation, Sarah shares real-life case studies demonstrating how businesses and organizations large and small are learning to adjust the thinking behind their websites and processes to account for the wishes, needs, and comfort levels of all kinds of people.
We know that the world is full of different conventions—currency, measuring systems, and more—and our web forms address these differences. Let’s do the same for the emotional and psychological assumptions behind our customer profiles. Let’s learn to design for a palette of different personalities.
I’m going to do my best to write down some of what she says…
Sarah works with Adobe, and at a gathering last year, she ended up chatting with some of her co-workers about ancestry, for some reason. She mentioned that she had French and Norwegian roots. The French part is evident in her surname: parmentier means potato farmer. So Sarah did a DNA test. It turned out that Sarah had no French or Norwegian roots—everything in her ancestry came from within an eighty mile radius of her home. It was scary how much she strongly believed for years in something that just wasn’t true.
It’s like that on the web. There are things we do because lots of people do them, but that doesn’t mean they work. Many websites and digital processes are broken and it’s down to us to fix it.
With traditional personas, we make an awful lot of assumptions about people. Have a look at facebook.com/ads/preferences. See just how easy it is for computers to make startling amounts of assumptions.
The other problem with personas is that they are amalgamations. But there’s no such thing as an average costumer. The Microsoft design team add much more context so that they can design for real people in real situations.
Designing for personas only takes care of a fraction of the work we need to do. When we add in another layer of life getting in the way, and a layer of how someone is feeling, you’ve a medley of UX issues that need solving.
The problem is that personality traits aren’t static. They evolve with context. Personas are contextual but static. What we should really be doing is creating the most desirable experience for the user, and we can only do that by empowering them, as Margot also said. We need to give our users control.
If there were such controls, Sarah would use them to reduce motion on websites. She suffers from motion sickness and some websites literally make her sick. There is a prefers-reduced-motion media query but so far only Safari and Firefox support it. It’s hard to believe that we haven’t been doing this already. This stuff seems so obvious in hindsight.
Sarah asks who in the room are introverts. People raise their hands (which seems like quite an extroverted thing to do).
Now Sarah brings up the Meyers-Briggs test, a piece of pseudoscientic bollocks. Sarah is INFJ—introversion, intuition, feeling, judging. Weird flex, but okay.
Introverts will patiently seek out complex UX patterns if it aligns with their levels of comfort. These are people who would rather do anything rather than speak to someone on the phone. An introvert figured out that if you sat on the Virgin Atlantic homepage long enough, a live chat will pop up after twenty minutes.
Apple is great for introverts. They don’t bury their chat options (unlike Amazon). Remember, introverts are a third of the population.
Users will begin to value those applications and services that bother them the least, respect their privacy, and allow them a certain level of control.
Let’s talk about designing compassionate products.
What we’re asking of people in time-critical or exceptionally personal situations is for them to have the foresight to turn on incognito mode. Everyone has an urban legend horror story about cookies following them around the web. Cookies can seem like a smart marketing solution until context lets them down.
Sarah’s best friend got pregnant. She started excitedly clicking around the web looking for pregnancy-related products. She sadly lost the baby. Sarah explained to her how to use a cookie eraser. Her friend that she was joking. Sarah showed her how to clean her search history. But if you’ve liked and subscribed a bunch of things while you’re excited, it’s not that easy—when the worst happens—to think back on everything you did.
There’s an app that’s not in the US. It’s a menstrual cycle and fertility tracking app. It captures a lot of data. At the point when Sarah’s friend lost her baby, this change was caught by the app. The message she got was lacking in empathy. It was more like market research than a compassionate message. At a time when they should’ve been thinking of the mindset of their user, they were focused on getting data. No one caught this when the app was being designed.
The entire user experience of our websites and apps is going to rely on how empathetic we are.
We don’t always save things to reminisce; we save to give us the option to remember. We can currently favourite a photograph or flag as inapropriate. It would be nice to simply save something to a memory vault.
Bloom and Wild is a company in the UK. They send nice mailbox flowers. On March 5th last year, Sarah sent an email to the CEO of Bloom and Wild. She had just received a mailout about mother’s day after her mother passed away. Was their no way of opting out of receiving mother’s day emails without unsubscribing completely?
Well, yesterday they finally implemented it! Bloom and Wild have been overwhelmed by the positive response.
For those of us trying to make the web a better place, sometimes it can be as simple as reaching out to point out what companies could be doing better. And sometimes, just sometimes, they listen.
Also, read Design For Real Life by Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher.
As standard, we should be giving users end-to-end control over how they interact with us.
Sarah wants to talk about designing a personal UX journey. For one of her clients, Sarah dip-sampled hundreds of existing customers. There were gaps in the customer journey. They think that what was happening was the company was getting very aggressive after initial interaction—they were phoning customers. Sarah and her team started researching this. That made them unpopular with other parts of the company. Sarah gave her team Groucho Marx glasses whenever they had to go and ask people uncomfortable questions.
Sarah’s team went on a remarketing effort. They sent an email to people who were in the gap between booking an appointment and making a purchase. They asked the users what their preferences were for contacting them. The company didn’t think they were doing anything wrong but this research showed that 76% of people prefered to avoid phone calls.
They asked a few more questions. If you ask questions, there has to be value in it for the users. Sarah got the budget for some gift cards. They got feedback that many people don’t like taking calls, especially when they’re at work. The best: “I’m an intorvert. I hate calls. Sorry.”
The customer feedback was very, very clear. Even though this would take a lot of money to fix, it was crucial to fix it. Being agile was crucial.
Then they looked at a different (shorter) gap in the customer journey. It was clear that an online booking service was desirable. They made a product quickly that booked more appointments in ten days than had previously been booked in a month by sales agents.
They also made a live chat system. You see a very slow roll-out. At the beginning, it has all new customers. After a while, people return with more questions.
The mistake they made was having a tech-savvy team with multiple browser windows open. That’s not how the customer service people operate. They usually deal with people one on one. So they were happy to leave people waiting on live chat for twenty or twenty five minutes, and of course that was far too long. So when you’re adding in a new system like this, think about key performance indicators that you want to go along with it e.g. live chat must have a response within five minutes.
There’s also a long tail of conversion. Sometimes the sales cycle is very lengthy. They decided to give users the ability to select which product they wanted and switch options on and off. It was all about giving the power back to the user. This was a phenomenal change for the company. They were able to completely change the customer journey and reduce those big gaps. They went from a cycle of fourteen weeks to seven days. They did that by handing the power back to the user.
Sarah’s question for the audience is: What is stopping your user completing your cycle? This can be very difficult. You might have to do horrible things to validate a concept. It’s okay. We’re all perfectionists, but sometimes you have to use quick’n’dirty code to achieve your goal. If the end goal is we’re able to say “hey, this thing worked!” then we can go back and do it properly.
Respect privacy and build in a personal level of UX adjustment into every product.
Outlier data can create superfans of your product.
Build the most empathetic experience that you can.
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The second talk of the first day of An Event Apart Seattle is from Margot Bloomstein. She’ll be speaking about Designing for Trust in an Uncertain World . The talk description reads:
Mass media and our most cynical memes say we live in a post-fact era. So who can we trust—and how do our users invest their trust? Expert opinions are a thing of the past; we favor user reviews from “people like us” whether we’re planning a meal or prioritizing a newsfeed. But as our filter bubbles burst, consumers and citizens alike turn inward for the truth. By designing for empowerment, the smartest organizations meet them there.
We must empower our audiences to earn their trust—not the other way around—and our tactical choices in content and design can fuel empowerment. Margot will walk you through examples from retail, publishing, government, and other industries to detail what you can do to meet unprecedented problems in information consumption. Learn how voice, volume, and vulnerability can inform your design and content strategy to earn the trust of your users. We’ll ask the tough questions: How do brands develop rapport when audiences let emotion cloud logic? Can you design around cultural predisposition to improve public safety? And how do voice and vulnerability go beyond buzzwords and into broader corporate strategy? Learn how these questions can drive design choices in organizations of any size and industry—and discover how your choices can empower users and rebuild our very sense of trust itself.
I’m sitting in the audience, trying to write down the gist of what she’s saying…
She begins by thanking us for joining her to confront some big problems. About ten years ago, A List Apart was the first publication to publish a piece of hers. It had excellent editors—Carolyn, Erin, and so on. The web was a lot smaller ten years ago. Our problems are bigger now. Our responsibilities are bigger now. But our opportunities are bigger now too.
Margot takes us back to 1961. The Twilight Zone aired an episode called The Mirror. We’re in South America where a stealthy band are working to take over the government. The rebels confront the leader. He shares a secret with them. He shows them a mirror that reveals his enemies. The revolution is successful. The rebels assume power. The rebel leader starts to use the same oppressive techniques as his predecessor. One day he says in his magic mirror the same group of friends that he worked with to assume power. Now they’re working to depose him, according to the mirror. He rounds them up and has them killed. One day he sees himself in the mirror. He smashes the mirror with his gun. He is incredibly angry. A priest walking past the door hears a commotion. The priest hears a gunshot. Entering the room, he sees the rebel leader dead on the ground with the gun in his hand.
We look to see ourselves. We look to see the truth. We hope the images coincide.
When our users see themselves, and then see the world around them, the images don’t coincide.
Internal truths trump external facts.
We used to place trust in brands. Now we’ve knocked them off the pedestal, or they’ve knocked themselves off the pedestal. They’ve been shady. Creeping inconsistencies. Departments of government are exhorting people not to trust external sources. It’s gaslighting. The blowback of gaslighting is broad. It effects us. An insidious scepticism—of journalism, of politics, of brands. This is our problem now.
To regain the trust of our audiences, we must empower them.
Why now? Maybe some of this does fall on our recent history. We punish politicians for flip-flopping and yet now Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump simply deny reality, completely contradicting their previous positions. The flip-flopping doesn’t matter. If you were a Trump supporter before, you continued to support him. No amount of information would cause you to change your mind.
Inconsistency erodes our ability to evaluate and trust. In some media circles, coached scepticism, false equivalency, and rampant air quotes all work to erode consensus. It offers us a cosy echo chamber. It’s comforting. It’s the journalism of affirmation. But our ability to evaluate information for ourselves suffers. Again, that’s gaslighting.
You can find media that bolsters your existing opinions. It’s a strange space that focuses more on hiding information, while claiming to be unbiased. It works to separate the listener, viewer, and reader from their own lived experiences. If you work in public services, this effects you.
Do we get comfortable in our faith, or confidentally test our beliefs through education?
Marketing relies on us re-evaluating our choices. Now we’ve turned away from the old arbiters of experts. We’ve moved from expertise to homophily—only listening to people like us. But people have recently become aware of their own filter bubbles. So people turn inward to narcissism. If you can’t trust anyone, you can only turn inward. But that’s when we see the effects of a poor information diet. We don’t know what objective journalism looks like any more. Our analytic skills are suffering as a result. Our ability to trust external sources of expertise suffers.
Inconsistency undermines trust—externally and internally. People turn inward and wonder if they can even trust their own perceptions any more. You might raise an eyebrow when a politician plays fast and loose with the truth, or a brand does something shady.
We look for consistency with our own perceptions. Does this fit with what I know? Does this make me feel good? Does this brand make me feel good about myself? It’s tied to identity. There’s a cycle of deliberation and validation. We’re validating against our own worldview. Referencing Jeffrey’s talk, Margot says that giving people time to slow down helps them evaluate and validate. But there’s a self-perpetuating cycle of belief and validation. Jamelle Bouie from Slate says:
We adopt facts based on our identities.
How we form our beliefs affects our reality more than what we already believe. Cultural predisposition is what give us our confirmation bias.
Say you’re skeptical of big pharma. You put the needs of your family above the advice of medical experts. You deny the efficacy of vaccination. The way to reach these people is not to meet them with anger and judgement. Instead, by working in the areas they already feel comfortable in—alternative medicine, say—we can reach them much more effictively. We need to meet a reluctant audience on their own terms. That empowers them. Empowerment reflects and rebuilds trust. If people are looking inward for information, we can meet them there.
The language a brand uses to express itself. You don’t want to alienate your audience. You need to bring your audience along with you. When a brand changes over time, it runs the risk of alienating its audience. But by using a consistent voice, and speaking with transparency, it empowers the audience.
A good example of this is Mailchimp. When Mailchimp first moved into the e-commerce space, they approached it from a point of humility. They wrote on the blog in a very personal vulnerable way, using plain language. The language didn’t ask more acclimation from their audience.
ClinicalTrials.gov does not have a cute monkey. Their legal disclaimer used to have reams of text. They took a step back to figure what they needed to provide in order to make the audience comfortable. They empowered their audience by writing clearly, avoiding the passive voice.
What is enough detail to allow a user to feel good about their choices? We used to think it was all about reducing information. For a lot of brands, that’s true. But America’s Test Kitchen is known for producing a lot of content. They’re known for it because their content focuses on empowering people. You’re getting enough content to do well. They try to engage people regardless of level of expertise. That’s the ultimate level of empathy—meeting people wherever they are. Success breeds confidence. That’s the ethos that underpins all their strategy.
Crutchfield Electronics also considers what the right amount of content is to allow people to succeed. By making sure that people feel good and confident about the content they’re receiving, Crutchfield Electronics are also making sure that people good and confident in their choices.
Gov.uk had to contend with where people were seeking information. The old version used to have information spread across multiple websites. People then looked elsewhere. Government Digital Services realised they were saying too much. They reduced the amount of content. Let government do what only government can do.
So how do you know when you have “enough” content? Whether you’re America’s Test Kitchen or Gov.uk. You have enough content when people feel empowered to move forward. Sometimes people need more content to think more. Sometimes people need less.
How do we open up and support people in empowering themselves? Vulnerability can also mean letting people know how we’re doing, and how we’re going to change over time. That’s how we build a conversation with our audience.
Sometimes vulnerability can mean prototyping in public. Buzzfeed rolled out a newsletter by exposing their A/B testing in public. This wasn’t user-testing on the sidelines; it was front and centre. It was good material for their own blog.
When we ask people “what do you think?” we allow people to become evalangists of our products by making them an active part of the process. Mailchimp did this when they dogfooded their new e-commerce product. They used their own product and talked openly about it. There was a conversation between the company and the audience.
Cooks Illustrated will frequently revisit their old recommendations and acknowledge that things have changed. It’s admitting to a kind of falliability, but that’s not a form of weakness; it’s a form of strength.
If you use some of the recommendations on their site, Volkswagen ask “what are you looking for in a car?” rather than “what are you looking for in Volkswagen?” They’re building the confidence of their audience. That builds trust.
Buzzfeed also hosts opposing viewpoints. They have asides on articles called “Outside Your Bubble”. They bring in other voices so their audiences can have a more informed opinion.
A consistent and accessible voice, appropriate volume for the context, and humanising vulnerability together empowers users.
Margot says all that in the face of the question: do we live in a post-fact era? To which she says: when was the fact era?
Cynicism is a form of cowardice. It’s not a fruitful position. It doesn’t move us forward as designers, and it certainly doesn’t move us forward as a society. Cynics look at the world and say “it’s worse.” Designers look at the world and say “it could be better.”
Design won’t save the world—but it may make it more worth saving. Are we uniquely positioned to fix this problem? No. But that doesn’t free us from working hard to do our part.
Margot thinks we can design our way out of cynicism. And we need to. For ourselves, for our clients, and for our very society.
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I’m at An Event Apart in Seattle, ready for three days of excellence. Setting the scene with the first talk of the event is the one and only Jeffrey Zeldman. His talk is called Slow Design for an Anxious World :
Most web pages are too fast or too slow. Last year, Zeldman showed us how to create design that works faster for customers in a hurry to get things done. This year he’ll show how to create designs that deliberately slow your visitors down, helping them understand more and make better decisions.
Learn to make layouts that coax the visitor to sit back, relax, and actually absorb the content your team works so hard to create. Improve UX significantly without spending a lot or chasing the tail lights of the latest whiz-bang tech. Whether you build interactive experiences or craft editorial pages, you’ll learn how to ease your customers into the experience and build the kind of engagement you thought the web had lost forever.
I’m going to attempt to jot down the gist of it as it happens…
Jeffrey begins by saying that he’s going to slooooowly ease us into the day. Slow isn’t something that our industry prizes. Things change fast on the internet. “You’re using last year’s framework!?” Ours is a newly-emerging set of practices.
Slow is negative in our culture too. We don’t like slow movies, or slow books. But somethings are better slow. Wine that takes time to make is better than wine that you produce in a prison toilet in five days. Slow-brewed coffee is well-brewed coffee. Slow dancing is nice. A slow courtship is nice. And reading slowly is something enjoyable. Sometimes you need to scan information quickly, but when we really immerse ourselves in a favourite book, we really comprehend better. Hold that thought. We’re going to come to books.
Fast is generally what we’re designing for. It’s the best kind of design for customer service designs—for people who want to accomplish something and then get on with their lives. Fast is good for customer service designs. Last year Jeffrey gave a talk last year called Beyond Engagement where he said that service-oriented content must be designed for speed of relevancy. Speed of loading is important, and so is speed of relevancy—how quickly can you give people the right content.
But slow is best for comprehension. Like Mr. Rogers. When things are a little bit slower, it’s kind of easier to understand. When you’re designing for readers, s l o w i t d o w n.
How do we slow down readers? That’s what this talk is about (he told us it would be slow—he only just got to what the point of this talk is).
Let’s start with a form factor. The book. A book is a hack where the author’s brain is transmitting a signal to the reader’s brain, and the designer of the book is making that possible. Readability is more than legibility. Readability transcends legibility, enticing people to slow down and read.
This is about absorption, not conversion. We have the luxury of doing something different here. It’s a challenge.
Remember Readability? It was designed by Arc90. They mostly made software applications for arcane enterprise systems, and that stuff tends not to be public. It’s hard for an agency to get new clients when it can’t show what it does. So they decided to make some stuff that’s just for the public. Arc90 Labs was spun up to make free software for everyone.
Readability was like Instapaper. Instapaper was made by Marco Arment so that he could articles when he was commuting on the subway. Readability aimed to do that, but to also make the content like beautiful. It’s kind of like how reader mode in Safari strips away superfluous content and formats what’s left into something more readable. Safari’s reader mode was not invented by Apple. It was based on the code from Readability. The mercury reader plug-in for Chrome also uses Readability’s code. Jeffrey went around pointing out to companies that the very existence of things like Readability was a warning—we’re making experiences so bad that people are using software to work around them. What we can do so that people don’t have to use these tools?
Craig Mod wrote an article for A List Apart called A Simpler Page back in 2011. With tablets and phones, there isn’t one canonical presentation of content online any more. Our content is sort of amorphous. Craig talked about books and newspapers on tablets. He talked about bed, knee, and breakfast distances from the body to the content.
Bed (close to face): reading a novel on your stomach, lying in bed with the iPad propped up on a pillow.
Knee (medium distance from face): sitting on the couch, iPad on your knee, catching up on Instapaper.
Breakfast (far from face): propped up at a comfortable angle, behind your breakfast coffee and bagel, allowing hands-free news reading.
There’s some correlation between distance and relaxation. That knee position is crucial. That’s when the reader contemplates with pleasure and concentration. They’re giving themselves the luxury of contemplation. It’s a very different feeling to getting up and going over to a computer.
So Jeffrey redesigned his own site with big, big type, and just one central column of text. He stripped away the kind of stuff that Readability and Instapaper would strip away. He gave people a reader layout. You would have to sit back to read the content. He knew he succeeded because people started complaining: “Your type is huge!” “I have to lean back just to read it!” Then he redesigned A List Apart with Mike Pick. This was subtler.
Medium came along with the same focus: big type in a single column. Then the New York Times did it, when they changed their business model to a subscription paywall. They could remove quite a bit of the superfluous content. Then the Washington Post did it, more on their tablet design than their website. The New Yorker—a very old-school magazine—also went down this route, and they’re slow to change. Big type. White space. Bold art direction. Pro Publica is a wonderful non-profit newspaper that also went this route. They stepped it up by adding one more element: art direction on big pieces.
How do these sites achieve their effect of slowing you down and calming you?
Big type. We spend a lot of our time hunched forward. Big type forces you to sit back. It’s like that first moment in a yoga workshop where you’ve got to just relax before doing anything. With big type, you can sit back, take a breathe, and relax.
Hierarchy. This is classic graphic design. Clear relationships.
Minimalism. Not like Talking Heads minimalism, but the kind of minimalism where you remove every extraneous detail. Like what Mies van der Rohe did for architecture, where just the proportions—the minimalism—is the beauty. Or like what Hemingway did with writing—scratch out everything but the nouns and verbs. Kill your darlings.
Art direction. When you have a fancy story, give it some fancy art direction. Pro Publica understand that people won’t get confused about what site they’re on—they’ll understand that this particular story is special.
Whitespace. Mark Boulton wrote an article about whitespace in A List Apart. He talked about two kinds of whitespace: macro and micro. Macro is what we usually think about when we talk about whitespace. Whitespace conveys feelings of extreme luxury, and luxury brands know this. Whitespace makes us feels special. Macro whitespace can be snotty. But there’s also micro whitespace. That’s the space between lines of type, and the space inside letterforms. There’s more openness and air, even if the macro whitespace hasn’t changed.
Jeffrey has put a bunch of these things together into an example.
To recap, there are five points:
Big type
Whitespace
There are two more things that Jeffrey wants to mention before his done. If you want people to pay attention to your design, it must be branded and it must be authoritative.
Branded. When all sites look the same, all content appears equal. Jeffrey calls this the Facebook effect. Whether it’s a noble-prize-winning author, or your uncle ranting, everthing gets the same treatment on Facebook. If you’re taking the time to post content to the web, take the time to let people know who’s talking.
Authoritative. When something looks authoritative, it cues the reader to your authenticity and integrity. Notice how every Oscar-worthy movie uses Trajan on its poster. That’s a typeface based on a Roman column. Strong, indelible letter forms carved in stone. We have absorbed those letterforms into our collective unconcious. Hollywood tap into this by using Trajan for movie titles.
Jeffrey wrote an article called To Save Real News about some of these ideas.
And with that, Jeffrey thanks us and finishes up.
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Code print
You know what I like? Print stylesheets!
I mean, I’m not a huge fan of trying to get the damn things to work consistently—thanks, browsers—but I love the fact that they exist (athough I’ve come across a worrying number of web developers who weren’t aware of their existence). Print stylesheets are one more example of the assumption-puncturing nature of the web: don’t assume that everyone will be reading your content on a screen. News articles, blog posts, recipes, lyrics …there are many situations where a well-considered print stylesheet can make all the difference to the overall experience.
You know what I don’t like? QR codes!
It’s not because they’re ugly, or because they’ve been over-used by the advertising industry in completely inapropriate ways. No, I don’t like QR codes because they aren’t an open standard. Still, I must grudgingly admit that they’re a convenient way of providing a shortcut to a URL (albeit a completely opaque one—you never know if it’s actually going to take you to the URL it promises or to a Rick Astley video). And now that the parsing of QR codes is built into iOS without the need for any additional application, the barrier to usage is lower than ever.
So much as I might grit my teeth, QR codes and print stylesheets make for good bedfellows.
I picked up a handy tip from a Smashing Magazine article about print stylesheets a few years back. You can the combination of a @media print and generated content to provide a QR code for the URL of the page being printed out. Google’s Chart API provides a really handy shortcut for generating QR codes:
https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=150x150&chl=http://example.com
Except that there’s no telling how long that will continue to work. Google being Google, they’ve deprecated the simple image chart API in favour of the over-engineered JavaScript alternative. So just as I recently had to migrate all my maps over to Leaflet when Google changed their Maps API from under the feet of developers, the clock is ticking on when I’ll have to find an alternative to the Image Charts API.
For now, I’ve got the QR code generation happening on The Session for individual discussions, events, recordings, sessions, and tunes. For the tunes, there’s also a separate URL for each setting of a tune, specifically for printing out. I’ve added a QR code there too.
I’ve been thinking about another potential use for QR codes. I’m preparing a new talk for An Event Apart Seattle. The talk is going to be quite practical—for a change—and I’m going to be encouraging people to visit some URLs. It might be fun to include the biggest possible QR code on a slide.
I’d better generate the images before Google shuts down that API.
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Live-blogging An Event Apart Seattle
I tried do some live-blogging at An Event Apart Seattle. I surprised myself by managing to do all six talks on the first day. I even managed one or two after that, but that was the limit of my stamina. Torre, on the other hand, managed to live-blog every single talk—amazing!
Some of the talks don’t necessarily lend themselves to note-taking—ya kinda had to be there. But some of the the live-blogging I did ended up being surprisingly coherent.
Anyway, I figured it would be good to recap all the ones I managed to do here in one handy list.
Beyond Engagement: the Content Performance Quotient by Jeffrey Zeldman. I think I managed to document the essence of what Jeffrey was getting at: for many sites, engagement isn’t the right metric to measure—the idea of a Content Performance Quotient is one alternative.
Digital Marketing Strategies for the Busy “Web Master” by Sarah Parmenter. The structure of Sarah’s talk lent itself well to live-blogging, but I strongly disagreed with one or two of her suggestions (like encouraging people to install the disgusting abomination that is Facebook Pixel).
Scenario-Driven Design Systems by Yesenia Perez-Cruz. This one was hard to live-blog because it was so packed with so many priceless knowledge bombs—an absolutely brilliant presentation, right up my alley!
Graduating to Grid by Rachel Andrew. The afternoon sessions, with their emphasis on CSS, were definitely tricky to capture. I didn’t even try to catch most of the code, but I think I managed to get down most of Rachel’s points about learning new CSS.
Fit For Purpose: Making Sense of the New CSS by Eric Meyer. There was a fair bit of code in this one, and lots of gasp-inducing demos too, so my account probably doesn’t do it justice.
Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed by Jen Simmons. There was no way I could document the demos, but I think I managed to convey the excitement in Jen’s talk.
Navigating Team Friction by Lara Hogan. I only managed to do two talks on the second day, but I think they came out the best. Lara’s talk was packed full with great advice, but it was so clearly structured that I think I managed to get most of the main points down.
Designing Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grigsby. I had a vested interest in the topic of Jason’s talk so I was scribing like crazy. Apart from a few missing diagrams, I think my notes managed to convey most of Jason’s message.
Of course the one talk I definitely couldn’t live-blog was my own. I’ve documented lists of links relating to the subject matter of my talk, but if you weren’t at An Event Apart Seattle, then the only other chance to see the talk is at An Event Apart Boston in June. That’s the only other time I’m giving it.
I thoroughly enjoyed giving the talk in Seattle, particularly when I treated the audience to a scoop: I announced my new book, Going Offline , during the talk (I had been scheming with Katel at A Book Apart and we co-ordinated the timing to a tee).
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Designing Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grigsby
It’s the afternoon of the second day of An Event Apart Seattle and Jason is talking about Designing Progressive Web Apps . These are my notes…
Jason wants to talk about a situation you might find yourself in. You’re in a room and in walks the boss, who says “We need a progressive web app.” Now everyone is asking themselves “What is a progressive web app?” Or maybe “How does the CEO even know about progressive web apps?”
Well, trade publications are covering progressive web apps. Lots of stats and case studies are being published. When executives see this kind of information, they don’t want to get left out. Jason keeps track of this stuff at PWA Stats.
Answering the question “What is a progressive web app?” is harder than it should be. The phrase was coined by Frances Berriman and Alex Russell. They listed ten characteristics that defined progressive web apps. The “linkable” and “progressive” characteristics are the really interesting and new characteristics. We’ve had technologies before (like Adobe Air) that tried to make app-like experiences, but they weren’t really of the web. Progressive web apps are different.
Despite this list of ten characteristics, even people who are shipping progressive web apps find it hard to define the damn thing. The definition on Google’s developer site keeps changing. They reduced the characteristics from ten to six. Then it became “reliable, fast, and engaging.” What does that mean? Craigslist is reliable, fast, and engaging—does that mean it’s a progressive web app.
The technical definition is useful (kudos to me, says Jason):
service worker
manifest file
If you don’t have those three things, it’s not a progressive web app.
We should definitely use HTTPS if we want make life harder for the NSA. Also browser makers are making APIs available only under HTTPS. By July, Chrome will mark HTTP sites as insecure. Every site should be under HTTPS.
Service workers are where the power is. They act as a proxy. They allow us to say what we want to cache, what we want to go out to the network for; things that native apps have been able to do for a while. With progressive web apps we can cache the app shell and go to the network for content. Service workers can provide a real performance boost.
A manifest file is simply a JSON file. It’s short and clear. It lists information about the app: icons, colours, etc.
Once you provide those three things, you get benefits. Chrome and Opera on Android will prompt to add the app to the home screen.
So that’s what’s required for progressive web apps, but there’s more to them than that (in the same way there’s more to responsive web design than the three requirements in the baseline definition).
The hype around progressive web apps can be a bit of a turn-off. It certainly was for Jason. When he investigated the technologies, he wondered “What’s the big deal?” But then he was on a panel at a marketing conference, and everyone was talking about progressive web apps. People’s expectations of what you could do on the web really hadn’t caught up with what we can do now, and the phrase “progressive web app” gives us a way to encapsulate that. As Frances says, the name isn’t for us; it’s for our boss or marketer.
Jason references my post about using the right language for the right audience.
Should you have a progressive web app? Well, if you have a website, then the answer is almost certainly “Yes!” If you make money from that website, the answer is definitely “Yes!”
But there’s a lot of FUD around progressive web apps. It brings up the tired native vs. web battle. Remember though that not 100% of your users or customers have your app installed. And it’s getting harder to convince people to install apps. The average number of apps installed per month is zero. But your website is often a customer’s first interaction with your company. A better web experience can only benefit you.
Often, people say “The web can’t do…” but a lot of the time that information is out of date. There are articles out there with outdated information. One article said that progressive web apps couldn’t access the camera, location, or the fingerprint sensor. Yet look at Instagram’s progressive web app: it accesses the camera. And just about every website wants access to your location these days. And Jason knows you can use your fingerprint to buy things on the web because he accidentally bought socks when he was trying to take a screenshot of the J.Crew website on his iPhone. So the author of that article was just plain wrong. The web can do much more than we think it can.
Another common objection is “iOS doesn’t support progressive web apps”. Well, as of last week that is no longer true. But even when that was still true, people who had implemented progressive web apps were seeing increased conversion even on iOS. That’s probably because, if you’ve got the mindset for building a progressive web app, you’re thinking deeply about performance. In many ways, progressive web apps are a trojan horse for performance.
These are the things that people think about when it comes to progressive web apps:
Making it feel like a app
Installation and discovery
Beyond progressive web app
What is an app anyway? Nobody can define it. Once again, Jason references my posts on this topic (how “app” is like “obscenity” or “brunch”).
A lot of people think that “app-like” means making it look native. But that’s a trap. Which operating system will you choose to emulate? Also, those design systems change over time. You should define your own design. Make it an exceptional experience regardless of OS.
It makes more sense to talk in terms of goals…
Goal: a more immersive experience.
Possible solution: removing the browser chrome and going fullscreen?
You can define this in the manifest file. But as you remove the browser chrome, you start to lose things that people rely on: the back button, the address bar. Now you have to provide that functionality. If you move to a fullscreen application you need to implement sharing, printing, and the back button (and managing browser history is not simple). Remember that not every customer will add your progressive web app to their home screen. Some will have browser chrome; some won’t.
Goal: a fast fluid experience.
Possible solution: use an app shell model.
You want smooth pages that don’t jump around as the content loads in. The app shell makes things seem faster because something is available instantly—it’s perceived performance. Basically you’re building a single page application. That’s a major transition. But thankfully, you don’t have to do it! Progressive web apps don’t have to be single page apps.
Goal: an app with personality.
Possible solution: Animated transitions and other bits of UI polish.
Really, it’s all about delight.
In your manifest file you can declare a background colour for the startup screen. You can also declare a theme colour—it’s like you’re skinning the browser chrome.
You can examine the manifest files for a site in Chrome’s dev tools.
Once you’ve got a progressive web app, some mobile browsers will start prompting users to add it to their home screen. Firefox on Android displays a little explainer the first time you visit a progressive web app. Chrome and Opera have add-to-homescreen banners which are a bit more intrusive. The question of when they show up keeps changing. They use a heuristic to decide this. The heuristic has been changed a few times already. One thing you should consider is suppressing the banner until it’s an optimal time. Flipkart do this: they only allow it on the order confirmation page—the act of buying something makes it really likely that someone will add the progressive web app to their home screen.
What about app stores? We don’t need them for progressive web apps—they’re on the web. But Microsoft is going to start adding progressive web apps to their app store. They’ve built a site called PWA Builder to help you with your progressive web app.
On the Android side, there’s Trusted Web Activity which is kind of like PhoneGap—it allows you to get a progressive web app into the Android app store.
But remember, your progressive web app is your website so all the normal web marketing still applies.
A lot of organisations say they have no need for offline functionality. But everyone has a need for some offline capability. At the very least, you can provide a fallback page, like Trivago’s offline maze game.
You can cache content that has been recently viewed. This is what Jason does on the Cloud Four site. They didn’t want to make any assumptions about what people might want, so they only cache pages as people browse around the site.
If you display cached information, you might want to display how stale the information is e.g. for currency exchange rates.
Another option is to let people choose what they want to keep offline. The Financial Times does this. They also pre-cache the daily edition.
If you have an interactive application, you could queue tasks and then carry them out when there’s a connection.
Or, like Slack does, don’t let people write something if they’re offline. That’s better than letting someone write something and then losing it.
Workbox is a handy library for providing offline functionality.
The JavaScript for push notifications is relatively easy, says Jason. It’s the back-end stuff that’s hard. That’s because successful push notifications are personalised. But to do that means doing a lot more work on the back end. How do you integrate with preferences? Which events trigger notifications?
There are third-party push notification services that take care of a lot of this for you. Jason has used OneSignal.
Remember that people are really annoyed by push notifications. Don’t ask for permission immediately. Don’t ask someone to marry you on a first date. On Cloud Four’s blog, they only prompt after the user has read an article.
Twitter’s progressive web app does this really well. It’s so important that you do this well: if a user says “no” to your push notification permission request, you will never be able to ask them again. There used to be three options on Chrome: allow, block, or close. Now there are just two: allow or block.
Beyond progressive web apps
There are a lot of APIs that aren’t technically part of progressive web apps but get bundled in with them. Like the Credentials Management API or the Payment Request API (which is converging with ApplePay).
So how should you plan your progressive web app launch? Remember it’s progressive. You can keep adding features. Each step along the way, you’re providing value to people.
Start with some planning and definition. Get everyone in a room and get a common definition of what the ideal progressive web app would look like. Remember there’s a continuum of features for all five of the things that Jason has outlined here.
Benchmark your existing site. It will help you later on.
Assess your current website. Is the site reasonably fast? Is it responsive? Fix those usability issues first.
Next, do the baseline. Switch to HTTPS. Add a manifest file. Add a service worker. Apart from the HTTPS switch, this can all be done on the front end. Don’t wait for all three: ship each one when they’re ready.
Then do front-end additions: pre-caching pages, for example.
Finally, there are the larger initiatives (with more complex APIs). This is where your initial benchmarking really pays off. You can demonstrate the value of what you’re proposing.
Every step on the path to a progressive web app makes sense on its own. Figure out where you want to go and start that journey.
Torre’s notes from this talk.
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The Way of the Web | Jeremy Keith | Hooked On Code
Here are Torre’s notes on my talk at An Event Apart Seattle. (She’s been liveblogging all the talks.)
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Navigating Team Friction by Lara Hogan
It’s day two of An Event Apart Seattle (Special Edition). Lara is here to tell us about Navigating Team Friction . These are my notes…
Lara started as a developer, and then moved into management. Now she consults with other organisations. So she’s worked with teams of all sizes, and her conclusion is that humans are amazing. She has seen teams bring a site down; she has seen teams ship amazing features; she has seen teams fall apart because they had to move desks. But it’s magical that people can come together and build something.
Bruce Tuckman carried out research into the theory of group dynamics. He published stages of group development. The four common stages are:
Forming. The group is coming together. There is excitement.
Storming. This is when we start to see some friction. This is necessary.
Norming. Things start to iron themselves out.
Performing. Now you’re in the flow state and you’re shipping.
So if your team is storming (experiencing friction), that’s absolutely normal. It might be because of disagreement about processes. But you need to move past the friction. Team friction impacts your co-workers, company, and users.
An example. Two engineers passively-aggressively commenting each other’s code reviews; they feign surprise at the other’s technology choices; one rewrites the others code; one ships to production with code review; a senior team member or manager has to step in. But it costs a surprising amount of time and energy before a manager even notices to step in.
The Hulk gets angry. This is human. We transform into different versions of ourselves when we are overcome by our emotions.
Lara has learned a lot about management by reading about how our brains work. We have a rational part of our brain, the pre-frontal cortex. It’s very different to our amygdala, a much more primal part of our brain. It categorises input into either threat or reward. If a threat is dangerous enough, the amygdala takes over. The pre-frontal cortex is too slow to handle dangerous situations. So when you have a Hulk moment, that was probably an amygdala hijack.
We have six core needs that are open to being threatened (leading to an amygdala hijacking):
Belonging. Community, connection; the need to belong to a tribe. From an evolutionary perspective, this makes sense—we are social animals.
Improvement/Progress. Progress towards purpose, improving the lives of others. We need to feel that we do matters, and that we are learning.
Choice. Flexibility, autonomy, decision-making. The power to make decisions over your own work.
Equality/Fairness. Access to resources and information; equal reciprocity. We have an inherent desire for fairness.
Predictability. Resources, time, direction future challenges. We don’t like too many surprises …but we don’t like too much routine either. We want a balance.
Significance. Status, visibility, recognition. We want to feel important. Being assigned to a project you think is useless feels awful.
Those core needs are B.I.C.E.P.S. Thinking back to your own Hulk moment, which of those needs was threatened?
We value those needs differently. Knowing your core needs is valuable.
Desk Moves
Lara has seen the largest displays of human emotion during something as small as moving desks. When you’re asked to move your desk, your core need of “Belonging” may be threatened. Or it may be a surprise that disrupts the core need of “Improvement/Progress.” If a desk move is dictated to you, it feels like “Choice” is threatened. The move may feel like it favours some people over others, threatening “Equality/Fairness.” The “Predictability” core need may be threatened by an unexpected desk move. If the desk move feels like a demotion, your core need of “Significance” will be threatened.
We are not mind readers, so we can’t see when someone’s amygdala takes over. But we can look out for the signs. Forms of resistance can be interpreted as data. The most common responses when a threat is detected are:
Doubt. People double-down on the status quo; they question the decision.
Avoidance. Avoiding the problem; too busy to help with the situation.
Fighting. People create arguments against the decision. They’ll use any logic they can. Or they simply refuse.
Bonding. Finding someone else who is also threatened and grouping together.
Escape-route. Avoiding the threat by leaving the company.
All of these signals are data. Rather than getting frustrated with these behaviours, use them as valuable data. Try not to feel threatened yourself by any of these behaviours.
Open questions are powerful tool in your toolbox. Asked from a place of genuine honesty and curiosity, open questions help people feel less threatened. Closed questions are questions that can be answered with “yes” or “no”. When you spot resistance, get some one-on-one time and try to ask open questions:
What do you think folks are liking or disliking about this so far?
I wanted to get your take on X. What might go wrong? What do you think might be good about it?
What feels most upsetting about this?
You can use open questions like these to map resistance to threatened core needs. Then you can address those core needs.
This is a good time to loop in your manager. It can be very helpful to bounce your data off someone else and get their help. De-escalating resistance is a team effort.
Communication ✨
Listen with compassion, kindness, and awareness.
Reflect on the dynamics in the room. Maybe somebody thinks a topic is very important to them. Be aware of your medium. Your body language; your tone of voice; being efficient with words could be interpreted as a threat. Consider the room’s power dynamics. Be aware of how influential your words could be. Is this person in a position to take the action I’m suggesting?
Elevate the conversation. Meet transparency with responsibility.
Assume best intentions. Remember the prime directive. Practice empathy. Ask yourself what else is going on for this person in their life.
Listen to learn. Stay genuinely curious. This is really hard. Remember your goal is to understand, not make judgement. Prepare to be surprised when you walk into a room. Operate under the assumption that you don’t have the whole story. Be willing to have your mind changed …no, be excited to have your mind changed!
This tips are part of mindful communication. amy.tech has some great advice for mindful communication in code reviews.
Mindful communication won’t solve all your problems. There are times when you’ll have to give actionable feedback. The problem is that humans are bad at giving feedback, and we’re really bad at receiving feedback. We actively avoid feedback. Sometimes we try to give constructive feedback in a compliment sandwich—don’t do that.
We can get better at giving and receiving feedback.
Ever had someone say, “Hey, you’re doing a great job!” It feels good for a few minutes, but what we crave is feedback that addresses our core needs.
Specific and Actionable
♥ ♦
Negative Feedback
♣ ♠
The feedback equation starts with an observation (“You’re emails are often short”)—it’s not how you feel about the behaviour. Next, describe the impact of the behaviour (“The terseness of your emails makes me confused”). Then pose a question or request (“Can you explain why you write your emails that way?”).
observation + impact + question/request
Ask people about their preferred feedback medium. Some people prefer to receive feedback right away. Others prefer to digest it. Ask people if it’s a good time to give them feedback. Pro tip: when you give feedback, ask people how they’d like to receive feedback in the future.
Prepare your brain to receive feedback. It takes six seconds for your amygdala to chill out. Take six seconds before responding. If you can’t de-escalate your amygdala, ask the person giving feedback to come back later.
Think about one piece of feedback you’ll ask for back at work. Write it down. When your back at work, ask about it.
You’ll start to notice when your amygdala or pre-frontal cortex is taking over.
Talking one-on-one is the best way to avoid team friction.
Retrospectives are a great way of normalising of talking about Hard Things and team friction.
It can be helpful to have a living document that states team processes and expectations (how code reviews are done; how much time is expected for mentoring). Having it written down makes it a North star you can reference.
Mapping out roles and responsibilities is helpful. There will be overlaps in that Venn diagram. The edges will be fuzzy.
What if you disagree with what management says? The absence of trust is at the centre of most friction.
Disgree
Mature and Transparent Easiest
Don’t Commit
Acceptable but Tough Bad Things
Practice finding other ways to address B.I.C.E.P.S. You might not to be able to fix the problem directly—the desk move still has to happen.
But no matter how empathic or mindful you are, sometimes it will be necessary to bring in leadership or HR. Loop them in. Restate the observation + impact. State what’s been tried, and what you think could help now. Throughout this process, take care of yourself.
Remember, storming is natural. You are now well-equipped to weather that storm.
Torre’s notes on this talk
Luke’s note on this talk
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LukeW | An Event Apart: The Way of the Web
Here are Luke’s notes from the talk I just gave at An Event Apart in Seattle.
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Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed by Jen Simmons
Alright! It’s time for the final talk of the day at An Event Apart Seattle (Special Edition). Jen is wrapping up a CSStastic afternoon with her talk Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed . These are my notes…
Ready for another hour of layout in CSS? Well, Jen will be showing no code in this talk. She’s actually nervous about this particular talk. Is she really planning to say “Everything about web design just changed”? That sounds so clickbaity! But she really believes we’re at an inflection point. This may be the sixth such point in the history of the web. One of those points where everything changes and we swap out our techniques.
For the last few years, we’ve been saying that everything changed when mobile came along. But actually, the real fight has been going on for longer than that. It’s the battle between wanting art and dealing with how the web works.
There’s a seminal book called Creating Killer Websites by David Siegel from 1996. In it, he describes the first time he saw the same site in two different browsers. His reaction was panic. The web gave control to the user. David Siegel wanted more control. And that’s how we got spacer gifs and tables for layout.
What are the five major changes in the history of web design?
Simple HTML. There was only one kind of layout: flow layout. There’s no CSS, but the browser is still thinking of everything has having a box. Text takes up as much space as it needs. Images take up as much space as their size. This is flow. There wasn’t much you could do until tables came along. They were created for tabular content but abused for layouts. The “We need art!” crowd used what was available to them at the time. Lots of slicing and dicing.
Flash. It was hard to get HTML tables to work in multiple browsers. Flash seemed like an amazing chance to start over. And we could do things that were previously only possible in CD-ROMs. As a designer, you take an element and place it where you want to go on the stage (the UI tradition that goes all the way back to Xerox PARC). We made some crazy sites, explored a lot of possibilities, and got a lot of control. But the downside was the lack of accessibility. We went back to getting to grips with the web as its own medium. Jeffrey’s book, Designing With Web Standards , was a rallying cry to allow HTML to return to doing what it was meant to.
Fluid Layouts. This was a return to the way the web always behaved—content takes up as much room as it needs to. But this time there’s a certain amount of control over how things are laid out. Still, we pretended that nobody has screens smaller than 640 pixels or bigger than 1024 pixels. We still live with the idea of fluid columns today.
Fixed-Width Layouts. The “We need art!” crowd wanted more control than fluid layouts offered. We pretended that everyone’s screen was at least 640 pixels, or later 800 pixels, or later 1024 pixels.
Responsive Web Design. Unveiled by Ethan at An Event Apart Seattle in 2011: flexible grid; flexible images; media queries. It’s a return to fluid layouts, but the addition of media queries gives us more control. The idea of fluid image was a bit radical. Up until that point, we thought of images as always being their intrinsic size. But something Ethan said that day was “It’s not just about layout.” And it’s true. For the last eight years, it’s been about more than layout. You set out to redesign your website and end up redesigning your whole business. Responsive web design is, frankly, what the web is now.
But let’s talk about layout. What’s next? Intrinsic Web Design.
Why a new name? Why bother? Well, it was helpful to debate fluid vs. fixed, or table-based layouts: having words really helps. Over the past few years, Jen has needed a term for “responsive web design +”.
Responsive web design has flexible images. Intrinsic web design has flexible images …or fixed images. Whichever you want.
Responsive web design has a fluid columns. Intrinsic web design has fluid columns and rows.
Responsive web design uses media queries. Intrinsic web design doesn’t necessarily need them.
The name comes from words that have been floating in the ether. In Rachel’s talk, the words “sizing” and “intrinsic” came up a lot. This is about the nature of the web.
Let’s look at images specifically. Before responsive web design, images overflow their container if they are bigger than the container. Fluid images (as used in responsive web design) shrink and grow depending on the size of their container. You can also make images fluid in a vertical direction. If we make the image fluid vertically and horizontally, the image looks distorted. But now if we use object-fit: cover we can specify how we want the image to react.
Fixed or fluid? With grid layout, you can mix fixed and fluid. You can make a layout fluid until it hits a minimum size, at which point it stays fixed.
There are four stages of squishiness:
fr units (fluid)
minmax()(fluid until fixed)
auto (a return to flow)
That’s a powerful set of tools that may take us years to explore.
We can do truly two-dimensional layouts: rows and columns. Every one of those four stages of squishiness works for rows as well as columns. This means we can create intentional white space. Jen made a video about this and got the response that this was always possible, but it’s different now: it’s more intentional. You can set heights and widths.
We can have nested contexts now:
Flexbox (formatting context)
Grid (formatting context)
Multicolumn (formatting context)
Floats never created a new formatting context, which is why used clearfix. Now we don’t need hacks. You can mix and match, choosing the best layout tool for the job at hand. You can have a grid layout that has flexbox items within it. The Firefox dev tools allow you to inspect each layout type separately. You can use the nightly build to get the latest tools.
Then we’ve got ways to contract and expand content. We have more options now. For a while, we’ve had the option to squish and grow (e.g. with fluid images). Another is wrapping and reflowing (like we can do with text). Another option now is to add and remove whitespace. Maybe the content size doesn’t need to change; the whitespace shrinks and grows instead. An even more radical option now is to have things slide behind one another and overlap deliberately.
Sometimes you don’t even need to use media queries (meaning we’ve effectively got container queries). But we can still use media queries, as needed, to tweak the details.
So intrinsic web design is:
Fluid and fixed
Stages of squishiness
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Nested contexts
Expand and contract content
Media queries, as needed
We have a whole new sandbox that we can play in. You can find examples at labs.jensimmons.com.
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Rita Boettcher, age 90 of Antigo, died Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at Eastview Medical and Rehabilitation Center.
Rita was born on September 19, 1925 to the late Frank and Rose (Sensenbrenner) Wolter.
Rita was a graduate of the Antigo High School.
She was united in marriage to Kenneth Boettcher on May 4, 1946 at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Polar. He preceded her in death on January 24, 2015. The couple owned and operated Boettcher’s Bar for many years. Rita was a member of the Langlade County Tavern League.
Rita was a faithful and active member of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Polar and was a member of St. Peter Ladies Aid and Lutheran Women’s Missionary League.
Rita enjoyed time spent at the cabin at Three Lakes fishing and being with her family and friends.
Survivors include 3 daughters, Lois (Clarence) Guralski of Schofield, Rosalie (Pete) Wolf of Antigo, and Elaine (Tom) Schmidli of Kewaunee; 4 sons, Eugene (Barbara) Boettcher of Antigo, James (Pam) Boettcher of New Franken, Ronald (Luanne) Boettcher of Antigo, and David Boettcher of Santa Fe, TX; 16 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; 6 great-great grandchildren; her sisters Lorraine Buck and Audrey Artz; a half-sister Diane Bunck , half-brothers Jack Wolter, Jim Wolter and Mike Wolter .
In addition to her husband and parents Rita was preceded in death by an infant daughter; a grandson Kurt Hoerman; her step-mother Esther Wolter; brothers Herbert, Donald and Glendon; sisters Verna Drucks and Phyllis Petts; a half-sister Mary Ellen Kavanaugh; her father-in-law and mother-in-law Harold and Edith Boettcher and brother-in-law and sister-in-law Clifford and Patricia Boettcher.
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RCA 721TCS Revisited - Screeching, weak audio, some snow.
Mr. Detrola
Post subject: Re: RCA 721TCS Revisited - Screeching, weak audio, some snow
Posted: Jan Tue 03, 2017 7:15 pm
Location: Detroit, MI USA
They weren't reliable when they were new, so why should we expect them to be now? After restoration, it doesn't seem to matter if you use them every day, or let them sit. Eventually there will be problems, usually minor but always annoying
Experience is what you gain when the results aren't what you were expecting.
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M3-SRT8 wrote:
It's like caring for a spoiled brat.
Actually, it's like caring for a very old friend. That's better.
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”
Mr. Detrola wrote:
True. They are a challenge.
I'm usually deluded into believing that if I carefully recap using picked/tested/high quality parts, replace all OOS resistors, clean, test/replace all tubes, etc etc, then I've created a "Mil Spec" chassis, and expect superior performance.
It just doesn't work out that way with these very early TVs.
Oh, well. I asked for this madness. My biggest problem is that after a thorough and careful restoration I take any shortcoming in performance as a personal failure.
Doing the restoration properly does get you superior performance, there's never been any doubt about that. It's just that the best technology of the day isn't as reliable as we would like it to be sometimes. Kind of like the modern TV's that people throw away every few years out of frustration........
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Oh well I do too. I think we all do. That's why there are forums like this in the world!
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Posted: Jan Wed 04, 2017 1:23 am
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Greetings to jimmc and the Forum:
Jim writes:
I Don't recall which FM discriminator the 721 uses but the 621TS and other early RCA sets used the Foster-Seely circuit which is a crappy discriminator circuit.
I must take issue with the above. A properly designed and implemented Foster-Seely discriminator circuit is the best FM detector there is, short of a crystal discriminator. The reason that they are not found on later TV sets and cheaper FM radios is that the transformers are more expensive to produce. The Ratio Detector is much cheaper to produce and, as in most other fields, you get what you pay for. A Ratio Detector performing at optimum is marginal, and when mis-tuned (as most of them are) the results grate on the ears at best. Ratio detectors are the reason that sync buzz is so prevalent in TV sets.... a proper Foster-Seely circuit with a good limiter ahead of it will not buzz unless the video is over-modulated.
Just my $.02 worth.
Jim T.
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Could you describe the difficulty in constructing the F-S transformer Please.
I always like to learn more.
The two circuits look similar until you see them side by side.
My only expierance with the F-S is in my 621 and it is quirky to tune in.
I was led to believe the F-S has poor noise immunity and the 621 is low on IF stages.
That with the fact that TV stations used to run 20% aural power until the early 50's when the FCC allowed 10% aural power.
And the early sets have no AGC.
I am aware that early TV sets ran the filiment voltage on the discriminator low to get rid of noise.
My 621 has plenty of audio level when tuned in.
Also the coil on the tuner has to be properly aligned as it is the sound pickoff as well as the sound trap.
Did a bit of troubleshooting of the Video stages. Replaced a couple of suspect 270pF micas and V103 and V104.
Not bad. Not quite 630TS territory, but quite watchable. Sound is good.
Greetings to Jim and the Forum:
It has been awhile since I looked into the differences, so I had to do a bit of research. The added expense is incurred not in the discriminator itself, but in the fact that the Foster Seeley discriminator must be preceded by a limiter stage; the Ratio Detector is relatively insensitive to AM and does not require a limiter.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:
The ratio detector is a variant of the Foster-Seeley discriminator, but one diode conducts in an opposite direction, and using a tertiary winding in the preceding transformer. The output in this case is taken between the sum of the diode voltages and the center tap. The output across the diodes is connected to a large value capacitor, which eliminates AM noise in the ratio detector output. The ratio detector has the advantage over the Foster-Seeley discriminator that it will not respond to AM signals, thus potentially saving a limiter stage; however the output is only 50% of the output of a discriminator for the same input signal. The ratio detector has wider bandwidth but more distortion than the Foster-Seeley discriminator.
I was interested in your mention of being in TV broadcasting. I am a retired broadcast engineer. I worked for CBS Television for 32 years, mostly maintaining the transmitter plant for KCBS-TV on Mt. Wilson (above Los Angeles). I remember back in the NTSC days how careful we were to ensure that the luminance didn't go over 100 IRE and that the proc amp clippers were set for about 104 IRE.... all to make sure that we didn't have intercarrier induced sync buzz.... then of course, the cable TV people would mangle the signal with over white text insertion and the like.... and our signal sounded like it was being produced by a bunch of amateurs.
Ahh.... the good old days....
Posted: Jan Wed 04, 2017 4:33 pm
I'm going to consult my library and see if I can learn a little more about FM discriminators myself.
I started working in television broadcast in 1961 and I still work in TV Engineering Management for a large broadcast group which has a couple of stations on Mt. Wilson I have no plan to retire. .
Back in the GOOD NTSC days we tend to forget the visual portion of TV was actually AM modulation. The visual carrier was at 1.25 MHz from the lower edge of the 6MHz wide TV channel . The lower sideband was filtered off by the lower edge of the channel. Video was mostly filtered off by the 4 MHz point as the Aural signal was an FM carrier its center frequency to be exactly 4.5 MHZ above the visual carrier. Aural carrier was phase locked to the visual carrier. The visual and Aural were essentially two seperate transmitters.
Analog composite video was moved around a TV studio as 1 volt peak to peak with sync going negative. We used the IRE scale on our waveform monitors so the overall video of 140 IRE units had peak white at 100 IRE which equaled 0.714 volts. Sync went negative 40 IRE or -0.286 volts.
The NTSC transmitter is modulated such that the Tip of sync causes the transmitter to put out its full licensed power, and peak white video is 12% of full power.
In the early transmitter days we watched carefully that we didn't sit in black too long as that forced the transmitter to run hard. and the plates to start glowing red.
In the early receiver s the Visual and Aural IF’s were totally separated at the tuner using the magical “RCA coil” which mostly trapped out the aural and blocked out the visual such that the AM noise was not present at the audio discriminator.
I believe both the Foster-Seely and the Ratio Det. Utilized a limiter as the final aural IF, the problem being in the 621 and 721 there wasn’t sufficient aural to saturate the limiter.
Back to ATSC . . . . Jim
Posted: Jan Thu 05, 2017 1:17 am
Yes... I am very familiar with the modulation scheme, although I don't recall having the visual and aural carriers phase-locked together. As I recall, the FCC spec was +/- 1 KHz for either carrier, but the intercarrier difference had to be maintained within +/- 500 Hz. Our exciters were phase locked to an external reference. When I first got there, this was a Motorola high accuracy 1 MHz crystal oscillator, with a chart recorder to compare long-term trends to WWVB at 60 KHz. Later, we went to Rb atomic standards. When the NTSC plant got scrapped out, I inherited both atomic standards... they are still on a shelf in my garage.
I have attached a "Pulses" log sheet from KCBS for a journey down memory lane. I had to do one of these once a week.
KCBS Pulses jpg R2.jpg [ 114.35 KiB | Viewed 2876 times ]
I am quite familiar with the inverted AM modulation scheme for NTSC. We did our power meter calibration using a calorimeter. I remember once having to calculate the average power for black plus sync to ensure that we were performing the meter cal correctly.
The calorimeter methode was a big PITA in my opinion, but we had to do it occasionally, usually at 02:00 in the morning. We had to sit in black forever and watch the temperature spread on a couple of precission thermometers.
I don't recall the math but once you had average power you multipliet that by 1.68 to get peak power.
Now I have a calibrated HP meter and it reads average power using a -50 dB coupler and calculates the offset and we can do it during the news.
The lock between aural and visual came about after TV stereo.
I have a exciter I salvaged from a discarded transmitter. nice 2 RU frame. I have a little Extron routing switcher and the plan was to feed composit video and audio from several converters. Drake made cheap converters. I had the thing connected to an AMX control systen so I could route whatever into my Tx which was feeding my house antenna system.
We were running BTSC stereo; hence the ICPM measurement on the above sheet. Our exciters were not locked together, exactly, but they were both locked to the same external standard, so in essence they were phase-locked.
We did have to maintain tighter frequency control because we were channel 2 and were required to use PFC (Precise Frequency Control) to minimize beat type interference to other channel 2 stations during periods of sporadic E propagation. I can't recall the tolerance for this system, but it was much tighter than the +/- 1 KHz for other stations.
We used an HP uWave power meter and the calibrated couplers for measuring power once we converted to ATSC. We had a calorimetric system installed for our channel 60 transition plant, but were never able to make it work properly due to the design of the Harris Sigma CD ++ transmitter system. The external heat exchangers for the liquid cooling system had fans that were controlled by a thermostat attached to the cooling plumbing. Thus, the fans cycled on and off during normal operation and the coolant temperature cycled up and down accordingly. We were never able to stabilize the temperatures long enough to obtain an accurate reading, so we finally gave up on the system.
Kevin Kuehn
Location: WI 54812
jimmc wrote:
What happened in the early 50's that inspired the FCC to lower the aural power limit? I've been searching through servicing texts of the period hoping to find mention of that change and how it affected performance of early receivers with no success. I'd be very interested in any source materials that would explain that situation in greater detail.
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Posted: Jan Thu 05, 2017 5:49 pm
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I scanned the RCA 721TCS service data and it is available to download courtesy of the Early Television Foundation. Owners manual coming soon.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/RCA_ ... e_Data.pdf
Posted: Jan Thu 05, 2017 10:16 pm
bandersen wrote:
Ah. Thank you, Bob.
I just downloaded the service data for the 721 and I notice a connection from one of the diode plates of the 6AT6 audio amp headded off to the left.
Ends at the contrast pot.
The schematic is cut off so I cant see exactly what is changed. Maybe an attempt at AGC?
I have the schematic for the 621 in front of me and there is no connection at all from that same spot.
Posted: Jan Fri 06, 2017 3:59 pm
They are different. Even the 721TCS differs from the TS.
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LifeProof nuud and fre waterproof cases unveiled for the Galaxy S 4
Robert Nelson
If you happen to be a Galaxy S 4 user that wishes they had a Galaxy S4 Active instead, there will soon be a few new case options that will bring the same protection against water. The cases are from LifeProof and will include the nuud and fre models. These both offer protection against water, however one leaves the display open and the other has it protected by a scratch resistant cover.
Up first is the LifeProof nuud, which as some may have guessed by the name — is the case that leaves the display open and uncovered. The LifeProof fre is the one with the scratch resistant cover over the display. Regardless of which option you choose, the water, dust and shock protection remains the same.
The LifeProof cases are shock proof to military standard 810F-516 which means it can withstand drops from 6.6 feet (2m). These cases also have an Ingress Protection rating of IP-68 which goes to say that it should be able to withstand being submerged in up to 6.6 feet of water for up to one hour. Aside from offering protection against unexpected drops and water, the LifeProof cases also have what is touted as a “thin, low profile all-protective design.”
Perhaps more important, these cases still allow for full access to all buttons, ports and other features. With that in mind, LifeProof also uses something called “CrystalClear double anti-reflective coated camera-grade glass” to help ensure your pictures will not be affected due to the camera lens being covered by the case. Basically, LifeProof appears to have made a case that protects your phone and still allows you to easily take advantage of the features.
LifeProof will have the nuud and fre cases available for the Galaxy S 4 beginning in October. Both the nuud and fre will be $89.99 and available direct from LifeProof as well as with select retailers. And finally, if you happen to still be sporting a Galaxy S III, LifeProof also has you covered with a few case options.
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Interview w/ John Amato of Crooks and Liars
Just posted my interview w/ Amato at LAist. Watch the video.
Still blogging Covering Politics in Cyberspace at the Knight blog w/ additional commentary interspersed on twitter — join in the convo!
Blogging for Knight Center on Politics 2.0
I’m blogging for the rest of the week for the Knight Foundation from their Politics & Cyberspace conference. It’s been excellent so far, all of the posts are here — my post on the keynote is copied below. On the right, John Amato of CrooksandLiars with James Joyner of Outside the Beltway.
“You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.” — Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers.
Campaigns are only using 10 percent of the Internet, said political scientist Michael Cornfield, former director of research for the GW & Pew-backed Democracy Online Project (now VP of ElectionMall), in his opening keynote, “Politics and the Internet: What Do We Really Know?”
The public and in some ways the press are now trained to expect the marriage of Web 2.0 and politics to produce breakthrough discoveries or disseminate ill-conceived media that can make or break political campaigns. But as Cornfield stressed, George Allen’s 2006 “macaca” moment was simply the nadir of an already disintegrating campaign.
“Tech innovation brought into the marketplace is not significant on its own,” said Cornfield. While 2006 was YouTube’s year, it didn’t make or break these races, the campaigns and candidates did. Similarly, the first televised presidential debate — Nixon v. JFK in 1960 — did not necessarily produce a sudden sea change in which voters went purely on looks as much as the candidates themselves reacted to their performances.
Television remains the mass medium of choice among Americans, although the Internet is gaining in popularity, especially among the younger set. But it was not an Internet campaign that definitively changed the tone of the media and in turn the momentum of the 2004 election. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was a donor-funded political group that, in the final weeks of the campaign, created TV and radio ads disparaging John F. Kerry’s Vietnam service and spread rumors — most of which, if not all, have only been verified as false — insinuating that, among other things, he acted unethically on the battlefield during the incident for which he was awarded a purple star.
Who exactly were the donors and private interests behind the Swift Boat Fund and how long had they been planning it?
Cornfield could not have possibly overstated the importance of micro-analysis of campaign usage of media and new tech and of profiling big donors and supporters. As the public’s use and comfort level with the Internet as a socially and politically reverent medium continues to grow, so will the number — and the power — of individual campaign donors. Thanks to the resources made available by the FEC and OpenSecrets, major donors can be identified and their campaign contributions, monetary and otherwise can often be tracked. Cornfield recommended journalists band together and create forums in which they listen to — and interview — groups of donors. It would be interesting to see how this could be effective on both sides of the political aisle — we’ll see if any donor profiles come out of large-scale events like YearlyKos in Chicago in August or even the GOP debate May 3rd at the Reagan Library.
McCain and Giuliani may have been early frontrunners to be the GOP candidate, but, now, where did all of Romney’s millions come from?
The general public will continue to dissect the candidates, their histories and intentions, but who will follow the money to the source? Are campaign donors the new kingmakers as Cornfield suggests?
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times on Today’s Shooting
UPDATED with audio & multimedia links.
On this tragic and upsetting day in which at least 25 33 are dead and dozens more injured in shootings on the VTU campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, a shout-out to the staff of the campus newspaper, the Collegiate Times.
The student paper originally broke the story and continues releasing updates:
Monday, April 16th 2007 9:47AM
Shots were fired on campus in West Ambler Johnson Hall in the early morning hours.
The Collegiate Times is currently investigating the story. More information will be posted as it is made available.
The Virginia Tech Web site is overloaded (try their IP directly) but the Collegiate Times is now being hosted by their parent host, CollegeMedia and continues reporting with primarily text-only entries and the bandwidth is being handled fine. Wikipedia is on this as well, just as fast, if not faster, than the AP/CNN, etc. A screenshot of the VT Website is available here at flickr – latest photos are here.
Student-run college radio station WUVT remains on the air and can be streamed (when not overloaded) here. The screenshot above is via ABC News Now, being streamed live on the AT&T Yahoo! today portal (also available here and here). Apparently, this video by VT grad student Jamal Albarghouti has been viewed over 900,000 on CNN’s Web site as of 3 p.m. EDT (per Jarvis).
With the death count expected to rise, today’s massacre is already the deadliest school shooting rampage in U.S. history (more than double that of Columbine).
Several groups and postings on facebook, a common question being: why was Norris Hall open and classes in session at 9:30 (when the majority of killings took place in a classroom) after one student was murdered in the dorm two hours earlier and the killer remained on the loose?
Thoughts and prayers to all the victims, friends and family. And please, media, take it easy on them — anyone who wants to upload video/photos knows how to do it, it’s just insensitive to be begging for citizen-generated content under such terrifying headlines.
ADDED: The audio of VTU President Charles W. Steger’s statement, hosted below.
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Google Buys DoubleClick: More Context, Less Banners?
One could only hope.
Everyone wondered if they’d ever really pull the trigger on this, or stick to their adsense guns while DoubleClick ambled along — and the day has come. $3.1B later, Google is now the king of all Internet advertising (although Yahoo! remains no slouch, most recently expanding it’s one-stop online news ad shop to include McClatchy).
Sergey Brin once hinted at DoubleClick being the “life preserver” as John Battelle mentions in The Search (and as Biz2.0 reminds today), but the metaphor was baswed on Adwords going under. While Adsense is doing fine, Google apparently seized on this opportunity to box out Microsoft and go large.
Rafat at PaidContent reports that the $3.1 billion cash offer is “much more than the rumored $2 billion that Microsoft was intending to pay.” It’s also 10 times DCLK (private since 2005)’s revenue.
How will this work out? Here’s Google’s Presser. Battelle’s analysis forthcoming at his blog.
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“Those whose minds are steeped in cannabis are capable of quite extraordinary criminality. Your brain has been steeped in cannabis for most of your adult life.”
Judge Anthony Niblett, jailing 33-year-old Peter West for life after West punched his girlfriend and burnt down her house: Cannabis smoking leads to criminality, judge tells arsonist
“This was an appalling attack of extreme and persistent violence. And I have no doubt it would not have happened if you had not consumed cannabis.”
Judge Findlay Baker, QC, 9 October 2006, jailing Laurie Draper for life for stabbing a friend to death with a pair of garden shears: Cannabis session led to soldier killing teacher
“I am for anything that gets the message across to people, particularly young people, that cannabis is very, very dangerous. Joanna started smoking the drug when she was very young and it progressed when she went to university… It was like she was in a vicious circle where the drug would be the only thing to relax her but also worsened her health. Joanna’s death is such a waste. She had her whole life in front of her. She was a beautiful girl and very talented. I don’t think many youngsters understand the extent to which it can affect people.”
Father of Joanna Barton-Harvey, who killed herself in 2003 at the age of 33 after smoking cannabis since she was a student: Drugs warning by tragic Joanna’s dad
‘Cannabis has ruined my life.’
Words of a note left by Charles King, 23, who killed himself in 2003: Cannabis linked to student’s suicide
“We firmly believe cannabis was the catalyst in a chain of events that ended with Lee’s death. Children who smoke cannabis are playing Russian Roulette with their lives, particularly if they are at risk from suffering mental ill health. The government should be making everyone aware that cannabis is harmful.”
Parents of Lee Wellock, who killed himself in 2005 after smoking cannabis since his teens: Parents’ blast after cannabis led to son’s death
“We believe that cannabis was a directly-contributing factor towards his death and no one will ever convince me otherwise. He was a perfectly healthy and happy young man until he started to use cannabis. Eventually, it caused his depression and he was smoking it to heal himself. There are a lot of young people out there killing themselves through drug use and more needs to be done to raise awareness. We believe cannabis caused the depression and more should be done to investigate its links with mental illnesses.”
Parents of Stephen Breheny, who killed himself in December 2004 at the age of 22: Family blame drug use for student death
“I hate to think of other families going through the nightmare we endured. We will never recover from this, any of us. Guy may have taken his own life, but it was cannabis that killed him.”
Mother of Guy Summers, who killed himself in 2004 at the age of 17 after smoking cannabis for over a year: ‘Skunk killed my beloved son’
“People think nothing of cannabis nowadays. They just don’t realise this drug can tip you over the edge. A lot of people try it. With the government downgrading it, I think young people assume it is completely harmless. But it can destroy your mind.”
Mother of Laura Bower-McKnight, who killed herself in 2007: Mother blames cannabis for suicide of promising violinist daughter
“I don’t subscribe to the view it’s recreational and it’s no big deal to be smoking or selling cannabis. My experience of people I see in this court is that almost without exception they are seriously damaged by the use of cannabis. It certainly leads to mental illness. It is in my judgement a dangerous drug.”
Judge John Boggis, QC, 2007: Judge’s warning on cannabis danger as teenager is jailed
“Time and again we are getting cases where alcohol and cannabis seem to have resulted in violence. They just don’t seem to mix.”
Judge Peter Armstrong, 2008: Concerns over rise in cannabis and alcohol-fuelled violence
“There had recently been discussions by politicians as to whether or not it was a mistake to reclassify cannabis and whether or not it should be reclassified as B rather than C. When considering possible reclassification those whose duty it is to do so may reflect upon the death of Stuart Lester. The use of cannabis can lead to devastating effects. It may be thought that this may not have happened had this young man not used cannabis as a child.”
Coroner Stanley Hooper: Cannabis linked to man’s suicide
“There is a misconception that cannabis is not harmful and clearly this case demonstrates that it is. Heavy use of cannabis can impact on a person’s mental health. Mr Cooper Taylor was an upstanding member of the community who went to help a neighbour. He tragically lost his life and this poor elderly lady has been left physically and mentally scarred.”
Detective Chief Inspector Damian Allain: Cannabis addict jailed for life for stabbing Good Samaritan to death as he tried to protect elderly neighbour
“If you lie down with dogs you are going to get fleas. It is bad news, but the real bad news started when he first got arrested for smoking cannabis. Once he took that path we couldn’t get him off it. And it will happen to hundreds of others his age.”
John Butler: Axe attack father: cannabis ruined my son
“When I see that from the age of 10 you have been taking cannabis on a regular basis and even at 14 you were taking cocaine and ecstasy, any right-thinking person is going to think there has got to be something wrong in our society. It must be every victim’s worst nightmare to awake from a deep sleep and find an intruder armed with a knife. It is truly a picture of horror. You have had such an awful effect on this lady’s life.”
Judge Kerry Macgill: Cannabis-addicted boy aged just 14 raped 58-year-old woman at knifepoint in her home
“As I have already remarked, your case is a cautionary tale for those who think cannabis is a harmless drug. Quite how you managed to persuade yourself that an offence of the gravity of this charge was something you were prepared to do I confess I cannot really begin to imagine. It was a planned robbery and you took a weapon, a screwdriver.”
Judge William Hart: Cannabis addict’s student career wrecked after being jailed for robbing elderly shop assistant
“This was a cruel and cowardly attack on a young man who had done nothing wrong. You showed scarce regard for human life. Your initial motivation was robbery to get money to buy cannabis. In my judgement you got caught up in a frenzy of violence.”
Judge Adele Williams, jailing two 17-year-old boys for an attack on a fellow schoolboy in 2008 that left him in a coma: Teenagers jailed over mugging which left boy in coma
“This was a tragedy waiting to happen. It is true that one of the risk factors for your mental illness is genetic, within the family. The other risk factor is your persistent use of strong cannabis, known as skunk. The more you abused that unlawful drug, the more psychotic you became, to the understandable concern of your family. You had even smoked cannabis before you set out on the day in question and you bear responsibility for the taking of that drug.”
Judge Giles Forrester: Cannabis-smoking father jailed for life after fatal stabbing
“This is a very tragic story. He was an intelligent, likeable young man who went to university, and I suspect it was there that he came into contact with cannabis. Cannabis is a dangerous drug and is harming more and more people. It is as dangerous as hard drugs.”
Coroner Michael Rose: ‘Cannabis warning’ following suicide
“It is always worth underscoring this is not a harmless substance. In the hands of a 14-year-old, it’s the starting point of a disastrous sequence of events.”
Coroner Richard Hulett: Cannabis blamed for former Marlow man’s suicide
‘I’m trying to make sure Oskar is happy and safe and while you are addicted to weed and violent and abusive he’s not safe at all.’
‘You throw him around like a toy, suffocate him, stick your finger down his f***ing throat! And he’s always in the middle of our arguments and fights. If you aren’t going to protect your son and be a f***ing dad then I’m leaving.’
‘If you want to be in our lives if you really care about me and our son you would quit. You come home and suffocate our son because you can’t be arsed with him because you want weed.’
Messages from Tia Jobey, 19, to Kane Kennedy, regarding their seven-month-old son Oskar: Killer dad smothered baby son to death in rage ‘triggered by smoking cannabis every day’
“He hopes that if he can get himself off cannabis it will reduce the risk of him reoffending.”
Kelly Shooter, defending Joshua Webster: Derby teen dad Joshua Webster is ‘risking losing everything’ after assaulting woman at her home
“Cannabis f****d him up. He’s smoked it all his life.”
Brother of Joe Xuereb: Pictured: Office worker fighting for life with mother after horrifying hammer attack as family of man, 27, charged say “cannabis messed him up and he was sectioned eight years ago”
“If any case demonstrates the dangers and potentially tragic consequences of cannabis abuse, such as you had taken part in for many years, this is such a case.”
Judge David Hatton, QC, jailing a 25-year-old man for the attempted murder of his infant son, 8 November 2018: Dad jailed for ‘cannabis-induced’ baby murder attempt
Are these people, and many like them, completely wrong? Or are they on to something? If you agree with us that it’s the latter, please sign our parliamentary petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231109
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4 thoughts on “Words of warning”
Gary Wilson says:
The only problem is the fact cannabis is illegal, so most people (Like the person who made this page) have very little education on the subject. Most of the “Storys” you say are about people that have started using cannabis from a young age. When people do this they risk bringing out underlying mental health problems (THAT WAS ALREADY THERE!). People get violent all the time on anything. Doesn’t have anything to do with just cannabis! Like I said to you in the email this morning, some people really need Cannabis to survive! Why don’t you read about cannabinoids ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptor )
What you are doing here is spreading propaganda and that is just wrong! The war on drugs failed, So all this is pointless!
Go attack things like Alcohol, Tobacco or man-made drugs like Spice! That is the real dangers to be looking for!
Ross Grainger says:
If a mental health problem is ‘underlying’, how would you know it was there?
T. Curtiss says:
Same old crap! Cannabis isn’t the cause you better look deeper into the lives of these people. In several instances you mention alcohol which we know for a fact destroys lives. Too many people make assumptions about cannabis, do yourself and the rest of us a favor, stop making assumptions, do your homework and find the real cause!
So you’re open to the possibility that one powerful psychoactive drug, alcohol, can ‘destroy lives’, but not to the possibility that a different psychoactive drug, cannabis, can also destroy lives?
As for ‘assumptions’, I haven’t made any. That’s why I’m petitioning for an inquiry, to find out why it is that cannabis is such a common factor in violent crime and suicide.
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February 7, 2018 By Matt Roseboom 3 Comments
The Rumor Queue: ‘Stranger Things’ rumored for Halloween Horror Nights 2018
By Fowl Owlerson
Disclaimer: Unless where otherwise noted, the following is rumor and speculation, and should not be regarded as fact unless confirmed by the companies mentioned.
Production for the following year of Halloween Horror Nights typically begins as the current year ends, with the design team working with other departments to construct the mazes, scare zones, theme and so on. So it’s not too early to start talking about the rumored new houses.
Over on the East coast, Halloween Horror Nights 27 (2017) is rumored to have had a major budget cut. The rumored reason was the revamped Universal’s Holiday Parade, which in its defense, was a much-needed refresh with expensive-looking floats. The money allotted for Halloween Horror Nights Orlando falls under the same umbrella, so to speak, as Grinchmas, Universal’s Holiday Parade, Mardi Gras, etc. — they’re all categorized as “holiday events.” So when one event requires a greater budget, this, in turn, results in cuts for the other events.
Were any of the cuts to Halloween Horror Nights noticeable this past year? Perhaps, if you knew where to look. The virtual reality maze didn’t return. The Hive maze didn’t boast a facade (It was a large rectangle box with a poster plastered on it instead.). The scare zone between Shrek 4-D and Despicable Me was essentially a hodge-podge of the licensed content thrown together. And there were various instances of reused props, set-pieces and layouts (more than usual).
To put it in perspective, a source disclosed to me that the money allotted for Halloween Horror Nights 27 was less than what was allotted for the previous two years. For Halloween Horror Nights 28, I suspect this won’t be an issue.
“Stranger Things” is rumored to be a licensed maze for both Orlando and Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights. Stephen King’s “It” is another rumored maze for both coasts, and the word is it’ll be based on the imagery from the 2017 film. An Alfred Hitchcock Presents style maze featuring select works from the director’s filmography such as “Vertigo”, “Rear Window”, and “Psycho” is also rumored for the Orlando event. An H.P. Lovecraft maze has been rumored for a great deal of time for the Orlando event, so naturally, that’s once again in the cards for 2018.
David Cronenberg’s “The Fly” is rumored to be part of the horror classics type of haunted maze for 2018, with last year’s being “The Shining”. The premium virtual reality maze is rumored to return to Orlando in 2018. FX’s “American Horror Story”, of course, is rumored to return to Hollywood and Orlando, although expect both coasts to have their own takes on the series.
Halloween Horror Nights 25 is rumored to serve as the framework for 28 and 29, with there being a similar ratio of licensed haunted mazes and original concept haunted mazes, a new logo and accompanying theme and merchandise, and other little flourishes along the way. Halloween Horror Nights 30 is rumored to be a reunion year of sort (think 16, 20 and 25) with the return of Jack the Clown and perhaps other characters.
This is all the “broad strokes.” The finer details will be filled in later and that’s the way these things go. Nothing is set in stone. Not yet, anyway.
• Fowl Owlerson has been attending theme parks since he was a little owlet. When he’s not filtering through the latest murmurings around the industry, he can be found writing, reading and snacking on the occasional rodent. Follow him on Twitter @fowlowlerson for the latest rumors, or drop an anonymous letter to him at info@attractionsmagazine.com or via direct message on Twitter.
Filed Under: Halloween, Holiday, Universal Orlando, Universal Studios Florida Tagged With: Halloween Horror Nights, HHN, rumor, Stranger Things
Gru says
Hopefully the Hollywood Horror Nights will get the Alfred Hitchcock and Fly mazes. Also if anyone goes and does reviews for Hollywood can you please comment on the mazes being as annoying as they were last year, where we had to turn every 5 feet and push a curtain out of the way, 5 feet push a curtain, 5 feet push a curtain for every maze. It was horrible. Most times missing the scare actors because the curtains is being moved from my view and they go back to their hiding spot for the next group. I won’t be back if this is the case again.
akbarratt says
Fascinating write-up. I’ve been going to the Orlando event since 2008 and didn’t notice the cost cutting until you pointed it out, other than thinking the Hive facade was strange. Given the budget cuts, however, I’m surprised the bulk of 27 was licensed properties. I assume those rights cost a pretty penny, though maybe they break even on the costs of recycled props. It felt too heavy on that front, especially considering, as you mentioned, Blumhouse was such a hodgepodge. I think given their Blumhouse connection, failing to do a Get Out house again would be a major dropped ball. It was one of the biggest movies of 2017. That doesn’t often happen for horror. So if we’re really getting It, I hope we get Get Out as well. I’d also be happy to have more original houses back.
Eric you says
i really want a icon like Eddie Schmidt or Cindy Cain e or new original icon or theme for this year plus some intellectual property houses maybe five movie or television based ones and four good original concept houses plus maybe the return of repository or legendary truth plus better scare zones this year along with the return of academy of villains along with a show to replace bill and ted that maybe the icon show or something else.
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Facts and figures on females from throughout the world.
By Sarah Holcomb, Illustrations by Jessica Wetterer
20 Pastry Chefs
At Abu Salha Sweets, a large sweets factory in West Bank, Palestine, 20 Palestinian women are pioneering pastry chefs. These women now hold more than half of the factory’s jobs, the majority of which are traditionally reserved for men. When the women first went to work, they faced some critics, but silenced them with their superior baking skills. Female employees currently receive a salary of about $420 a month—half a male pastry chef’s paycheck—but factory managers say they plan to provide pastry courses that will enable the women to sweeten their salaries. In Palestine, women often work in the education or banking industries, but are legally prohibited from entering certain career fields. While more women now graduate from Palestinian universities than men, a 2017 survey found more than 80 percent of the country’s female population is unemployed.
2,000 Female Characters
According to a new study by the University of Southern California, researchers examining more than 1,000 film scripts collected from the past few decades found sexism is still alive on the silver screen. The study revealed a number of gender gaps in the acting industry: Only 2,000 characters in film scripts were female, compared with 4,900 male characters, and the female characters were usually five years younger and less central to the plot than their male counterparts. Women apparently don’t get in as many words either. While men participated in 37,000 dialogues, female characters spoke in only 15,000 dialogues. Although most screenwriters are men, the study suggests that, with a woman writer in the room, female representation in film scripts increases by 50 percent, on average. Cue the next Wonder Woman.
3 Top Jobs
This fall, Renee Hall became the first woman and the first African-American woman to hold the position of police chief in the Dallas Police Department’s 136-year history. Hall joins two other women of color in the Dallas law-enforcement community, Sheriff Lupe Valdez and District Attorney Faith Johnson. The three women now hold the top three law-enforcement positions in Dallas County. Hall previously served at the Detroit Police Department, where she helped the department deal with city bankruptcy and slashed salaries. Now she’s taking on new challenges in Dallas: lifting department morale and working to recruit and retain more officers. With extensive experience matched with her “infectious presence,” city leaders say Hall is the right woman for the job.
Suzanne Silantoi is not Kenya’s average senatorial candidate. Not only is she a woman and an accomplished pianist with a degree in music, but she’s also just 23 years old. Looking to serve others, Silantoi took a job at a Kenyan health-care nonprofit in 2014. Realizing her neighbors were deeply underserved, she dove into state budgets and records for an explanation. After she discovered wasted resources and mismanagement, Silantoi threw herself into the running with a crowdfunded budget as the youngest and only female candidate vying for Nairobi’s spot in Kenya’s Senate. Although Silantoi is young, she’s optimistic that her age will be an asset to her win. After all, more than half the city’s voters are younger than 35.
275 People Pampered
When Vanessa Howard opened Giving Hands Hair Salon in Tampa, Fla., she set out to use pampering to pay it forward. Once a homeless single mother of three with only $1.75 to her name, Howard overcame depression and desperation with help from a stranger’s kindness. Now, on her Sundays off, Howard, her five daughters and a small team of volunteers serve homeless women and children in the community by providing free trims, facials and manicures. So far, they’ve impacted the lives of 275 people, and counting. This fall, before the first day of school, Howard and her team threw Back-to-school Princess Parties, pampering elementary-age homeless girls with tiaras and school supplies, and providing free makeovers for moms. “All of us have a story,” Howard told CBS News, “and I believe that we should use what we’ve been through to help others.”
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EatStreet founders, UW alumni ‘honored’ to win 2018 UW Entrepreneurial Achievement Award
EatStreet CEO says UW, gener8tor cultivated environment for massive success
by Nuha Dolby · Dec 11, 2018 Share Tweet
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Three University of Wisconsin alumni and founders of EatStreet, a food delivery company, were presented with the 2018 UW Entrepreneurial Achievement Award Nov. 14.
According to their website, EatStreet serves more than 250 cities and has partnerships with more than 15,000 restaurants.
As reported by the Milwaukee Business Journal, EatStreet raised $12 million in equity as of Oct. 2018. $6.09 million of that was sold to eight different investors.
According to the Journal Sentinel, the food delivery business has raised more than $38.5 million in venture capital funding since its founding.
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CEO Matt Howard said the founding of EatStreet was a response to the unreliable food ordering system many restaurants had in place. He and his partners created EatStreet as a solution.
The students started in their dorm rooms and worked their way up.
“Working from our dorm rooms, Alex Wyler and Eric Martell developed the original platform, while I hit the pavement to recruit restaurants,” Howard said. “We continued to hustle, add restaurants, improve the customer experience and grow.”
He added that UW supported them regardless of their individual majors. Howard cited mentorship, advice and networking opportunities as resources the university provided him with while developing the platform.
Howard described current efforts to expand locally. He said the company employs about 150 people at its Madison headquarters and is working to expand in-state.
“This fall, we launched a statewide expansion to many of the major markets in Wisconsin,” he said. “We’ve really committed to bringing our online ordering and food delivery services to our home state that has supported EatStreet for so long.”
One of their earliest supporters is a startup accelerator called gener8tor, Howard said. The company currently operates by investing $90,000 in five companies, three times a year. These companies are provided with hands-on mentorship and funds, in exchange for equity.
Gener8tor offers mentorship programs in Madison, Milwaukee and Minneapolis, along with additional programs in northeast Wisconsin.
Howard said the visibility the award provides is a welcomed bonus, but not the key takeaway.
“It’s such an honor to win any award, but to receive recognition from our alma mater makes it truly special,” Howard said.
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Charles Hoslet, vice chancellor for university relations at UW, said the award was created eight years ago and designed to honor UW alumni and faculty for successful entrepreneurial and business ventures.
When determining candidates for the award, Hoslet said the university looks for alumni and faculty who have made a significant impact with their entrepreneurial work, in terms of company growth, job creation, local economic impact and other factors.
Beyond their economic success, Hoslet said many other factors made EatStreet an obvious choice for the winner of the award.
“I think the thing that is particularly exciting about EatStreet is the fact that you had three undergrad students who took what they saw as a problem, turned it into a business opportunity and have pursued that with relentless passion,” Holset said. “Out of their dorm room came a company that now spans cities across the U.S., has several hundred employees and has raised millions of dollars in investment funding: All before they hit the age of thirty.”
Their age has not gone unnoticed. Howard and CTO Alex Wyler, recently earned spots on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list, in the category of Consumer Technology for 2018.
Hoslet also pointed out that none of the three founding students — Howard, Eric Martell and Wyler — were business majors.
“It goes to show or suggest that entrepreneurship isn’t just for business majors,” Hoslet said. “Anyone can be an entrepreneur, and anyone can have a good idea. Through relentless pursuit, they can be successful.”
Hoslet said his hope is that the award inspire students at UW.
The reason for such awards is not only to recognize individuals for their good work, but to also inspire students through real-life examples of success, Hoslet said.
“These are folks who recognized opportunity, took advantage of resources, pursued a passion, and have built these companies and organizations,” Hoslet said.
This article was published Dec 11, 2018 at 9:45 am and last updated Dec 9, 2018 at 5:27 pm
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November 10, 2012 by lalarukh36
The President and Michelle Obama: The Story Behind the Most-Liked Photo of All Time
It was an intimate snapshot of a sweet celebration: Minutes after the networks called the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama on Tuesday night, the Obama for America campaign posted a picture of him hugging his wife along with a simple message: “Four more years.” Within minutes, it became the most popular post in the history of Twitter and the most-liked image in the history of Facebook, shared more than 804,000 times, marked as a favorite by more than 289,500 Twitter users, and “liked” by more than 3.2 million Facebook friends.
The simple shot of a happy husband and wife was a surprise to people who may have been expecting a grand portrait of a newly re-elected president and his people. But no one was more surprised than the woman who took the photo back in August.
Scout Tufankjian, a photojournalist who has been focusing her lens on Obama’s political career since 2007, told Slate’s Julia Turner that she snapped the picture on the third day of an Iowa bus tour.
“It was the first day that the first lady had joined us so he hadn’t seen her in a couple of days,” she explained. “She came in on a bus that morning—it was the first event of the day—and they embraced on stage. Onstage in front of all those people.”
“I decided to focus on them rather than taking a wider shot, because I think I’m not alone in finding their relationship to be totally aspirational,” the newly married photojournalist said. “The obvious love and respect that they have for each other, and that the relationship is clearly one of equals, despite the fact that he’s the president, is remarkable. So I wanted to focus on them as a couple rather than on them and the crowd, or them and their position.”
Tufankjian didn’t know that the campaign had used the picture as their Election Night victory image until a friend emailed her about it. It’s unusual that such a personal shot would be used in such a high-profile way, but Tufankjian says it makes sense to her. “It reflects on the way that people feel about the Obamas as people, rather than as public figures,” she said. “What the family is and represents to the country is as much a part of the president’s appeal as his policies.”
After she chronicled Obama’s 2008 campaign, his campaign team hired her in August 2012 as one of their two official photojournalists. It’s given her an opportunity to travel with the president and witness scenes that few ever get to see—like the moment a pizza shop owner in Florida gave the President a bear hug that lifted him off his feet.
The President is “so much happier and more relaxed” when he’s with his family, Tufankjian confided. “He and the first lady are so focused on each other. The way that they play off each other and get energy from each other… when I was shooting the president during the 2008 campaign I would watch them greet each other on stage and I used to text-message my boyfriend, now my husband: ‘Do you love me as much as Barack loves Michelle?’ and he’d be like, ‘Probably not, no’.”
Still, she has hope. “The way that they relate to each other—they just celebrated their 20th anniversary—the way they enjoy each other and listen to each other, and the real respect that they have for each other is something I would like to see in my relationship twenty years from now,” she said.
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Letitia Galloway
Proposed title
How does the Australian Curriculum:History Enable or Constrain Rural Primary Teachers' Professional Practice?
This study will specifically focus on the implementation of the Australian History curriculum in primary schools; History being one of the first four curriculum areas to be developed (alongside English, Mathematics and Science). In New South Wales, the curriculum has been embedded in new syllabus documents recently released (October 2012). In particular the research will focus on the professional practice of primary teachers and how the Australian History curriculum enables and constrains their practice.
Why I chose CSU?
In 2008 I was appointed as an academic at Charles Sturt University in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) program. My work initially focused on the professional experience of pre-service teachers, but more recently has involved lecturing in Australian History. The combination of these two interest areas lead me to enrol in the Doctoral Studies focusing on the implementation of the new Australian History curriculum and the enactment of that curriculum in practice.
Engagement and memberships
Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) international research group (doctoral student).
Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ASCA).
Workplace Learning Network, Charles Sturt University (CSU)
Professional Experience and Partnerships Group (PEPG): A sub-committee of Teacher Education Leadership Team (TELT), CSU.
School of Education School Board, CSU 2013.
Mahon, K., & Galloway, L., (2017). Provoking praxis amidst a faculty restructure: A practice architecture perspective. In K. Mahon, S. Francisco & S. Kemmis (Eds.), Exploring Education and Professional Practice: Through the lens of practice architectures (pp. 183–199). Singapore: Springer.
Galloway, L. (2013, November 6).[Doctoral research presentation] Researching Professional Practice: Opening Communicative Spaces, Tromsø, Norway.
Reupert, A., Wilkinson, J., & Galloway, L. (2010). Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Exploring Seconded and Contracted Teachers' Experiences of the University Sector. The Australian Educational Researcher, 37(3) 39-55.
Galloway, L., & Letts, W. (2010). Preparing Lesson Plans, Programs, Units and Daybooks. In Ewing, R., Lowrie, T., & Higgs, J. (Eds.), Teaching and Communicating; Rethinking Professional Experiences (pp.79-92). Sydney: Oxford University Press.
Email: lgalloway@csu.edu.au
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Kylie Veleta hosted Ascend Indiana for a segment of Inside INdiana Business TV. Hoosiers in the grip of substance use disorder are facing a shortage of professionals they can turn to for help. Ascend, alongside Community Behavioral Health at Community Health Network, aims to bridge this gap with the newly-formed Community Behavioral Health Academy. Watch to see how the collaboration could help train the workers needed to battle Indiana’s opioid epidemic.
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Just 18 months after entering Indiana’s life sciences landscape, Catalent says the “red hot” biologics sector is driving the company’s repeated large investments in Bloomington. Ascend Indiana is working with Catalent and a handful of higher education partners to launch a project that will meet its appetite for workers at the Bloomington facility. “More than capital, people are fundamental to making that growth a success,” says Bernie Clark, vice president of marketing and strategy for biologics and specialty drug delivery at Catalent.
Collaborative Effort Underway to Groom Behavioral Health Specialists
Hiring Hoosiers is a new initiative from RTV6 that works to connect Hoosiers to employment opportunities, career development resources, training programs and educational paths. RTV6’s Marc Mullins covered the Community Behavioral Health Academy as a new model for preparing addictions-trained Licensed Clinical Social Workers to support those suffering from the Indiana opioid crisis. Jason Kloth, President and CEO of Ascend, said, “The program will have a profound impact on what is a public health crisis in our state.”
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Indiana has one of the highest rates of opioid use or dependency in the U.S. To address the shortage of trained behavioral health specialists to treat opioid patients in Indiana, Community Health Network has announced a new partnership with IUPUI, the University of Indianapolis and Ascend Indiana, an organization that brings together industry, higher education and philanthropic leaders. The Daily Journal explains how the Community Behavioral Health Academy graduates will have the potential to treat thousands more people struggling with addiction.
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Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI), the state’s association of 30 private non-profit colleges and universities, and Ascend Indiana are announcing the formation of a strategic alliance that will enhance connections between students and employers in order to meet the changing demands in the Indiana labor market.
New program will increase the number of Licensed Clinical Social Workers to meet the growing need for treatment as Indiana’s opioid epidemic persists
As the Indiana opioid crisis continues, there is a shortage of trained behavioral health professionals to ensure those suffering from substance use disorders (SUD) receive treatment. To help address this gap, Community Health Network is launching a program that will prepare more licensed clinical social workers to provide treatment in central Indiana, while also improving the quality of the training they receive to better serve patients. The program provides a model that can be replicated in communities across the state.
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Ascend Indiana receives Lilly Endowment, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust funding to grow strategic talent pipelines
Ascend Indiana announces an additional $2.4 million in funding from the Lilly Endowment Inc. and the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust to advance efforts to connect talent to Indiana employers. This funding will be used to bring together companies and higher education institutions to create custom talent pipelines, and to advance the Ascend Network, the cloud-based platform that combines algorithms with human interaction to match early-in-career talent to jobs and internships.
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As Indiana’s opioid epidemic surges, our state faces a massive shortage of trained specialists who can help those struggling to overcome heroin and prescription drug addiction. To fill this gap and help put more Hoosiers on a path to recovery, the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation today announced a grant to develop a unique model for training licensed clinical social workers who specialize in substance abuse counseling.
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Governance, Corruption, and Economic Performance
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Sanjeev Gupta, and George Abed
http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589061163.071
This volume presents 18 recent IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can most effectively be combated to improve governance, increase economic growth, and reduce poverty. The authors examine how civil service wages affect corruption, the impact of natural resource availability on corruption, how corruption retards the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, the impact of corruption on a country's income distribution and incidence of poverty, the effect of corruption on government expenditures on health and education, and the importance of structural reforms in combating corruption.
1 The Economics of Corruption: An Overview
Part I Causes and Consequences of Corruption
2 Corruption Around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures
3 Bureaucratic Corruption and the Rate of Temptation: Do Wages in the Civil Service Affect Corruption, and by How Much?
4 Controlling Fiscal Corruption
5 A Game Theoretic Analysis of Corruption in Bureaucracies
6 Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State
7 Does Mother Nature Corrupt? Natural Resources, Corruption, and Economic Growth
8 Corruption, Growth, and Public Finances
Part II Corruption and Government Expenditures
9 Corruption and the Composition of Government Expenditure
10 Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services
11 Corruption, Public Investment, and Growth
12 Corruption and Military Spending
13 Fiscal Decentralization and Governance: A Cross-Country Analysis
Part III Corruption and Taxes
14 Tax Revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa: Effects of Economic Policies and Corruption
15 Corruption, Extortion and Evasion
Part IV Corruption, Income Distribution, and Poverty
16 Production, Rent Seeking, and Wealth Distribution
17 Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty?
Part V Corruption and Transition Economies
18 Corruption, Structural Reforms, and Economic Performance in the Transition Economies
19 Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries: The Role of the IMF
2. Corruption and Military Spending
3. The Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence
3.1 The Theoretical Model
3.2. Empirical Evidence
3.3. Military Spending Trends and Corruption
4.1. Cross-Sectional Analysis
4.2. Panel Regression Analysis
4.3. Military Spending Equations
4.4. Military Procurement Equations
4.5. Does Conditionality in Adjustment Programs Play a Role?
4.6. Military Spending and Involvement in Armed Conflict
4.7. Further Robustness checks
4.8. Different Data Sources
Corruption and Military Spending
Sanjeev Gupta, Luiz de Mello and Raju Sharan
In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to understanding the reasons for, and economic consequences of, corruption. The existing literature can be divided into two broad strands. The first focuses on the determinants of corruption. Various studies have shown that the main factors affecting the scope and breadth of corruption are the quality of the civil service (Rauch and Evans, 2000); the level of public sector wages (van Rijckeghem and Weder, 1997); rule of law, particularly anticorruption legislation and the availability of natural resources (Leite and Weidmann, 1999); the economy’s degree of competition and trade openness; and the country’s industrial policy (Bhagwati, 1982; Krueger, 1993).1,2
The second strand of literature shifts attention from the determinants to the consequences of corruption. Recent studies have analyzed the impact of corruption on, among other things, output growth (Shleifer and Vishny, 1993; Murphy, et al., 1993; Mauro, 1995), the quality of public infrastructure and public investment (Tanzi and Davoodi, 1997), foreign direct investment (Wei, 1997), and income inequality and poverty (Gupta et al., 1998). These studies have shown that corruption is likely to have a detrimental impact on economic efficiency, growth, equity, and the overall welfare of a society. In the early literature, however, ethical considerations aside, corruption was seen as a means to achieve a higher degree of economic efficiency by “greasing the wheels” of government and overcoming cumbersome government regulation. By corollary, the absence of corruption would prevent the smooth functioning of markets, government, and economic institutions (Leff, 1964; Huntington, 1968; Lui, 1985; Beck and Maher, 1986; Lien, 1986). More recently, the negative aspects of corruption have been found to outweigh its efficiency-enhancing properties (Kaufmann and Wei, 1999).
A comprehensive definition of corruption is lacking in the literature. Different aspects of the problem are often highlighted in different definitions depending on the object of investigation. Nevertheless, corruption can be generally described as the abuse of government authority for private benefit (Bardhan, 1999; Tanzi, 1998). Corruption also involves some notion of illegality, and has been defined as “behavior which deviates from the formal duties of a public role because of private-regarding (personal, close family, private clique) pecuniary or status gain; or violates rules against the exercise of certain types of private-regarding behavior” (Nye, 1967, p. 419; Klitgaard, 1988, p. 23). Corruption is defined by Shleifer and Vishny (1993), whose focus is on privatization, as “the sale by government officials of government property for personal gain” (p. 599).
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and military spending. Various aspects of military spending lend themselves to acts of corruption. The basic hypothesis proposed in this paper is that corruption is correlated with (1) the share of defense outlays in both GDP and total government spending, and (2) military procurement in relation to both GDP and total government spending.
To our knowledge, our investigation is the first systematic crosscountry empirical analysis relating military spending with corruption.3 Our study supplements anecdotal evidence for a wide variety of countries that details instances of payment of commissions and bribes associated with public spending on the military, in particular on arms procurement.4 It has been estimated that bribes account for as much as 15% of the total spending on weapons acquisition (Tanzi, 1998).5Hines (1995) observes that trade in military aircraft is particularly susceptible to corruption.
The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 delineates the channels that link corruption to military spending. Section 3 sets out the model of military spending and corruption and the data set is described. The empirical results are reported in Section 4. Section 5 concludes.
Corruption is a multifaceted phenomenon that can affect military spending through a variety of channels. Corruption may be affected by supply-side considerations, in the sense that arms producers may resort to bribes (or inappropriate commissions) to win contracts, and/or demand-side considerations, insofar as the military may engage in activities which are prone to corruption.
Supply-side considerations are as follows:
Foreign suppliers may bribe the officials of countries importing arms and military equipment. This can be facilitated by the tax code of arms-exporting countries, according to which bribery may be deducted as a cost. Payment of bribes to foreign officials is typically not considered as a criminal act in these countries. To address this issue, the OECD called for greater transparency in the legal treatment of bribery to foreign counterparts among member countries (OECD, 1997).6
Since the mid-1980s, a persistent fall in military spending throughout the world has increased competition among arms producers.7 The end of the Cold War and the breakup of the former Soviet Union changed countries’ perceived threats and national security priorities. In some countries, the defense industry was saddled with idle capacities and huge fixed sunk costs. Large R&D costs have often compelled arms producers to scout aggressively for markets abroad (see www.worldpolicy.org/arms/papi2rep.txt for more information) by, for instance, resorting to bribery.8,9
Demand-side considerations are listed below:
Governments are typically the sole providers of defense services. Certain aspects of defense provision are particularly susceptible to corruption. Regulations typically confer power on the officials in charge of authorizing contracts. Limited competition among suppliers encourages rent seeking and provides incentives for officials to engage in malfeasant behavior (Ades and Di Tella, 1999; Kimenyi and Mbaku, 1996; Mbaku, 2000).
The secrecy surrounding defense outlays gives rise to corruption. In general, there is less transparency in government operations in the defense sector, particularly with respect to procurement of military equipment, than in other sectors.10 Defense contracts are often excluded from freedom of information legislation, where available; and are also often drawn in secrecy and under considerable discretionary power by the authorities. Administrative procedures in military spending may not be closely monitored by tax and customs administration authorities and defense contracts may not be liable to standard budget oversight (such as auditing and legislative approval).11
The stock of defense assets—such as military-controlled land, hardware, testing grounds, transport vehicles, and facilities such as housing and training centers—tends to be large and provide further opportunities for corruption. By controlling land, for instance, the military often controls the use and exploitation of natural resources.12 The military is also known to engage in business operations in a number of countries, ranging from producing arms, military equipment, and steel, to managing airports and duty-free shops. Commercial activities by the military may limit entry of private firms and encourage smuggling and commodity stockpiling.
There are additional features that make military spending particularly open to corruption. Defense projects tend to be relatively capital-intensive, which increases willingness of firms to bribe government officials to help them win a contract or tender.13 Access to information on the design and/or specifications of a tender can also be acquired by bribing government officials in the tender process.14
There is no unique theoretical model of military spending. The model developed by Hewitt (1992, 1993) adopts a public-choice framework for analyzing the relationship between military spending and overall government expenditures. This model and subsequent applications do not deal with the connection between corruption and military outlays, or indeed any other type of government spending.
In line with this strand of literature, we have modeled the relationship between corruption and military spending as follows. Government spending (G) is a composite of military (M) and nonmilitary (N) outlays, such that G = M + N, and is financed through taxation such that G = T, where T = τY, T is taxation, Y is national income, and 0 ≤ τ ≤ 1. To complete the model, we specify a utility function U that is twice-eoniinuously differentiable on private consumption (C) and government spending (G), with Ui > 0 and Uii < 0. for i = C, G. For simplicity, we adopt the form U(C, M, N) = CβMγMδ, where δ = 1-β-γ. Finally, for tractability, we assume no private investment.
We omit time indices for notational simplicity. The utility maximization problem is then:
In this corruption-free model, utility maximization requires:
By Eq. (4), for a given level of taxation τ, the share of military (and nonmilitary) spending in income (and total government spending) depends on the parameters of the utility function (γ and β). A higher γ, relative to β, leads to an increase in military spending relative to private consumption. Against this background, the association between corruption and military spending can be described as follows. Let the parameters of the utility function (β, γ, and δ) be affected by corruption R such that Eq. (4) becomes:
By Eq. (5),
Corruption therefore affects the parameters of the utility function, but is not introduced in the model as an argument of the utility function. That is, corruption is associated with higher military spending as long as the utility maximiser perceives an increase in military outlays as an opportunity to use public spending for private benefit to achieve a higher personal utility.
Because γ, β, τ and R are not directly observable, the impact of corruption on military spending can be estimated as follows:
where t is a time index and i indexes the countries in the panel, M/Yi(t) is the ratio of military spending to GDP, M/Gi(t) is the ratio of military spending to total government spending, G/Yi(t) is the ratio of government spending to GDP, Rj(t) is a corruption indicator, Ci(t) is a vector of controls, and ∈it is an error term.
The corruption indicators used here are the Transparency International (TI) index, compiled by Goettingen University;17 and the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) index.18,19 The control variables are as follows. Real GDP per capita is used as a scale variable. Secondary school enrolment measures the country’s level of social development. The urbanization rate and the age dependency ratio measure the demand for public goods and services.20 The size of the armed forces, measured as the number of military personnel per thousand population, proxies for pressures on the government’s wage bill. Large armies increase the operating costs of government, and hence military spending. Military spending in neighboring countries, defined as the unweighted average of neighboring countries’ ratio of military spending to GDP, is an indicator of regional tension and a country’s perceived threats that may lead to an increase in military spending (Davoodi et al., 1999). The ratio of government spending to GDP is also routinely used as an explanatory variable in structural models of military spending (see for example, Hewitt, 1992).
We proceed with an empirical analysis of the relationship between corruption and military spending using annual data for up to 120 countries in the period 1985–1998. Country selection was based primarily on the availability of internationally comparable data on military spending and arms imports for a sufficiently long time span. The list of countries is set out in Appendix A. The relevant variables are defined in Appendix B. Descriptive statistics are reported in Appendix C.
Data show that there has been a downward trend in worldwide military expenditures during the 1990s.21 The reduction in military spending has been described as a peace dividend (Knight et al., 1996). According to the World Economic Outlook database of the IMF, the share of military expenditures in GDP fell gradually from 5.1% in 1985 to 3.4% in 1990 and to 2.1% in 1999. As a share of total government spending, military outlays fell from 14.2% in 1990 to 10.0% in 1999.
This downward trend in worldwide military spending is confirmed by other sources of data on military expenditures: the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). In a sample of 96 countries, SIPRI reports a fall in worldwide military expenditures to 2.1% of GDP in 1998 from 3.3% of GDP in 1990. For a sample of 89 countries, IISS data show that worldwide military expenditures fell by 0.7% of GDP since 1990 to 2.5% of GDP in 1998. The data produced by ACDA, available only up to 1997, show a decline in military spending for 107 countries of 1.1% of GDP since 1990 to 2.7% of GDP in 1997,22
The association between corruption and military spending is illustrated in Fig. 1. Panels A and B plot the corruption index against the ratios of military spending to GDP and total government expenditures, respectively, for all countries in the sample. The downward-sloping trend lines suggest that more corrupt countries tend to have higher military spending as a share of GDP and total government expenditures.23 The bivariate correlation between the military spending-to-GDP ratio and corruption is −0.15 (Appendix D).
Procurement is an important channel through which corruption affects military expenditures, as we have suggested above. Panels C and D of Fig. 1 plot the corruption index against military procurement (arms imports) as a share of GDP and total government expenditures, respectively, for all countries that we examine. Arms imports are taken as a proxy for procurement because most countries in the sample do not produce arms domestically. The trend lines are also downward sloping. The correlation coefficient between arms imports as a share of GDP and corruption is −0.29 (Appendix D).
Some caution is required in this type of empirical analysis. Lack of suitable, good-quality data has been the main deterrent to empirical research on corruption and its association with military and other types of spending. The notable constraints are: (1) data on all the possible channels through which corruption affects military spending are simply not available; (2) information on military assets and military engagements in commercial activities is hard to come by and often unreliable; (3) in most countries, budgetary data do not specify in full all military outlays, reflecting the confidential nature of military activities; and (4) a focus on arms trade flows is an imperfect proxy for military procurement and neglects purchases of domestically produced military equipment. Corruption indices tend to focus on subjective assessments of business risk and efficiency and financial corruption, and do not necessarily take into account issues related to procurement of military equipment. These indices do not distinguish between “small” and “large” corruption; the latter type is more likely to occur in the case of military procurement activities.
Figure 1.Corruption and Military Spending
Source: IMF staff calculations.
1A high score in the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
Table 1 presents the results of the estimation of Eqs. (6a) and (6b), based on cross-country means for the entire time period covered by the data. The corruption variable has the expected sign and is statistically significant at the 10% level when the ratios of military spending to GDP and to government spending are used as the dependent variables. No statistically significant association was found between corruption and the ratio of arms imports to GDP or government spending. The coefficients of the control variables suggest that a larger share of military spending in GDP is associated with lower development indicators (GDP per capita, gross secondary school enrolment, and higher urbanization rates), higher age dependency ratios, higher government spending in relation to GDP, higher defense spending in neighboring countries, and larger armies (per thousand population).24,25
Table 1.Corruption and Military Spending: Cross-Sectional Analysis, 1985–1998
Dependent variable
Military spending as a share of GDP
Military spending as a share of government spending
Arms imports as a share of GDP
Arms imports as a share of government spending
Corruption −0.48*** −0.44** −0.76 −0.62
(−1.880) (−1.673) (−1.495) (−1.172)
Real GDP per capita −0.005 −0.05 −0.45*** −0.18
Gross secondary school enrollment −0.23 −0.19 −0.47 −0.05
Age dependency ratio 0.50 0.51 0.91 0.67
(1.324) (1.346) (1.237) (0.881)
Urbanization rate −0.09 −0.08 −0.48 −0.43
Government spending as share of GDP 0.66** −0.34 1.28** 0.32
(3.201) (−1.623) (2.993) (0.767)
Average of military spending of neighbors 0.29** 0.26* 0.47* 0.28
Soldiers per thousand population 0.53** 0.53** 0.87** 0.22
Constant −0.39 −0.48 5.30** 3.62*
(−0.452) (−0.540) (3.006) (2.032)
No. of observations 79 79 79 77
Adjusted R squared 0.60 0.55 0.58 0.26
F-test 15.54 12.89 14.70 4.27
(*), (**), and (***) denote, respectively, significance at the 5%, 1%, and 10% levels. All models are estimated by OLS. The numbers in parentheses are heteroscedasticity-consistent t-statistics. All variables are defined in logarithms. In all models, a high score on the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
Because the cross-sectional estimation of Eqs. (6a) and (6b) does not capture the time dimension of the relationship between corruption and military spending, the models were re-estimated as a panel.26 Three basic different panel data estimators are considered: pooled OLS; oneway (country dummy) fixed effects, estimated by OLS; and random effects, estimated by GLS. Model selection is based on log-likelihood and the adjusted R2 for the pooled OLS and fixed-effects estimator (FEM). To deal with possible reverse causality biases, the models have also been estimated by two-stage least squares (2SLS) and generalized method of moments (GMM).
Table 2 reports the results of the estimation of Eqs. (6a) in which the ratio of military spending to GDP is used as the dependent variable. The explanatory variables account for 52% to 55% of the variation in military spending across countries and over time, depending on model specification. The F-test is significant at classical confidence levels for all models. In the baseline model, the corruption indicator has a negative, although statistically insignificant, impact on military spending.27 In Model 1, the control variables are included in the estimating equation.28 The corruption indicator has the expected sign: the societies that are perceived as being more corrupt have a higher share of military spending in GDP. The point estimate suggests that a 1% increase in the corruption index is associated with an increase in military spending as a share of GDP of 0.32%.
Table 2.Corruption and Military Spending: Panel Regression Analysis, 1985–1998(Dependent variable: military spending as a share of GDP)
Corruption −0.03 −0.32** −0.21* −0.08 −0.41* −0.38*
(−0.627) (−3.420) (−2.061) (−1.035) (−2.064) (−2.050)
Real GDP per capita −0.02 −0.0001 −0.52** 0.07 0.10
(−0.342) (−0.001) (−3.066) (0.570) (0.873)
Gross secondary school enrollment −0.22** −0.19* −0.05 −0.19 −0.21
(−3.151) (−2.458) (−0.297) (−1.313) (−1.575)
Age dependency ratio 0.44** 0.56** −0.05 0.50 0.51***
(2.711) (3.161) (−0.008) (1.605) (1.714)
Urbanization rate −0.03 −0.06 0.46 −0.08 −0.07
(−0.393) (−0.596) (1.178) (−0.433) (−0.421)
Government spending a share of GDP 0.56** 0.56** 0.43** 0.49** 0.49**
(7.098) (6.302) (5.124) (3.638) (3.592)
Average of military spending of neighbors 0.26** 0.27** 0.21** 0.27** 0.27**
Soldiers per thousand population 0.48** 0.46** 0.15 0.45** 0.43**
(13.916) (11.774) (1.243) (7.403) (8.028)
IMF-supported program dummy −0.14** −0.03 −0.76
(−3.097) (−0.294) (−0.084)
Conflict-country dummy 0.36**
Constant −3.72** −1.03** −1.28** −0.91** −1.51*** −1.81*
(−35.899) (−2.843) (−3.184) (−1.930) (−1.963) (−2.383)
Estimator GLS OLS OLS FEM GMM GMM
No. of observations 1,249 430 374 430 332 332
Adjusted R squared 0.55 0.52 0.56
F-test 66.51 51.15 33.59
LM test 462.72 593.52
[0.000] [0.000]
Hausmann test 0.03
[0.866]
P-test (overidentification of instruments) 0.918 0.833
(*), (**), and (***) denote, respectively, significance at the 5%, 1%, and 10% levels. All variables are defined in logarithms, except for the IMF dummy. The numbers in parentheses are her eroscedasticity-consistent t-statistics. The corruption indicator is lagged 3 years in Model 2. Significant values of the Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test reject the pooled regression model (OLS). Significant values of the Hausmann test reject the random effects model (GLS). p-value in brackets. FEM denotes the fixed effects estimator. GMM denotes the generalized method of moments estimator. In all models, a high score on the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
It can be proposed that the true relationship between military spending and corruption involves a distributed lag. To deal with this possibility, Model 2 was estimated with the corruption indicator lagged 3 years. It can be argued that the inclusion of the lagged, rather than contemporaneous, values of the corruption indicator reduces the risk of bias in parameter estimates due to reverse causality.29 The results are consistent with the previous findings. The point estimate is nevertheless lower than in Model 1, which is not surprising given the lagged response.
We also used the ratio of military spending to total government spending as the dependent variable, as in Eq. (6b). Table 3 reports the results. The F-test is significant at classical confidence levels for all models. As in the case of Table 2, different model specifications are used to test for the robustness of the parameter estimates reported in Table 3. All models suggest that the countries perceived as being more corrupt tend to have a higher share of military spending in total government spending.30
Table 3.Corruption and Military Spending: Panel Regression Analysis, 1985–1998(Dependent variable: military spending as a share of government spending)
Corruption −0.54** −0.37** −0.20* −0.10 −0.42* −0.39*
Real GDP per capita 0.04 −0.05 −0.53** 0.09 0.12
(0.746) (−0.355) (−3.187) (0.761) (1.056)
Gross secondary school enrollment −0.24** −0.20** −0.08 −0.19 −0.21
Age dependency ratio 0.51 0.68** −0.15 0.60** 0.60*
Urbanization rate 0.008 0.01 0.50 −0.09 −0.08
(0.094) (0.109) (1.299) (−0.510) (−0.501)
Government spending as share of GDP −0.48** −0.52** −0.54** −0.51** −0.50**
Constant −1.63** −1.41** −1.88** −0.85 −1.69* −1.98*
(−19.151) (−4.164) (−4.972) (−1.882) (−2.230) (−2.66)
Estimator OLS OLS OLS FEM GMM GMM
F-test 124.25 71.27 56.94 47.12
LM Test 529.55
(*), (**), and (***) denote, respectively, significance at the 5%, 1%, and 10% levels. All variables are defined in logarithms, except for the IMF dummy. The numbers in parentheses are heteroscedasticity-consistent t-statistics. The corruption indicator is lagged 3 years in Model 2. Significant values of the LM test reject the pooled regression model (OLS). P-value in brackets. FEM denotes the fixed effects estimator. GMM denotes the generalized method of moments estimator. In all models, a high score on the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
The findings reported above confirm the hypothesis that corruption is associated with higher military spending, and that countries with worse corruption indicators tend to spend more on defense outlays, as a share of both GDP and total government spending. As noted above, procurement is likely to be an important channel through which corruption affects military expenditures. To test this hypothesis, we re-estimated equations (6a)) and (6b) using military procurement (arms imports) as a share of both GDP and total government spending. The regressions reported in Tables 4 and 5 use the same set of right-hand side variables as in Tables 2 and 3. The results suggest that corruption is associated with higher procurement spending, as illustrated in Fig. 1.31
To deal with reverse causality, the equations were also re-estimated using the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator, as the government spending equations. Overall, in the panel regressions reported in Tables 2–5, both OLS and 2SLS estimators yield similar parameter estimates. Given the adequacy of the instruments in the first-stage regressions, it is fair to say that taking account of the information provided in the time dimension of the panel reduces the risk of bias in the parameter estimates due to reverse causality. This is particularly true when lagged, rather than contemporaneous, values of the corruption indicator are included in the estimating equations. In the cross-sectional equations, however, for which the literature offers more guidance on the choice of instruments, the results are weaker for the 2SLS regressions.
Table 4.Corruption and Military Spending: Panel Regression Analysis, 1985–1998(Dependent variable: arms imports as a share of GDP)
Corruption −1.07** −0.85** −0.82** −0.85** −1.10* −1.05*
(−8.486) (−3.776) (−3.487) (−3.812) (−2.320) (−2.2161
Real GDP per capita −0.29* −0.19 −0.42** −1.06* −0.37
Average of military spending of neighbors 0.67** 0.69** 0.57** 0.50* 0.50*
Gross secondary school enrollment −0.12 −0.18 −0.17 −0.06 −0.07
Age dependency ratio 0.86* 0.90* 0.80* 0.92 0.91
Urbanization rate −0.41*** −0.46* −0.32 −0.44 −0.42
Soldiers per thousand population 0.78** 0.73** 0.79** 0.73** 0.73**
Government spending as share of GDP 0.61** 0.59** 0.63** 0.59* 0.59*
IMF-supported program dummy −0.46** −0.51* −0.49**
Conflict-country dummy 0.29
Constant −3.87** 2.23* 1.95* 2.95** 3.02*** 2.77
(−17.139) (2.490) (2.209) (3.216) (1.867) (1.587)
Estimator OLS OLS OLS OLS GMM GMM
No. of observations 888 340 333 340 291 291
F-test 72.02 43.12 44.17 40.25
(*), (**), and (***) denote, respectively, significance at the 5%, 1%, and 10% levels. All variables are defined in logarithms, except for the IMF dummy. The numbers in parentheses are heteroscedasticity-consistent t-statistics. The corruption indicator is lagged 3 years in Model 2. GMM denotes the generalized method of moments estimator. In all models, a high score on the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
Table 5.Corruption and Military Spending: Panel Regression Analysis, 1985–1998(Dependent variable: arms imports as a share of government spending)
Average of military spending of neighbors 0.67** 0.69** 0.57** 0.50* 0.506*
Gross secondary school enrollment −0.12 −0.18 −0.17 −0.06 −0.074
Government spending as share of GDP −0.39* −0.41* −0.37* −0.41 −0.40
IMF-supported program dummy −0.46** −0.51** −0.49**
(−3.665) (2.494) (2.213) (3.219) (1.868) (1.588)
P-test (overidentiftcation of instruments) 0.296 0.238
(*), (**), and (***) denote, respectively, significance at the 5%, l%, and 10% levels. All variables are defined in logarithms, except for the IMF dummy. The numbers in parentheses are heteroscedasticily-consistent t-statistics. The corruption indicator is lagged 3 years in Model 2. GMM denotes the generalized method of moments estimator. In all models, a high score on the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
Policy advice from international financial institutions, in particular the IMF, has focused, among others, on improving the composition of government expenditures in favor of programs with higher productivity, including those in support of human development.32 To ascertain whether this is the case, a dummy variable was introduced to identify the countries in the sample that have, or have had, IMF-supported programs.33 This dummy variable takes the value of one if there is a program in a given year and zero, otherwise.
The results reported in Model 3 (Tables 2–5) suggest that IMF program countries tend to have lower military spending as a share of GDP and total government spending. Unlike Davoodi et al. (1999), who consider a different time period and sample of countries in their analysis, we found the IMF dummy to be strongly significant when military procure merit was used as the dependent variable.34 In this case, military procurement tends to be lower in countries with IMF-supported programs.
Evidence of serial correlation in the residuals was found for most models. Serial correlation is expected because military spending levels in one given year affect spending levels in subsequent years. To address this issue and the possibility of heterogeneity and endogeneity of the re-gressors, the models were re-estimated by GMM.35 In general, the results reported in Tables 2–5 are in line with the previous findings, but the IMF dummy loses significance in the military spending equations.
A conflict-country dummy was introduced in the equations reported in Tables 2–5. We used SIPRI’s definition of major armed conflict, defined “as a prolonged combat between the military forces of two or more governments, or of one government and at least one organized armed group, and incurring the battle-related deaths of at least 1000 people during the entire conflict. A conflict location is the territory of a state.” SIPRI covers the post-1992 period. As in Davoodi et al. (1999), for years prior to 1992, we use the list of conflict countries in Sivard (1993). The variable takes value one in conflict years for each country, and zero otherwise. In the military spending equations (Model 5, Tables 2 and 3), the conflict-country dummy was found to affect military spending positively, as expected, and to be statistically significant at classical confidence levels. In the military procurement equations (Model 5, Tables 4 and 5), the coefficient of the conflict-country dummy was found to be positively signed but not statistically different from zero.36
To further evaluate the robustness of the results reported above, we also introduced a dummy variable to identify the OECD member countries in the sample. OECD membership was found to be associated with higher military spending as a share of GDP (Table 6). A dummy variable was also introduced to identify the arms-exporting countries in the sample. In these countries, it can be argued that the relationship between military spending and corruption differs from that in arms-importing countries. The dummy was found to be positively associated with military spending, but not statistically significant at classical levels of significance. Moreover, we experimented with time dummies to capture the downward trend in military spending over time (Section 3.3). The time dummy was not found to be statistically significant.37 A regional dummy was also included in the estimation of equations to identify the African countries in the sample. The African dummy was found to be positively signed and statistically significant in most models when ACDA data are used in the construction of the dependent variables. This is not surprising because Africa had the vast majority of conflict countries in recent years.38
Corruption −0.38* −0.34* −0.41* −0.38*
Real GDP per capita 0.10 0.24* 0.11 0.10
Gross secondary school enrollment −0.21 −0.30* −0.20 −0.21
Age dependency ratio 0.51*** 0.33 0.60 0.52***
Government spending as share of GDP 0.49** 0.59** 0.48** 0.49**
Average of military spending of neighbors 0.27** 0.25** 0.27** 0.27**
Soldiers per thousand population 0.43** 0.412** 0.43** 0.438**
Conflict-country dummy 0.36** 0.37** 0.36** 0.35**
OECD dummy 0.37**
Arms exporters dummy 0.13
Time trend −0.26
(−0.129)
Constant −1.8* −2.29** −1.80* −2.29*
(−2.383) (−3.28) (−2.461) (−3.283)
P-test (overidentification of instruments) 0.833 0.715 0.756 0.831
(*), (**), and (***) denote, respectively, significance at the 5%, 1%. and 10% levels. All variables are defined in logarithms. The numbers in parentheses are heteroscedasticity-consistent t-statistics. The number of observations is 332 in all models. All models are estimated by GMM. In all models, a high score on the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
The findings reported above are robust to the use of the different sources of military spending data referred to in Section 3.3. These data sources differ primarily in country coverage and the definition of expenditures. The WEO data set contains defense budget outturns reported by IMF country desk officers and has the widest coverage of countries. SIPRI uses the NATO definition of defense spending and includes military pensions, military interest payments, and paramilitary expenditures in total outlays, but excludes police expenditures. IISS uses the NATO definition only for NATO countries, and defense budget outturns for non-NATO countries. These sources also differ in the treatment of calendar and fiscal year data. For instance, WEO and SIPRI data are calculated on a calendar year basis, while IISS uses a mix of fiscal and calendar year data. The timeliness with which data are reported also varies among these data sources.
Table 7 reports the estimations of Eq. (6a) using military spending data from WEO, ACDA, SIPRI, and IISS. The same sample of countries is used in these regressions. The association between corruption and military spending was found to have the correct sign and to be strongly significant, regardless of the data set used. The coefficients vary between −0.27 when SIPRI data are used and −0.35 when IISS data are used.39
ACDA
Corruption −0.32** −0.27* −0.30* −0.35*
GDP per capita 0.004 0.11*** −0.42** −0.13
(0.065) (1.847) (−5.682) (−1.462)
Gross secondary school enrollment −0.40** −0.55** −0.35** −0.27*
Age dependency ratio 0.30 0.30 −1.03** 0.29
(1.500) (1.585) (−4.453) (1.082)
Urbanization rate 0.11 −0.07 0.43** 0.007
Soldiers per thousand population 0.40** 0.42** 0.49** 0.44**
Constant −0.30 0.29 1.79** 0.79
(−0.650) (0.653) (3.291) (1.263)
(*), (**), and (***) denote, respectively, significance at the 5%, 1%, and 10% levels. All variables are defined in logarithms. The numbers in parentheses are heteroscedasticity-consistent t-statistics. The corruption indicator is lagged 3 years in Model 2. All models are estimated by OLS. The number of observations is 275. In all models, a high score on the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
This paper has shown that corruption is associated with higher military spending as a share of GDP and total government expenditures, and with larger procurement outlays in relation to both GDP and government spending. Although some caution is needed, owing to the data limitations, the evidence reported in this paper is suggestive—but by no means conclusive—that countries perceived as being more corrupt tend to spend more on the military. The results are fairly robust to different model specifications, estimation techniques, and data sources. The paper contributes to the ongoing debate in international fora on the choice of appropriate governance indicators, and supports the possible use of military spending in relation to GDP and total government spending as such indicators.
The principal policy conclusion of this paper is that, other things being equal, we can expect policies aimed at reducing corruption to change the composition of government spending toward more productive, nonmilitary outlays. Corruption in military spending/procurement can of course be reduced through greater transparency and reduced patronage at the level of officials receiving bribes. Defense contracts could also be included in freedom of information legislation, when available. Arms procurement contracts could be liable to standard budgetary oversight (such as auditing procedures and legislative approval), in the same way as other expenditure programs in the budget.
Deficiencies in budget oversight and associated corruption are not unique to the defense sector. Transparent budget preparation, execution, and reporting, as well as subjecting fiscal information to independent assurances of integrity would however weaken the channels through which corruption affects public procurement, including in the military sector.
Appendix A. Country Annual Data Used
1. Albania 41. Guatemala 81. Pakistan
2. Algeria 42. Guinea 82. Papua New Guinea
3. Angola 43. Guinea-Bissau 83. Paraguay
4. Argentina 44. Guyana 84. Peru
5. Australia 45. Haiti 85. Philippines
6. Austria 46. Honduras 86. Poland
7. Bahrain 47. Hungary 87. Portugal
8. Bangladesh 48. India 88. Romania
9. Belgium 49. Indonesia 89. Russia
10. Bolivia 50. Iran, Islamic 90. Saudi Arabia
11. Botswana Republic of 91. Senegal
12. Brazil 51. Ireland 92. Sierra Leone
13. Bulgaria 52. Israel 93. Singapore
14. Burkina Faso 53. Italy 94. Slovak Republic
15. Cameroon 54. Jamaica 95. South Africa
16. Canada 55. Japan 96. Spain
17. Central African 56. Jordan 97. Sri Lanka
Republic 57. Kenya 98. Sudan
18. chile 58. Korea, Dem. People’s 99. Suriname
19. china Rep. of 100. Sweden
20. Colombia 59. Korea, Republic of 101. Switzerland
21. Congo, Dem. 60. Kuwait 102. Syrian Arab Republic
Republic of 61. Lebanon 103. Taiwan Province of china
22. Costa Rica 62. Libya 104. Tanzania
23. Côte d’Ivoire 63. Luxembourg 105. Thailand
24. Cuba 64. Madagascar 106. Togo
25. Cyprus 65. Malawi 107. Trinidad and Tobago
26. Czech Republic 66. Malaysia 108. Tunisia
27. Denmark 67. Mali 109. Turkey
28. Dominican Republic 68. Malta 110. Uganda
29. Ecuador 69. Mexico 111. United Arab Emirates
30. Egypt 70. Mongolia 112. United Kingdom
31. El Salvador 71. Morocco 113. United States
32. Ethiopia 72. Mozambique 114. Uruguay
33. Fiji 73. Myanmar 115. República Bolivariana
34. Finland 74. Namibia de Venezuela
35. France 75. Netherlands 116. Vietnam
36. Gabon 76. New Zealand 117. Yemen, Republic of
37. Gambia, The 77. Niger 118. Yugoslavia, Federal
38. Germany 78. Nigeria Republic of
39. Ghana 79. Norway 119. Zambia
40. Greece 80. Oman 120. Zimbabwe
Appendix B. Variable Definitions and Sources
CORIN Corruption index. ICRG, TI
GDPPC Real per capita GDP in PPP terms. World Bank: 1999 WDI
GESGDP Ratio of government expenditure to GDP. WEO, World Bank
AFTHP Armed Forces per thousand population. ACDA
DSGDP Ratio of military spending to GDR WEO, SIPRI, ACDA, IISS
DEFSGE Ratio of military spending to government expenditures. WEO
AIMPSGDP Ratio of arms imports to GDP. ACDA, World Bank
AISDEF Ratio of arms imports to military spending. ACDA, WEO
AISGE Ratio of arms imports to government expenditures. ACDA, WEO
AVNEB Unweighted average of military spending as a share of GDP of neighboring countries. WEO
SENROL Gross secondary school enrollment. World Bank: 1999 WDI
URBAN Urbanization rate. World Bank: 1999 WDI
AGEDEP Age dependency ratio. World Bank: 1999 WDI
IMF program Dummy variable taking value 1 for countries with IMF-supported program, and 0 otherwise. IMF
Appendix C. Descriptive Statistics
(Unweighted averages)
Number of observations
DSGDP (ACDA) 4.4 6.4 0.2 95.6 833
DSGDP (IISS) 3.7 4.6 0.2 68.3 907
DSGDP (WEO) 3.3 4.2 0.2 86.2 1,355
DSGDP (SIPRI) 3.2 3.5 0.2 48.5 964
AVNEB 3.7 3.4 0.5 19.2 1,260
CORIN 5.7 2.2 0.8 10.0 1,556
GDPPC 6,712 6,609 290 30,140 1,383
AFTHP 7.55 8.51 0.41 62.17 1,236
AIMPSGDP 1.1 2.7 0.0 36.5 997
DEFSGE 10.3 8.4 1.2 88.1 1,326
AISGE 3.4 7.5 0.0 81.4 980
AISDEF 19.4 19.8 0.0 99.1 822
GESGDP 33.1 13.4 6.6 78.1 1,605
SENROL 58.4 32.9 3.3 148.3 1,140
AGEDEP 0.7 0.2 0.4 1.2 1,074
URBAN 53.2 23.6 9.9 100.0 1,547
The sample covers 1985–1998, All values are defined in percent form, except for CORIN, GDPPC, and AGEDEP.
Appendix D. Raw Correlations
DSGDP (WEO)
DEFSGE
AIMPSGDP
AISDEF
AVNEB
GDPPC
AFTHP
GESGDP
SENROL
AGEDEP
DSGDP (WEO) 1.00
DEFSGE 0.89 1.00
AIMPSGDP 0.57 0.57 1.00
AISDEF 0.15 0.21 0.68 1.00
AVNEB 0.68 0.60 0.62 0.28 1.00
CORIN −0.15 −0.38 −0.29 −0.32 −0.12 1.00
GDPPC 0.02 −0.22 −0.08 −0.29 0.02 0.72 1.00
AFTHP 0.41 0.3J 0.37 0.20 0.40 0.16 0.22 1.00
GESGDP 0.21 −0.16 0.12 −0.10 0.18 0.65 0.70 0.36 1.00
SENROL −0.10 −0.37 −0.16 −0.25 −0.08 0.75 0.83 0.23 0.74 1.00
AGEDEP 0.18 0.38 0.23 0.27 0.24 −0.60 −0.68 −0.09 −0.50 −0.82 1.00
URBAN 0.18 −0.08 0.07 −0.18 0.14 0.46 0.74 0.35 0.61 0.72 −0.56 1.00
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Reprinted from European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 17, Sanjeev Gupta, Luiz de Mello, and Raju Sharan, “Corruption and Military Spending,” pp. 749-777 (2001), with permission from Elsevier Science.
The authors wish to thank two anonymous referees, Arye Hillman, Hamid Davoodi, Robert Gillingham, Gabriela Inchauste, Luc Leruth, Ali Mansoor, Randa Sab, Erwin Tiongson, and Marijn Verhoeven for helpful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.
Economies experiencing exchange rate controls are likely to have other distortions that provide opportunities for rent seeking and hence corruption (Wei, 1999). Indicators of regulatory discretion (Johnson et al., 1998) and competition (Ades and di Tella, 1999) are also used to measure the extent of distortion in the economy.
In cross-section studies, a number of time-invariant explanatory variables are often used in corruption models. These are the index of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, measuring the probability that two randomly selected persons from a given country do not belong to the same ethnolinguistic group (Taylor and Hudson, 1972; and Mauro, 1995); the distance from the Equator, measured as the distance in latitudes of a given country’s capital from the Equator; and the share of a country’s population that speaks English at home (Hall and Jones, 1999). These variables are expected to capture cultural factors including the strength of a culture of arms-length relationships and societal acceptance of corruption, and the possibility that ethnolinguistic divisions in society create opportunities for rent seeking. La Porta et al. (1998) also use religion and legal systems as controls in corruption equations.
In analyzing the relationship between corruption and government spending, Mauro (1997) provides some evidence that military spending is associated with corruption.
While addressing a press conference in Manila on October 1, 1999, Mark Pieth, chairman of the OECD Working Group on bribery said “If you look at the figures, far more [bribes] are actually paid in industrialized countries, for example, in the arms trade.” Corruption can also be found in the form of campaign financing in return for favorable legislation for continued spending on military R&D and for lifting bans on exports of arms, sometimes even seeking involvement of government officials to actively promote such trade. See Lambsdorff (1998) and Naylor (1998) for mori information and anecdotal evidence of corruption in arms trade and procurement.
In fact, the internet has become an important vehicle for the dissemination of corruption indicators, case studies, anecdotal evidence, reports, and surveys. See the Transparency International website (www.transparency.de) for a wealth of information on this subject. In the case of corruption and military spending, see the World Policy Institute website (www.worldpolicy.org) for some anecdotal evidence of corruption in military procurement. Also, the website of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI (www.sipri.se), contains information on arms production, arms transfers, military expenditures and military technology, as well as links to many sites with information on this subject.
The OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, in effect since February 15, 1999, makes it a “crime to offer, promise, or give a bribe to a foreign public official in order to obtain or retain institutional business deals. [It also] puts an end to the practice according tax deductibility to bribe payments made to foreign officials.” See www.oecd.org/daf/nocorruption/index.htm for more details. The United Slates’ Foreign Corrupt Practice Act of 1977 also makes it a crime for American firms to bribe foreign government officials.
See Gupta et al. (1996) and IMF (2000) for further details.
This argument does not apply in the case of countries where the bulk of military procurement is not carried out through the standard commercial channels. In these countries, the supply of military equipment may have involved donations of surplus military equipment from former colonizers, and from other suppliers during the Cold War (Levine, 1975; Gould, 1980). Non-commercial access to military equipment has also been important in “embargoed” countries. Nevertheless, corruption may still occur in these non-commercial transactions, but it takes a different form from the types described above. It may involve, for instance, bribes paid to the employees of parastatal companies that trade and/or produce military equipment. These companies have often been set up to circumvent the sanctions imposed on formal bilateral trade in “embargoed” countries (Ellis, 1998).
The combination of cost negligence on the part of arms importers and the monopson-istic nature of the military procurement process creates opportunity for overinvoicing in procurement contracts. As a result, the companies paying bribes and commissions can subsequently recover these costs, at least in part, by (i) overpricing arms and ammunition; (ii) overcharging for spare parts and minor add-ons which are specific to the system and of which they are the lone producer; and (iii) obtaining lucrative contracts to train the officers of the armed forces in the use of the weapons purchased.
See www.transparency.de for further details. Military procurement is defined in this paper principally as nonwage outlays, such as the purchase of services, arms, and military equipment.
Defense-related operations may not always be consolidated in the budget. For instance, the revenues of state-owned enterprises in the defense sector may be transferred to off-budgetary funds that in turn finance spending on defense. Again, the existence of off-budgetary funds and operations is not confined to the defense sector but is likely to be pervasive in this sector, particularly in developing countries. where the coverage of the public sector may not be comprehensive and budgetary oversight inadequate.
In a number of countries, natural resource lax revenues are earmarked to finance military spending or extrabudgetary funds for military use. The military are also responsible for issuing licenses and concessions for logging and mining and for transportation of nat-ural resources, particularly crude oil and fuel.
Indeed, corruption has also been shown to alter the composition of government spending in favor of capital-intensive projects (Rose-Ackerman, 1996; Tanzi and Davoodi, 1997; UNDP, 1997). It also increases public investment, particularly in unproductive projects, thereby squeezing public resources away from current expenditures such as operations and maintenance (Mauro, 1997).
It can also be argued that bureaucrats in poor countries may opt for imports of complex technology, rather than more standardized—and possibly more appropriate—technology, because it is hard to delect improper valuation and/or overinvoicing in the former case (Bardhan, 1997). Corruption may in this case induce excessive capital intensity in government procurement. In many developing countries, advanced weapons are purchased even in the absence of adequately trained soldiers who can use them. Again, the importation of inadequate technology is not unique to the military but is more likely to occur in certain types of public procurement, of which defense is a key example.
Note that,NY=δβ(1−τ) similarly and NG=δβ(1−τ)YG. .
Note thai, similarly,NY=δ(R)β(R)(1−τ) and NG=δ(R)β(R)(1−τ)YG. .
Available via the Internet: http://www.transparency.de.
The ICRG index measures corruption in a country as perceived by foreign investors. It varies from 0 (most corrupt) to 6 (least corrupt). Corruption is defined as the likelihood of a government official “to demand special payments,” whether “illegal payments are expected throughout lower levels of government” in the form of “bribes connected with import and export licenses, exchange controls, tax assessment, police protection, or loans.” See Knack and Keefer (1995), for further details.
The ICRG index spans 1985 through 1998 while the TI index covers the period 1995 onward. To create a single continuous index from 1985 to 1998, the ICRG index was rescaled by multiplying it by 10/6 and then splicing the two indices, as in Tanzi and Davoodi (1997). Mauro (1995) presents a detailed analysis of different corruption indices, including the ones used in this paper, and shows that these indices are highly correlated. A sensitivity analysis of the econometric results using different corruption indices lends to yield robust parameter estimates (Gupta et al., 1998).
Real GDP per capita, the urbanization rate, and the age dependency ratio have also been used in military spending equations (Hewitt, 1992, 1993; and Davoodi et al., 1999).
For further details, see Hewitt (1993), Bayoumi et al. (1995), and Knight et al. (1996).
In line with the fall in military spending in the 1990s, ACDA data show a reduction in the size of the armed forces per thousand population between 1990 and 1995. According to data for 134 countries, the size of the armed forces has fallen since 1990 for all regions in the world from 6.7 per thousand population to 5.7 per thousand population, except in the newly industrialized Asian countries. Countries in Africa and the Western Hemisphere have the smallest armed forces as a share of population (IMF, 1999 and 2000, World Economic Outlook. October 1999: Box No, 6.1, pp. 138-140).
A high score in the corruption index indicates a low level of corruption.
A political regime variable has also been included in the set of control variables in cross-sectional military spending regressions.
To deal with the possibility of reverse causality, we re-estimated the equations using the two-stage least squares estimator. Corruption was instrumented by the ethnolinguistic fractionalization index, the share of people speaking English at home, and distance from the Equator, as discussed above. As reported in the literature, all explanatory factors are correctly signed and statistically significant at classical levels. In the second-stage regressions, in general, the coefficient of corruption in the government spending equations loses significance. In the arms procurement equations, the corruption coefficients are significant, albeit only at the 10% level, but no longer correctly signed. The coefficients are also smaller in magnitude when the equations are estimated by two-stage least squares.
Other cross-sectional studies (Mauro, 1997) have shown a relatively weak association between military spending and corruption.
The LM and Hausmann tests recommend rejection of the OLS model and the GLS coefficients are reported instead. In what follows, the FEM/GLS coefficients are reported, together with the LM and Hausmann tests, whenever the OLS model is rejected.
The age dependency ratio and the urbanization rate may be proxying demand for government provision. Estimating the models without these control variables when the ratio of government spending to GDP is included in the estimating equation produced similar results.
We also experimented with different lag structures (1, 5, 7, and 10 years) yielding consistent results.
To deal with the possibility of reverse causality, we also used the instrumental variables estimator to re-estimate the regressions in Tables 2 and 3 treating the contemporaneous values of corruption as endogenous. The selection of instruments is not trivial in this type of regression and we opted for the most conservative choice: the lagged values of the corruption index were used as instruments and different lag structures were experimented with (1, 5, 7, and 10 years). The set of instruments used in the cross-sectional regressions are time-invariant and therefore cannot be used in the panel regressions. Lagged corruption is correctly signed and statistically significant in the first-stage regressions. In the second-stage regressions, corruption remains negatively signed. The coefficients are smaller in magnitude than those estimated by OLS for the uninstrumented lagged values of corruption. The t-statistics arc also typically lower but still in general significant at classical levels. When the fixed-effects estimator was used, the models were estimated in first differences, given the bias due to the correlation between the fixed effects and the lagged dependent variable. The results, omitted to economize on space, are in line with those reported in the tables. Lagged corruption remains correctly signed and statistically significant in the first-stage regressions. In the second-stage regressions, corruption remains negatively signed, although smaller in magnitude. Significance is nevertheless only obtained at the 10% level.
As in the case of the military spending equations, estimation of Eq. (6b) assumes that the right-hand side variables are exogenous. To address concerns about the possible endo-geneity of corruption, we also experimented with the instrumental variables estimator. Lagged values of the corruption index were used as the instruments. The results, available upon request, are in line with those reported in Tables 4 and 5.
To support poverty reduction efforts in poor countries, a number of donors have banned export credits for the purpose of buying arms and military equipment. Others, in the context of debt relief for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs), have restricted credit guarantees to imports that support productive investment and social development.
Davoodi et al. (1999) also include an IMF program country dummy in the military spending regressions because IMF-supported adjustment programs are likely to affect both the level and the composition of government spending. Gupta et al. (1996) show that countries with stand-by arrangements and systemic transformation facility programs have a substantially larger decline in military spending as a share of GDP than countries with SAF/ESAF programs in the period 1990–1995. The authors also show that program countries have relied more heavily than nonprogram countries on cuts in military spending to implement fiscal adjustment. See also Harris and Kusi (1992) for evidence of lower military spending in African countries with IMF-supported programs.
When the military procurement variables are used as the dependent variable, the corruption indicator fails to be statistically significant at classical confidence levels. This may be attributed to the high correlation between corruption and the IMF-program dummy, and between the corruption index and the fixed effects (Tables 2 and 3).
The instruments used are the explanatory variables included in the OLS models and the corruption index lagged one and two periods. We also experimented with different lag structures (3, 5, and 7 years).
The inclusion of the conflict-country dummy in the equations results in the loss of significance of the corruption indicator when the models are estimated by FEM and GLS, but not when the models are estimated by OLS.
The results of the sensitivity analysis for the arms procurement equations (omitted to economize on space) are in line with the coefficients reported in Table 6.
Military outlays remain relatively high in Africa, at 2.3% of GDP in 1999, compared to 1.4% of GDP in Asia, and 1.2% of GDP in the Western Hemisphere. Military spending has been higher in Africa than in these two regions as a share of GDP throughout the 1990s, even if conflict countries are excluded from the analysis. Among developing and transition economies, Africa spends more as a share of GDP on the military than all other regions except the Middle East (IMF, 2000, World Economic Outlook, October 1999: Box No. 6.1, pp. 138-140). See also Sollenberg et al. (1999), for more details.
Note that while the sources of military spending data vary in different equations, only one source of data (WEO) is used for the government spending variable.
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Mizoram GK, Mizoram Current Gk
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Area 21,081 sq. km
Population 891,058
Sex Ratio 938
Growth Rate 29.18
Literacy 88.80%
Districts 8
Language Mizo and English
Area : 21,081 sq km State Government Portal
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Capital : Aizawl
Principal Languages : Mizo and English
Mizoram is a mountainous region, which became the 23rd state of the Indian Union in February 1987. It was one of the districts of Assam till 1972 when it became a Union Territory. After being annexed by the British in 1891, for the first few years, Lushai Hills in the north remained under Assam, while the southern half remained under Bengal. Both these parts were amalgamated in 1898 into one district called Lushai Hills District under the Chief Commissioner of Assam. With the implementation of the North-Eastern Reorganisation Act in 1972, Mizoram became a Union Territory and as a sequel to the signing of the historic memorandum of settlement between the Government of India and the Mizo National Front in 1986, it was granted statehood on 20 February, 1987. Sandwiched between Myanmar in the east and the south, and Bangladesh in the west, Mizoram occupies an area of great strategic importance in the north-eastern corner of India. Mizoram has great natural beauty and an endless variety of landscape. It is rich in fauna and flora.
The origin of the word ‘Mizo’ is not known. The Mizos came under the influence of the British Missionaries in the 19th Century. Now most of the Mizos are Christians. Mizo language has no script of its own. The missionaries introduced the Roman script for the Mizo language and formal education. Literacy in the state has grown rapidly, and Mizoram literacy at 88.8 per cent today, is the second highest in the country. The state government is striving hard to attain the top position in the near future.
About 80 per cent of the people of Mizoram are engaged in agricultural pursuits. The main pattern of agriculture followed is Jhum or Shifting cultivation. Of the total 21 lakh ha. of land estimated, 6.30 lakh hectares of land is available for cultivation of horticulture crops. The existing area under different horticulture crops account for about 4127.6 hectares, which is only 6.55 per cent of the estimated potential area. This indicates the vast scope for horticulture crops to flourish in Mizoram. The main horticulture crops are fruit crops viz. Mandarin Orange, Banana, Passion Fruit, Grapes, Hatkora, Pineapple, Papaya, etc., and flowers like Anthurium, Bird of Paradise, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, Rose and other subsidiary seasonal flowers. Spices like Ginger, Turmeric, Black Pepper and Bird’s eye Chillies are also grown. People have also started extensive cultivation of oilpalm, medicinal and aromatic plants.
The ultimate surface irrigation potential is estimated at 70,000 hectares of which 45,000 hectares is under flow and 25,000 hectares by construction and completing 70 pucca minor irrigation projects and six lift irrigation projects for raising double and triple crops in a year.
The entire Mizoram is a Notified Backward Area and was categorised under ‘No Industry District’ in mid seventies. With the announcement of State Industrial Policy 1989, few modern small-scale industries have come up during the past decade. To further accelerate growth of industries, a New Industrial Policy of Mizoram was announced in the year 2000. The Policy identified thrust areas like Electronics and Information Technology, Bamboo and Timber based products, Food and Fruit Processing, Textiles, Handloom and Handicrafts, etc.
In order to attract investment from outside the state, the Policy permits joint venture for all large, medium and small scale industries with local partners. Infrastructural development like Industrial Growth Centre (IGC) at Luangmual, Aizawl, Export Promotion Industrial Park (EPIP) at Lengte, Integrated Infrastructural Development Centre (IIDC) at Pukpui, Lunglei and Food Park at Chhingchhip are nearing completion, apart from upgradation of the existing industrial estates.
Scientific cultivation of Tea has also been taken up. Establishment of Apparel Training and Design Centre, Gems cutting and polishing are in the pipeline to encourage setting up of Export Oriented Units (EOUs). Of the cottage industries, Handloom and Handicrafts are given high priority and the two sectors are flourishing to meet consumers demand in the state and in the neighbouring states of Meghalaya, Nagaland, etc.
With the opening up of border trade with Myanmar and Bangladesh, and the ‘Look East Policy’ of the Government of India coupled by peaceful condition of the state, Mizoram will no more be a remote corner state of the country, and as a result of which industrialisation will substantially gain momentum in the near future.
Construction of Tuirial HEP (60 MW) is in progress. Survey and investigation works of Kolodyne HEP (500 MW) is completed by CWC. This project provides inland water transport facilities for the region besides generating 500 MW of power and the Government of Mizoram has given paramount importance to it. 3 MW capacity Tuipanglui and Kau-Tlabung SHPs were commissioned recently thus enhancing the state’s hydro generation by 15 MW capacity. Works on Maicham-II (3MW), Serlui ‘B’ (12MW) and Lamsial (0.5 MW) SHPs are in progress and expected to be commissioned during 2007.
Total road length in the state is 5,982.25 km (BRO & State PWD). Rail link in the state has been established at Bairabi. Aizawl is connected by air. In order to have a better connectivity, the Government has undertaken the Mizoram State Roads Projects with a total cost of Rs 350 crore under funds provided by the World Bank. Connectivity under PMGSY covering a total length of 2,421 km connecting 384 villages of Mizoram is making steady progress.
Mizoram is basically an agriculture-based state. All the activities of Mizos centre around Jhum cultivation, and their festivals are linked with such agricultural operations. Kut is the Mizo word for festival. Mizos have three major festivals called Chapchar Kut, Mim Kut and Pawl Kut.
Aizawl is located at nearly 4,000 ft above sea level, and is a religious and cultural centre of Mizoram. Champhai is a beautiful resort on the Myanmar border. Tam Dil, a natural lake with virgin forests, is 60 km from Aizawl and 10 km from Tourist Resort of Saitual. Vantawng Falls, 5 km from hill station Thenzawl, are the highest and most beautiful waterfalls in Mizoram. The Department of Tourism has opened Tourist Lodges at Aizawl, Lunglei, Champhai, Saiha, Lawngtlai and wayside restaurants at Thingdawl, Hnahthial, Kawlkulh, recreational centre at Beraw Tlang and Alpine Picnic Hut at District Park near Zobawk.
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Population 8,91,058
Capital Aizawl
Principal Languages Mizo and English
Mizoram is a mountainous region which became the 23rd state of the Indian Union in February 1987. It was one of the districts of Assam till 1972 when it became a Union Territory. After being annexed by the British in 1891, for the first few years, Lushai Hills in the north remained under Assam while the southern half remained under Bengal. Both these parts were amalgamated in 1898 into one district called Lushai Hills District under the Chief Commissioner of Assam. With the implementation of the North-Eastern Reorganisation Act in 1972, Mizoram became a Union Territory and as a sequel to the signing of the historic memorandum of settlement between the Government of India and the Mizo National Front in 1986, it was granted statehood on 20 February 1987. Sandwiched between Myanmar in the east and the south and Bangladesh in the west, Mizoram occupies an area of great strategic importance in the north-eastern corner of India. Mizoram has great natural beauty and an endless variety of landscape. It is rich in fauna and flora.
About 80 per cent of the people of Mizoram are engaged in agricultural pursuits. The main pattern of agriculture followed is Jhum or Shifting cultivation. Of the total 21 lakh ha. of land estimated, 6.30 lakh hectares of land is available for cultivation of horticulture crops. The existing area under different horticulture crops account for about 4127.6 hectares, which is only 6.55 per cent of the estimated potential area. This indicates the vast scope for horticulture crops to flourish in Mizoram. The main horticulture crops are Mandarin Orange, Banana, Passion Fruit, Grapes, Hatkora, Pineapple, Papaya, etc., and flowers like Anthurium, Bird of Paradise, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, Rose and other subsidiary seasonal flowers. Spices like Ginger, Turmeric, Black Pepper and Bird’s eye Chillies are also grown. People have also started extensive cultivation of oil palm, medicinal and aromatic plants.
The ultimate surface irrigation potential is estimated at 70,000 hectares of which 45,000 hectares is under flow and 25,000 hectares by construction and 70 pucca minor irrigation projects and six lift irrigation projects for raising double and triple crops in a year are nearing completion.
Scientific cultivation of tea has also been taken up. Establishment of Apparel Training and Design Centre, Gems cutting and polishing are in the pipeline to encourage setting up of Export Oriented Units (EOUs). Of the cottage industries, Handloom and Handicrafts are given high priority and the two sectors are flourishing to meet consumers demand in the State and in the neighbouring states of Meghalaya, Nagaland, etc. to meet consumers demand in the state and in the neighbouring states of Meghalaya, Nagaland, etc.
About 80 per cent of the people of Mizoram are engaged in agricultural pursuits. The main pattern of agriculture followed is Jhum or Shifting cultivation. Of the total 21 lakh ha. of land estimated, 6.30 lakh hectares of land is available for cultivation of horticulture crops. The existing area under different horticulture crops account for about 4127.6 hectares, which is only 6.55 per cent of the estimated potential area. This indicates the vast scope for horticulture crops to flourish in Mizoram. The main horticulture crops are fruit crops viz. Mandarin Orange, Banana, Passion Fruit, Grapes, Hatkora, Pineapple, Papaya, etc., and flowers like Anthurium, Bird of Paradise, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, Rose and other subsidiary seasonal flowers. Spices like Ginger, Turmeric, Black Pepper and Bird’s eye Chillies are also grown. People have also started extensive cultivation of oil, palm, medicinal and aromatic plants.
Construction of Tuirial HEP (60 MW) is in progress. Survey and investigation works of Kolodyne HEP (500 MW) has been completed by CWC. This project provides inland water transport facilities for the region besides generating 500 MW of power and the Government of Mizoram has given paramount importance to it. 3 MW capacity Tuipanglui and Kau-Tlabung SHPs were commissioned recently thus enhancing the state’s hydro generation by 15 MW capacity. Works on Maicham-II (3MW), Serlui ‘B’ (12MW) and Lamsial (0.5 MW) SHPs are in progress and expected to be commissioned during 2007.
A Total of 695 villages have been electrified and 709 km of 132 kv line completed.
Total road length in the State is 5,982.25 km (BRO & State PWD). Rail link in the state has been established at Bairabi. Aizawl is connected by air. In order to have a better connectivity, the Government has undertaken the Mizoram State Roads Projects with a total cost of Rs.350 crore under funds provided by the World Bank. Connectivity under PMGSY covering a total length of 2,421 km connecting 384 villages of Mizoram is making steady progress.
Mizos are basically agriculture oriented. All their activities centre around jhum cultivation and their festivals are linked with such agricultural operations. Kut is the Mizo term for festival. Among the various cultural festivals, only three viz. Chapchar Kut, Mim Kut & Thalfavang Kut are observed today.
Cloudy day taken on 2004
Aizawl, located at nearly 4,000 ft. above sea level, is a religious and cultural centre of Mizoram. Champhai is a beautiful resort on the Myanmar border. Tam Dil, a natural lake with virgin forests, is 80 km from Aizawl and 10 km from Tourist Resort of Saitual. Vantawng Falls, 5 km from the town of Thenzawl, is the highest and most beautiful waterfall in Mizoram. The department of Tourism has opened Tourist Lodges in all the bigger towns all over the State, and Highway Restaurants and Travellers’ Inns in other townships. There is also a Recreational Centre at Beraw Tlang, Aizawl and Alpine Picnic Hu
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BlackOut UK Lounge Launched in Brixton!
Posted on July 19, 2017 by marcblkout
On Friday 7th July, we gathered Upstairs at the Ritzy in Brixton to party, to celebrate Pride and to launch the BlackOut Lounge.
The incredible response to our event ‘In The Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue’ confirmed what we already knew; there is a need and a thirst for events and spaces By Us and For Us that celebrated our blackness, our gayness and our same gender lovingness. We knew we could draw a crowd of Black gay men and our allies.
In our conversations Black gay men told us how important these spaces are and how important it is to create and sustain community during these complicated and challenging times.
So we decided to build on that success and create the BlackOut Lounge, a series of semi-regular events where we invite a Black gay man to host an event or social space. He gets to curate the night and put his own personal stamp on it.
What better time to launch a new enterprise for Black gay, bi, queer and same gender loving men, than at the start of Pride weekend? Its that time of year when various LGBT+ communities come together to remind the world ‘We’re here we’re queer get used to it’ with a tsunami of rainbow flags that descends on the city (and just about every major city in the Western world) and we are all told to remember we’re in this together and ‘Love Matters’.
It’s also the time when the conversation about who is Pride for, who Pride events include and exclude, and who is and isn’t represented in the rainbow flag. Pride always has been and always will be political, no matter how many corporate sponsors it needs to survive.
But it’s also a celebration of who we are, everything we’ve achieved and the road we’ve yet to travel.
We claimed a space in the heart of Brixton, with its long history of Black queer culture and filled that space with Black gay, bi, queer and same gender loving men laughing, dancing and having a good old fashion kiki so as to make visible and to affirm each other on the biggest weekend in the LGBT+ calendar.
We want to say a huge thank you to our inaugural host DJ Biggy C, our guest DJ and performers.
The amazing Mixmaster and legend DJ Biggy C pulled off a great night which included Special Guest Jay Jay Revlon, founder of English Breakfast.
They both threw down sets with a mixture of old skool and new classics making sure the dance floor rocked until the 2 am closing. The crowd were also treated to not one but TWO amazing comediennes:
Cola Bling and our headliner, Ava Vidal, had the audience throwing up those big belly laughs Black folk share when we are free.
We hope you enjoy this gallery of pictures taken by BlackOut UK contributor Wayne Nathan.
We’ll be running more Lounge events this year so subscribe to the BlackOut UK mailing list and follow us on twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more details. And if you’d like to host a night or know someone who could get in touch and let us know.
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.Poki District To Open Saturday in Gaithersburg
Poki District To Open Saturday in Gaithersburg
New location of fast-casual chain is in RIO Washingtonian Center
By Julie Rasicot
At Poki District, customers can build their own bowls from a variety of options.
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Poki District will celebrate the grand opening Saturday of its new location in RIO Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg.
The local fast-casual chain, which serves the increasingly trendy Hawaiian raw fish bowl, announced the opening Wednesday on its Facebook page. The restaurant plans to open its doors at 236 Boardwalk Place at 11 a.m. and to give away the first 50 poke bowls ordered by customers. A hula dance show is scheduled for 1 p.m., according to the post.
The chain has locations in Penn Quarter and downtown Washington, D.C., and plans to open another in July in The Spot, an Asian Food hall, that will be located across from Rockville Town Center. Other local locations are planned for the Georgetown Square shopping center near Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, expected to open this summer, and College Park.
Co-founder Gary Ngo told Bethesda Beat in January the chain has long been interested in expanding into Montgomery County.
“We have quite a few customers who ask when one will open in Montgomery County,” he said.
Poki District specializes in build-your-own dishes and offers customers a choice of base—either sushi rice, brown rice with quinoa, zucchini noodles or a salad mix—and a selection of proteins including salmon, tuna, yellowtail, organic tofu and chicken breast. The bowl then can be filled with toppings such as mangos, pineapples, seafood salad, ginger and jalapeño, as well as sauces like honey wasabi and ponzu.
The chain’s county locations will join other restaurants offering similar fare including Honeyfish Poke in Congressional Plaza in Rockville. Woodmont Triangle restaurant Hanaro also has recently begun serving the Hawaiian-style dish.
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.With Retirement Around the Corner, Shanghai Village Owner Is Working Harder than Ever
With Retirement Around the Corner, Shanghai Village Owner Is Working Harder than Ever
Kwok Cheung is getting ready to close his Bethesda restaurant after 37 years in the kitchen
By Charlie Wright and Steve Hull
Shanghai Village owner Kwok Cheung
Some people coast toward retirement, but not Kwok Cheung.
As the owner and chef of Shanghai Village in Bethesda for 15 years, Cheung has routinely worked 12-hour days, seven days a week. And before that he labored for 22 years as co-owner and chef of China Village, just up Bethesda Avenue from his current restaurant.
Now, as he’s getting ready to retire, the 75-year-old Cheung is working harder than ever.
When Cheung told his staff last fall that he was going to close the restaurant in February, his servers and other front-of-house staff found new jobs. For the last four months, Cheung has been the restaurant’s lone host, server, busboy and bartender—in addition to cooking and managing the kitchen staff.
Via Shanghai Village
“I can’t do it,” Cheung said of his current work schedule.
A sign that was on the restaurant’s front door until recently warned patrons that service would be slower than usual.
A Potomac resident, Cheung said some patrons have complained about the service, but that most have been sympathetic, especially his regulars.
“Most people are happy, they understand,” Cheung said.
One recent patron got special service: When Marriott International Executive Chairman Bill Marriott came to the restaurant for an early dinner, Cheung snuck over and locked the front door so he could focus on his VIP guest.
Customers at Shanghai Village are greeted by framed photos of now deceased celebrities who dined at the restaurant, including Boston Celtics coach and owner Red Auerbach and Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy. Until his death in 2006, Auerbach ate lunch with friends most Tuesdays at China Village and then Shanghai Village. A small group of Auerbach’s friends still eat lunch at Shanghai Village every Tuesday.
Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and journalist Helen Thomas were frequent patrons. Cheung personally delivered food to Kirkpartrick and Thomas when they became too sick to go to the restaurant—and then went to both of their funerals.
Cheung is known for his Peking Duck (which he used to carve for customers tableside) and Mai Tai cocktails, which he makes with a secret recipe. With retirement looming, he has begun to divulge some of his recipes to longtime customers. On the day that Bethesda Beat visited him, Cheung was in the kitchen teaching a customer how to make the glazed pecans that accompany several of his dishes. He said that he’s even told a few trusted friends the secrets of his Mai Tais.
Cheung said he made the decision to retire because the demands of the job were becoming too great for him. “I need to face my old age,” he said.
After working nearly every day for 37 years, Cheung will have plenty of free time after he closes the restaurant on a yet-to-be-announced date in late February. As for his plans following the closing?
“That’s a good question,” he said.
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If you were anything like me, by the time you cleared through all those GDPR emails, it was just about time to be bombarded with cookie pop-ups. And that, my friends, will be the truth whether or not you know what a cookie pop-up is when it’s not being a transient hipster biscuit hangout.
As cutesy as the phrase cookie pop-up may sound, like much in this world of tech, it is a case of dressing up an information-mining tool behind a disarming euphemism. However, before we all go grassing off to the GDPR police, we need to remember that there is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep us in everlasting ignorance – and that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
So, let us investigate. Without recourse to any puns, just what is a cookie?
Other terms coined by those crazy sun-starved programming geniuses include ‘mouse droppings’ and ‘turd’
Cookies are most commonly baked until crisp or just long enough that…stop, stop, stop. Sorry. When we discuss cookies in relation to a website that you will click on using your bigblu broadband connection, it is no longer a baked good. Rather it is a small data file that contains a unique identification number that a website places on your computer or mobile device when you visit that website.
So, why a cookie and not, say, a pink wafer?
Well, it derived from “magic cookies”, which was a term coined by computer programmers to mean a ‘result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later.’ Other terms coined by those crazy sun-starved programming geniuses who have altered our world forever include, ‘mouse droppings’ and ‘turd’ so, I think we got off lightly with just cookie.
I asked our own resident web developer if he could help me explain what cookies are in simple terms. After staring at me in bemused silence for a few minutes, I realised I had to warm him up with some questions about the new Spider-Man game. After staring at him in bemused silence for a few minutes (with the odd nod and a couple of hmmms), I asked him again about the cookies.
This time he explained, with a delicacy and simplicity that took me by surprise, that techies use this analogy to make themselves understood to us lowly Luddites:
“Think of a cookie as a cloakroom token, viewed in isolation it has no intrinsic value. However, there is an element of uniqueness and usefulness about the cheap bit of plastic that allows it to be exchanged for your valuable Barbour jacket.
“The token is opaque because, in truth, you don’t really care how the cloakroom staff retrieve your Barbour, you’re just glad when they do, as well as being relieved that the pockets look like they haven’t been rummaged through.”
Seeing as I’ve never seen our developer without his jacket on (and zipped up to the neck), I have no idea how he even knows what a cloakroom is. Nevertheless, it is a damn fine analogy, and one I will return to later this week.
For now, though, you’re going to know what exactly it is that a cookie does when it’s not featuring in cloakroom analogies. In simplest terms, the cookie stores a variety of information used to improve and customise your browsing experience. There are a variety of different cookies:
Session-based cookies last while your browser is open;
Persistent cookies last for various periods across browser restarts; and
Pixels, which are also known as pixel GIFs or web beacons, are related technologies that are used to set cookies or simply collect information about a single web interaction.
Since the end of May, when the new GDPR regulations came into force, every time you’ve visited a website for the first time, or used a different browser, or a different device, you will have been served a ‘cookie policy pop-up’. The best of them will read something like this from New York Media LLC, publisher of the New York Magazine and Vulture:
“We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Their use improves our sites’ functionality and enables our partners to advertise to you. By continuing to use our website or checking the I agree box below you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Details on how to decline their use can be found in our Cookie Policy.”
Although the New York Media information is strong on detail and lets you know exactly what it is you are agreeing to and which third parties will have access to your browsing behaviour on that website, you are left with a binary choice: either you consent or…
Or what? Well, in the case of many browsers that give you a binary choice, the alternative is that you can refuse to use cookies by disabling them in your browser but such refusal will most likely come at a cost. You can still use the site but some areas will be slower, or may not work at all and you will lose out on the chance to do things like customise settings for activities like login, commenting on articles and surfacing favourite topics.
The most thorough website cookie policies will give you a high degree of flexibility and guidance over setting the power of your cookie to collect and share information. Take, for example, the Horse & Hound website. When you visit it for the first time, it provides you with the option to choose exactly how much information you consent to be used from your cookie. Options include:
Ad selection, delivery, reporting;
Information storage and access;
Personalisation;
Content selection, delivery, reporting; and
Third-party vendor information storage.
So, now that we all know a little more about cookies and a little more about cloakrooms, come back at the end of the week and I’ll take you through the advantages and disadvantages of cookies. We’ll be talking private browsing, incognito and I’ll attempt to stretch that cloakroom token analogy to breaking point.
Until then, my best and only advice when a cookie pop-up pops up is for all of us to stop just clicking “Yes, I agree” without a second thought and start paying more attention to what it is we are actually agreeing to – and together we can make the web a better place to surf.
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Cyber Round Up: Government Lawyers Need More Tech Training; Senators Demand Answers from Yahoo; HHS another agency lacking in security
Sep 27th, 2016 Ryan White cybersecurity, DOJ, GAO, yahoo
Government lawyers don’t understand the internet. That’s a problem (Washington Post): A recent article by the Washington Post discussed challenges government lawyers face when it comes to technical issues. The article discusses numerous cases in which the Department of Justice simply got it wrong when it came to understanding technical issues in different cases. The article reports that this is either a result of intentional exploitation of judges’ lack of knowledge, or the lawyers’ themselves not having the necessary background. Technology moves faster than the law, and we’re seeing the consequences now, according to the article by Garrett Graff. While the government has taken measures to improve this, much of the burden will fall on law schools to bridge the gap between the law and tech fields. The full article can be found here.
Yahoo Breach: Senators Demand Answers (Wall Street Journal): This blog recently addressed the Yahoo breach before the full report came out. Further details have emerged showing that more than 500 million users information was compromised. The company initially denied knowing about the hacks but apparently reported the first breaches to the FBI. Six senators wrote to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer demanding more details on how the hacks were handled. The full letter can be seen at the right. The WSJ article can be found here.
GAO slams HHS in health IT cybersecurity report (Modern Healthcare): A recent article by Modern Healthcare discussed what is being called a “scathing” report by the GAO. Health and Human Services is the latest government agency to come under the microscope and fall short of expectations in cybersecurity. Since 2009, according to the article, there have been over 1,600 breaches that compromised the health records of 500 individuals or more. The article says that two senators, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Patty Murray from Washington requested the report, which can be found below. The full text of the article can be found here.
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One Response to “Cyber Round Up: Government Lawyers Need More Tech Training; Senators Demand Answers from Yahoo; HHS another agency lacking in security”
Christopher Folk says:
This WAPO article really underscores the lack of technological understanding amongst and within the Court system. As we see a rapid rise in cyber and technology cases this is somewhat frightening, knowing that we are placing the outcome of these cases in the hands of often poorly trained lawyers and judges that are tasked with making sense of that which they do not understand and then trying to translate gibberish for the juries. As difficult as it is to fill the open cybersecurity positions, I fail to see how we are going to acknowledge and address this similar skills-shortage in the legal sector. This is quite disconcerting.
Professor William Snyder
is a member of the faculty of the Institute for National Security and Counter-terrorism at Syracuse University after fifteen years with the United States Department of Justice.
Ryan D. White
Ryan is currently a third year law student at Syracuse University College of Law, and is also pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree from Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Ryan spent time with Homeland Security Investigations while pursuing his undergraduate degree at Wesleyan University, and spent his first summer of law school as clerk for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of New York. He is a member of Syracuse Law Review, the Journal on Terrorism and Security Analysis, and participates in the Veteran’s Legal Clinic.
Shelby E. Mann
Shelby is a second year law student at the Syracuse University College of Law. She is the 2018-9 Editor in Chief of the Syracuse Law Review, as well as a member of the Journal on Terrorism and Security Analysis, and the senior editor for the Syrian Accountability Project. During her final year at the University of Missouri, she served as a full-time news producer for ABC 17 News. Shelby spent her first summer of law school at the Shelby County District Attorney General's Office in Memphis, Tenn., in the Public Corruption and Economic Crimes Unit.
Christopher W. Folk
is a 2017 graduate of SU College of Law. A non-traditional student, Christopher returned to academia after spending nearly twenty years in the high tech industry. Christopher served in the Marine Corps, graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. In Applied Economics and Business Management, attended Northeastern University’s High-Tech MBA Program and received a M.S. In Computer Information Systems. Christopher previously worked in Software Engineering. Christopher is currently serving his second term as Town Justice for the Town of Waterloo. Christopher externed with a Cybersecurity firm in the Washington, D.C. area between his first and second year at SU College of Law.
Anna Maria Castillo
is 2016 graduate of Syracuse College of Law. She also holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She has interned at a London-based think-tank that specializes in transnational terrorism and global security and at the legal department of a defense contractor. She served as an executive editor in the Syracuse Law Review.
Jennifer A. Camillo
is a 2015 graduate of Syracuse College of Law and is a prosecutor. She has served as a law clerk in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the Cayuga County District Attorney’s Office and as an extern in the Oneida County District Attorney’s Office. She was a member of the Syracuse National Trial Team and was awarded the Tiffany Cup by the New York Bar Association for her trial advocacy achievements.
Tara J. Pistorese
holds Juris Doctor and Masters of Public Administration degrees from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and its College of Law. She wrote for this blog when a student. She is now a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.
Benjamin Zaiser
is both a scholar and a Federal Agent of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany. (Opinions expressed here are his own and not any part of official duty.)
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Ever since the arrival of the slim and snazzy electronic book devices, the magnates of the traditional publishing industry have feared the worst: that precious big-name authors might sign directly with e-book retailers, relegating the old-school publishers as the dispensable middleman.
An Amazon Kindle e-reader is displayed as Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks about the iBooks application for the iPad.
Let the nightmare begin. Novelist Ryu Murakami plans to release his latest novel exclusively for digital bookworms through Apple Inc.’s iPad ahead of the print version. Mr. Murakami, the acclaimed author of over 15 novels including "Coin Locker Babies" and "In the Miso Soup", replaced the publishers with a software company to help develop the e-book titled “A Singing Whale,” or “Utau Kujira” in Japanese. The digital package will include video content and set to music composed by Academy Award winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, according to the Japanese business daily Nikkei. The newspaper reports the e-book will cost 1,500 yen ($17) and will be ready to download pending Apple’s approval. Apple Japan and Mr. Murakami did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.
Mr. Murakami’s decision is the latest step taken by well known authors in re-writing the business model of the publishing industry – but it’s a step beyond what others have done. In April, the master penman of suspense, Stephen King, released the e-book edition of his newest work “Blockade Billy” one month before the hardcover version published by Scribner, an imprint of New York publishing giant Simon and Schuster, hit retail outlets in the U.S. and Canada. Mr. King also published a story, UR, exclusively for Kindle, the popular e-book reader produced by Amazon, around the time a newer version of the device was released in February 2009.
In December of last year, Amazon scored another success when business guru Steven Covey granted the online retailer exclusive e-book rights for two of his best-selling books for one year. Until recently, Mr. Covey’s move to shift older titles, also known as backlist titles – the warehouse of past best-selling books with strong staying power that provide publishers a steady revenue stream each year – to the digital sphere has been the more common rebellion among successful wordsmiths. Brazilian writer Paul Coehlo and the estate of the late American novelist William Styron also moved the rights to sell e-book editions of older works to Amazon.
But in offering fresh material only in an electronic format, Mr. Murakami’s plan has basically removed the traditional book publisher from the calculation entirely. Mr. Murakami’s past novels have been published by venerated Japanese companies like Kodansha. The company wasn't immediately available for comment. The new equation, in theory, would give authors a bigger chunk of royalties. Mr. Murakami said his initial goal of 5,000 downloads would cancel out the investment costs, and if the plan is approved, Apple will receive 30% of the revenue with the rest to be parsed among Mr. Murakami, Mr. Sakamoto and the software company, according to the Nikkei.
UPDATE, 14:05 p.m. JST: Kodansha, Murakami's publisher responds, saying it’s talking to the novelist about releasing a hard copy version of “A Singing Whale”, though nothing has been finalized.
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Tag: Helen Simpson
“Cat Poems” & Other Cats I’ve Encountered in Books Recently
Cat Poems: An enjoyable selection of verse about our feline friends, nicely varied in terms of the time period, original language of composition, and outlook on cats’ contradictory qualities. I was unaware that Angela Carter and Muriel Spark had ever written poetry. There are perhaps too many poems by Stevie Smith – six in total! – though I did enjoy their jokey rhymes.
“Cat sentimentality is a human thing. Cats / are indifferent, their minds can’t comprehend / the concept ‘I shall die’, they just go on living.” (from “Sonnet: Cat Logic” by Gavin Ewart)
“For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.” (from “Jubilate Agno” by Christopher Smart)
“These adorable things. When my life gives out, they’d eat me up in a second.” (from “I’ll Call Those Things My Cats” by Kim Hyesoon)
Cat Poems was published in the UK on October 4th. My thanks to Serpent’s Tail for the free copy for review.
Even when it’s not a book specifically about cats, cats often turn up in my reading. Maybe it’s simply that I look out for them more since I became a cat owner several years ago. Here are some of the quotes, scenes or whole books featuring cats that I’ve come across this year.
Stranger on a Train by Jenni Diski: “I find myself astonished that a creature of another species, utterly different to me, honours me with its presence and trust by sitting on me and allowing me to stroke it. This mundane domestic moment is as enormous, I feel at such moments, as making contact across a universe with another intelligence. This creature with its own and other consciousness and I with mine can sit in silence and enjoy each other’s presence. … This is a perfectly everyday scene but sometimes it takes my breath away that another living thing has allowed me into its life.”
Certain American States by Catherine Lacey: “This cat wants to destroy beauty—I can tell. He is more than animal, he is evil, a plain enemy of the world. I wish him ill. I do. Almost daily I find a mess of feathers in the dirt. Some mornings there are whole bird carcasses left on my porch—eyes shocked open, brilliant blue wings, ripped and bloody. I have thought often of what it would take to kill a cat, quietly and quickly, with my bare hands. I have thought of this often. In fact I am thinking of it right now.” (from the story “Because You Have To”)
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch: “Montrose was a large cocoa-coloured tabby animal with golden eyes, a square body, rectangular legs and an obstinate self-absorbed disposition, concerning whose intelligence fierce arguments raged among the children. Tests of Montrose’s sagacity were constantly being devised, but there was some uncertainty about the interpretation of the resultant data since the twins were always ready to return to first principles and discuss whether cooperation with the human race was a sign of intelligence at all. Montrose had one undoubted talent, which was that he could at will make his sleek hair stand up on end, and transform himself from a smooth stripey cube into a fluffy sphere. This was called ‘Montrose’s bird look’.”
Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories by Helen Simpson: “They found it significant that I called my cat Felony. I argued that I had chosen her name for its euphonious qualities. She used to sink her incisors into the hell of my hand and pause a fraction of a millimeter from breaking the skin, staring at me until her eyes were reduced to sadistic yellow semibreves. She murdered without a qualm. She toyed with her victims, smiling broadly at their squeaks and death throes.
‘Why isn’t she a criminal?’ I asked. …
‘The difference is,’ said Mr Pringle, that we must assume your cat commits her crimes without mischievous discretion.’” (from the story “Escape Clauses”)
In Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdads Sing, Sunday Justice is the name of the courthouse cat. He sits grooming on the courtroom windowsill during the trial and comes in and curls up to sleep in the cell of a particular prisoner we’ve come to care about.
A recommended picture book
My Cat Looks Like My Dad by Thao Lam: I absolutely loved the papercut collage style of this kids’ book. The narrator explains all the ways in which the nerdy-cool 1970s-styled dad resembles the family cat, who is more like a sibling than a pet. “Family is what you make it.” There’s something of a twist ending, too. (Out on April 15, 2019.)
Later today I’m off to America for two weeks, but I’ll be scheduling plenty of posts, including the usual multi-part year-end run-down of my best reads, to go up while I’m away. Forgive me if I’m less responsive than usual to comments and to your own blogs!
Catherine Lacey
Christopher Smart
Gavin Ewart
Jenny Diski
Stevie Smith
Thao Lam
Short Story Collections Read Recently
This is the third year in a row that I’ve made a concerted effort to read more short stories in the alliterative month of September; see also my 2016 and 2017 performances. (I actually finished Sarah Hall’s collection in late August, but I’m going to cheat and include it anyway.) That makes for four volumes in total read recently. Surprisingly, I had my best luck with two that were published back in the early 1990s.
I read Sarah Hall’s book from the library; these three were bargains from my local charity warehouse, the Community Furniture Project.
Like many devoted novel readers, I struggle with short stories because they can feel fragmentary or open-ended, and it takes that much more effort to keep up with multiple settings and groups of characters. Yet I also get frustrated when the narrative voice and themes are too similar across a whole set of tales.
However, when done well short stories can be marvelous, of course. I enjoyed K.J. Orr’s article on short stories in the September 7th issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Among the virtues of the short story, she lists the following:
“the capacity to stoke questions of definition and instability, resolution and irresolution … ; to deliver its conundrums to the reader in a state of compression”
“The unpredictability involved means that picking up a new short story always feels to me a moment full of possibilities.”
“The short story can combine complexity and uncertainty with ebullience and humour. It can take on subjects and situations that risk seeming clichéd and open them to wonder. It can put the familiar and the strange in conversation.”
And yet sometimes the quality of the writing, or at least the intensity of my engagement, can vary wildly within a story collection, which often makes the books difficult to rate and respond to as a whole. That’s what I found with these first two.
Madame Zero by Sarah Hall (2017)
Three corkers; two pretty good; four been-there-read-that. My favorites were the first and last stories, “Mrs Fox” and “Evie” (winner of the BBC National Short Story Prize 2013 and shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2013, respectively). Both concern a fairly average marriage derailed when the wife undergoes a transformation. In the former Sophia literally turns into a fox and her husband scrambles for a way to make the relationship last. In “Evie,” Richard’s wife develops a voracious appetite for sweets and sex, and starts talking gibberish. This one is very explicit, but if you can get past that I found it both painful and powerful. I also especially liked “Case Study 2,” about a psychologist’s encounter with a boy who’s been brought up in a commune. It has faint echoes of T.C. Boyle’s “The Wild Child.”
“Wilderness” focuses on an intense episode of fear of heights during a trip to South Africa. In “Luxury Hour,” a new mother meets up with an old lover near the swimming pool they used to frequent and wonders where and why their lives diverged. This one reminded me of the first chapter of Rachel Cusk’s Transit.
As for the rest? “Goodnight Nobody” was completely forgettable, and the other three are in the vague speculative/post-apocalyptic vein that’s been done to death: “Theatre 6” = Red Clocks; “Later, His Ghost” = The Road et al.; “One in Four” = Station Eleven et al. I admire Hall’s writing in general, but The Wolf Border remains the best thing I’ve read by her.
The Outlaw Album: Stories by Daniel Woodrell (2011)
Based on the first six stories, I was planning a 5-star rating. (How can you resist this opening line? “Once Boshell finally killed his neighbor he couldn’t seem to quit killing him.”) But the second half of the book ended up being much less memorable; I wouldn’t say it wasn’t worth reading, but I got very little out of four of the stories, and the other two were okay but somewhat insubstantial. By contrast, the first two stories, “The Echo of Neighborly Bones” and “Uncle,” are gritty little masterpieces of violence and revenge.
I also particularly liked “Black Step” and “Night Stand,” about traumatized soldiers back from war (Woodrell himself was a Marine). Each has a creepy segment where the veteran gives sarcastic answers to the unspecified typical questions they always get; we have to infer that these are: How many people did you kill? What’s it like to kill someone? and What do you do with the bodies? There’s a nice balance between first- and third-person voices; lyrical and unlearned prose; and speech marks and none. I will definitely read more by Woodrell.
I thoroughly loved these next two debut collections. In each case I’d read one or two previous books by the author and not been wild about the writing (White Houses; In-Flight Entertainment and Cockfosters), but these two have convinced me to try more of their work.
Come to Me by Amy Bloom (1993)
Bloom was a practicing psychotherapist, so it’s no surprise she has deep insight into her characters’ motivations. This is a wonderful set of stories about people who love who they shouldn’t love. In “Song of Solomon,” a new mother falls for the obstetrician who delivered her baby; in “Sleepwalking,” a woman gives in to the advances of her late husband’s son from a previous marriage; in “Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines,” adolescent Susan develops crushes on any man who takes an interest in her. My favorite was probably “Love Is Not a Pie,” in which a young woman rethinks her impending marriage during her mother’s funeral, all the while remembering the unusual sleeping arrangement her parents had with another couple during their joint summer vacations. The title suggests that love is not a thing to be apportioned out equally until it’s used up, but a more mysterious and fluid entity.
Linked short stories can be a useful halfway-house for readers who prefer novels and are still unsure about reading stories. Happily, then, the heart of this collection is five pieces that orbit around the same characters. In “Hyacinths” we meet David as a boy in Manitoba and get a glimpse of him as an adult. In the next story we encounter his second wife, Galen, and her lover, Henry. “Silver Water” is about a mental health crisis with David and Galen’s daughter, and the next two stories are about Henry, his wife Marie, and the other bonds they form.
Although I read the book quickly while on holiday and so haven’t marked out any particular quotes, convincing dialogue and insightful observations are on almost every page. I was reminded most of short stories I’ve read by Elizabeth McCracken and Carol Shields.
Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories by Helen Simpson (1990)
Simpson won the inaugural Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for this in 1991. Her protagonists are women disillusioned with the norms of marriage and motherhood. They ditch their safe relationships, or carry on brazen affairs; they fear pregnancy, or seek it out on their own terms. The feminist messages are never strident because they are couched in such brisk, tongue-in-cheek narratives. For instance, in “Christmas Jezebels” three sisters in 4th-century Lycia cleverly resist their father’s attempts to press them into prostitution and are saved by the bishop’s financial intervention; in “Escape Clauses” a middle-aged woman faces the death penalty for her supposed crimes of gardening naked and picnicking on private property, while her rapist gets just three months in prison because she was “asking for it.” (Nearly three decades on, it’s still so timely it hurts.)
I loved “The Bed,” a kind of fairy tale about a luxurious bed solving all a woman’s problems; “What Are Neighbours For,” in which each woman cattily plans what she can get out of the others; “Labour,” a brief five-act play set in a hospital delivery room; and “Zoë and the Pedagogues,” about a woman learning to drive who has two very different teachers (perhaps inevitably, this recalled Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors). “An Interesting Condition,” which takes place in an antenatal class, is like Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Bad Latch,” while multiple stories reminded me of Shena Mackay, especially “Send One Up for Me,” about a woman tiptoeing around her boarding house and trying not to anger the landlady.
I enjoyed these two books so much that I plan to keep reading the short story collections I own through the autumn and winter.
Amy Bloom
Carol Shields
K.J. Orr
linked short stories
Shena Mackay
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award shadow panel
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been invited to be on the official shadow panel for the Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with The University of Warwick (to give it its full and proper title). Here’s a bit of background on the prize, from its website:
The prize “is awarded annually to the best work of published or self-published fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged between 18 and 35, and has gained attention and acclaim across the publishing industry and press. £5,000 is given to the overall winner and £500 to each of the three runners-up.
“Since it began in 1991, the award has had a striking impact, boasting a stellar list of alumni that have gone on to become leading lights of contemporary literature. The 2016 Award was presented to Max Porter for his extraordinary debut, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Following a five-year break, the prestigious award returned with a bang in 2015, awarding debut poet Sarah Howe the top prize for her phenomenal first collection, Loop of Jade.”
Past winners include Ross Raisin, Adam Foulds, Naomi Alderman, Robert Macfarlane, William Fiennes, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters, Francis Spufford, Simon Armitage and Helen Simpson.
This year’s official judging panel is made up of Andrew Holgate, literary editor of the Sunday Times, and writers Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Elif Shafak.
I’m joined on the shadow panel by four other book bloggers, several of whom you will recognize as long-time friends of this blog:
Dane Cobain (SocialBookshelves)
Eleanor Franzen (Elle Thinks)
Annabel Gaskell (Annabookbel)
Clare Rowland (A Little Blog of Books)
Here are some key upcoming dates:
Sunday October 29th: shortlist announced in Sunday Times
November 18th: book bloggers event with readings from the shortlisted authors (Groucho Club, London)
November 27th: deadline for shadow panel winner decision
November 29th: shadow panel winner announced on STPFD website
December 3rd: shadow panel winner announced in Sunday Times
December 7th: prize-giving ceremony and winner announcement (London Library)
I’m so looking forward to getting stuck into the shortlisted books and discussing them! I’ll be posting a review of each one in November.
Andrew Holgate
Francis Spufford
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Ross Raisin
William Fiennes
Catching Up on Prize Winners: Alderman, Grossman & Whitehead
Sometimes I love a prize winner and cheer the judges’ ruling; other times I shake my head and puzzle over how they could possibly think this was the best the year had to offer. I’m late to the party for these three recent prize-winning novels. I’m also a party pooper, I guess, because I didn’t particularly like or dislike a one of them. (Reviews are in the order in which I read the books. My rating for all three = )
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
(Winner of the Man Booker International Prize)
“Why the long face? Did someone die? It’s only stand-up comedy!” Except that for the comedian himself, Dovaleh Greenstein, this swan song of a show in the Israeli town of Netanya devolves into the story of the most traumatic day of his life. Grossman has made what seems to me an unusual choice of narrator: Avishai Lazar, a widower and Supreme Court justice, and Dov’s acquaintance from adolescence – they were in the same military training camp. Dov has invited him here to bear witness, and by the end we know Avishai will produce a written account of the evening.
Although it could be said that Avishai’s asides about the past, and about the increasingly restive crowd in the club, give us a rest from Dov’s claustrophobic monologue, in doing so they break the spell. This would be more hard-hitting as a play or a short story composed entirely of speech; in one of those formats, Dov’s story might keep you spellbound through a single sitting. Instead, I found that I had to force myself to read even five or 10 pages at a time. There’s no doubt Grossman can weave a clever tale about loss, and there are actually some quite funny jokes in here too, but overall I found this significantly less powerful than the author’s previous work, Falling Out of Time.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and Arthur C. Clarke Award; longlisted for the Man Booker Prize)
Following Cora on her fraught journey from her Georgia plantation through the Carolinas and Tennessee to Indiana is enjoyable enough, with the requisite atrocities like lynchings and rapes thrown in to make sure it’s not just a picaresque cat-and-mouse battle between her and Arnold Ridgeway, the villainous slavecatcher. But I’m surprised that such a case has been made for the uniqueness of this novel based on a simple tweak of the historical record: Whitehead imagines the Underground Railroad as an actual subterranean transport system. This makes less of a difference than you might expect; if anything, it renders the danger Cora faces more abstract. The same might be said for the anachronistic combination of enlightened and harsh societies she passes through: by telescoping out to show the range of threats African-Americans faced between the Civil War and the 1930s, the novel loses immediacy.
Ultimately, I felt little attachment to Cora and had to force myself to keep plodding through her story. My favorite parts were little asides giving other characters’ backstories. There’s no doubt Whitehead can shape a plot and dot in apt metaphors (I particularly liked “Ajarry died in the cotton, the bolls bobbing around her like whitecaps on the brute ocean”). However, I kept thinking, Haven’t I read this story before? (Beloved, Ruby, The Diary of Anne Frank; seen on screen in Twelve Years a Slave, Roots and the like.) This is certainly capably written, but doesn’t stand out for me compared to Homegoing, which was altogether more affecting.
(Winner of the [Bailey’s] Women’s Prize)
I read the first ~120 pages and skimmed the rest. Alderman imagines a parallel world in which young women realize they wield electrostatic power that can maim or kill. In an Arab Spring-type movement, they start to take back power from their oppressive societies. You’ll cheer as women caught up in sex trafficking fight back and take over. The movement is led by Allie, an abused child who starts by getting revenge on her foster father and then takes her message worldwide, becoming known as Mother Eve.
Alderman has cleverly set this up as an anthropological treatise-cum-historical novel authored by “Neil Adam Armon” (an anagram of her own name), complete with documents and drawings of artifacts. “The power to hurt is a kind of wealth,” and in this situation of gender reversal women gradually turn despotic. They are soldiers and dictators; they inflict genital mutilation and rape on men.
I enjoyed the passages mimicking the Bible, but felt a lack of connection with the characters and didn’t get a sense of years passing even though this is spread over about a decade. This is most like Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy – Alderman’s debt to Atwood is explicit, in the dedication as well as the acknowledgments – so if you really like those books, by all means read this one. My usual response to such speculative fiction, though, even if it describes a believable situation, is: what’s the point? As with “Erewhon,” the best story in Helen Simpson’s collection Cockfosters, the points about gender roles are fairly obvious.
I’d be interested to hear if you’ve read any of these books – or plan to read them – and believe they were worthy prize winners. If so, set me straight!
Arthur C. Clarke Award
Man Booker International Prize
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Doll’s Alphabet: Stories by Camilla Grudova
Camilla Grudova lives in Toronto and has a degree in Art History and Germany from McGill University of Montreal. The Doll’s Alphabet, her debut collection, sets surreal tales of women’s inner lives against ruined cityscapes. These 13 stories are like perverted fairytales or fragmentary nightmares, full of strange recurring imagery and hazily dystopian setups. Flash fiction-length stories alternate with longer ones that move at a dizzying pace, and the book is roughly half third-person and half first-person – a balance I always appreciate.
“Unstitching,” the two-page opener, introduces the metaphors and gender politics that form the backdrop for Grudova’s odd imagination. One day Greta realizes she can unstitch herself, removing an outer covering to reveal her true identity; “It brought great relief … like undoing one’s brassiere before bedtime or relieving one’s bladder after a long trip.” Her neighbor Maria does the same, but men – including Greta’s husband – find this intimidating, and are jealous because they don’t seem to have a deeper self to uncover. I was tickled by the idea of women having a secret life unshared by men, but had trouble grasping the actual mechanics of the unstitching: “She did not so much resemble a sewing machine as she was the ideal form on which a sewing machine was based. The closest thing she resembled in nature was an ant.” Huh? This is a case where keeping things vague might have been a better strategy.
Sewing machines keep popping up, along with mermaids, dolls, babies, zoos, factories, and old-fashioned or derelict shops. For example, the narrator of “The Mouse Queen” is a clerk in a doll’s house shop, while her husband Peter works in a graveyard. One night he brings home the corpse of an old dwarf woman, which the narrator decides to stow in the abandoned grocery store under their apartment. Um, naturally.
In “Waxy” (full text available on the Granta website) the narrator works at a sewing machine factory and unlawfully acquires a baby by her sub-par Man, Paul. The sexual violence in this one and in “Moth Emporium” is deeply unsettling: even in these off-kilter fictional worlds women’s bodies are considered a threat and pregnancy is never innocuous.
My two favorites were “Agata’s Machine” (full text available at The White Review) and “Notes from a Spider.” The former is perhaps indebted to D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” in its picture of obsessive and ultimately self-destructive activity. It features two Eastern European eleven-year-olds: the narrator is bullied, while her friend Agata is an aloof genius. In her attic room Agata keeps what looks like a sewing machine, but pushing its treadle creates flickering images of Pierrot (a clown) or an angel. This one has a chilling ending. The last story, “Notes from a Spider,” is told by a half-man, half-spider with eight legs. He keeps a zoo for vermin and opens – what else? – a sewing machine museum.
I’ve discovered that I have limited tolerance for outlandish tales like these. I’d be intrigued to find one of Grudova’s stories in an anthology, and I might be happy to read the best four or five of these. But because the same images and concepts keep repeating, the book feels twice as long as it needs to be. Ultimately this book was not for me, but I would not hesitate to recommend it to you if you have enjoyed the more fantastical of the feminist short stories by Karen Russell, Alexandra Kleeman and Helen Simpson.
The Doll’s Alphabet was published on February 14th by Fitzcarraldo Editions. With thanks to publicist Nicolette Praça for the review copy.
London-based publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions produces elegantly simple volumes of long-form essays and niche contemporary fiction, with much of the latter appearing in English translation for the first time. I’ve enjoyed a number of Fitzcarraldo books – particularly On Immunity by Eula Biss, The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner, and Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich – and even when the topics don’t hold any particular interest for me (as was the case with Football by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Pretentiousness by Dan Fox), they are still thought-provoking, out-of-the-ordinary discourses on the topic at hand.
Coming up next from Fitzcarraldo (March 22nd) is French author Mathias Enard’s novel Compass, which won the 2015 Prix Goncourt. On one sleepless night in Vienna Franz Ritter, an ailing musicologist, entertains memories of travels in the Middle East and his unrequited love for Sarah. Here’s part of the first run-on paragraph as a preview of the hypnotic style:
We are two opium smokers each in his own cloud, seeing nothing outside, alone, never understanding each other we smoke, faces agonizing in a mirror, we are a frozen image to which time gives the illusion of movement, a snow crystal gliding over a ball of frost, the complexity of whose intertwinings no one can see, I am that drop of water condensed on the window of my living room, a rolling liquid pearl that knows nothing of the vapour that engendered it, nor of the atoms that still compose it but that, soon, will serve other molecules, other bodies, the clouds weighing heavy over Vienna tonight: over whose nape will this water stream, against what skin, on what pavement, towards what river, and this indistinct face on the glass is mine only for an instant, one of the millions of possible configurations of illusion …
Alexandra Kleeman
Camilla Grudova
Dan Fox
Eula Biss
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Karen Russell
Mathias Enard
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Bach Reloaded
Posted by Edward McCue in Bach's Works, Interviews, Other Artists, World View
Abu Dhabi, Alexey Botvinov, Bach Reloaded, Burhan Öcal, composition, drum stick, Emirates Palace, Goldberg Variations, harmony, Istanbul, Kiev, mathematics, Montreux Jazz Festival, Paris, percussion, piano, rhythm, Saeed Saeed, Turkish, Ukrainian, western art music, Zürich
Burhan Öçal
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach receives an innovative eastern spin in the hands of musicians Burhan Öçal, a Turkish percussionist, and Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov, in their interpretation of the Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). Since debuting the work in 2010, “Bach Reloaded” has been performed across Europe and recently received its Middle East debut in Abu Dhabi at the Emirates Palace.
Saeed Saeed interviewed Burhan Öçal to learn more about the project:
Saeed Saeed (SS) How did you and Botvinov come up with the concept of Bach Reloaded?
Burhan Öçal (BÖ) I’ve been dreaming about this project for fifteen to twenty years. However, as you know, Bach is such a prominent composer in the western classical-music world that it is very risky to even play his non-religious compositions, and not a lot of people have the courage to do this. So, it was not easy for us to revise his compositions with Turkish percussion and play it live.
We feel that we need to show the audience that these compositions are not for religious purposes and that they are fully [musically] successful in their very nature. We’ve played these shows in Kiev, Zürich, Paris, Istanbul and at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and each time the audience was mesmerized, so we are trying to connect with the audience in Abu Dhabi in the same way.
SS What is it about Bach’s compositions that lends them to a fusion of percussion and piano?
BÖ Bach’s music is so strictly mathematical that you cannot change the structure whatsoever. So this leads Bach’s compositions to be very rhythmic. Of course, these are very hard variations. I’ve maybe listened to the variations hundreds of times to be able to adapt to the piano and percussion. The ten-finger technique used both by the pianist and the percussionist also plays a big role in being able to create a fusion between these two instruments.
SS You and Botvinov focus on Bach’s Goldberg Variations. What is it about that piece that inspires you both to perform it?
The first reason in choosing the Goldberg Variations is that the composition itself was not written with religious purposes. The second reason is that the piece was composed beautifully with its mathematics and rhythmic structure.
SS How would you describe your musical chemistry with Botvinov?
BÖ First of all we both are very disciplined musicians. His is a ten-finger technique and mine also, because I do not use drum sticks. This leads us to use our twenty fingers in perfect harmony.
SS What makes it so appealing to international audiences?
BÖ I think that the reason behind the performances being appreciated is that it is that, for the first time, such a courageous project is actually being accomplished and is a success.
SS In Abu Dhabi, do you feel people identify with your percussion. Does this feel familiar to Middle East audiences?
BÖ I think that they find the music to be familiar, and, as a result, their reaction is definitely positive. Because of this, I am also playing some Middle Eastern Arabic rhythms and solos for this audience.
– The National
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Philosophical Perspectives on Language
Written by: Robert J. Stainton
254 pages; 6½" x 9"
Academics please note: this title is classified as having a restricted allocation of complimentary copies. While the availability of bound complimentary copies is restricted to desk copies only, electronic complimentary copies are readily available for those professors wishing to consider this title for possible course adoption. Should you choose to adopt the book after viewing an electronic copy we will be happy to provide a bound desk copy.
Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This new text reflects this evolution.
Philosophical Perspectives on Language is distinguished in several important respects from other introductions to the topic. Rather than looking at philosophy of language as a collection of (at best) loosely related topics—speech acts, demonstratives, sense and reference, truth and meaning, etc.—this book is organized around a unifying theme: language as a system of symbols that is known and used.
“Stainton has written an excellent textbook on the philosophy of language. It provides a clear and careful introduction to all the main issues in the area. It can be easily [used in conjunction with] some very good anthologies on the topic. … It’s extremely well-written and very polished; Stainton’s prose just flows smoothly from beginning to end. … It’s a joy to read a textbook that walks the reader through some rather tough terrain, never faltering along the way.” — Reinaldo Elugardo, University of Oklahoma
“This is a very good text indeed. It covers the important issues in contemporary philosophy of language, and is extremely clear. It is written in a chatty, lively style … an excellent resource for those new to the philosophy of language.” — Patricia Blanchette, Notre Dame University
Chapter One: Introduction
Three Perspectives on Language
Some Terminology
Part One: The System Perspective
Chapter Two: Syntax
Option One — Rule Systems
Option Two — Principles and Parameters
Epilogue: Prescriptive and Descriptive Syntax
Chapter Three: Direct Reference
Three Approaches to Meaning
Direct Reference Theories
Bertrand Russell on Descriptions
Chapter Four: Mediated Reference
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Davidson on the Limits of Convention
Chapter Twelve: Conclusion
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Stand with Standing Rock at Silent Barn's Festival in Support of the Protestors Next Week
If you're wondering what you can do to help, why not head out to Silent Barn?
Kevin Hoopes, 2 December 2016
On Sunday, December 11, Silent Barn is hosting a benefit festival featuring bands and poets in support of the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota.
Stand With Standing Rock: A No DAPL Benefit Festival will begin at 7 p.m., and entry is on an $8-$20 sliding scale throughout the night.
Featured artists include Bunny Michael (self described "Interdisciplinary artist channeling higher consciousness to be a conduit for peace in the world"), New Brunswick rockers Professor Caveman, local experimental musician and White Mountain Apache Laura Ortman, Esoteric Ayanna and Benjamin Lundberg.
All proceeds from the show go directly to Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council, described by Silent Barn organizers as "a collaborative effort of volunteer medics, physicians, and other healers available to the water protectors in the face of police brutality."
The benefit festival takes place not long after a group of over 2,000 veterans vowed to create a human shield to protect protestors of the pipeline project, and the announcement of a December 5th deadline for the protestors to relocate by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Corps has since clarified that it "has no plans for forcible removal" of the water protectors.
Regardless, the protestors have vowed to stay put, and as winter sets in, the need for support and supplies has never been greater.
More info and tickets can be found here. If you can't make it out to the show, please check out some other ways to support the cause here and here (in the latter link, the photos from Standing Rock are the work of Bushwick Daily photo editor Alonzo Maciel).
Keep fighting the good fight, Bushwick.
Featured image: protestors at Standing Rock. Photo courtesy of Silent Barn.
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Health and safety focus in IO procurement changes a concern: Industry
Angela Gismondi May 2, 2019
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) plans to make changes to its procurement model and some industry stakeholders are concerned that health and safety requirements could be at risk, adding they weren’t consulted.
At an event hosted by the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP) April 25, David Ho, executive vice-president of procurement and program management at IO, provided an update on the policy changes announced by Infrastructure Minister Monte McNaughton at the Infrastructure Investor Global Summit in Berlin in March.
Ho said the organization will be investigating changing its framework for the local knowledge provisions in the procurement process, which set off alarm bells for industry stakeholders. IO later told the Daily Commercial News, “as an initial step in this process, the health and safety components of evaluation that were previously in the local knowledge section have been entirely preserved and merely shifted to the construction experience and qualifications section of the RFQ.”
However, industry stakeholders say it is still not clear what that means, how it will be applied and they want more details on how it will work.
Our members will not compromise on health and safety but it invites them to lose competition to others who will,
— David Frame
Ontario General Contractors Association
“We were quite taken aback,” said Clive Thurston, speaking on behalf of the Construction and Design Alliance of Ontario (CDAO) and the Ontario General Contractors Association (OGCA). “It was surprising, it was disappointing, it was not what we were expecting and we have grave concerns over what we heard.”
In 2012, IO amended its scoring system to include local knowledge provisions, allocating 10 per cent to Ontario contractors with local knowledge or contractors that have gained local experience by working in Ontario.
“Local knowledge has assured professionalism, quality and the safety of our workers working for these firms that come into Canada in the IO process for procurement,” Thurston noted. “It is something the CDAO and the OGCA very specifically lobbied for very hard and worked very closely with the last infrastructure ministry to bring about and for very good reason.”
“Now the problem is our members will not compromise on health and safety but it invites them to lose competition to others who will,” added David Frame, director of government relations for the OGCA.
IO said the changes it is implementing take better account of international experience will not lower health and safety standards on P3 projects, instead it will elevate the emphasis put on health and safety for all IO procurements.
“This will actually increase the impact on health and safety because these points will now count towards a bidder’s minimum score requirements for prequalification,” reads the email. “Previously the local knowledge section did not have a specified minimum score threshold.
“This also makes the evaluation process for RFQs more streamlined and enables sponsors to better adapt overall scoring of the RFQ to the specific asset class – for example, placing greater emphasis in maintenance or operations in a DBFM (design-build-finance-maintain) or DBFOM (design-build-finance-operate-maintain) transaction.”
Mark Romoff, president and CEO of CCPPP, was pleased with what he heard in Ho’s presentation.
“What we heard today is a positive step towards ensuring Ontario continues to stand out internationally as an important and innovative infrastructure leader,” said Romoff. “As they mentioned, they’re not resting on their laurels and past successes. They want to innovate their P3 model to adapt to the changes in the marketplace. This means being open to benefitting from the best global ideas while also continuing to ensure local expertise is valued.”
Thurston pointed out that IO was one of the first to adopt the Certificate of Recognition (COR), a health and safety audit tool and training program granted by the Infrastructure Health and Safety Association.
“Does this mean they’re going to give up COR and they’re going to ease health and safety requirements in the province of Ontario just so foreign companies can come into Canada?” asked Thurston.
“David Ho said that IO ‘overshoots’ health and safety and he tied that to being exclusionary to competition. That is extremely disturbing and it shows a complete lack of understanding of where this industry has been going for the last 15 to 20 years and where we are today.”
He also said that while IO says it held an infrastructure market sounding, the OGCA was not consulted.
“We did the ministers market sounding and I can tell you the messages that we and others from the CDAO delivered to the ministers outreach was absolutely not in line with what we heard today,” said Thurston. “I don’t know who they talked to, maybe it was all those foreign companies but they certainly didn’t talk to the CDAO.”
IO responded, “We have consistently gathered feedback from all of the bidders who are part of our program and have always followed a principle of piloting changes to test for market concerns and feedback. We are pleased that the changes to local knowledge described here were piloted in the RFQ for the Go Expansion On Corr project and the changes were positively received.”
Thurston also said he is also getting conflicting messages from other agencies they work closely with such as Metrolinx.
“Every meeting we have been to with Metrolinx, and Infrastructure Ontario is at those meetings, we have been told over and over again, safety is the number one issue and that Metrolinx intends to be the leader when it comes to health and safety,” Thurston noted. “I have one partner saying health and safety is the thing we will not compromise, we’re going to be the leaders. The other partner is saying it’s not that important let’s just ‘overshoot’ it, it’s too much. I do not understand why we the professionals who actually do the work, design it, engineer it and build it have been shut out through this whole thing.”
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Supernatural set photos - contains mild spoilers.
If you dont want to read any spoilers.... DO NOT READ THIS POST OR LOOK AT PHOTOS IN THIS POST!!!
FINAL WARNING!
Earlier this week I beared the reasonably cold weather Vancouver has had this week to go down to a rare Supernatural downtown location shoot.
The 1st location I stumbled on was not yet in use, but was being prepped for a later shoot. It included putting up fake signs for an Animal Shelter in Idaho. Shortly after I came across the current filming location.
There I found Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean (Jensen Ackles) Winchester doing what they do best. Pretending to be someone else. They were inside a police crime area, with a cop car, ambulance, coroner & a red truck scattered about in the area from "Kootenai County" which a friend of mine from idaho instantly told me is the Couer d'Alene area of Northern Idaho. The boys were doing scenes where they chatted with a shorter older man man then followed him over to a different spot. Short, boring, and not overly spoiler inducing.
A little later on there was a scene with a man & a dog coming out of the makeshift pet shelter I talked about earlier. I only stayed for a couple takes of this scene as it was fudgin cold out, and no primary actors were there for it. The scene seemed to be the man walking with a limp, and bringing his dog out of the shelter, putting him on the ground, walking to an alley & then looking down the alley at "something".
Last set of the evening was across the street from the "animal shelter" where I saw 2 actors doing a scene. The 1/2 dozen or so hardcore fans that waited around all instantly noticed 1, Mr. Sam Winchester... but I was shocked that I seemed to be the only 1 who immediately noticed the other man... Mark Pellegrino. We were told to all stand back so far that we couldnt see much except the very beginning second or so of the scene that Sam & Lucifer did. It entailed Sam walking into an alley reading a piece of paper, and Lucifer of course tagging along.
After that scene was filmed. The main actors were wrapped, and they moved inside for scenes without any of the primary actors, and I decided to call it a night, since I was going to be busy for a couple more days this week, and the weather was expected to be even several degrees colder (which it was) over those days & I was still fighting a cold.
If you follow me on twitter, I am sure you have seen me rant frequently lately about how shitty my camera is. Again, I feel it let me down. My old camera, although it wouldnt have aced any of the pics, would have probably still done at least 30-50% better, and thus, there would have been a few less grainy/fuzzy/blurry shots than there is in the batch below.
Supernatural Goes On Christmas Break - Jensen & Jared head home for the holidays
This past weekend I saw a few different stars from a few different productions that were shooting in Vancouver, leave town for the Christmas hiatus.
Of course, high on every Vancouverites celeb watching/spotting/graphing list is the Supernatural duo of Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki.
This was the 1st time in quite awhile that I had caught up to them both at the same time. For months, I have caught 1 of them here, another there, but it had been many many months since I got both of them at the same time.
They arrived together coming in a door far down from where we expected any arrivals for that flight to come in and if it wasnt for Jared standing out in a crowd....we may have missed them.
One of the other hounds noticed them way down at the end coming in and we instantly went inside to get to them. As they checked in, we waited arounf for our chance to ask them after check in for some autographs.
1st up was Mr. Dean Winchester. Jensen was his usual happy self and signed lots for the small group of us that was there, he said he was happy for the break. Never really talked about what his plans for the break were too much, but he wished us a happy holidays, as we did him & let him get on his way.
A couple minutes later, Sam Winchester strolled thru. He was a little more talkative. We said we havent seen much of him lately & he said its because hes just been "hanging out & being pregnant".. which of course we then congratulated him on. With Genevieve having recently being up here, we were a little surprised his wife & mom-to-be wasnt with him on the trip. He then told us she had left a few days earlier. She was with family back home & that he was gonna meet up with her very soon. Like Jensen, he wished us a happy holidays, as we did with him & he was on his way.
The pair then went on their way & oddly enough, were not seen together departing LAX hours later. Somewhere along the way, Jared vanished, while Jensen was seen coming thru.
Below is pics of the SPN duo. Supernatural is up for awards in 8 categories on the Best Of TV Awards 2011
http://canadagraphs.weebly.com/best-of-tv-awards-polls.html including Best sci-fi show, Best sci-fi actor, Best non-human character or prop, Favorite Character..as well, Jared & Jensen are both up for Sexiest Actors. Semi-final voting has almost wrapped...the FINALS will start early in the new year.
Supernatural Season 7 set pics - Jared, Jensen and guest star DJ Qualls
Here are a few pics from earlier this month on the set of Supernatural.
I got the pics from a friend who was at the set, so I do not have the rights to sell these as with all my other sets. But, she did allow me to post them so that all of you can see them.
The pics are of Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester), Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and guest star that week DJ Qualls (a hunter...no more info is known yet) on set.
These pics were from the last day of shooting for DJ who made headlines while being in Vancouver when his trip started off being roughed up by Police while trying to ID someone to the cops after he witnessed someone assaulting someone downtown.
Of course, bigger news from the Supernatural world to come out this week, is the announcement from Jared on his twitter that his wife, Genievieve Padalecki is pregnant and expecting the couples 1st child. Congratulations to the couple.
Photo Credits - @CJJavaJunky on twitter.
Supernatural filmed some S6 scenes in New Westminster with Jared, Jensen and Misha
Two firsts happened today.
I got autographs from Misha Collins. I have met him twice, before I was a fan of the show & didnt know who he was yet. So I never had anything for him to sign those times. Now I did, and he happily did them all & I got a picture with him. Of all the cast they have had come in & go out on this show, he is probably my 2nd favorite cast member behind Jensen. So this was pretty exciting for me. The interaction was breif, as he was just on his way to set as we got him, but he took time to sign for 2 of us, on multiple items, did a photo with & even chatted breifly with us. I asked him what he thought of this character when he first saw the idea for him, he said it looked fun.
I got shots of scenes of Supernatural. I have met the cast on multiple occasions each...but never have I got pics of them on set, and definitely never in a scene. The fact that 3 of the 4 most notable cast members on the show were there for it was extra nice. So often I go to sets where only 1 or 2 of the main cast are there, so having most of the main cast in 1 spot was nice. Although it was impossible to really shoot them all in 1 frame, without looking like ants...still great to get them all at 1 scene.
Below are the pics from todays shoot.... the next few paragraphs will have possible (not entirely confirmed in some cases) spoilers...so DO NOT read on if you want a spoiler free life.....
Spoilers ahead.
Ok. So all I know is the Winchester boys are together for this scene and were looking down out of a 3rd story window that was broken after a scene that was shot where someone jumped out the window.
Below was Castiel laying ontop of a green screen type object. he gets up from the screen and stares up towards where the boys would be looking down from.
Reports I heard from those on the set prior to me showing up is 2 stunt persons did a jump out the window earlier onto a car (the car shown caved in in my pics). I dont know for certain if Castiels character was 1 of the 2 who jumped, but judging by the scene he was shooting when I got there, this may be the case.
The other individual, (show in the suit in the pics) was also apparently in the jumping scene according to those on the scene before I got there. I do not know if he was a stunt double, or the actor in the scene.
All in all, all thats really know is...someone jumped out a window, the Winchesters looked down at whoever it was as the hit a car...Castiel may or may not have been 1 of them, as he was filming a scene getting up from the spot where the fall happened.
Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki on Comic-Con weekend
The local hit show Supernatural sent their big guns down to comic-con to promote their show. Along with Misha Collins (Castiel) & Jim Beaver (Bobby Singer) they pt in the big guns, the Winchester Brothers. Jensen Ackles (Dean) & Jared Padalecki (Sam) went down to San Diego for the festivities.
This was a hectic weekend if your name was Jared Padalecki. The towering star had a rollercoaster day & a bit, as he came into Vancouver friday morning for 1 day of shooting, only to turn right back around less than 24 hours later, and head right back out of town for Comic-con. I caught up to him on his way into town & he was in great spirits. He chatted freely about the show, and working with new cast member Corin Nemec (a cousin from the Campbell side of the family). Less than 24 hrs later he was leaving & in a slightly less joyous mood. Those of us that got him the day before let him go freely, but a couple who werent there the day prior went for him & he only did 1 each for them & seemed pretty worn out. Cant blame him really..and neither did they, after his hellish travel schedule.
If you are wondering about his shirt, it appears to be for a charity run by former SPN guest star & Golden Globe winning actress, Linda Blair. It says "Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation" The website is http://lindablairworldheart.org/ it is a non-profiut organization for animals in Los Angeles.
Jensen headed to Comic-Con on Saturday & was pleasant & willingly signing multiple items per person. When asked what the directing gig was like he replied it was a lot of work" & when I asked if he was going to stick to just acting for now then, he replied more or less yeah. Guess directing isnt in his immediate future. He also was very positive about working with Corin. Upon returning, Those of us that got him leaving let him go, only a couple of people stopped him & asked for photos with the star who was decked out in a fedora & sunglasses.
I was pretty disappointed that I only saw the Winchesters this weekend. I had really hoped to get Misha finally, but so far, the sarcasm challenged angel has evaded me...perhaps thats what I get for trying to track down someone that has his own wings. Like I am ever going to see him getting on a plane pfft.
Anyways, thats the story of Supernatural for Comic-con
Be sure to check out the polls section of my site for a poll on the best local TV show, which Supernatural is nominated in.
BONUS- decided to toss in the 3 Corin Nemec pics I took while he was here. I believe these are the first shots of him in town for SPN, maybe not the first posted, but the first taken.
Supernatural, Fringe and Smallville stars leave for Comic-Con this weekend
The annual Comic-Con going on right now in San Diego, California is wrapping today. But this weekend gave us Vancouver hounds a chance to get some of the stars of the local shows on their way down there.
Unfortunately, local productions Human Target, V & Stargate SGU were either not yet filming, or, on summer hiatus during this time, so the stars of these programs didnt head there from Vancouver, but from their home places.
But the stars of Fringe, Smallville, Supernatural, Tower Prep came thru....along with Sanctuary & Psych (neither of which I saw anyone from)
Smallville was sending down 4 of their most notable names. Erica Durance (Lois Lane), Cassidy Freeman (Tess Mercer), Justin Hartley (Green Arrow) & that other guy who is deathfly afraid of krypontite on the show, but even more afraid of cameras & sharpies in person.
Supernatural sent out their main 4 cast, Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester), Jared Padalacki (Sam Winchester), Jim Beaver (Bobby) & Misha Collins (Castiel).
Fringe was sending their entire starting 6 rotation. Anna Torv (Agent Olivia Dunham), Joshua Jackson (Peter Bishop), John Noble (Walter Bishop), Jasika Nicole (Astrid Farnsworth), Blair Brown (Nina Sharp) & Lance Reddick (Agent Philip Broyles) to the event.
Another local show, Tower Prep was also sending cast members Elise Gatien (CJ... also know to Smallville fans as Speedy) Ryan Pinkston (Gabe Forest), Dyana Liu (Suki Sato) & Drew Van Acker (Ian Archer)
More detailed reports on my interactions with these stars will come when I do more show specific blogs...but for now...heres some teaser pics to keep you amused till I have time for that.
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Lynsey Gargan
We asked Lynsey Gargan from Smart Futures to give some advice for people considering this job:
With regard to education I say don't worry if you think you have the wrong subjects in school. I certainly didn't have the subjects you would typically expect.
There are a number of courses that cater to different backgrounds. The most important thing is to do your research. Go to open days, talk to the colleges and generally just find out what exactly you would be getting in to.
Don't just take for granted you know what a certain course or career is all about. Think about what you like to do, and not just necessarily in school, if you find yourself being curious about how things work or how thing are made, it's a good indication that you could like something like engineering.
One of the best things about engineering is that it really can be your passport to the world. There are great travel opportunities within the industry and chances to be involved in the next big thing.
Practically every man-made product around you came from a manufacturing plant, it's a huge industry with a lot of different avenues to take. Innovation is a really big part of what engineers do. The desire to be creative and improve production and processes is an important attribute for a manufacturing engineer.
Creative?
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Studying in Australia / NZ
Why study in Europe?
EUNiCAS, host annual information events on studying in Europe .
Full details are available here
There had been a significant increase in recent years in the number of leaving cert students opting to apply to degree programmes in Universities across Europe – Why is this option growing in popularity?
There are over 1000 undergraduate degree programmes in a full range of subjects in universities across Europe, that are delivered through English – Lectures and Text Books are in English; Assignments are in English etc. In response to the shortage of young people in Europe, the aim is to attract applicants from beyond the national market, reflecting English as the language of business, engineering, I.T. science, and many other areas in the 21st century.
A number of these programmes are offered in leading European Universities, many of which are ranked higher than any of the Irish Universities (7 Dutch universities are ranked higher than TCD).
Entry requirements in many European universities are generally lower (often significantly) than those for Irish (and UK) universities. LC points are usually irrelevant. Many programmes – but not all - have no selection procedures and for entry, only look for NUI matriculation requirements (six passes at Leaving Cert, with at least Grade H5 in two subjects on the Higher Course and at least Grade H7 (Higher Course) or O6 (Ordinary Course) in four subjects.). The Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and Denmark will accept a relevant QQI/FETAC Level 5 as meeting their entry requirements
There are no Third-level tuition fees in many European countries - Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland are free of fees. Tuition fees of €2083 apply for all courses in the Netherlands, with a supplement of about €1,000 -1500 for a handful of Liberal Arts & Sciences courses. Students can also apply for interest-free Tuition Fee loans. In some countries, including Denmark and Netherlands, students working part-time can get loans or grants of over €800 a month. Fees are also free in Malta, Germany and Austria. Tuition fees in Italy (including for medicine) are fixed with reference to family income and are between €400 and €4000 per year
The experience of studying in Europe gives students an excellent preparation for working in globalised employment markets. As more and more students undertake the experience of studying in Europe, word gets back and the reports are very positive indeed.
European universities are actively seeking UK and Irish students to study with them and over the past five years, the number of Irish students securing places in public universities in Europe is increasing, particularly in the Netherlands, where non-health science subjects including politics, business, IT, art, international law, liberal arts, psychology, and science are attracting students from Ireland.
15th Jan 2019 - Application deadline for a limited number of programmes in the Netherlands
with a selection procedure
15th Mar 2019 - Application deadline in Denmark
18th Apr 2019 - Second round application deadline for most programmes in Sweden
Apr- May 2019 Entrance tests in Dublin for leading Polish and Hungarian vet and med schools
1st May 2019 - Applications deadline for many programmes in Dutch Research Universities (though some have application deadlines as late as 1st July)
June-August 2019 – Different application deadlines for most programmes in Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences
31st July 2019 – second round offers in Denmark
July 2019 (exact date tbc) – application deadline, for entry 2019, for entrance test for med schools at public Italian universities
Health Sciences in Europe
Many Irish students attend both medical and paramedical programmes in central and eastern European countries including Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. Most of these operate on the same basis, with entrance examinations based on competency in biology and chemistry.
Fees in these countries will be higher than in Western Europe and are usually between €8000 and €12000 a year.
Hungary and Poland - There are over 40 first years in the veterinary programme in Warsaw this year and a high number in the Budapest programme too. There are also increasing numbers in the Polish vet schools. Poland is an increasingly attractive destination for medicine students, though there are good numbers of Irish and UK students in Hungarian and Czech med schools.
See also: Study Hungary and Medical Poland
Physiotherapy – there are currently well over 100 Irish students studying on the Physio programmes in the Netherlands. Feedback from them is consistently positive.
EuniCAS offers a support structure to Irish students applying to third-level colleges throughout Europe (excluding Hungary). See EuniCAS.
Infographic & Guide: How to Become a Doctor by Aris Grigoriou, Student Recruitment Manager at Study Medicine Europe.
Italy - In recent years, Italian universities have begun to offer medical degree programmes through English. Fees range between €400- €4000, depending on income. Italian universities use the International Medical Admissions Test (IMAT), a 100-minute, subject-specific admissions test for applicants to medicine and surgery courses. The test is through English and consists of verbal reasoning and science subjects.
There are now eleven public universities – including Bologna, Milan, Pavia, and Sapienza in Rome – offer degrees in medicine through English that are open to all EU students. After two years (and sometimes earlier), Irish students can access the student loans available to Italian students.
Graduates of Italian medical programmes take their intern year back in Ireland, whereas central and eastern European graduates in most, but not all countries, complete their intern year as part of their studies. Graduates are recognised by regulatory bodies in Ireland.
As well as the Netherlands, the most popular European destinations are Denmark and Germany. Places are available on degree programmes in a wide range of disciplines including: Health Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering & IT and Business.
See National Student Fee and Support Systems in European Higher Education - Facts and Figures - A guide to the key features of the fee system in each EU Country, indicating whether or not international students pay different fees than national or EU students [PDF available here]
How to Search for Courses in European Universities
Start by finding out about different courses and colleges in Europe.
You can get information about particular colleges in Europe by writing directly to the college to request a copy of their prospectus.
If you do not have a specific course or institution in mind, there are a number of other sources of information available to help you:
The European Commission Study in Europe website has information about higher education institutions in 32 European countries. It has guides to: Choosing a course, making an application and living in Europe, as well as scholarship opportunities.
Irish website Careers News has recently made a new International Course Search available via the Careers News website. The service, which is provided by Icares in Holland, allows students to search some 40,000 courses in 119 countries, and points them to the web page for that particular course.
Every European country also has a searchable database showing what courses are on offer:
Study in Denmark website - http://www.studyindenmark.dk
Study in Finland website - http://www.studyinfinland.fi
Study in Germany website -http://www.study-in.de
Study in Poland website - http://www.studyinpoland.pl
Study in Sweden website - http://www.studyinsweden.se
EUNiCAS
EUNiCAS is the European Universities Central Application Support Service. It provides information for Irish students on degree programmes taught through English, in Universities across Europe (more below). In addition to accessing comprehensive and independent information on programmes in Europe, you can register (for a very low fee of €28) and access:
Independent advice on choosing your programme
Expert support in applying to your chosen programmes, and overcoming common obstacles and misunderstandings
Guidance on all elements of your application package, inc Letters of Motivation [Personal Statements] and Entrance Tests
Regular updates on new programmes and developments
Assistance in organising university visits
Alerts on extended deadlines and late vacancies
Many students and their families gain a lot of reassurance, and invaluable aid, from the support offered by EUNiCAS
Many of the European universities, that have programmes taught through English, have Open Days, at which Irish Students are very welcome. See upcoming Open Days here
Application processes vary across Europe, so it is worth spending some time checking out the detail for the country you are interested in studying in.
The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland have a centralised application procedure similar to the Irish CAO system. Many Swedish Universities and all Finnish Universities require exam results by 1st July, meaning that Irish students will need to take a gap year if they want to study there. The application deadline for Denmark is mid-March.
There are centralised qualification validation requirements in Germany and Spain.
For a number of EU universities, application is made direct to either the university itself, or to the qualification validation body, or to the official body organising the entrance test. The diversity of arrangements in place across Europe makes EUNiCAS a useful tool for students. EUNiCAS is the European Universities Central Application Support Service. The EUNiCAS website has details of all courses offered through English, programme guidelines, application forms and completion procedures. Students can apply for to up to eight degree programmes taught through English, in universities across Europe, via Eunicas.
Students can also apply directly to the college of the choice. See individual college information for details.
A full list of Key Dates for applications is also available on the Eunicas website.
Will my Qualification be valid in Ireland?
The National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) is the system used in Ireland to clarify and compare qualifications. The European Qualification Framework (EQF) is the common European system. It links the different national qualifications systems from different countries together, acting as a translation device, to make qualifications more readable and understandable.
As qualifications frameworks continue to develop around the world, they contribute to greater mobility opportunities for learners and to the internationalisation of education and training.
Qualifications Recognition- an updated leaflet explaining how QQI works with the National Academic Recognition Information Centre (NARIC). It provides advice on fair academic recognition of foreign qualifications that may be used for access to unregulated employment and/or further study in Ireland. The leaflet is available here in six languages.
The Qualrec website explains education and training systems in different countries in EU and beyond, and gives access to other relevant information updates.
The popular leaflet, Travelling with your Irish Qualification has also been updated and provides advice on the initial steps involved in getting Irish qualifications recognised abroad, whether for study or employment purposes.
About the European Qualifications Framework
The EQF uses eight reference levels which span the full scale of qualifications, from basic (Level 1, for example school leaving certificates) to advanced (Level 8, for example Doctorates) levels. The eight reference levels are described in terms of 'learning outcomes'.
The EQF recognises that Europe’s education and training systems are so diverse that a shift to learning outcomes is necessary to make comparison and cooperation between countries and institutions possible.
In the EQF a learning outcome is defined as a statement of what a learner knows, understands and is able to do on completion of a learning process. The EQF therefore emphasises the results of learning rather than focusing on inputs such as length of study. Learning outcomes are specified in three categories – as knowledge, skills and competence.
NOTE: From 2012 all new qualifications should bear a reference to the appropriate EQF level.
Certificate Supplements for Level 5 and Level 6 Awards
The Certificate Supplements for all FETAC Level 5 and Level 6 Major, Special Purpose and Supplemental Awards went live on the Awards Directory in March 2014.
The Certificate Supplement is provided on-line to people who hold certain QQI (FET) vocational education and training awards. The Certificate is currently available for Major and Special Purpose awards at NFQ Levels 5 and 6.
Certificate Supplements are really useful if you are trying to have your Award understood overseas whether for academic recognition (through NARIC UK for example), or for employment purposes.
It gives information about your Award so that employers, or education and training providers, worldwide can easily understand your qualification, and what you have learned (knowledge, skill and competence). You can use it along with your CV, when applying for work or for further learning experiences.
Certificate Supplements are used across Europe as part of the European Skills Passport. It is one of the five Europass Tools (See below). However, unlike the Diploma Supplement, (within higher education, providers issue Diploma Supplements directly to graduates), the Certificate Supplement is issued by the Awarding Body. Providers of programmes leading to FETAC (QQI) awards should now also issue Certificate Supplements to learners along with their parchment and transcript.
Full details of the Certificate Supplement are available here.
Sample Europass Certificate Supplements:
ARTS (PDF)
Early Childhood Care and Education (PDF)
The FETAC Awards Directory, by NFQ level can be viewed here.
Europass - The European Skills Passport
Europass aims to help individuals to have their skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood in Europe, thereby increasing the mobility of both learners and workers.
Europass plays an important role in supporting learners as they avail of opportunities in other EU initiatives such as Erasmus + (See details above)
Europass provides a range of tools to make skills and qualifications easily understood, in a common format, in Ireland and across Europe.
There are five Europass documents available which help to describe learning achievements in a standardised manner:
The Europass CV - this is the cornerstone of the European Skills Passport. It helps to de-clutter and systematically organise personal career information
The Europass Language Passport -
Europass also includes supplements that explain in detail the meaning of qualifications held by a learner.
In 2014, QQI launched a significant new range of Europass Certificate Supplements for Level 5 and 6 CAS awards (view the QQI Awards Directory here).
These new documents are available to download and provide additional information about the awards achieved, for employers and institutions in the standardised format. Certificate Supplements support award holders in getting appropriate recognition for their qualifications, and can also be stored in individual European Skills Passports.
See EuroPass for detailed information.
College Fees and Living Expenses in Europe
The cost of attending many universities in Europe is often much lower than registering for an equivalent undergraduate degree programme in Ireland or the UK. However, fees can vary significantly, depending on the country in which the university is located and the subject matter of the degree programme.
There are no fees for UK and Irish students studying in Malta, or in the four Scandinavian countries, in state sector universities.
In the state-sector universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, there are no Tuition Fees but there are admin fees of about 500 -600 pa
In the Netherlands, tuition fees (2019) are €2083 pa. There is a tuition fee loan system whereby students have up to 20 years after graduation to repay their student loan to the Dutch government. The full fee can be covered.
University fees are also low in Italy. Medical School fees in Italy are very low [€400 – €4000 pa,] as they are linked to family income. The average Irish student will pay €1500 p.a. in Italy.
Fees for Health Sciences in most other European countries, besides Italy, are high, rising to between €18,000 and €20,000 in some private universities, but usually between €9,000 and €12,000 in the better Central European faculties, but rising to between €18,000 and €20,000 in some private universities in Western Europe.
Course duration in Europe ranges from 3-4 years for undergraduate courses and 1+ years for postgraduate courses.
Insurance - European universities generally require students to have both medical and liability insurance cover when they register. The EU Medical Card provides good basic cover, but a more comprehensive package including medical cover plus liability, theft, loss and travel etc. may be advisable.
Accommodation & Living Costs
The cost of studying in Europe varies greatly by country and region but a truly world-class education is obtainable without overextending your budget. The cost of living in most European cities compares pretty favourably with cities in the UK and Ireland. Local accommodation costs are included in the university profiles in the Eunicas database.
Course fees and living expenses are reasonable, but they can vary widely by country and region - see Eunicas course profiles for more detailed information.
Taking your SUSI Grant abroad
Irish Students who are eligible for a SUSI maintenance grant can use it for public programmes in all EU universities.
Funding Opportunities and Scholarships for Studying in Europe
The European Funding Guide - a not-for-profit website which provides details of some 12,000 scholarship programs and other forms of financial aid, to help students with their studies. CLICK HERE
The International Education Financial Aid website - provides a database of financial aid information for students who want to study in a foreign country. The site contains a comprehensive list of grants, scholarships, loan programmes and other information that may be helpful to students interested in studying in Europe, or other countries abroad CLICK HERE
ERASMUS is an EU programme that allows students at third-level to spend time studying or on work placement in another EU country. Most universities and colleges have an Erasmus exchange programme in place.
A new Erasmus programme has launched in 2014. Called Erasmus+ it brings together seven existing EU programmes in the fields of Education, Training and Youth; it will for the first time provide support for Sport. As an integrated programme, Erasmus+ offers more opportunities for cooperation across the Education, Training and Youth sectors and is easier to access than its predecessors, with simplified funding rules.
Individuals cannot apply directly for grants. Students who are interested in Erasmus should contact their university, college or organisation.
The Erasmus+ Programme Guide is available here.
Work and Live in Europe ~ everyone can apply for a chance to study or work in Europe. The EU Blue Card is a work permit issued by 25 out of 28 EU Member States to highly-qualified non-EU citizens, as well as students, vocational trainees, seasonal workers and professionals for areas where there are skills shortages such as medicine or technology. For more information see 'Who can apply for the Europe Blue Card'.
Other Useful Links for Studying in Europe
The European Youth Portal is a source of information for young people about studying in Europe both in the European Union and in non-EU countries. It has information on a wide range of other topics for young people including working, travelling, volunteering and exchanges in Europe.
UNESCO produces an international guide to studying abroad. It includes a searchable online database of higher-education study opportunities and the scholarships offered by higher education institutions and international organisations in many countries. It also has contact details and information on admission requirements, application deadlines, financial aid, fees, living expenses and other relevant information for all courses.
Europe - General
WorldWide Classroom is a source of information on courses, student services and practical country information worldwide. You can use the international programme finder to search for a course in the country and language of your choice.
European University Central Application Suppport Service - EUNICAS - Eunicas is an independent college application support service.
European Qualifications Framework - EQF - The European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (EQF) provides a common reference framework which assists in comparing the national qualifications systems, frameworks and their levels (See detailed information above)
Ploteus - PLOTEUS aims to help students, job seekers, workers, parents, guidance counsellors and teachers to find out information about studying in Europe.
Euraxess Ireland - Moving abroad can be an exciting but stressful experience. The pages linked to this section provide advice on your arrangements before you leave, living and working overseas
France - CNOUS - French website that aims to improve students' lives in many ways, including food services, housing, grants, social and cultural activities, and international mobility.
CampusFrance is an online portal run by the French government that assists students in their university applications, from choosing a university up to visa processing.
Study in Holland - an initiative of NUFFIC to promote and inform students about Dutch Higher Education worldwide.
Study in Germany - includes information on studying medicine, as well as undergraduate, masters and Phd level study in Germany.
Germany Student Visa - contains detailed information about Student Visa for Germany and requirements
Germany Health Insurance - contains detailed information about Germany Health Insurance for Students
For Guidance Professionals:
Euro Guidance – a European network of national resource and information centres for guidance.
Studying in Central and Eastern Europe
For most of the medicine, dentistry and veterinary science programmes in Central Europe, students have to sit Entrance Examinations. These are usually held in Ireland, in April [or for late applicants, in July or August]. Students should check with the relevant university, or their Irish representative. Where there is an earlier exam, it is recommended that you attend the first sitting.
The following weblinks are useful in researching college options in central and eastern Europe
Central Europe - International Medicine Studies (IMS) is a foreign student recruitment and support services website with a focus on Veterinary and Medicine studies admission services.
Bulgaria – StudyInBulgaria.com – details of University programs, Admission process, Living in Bulgaria. English programs include Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Midwifery, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine and several Business and Hospitality programmes.
Hungary - Avicenna - International College offering programs in the fields of medicine, business, technology, English and preparation for masters and phd studies.
Hungary - Study in Hungary - Information website for international students interested in Programs in the fields of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Veterinary Science and Physiotherapy in Hungary.
Latvia - StudyinLatvia - Information on Higher Education in Latvia for International students.
Poland - Education in Poland - Education in Poland - site in Polish.
See also Top Universities - http://www.topuniversities.com
Studying in non-EU countries
The EU has education co-operation programmes with the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. These programmes are aimed at developing educational links between the EU and the 5 partner countries. Student and teacher mobility are encouraged by the promotion of student exchange programmes between participating institutions.
Student visas: If you are going to study outside the EU and in a non-European country, you may need a student visa. Each country will have specific requirements for student visas. You should consult with the embassy or consulate of the country where you plan to study for more details.
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What Is the Difference Between an Otologist & an Otolaryngologist?
Fred Decker
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The head and neck contain a number of crucial sensory organs, nerve pathways, muscle groups, blood vessels and other systems that contribute to human health. Aside from the eyes and brain, which have their own medical specialties, conditions affecting the head, neck and throat are an otolaryngologist's area of expertise. Also known as ear-nose-throat doctors, or ENTs, otolaryngologists treat everything from chronic sinus infections to life-threatening cancers. Otologists are ear specialists, within the field of otolaryngology.
Otolaryngologists
Otolaryngologists are doctors who treat conditions of the ears, nose, sinuses and throat. They're both physicians and surgeons and can choose to treat a given condition surgically or non-surgically, whichever is more appropriate for the patient. They treat allergies that cause sinus congestion, as well as other conditions of the nose and sinuses. They remove tumors from the throat and neck, and in some cases the skull or brain. They perform plastic and reconstructive surgery, treat balance and hearing problems in the ears, and help patients who have difficulty swallowing.
Otologists are also otolaryngologists, but they're specialists in treatment of the ears and their related systems. This includes repairing physical conditions that cause hearing loss, such as fused bones within the ear or perforated eardrums, and inner-ear problems that affect balance. Otologists can also remove tumors located near the skull base, behind the jaw and in sinus cavities. These procedures require extensive facial reconstruction afterward, but make it possible to treat patients whose cancers would otherwise be inoperable.
The Differences
General otolaryngologists can treat many of the same conditions as otologists, but otologists' specialized training enables them to treat patients with more complex and challenging conditions. They're also more skilled in neurotology, the treatment of nerve pathway disorders that can cause hearing loss, dizziness and nausea. General otolaryngologists don't have the focused expertise of otologists, but offer their patients a broader range of services. Private and hospital-based practices often provide both general otolaryngology and otology services.
Otolaryngologists begin their careers with a four-year undergraduate degree, as other doctors do, then go on earn their doctoral degree through four more years in an osteopathic or medical college. After graduation, aspiring otolaryngologists must complete a five-year surgical residency. This gives them the opportunity to sharpen their clinical and surgical skills in a team environment with more-experienced practitioners. After completing their residency, newly trained otolaryngologists can become board-certified by passing two exams, one written and one oral. Otologists must spend another two years in a specialized training fellowship, learning the advanced skills needed. Otologists must pass an additional set of board certification exams after completing their fellowship.
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Fatehpur district
Khaga tehsil
Katsuwa
Katsuwa Population, Caste, Working Data Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh - Census 2011
Katsuwa is a village situated in Khaga tehsil of Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh. As per the Population Census 2011, there are total 90 families residing in the village Katsuwa. The total population of Katsuwa is 589 out of which 311 are males and 278 are females thus the Average Sex Ratio of Katsuwa is 894.
The population of Children of age 0-6 years in Katsuwa village is 110 which is 19% of the total population. There are 58 male children and 52 female children between the age 0-6 years. Thus as per the Census 2011 the Child Sex Ratio of Katsuwa is 897 which is greater than Average Sex Ratio (894) of Katsuwa village.
As per the Census 2011, the literacy rate of Katsuwa is 51.1%. Thus Katsuwa village has lower literacy rate compared to 57.4% of Fatehpur district. The male literacy rate is 58.5% and the female literacy rate is 42.92% in Katsuwa village.
As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act (Amendment 1998), Katsuwa village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of the village.
Katsuwa Data as per Census 2011
As per the Population Census 2011 data, following are some quick facts about Katsuwa village.
Children 110 58 52
Literacy 51.15% 58.5% 42.92%
Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 14.9% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0% of total population in Katsuwa village.
In Katsuwa village out of total population, 156 were engaged in work activities. 66.7% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 33.3% were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 156 workers engaged in Main Work, 37 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 55 were Agricultural labourer.
Main Workers 104 86 18
Cultivators 37 31 6
Agriculture Labourer 55 45 10
Other Workers 12 10 2
Marginal Workers 52 43 9
Non Working 433 182 251
Map of Katsuwa, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
Nearby Villages to Katsuwa, Khaga
Below are the list of villages near Katsuwa village in Khaga.
Mehandauli 1,340
Babullapur 807
Karmepur 1,154
Hisammuddinpur 769
Sarai Arayan 554
Deoraipur 333
Sultanpur Ghosh 4,614
Naksara 1,031
Namdeopur 246
Har Ballabhpur Gauri 364
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You’re convinced CBD works for you—what about for your pets? – Considerable
People with anxiety, pain, trouble sleeping, and other health problems are turning to cannabidiol (CBD) for relief. So it makes sense that they would look to CBD to treat their pets’ health conditions, too.
Kelsey Cole of Toronto says it worked for her dogs. “I introduced it for both my dogs in March. My Pomeranian turned 10 and was showing signs of arthritis and major anxiety. Any sort of movement he wasn’t expecting would set him off. My little guy, a shih-tzu pom, is quite anxious as well.”
“CBD has been life-changing. I look at him and can’t believe he’s 10.”
She found a CBD oil they could all try—she wanted to see if it would help her with joint pain and trouble sleeping. “They are like completely different dogs,” she says. Her Pomeranian is running up the stairs and around the yard. “CBD has been life-changing. I look at him and can’t believe he’s 10.”
Both dogs are so much calmer. “I have never seen something work so well,” she says. It made a dramatic difference in her joint pain and ability to sleep, too.
People swear that CBD works for them and their pets, and it’s cropping up in all kinds of products, like massage lotions, infused coffee, breakfast cereal, and Oreo-maker food giant Mondelez has even expressed interest in experimenting products with it.
But what does the science say?
People swear that CBD works for them and their pets, and it’s cropping up in all kinds of products, like massage lotions, infused coffee, breakfast cereal, and Oreo-maker food giant Mondelez has even expressed interest in experimenting products with it. But what does the science say?
Studies testing the effectiveness of CBD in pets are ongoing, and most research isn’t published yet. One study shows promise. A Canine Health Foundation study examining CBD’s effects on dogs with epilepsy launched in 2017.
“Some scientific evidence also supports the use of CBD for treating people with anxiety and some types of pain, so it’s not too big of a jump to think that it could be used in similar ways for pets as well”
Jennifer Coates
Pet Life Today
Jennifer Coates, DVM, who serves on the advisory board for Pet Life Today, says that preliminary results found almost 90% of epileptic dogs who were given CBD had fewer seizures.
“Some scientific evidence also supports the use of CBD for treating people with anxiety and some types of pain, so it’s not too big of a jump to think that it could be used in similar ways for pets as well,” Coates says.
Gary Richter, DVM, the owner and medical director of Montclair Veterinary Hospital in Oakland, California, authored the Veterinary CBD chapter in CBD: A Patient’s Guide to Healing with Medicinal Cannabis.
He says, “CBD has much the same effect in animals as it does in people. CBD affects the endocannabinoid system, which is a system of neurotransmitters in the body that helps balance and maintain normal body function. This includes helping with pain, inflammation, anxiety, and arthritis.”
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Sara Ochoa, DVM, is a small animal and exotic pet veterinarian in east Texas who recommends CBD oil to clients and uses it with her own pets. She says it can help with:
Fireworks anxiety
Certain cancers
“I use CBD oil in my pet rabbit,” she says. “She has a neurological condition where she would hop in circles and could not walk straight. After giving her CBD oil she can now hop in straight lines and has a much better quality of life.”
“CBD appears to be quite safe for dogs and cats. There have been some reports of pets getting an upset stomach or becoming sleepy when they receive large doses, but that’s about it,” Coates says.
Richter also believes that CBD is safe for pets. “It could potentially make the animal a little sleepy. But that’s about as bad as it would be expected to get. Every once in a blue moon, there’s a pet that experiences some gastrointestinal issues, but it’s actually pretty uncommon. And as I often tell people, any medication or supplement can potentially cause an upset tummy,” Richter says.
It’s still a good idea to talk to your vet about using CBD with your pets, since it could interact with medications.
Because state laws regarding CBD generally don’t cover pets, you may have to bring up the topic with your veterinarian, according to Consumer Reports. (Vets in California can legally discuss CBD with clients.)
It can be difficult to know exactly what you’re getting with CBD products, since they’re not covered by many regulations.
Consumer Reports recommends seeking products that follow Good Manufacturing Practices or have the National Animal Supplement Council’s quality seal, which makes it more likely that what you’re buying is free of contaminants and contains the ingredients listed on the label, with accurate dosages. Coates adds the Certified Seal of the U.S. Hemp Authority to the list.
If you decide to try CBD oil for your pet, you can either add drops to your pet’s food or treats or buy treats infused with CBD.
Either way, make sure you’re monitoring the dose of CBD you’re giving to your pet. “Starting off slow and working up to the full dosage is best,” Ochoa says.
Source: https://considerable.com/cbd-pets/
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FMI nudges FDA to clarify CBD product regulation – Supermarket News
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Scientific Committee Members
Belief Formation Program
Memory Program
Person Perception Program
Centre Initiatives
Cross Program Support Scheme
Neural Markers Training Scheme
Exchange Schemes
Outreach | Networks
Participant Registers
Inclusive Research Network
CCD in the Media
Chief and Partner Investigators
Associate Investigators
Centre Support Staff
Over the life of the Centre, numerous Public Events were held, including:
2014 | 2015 Stakeholder Workshops
These workshops, held at the Macquarie University node of the CCD, provided a special opportunity to further develop and enhance collaborative links between Centre members and those who support the people whose lives are impacted by our Centre's research. The 2014 Stakeholder Workshop shared the vision of the Centre, whilst the 2015 Stakeholder Workshop comprised of a series of focused group sessions during which those with common interests had the opportunity to share dedicated time to discuss and develop opportunities for mutually beneficial collaboration in support of research outcomes. The focused group session topics for the 2015 workshop included:
Dementia, Old Age, Memory
Childhood Language Development, SLI, Bilingualism
Dyslexia and Learning to Read and Spell
Exploring New Technology: TMS, TDCS, Doppler, Emotiv
Hearing, Hearing Loss, and the Brain
During each focus group session, CCD research leaders presented research updates and facilitated discussion of planned and potential research directions, seeking input and assistance in identifying opportunities for support from stakeholders in attendance.
2015 | 2017 Reading and Spelling Workshop
These conferences aimed to bring together leading researchers from around the world to discuss reading and spelling development, disorders and remediation for both practice and research. The conference had two parts, one focused on practice for teachers, clinicians and parents. Topics covered included resources for testing, the impacts of working memory and emotional health on dyslexia, and current Australian educational policy and programs. The second part focused on research for an academic audience in the field of reading, spelling, dyslexia, and dysgraphia. The goal here was to learn about current theories of reading and dyslexia from national and international experts.
2018 Discoveries and Impact Showcase
Over the life of the Centre (2011-2018), the CCD offered unique opportunities for interdisciplinary and international collaborative research in the study of cognition, its disorders and their treatment. To celebrate the achievements and highlight some of the outstanding research discoveries from across the Centre, the CCD Discoveries and Impact Showcase was held at the Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University. During the event we heard from the five Program Leaders who each gave an overview of their program's research discoveries and engagement with the wider community. We were pleased the Executive Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence Scheme, the Chair of the CCD Advisory Board and the Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University - the administering node for the Centre - joined us for this special celebration.
Over the course of our final year, the CCD hosted a series of well attended public lectures that celebrated the research achievements and international profile of the Centre. Each CCD research program (Belief Formation, Language, Memory, Person Perception and Reading) invited distinguished international scientists to give a public lecture in their respective fields of research and to showcase the research themes of the Centre.
Empathy and Morality: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Professor Jean Decety, University of Chicago, USA
Hosted by the Belief Formation Program
Empathy, the ability to perceive and be sensitive to the emotional states of others, motivates prosocial and caregiving behaviours, plays a role in inhibiting aggression, and facilitates cooperation between members of a similar social group. This is probably why empathy is often and wrongly confused with morality, which refers to prescriptive norms regarding how people should treat one another, including concepts of justice, fairness, and rights. Drawing on empirical research and theory from evolutionary biology, psychology and social neuroscience, Professor Decety argued that our sensitivity to others' needs has been selected in the context of parental care and group living. One corollary of this evolutionary model is that empathy produces social preferences that can conflict with morality. This claim is supported by a wealth of empirical findings in neuroscience and behavioural economics documenting a complex and equivocal relation between empathy, morality and justice. Empathy alone is powerless in the face of rationalisation and denial. It is reason that provides the push to widen the circle of empathy from the family and the tribe to humanity as a whole.
Knowing Autism
Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Pellicano, Macquarie University
Hosted by the Person Perception Program
Autism affects millions of citizens in Australia and across the globe. Despite widespread public interest in autism, autistic people and their families have rarely been actively engaged in the research process. They have largely not been given the opportunity to decide research priorities, shape how an issue is researched, or help draw out practical lessons from research. Many have reported feeling disenfranchised as a result. Developing ways to involve autistic people and their allies, in deciding which topic to research, the way an issue is researched, how it becomes funded, who undertakes the research and so on, is one key way both to rebuild feelings of trust and to ensure that a greater portion of research has a direct and sustained impact on those who need it most.
Autism researchers do not do this enough, and indeed, scientists are often reticent about involving community members in their research. But can non-autistic scientists ever really understand what autistic people and their families need from their research? In this presentation, Professor Pellicano contended that truly understanding autism, ‘knowing autism’, requires both objective and subjective understandings, experiences and expertise, which can be achieved by listening, learning and involving autistic people and their families in research. She has investigated in depth what the autistic community rightly demands of autism research and the major changes that will need to be made to deliver on their expectations.
The Promiscuous Hippocampus: The Role of the Medial Temporal Lobe in the Memory, Perception and Emotion
Professor Andrew Yonelinas, University of California, Davis, USA
Hosted by the Memory Program
Our ability to remember the important events that make up our lives is critically dependent on the medial temporal lobe. However, recent work has suggested that different sub-regions within the medial temporal lobe may support distinct mnemonic processes and that they may play important roles in cognitive tasks beyond traditional tests of long-term episodic memory. Professor Yonelinas described work showing that the hippocampus plays a central role in binding together and subsequently recollecting the different aspects that make up an episode or event, whereas other regions such as the perirhinal cortex can support familiarity-based memory discriminations even when recollection fails. In addition, he presented evidence that the hippocampus is involved in supporting short-term memory and even visual perception, when those tasks involve high-resolution or complex bindings. Professor Yonelinas then focused on the unique role of emotion in episodic memory and showed that the amygdala supports recollection of emotional bindings that exhibit relatively slow forgetting compared to hippocampal bindings. Finally, he examined the effects of acute stress on different medial temporal lobe regions and presented data showing that post-encoding stress can rescue memory from the effects of forgetting by acting as a mnemonic filter.
How Grammar Creates Meaning
Professor Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University, USA
Hosted by the Language Program
Humans communicate through language: verbal languages, or sign languages. How do words and sentences or gestures acquire meaning? One way to think about it is to view language as a labeling device: nouns are used as conventional labels for things (e.g., the English noun tableis a label for, well, tables) and verbs are labels for actions (e.g. to breaklabels actions like demolishing, shattering, and the like); and in virtue of these conventional associations, sequences of words can be used to convey facts about the world, or to tell stories. Professor Chierchia promoted a different view of language structure. He proposed that there are two main types of words in language. Words like table or break, which are known as ‘content words’, indeed have primarily a labelling/referential function. But then there are words like or, if, no, even, any,often called ‘function words’. He believes that meaning stems primarily from the latter category of function words. It is in function words that a sort ‘spontaneous logic’ hides, through which we give shape to our thoughts. So the path is from grammar to meaning via logic. Professor Chierchia illustrated this point by showing how many sentences that are perceived as ‘ill formed’ or ‘agrammatical’ owe their marginal status to being logical contradictions (albeit, subconscious ones). This leads to a fairly radical re-thinking of how grammar works.
Optimizing Early Reading Interventions for At-Risk Children
Professor Robert Savage, University College London, UK
Hosted by the Reading Program
Professor Savage and his team explore the best strategies that can be used to support children who are showing difficulty with developing reading skills in early primary school. They have conducted studies evaluating the effects of specific interventions that might help poor readers to improve their reading skills. English differs from other languages because the same spelling can be pronounced in different ways across different words. The complexity in the relationship between letters and sounds is one of the challenges to early reading skill development. It is thus important to understand how letter-to-sound rules (or grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences) are used by children when reading sentences and passages of text. In this presentation, Professor Savage described a series of intervention studies carried out with grade 1 and 2 at-risk poor readers from regular classrooms in two provinces in Canada. In the first study they explored 'direct mapping' of grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences to their representations in connected texts and the teaching of 'set-for-variability' strategies which allow the matching of a spelling pronunciation against a stored word in 199 at-risk poor readers in grade 1. In the second study, of children in grade 2, they explored applications of an approach to reading instruction that seeks the simplest interventions (known as the Simplicity Principle), which taught 94 below average early readers the most beneficial/common letter-to-sound relationships. Both reading intervention studies found measurable improvements in standardised reading tests for the at-risk students. Implications of findings and further programmatic studies were also discussed.
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Tag Archives: Sacramento Valley
Drought, Fisheries, Fishing (Sport)
Drought Prompts Fish Evacuation at American River and Nimbus Hatcheries
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With a fourth year of extreme drought conditions reducing the cold water supply available, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is moving fish out of the American River and Nimbus hatcheries for the second year in a row.
Bureau of Reclamation models suggest water temperatures at the hatcheries could be at lethal levels for cold water fish by August. CDFW has already begun to stock American River Hatchery rainbow and brown trout into state waters earlier than normal. These fish range from small fingerlings to the larger catchable size. The accelerated planting schedule will continue through mid-July when all the fish in the raceways are expected to be evacuated. This includes all the fingerling size rainbow trout that would normally be held in the hatchery to grow to catchable size for next year.
A new, state-of-the-art building at American River Hatchery, completed in early June using emergency drought funds, will enable CDFW to raise Lahontan cutthroat trout through the summer for planting into eastern sierra lakes and streams. The new building will also enable CDFW to hold a small group of rainbow trout fingerlings that are scheduled to be stocked in west side sierra put-and-grow fisheries by airplane in July. The new hatchery building utilizes water filters, ultraviolet sterilization techniques and large water chillers to keep water quality and temperatures at ideal levels for trout rearing. However, the new technology is limited to the hatchery building and not the raceways, which will limit capacity to include only the Lahontan cutthroat trout once the fish start to grow to larger sizes.
Nimbus Hatchery has already begun relocating some 330,000 steelhead to the Feather River Hatchery Annex to be held through the summer. When the water temperature at the Nimbus Hatchery returns to suitable levels in the fall, the steelhead will be brought back to Nimbus to finish growing and imprinting then will be released into the lower American River. The Feather River Hatchery Annex is supplied by a series of groundwater wells that maintain cool water temperatures throughout the year.
The fall run Chinook salmon from Nimbus Hatchery have all been released into state waterways. If necessary, the chilled American River Hatchery building will be used this fall to incubate and hatch Chinook salmon from Nimbus Hatchery.
“Unfortunately, the situation is similar to last year,” said Jay Rowan, Acting Senior Hatchery Supervisor for CDFW’s North Central Region. “We have begun to implement contingency plans to avoid major fish losses in the two hatcheries. We want to do the best job we can to provide California anglers with good fishing experiences and communicate when there will be deviations from normal practices. With that in mind, we want to let anglers in the area know that a lot more fish than normal will be going out into area waters served by American River Hatchery.”
Rowan said that the number of fish planted at various waterbodies will increase as the planting timeframe decreases, so the fishing should be very good through the summer at foothill and mountain elevation put-and-take waters. Early fish plants now mean there won’t be as many fish available to plant in the lower elevation fall and winter fisheries, so the fishing may drop off later in the season if the fish don’t hold over well.
American River Hatchery operations focus on rearing rainbow and Lahontan cutthroat trout and kokanee salmon for recreational angling, predominantly in waters within the North Central Region. Nimbus Hatchery takes salmon and steelhead eggs from the American River and rears them to fish for six months to a year, until they are ready to be put back in the system.
To the south, San Joaquin Hatchery near Fresno expects to experience high water temperatures this summer. Transferring and stocking fish in advance of high water temperatures is planned. CDFW hopes to maintain some trout at low densities at the hatchery for the winter stocking season.
Annually, CDFW works with the Bureau of Reclamation to ensure its operations provide suitable conditions for fish at hatcheries and in the river. This year, conditions are forecasted to be dire with little flexibility in operations. Similar to last year, low reservoir storage and minimal snow pack will result high water temperatures over summer and very low river flows by fall.
Fall and winter rains, if received in sufficient amounts, will cool water temperatures enough to allow both hatcheries to come back online and resume operations.
Jay Rowan, CDFW North Central Region, (916) 358-2883
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Conservation Education, Enforcement, Fishing (Sport), Hunting, Public Participation
CDFW to Showcase Programs, Sell Licenses and Offer Education for Kids at Upcoming ISE Show in Sacramento
January 7, 2015 kmacinty
If you’re heading to the International Sportsmen’s Expo at the Cal Expo State Fairgrounds this coming weekend (Jan. 8-11), be sure to stop by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) booth, space 3700 in the Pavilion Building. Wardens, biologists, license agents and many other CDFW staff will be on hand throughout the event to address questions and provide information. Many items will also be available for purchase, including fishing and hunting licenses, warden stamps, permits and tags.
For the second year, CDFW’s top leadership will participate in a panel discussion about topics of interest to California hunters and anglers. The discussion will be held Saturday, Jan. 10 from 1-2 p.m. in the California Sportsmen’s Theater in the Pavilion Building. This will be an open forum where members of the audience may ask questions of the panel.
“As public servants, it is part of our job to remain open and available for input on issues, including contentious ones,” said Charlton H. Bonham, CDFW’s Director. “It is particularly important that we listen to input from our traditional hunting and fishing constituents. This show gives us an opportunity to do just that.”
CDFW will also have other displays throughout the fairgrounds, including the Heritage Wild Trout booth, space 2218 in the Fly Fishing Building, and an invasive species booth, space 3244 in the Pavilion Building. Game warden recruitment is always a large component of CDFW’s participation in the show. Again this year, a game warden trailer with a free laser shot game will be on display outside of the Pavilion Building, and wildlife officers will be available to answer questions about employment with CDFW.
Other CDFW-sponsored highlights at the ISE include:
Youth fishing – Bring your child to the Youth Fair Expo Center to fish for beautiful rainbow trout. Each person who does so will go home with an official California Fishing Passport book, an official stamp and a fish identification book containing pictures and information about 150 different species of California fish!
Learn How to be “Bear Aware” – CDFW staff will demonstrate how to keep a campsite safe from unwanted ursine visitors.
2015 Warden Stamps – At the main booth, CDFW will be offering and promoting this year’s stamp, which features a black bear. Stamps sell for $5. Proceeds support game wardens and K-9 units and help fund the purchase of necessary law enforcement equipment.
Outdoor California – Free copies of CDFW’s award-winning magazine will be available (as supplies last) at the main booth. Yearly subscriptions may be purchased for $15.
New This Year … CDFW’s First Trout Planting Truck – This beautiful 1925 Dodge truck was the first used for planting trout. The fish were transported in big milk cans. It has been completely refurbished and will be on display for the first time at this Sacramento show, near the Youth Fair Expo Center. It still runs and it looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor.
The Cal Expo State Fairgrounds are located at 1600 Exposition Blvd. in Sacramento. ISE show hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $15 for adults (door sales are cash only, although tickets may be purchased in advance online). Youth under age 16 are free. There is a $10 charge to park on the grounds.
For additional information, schedules and to purchase tickets, please visit the ISE webpage at www.sportsexpos.com/attend/2015/sacramento.
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Wildlife Conservation Board Funds Environmental Improvement and Acquisition Projects
August 28, 2014 DanaMichaels2013
At its Aug. 28 quarterly meeting, the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved approximately $30 million in grants to help restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout California. Some of the 29 funded projects will provide benefits to fish and wildlife – including some endangered species – while others will provide the public with access to important natural resources. Several projects will also demonstrate the importance of protecting working landscapes that integrate economic, social and environmental stewardship practices beneficial to the environment, land owners and the local community. The funds for all these projects come from bond initiatives approved by voters to help preserve and protect California’s natural resources. Some of the funded projects include:
A $970,000 grant to the City of Red Bluff for a cooperative project with the Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Boating and Waterways, to construct a boat launch facility compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act that includes a 2-lane boat ramp, improved parking, a new restroom, picnic areas and pedestrian paths.
An $805,000 grant to the California Waterfowl Association to acquire a conservation easement over approximately 226 acres of land for the protection of giant garter snake, Swainson’s hawk, black rails and wetlands near Marysville in Yuba County.
A $4.8 million grant to the American River Conservancy to acquire in fee approximately 1,080 acres of land for the protection and preservation of riparian and woodland habitat that includes native fisheries and oak woodlands, and to provide for potential future wildlife-oriented public use opportunities on land fronting the Cosumnes River in El Dorado County.
A $10 million grant to Save the Redwoods League for a cooperative project with the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, Peninsula Open Space Trust, Sempervirens Fund and the State Coastal Conservancy to acquire a forest conservation easement over approximately 8,532 acres of working forest lands, forest reserve areas and habitat linkages near the town of Davenport in Santa Cruz County.
A $750,000 grant to the Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County for a cooperative project with the State Coastal Conservancy and others to acquire in fee approximately 879 acres of land to protect native grasslands, oak woodlands, coastal scrub and wildlife corridors, and to provide the potential for future wildlife-oriented public use opportunities near Pismo Beach in San Luis Obispo County.
A $1.6 million grant to the Trust for Public Land for a cooperative project with the City of Santa Clarita to acquire approximately 302 acres of land to provide recovery benefits for federally threatened and endangered species and to provide corridors linking separate habitat areas to prevent habitat fragmentation, protect significant natural landscapes and ecosystems and provide the potential for future wildlife-oriented public use opportunities.
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Yolo County Jury Convicts Sturgeon Poachers
June 26, 2014 ahughan
A Yolo County jury convicted a repeat sturgeon poacher and his accomplice of multiple felonies and poaching charges stemming from a 2010 poaching investigation. They were convicted June 19, with sentencing scheduled for Aug. 1.
In Feb. 2010, Nikolay Krasnodemskiy, 41, of North Highlands, and his partner Petr Dyachishin, 54, of Citrus Heights, were observed catching and retaining oversized sturgeon and processing their eggs into caviar. An extensive investigation conducted by California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) officers from the Delta Bay Enhanced Enforcement Project and the Special Operations Unit proved the two were selling the sturgeon and their eggs on the black market for personal profit. Sale of sturgeon, their parts, or any fish caught with a recreational fishing license is illegal.
Krasnodemskiy and Dyachishin were each convicted of two felonies related to conspiracy, in addition to multiple counts of commercial sales of sturgeon, possession of oversized sturgeon, failure to tag sturgeon and possession of sturgeon over the annual limit.
California’s sturgeon population is on the edge of sustaining a recreational fishery. As a result, sturgeon anglers must adhere to strict size, limit and tagging requirements to help wildlife officers distinguish between honest anglers and poachers, and to help CDFW biologists maintain adequate scientific data on the fishery and protect the larger breeding adults.
“Taking these poachers out of business will help ensure a healthy sturgeon population into the future,” said CDFW Captain David Bess, who participated in the investigation.
Nikolay Krasnodemskiy was the subject of multiple sturgeon poaching investigations including Operation Delta Beluga II in 2005, which culminated in a conviction and revocation of his fishing license. Soon after his fishing license was reinstated in 2009, he became the subject of another sturgeon poaching investigation. By Feb. 2010, wildlife officers had observed him continue his sturgeon poaching activities, including commercial sales.
Wildlife officers will seek a permanent revocation of Krasnodemskiy’s fishing license and forfeiture of all fishing gear seized during the investigation.
CDFW appreciates legitimate sturgeon anglers for their patience with sturgeon tagging and recordkeeping requirements, which were integral to making the case as well as the long-term management of the sturgeon fishery. CDFW also thanks the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office for their dedication and successful prosecution of the case.
Lt. Patrick Foy, CDFW Law Enforcement, (916) 508-7095
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Sacramento Family Faces Felony Charges for Selling Sport Caught Fish
December 21, 2013 ahughan
California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) officers arrested a Sacramento family of three early Saturday morning for illegally selling sport-caught fish from the Delta.
Luan Van Dao, 51, his wife Mung Thi Bui, 49, and their son Tuan Anh Dao, 29 were arrested by CDFW officers after more than a month of watching the family fish daily in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and hide their fish in a hidden compartment aboard their boat. The suspects also appeared to have an established network of buyers to whom they would sell fish on a regular basis. In California, commercial fishermen are permitted to sell their catch directly to restaurants, but private or sport-fishing catch is illegal to resell.
Luan Van Dao and Mung Thi Bui were convicted of poaching fish in 2006. During the current investigation Tuan Anh Dao was cited for possession of an oversized sturgeon on Nov. 16.
“Convicted poachers who continue to sell California’s fish and wildlife for personal profit are a wildlife officer’s highest priority,” said CDFW Law Enforcement Division Captain Rudy Arruda. “These poachers are taking away from the legal and legitimate anglers.”
All three suspects face charges of felony conspiracy and illegal sale of sport-caught fish. If convicted the suspects could face jail time, significant fines, loss of their fishing licenses and other penalties.
Charges will be filed with the Yolo County District Attorney when the investigation is complete.
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The Best New Music in Rock, Alternative, Hip-Hop, and More
Expertly Curated by the CoS Staff
Listen: Danny Brown jumps on remix of Vampire Weekend’s “Step”
by Chris Coplan
on December 31, 2013, 7:35pm
By Danny Brown’s own admission, he’s had quite a run this year. “I’ve worked with Purity Ring, Portugal the Man, and Charli XCX … Started in a Bob Dylan video and now I’m on a Vampire Weekend song… 2013 was great!!!” Yes, the Detroit rhyme-slayer closes out his collaborative-centric calendar by teaming up with the NYC outfit for a remix of “Step”.
The “Wintertime Remix”, which also features Das Racist’s Heems and Despot, sees Brown eschew his usually manic rhymes for lines about life and love, albeit still filtered through his unique worldview (“Now me and shorty spending more and more time/And since she got her heart, I gotta have her spine”). Brown’s presence adds a bit of crunch to the lush, Baroquian beat, while the dreamy chorus helps to shift Brown’s forceful inflection toward poppier territory. Listen in below.
The original version of “Step” appears on the second best album of 2013, Modern Vampires of the City.
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Watch: Arcade Fire’s Win Butler gets interviewed by Rainn Wilson
Preview a song from Foster the People’s new album, due out in 2014
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Expressing Who, What, When, Where, Why and How in Japanese!
Posted by Coto Academy on January 25, 2019 – Japanese Study
Why/How
More commonly known as the 5W’s and 1 H, these are words there are more or less the essentials to almost every language when it comes to asking questions. In this blog, we’ll cover just that on how you can express who, what, when, where, why and how in Japanese!
First up, let’s take a look at how to express “Who” in Japanese! The word 誰 (だれ, Dare), can more commonly be used in the Japanese language to express “Who”. Below is a sample sentence in which how 誰 (だれ) can be commonly used!
誰が好き？
Romaji: Dare ga suki?
English: Who do you like?
Next, let’s take a look at expressing “What” in Japanese. The word 何 (なに/なん, Nani/Nan), is commonly used to express “What” in Japanese and can be used in a variety of situations. From anime, television dramas to even popular culture, this has got to be one of the most popular words that non-native speakers know about! Let’s now take a look at how we can go about using this!
何が可笑しいの？
Romaji: Nani ga okashii no?
English: What’s so funny/weird?
それは何？
Romaji: Sore wa nani?
English: What is it?
Now, let’s take a look at how to express “When” in Japanese with the word “いつ (Itsu)”. Unlike 誰 (だれ, Dare), attaching a “か (Ka)” to “いつ” makes it “いつか”, a word that indicates “Some time (in the future)”. If you’d like to ask a question, do take a look at the sample sentence later! As for attaching “も (Mo)” to “いつ”, the word “いつも” can be more or less translated to “Always, Usually or All the time”.
いつから漫画が好きなの？
Romaji: Itsu kara manga ga suki na no?
English: Since when did you like manga?
Moving on, we look at expressing “Where” through the use of the Japanese word “どこ (Doko)”! More often than not, this word may come across as familiar for those out there who absolutely love Doraemon! Why? Well, he has a door known as the “どこでもドア (Doko demo doa)” that can bring him anywhere of course!
どこでその話を聞いたの？
Romaji: Doko de sono hanashi wo kiita no?
English: Where did you hear that from?
Lastly, let’s take a look at expressing “Why” and “How”. In the Japanese language, there are some words with overlapping meanings where some can mean both “Why” and “How at the same time. As such, it can be really hard to differentiate between the two sometimes. Nevertheless, here are some of the more common words of which can be used interchangeably to mean both “Why” and “How”!
The first word, なぜ (Naze) can be used in various contexts to refer to “Why” or “How”.
なんで(なぜ)お父さんがここにいるの？
Romaji: Nande (Naze) otousan ga koko ni iru no?
English: Why is dad here?
Note: なんで is used in a more Casual Setting.
The second word, どうして (Doushite) can be used in certain contexts to express “How/Why did that happen?”, “Why?”
どうしてそう言ったの？
Romaji: Doushite sou itta no?
English: Why did you say that?
Last but not least, we have どう (Dou) which is specifically used to refer to “How”. When used as a question, it can also mean “In what way/How was it done?” or “How was it?”.
そのドーナツはどう？
Romaji: Sono donaatsu wa dou?
English: How was the donut?
As confusing as it sounds, some Japanese words tend to have overlapping meanings. When to use them can largely vary and would often depend on the context. Once you are able familiarise yourself with when to use the word, we’re sure you’d definitely be able to ask questions in Japanese like a pro!
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305 Fitness Jumps Into Murray Hill Lease
By Lauren Elkies Schram August 6, 2015 12:10 pm
33 East 33rd Street.
Dance cardio workout specialist 305 Fitness has secured a lease at 33 East 33rd Street between Park and Madison Avenues, marking the second New York City location for the fitness studio, Commercial Observer has learned.
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The 10-year deal includes 500 square feet on the ground floor and 5,000 square feet below grade, according to a release from Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Retail. The asking rent was $25,000 per month. Named after Miami’s area code, 305 Fiftness’ other New York City studio is at 18 West 8th Street.
NGKF’s Aaron Cukier, who arranged the deal for 305 Fitness’ first studio, represented the tenant in the latest transaction. Josh Siegelman of Winick Realty represented the landlord, Morry Kalimian’s Elk Investors. A spokeswoman for Winick didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The new 33rd Street studio will offer proximity to the young professional crowd living in Murray Hill as well as office workers in Midtown,” Mr. Cukier said in prepared remarks.
The new gym, which will join Open Kitchen cafeteria and market at the 12-story office building, is slated to open by the end of the year.
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Revealed: GDS’ New Office Building at 1241 Broadway
By Rebecca Baird-Remba January 17, 2019 6:00 am
1241 Broadway. Rendering: SOM
GDS Development is breaking ground on its first new construction office development today, and the firm has given Commercial Observer a look at the 22-story building planned for 1241 Broadway in NoMad.
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The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed tower will include 200,000 square feet of office space and 7,500 square feet of ground-floor retail.
The firm—led by Michael Kirchmann and Alan Rudikoff—inked a 99-year ground lease for the site between West 31st and West 32nd Streets last year. The site is currently a parking lot owned by Drucker Associates, which has held onto the property since at least the late 1970s, according to public records. GDS is partnering with Swedish property management company Klövern on the project, which will be the latter firm’s first in New York City.
The stepped, concrete building will have terraces for tenants on several floors, 12-foot high ceilings and triple-insulated floor-to-ceiling windows. Office workers will also have access to an amenity lounge with phone booths, communal work areas and a beverage station.
A close-up look at one of the setbacks on 1241 Broadway. Rendering: SOM
“After many years of careful preparation, we are excited to finally have our first project underway in Manhattan,” said Klövern CEO Rutger Arnhult in prepared remarks. “Our goal is always to deliver exceptional working environments in unparalleled locations. 1241 Broadway allows us to expand that vision to New York City.”
The building will be constructed to LEED silver standards and is expected to be complete at the end of 2020.
“We are excited to be partnering with Klövern to develop a distinctive design at 1241 Broadway, which combines the best in European innovation and workplace sensibility, with iconic American design and ingenuity,” Rudikoff said in a statement.
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Legend of the Five Rings: The Roleplaying Game
System inconsistency and how to combat it?
By watts.nicholas.a, March 29 in Rules Questions
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This system is driving me a bit nuts and I could use some assistance in finding out if there are clarifications to some subsystems or if I am designing my own rules.
Incapacitated: It says I go unconscious if I take a critical strike, but what if I reduce that strike to 0-2 and it becomes a technical miss? Do I still go unconscious even though I wasn’t affected?
Poison and Jurojin’s Blessing: Jurojin’s Blessing halves recover time for poisons and supernatural afflictions. Most poison’s apply status conditions that go away when you refrain from a particular action. How does that interact with halving recovery? Are there any supernatural afflictions that you can naturally recover from where Jurojin’s Blessing actually applies?
NPCs: Almost every NPC has advantages and disadvantages that aren’t detailed at all. Are those rules defined anywhere?
More may follow, but right now I feel like I bought a system in beta. The rules seem like they were rewritten multiple times but earlier sections were never revisited when later subsystems were revamped. There are things I like about the system and I love the setting, but at least a quarter of the time I have to wonder if I am running this game correctly.
Edited March 29 by watts.nicholas.a
Grammar and better ending
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Avatar111 343
It is pretty much what you say it is...
The way to combat it is to make decisions as the GM. Do not doubt too much, just go with your guts.
The GM decide what is used for what and the players just deal with the GM's decisions.
This is a broken/unfinished system that requires a ton of GM's adjudication.
Does have some good foundations, they just never finished it nor do they care to finish it.
Edited March 29 by Avatar111
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Incapacitated: Yes, you still go unconscious on a Close Call result. Most likely it's a glancing blow.
Poison + Jurojin's Blessing: Keep in mind that all advantages and disadvantages have a narrative effect, and a mechanical effect distinct from that. That bit about the recovery time is narrative, so it applies whenever the group thinks it's relevant for enabling something on the PC's end or disabling something on the other side of the table. Compare this with the custom "Born Sailor" distinction on page 138, whose narrative effect is to guard against seasickness. Does the game have any rules for being seasick? No. But if the player says that they want it on their sheet then it should probably come up occasionally. (And if you still need a mechanical relation keep in mind that one already exists - the second effect of Jurojin's Blessing gives you the usual "reroll up to 2 dice" business.)
NPC advantages/disadvantages: There's a line on page 309 that talks about this:
Advantages and Disadvantages: NPCs can be given prewritten advantages and disadvantages (see page 99), but printed NPC profiles usually have specialized advantages and disadvantages that do not appear in that chapter. These are treated as distinctions (or adversities) that apply as the GM deems appropriate.
Just use them when they would seem relevant, based on their name and various tags. In that sense they're not unlike Aspects from Fate.
More generally, by default this game is not intended to have the mechanical heft of D&D or Shadowrun (for instance) where almost every interaction is mechanically scrutinized. Some of it will be (it reads like a crunchier version of Fate Accelerated), but some of it won't be as the situation merits. You can push the game to be heftier if you like (check page 289 for a sidebar that briefly outlines this), but the game doesn't regard it as necessary.
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Long answer short: Yes, and with boundless creativity and unfailing verve.
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So the crutch of the issue is that I come from a gaming career dealing almost exclusively with rule intensive systems and I need to retrain myself on rules light games. Thanks for the guidance everyone, it was very helpful 😀.
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Depends what you played before.
L5R is way more crunchy than D&D 5th.
But less than Shadowrun.
It also have broken and rough mechanics in many places, which is probably the core of the issue. The foundation is good, but some of the polishing/finishing is off, especially in the details.
Nothing that makes it impossible to play, far from it. But you will often raise an eyebrow when a mechanic fails to achieve a sensible result (for better or worse) or seems to be absurdly crunchy and gamey in the wrong places and very vague and undefined in places where it should require a bit more structure.
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I came from Shadowrun, DND 3.5, Pathfinder, GURPS and a myriad of others. Technically I came from 1st edition ADnD, but the last time I tried a game like that I wrote pages of house rules that effectively turned it into 3.5. Admittedly, I am headed that way now and that is how I am likely to overcome the snags I get caught in.
5 hours ago, Avatar111 said:
Any version of D&D is some degree of crunchy, even 5E. It attempts to scale things down (and ended up as the "ask your GM" edition), but when people can dig deeply into the combat math as expected by the Adventuring Day and reverse-engineer the monster stats I wouldn't call it anything but rules-heavy. Inversely much of what L5R 5E is doing is scaling up from rules-light foundations and adding crunch. The core mechanic starts with you figuring out an approach based on your intention; depending on that you might use any of the rings.
But going on more with that will just get us stuck in the weeds. From what I've seen from you on these forums your design goals for this game are notably different from what the designers have. And that's not a problem on its own - everyone has preferences - but you're viewing everything through this lens and using that to say that "[thing I don't like] is bad!" when maybe this just isn't the game for you. Sometimes I've seen you misunderstanding or misinterpreting some rule just so you can call it out.
Edit: Compare this edition to 4E, where the rules were more complex and yet they mostly served to push numbers around. Courtiers were a tossup between useful/niche and useless/niche, bushi varied between useful autoattacking and weird gimmicks, and shugenja were amazing knockoff wizards.
Edited March 30 by NFK
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4 hours ago, watts.nicholas.a said:
L5R 5th is a bit less crunchy than Shadowrun but it's certainly in the same ballpark as D&D 3rd ed or Pathfinder (then again, I tend to think of most RPGs as low to mid-heavy rules systems - it's not about how many skills, classes or spells there are, it's about how complex the mechanics everything is built on are). Skill use in L5R 5th is definitely more complex than in Pathfinder, for instance.
The big difference is that a Pathfinder or something similar has a fairly strict set of rules: if you want to do something, how you do it is more or less explicitly explained in a rule and it's by and large always the same. L5R 5th on the other hand, in terms of core mechanics, is a bunch of guidelines and a non-exhaustive list of examples. Whatever you want to do, I can probably point you to a page (or, in some unfortunate cases, several pages throughout the entire book) that tells you what should happen. How it happens often depends a lot on interpretation and ad hoc decision making. How TNs are determined is completely vague. Approaches are literally the GM deciding which ring you use based on how you tell him you want to do something (and he'll also have to decide whether that changes the TN you'll roll against). There are long lists of possible uses for opportunities, but the book makes it clear you can really use them however you want as long as the GM is ok with it. Whether an advantage or disadvantage applies (or applies if you flip it) to a given situation is something that will vary from table to table (and you're encouraged to create your own). A whole lot of effects depend on interpreting the norms and social standards of the empire.
Some of that was certainly already the case in previous editions as well. And it isn't necessarily a bad way to do things either. I really wish the guidelines were a bit better in several cases though (those variable TNs for sure) and things like the advantages and disadvantages being so inconsistent and open-ended are a pain. It's definitely a system that needs a GM to make it work. That doesn't mean it's a light system, however.
4 hours ago, NFK said:
Eh.
Skill use in D&D: I use this skill, I have these modifiers to the roll which always work uniformly so I can just add them up from my char sheet, I roll 1d20 plus or minus whatever, the GM checks for success or failure, done.
Skill use in L5R fifth: I pick the most applicable broad skill available (or the GM tells me which it'll be), I explain my approach, the GM tells me which ring corresponds to that, whether there are modifiers to the dice pool, and picks a TN based on both general difficulty and approach, I roll my dice pool, I check what I want to (and can) keep in terms of strife and opportunities, success/failure is determined and I probably get to use opportunities (regardless of success), which are often modified by a tech or school ability, done.
I may have missed a step here or there, but based on skill use I would definitely not call D&D the the rules-heavy system when comparing it to L5R.
Edited March 30 by nameless ronin
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19 hours ago, nameless ronin said:
I agree that L5R is procedurally more involved in adjudication of a roll. However, in D&D 3.5/Pathfinder, the provisions of those rolls are almost always outlined in the book itself. It is concrete. Whereas, in L5R, I am seeing a lot of input coming from the GM on what gets rolled. There is probably better terminology I could have used to explain myself there. However, that has been my hurdle, as it had been a very long time since I have played a system where the exact process of resolving an event hasn’t been spelled out in a source book. It will take some getting used to again, but I will get there and probably have a large set of house rules generated to facilitate gameplay at my table.
15 minutes ago, watts.nicholas.a said:
Whereas, in L5R, I am seeing a lot of input coming from the GM on what gets rolled. There is probably better terminology I could have used to explain myself there. However, that has been my hurdle, as it had been a very long time since I have played a system where the exact process of resolving an event hasn’t been spelled out in a source book.
That's pretty much it. It wouldn't be as bad if there was a bit more support for the GM to help with the adjudicating though. With some things, just having dealt with them once will make it easy in future occurences.
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Unfortunately I have to agree that this game is unpolished at best. I find it is a disaster to play at the table and has taken my group a LOT of work to get used too. After like 20 sessions I still find parts of it to be incoherent. Yet, we like the setting, and I LOVE the core concepts of the dice system.
BowelEvacuation 5
I went through the same thing I'm my mind. As i was nearing the end of the core rulebook I kept thinking I've missed some rules. I'm slowly coming around to embracing the loose structure. It's difficult because I've come from competitive tabletop games that don't leave anything to interpretation. At one stage I thought "Is l5r rpg just a way to play pretend?". Yet to be able to articulate the answer to that question in detail.
On 4/1/2019 at 4:40 AM, nameless ronin said:
I hope they do a GM sourcebook that concentrates more on general mechanical implementation. There's so much focus on lore, setting and "adventure seeds" but not enough tools for the GM to actually translate this content into a gaming session that players can interact with in a structured way. Some people are more creative than others as GM's so it may not be an issue for everyone.
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16 minutes ago, BowelEvacuation said:
"Is l5r rpg just a way to play pretend?".
Yes, this is RPGs in general, but also very much in the spirit of L5R. The developer of the first edition of the original RPG, John Wick, actually wanted it to be entirely diceless but was talked out of it by the original designer of roll & keep.
3 minutes ago, UnitOmega said:
Now that would have been interesting. I am coming around to embracing the idea (keeping the dice however!). I think of the saying "when you define what something is you also define what it isn't" so i interpret that the designers want people to make the game whatever they want it to be.
10 hours ago, BowelEvacuation said:
I personally wouldn't mind an even more story focused rpg with even less rules! I'd actually prefer it. The random factor (dice) is something I do enjoy but the weaker part of the system for our group is when the game tries to put too much crunch on stuff and it slows down the gameplay a lot, unfortunately, it can happen a lot. Some bloated technique design, constant resist checks, and some tactical opportunity usage overdose are mostly the culprit here. The best part of the game is definitely the ring/approaches, the way the players can alter the narrative via opportunity spending. Some other things are also very interesting despite requiring a bit of polish; advantages/disadvantages, damage vs critical strikes.
If somebody knows of a good rpg system that is heavily story focused and only uses very open and simple rules, with ways for the players to alter the narrative. Please let me know which one! We (our group) found ourselves much more interested in narrative gameplay rather than bugging down with too much crunch (but still want a very small amount of crunch to keep a random effect in the game and to define some conditions, health etc.)
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1 hour ago, Avatar111 said:
I haven't had the chance (and probably won't, **** my gaming group) to get the actual rulebooks of Invisible Sun, but there's a free 55-page excerpt, and you can also check out the gameplay on Twitch. It seems to be very rules-light and very character-driven.
https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/invisible-sun-preorder/
Edited June 22 by JBento
Looks insanely good!
9 hours ago, JBento said:
Invisible Sun is a pretentious tire fire of a game. The primary gameplay loop isn't supported by the mechanics, everything is spread out over four books with deliberately poor layout, the mechanics are a balance mess where two stats out of eight are The Best, and the setting is a sophomoric mashup of Planescape and Magic: the Gathering. It's basically a Monte Cook work without any constraints or filters.
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On 6/22/2019 at 6:27 PM, NFK said:
Unfortunately, true.
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When incapacitated you can't roll skill checks, so you can't reduce that critical hit to avoid going unconscious unless you spend a void point.
38 minutes ago, T_Kageyasu said:
You can still do Resist checks when incapacitated. You just cannot perform Actions that require a check.
Resist checks are not actions.
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Resist checks are not actions.
Huh, thanks for the clarification. I honestly thought *any* action involving rolling dice was not possible while incapacitated, only movement actions essentially.
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Although even a severity 0 critical strike is still a 'hit' for the purposes of applying the unconscious condition. Severity 0 doesn't stop it being a critical strike, it's just not a particularly bad one.
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What is ACID Database?
March 9, 2019 March 9, 2019 Coding Compiler 0 Comments ACID Database, ACID in distributed systems, ACID principles, Basic ACID Principles, What is ACID Database
Welcome to Codingcompiler. What is ACID? The term ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) describes rules and properties for carrying out transactions in database management systems (DBMS). If the transaction complies with the ACID principle, the information in the database systems is considered reliable and consistent.
ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability)
ACID stands for the four English terms Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability and is a common abbreviation of information technology. In German, the four terms are atomicity, consistency, isolation and permanence. Often in German-speaking countries the acronym AKID is used. The ACID principle establishes rules for handling transactions in database management systems to ensure reliable, consistent data and systems.
A transaction consists of a sequence of different operations that have to comply with these ACID rules. The acronym ACID was already coined in 1983 by the two computer scientists Andreas Reuter and Theo Härder. Standards such as ISO / IEC 10.026-1: 1992 or ISO / IEC 10.026-1: 1998 Section 4 describe the ACID principle. To implement the ACID principle, transaction managers and logging mechanisms are used.
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The Four Basic ACID Principles
The ACID concept consists of four individual basic principles. These basic principles are:
Atomicity or Atomicity: Execution of all or no pieces of information in a transaction
Consistency or Consistency: Transactions generate a valid state or return to their old state
Isolation or Demarcation: Transactions of different users or processes remain isolated from each other
Durability or Durability: After a successful transaction, the data remains permanently stored.
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Atomicity :
A transaction consists of a sequence of individual actions. This sequence must proceed in such a way that either all single steps are executed completely or not at all. If errors occur during a sequence, the system must ensure that all changes already made by the transaction are withdrawn.
All information of an interrupted transaction can be removed without leaving the database. The individual database operations of a transaction are only valid once they have been completed. Database systems realize the atomicity by detailed logging of all actions performed.
Consistency :
When a transaction completes successfully, it must leave a consistent state in the previously consistent database. Before completing the transaction, you must check the data integrity and consistency requirements defined in a database. Such conditions may include compliance with certain ranges of values, the presence of key characteristics, or the uniqueness of relationships.
If a transaction violates the consistency conditions, it is rejected and all data is reset to the state before the transaction. Consistency must be ensured before and after a transaction. There may be inconsistent states during the transaction.
Isolation or Demarcation :
Multiple users or processes work simultaneously with one database. You read or write parallel data. Isolation (demarcation) ensures that the use of the database by multiple users has no negative impact.
Events such as the mutual overwriting or deleting of individual data sets can be prevented under all circumstances. For each user, the database management system appears like an exclusively used system in which the transactions do not influence each other and concurrent accesses remain invisible. One also speaks of the integrity of the process. Database systems implement isolation using locking methods.
Durability :
When a transaction is executed and consistent, its information is permanently stored in the database. Future errors, memory failures, or system crashes must not result in data being deleted or made obsolete.
The durability can be realized in a database management system similar to the atomicity by logging measures. With a transaction log, the information after a system failure by reproducing the recorded write operations are reproducible.
Benefits of complying with ACID principles
Adhering to ACID principles creates many benefits when working with databases. Both users and developers can expect a clean environment and consistent data. When a transaction is completed, the availability and permanence of the data is ensured.
Errors during transactions do not result in erroneous or inconsistent information in the database. Elaborate manual research and modification work to clean up errors is not necessary. In multi-user systems, the ACID principle prevents users from interacting with each other. Downstream monitoring of the integrity of the data in the processing applications is usually superfluous.
ACID in distributed systems
In distributed database management systems, compliance with the ACID principle can lead to increased costs. In particular, the parallel operation and data storage in different locations of the distributed systems may be critical to ACID. There are methods such as two-phase commit (2PC) used.
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Pokémon Go: How it won the popular vote
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Gotta catch ‘em all: Deconstructing the popularity of Pokémon Go
Unless you’ve been living in a Pokéball of your own, you've probably seen how Pokémon Go took the world by storm this past week. Quickly surpassing both the total users of Netflix and the daily active users of Twitter, this augmented reality game has done the impossible: that is, encouraged digitally obsessed people of all ages to get off the couch and leave the house.
But why is this game in particular so popular? Augmented reality is not exactly new. In fact, Niantic, the company responsible for Pokémon Go, has built most of the game on a previous game called Ingress. But despite the technology and similar games being available, Pokémon Go has blown them all out of the water, and I think three important characteristics of the game have led to its current supremacy.
Gamification: Gamification is the application of game elements or mechanics to non-game situations. On its surface, Pokémon Go is a game, but deconstructed a little, Pokémon Go is gamifying the world around the player. This is a secret sauce that keeps people playing the game, and that which companies like Facebook and Google have to date unsuccessfully been able to harness. Every time a Pokémon shows up, dopamine is activated in the brain – games, generally speaking, activate the brain’s pleasure circuits. In this way, Pokémon Go rewards the player for keeping the game open all the time as they move through the real world. This serves to capture players’ attention and hold it for a long period of time, even as they move through the real world, capturing a large amount of valuable data in the process.
The power of cute: Studies have shown that just as game-based achievements release dopamine in the brain, so too does viewing images of cute animals or babies. This in-brain response evolved to help us care for our helpless young, but also could keep people returning to catch or level up Pokémon. The Pokémon creatures are nothing if not cute. They are cartoonish, with bright colours and big eyes. Their characteristics alone may be enough to keep people coming back to “catch ‘em all”.
Nostalgia: McLuhan wrote about the role of nostalgia in the global village long before mobile devices or apps were invented, and his words still ring true today. He said that in a world where close connections between disparate people result in a loss of identity, nostalgia becomes a way to reassert our sense of self. This explains many current trends towards revival in popular culture, fashion, music and of course, games. My previous research has shown a link between popularity in video gaming and nostalgic content. Now, an analysis of Twitter and Instagram buzz about #PokemonGo shows similar trends – a large number of people commenting on the game online talk about reliving their childhoods, or achieving a childhood dream when they catch Pokémon in the game.
By gamifying our offline life, harnessing our inherent attachment to cute, and reminding us of the past, Pokémon Go exhibits a triad of characteristics that explain why people have signed up in droves and keep coming back for more. I expect to see more popular media attempt to take advantage of this in the future, as media producers and game developers alike attempt to “catch [us] all”, or at the very least, catch all our attention.
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BMO, CIBC victims of cyber breach, attackers demand $1 million from each in cryptocurrency
Canadian banks rarely acknowledge they’ve been involved in a cyber security incident. On Monday two of the country’s biggest retail banks reportedly suffered a data breach and are notifying customers.
The Bank of Montreal and CIBC’s Simplii Financial online bank said they are investigating apparent breaches of customer information, each apparently involving tens of thousands of customers.
Late Monday the CBC said several news services had received an email apparently from the hackers, who said they were demanding $1 million in cryptocurrency or customer names and information would be publicly released. CBC said to prove the legitimacy of the threat, the email included unencrypted customer names, social insurance numbers and answers to security questions that allegedly were stolen. The email also outlined how the attackers were able to breach bank defences.
According to the Globe and Mail, both banks were contacted Sunday by alleged perpetrators who claim to have accessed personal and account information belonging to tens of thousands of customers.
BMO hadn’t replied to a request for comment to ITWorldCanada.com at press time. But it tweeted out that it will be calling each potentially-impacted customer in the next 24 hours to offer complimentary monitoring, replace credit/debit cards, ensure all passwords get reset, and determine if there was any financial impact. The banks said it has also shut down access to customer accounts identified as potentially impacted by the breach. “Credit and debit Mastercard customers can still conduct chip and pin transactions, but customers with BMO Blue Debit-only cards will be unable to transact.”
Simplii Financial was launched last year as a new direct banking brand for people who want no-fee daily banking through online, mobile and telephone channels. It stemmed from the ending of CIBC’s partnership with Loblaws, where the bank created and ran the supermarket-based President’s Choice Financial.
In a notice on Simplii Financial’s website, senior vice-president Michael Martin said the bank has “implemented enhanced online security measures in response to a claim received on Sunday, May 27 that fraudsters may have electronically accessed certain personal and account information for some of our clients. ”
He urged clients always use a complex password and pin (eg. not 12345), and monitor their accounts for signs of unusual activity.
Clients who notice suspicious activity are encouraged to contact Simplii Financial. “If a client is a victim of fraud because of this issue, we will return 100 per cent of the money lost from the affected bank account.”
Generally, Canada’s retail banks are considered to be among the leaders in private sector cyber security here — although experts say given enough time and resources any organization on the planet can be hacked, and staff mistakes can open holes.
Earlier this year international advertising and marking media giant Havas released a 2017 cyber security survey of 1,500 Canadians it paid for. Just over half of respondents said their email accounts had been hacked, 33 per cent said social media accounts had been hacked and 18 per cent said online bank-related accounts had been hacked.
Last September National Bank said a website error may have exposed the personal information of nearly 400 of its customers, including their names, birthdates, phone number and email address. In 2008 the federal privacy commissioner investigated CIBC after it reported the disappearance of a hard drive with personal information of more than 400,000 current and former clients of a bank-run mutual fund. It had been sent from Montreal to Markham, Ont. The data wasn’t encrypted. Another hard drive that was shipped by a different route at the same time arrived. At the time of the report’s release there was there no confirmed evidence that personal information on the drive had been improperly accessed and misused.
Richard Fadden, former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and national security advisor, told a conference earlier this month that unfortunately, major financial institutions here are close-mouthed in public about cyber incidents. “Banks in particular are afraid to admit anything they do is less than perfect,” he said. It would help spread the word about the importance of cyber security if they and telcos would open up more, he said.
That’s starting to change. In January, the Bank of Montreal’s chief ethics officer spoke at the Canadian Institute’s annual Privacy and Data Compliance Forum, as did the bank’s chief privacy officer. Last fall Louise Dadnonneau, director of cybersecurity services at Scotiabank, and a colleague talked to the SecTor conference about setting up a security incident playbook.
However, to Fadden’s point, they don’t talk publicly about cyber incidents and lessons learned.
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The Churches Rural Group (CRG) is established as a Coordinating Group within Churches Together which unites in pilgrimage those churches in England which, acknowledging God’s revelation in Christ, confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in obedience to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit commit themselves:
to seek a deepening of their communion with Christ and with one another in the Church, which is his body; and to fulfil their mission to proclaim the Gospel by common witness and service in the worldto the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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In 2014 CRG described its purpose as “to provide ecumenical space for Churches with presence in rural areas, and related Christian agencies, to reflect theologically and practically on the life and mission of UK rural churches; to offer mutual support to one another; where appropriate to present or speak to the member Churches and Bodies in Association of CTE key issues affecting rural churches and the context in which they serve.”
It is not our purpose in CRG to promote ecumenism for its own sake but rather to encourage a healthy respect for one another and each other’s distinctiveness, and to cooperate where appropriate.
CRG has no desire to be a mere ‘talking shop’ but does desire that by our shared participation synergy is created for the benefit of the Missio Dei.
In particular we want to encourage and equip rural churches, from all denominations, to be more effective in their mission. This involves:
Facilitating an understanding of the challenges and changes facing rural churches
Facilitating an understanding of the needs and opportunities in rural communities
Identifying gaps in provision of support to rural churches
Encouraging member denominations and agencies to act in a co-ordinated way to fill these gaps.
Wider Membership
Inevitably some of those who take part in CRG are Churches whose life and witness extend beyond the boundaries of England. CRG has always welcomed participation by those in other parts of the United Kingdom with common concern and aims.
CRG has also been pleased to welcome the participation of Churches, Associational Bodies and Organisations that are not necessarily members of CTE. For example, a number of smaller Churches from the Free Churches Group have been represented for several years, as have also various organisational bodies.
CRG recognises that certain Christian networks and organisations exist with a common rural focus but distinctive purposes. These occasionally have some overlapping concerns. CRG offers a forum where these distinct emphases can be recognised and encouraged, thus avoiding possible unhelpful duplication or inadvertent conflict. For this reason CRG extends a warm welcome ‘to the table’ to any such body. We are able to enrich one another through our participation and create mutual benefit and serve our common cause.
Past Shared Projects
Members of CRG have agreed to promote various campaigns and activities of which the following are previous examples:
Shared major rural conference have been held every two or three years;
A campaign to raise awareness of modern slavery and the exploitative abuse of migrant labour in rural areas,
A campaign to ensure the continuance of local Post Offices in rural areas, sometimes by accommodating these within churches;
The promotion of Foodbanks in rural areas;
The promotion of the work of Farming Community Network (formerly Farm Crisis Network) and Agricultural Chaplaincy;
The encouragement of dialogue and where possible mutual action regarding the deployment of ordained ministers in rural areas.
Promoting helpful resources such as “Faith in the Countryside” and “Country Way”
The Relationship between CRG and the Arthur Rank Centre
The relationship between CRG and ARC is symbiotic. The ARC is a member of the CRG. Other members of CRG recognise the excellent work done by the ARC. CRG elects someone to serve as a trustee of ARC. Since CRG does not employ staff it relies upon the ARC to act in a ‘servant’ capacity in order to accomplish some of its aims (for example in the organisation and management of its major conferences).
In turn CRG provides some practical support for the work of the ARC and serves as a forum for discussing its strategies, and a useful vehicle for their promotion.
Ongoing Concerns
CRG maintains a continuing concern to monitor the health of the churches in rural areas and to map relevant developments (both positive and negative) and to draw attention to opportunities and needs related to the life and mission of rural churches locally, and to encourage appropriate missional strategies.
At CRG meetings news is shared and representatives are encouraged to report on the general health of the rural churches within their tradition, whether there is overall growth or decline, whether there any new church plants, and whether there any geographical aspects to comment on (e.g. a diocese or part of the country where there is something to note).
We are concerned to understand the key challenges being faced and how respective Churches are responding to these and what resources are being made available. We are particularly concerned to understand if any trends have affected the rural mission in any way, and to learn about lay involvement and new patterns of ministry and mission.
In exploring these issues we consider how CRG might respond, whether between us we have useful resources or experience. Some situations may be helped by an ecumenical response or the use of our collective voice.
In addition to the above we seek to be conscious of special situations facing the rural communities in which churches are located and how churches are responding to needs beyond the four walls.
Our concern is for the growth of the Kingdom of God in the rural areas of these islands.
The life and work of rural churches often seems marginalised within the wider Christian context in the UK. Together we seek to raise awareness by the provision of a stronger collective voice both within the life of Churches Together in England (and other similar national bodies) and to the various constituent members of CRG. We can do more together.
Looking Beyond our Shores
CRG has found that often things that concern us are echoed in other parts of the world. CRG has become a significant participant within the International Rural Churches Association. Our participation has helped to ensure that key issues are on the agenda for the European Union, the Conference of European Churches, and the World Council of Churches. Such bodies have large agendas and it is all too easy for rural matters and the valuable contribution of rural churches to be overlooked.
The Annual Budget
CRG appoints three officers: Chair, Secretary and Treasurer who serve in an honorary capacity. By using ITC costs can be kept low but there are still some operational costs. Currently an income is provided from the members of CRG on a sliding scale determined at a CRG meeting. For many Churches and organisations these are difficult days financially so our individual budgets are often strained. While it is important that each participant in CRG seeks to act responsibly and proportionately towards meeting our agreed budget, financial limitation should never prevent someone from participating.
To achieve the above agreed in 2014, a new data Protection Policy was agreed by CRG in line with the new legal requirements of 2018. This policy reflects the current working of the CRG and is available as a PDF download
Current Members of CRG
The following Churches and organisations are represented as at 1st January 2014.
The Church of England
The Baptist Union of Great Britain
The Methodist Church
The United Reformed Church
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
A collective representation of smaller Free Churches including the Congregational Federation, The Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion, the Free Methodist Church, the Independent Methodist Church the Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Reform Union, the Moravian Church and the Churches of Christ.
The Scottish Rural Churches Group
The Agricultural Chaplains Association
The Rural Evangelism Network
The Rural Theology Association
Farming Community Network (formerly Farm Crisis Network)
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Screen Engine/ASI Hires Bruce Friend As Chief Product And Innovation Officer
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Screen Engine/ASI has hired industry veteran Bruce Friend for the newly created role of Chief Product and Innovation Officer. He will be tasked with spearheading the entertainment market research firm’s growth through the development and refinement of new products and greater attention on innovation.
Friend, who most recently was president of Maru/Matchbox Media & Entertainment, previously held senior positions at Sony Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon, HBO, Disney Channel and Telemundo Group, among others. He also was president of Global Media and Entertainment at Vision Critical and before that president of Ipsos OTX MediaCT.
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His 30 years of global experience in multi-media and entertainment brand research and strategic planning includes innovations in film, TV, gaming and the Internet, with expertise in youth media and culture research.
“I am so excited Bruce is joining our senior executive team,” said Screen Engine founder and CEO Kevin Goetz. “I have known Bruce for decades. I worked alongside him at OTX and he was my client at Sony. Bruce brings extensive experience and an active curiosity that will put us on the frontier of innovation.”
Screen Engine/ASI is one of the top data acquisition and analytics companies serving the industry, conducting movie test screenings, creative advertising testing, in-theater exit polling, TV program and promo testing, content life-cycle research, pre-release tracking and digital entertainment research products. Its clients include studios, TV broadcasters, cable networks, streaming services and production companies
“Kevin and his outstanding team have built an amazing growth brand and company over the past decade, especially as the Consumer Insights industry has evolved into a more multidimensional, data-driven business,” Friend said. “I’m thrilled to join Screen Engine/ASI on its quest to develop and provide both the art and science of data analysis and interpretation to its current and future clients.”
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RM & CWU National Agreement Covering the Use of PDA Outdoor Actuals
Branches and Representatives will be aware of the discussions that been have been ongoing with Royal Mail regarding the use of technology in delivery for a number of years. The process started and was part of the Agenda for Growth Agreement in 2013 which contained a commitment for the use of technology and PDA data to understand all elements of the operation along with commercial opportunities for new products as a result.
Following the above in 2014 we entered into a trial of PDA – Service View information which was contained in LTB 296/14 dated 7th May 2014, however upon reviewing the trial it became clear that the Service View system/technology that Royal Mail had at that time was not fit for purpose and therefore the software to run the system was ceased.
Since then Royal Mail has invested significantly in this type of technology and we have been in discussions regarding PDA devices having the App software applied, which was renamed as PDA Outdoor Actual initiative. The system go live date began in May 2017 and was contained within LTB 251/17.
During this time, agreed trials of the data and the dashboard format this produces took place in eight offices originally in the phase 1 deployment rollout in order to refine what data can be obtained, and more importantly how the information can be used and who has access to it. There has also been an extended trial in the Merseyside and Cheshire DL area with full CWU involvement, which overall has provided some positive feedback. Having successfully completed 11 months of testing the application and the dashboards, which CWU Nationally has also been fully involved with, it has now been agreed that this is ready to progressively roll out to all delivery and collection units.
Following extensive discussions with Royal Mail for several weeks we have now ensured that we have jointly agreed the appropriate words and actions regarding this National Deployment, whilst also ensuring that the PDA Outdoor Actual Agreement builds on the commitments and is also fully consistent with the spirit and intent of the 2018 Guiding Principles Agreement.
In addition, the use of PDA Data has also been agreed as one of the methods, along with the IWT, that can be used to assess options for the planning and achievement of the first hour reduction to the current working week by October 2018 in line with 16.1.1 of the 2018 Guiding Principles Agreement, and how this is achieved in all units. The need therefore to complete National roll-out over the next month or so along with the local involvement is important if we are to be able to ensure the first hour reduction off the working week is met to the agreed timescales as there is a need to validate some months of trend data in order to target where the hour is reduced within the operation if it is from the outdoor element.
Branches and Representatives will also note that contained within the agreement, we have included a joint commitment that both parties will continue to review and jointly monitor the usage of the data going forward, along with any efficiency improvements derived in relation to assessing how this can also assist the joint commitment for further reductions and flight path to achieve the 35 hour working week by 2022, as per the national agreement or before that date in connection with technological and operational change. We believe therefore that the use of the system and the data it produces can be a major lever to achieve further hours reductions in order to effectuate the 35 hour working week.
This roll out will also provide a valuable insight into operational route certainty and the consistency of service provision to customers, whilst also providing the opportunity for new commercial product offerings;
• Compatibility of the planned delivery time through Final Mile Optimisation technology and the integration of actual delivery time from PDA data to assist with the below.
• Estimated Delivery Window (4hrs) / Predicted Time of Delivery (what is possible).
• Inflight options for customer delivery preferences.
• Enhanced collection services.
These items listed above are already part of current development and deployment, as new products and services are developed/ progressed further they will be subject to ongoing joint discussions relating to Future Job Design and Ways of Working included in the talks for a new delivery agreement.
From a CWU member’s perspective, Outdoor Data Capture can also help to jointly understand actual workloads and provide a platform to ensure that all outdoor activity can be planned more efficiently and balanced to provide a fair, manageable, achievable and sustainable workload for them. This can also include understanding whether any instances of lapsing and absorption are fair, proportionate and appropriate. These issues have constantly been the cause of unacceptable management behaviour and industrial unrest over many years and we believe that the correct usage of the data along with a supportive management approach in conjunction with the forthcoming outdoor route and revision planning tools can capacitate delivery route workloads to be balanced in the future. This is in order to ensure individuals have a fair and manageable workload and to ensure that these issues are finally tackled once and for all by providing visibility and fairness.
It is important to stress that PDA data is captured automatically on a daily basis across all outdoor routes and this will only be made available to view the day after the event on a dashboard report. Reporting will not be in real time. The data will be presented in summary view first, highlighting key information for the unit with the ability to drill down into route detail by exception using tabular displays.
The agreement also contains the necessary safeguards for our members in terms of that the data will not be used for capability or conduct cases against individuals:
“This new technology is not being introduced to track individuals or to be used for individual performance management and therefore it is confirmed that the data generated will not be used for this.
In line with section 17 of the 2018 Guiding Principles Agreement on data usage both parties recognise that new technology will improve Royal Mail’s performance and the service provided to customers. It is agreed that all individuals have a right to privacy at work and it is accepted that there is a mutual obligation of confidence and trust applied to every contract of employment and that all parties should act in a way so as not to break that relationship.
It is recognised that the use of technology may increase levels of individual visibility and it is agreed that this new technology is not being deployed for, or will be used as, a disciplinary tool. As such it will not enhance the ability of managers, or the evidence available, to take disciplinary action.”
Additionally data will not be displayed relating to an individual or individual’s route, and data from other delivery units will not be shared or displayed outside of the relevant delivery unit.
The following are also detailed in the agreement and in our clear opinion, are vital to protect our members going forward.
• Joint CWU/RM – DL/Div rep launch events also involving area reps.
• Ability to ensure compliance with meal reliefs if taken during outdoor activity.
• PDA Data Use / Weekly Resourcing Meetings – pragmatic approach and in line with all current National agreements including the IR framework where appropriate.
• Employee Engagement.
• CWU Representatives Access & Training.
• Link to New Delivery Agreement – maintenance of current structural Attendance patterns including S/A until March 2019, unless joint CWU/RM confidence to use data otherwise for revision purposes.
Additionally both parties have agreed that the data being produced and visibility of the Outdoor Workload is a significant development for all concerned within Royal Mail and that there will naturally be a number of sensitivities as a result of its deployment. Therefore the rollout of the dashboard and its usage should be used to build confidence in data use and not ruin it in advance of the forthcoming discussions regarding the new National delivery agreement.
It is therefore jointly understood and recognised by both parties that the agreed introduction and evolvement of the dashboard along with the data produced is a learning process for all. We will continue to closely monitor the deployment of PDA Outdoor Actuals through the implementation process, and National Monthly review meetings will take place between both parties in regards to both its application and how the data is being used in order to ensure that both the spirit and intent of the Agreement are being applied correctly and fairly. Please note that the dates of the events listed at Annex A in the National Agreement may be subject to change.
Any queries to the content of the above, please contact the Outdoor Department, reference 530, email address: outdoorsecretary@cwu.org.
Mark Baulch
CWU Assistant Secretary
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New members, new leadership
With the addition of two new members from Benelux and South-East Europe, the DHYS Group has once more expanded its strategic position on the international professional hygiene market.
During a meeting at GVS Group headquarters in Friedewald, outgoing President of the Executive Board Klaus Agsteiner presented the membership certificates to Dick van Dijk from Exclusiva (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) and David Vukelić from Tapess (Croatia).
Exclusiva Group operates sites in Amsterdam, Zwolle and Antwerp, while Tapess d.o.o. maintains a presence in Kastav, Zagreb and Dalmatia.
Both will join the trade network on 1 January 2019, further swelling the DHYS Group’s reach to over 140 members in 28 countries.
This meeting also saw the latest membership certificates handed out to strategic partners including Diversey, Duni, Ecolab, Essity, Kimberly-Clark, Unger, Vileda, Wepa and Werner & Mertz.
Following the scheduled election of the new committee, Philippe Scemama has been named President of the Group’s Executive Board. Matthias Ikas, Managing Director of the GVS Group, has succeeded Scemama as Vice President. Graziano Roma, President of We Italia, and Jan Butze, Member of the GVS Group Supervisory Board, will share the role of Assessor on the committee with immediate effect. Marc Ceron will remain in post as Secretary, with Pedro Rodrigues being retained as Finance Director.
At a small celebration to mark the new appointments, new President of the Executive Board Philippe Scemama thanked his long-time partner Klaus Agsteiner for his exemplary dedication in leading and growing the DHYS Group since 2014. Scemama also paid tribute to the many crucial decisions taken by his predecessor that have guided the trade network from strength to strength.
The new DHYS business management. Pictured (l. to r.) Graziano Roma (Assesor), Jan Butze (Assesor), Philippe Scemama (President), Matthias Ikas (Vice President), Pedro Rodrigues (Finance Director) and Marc Ceron (Secretary).
The new members received their certificates. Pictured (l. to r.): David Vukelić (Tapess), Klaus Agsteiner (former DHYS President), Dick van Dijk (Exclusiva) and Philippe Scemama (New DHYS President).
New president Philippe Scemama (left) hands the present to former president Klaus Agsteiner (right) thanking him for his dedicated work.
High profile at the Interclean
With their second appearance at the Interclean in Amsterdam, the DHYS Group has firmly established their profile in many languages, targeting potential new members, suppliers and clients from international key accounts.
On their stand in Hall 8, expert consultants were present from all seven member groups in the trade association: GVS Group (Germany), GEH Groupe Europe Hygiène (France), Grupo DINO (Spain), We Italia (Italy), Europap (Slovenia), SOCIUS Network (Great Britain) and Eurosan (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
With over 120 family-run single companies in 25 countries, the Group has substantially expanded their market impact.
Over 80,000 products are on offer, and around 3,000 employees service the projects. At the fair in Amsterdam the DHYS Group not only provided information of their portfolio of manufacturers and trading brands. Also addressed were the advantages of global purchasing, the highly networked transport logistics deploying more than 1,200 vehicles, efficient E-commerce solutions and sustainable quality management. The DHYS Group presented the companies of Diversey, Duni, Kimberly-Clark, Essity, Tana, Unger, Vileda and Wepa as Strategic Partners. Selected products and application techniques were displayed on a new giant visual wall, in showcases and as a media presentation.
From left to right: Pedro Rodrigues (Finance Director), Klaus Agsteiner (President), Matthias Ikas (Assessor), Graziano Roma (Assessor), Philippe Scemama (Vice President) and Marc Ceron (Secretary).
Ready to dazzle in Amsterdam
As one of the leading international trade associations for professional hygiene, the DHYS Group is ready to dazzle the crowds once again at INTERCLEAN 2018 in Amsterdam from 15-18 May 2018 (hall 8, stand 122). Now comprising seven member groups and over 120 individual family-run companies in 25 countries, the Group has significantly expanded its market influence. These developments have enabled the DHYS Group to provide even better purchasing options, sales channels and services for international customers: with over 80,000 products available, around 3,000 members of staff are responsible for handling the respective projects.
At the trade fair in Amsterdam, the DHYS Group will inform visitors of the advantages of global procurement, an excellent network of transport systems featuring over 1,200 vehicles, outstanding manufacturer brands and private labels, efficient e-commerce solutions and sustainable quality management.
Even during its international appearances, the DHYS Group keeps its feet on the ground. As a medium-sized, owner-run organisation, it always combines its global orientation with ties to regional customers and in-depth personal service. Expert employees from all member groups will be on hand during the trade fair and are looking forward to holding successful talks with business partners and new customers from all continents. Close co-operation with globally active manufacturers is a crucial part of the DHYS approach, which is why the Group will be presenting selected products and application technologies from strategic partners including Diversey, Duni, Kimberly-Clark, Essity, Tana, Unger, Vileda and Wepa.
GVS Group moves into new headquarters
While work continues on installing parts of the building facade and applying the finishing touches, the GVS Group has been busy settling into its new headquarters since the start of the year. This building complex, which features both a large central warehouse and a wing dedicated to administration, meetings and seminars, will be officially opened once the grounds have been completed.
In the future, the new warehouse in Friedewald will supply to all member companies of the GVS Group in Germany and cooperation partners in Austria and Switzerland. The building will also serve as a meeting location for the committees of the trade group and as a training facility for the central training institute of the GVS Academy.
The construction work undertaken on the 30,000 square metre plot involved the building of a 4,000 square metre hall complex and the new administration department, which boasts 800 square metres of floor space across two levels. Both structures feature an environmentally conscious design. Photovoltaic plants and heat pumps are used to provide an energy-efficient supply to the building complex. The GVS Group is also taking action in its role as an attractive employer: around 25 positions have been created in the administration department alone, with additional employees being taken on in the area of logistics.
Track the latest progress of the construction work here.
GVS distribution centre – ground-breaking ceremony and start of construction in Friedewald
Despite the almost wintry conditions, this was an occasion to herald the warm winds of change. The directors and members of the GVS Group, the partners of GVS Immobilien GmbH, employees from the GVS head office and Mayor Dirk Noll gathered at the site of the new distribution centre in Friedewald for the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony. Coming after a long phase of planning and approval, this event saw one of the most successful trade groups for cleaning and maintenance in Germany give the green light for construction to start straight away.
The ground-breaking ceremony held on the company site at the Friedewald industrial estate was a watershed moment in the history of the GVS Group. Pictured (l. to r.): Authorised Officer Matthias Ikas, Director Klaus Agsteiner and Director Joachim Homberger.
The initial stage of construction on the 30,000 square metre plot will involve the building of a 4,000 square metre hall complex and the new administration department, which will feature 800 square metres of floor space on two levels. Both structures will feature an environmentally conscious design. Photovoltaic plants and heat pumps are used to provide an energy-efficient supply to the building complex.
The GVS Group is also taking action in its role as an attractive employer: around 20 positions will be created in the administration department alone, with additional employees being taken on in the area of logistics.
The total investment for the first stage of construction comes to around six million euros. Building work commenced shortly after the ground-breaking ceremony and it should be possible to move into the new premises by the end of the year. In the future, the new distribution centre in Friedewald will supply to all member companies of the GVS Group in Germany and strategic partners in Austria and Switzerland.
The new site will also serve as a meeting location for the committees of the trade group and as a training facility for the central training institute of the GVS Academy.
Shortly after the ground-breaking ceremony, the excavators moved in to begin work on the new distribution centre.
Featuring 18 primarily owner-run companies at 25 sites in Germany and three cooperation partners in Austria and Switzerland, the GVS Group has been an active player in system services for cleaning and maintenance since 1976. Its professional full product range contains over 60,000 items from all renowned industrial partners, supplemented by appealing private labels. The service profile of the Group stands out with solutions including site-specific supply to large-scale customers across different regions, training programmes throughout Germany in the GVS ACADEMY, a web-based order and goods management system (GVS ORDER MANAGER), a logistics full service package with a dedicated vehicle fleet (comprising over 200 vehicles) and a skilled field sales team with more than 180 specialist consultants. The GVS Group is also active on an international level in the DHYS wholesale network.
New members join the DHYS Group
With the wholesale groups Socius Network Ltd. and Eurosan d.o.o. Mostar, the DHYS Group gained two strategically important members in Northern and South-Eastern Europe.
Socius Network consists of 18 highly efficient members in the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands.
Eurosan maintains four sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia.
At the DHYS Group‘s meeting on the 23rd of November in Munich, these new members were warmly welcomed by CEO Klaus Agsteiner (GVS Group) and deputy CEO Philippe Scemama (GEH).
The DHYS Group’s trade association now has more than 120 members in 24 countries.
ANNIVERSARY GALA IN COLOGNE
The Oceandiva shortly before casting off.
Set table with anniversary flyer.
Klaus Agsteiner (CEO DHYS Group and GVS) during his speech.
Impressive atmosphere during dinner on the upper deck.
Lively celebration on the dance floor.
View of the Cologne Cathedral and Deutzer Bridge from aboard the Oceandiva.
The “ANNIVERSARY GALA“ in Cologne marked a golden highlight for the GVS Group. The trading group spent one whole day and one night together with its members, cooperation partners from all over Europe, business partners and service providers. Great company, a lot of conversations, a bit of glamour but never over the top, music, dancing and a great atmosphere showed that the Group is not only on top in business but also in celebrating.
The over 200 guests were welcomed already around noon to join the “Churches, Kölsch and carnival” city tour with a visit to the tradition-steeped brewery Sion. Only some hours later the actual highlight was about to start: the festive ANNIVERSARY GALA aboard the event boat “Oceandiva”. It was already on the gangway that the chairmen of the board Klaus Agsteiner and Joachim Homberger, chairman of the supervisory board Tilmann Klein and procurator Matthias Ikas gave a warm welcome to their guests. The gala started with a champagne reception in an atmospheric surrounding while the ship left for its night tour on the Rhine.
On board the guests were able to recall the 40-year-old history of the GVS Group on large history banners. In his speech Klaus Agsteiner gave a moving impression about the past, starting with the foundation as a union in 1976, recapped the many stages of expansion and came to a conclusion with some words about the currently imminent construction of a central warehouse in 2017.
With this prospect Agsteiner emphasized the growth and strength of the Group, “which is in the perfect position to start into the future”. Agsteiner gave thanks to all his guests for all the years of successful cooperation, especially to the honorary chairman of the board, Georg Zoller, who had been head of the Group for 24 years and without whom the association would not be where it is today.
Meanwhile, the new and investigative ways of the Group were also shown at the dinner buffet which offered international specialties from Germany, Italy and Asia. At the event stage, the bars and on the dancefloor the gala gradually turned into a terrific party. A high-class DJ, a superb live band and, on top of that, singer Verena Heinz brought a very special atmosphere to boat and amazed their crowd until late at night. The city lights were sparkling through the windowpanes of the Oceandiva – the Cathedral, the crane houses or the Deutzer bridge seemed to be within one’s reach and as beautiful as never before. A special shuttle service brought the guests back to the hotel – where the evening was not yet over for some of them. Others found little surprises on their hotel rooms: exclusive heart-shaped chocolates and a fluffy blanket as a souvenir of a very special event.
The controlling body of the GVS Group, all festive (from left): Tilmann Klein (chairman of the supervisory board), Jan Butze (member of the supervisory board), Klaus Agsteiner (CEO), Andreas Wencke (co-chairman of the supervisory board), Anton Groß (member of the supervisory board), Joachim Homberger (CEO).
Matthias Ikas (Procurator DHYS Group / GVS) and Joachim Homberger (CEO GVS) welcome Yael and Philippe Scemama (Deputy CEO DHYS Group / GEH).
Frederic Romagosa (Finance Director DHYS Group / DINO), Marc Cerón (Secretary DHYS Group / DINO)
Maria Schefer, Simone Bertocci and Graziano Roma (both DHYS Group / WE ITALIA) with Matthias Ikas (Procurator DHYS Group / GVS)
Matjaž and Ksenija Smlatic (DHYS Group / Europap), in the back Dr. Claus Butze (CEO Dr. Butze GmbH & Co. KG)
Ralph Musselmann (CEO mwi / Advertising Agency of GVS Group, DHYS Group) and Marc Cerón (Secretary DHYS Group / DINO)
SUCCESS IN AMSTERDAM
Three years after its formation, the DHYS Group made its first appearance as an exhibitor at INTERCLEAN 2016 in Amsterdam.
The architecture of the stand and the performance received an enthusiastic response from all visitors to the trade fair. The many discussions with international suppliers, customers and trade organisations were testament to the fact that DHYS has established itself as a first-class strategic partner in the sector. These talks generated initial contacts and enabled the Group to successfully explore opportunities for co-operation. DHYS was therefore able to achieve far more than its original aims.
The key arguments of the Group in this regard related to its decades of expert experience, a powerful range of over 80,000 items tailored to project customers, an excellent network of transport systems featuring around 900 proprietary vehicles and comprehensive service available from a single source.
The consultation also focused on highly-developed e-commerce solutions within the framework of effective cost and quality management, which provides customers with additional planning security.
The highlight of the trade fair debut was a nostalgic trip along the canal for all members of the trade fair team, who hailed from a total of five countries. This demonstrated the positive atmosphere within the trade association, together with a shared philosophy: the down-to-earth nature of predominantly owner-run small and medium-sized enterprises that boast strong regional customer loyalty while retaining a global orientation. This philosophy will continue to be the foundation of all activities in the future.
DEBUT AT INTERCLEAN
The DHYS Group, one of the leading new trade associations for professional cleaning and maintenance, will be making its first appearance in front of an international audience at INTERCLEAN 2016 in Amsterdam from 10-13 May 2016.
DHYS will be showing off its range of products and services at stand 101 in hall 9, covering some 100 square metres of exhibition space. International suppliers such as Duni, Ecolab, Kimberly-Clark, SCA, Sealed Air, Unger, Vileda, Wepa and Werner & Mertz will be in attendance as key strategic partners.
Personal consultation is a top priority for the decision-makers in the DHYS Group.
Specialist consultants from all Group members will be on hand during the trade fair and are looking forward to holding successful talks with business partners and prospective customers from all over the world.
WE ITALIA and EUROPAP strengthen the DHYS Group
The DHYS Group welcomes two more member organisations as new partners to CMS in Berlin.
In addition to GVS Group from Germany, GEH Groupe Europe Hygiène from France and Grupo DINO from Spain, the dealer community will now be strengthened by the Italian “WE ITALIA” and the Slovenian “EUROPAP”.
“We are proud to grow with these two organisations in strategically important sectors and to further expand our market shares”, said the managing boards of the DHYS Group about the successful merger.
WE ITALIA, founded in Bologna in 2012, consists of 41 members at over 50 locations across Italy. The member-companies established decades ago are cooperating with central purchasing, distribution, marketing and a sophisticated quality management.
In addition to comprehensive service activities, the corporate strategy in particular also includes a strong sustainability concept under the slogan “We think green”. With a sophisticated manufacturer and private label product range, WE ITALIA supplies around 95,000 customers.
EUROPAP, based in Ljubljana, has been serving the cleaning and hygiene market in Slovenia, Macedonia and Serbia since 2002. With its own transport logistics, two production lines for paper hygiene and a distinct service management, the company has continuously expanded its market shares to the Balkans.
From left to right: Klaus Agsteiner (CEO), Graziano Roma, Frederic Romagosa, Matjaž Smlatić, Philippe Scemama (Deputy CEO).
Corporate Design: Global Brand
The global appearance of DHYS impressively underlines the profile of the new, international trading community.
A clear, classical-modern font with great volume and the distinctively curved „S“ of the mark designation characterise the logo.
The Corporate Design is given its unmistakable appearance by other elements. The main element is the „Key Visual“ developed from the tail which is widely used in all implementations.
The wave form represents the competence and dynamics of DHYS in the world of cleaning and maintenance.
In the symbolism of a speech bubble, it represents both the communications strengths and internationality of the group. A blue graded colour concept and space-consuming visual worlds strengthen the identity.
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Sigma FE 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art Aperture Series: Ancient Downed Pine Tree, Dana Meadow
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Sigma has adapted its outstanding Sigma DG HSM Art lens line to Sony mirrorless by extending the rear of the lens barrel. Since it was designed for a DSLR, the optical design is ray angle friendly for digital sensors.
This medium range highly detailed scene puts the Sigma FE 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art (for Sony mirrorless) to the test in blue mountain shade, thus testing both its secondary color correction as well as its resolving power in unfavorable spectral balance (blue light). Field curvature and vignetting and real depth of field behavior are also evaluated.
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f6.3 @ 1/10 sec, ISO 100; 2018-09-10 18:36:03
[location “Dana Meadow”, altitude 9980 ft / 3042 m, "focus part way into branches", LACA corrected]
Sony A7R III + Sigma 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art
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Inbox: Female Diplomatic Security Agent Pens a Note on Sexual Harassment and Career Suicide
August 18, 2016 By domani spero in Courage, Foreign Service, Functional Bureaus, Org Life, Realities of the FS, Staffing the FS, State Department Tags: Bureau of Diplomatic Security, career suicide, Inbox, sexual harassment, State/DS
Last Monday, we posted A Joke That Wasn’t, and a State Department Dialogue That Is Long Overdue. There are a couple of public comments on the thread (see left side-bar) and also private ones. Thank you all for taking the time to write. The item below is from an email sent by a female Diplomatic Security agent. We are publishing it here with her permission:
As a female DS agent, your article raised a lot of issues that we, as female agents, secretly discuss, but rarely report officially. It seems strange that a group of trained federal investigators could be so apprehensive to report these issues, but within DS, a male-dominated profession, it is career suicide to raise the flag and contest misogynistic behaviors. I know quite a few female agents who have been sexually harassed by their colleagues, but were too afraid to report the behavior. Most of these women end up leaving DS and passing the issues off to the younger generation of female agents. The few female DS agents who made the decision to file an OCR and EEO complaint against other DS agents end up looking for new jobs.
Filing a complaint is particularly hard for female agents — they know that their DS colleagues would be the ones looking into the allegations. The same colleagues that are supposed to keep the diplomatic community safe, but instead, make fun of women who report sexual assaults behind their backs.
This is a huge issue within DS and will not go away unless an outside entity pushes for a cultural shift within DS.
The State Department’s sexual harassment policy is posted here.
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← beach brain
of telescopes and astrology →
a theory of fun?
I’ve been interested to read Raph Koster’s “A Theory of fun for Game Design” ever since I saw its title. He is “Designer Dragon” of Ultima Online fame and was Chief Creative Officer for SOE’s “Starwars Galaxies” when it was at it’s peak. Both games were groundbreaking just over a decade ago – peerless in some respects. They both also saw rise of key challenges still faced by game designers today.
Ultima Online practically invented PVP combat in an MMO, and saw the birth of many social (and anti-social) phenomena that rose from competitive, anonymous player vs. player interaction. Most of the actual software written to govern anti-social behavior in UO was written after the initial game was finished. (which was the groundwork for rules generally assumed to be functional in most future MMO titles). What started as “arm the players to police themselves” with a functional crime and honor system was far insufficient to protect the majority of casual gamers from a very small percentage of players who played only to cause casual gamers grief, interrupt their game play experience, or even cause loss of virtual assets (experience, loot, etc).
Only after peeling back the player vs. player features of the game till they were almost non-present would they casual gamer find peace, at the cost of numerous features previously fundamental to character design. This sweeping redesign changed the game completely, as well as the direction for future content releases.
The same type of problems dogged Starwars Galaxies, despite a promising start that encouraged better division between casual and competitive players. Numerous game redesigns rendered Starwars Galaxies unrecognizable next to its original released form.
EverQuest (also a SOE title worth it’s own series of blogs, which built on the success of UO in the same MMO space) had a very interesting faction-and-deed-based system of player vs. player combat and character advancement, but that system was more or less abandoned soon after release and today features mainly cooperative and solo play.
Fast forward ten years. “World of Warcraft”, easily the most successful MMO ever, polished “optional” Player vs. Player combat as both separate from cooperative player vs. environment advancement and occasionally tightly integrated. Even still, game dynamics that govern PVP in WoW are in constant flux and have been central to a few minor redesigns. Warcraft raised the “fun” bar very, very high. It will take a truly kingly title to ever rival Blizzard’s runaway success.
I am interested to see what Raph has to say about fun in a game, a decade later, and if it touches on any of the many social aspects of his previous game titles at all. Either way, the future successor to WoW stands on the back of folks like Raph – that is assuming that Designer Dragon doesn’t pen it himself. 🙂
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You’re Not Huwhite! Jared Taylor Dashes Hopes and Dreams of Fareed Zakaria!
Pro-White intellectual Jared Taylor did an hour-long interview recently with Fareed Zakaria from CNN.
In the first five minutes, Fareed claims that he is “technically White,” but that Whites don’t actually exist as a group and that White Supremacy is a problem.
And I’d bet you anything that all that no doubt makes perfect sense in his poo-filled brain.
This kind of Tactical Schizophrenia is hard to catch in the wild, but when you witness it, it is something else indeed. Fareed went into this trying to get a story linking White Nationalism with terrorism – and luckily, Jared Taylor was too smart to fall for his low IQ tricks. Instead, Jared triggered Fareed into rambling on and on about how he was an Aryan and how he resented that he wasn’t as white as Jared and for that – that is, for Fareed to be happy – the entire White Race must die.
In other words, this supposed “fair hearing” interview about White Nationalism ended up being a glimpse into Fareed’s sick, twisted little mind.
“If I can’t be White, no one can!” -t. Fareed
Now, Fareed is famous for basically faking his credentials.
Fitting comfortably into the racist stereotype about how Indians are cheaters who fake their way through life, Fareed has repeatedly been caught engaging in plagiarism. He wasn’t fired from CNN for it because they’re not going to be able to find an Indian who hasn’t done that. And I’m sure that Fareed cheated his way through college as well for that matter – all non-White minorities do.
This is why Fareed doesn’t like the idea that you can do a quick gene swab test to see if someone is White or not.
Because there’s no way to cheat on that test. See, Fareed tries to cling to illusions and lies and very obtuse semantic (read: Semitic) reasoning to try and wriggle and worm his way around the test results that he so fears. Test results that will definitively prove that he is, in fact, not White and that Jared Taylor is.
Naturally, Fareed will deny that he is not White and will refuse to take the gene tests because his ego can’t handle the truth.
But truth be told, he has already failed the only test that matters: winning Jared Taylor’s respect.
Had Fareed behaved himself honorably and given Jared a fair interview as he promised, he would have had “Honorary Aryan” status bestowed upon him, and his soul would have been at peace. Instead, he chose the road of lies, or the street of shitskins, if you prefer. He rejected Jared and the road of truth – the way of Whiteness, if you prefer.
For this was a test of Fareed’s character all along, not Jared’s!
We invited him to come speak with one of our own only to test his huwhiteness in the presence of one of the Istari – Jared Taylor the Huwhite. Few know this, but there are only three wizards alive now that still have the ability to bestow Whiteness, and Jared is one of them.
The other two are Matt Heimbach the Brownshirt and Richard Spencer the Gray.
Fareed had a chance to prove that he was a man of good character, but he failed miserably, and for that, he is condemned to official NON-WHITE status… forever.
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EPA wants to restore aquatic life in four stretches of waterways
Agency to focus on four areas in Animas River basin
By Jonathan Romeo County & environment reporter
Thursday, April 25, 2019 7:17 PM
Updated: Friday, April 26, 2019 9:58 AM
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced four areas it wants to target to improve water quality in the Animas River basin around Silverton.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has named four areas in the Animas River basin where it plans to focus on improving water quality for aquatic life.
The EPA recently released a study assessing risks in aquatic habitats, a result of years of sampling and testing water quality in the Animas River basin around Silverton.
Andrew Todd, an aquatic toxicologist for the EPA, said the study confirmed many suspicions throughout the watershed: In areas where water had low pH and elevated metals, fish and other aquatic life populations were highly impaired or non-existent.
But the study also helped inform the EPA about what areas the agency could focus on with cleanup projects, he said, where marked benefits, such as restoring aquatic populations, could be achievable.
The areas include:
The Animas River just below the confluence of Elk Creek, about 5 miles downstream of Silverton.The upper Animas River from Howardsville to just above the confluence with Cement Creek.The south fork of Mineral Creek.Upper Mineral Creek from Mill Creek to just above the confluence with the middle fork of Mineral Creek.Dan Wall, with the EPA’s Superfund program, said establishing early goals is important, allowing the agency to have targets and focus. He said an estimated 12,000 water and soil samples have been taken in the Silverton area since 2009.
“This is an impaired fishery right now,” Wall told a crowd at the EPA’s Community Advisory Group meeting Thursday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds.
Christina Progress, Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site manager, said a final decision on the EPA’s quick-action plan that seeks to address 26 mining sites over the next five years or so should be announced in the next month or two.
Progress said the cleanup projects in the proposed plan are in line with the EPA’s four identified priority areas.
Weather permitting, Progress told The Durango Herald, the EPA plans to conduct four or five projects this summer. The low water year in 2017-18 and the high water year in 2018-19 are also allowing the EPA to get a better idea of the hydrology of the mountains.
Because Cement Creek has never been known to support aquatic life, it was not considered in this part of the EPA’s process, Progress said. The mines draining into upper Cement Creek are considered some of the worst loaders of heavy metals in the basin.
“We need a lot more understanding of the groundwater system to understand how best to address those (mine) sources,” she said. “We know it’s a significant area of contamination and prohibitive to our overall success.”
Progress said the EPA’s human health risk assessment should also be released in the next month or so. A terrestrial health risk assessment is expected this fall, she said.
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Militant Group Leading Figure Dies Inside Egyptian Prison
Essam Derbala, leading member of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya died in Egyptian prison on Sunday
Jamaa Islamiya leading figure Essam Derbala died in prison on Sunday, with the Islamist group saying he was prevented from access to medicine.
The Jamaa Islamiya is a hardline Islamist group which was implicated in several militant attacks in Egypt during the 1990s, before its jailed leaders renounced violence in 1998.
The group said it holds “political and security authorities” accountable for Derbala’s death, in a statement on its website.
Jamaa Islamiya said that for months, Derbala was prevented from accessing healthcare and that he went into a coma as a result. The group added that all attempts to have him hospitalized had failed, despite his daily deterioration.
However, an official from the south Cairo area prosecution, Tarek Abu Zeid, told Aswat Masriya that a prosecution representative inspected Derbala’s body inside prison.
Abu Zeid said medical reports indicate he died as a result of “high blood pressure” and another “medical condition,” which he long suffered from. Abu Zeid did not specify the medical condition.
The Interior Ministry later said in a statement that Derbala experienced fatigue upon returning from a trial session on Saturday. He was examined and it turned out that he had a fever, low blood pressure and high blood glucose levels.
He was “immediately” provided with first aid, the ministry said.
But he suffered from a “nose bleed and circulatory and respiratory failure, leading to his death,” while being transported to hospital, the ministry stated.
It added that Derbala has a medical history of diabetes and stroke.
Derbala was arrested in May, following an arrest warrant issued by the State Security Prosecution, a branch of the prosecution which is typically involved in cases that affect national security.
He was charged with joining a group established in violation of the law, the pro-Mohamed Morsi Anti-coup alliance, a coalition formed to call for the reinstatement of the former president who was ousted in July 2013.
He died inside a maximum security prison on the outskirts of Cairo.
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Drawing Thin
It's not immediately clear how this card interacts with Live and Learn. Does Drawing Thin apply to both attempts or just the first one? There was some debate about this, but the final ruling came from Matt Newman himself:
This is a bit of a tricky interaction, so I apologize for any confusion here. I agree it’s a bit ambiguous. I think the ruling that makes the most sense here is the following:
As a general rule, when you use Live and Learn to attempt a test a second time, all effects with a duration that expire at the end of the first attempt will have expired by the time the second begins. This includes effects used during the first attempt that say “until the end of the skill test…”, “…for this skill test,” or the bonuses from committed cards, which are all discarded at the end of the first attempt. Effects that are inherent to the test itself (the test’s parameters, what happens if you succeed/fail, that sort of thing) all remain the same, even if they have a duration of “for this test.” So, for example, if an effect said “play during a skill test. until the end of the skill test, increase the test’s difficulty by 2,” that would expire at the end of the first attempt, whereas if the test itself said “Fight. Increase the difficulty of this test by 2,” that increase in difficulty would exist in both the first and second attempts.
Now for the tricky part: Which is Drawing Thin? Is it an effect that initiates during a skill test with a duration of that expires at the end of the skill test? Or is it an effect which alters the inherent nature of the skill test itself, such that it would affect both attempts? Since Drawing Thin does not explicitly say any variation of “until the end of the skill test” or “for this skill test,” and since its triggering condition is a “when” reaction to the skill test initiating and not something you use during the first attempt, my ruling is that Drawing Thin is changing the skill test’s inherent difficulty to be 2 higher—altering the nature of the test itself. Therefore if you use Drawing Thin when the skill test initiates, and then use Live and Learn to attempt that test a second time, the increased difficulty would carry over to the second attempt.
Again, apologies for the trickiness/ambiguousness. Hopefully this clears up this interaction, as well as clearing up how Live and Learn works in general. Thank you for bringing this to my attention; I’ll be sure to add it in the next edition of the FAQ as well.
StyxTBeuford · 147
Thanks for posting! — BraidsMamma · 2 6/12/19
Ace of Rods
Did they forget to make this fast? It might have been worth considering if it was. As it stands, if this card isn't in your opening hand then most of the time you are effectively paying three resources to get +2 in a skill test, the equivalent of Unexpected Courage. Comparing it to the other neutral skill cards like Perception or Overpower is even more unfavorable because those allow you to draw a card if you succeed and are completely free. There are a handful of situations where the Ace of Rods will give you +4 in a test, but even then it is still too pricey to seriously consider.
One positive is that because it gets removed after use, putting two in your deck doesn't result in a dead draw. Preston Fairmont can use it as a means of flexing on other investigators to show how little he cares for efficiency.
DelightfulDilettante · 54
While all of what you said is correct, I don't entirely agree with your dismissal of the card. In addition to all of that, it lets you take an action *from* a turn where you have nothing important to do (because you wouldn't play this if you did), and move it *forward* to a turn when you need it (because you likely wouldn't use it unless you need it). Is it a great card? No. But action manipulation could come in handy in certain builds. — cb42 · 15 6/11/19
I agree that it's not a good card, but I feel some of the reason for that might be because it's in a fairly weird design nice. — bee123 · 9 6/11/19
*design niche. Like it's got to work as the neutral tarot card and as a kinda pseudo-story asset for the Circle Undone. So it's got to be balanced as a card in and of itself and as part of a campaign level risk/reward and that seems like a tricky card to get right. Like, it's got to be able to do something in most decks, but not outclass the class-specific tarot cards or end up OP in the specific context of the Circle Undone. Given all that I'm not surprised it ended up a bit too small of an effect. :) But I wonder what a balanced neutral tarot would be? Something like the Red-Gloved Man, maybe? — bee123 · 9 6/11/19
The other review is underselling this card. At least on standard difficulty I think this is one of the top 5 best level 0 Seeker cards ever printed and a card that I shove into most of the decks that have full access to level 0 seeker cards. Comparing this to No Stone Unturned this card only digs 3 deep instead of 6 but doesn't require an action or 2 resources to use. This card is very easy to just throw onto any test that you're all but guaranteed to pass anyway (such as investigating a low shroud location) and then use it to have Eureka be replaced by whatever's the best card in the top 3 of your deck. The icons it has are fantastic, it's basically the only 3 skills you're likely to ever use so it can be committed to almost every test you take. On top of that, there's a lot of tests you might take where you're +3 above the test for example and passing it is important, but you don't want to spend any of your valuable cards to boost yourself up to +4. Eureka is great in those situations because you can insure that you are protected while also having the card cycle into something you need.
The card is just super versatile and is always useful, It's not necessarily a card that'll win you the game but it'll help you find those cards and is never a bad draw.
Sylvee · 41
I wouldn't go quite that far, there are an awful lot of fantastic lvl 0 seeker cards. I do broadly agree though, this is a card that I usually include in seeker builds. Excellent versatility, great filtered draw capability and there's also the added bonus that you may get a weakness which then gets shuffled back into the deck and will more often than not end up being avoided for much longer than it would have been otherwise. — Sassenach · 41 6/4/19
@sassenach I think you are wrong on that end. Sure, you can shuffle your weakness back into your deck, but you could also shuffle the weakness from the bottom to the top. The Chances to draw a certain card in your deck is always 1/n, where n is the number of cards. You dont draw a weakness with eureka!, sure, but the other draws are not affected propabilitywise. — Zimmt · 1 6/5/19
Hmm.. actually that's a good point. Still though, if you draw the top 3 after Eureka then you already know that a weakness that you pull as a result would definitely have been drawn within the next 3 draws. By shuffling it back it goes from 1 in 3 to 1 in however many cards are left, which in theory ought to improve the odds most of the time. I'm no mathematician though, so I could be wrong. — Sassenach · 41 6/5/19
@Sassenach That May be the case when there is a weakness in the top three, but most of the time there won’t be a weakness in the top three so far more frequently it is going from 0 in 3 to 1 in however many cards are left. I could explain the full calculations, but overall, Eureka doesn’t protect you from weaknesses on future draws - in fact by not drawing a weakness you increase the odds of a weakness draw in the future, but that’s just how drawing cards works. — Death by Chocolate · 10 6/5/19
I didn't say it protected you from weaknesses, I said that when you do draw a weakness with it then it's a nice bonus, because in that scenario you do significantly improve your chances of not drawing that weakness again any time soon. — Sassenach · 41 6/6/19
The point being it's as much a bonus as it is a penalty since it is a statistical wash. That is, when you do see a weakness it is a nice bonus, but when you don't see a weakness it equally a penalty. So it's probably best not to consider it at all, since it's a considerably neutral aspect of the card. — pneuma08 · 21 6/7/19
Yeah I wouldn't consider the ability to shuffle a weakness away as a boon. Most of the time you don't draw the weakness in those top 3, so you go from a 0% chance of seeing it in 3 turns to a 3/N chance of seeing it in the next 3 turns. When you see it of course you improve your chances of not seeing it by shuffling the deck, but mathematically it all evens out. That wouldn't be the case if you had the CHOICE to shuffle your deck, but because it's forced the math evens out. — StyxTBeuford · 147 6/14/19
Jim Culver
I've just recently started a 2 gator playthrough of Cirle Undone with Jim. I'll have a deck list to come soon but at the moment it has gone well using the sealing cards as well as Defiance to mitigate the bag in Jim's favor. Most every test so far as long as I can at least match the test value has gone my way. I feel like sealing mechanic may have jumped up Jim's power level by quite a bit.
JourneysintoArkham · 2
Grisly Totem
The question being: Is Grisly Totem, the missing link with Take Heart and Drawing Thin to the Survivor economy engine? Looks like so, and that's great for Survivors! All you need is now a survivor who's not afraid to fail a check once in a while. The safest checks to fail being investigate check (barring the BS tokens), this combo is very potent for investigators with low like William Yorick, "Ashcan" Pete or Calvin Wright for exemple and reaching the 200 characters threashold.
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RVAbrendan
That's nuts!
Another Jericho related bit...when Raw was in Richmond Monday, a few buddies of mine went. Turns out after the show, Jericho and a WWE trainer came to their house and partied. So pissed I miss out on this!
praise_gibbs
I heard a rumor that this Revolution thing is about a new WWE video game. So help me... lol
---------- Post added May-27th-2012 at 01:40 PM ----------
Leaked video about the Revolution...
http://gamerant.com/wwe-13-trailer-riley-151046/
Wtf is up with the graphics? That looks like something I would have played on the Dreamcast back in the day.
And I am flat out puzzled as to how players have to go all script (promos, matches, etc). I thought that players were just told who was going to win, and had to work together on how the match was going to go, save for spots and stuff like that. That's as corny as it gets.
Edited May 29, 2012 by Mr. Sinister
That's the way it used to work. You would get general direction from the booker and the finish. Basically, "You are going 15 minutes and the finish is a ____ hitting ___ with a chair after a ref bump to get a pin." The most important part of a match is the finish. There were bookers who were legendary for their finishes, and bookers who were terrible at it. Pat Patterson was never a booker but he was considered the go-to genius when it came to finishes in the WWF. He also used to map out the Royal Rumble. Today, my understanding is that Michael Hayes maps out the Rumble (I think Hayes has a good wrestling mind, but I think the Rumble is not what it used to be). I don't know who comes up with finishes. I know the agents like Arn Anderson have a big role in planning out the matches.
Now, the promos are almost entirely scripted and the matches are largely scripted ahead of time. I do think they give more flexibility to the vets like Taker and guys who can really go like Punk. But do guys still "call it in the ring?" I don't think so.
Kevin Nash tells a great story on a shoot about working with Bob Backlund in the 90s and agreeing to let Backlund lead the match (generally heels always led the match). Backlund actually called for Nash to do a sunset flip at one point.
On one of Cornette's shoots (and really, everyone should watch a Cornette shoot), he tells a story of Dennis Condrey taking an extremely young Rick Rude around the ring three times in a headlock before having Rude tag out because Rude could not understand the instructions.
Condrey said "Shoot the ropes, drop down, hit Bobby, back to the head." Rude said, "Wha?" Condrey said, "Shoot the ropes, drop down, hit Bobby, back to the head." Rude said, "Wha?" Condrey said, "I am going to throw you into the ropes, when you come back, I will fall to the mat, and you will jump over me. You will hit the other ropes where Bobby Eaton is waiting. You will punch Bobby, come back to me, and put me back in a headlock." Rude says, "I don't get it" and Condrey says, "Tag the F out."
Edited May 29, 2012 by Lombardi's_kid_brother
since the storylines are so weak right now, I'm going to help you guys out. For no reason at all.....Layla El
spjunkies
http://www.wwe.com/inside/randy-orton-suspended-for-60-days
STAMFORD, Conn. – In accordance with its Talent Wellness Program, WWE has suspended Randy Orton for 60 days effective today for his second violation of the company's policy.
The Cheerleader
I guess this really makes Sheamus the top face now.
I have a question. I've been thinking about this for a while so I thought I'd bring the question here. Could old school style "pro wrestling" survive today? I'm talking about old NWA style of wrestling where the matches were much longer and more real looking.
The Evil Genius
Not without the WWE buying it and killing it off as soon as it got somewhat popular.
I guarantee you he won't be released.
---------- Post added May-31st-2012 at 04:02 PM ----------
Do you think todays fans would sit through a 60 minute match?
Hell, I'd watch it. I think a lot of wrasslin fans over the age of 25 would watch. WWE is more hack 'n slash rather than wrestling. Give me Bret Hart over Cena any day.
If I were TNA, that's the route I would go. They would be a true alternative to the WWE.
BeachSkin
Does anyone here get the Ring of Honor TV show? It's a decent alternative to WWE. Great workers galore, lots of action and logical storylines.
Nope. Speaking of ROH:
This is an excerpt from an interview with an old-school wrestler, Dutch Mantel
Jack asked Dutch if there had ever been a situation where as a heel he had been cheered by the fans. Dutch said that as the fans became more sophisticated that had happened, but said that he hates "smart fans" because they tend to take some of the enjoyment out of the business. He said that fans like that are the ones who gravitate toward a promotion like Ring of Honor, which he said was great but that there was too much wrestling and not enough story-telling to make it entertaining. Dutch talked about the key to a successful promotion was not only good wrestling but good storylines that will hook the viewer and bring him in.
Basically, this is how I see it
WWE: Entertainment with Wrestling
ROH: Wrestling for Entertainment
TNA: Lost
I guess you mean the top face on Smackdown. That won't last long, either somebody will come over from RAW to take that spot or they will accelerate a Daniel Bryan face turn. When Orton comes back, they should make him a heel. Dude can get so much heat either way, might as well just make him a heel.
ROH: Wrestling with Entertainment
And that's a shame because TNA had some of Tue best workers in the business.
Speaking of TNA, they go live tonight at 8:00
ROH has gotten reasonably popular with that approach.
I think you can train the fans to like whatever you want to show them.
The WWE has no trouble getting the fans to buy into longer matches at Wrestlemania. I think if they gave Punk and Bryan 25 minutes on the next Raw, the fans would buy into it. HHH is apparently a huge fan of old-school territory style wrestling so it's possible that they eventually go in that direction.
1. You can't do it right away, and
2. You can't do it with everyone.
The NWA did not have the Road Warriors do 60 minute Broadways on a nightly basis, you know.
Dutch Mantel is exactly right, which is not shocking. Dutch is kind of a wrestling savant. I want to like ROH but they sometimes seem to forget that they are in the entertainment business. My favorite wrestling promotion is still mid-80s Crockett which would give you real mat-based wrestling, would give you bloody brawls (Seriously...has anything ever touched the Magnum-Tully I Quit match), and would give you some really goofy but entertaining storylines (Jim Cornette versus Baby Doll actually headlined house shows for God's sake. That's fat manager versus a fatter woman).
The main problem in the WWE right now is simple: Why are these guys fighting?
I don't want to sound like a bad method actor, but what is the motivation of the wrestler's in these matches?
I will give them credit: They have done a good job in creating a reason for the Big Show-Cena match. And Big Show is just good enough on the mic to pull it off. The problem is, I don't give a damn about The Big Show any longer. He's just a guy who has switched from heel to face 65 times over the past decade, and he's a physical monster who seems to lose more than he wins.
Er yeah, whoops Meant on SD,. I hope they have the sense to turn Daniel Bryan face, but Vince has been making weird decisions as of late, and it's like they can't book anybody outside of Cena, Brock and Lesnar into a huge storyline (and this is coming from somebody who likes Cena). Yeah Punk's champ, but he doesn't feel like it when he doesn't main event Raw, and especially PPVs.
For some reason I think they'd be content with keeping D-Bry heel. Despite the fact that he's been crazy over since Mania, he's still stayed a heel.
I don't really get what Vince is doing, but then again I'm not a multi billionaire.
The main issue is their lack of talent, and/or creative department. I don't think anyone knows what they're doing. At least they still make money though...
So I figured I'd tune in to TNA for a change. It's been a while.
Man, what a load of utter garbage this is.
Sting defeated Robert Roode in a lumberjack match to win a heavyweight title shot.
TNA will annouce their first inductee to their hall of fame soon.
Edited June 1, 2012 by Gallen5862
I don't think they have a lack of talent. I actually think they have a chance to have a roster that has great depth, their booking just needs to make more sense. They already have amazing potential World/WWE champs lying in Cody Rhodes, and Dolph Ziggler (IMO Ziggler should have already had the big title, but at least he'll always have a sporadic Rumble match for a title).
Kofi would make a great mid carder, but the WWE hasn't done anything with him ever since his Orton feud and he's stuck in tag team limbo.
Santino and Zack Ryder are great with crowds, and Ryback might have potential. They could be able to bring Brodus Clay into a big storyline now that he's gotten pretty over, but they haven't.
Big Johnny has risen to be an entertaining character, but they're trying to make him the new Vince when they could still build other top heels.
I think there's still a ton of guys they haven't booked properly, and that's what continues to frustrate me about the WWE. It's been a long time since I've watched an actual full episode of Raw. Moving to three hours is going to make me want to watch it less, with the way they've been handling things. Oh, and at this point Cole should have been made into a manager. He'd fit in far better with that role. His commentary was amusing enough when he had the new attitude, but now it's unbearable listening to him and King (and I think King is far worse on commentary) together.
Smackdown's alright. At least they keep things fresh with their new talent initiative.
Why isn't JR doing the commentary anymore? Just curious.
Actually, I think the better question woul dbe how long hasn't he been doing it.
I think Vince still has some beef with his Southern accent. JR hasn't been doing commentary on Raw, but he's been calling a few matches on FCW/NXT with Regal, and once the two "shows" merge (which I'm pretty excited about), I think he has a permanent role calling the action with Regal. I know there's some examples of some fantastic Antonio Cesaro FCW matches on youtube. I'd grab examples, but I'm pressed for time.
Dolph Ziggler (IMO Ziggler should have already had the big title, but at least he'll always have a sporadic Rumble match for a title).
Well it looks like they are finally about to set Dolph free after what happened with him, Swagger, and Vickie Guerrero on Monday night. It has been long overdue.
As far as Kofi, I don't know why they haven't put him over. I hope it has nothing to do with this:
If it does than the WWE is dumber than we thought. :doh:
Actually, I think the better question would be how long hasn't he been doing it.
I think he is sick or something. He comes around here and there though. I heard he was doing NXT though. I don't how but :whoknows:
KingGibbs
I love me some Dixie Carter. Yummy.
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Key Plans
Data Files: Locations, Sites,
Retailers, Service Providers, History
Codata Files by type of data
Files on commercial Sites
Files on Retail Locations
History of commercial Sites
Files on Retailers and Service Providers
The company Codata
About Codata Files
Price list and terms
Further Codata products
> Detailed data on commercial Sites in Europe
One Codata definition for more than 7,700 commercial Sites
According to Codata definition, a commercial Site usually meets the following criteria:
The Site (shopping street, retail area or shopping centre) is located in an agglomeration of at least 25,000 inhabitants
The sales areas correspond to a total of at least 10,000 sq m by Site
The Site has at least 25 points of sale, including at least one medium-sized shop (2,500 sq m and more).
There are some exceptions to include all the "significant" Sites that would slightly deviate from these rules. The Site "Saint-Tropez" (shopping street) is a good example.
The features of a Commercial Site
The Sites listed in Codata database are accurately georeferenced and located. So, a client can precisely import the Sites perimeters into his own Geographic Information System (GIS)
Segmentation possibilities of the Commercial Sites database
The Commercial Sites database can be segmented according to the following criteria to best meet any client's needs:
Geographical areas (country, region...)
Types of Sites (Shopping Streets, Retail Areas, Shopping Centres)
Other criteria (subject to availability).
In any case, Codata teams will endeavour to best meet its clients' expectations and will make out the appropriate estimate.
View the locations classification, definitions and formulas View the list of activities
Download an example of file of commercial Sites (XLS, Belgium, Province of Namur)
Click here for the details of the file
Composition/attributes
Delivery period and method
Integration Rights
Sites Attributes
Site identification Attributes
Codata Code of the Site
Codata Name of the Site
Codata Code of the Father Site
Codata Name of the Father Site
Region Code / Autonomous Community Code / District Code
Region / Autonomous Community / District
Department Code / Province Code / Canton Code
Department / Province / Canton
Urban Unit Code (France) / District Code (Belgium)
Urban Unit (France) / District (Belgium)
Commune / Municipality Code
Official Commune / Municipality Code
Commune / Municipality
Last Study Date
Previous Study Date
Site Localisation
Statistics on the distribution of activities Attributes
Number of Shops
Number of Retailers
Percentage of Retailers
Number of Shops - FOOD
Number of Shops - OTHER-MISCELLANEOUS
Number of Shops - GIFTS-JEWELLERY
Number of Shops - CAFE-HOTEL-RESTAURANT
Number of Shops - FOOTWEAR-LEATHER GOODS
Number of Shops - HOUSE EQUIP.
Number of Shops - LARGE SURFACE SHOP
Number of Shops - CLOTHING
Number of Shops - LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Number of Shops - PERFUMES-BEAUTY-BODY CARE
Number of Shops - SERVICES
Number of Retailers - FOOD
Number of Retailers - OTHER-MISCELLANEOUS
Number of Retailers - GIFTS-JEWELLERY
Number of Retailers - CAFE-HOTEL-RESTAURANT
Number of Retailers - FOOTWEAR-LEATHER GOODS
Number of Retailers - HOUSE EQUIP.
Number of Retailers - LARGE SURFACE SHOP
Number of Retailers - CLOTHING
Number of Retailers - LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Number of Retailers - PERFUMES-BEAUTY-BODY CARE
Number of Retailers - SERVICES
Statistics on the occupancy of Retail Locations Attributes
Locations: Number
Retail Locations: Number
Commercial density
Shops: Number
Inactive Shops: Number
Buildings: Number
Buildings: Percentage
Vacant retail units: Number
Vacancy rate
"Locations" can be "Retail Locations" (Shops, CHR, Services...) or not (Buildings, Monuments, Town Hall...).
"Retail locations" can be occupied or not.
If they are occupied, each retail location will be assigned one or several activities by Codata.
If they aren’t occupied, they are classified in 3 subclasses, namely "Empty", "Works" and "Warehouse".
Calculation of the occupancy and vacancy rates and of the commercial density.
Occupancy rate is the ratio between the number of occupied retail locations and the total number of retail locations.
Vacancy rate is the ratio between the number of "empty" locations and the total number of retail locations.
The Commercial density corresponds to the number of Retail Locations divided by the total number of Locations.
Site features (subject to availability and only on SC, TSA, RP, OC Sites) Attributes
Date of Renovation
Gross Leasable Area (GLA)
Service Provider(s)
Socio-demographic statistics Attributes
Population - Country
Population - Region / District / Autonomous Community
Population - Department / Province / Canton
Population - Urban Unit (France) / District (Belgium)
Population - Commune / Municipality
Geopositioning of the Site Attributes
X Coordinate of the Site Centre (WGS84 - UTM31N)
Y Coordinate of the Site Centre (WGS84 - UTM31N)
Site perimeter Attributes
Closed polyline of the Site perimeter (WKT)
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The client is held responsible for all unauthorised data reproduction or communication of Codata Files data, whether it results from a mistake, a negligence or a simple omission on his part. The client is informed that files may include watermarks and tamper-evident technology to control their use.
General licence terms and terms of use of Codata Files data files can be consulted in detail here.
Upon acceptance of the Integration Rights, the Client is authorised to integrate all or part of Codata Files data within a limited framework. This limited framework of integration exclusively applies to the integration of Codata data into media that may be transferred to third parties against payment, provided that the mentioned media also integrate data of other kinds.
Without acceptance of the Integration Rights, the Client commits himself not to not impair the intellectual property rights of Codata Services Sa, whether directly or indirectly via third parties, and notably refrains from:
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Registered office: 143-145, Avenue du Bourgmestre Jean Materne, 5100 Namur – Belgium
Company registration number BE 0505 976 645
Codata Database: Database that is developed, managed and updated by Codata Services.
Providing data on retail and on commercial real estate in various European countries (namely Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland)
Including – but not limited to -
descriptive alphanumeric and georeferenced data on retail locations, commercial sites and projects
descriptive alphanumeric data on retailers and service providers active in the commercial real estate and retail sectors
cartographic data
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The present document aims at defining the general licence terms of use of all or of part of Codata Database as data files or maps.
This contract is in no case a sales contract. The company Codata Services remains owner of the database and of all or part of the database excerpts.
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remain within the Limited Framework defined above in point 3.2.1,
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not alter the provided data without any clear and unambiguous indication,
not use Codata data to design sales brochures or any other media that aim at promoting the Client’s products and services,
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The prices are proposed to the Client, file by file, on the basis of a price list available online. If not, the price shall be offered by Codata Services to the Client by means of an estimate sent by email or post.
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The Client has to download the file within a maximum of fifteen (15) days.
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orders from purchasers whose personal information or information regarding the order would be insufficient,
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GE - General Electric Company
NYSE - Nasdaq Real Time Price. Currency in USD
Bid 10.04 x 47300
Ask 10.05 x 36200
Day's Range 9.96 - 10.19
Avg. Volume 52,656,280
Market Cap 87.557B
EPS (TTM) -2.08
Earnings Date Jul 31, 2019
Forward Dividend & Yield 0.04 (0.40%)
Ex-Dividend Date 2019-06-28
1y Target Est 12.58
Reuters•3 hours ago
Buyout firm Arcline Investment to buy Baker Hughes unit
Arcline Investment Management, a U.S. private equity firm founded by former Golden Gate dealmaker Rajeev Amara, said on Thursday it would buy a unit of Baker Hughes, General Electric Co's oil-servicing subsidiary. The deal comes after Arcline said in March it had raised $1.5 billion for a fund targeted at buying small to midsize industrial businesses, which the company defines as companies with less than $1 billion in revenue. Arcline has agreed to acquire Baker Hughes' reciprocating comprehension division, which makes and services industrial engines and compressors built into natural gas pipelines operated by oil and gas companies.
Investor's Business Daily•3 hours ago
Is GE Stock A Buy Right Now? Here's What Earnings, Chart Say
General Electric is making major changes after a brutal couple of years. Here is what the fundamentals and technical analysis say about buying GE stock now.
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InvestorPlace•7 hours ago
The Big Comeback for GE Stock Is Going to Keep Stalling
Long-beleaguered shares of General Electric (NYSE:GE) would have to climb less than one dollar for nearly everything, including the rhetoric surrounding GE stock, to change for the better. But, in football parlance, that last few inches to a first down may as well be forty yards. Falling short is falling short. Click to Enlarge Source: Shutterstock And analysts aren't helping.On the verge of a breakout, UBS analyst Damian Karas lowered his stance on General Electric stock this week, from a "Buy" to "Neutral." Karas believes the 40% rebound from the late-2018 low is about as much as GE stock is capable of rallying right now, without more progress on the cash flow front. The analyst is also suspicious of the company's power arm, which has proven to be dead weight for years.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsHe may be right. But, the right nudge could readily change not just how the market interprets information about General Electric, but change the criteria being used to judge GE. * 7 Stocks Top Investors Are Buying Now GE Stock and the Failing ComebackIt's an idea that's been posed before, but merits repeating. General Electric shares aren't a typical equity at this time. They're a psychological chess match.Players are aiming to figure out how other players will feel about the most plausible headlines anywhere from six weeks to six months from now, including the potential sale of assets like last year's sale of its locomotive business to Wabtec (NYSE:WAB), or this year's planned sale of its life sciences division to Danaher (NYSE:DHR).Everyone's playing the game too, including the media, and including analysts. Most don't know they're playing the game, but 'being right' about General Electric would be a nice feather in someone's career cap.To that end, the chart's been largely leading the rhetoric, rather than the other way around. It's arguable that UBS' Karas would have remained bullish and raised his target had GE stock started July as bullishly as it ended June. The downgrade didn't take shape until General Electric shares had decidedly stalled.That chart, however, is still oh-so-close to the technical breakout that could serve as a paradigm shift.There are actually two lines in the sand to watch. One of them, $10.53, where GE shares peaked several times since February. It's plotted in red on the daily chart.The other is $10.73, marked as a blue dashed line on the image. That's where General Electric shares peaked a couple of times late last month. GE stock actually traded above levels in late February, but the two aforementioned lines have been highs multiple times.Though unable to clear either ceiling yet, that's the direction things are moving. GE has made a string of higher lows since the end of last year, and that effort is relatively well organized. That is, the key lows are lined up, creating a technical floor that's likely to halt any pullback. That floor is marked as a yellow dashed line.The shape of the chart itself, however, is bullish.The converging support and resistance lines are squeezing GE stock into the tip of a wedge pattern bullishly, building up pressure the entire time. If-and-when General Electric is finally forced out of the confines of the wedge, traders could make up for lost time.If that break is pointed upward, look for a slew of upgrades. Look for the headlines to suddenly change their tone and timbre. Look for cash flow to matter just a little less. Looking Ahead for GE stockDespite a handful of respectable efforts, General Electric are having trouble with a tough ceiling.Still, it's noteworthy that Karas' newest ho-hum opinion of GE came with a clear escape plan:"We expect new management to make the right decisions, which will take time…Much of the risk is now priced in and we think the stock will take a breather on a relative basis until we get more clarity on individual assets. In particular, we flag Power, which hardly contributes to GE's equity value today but we think could dominate sentiment into 2020."He's absolutely right in that regard -- sentiment remains the key.As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. You can learn more about him at his website jamesbrumley.com, or follow him on Twitter, at @jbrumley. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 7 Stocks Top Investors Are Buying Now * The 10 Best Cryptocurrencies to Keep on Your Radar * 7 Marijuana Penny Stocks That Could Triple (But You Won't Make Money) The post The Big Comeback for GE Stock Is Going to Keep Stalling appeared first on InvestorPlace.
Moody's•21 hours ago
YPF Energia Electrica S.A. -- Moody's assigns a B2 rating to YPFEE's up to $500 million senior unsecured notes; negative outlook
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has assigned today a B2 rating to YPF Energía Eléctrica S.A. (YPFEE) planned note issuance of up to $500 million under its medium term note program. The notes will have a 7-year maturity and YPFEE will use the proceeds to partially fund its investment program, repay outstanding debt and working capital needs. Moody's has reviewed the preliminary draft legal documentation related to the debt issuance.
InvestorPlace•yesterday
The Outlook of GE Stock Remains Positive
General Electric (NYSE:GE) stock fell modestly on Monday after UBS downgraded GE stock. This comes on the heels of Stephen Tusa at JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) reiterating his bearish $5 per share target on GE stock. It's true that GE is facing issues at its Power and Aviation units and may have some self-inflicted wounds.Source: Shutterstock UBS lowered its price target on GE stock to $11.50, but that's well above the current $10-plus per share level where GE stock currently trades. UBS believes that General Electric stock will "take a breather," rather than fall to JPMorgan's price target. Still, despite concerns, the speculative buy case on GE appears to still be valid. * 8 Penny Stocks That Have Fallen From Grace UBS analyst Damian Karas cited a "notable decline in interest rates and ongoing power market weakness" as reasons for the downgrade of GE stock. However, Karas went on to say that he thinks the company is on the road to a "multi-year turnaround."InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips GE Stock Remains SpeculativeThis downgrade highlights the point that CEO Larry Culp and General Electric stock bulls have pointed out: GE is in the midst of a multi-year turnaround. Investors should not expect GE stock to return to its $600 billion market cap. Nor should they expect it to regain its place on the Dow 30 anytime soon. The journey from the world's largest market cap to the near-destruction of the company took years. By the same token, nobody can expect GE to recover overnight.InvestorPlace columnist Vince Martin noted many of the setbacks GE has faced, including "confusion" about the growth of the orders received by its Power unit. Moreover, GE Aviation, often regarded as one of the company's more stable divisions, has faced issues with its GE9X aircraft engine.Further, the U.S.-China trade war and the possibility that toxic assets remain on the balance sheet of GE Capital remain on the minds of some investors. One only has to study the history of Pan American World Airways or Enron to know that once-respected large companies can disappear, so the owners of General Electric stock are facing considerable risk. The UBS Downgrade Changes Almost NothingHowever, I do not think the buy case has changed for General Electric stock since the start of the year. It remains a speculative stock. I do not believe any of its known challenges will derail its recovery.But investors do need to consider that GE has risen by around 38% since the start of the year, so a pause or pullback wouldn't be very surprising.Still, if GE does recover, the owners of General Electric stock would make a great deal of money. As a result, speculating on GE stock could be worthwhile. As recently as two and a half years ago, GE traded at triple the price at which it stands today. Moreover, analysts, on average, expect the company's earnings to resume rising in fiscal 2020. They also believe that its profit will increase at least 10% annually from fiscal 2020 through 2022. Assuming the company can maintain that growth rate for the foreseeable future, the price of General Electric stock would probably rise meaningfully. GE Stock Remains a Speculative BuyAmid the news, I still see GE stock as a speculative buy. Neither the UBS downgrade nor the continued $5 per share price target from JPMorgan's Tusa has brought GE stock down recently. Moreover, the forward price-earnings (PE) ratio of General Electric stock now stands at just above 14. I consider that a low multiple for a company that looks set to experience double-digit-percentage profit growth.GE could fall significantly if the worst fears about it come true or if the major indexes enter a bear market. However, as long as GE's profit rebounds and its setbacks seem manageable, General Electric stock still looks to be on the path to recovery.As of this writing, Will Healy did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned stocks. You can follow Will on Twitter at @HealyWriting. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 9 Retail Stocks Goldman Sachs Says Are Ready to Rip * 7 Services Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 * 6 Stocks to Buy and 1 to Sell Based on Insider Trading The post The Outlook of GE Stock Remains Positive appeared first on InvestorPlace.
Why $70 Looks Like a Floor for Exxon Stock
From a capital appreciation standpoint, Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) stock has been a disappointment. Over the last decade, the XOM stock price has gained 12.5%. During that period, Exxon Mobil stock has badly lagged the S&P 500, which has returned a sizzling 223%.Source: Shutterstock But for investors focused on income, XOM actually hasn't been a terrible play. Exxon Mobil's dividends have more than doubled from a total of $1.66 per share in 2009 to what should be $3.48 in 2019. Investors' total return from Exxon Mobil stock has averaged 4.3% per year. * 8 Penny Stocks That Have Fallen From Grace That's still disappointing, since the S&P 500 has returned almost 15% annually, including dividends. But it's not terrible in an environment in which U.S. Treasuries have yielded less than 3% most of the time.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsWe're still in that environment, with the 10-year Treasury yielding just 2.1%.It's true that buying a stock just for its yield can be very dangerous, as previous income darlings like General Electric (NYSE:GE), Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC), and Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD) all have cut their dividends recently.But Exxon Mobil doesn't have the debt problem those companies did (and still do) have. And while XOM stock has exposure to crude oil prices, it also uses a hedge to protect its profits. As a result, XOM stock price probably won't fall below $70 for long. And that makes XOM stock, currently at $75.50, an interesting play for income-focused investors in general and value-oriented, income-focused investors in particular. Why $70 Is a Key Level for XOM Stock PriceXOM hiked its quarterly dividend to $0.87 in May. That, in turn, suggests that investors are receiving $3.48 per share of XOM stock annually. And so, if the XOM stock price reaches $69.60, the stock would offer a yield of exactly 5%.It's difficult to see Exxon Mobil stock consistently yielding more than 5% for a few reasons. First, that type of yield is noticeable and usually not offered by relatively safe stocks. Of the Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks, only Dow (NYSE:DOW) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) offer higher yields. Both companies have real challenges (Dow is facing cyclical pressure and IBM has long-running growth problems).In the S&P 500, there are 35 components with higher yields. All have warts, among them AT&T (NYSE:T) and its debt load and Altria (NYSE:MO) which is facing concerns about long-term demand for its products.The second reason is that, historically, XOM stock has hardly ever yielded 5%. Its yield peaked at 5.5% during the 1987 market crash and touched 5% a few times through the early 1990s.But that was a very dark time in the crude oil markets, which had crashed after their early 1980s boom. Meanwhile, interest rates were much, much higher; investors could get 7% to 9% yields from10-year Treasuries.Without that alternative, a 5% yield from XOM stock is going to look very attractive. Indeed, in late May, as XOM and other oil stocks sold off, XOM stock bottomed just above $70. A bounce in crude prices helped, but it's likely that at least some investors saw the yield nearing 5% and pounced. Exxon Mobil Stock Is Safer Than It AppearsOf course, the question is whether Exxon Mobil stock really is safe. A 5% yield - or even a 4% yield - is attractive in this market. But what happens when crude prices plunge?The answer is that XOM's earnings will decline, but in a mostly manageable fashion. As I've written before, Exxon Mobil's "downstream'" operations - notably in refining - and its chemicals business provide an internal hedge. That's why XOM stock actually is a poor play on oil prices. But it's also why XOM stock didn't fall that far when the shale bust hit in 2016 - and why the company was relatively unscathed during the fourth quarter of 2018, which was disastrous for many oil and gas companies.If oil prices rise, XOM's upstream business will thrive and its downstream business will take a hit. When oil prices fall, the reverse is (usually) true. Despite this hedge, the XOM stock price is boosted by higher crude prices, as seen in 2014 when XOM stock hit an all-time high. But even amid a plunge in prices two years later, Exxon Mobil's dividend continued to rise,.XOM stock isn't risk-free. But Exxon's earnings easily cover the current dividend of XOM stock. The odds of XOM executing a GE-style dividend cut are slim, even with crude and natural gas prices relatively low. And this is an environment where, as I noted just last week, investors usually have to stretch for yield. If XOM is yielding 5% and 10-year Treasuries have a 2.1% yield, many investors are going to buy XOM stock. The TradeFor income investors, then, XOM looks reasonably attractive at $75.50. Its valuation is reasonable, at 14.4 times analysts' average forward earnings estimate. And XOM still looks poised to deliver further growth, as its CEO, Darren Wood, last year set a target of doubling the company's earnings by 2025.For traders, there's an intriguing option trade to be made as well. A bull put spread at $70 (selling the $70 put and buying a lower-priced put for protection) can offer double-digit returns or better, depending on the expiration date. That's essentially a bet that the XOM stock price won't be under $70 at expiration, which seems a nice bet to make at the moment.But there are some risks facing XOM stock at the moment. The U.S. presidential election could pressure XOM stock if a "green" Democrat was to win or even starts to gain momentum. A plunge in oil prices is another risk: Exxon Mobil does have hedges, but XOM stock still fell when crude collapsed in 2016.But there's risk everywhere when the market is at all-time highs, particularly for income investors. Getting a 4%+ yield from Exxon Mobil stock is one of the better risk-reward options out there at the moment. And that's precisely the point: investors aren't going to let a yield above 4% last for long. XOM stock isn't going to be the biggest gainer in the market over the next six months or the next three years. But, at the right price, it's an attractive dividend play.As of this writing, Vince Martin has no positions in any securities mentioned. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 9 Retail Stocks Goldman Sachs Says Are Ready to Rip * 7 Services Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 * 6 Stocks to Buy and 1 to Sell Based on Insider Trading The post Why $70 Looks Like a Floor for Exxon Stock appeared first on InvestorPlace.
Investing.com•yesterday
General Electric Falls 3%
Investing.com - General Electric (NYSE:GE) fell by 3.03% to trade at $10.06 by 15:24 (19:24 GMT) on Wednesday on the NYSE exchange.
Bloomberg•yesterday
(Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. agreed to sell a majority stake in a solar-energy business to BlackRock Inc., giving the investment giant footing in a growing market as the ailing manufacturer shifts its focus elsewhere.A fund managed by BlackRock’s Real Assets unit will own 80% of Distributed Solar Development, a new company created from GE Solar, the companies said Wednesday in a statement. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.The deal furthers GE’s streamlining as Chief Executive Officer Larry Culp seeks to rescue the conglomerate by narrowing focus around aviation, gas power and wind energy. The Boston-based company is using mergers to exit the oil and locomotive markets, and GE has said it is “evaluating strategic options” for its venture-capital operations.GE Solar, a consulting business with about 60 employees, has been incubated within GE since 2012. The unit, which doesn’t make solar panels, focuses on “solar and storage solutions for the commercial industrial and public sectors.” GE had explored solar-panel manufacturing but sold its technology to First Solar Inc. in 2013.GE fell 1.5% to $10.23 at 10:42 a.m. in New York, while BlackRock slid 1.5% to $470.13.Once RiskyBlackRock’s Real Assets unit, which has more than $50 billion in client commitments, started its renewable-power platform in 2012. The GE deal comes as investors begin prioritizing a solar segment that was once viewed as riskier than developments for utilities or homeowners: projects for commercial and industrial customers.Part of the impetus is money, as smaller solar farms offer returns that can be more than 2% higher than big projects.It’s also a matter of availability and supply. Large institutional investors have dominated recent auctions for utility-scale developments, crowding out other would-be buyers. And states including California have committed to rid their grids of emissions, encouraging more renewables developments.To contact the reporters on this story: Richard Clough in New York at rclough9@bloomberg.net;Brian Eckhouse in New York at beckhouse@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brendan Case at bcase4@bloomberg.net, Tony RobinsonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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One of the stock market's surprising stars in early 2019 was beaten up industrial conglomerate General Electric (NYSE:GE). GE stock rose from $7 in late 2018, to $10 by early February 2019, as investors took a favorable view on management's aggressive moves to turn the struggling business around.Source: Shutterstock Specifically, in early 2019, management divested multiple non-core assets and businesses, simplified the business model, raised cash, reduced leverages, and narrowed the company focus to related businesses with stable long-term growth prospects. The sum of these moves gave investors confidence that GE was in the early stages of turning into a smaller, but better and more valuable company in the long haul. GE stock rallied in response.But, that rally has been on pause over the past few months. From early February through mid-July, GE stock has been stuck in neutral, bouncing around the $10 range, while the S&P 500 has risen more than 10%.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips * 9 Retail Stocks Goldman Sachs Says Are Ready to Rip Why has GE stock gone from out-performer to under-performer over the past few months? More importantly, will this under-performance persist?Let's take a deeper look. Lack of Clarity Has Short-Circuited GE Stock RallyIn the big picture, a lack of clarity regarding GE's long-term growth prospects short-circuited the big early 2019 rally in GE sock.In early 2019, General Electric was taking consistent steps towards laying the groundwork for healthier future growth prospects. Most of those steps were centered around non-core asset and business divestitures, which allowed for leverage reduction and more optimal resource allocation. But, such asset and business divestitures have stopped happening over the past few months.In the absence of these divestitures, investors have started to ask questions. Which businesses will remain after all this shedding is done? How big will GE be at that point in time? What will the growth prospects be like? Will the company successfully reduce its leverage? How long will this whole process take?None of these questions have clear answers. This divergence between a lot of questions and few answers has created a significant lack of clarity when it comes to GE's long-term growth prospects. It turns investor optimism into investor caution, which turns a GE stock rally into a sideways trading pattern.That's exactly what has happened to GE stock over the past few months. Lack of Clarity Will Continue to Weigh on General Electric StockUnfortunately for bulls, this lack of clarity will persist for the foreseeable future, and it will likely keep GE stock stuck in neutral.The reality of the GE turnaround is that -- because the business is so big and complex with a lot of moving parts -- the simplification process will take time. As such, lack of clarity will be inherent to the GE growth narrative for the foreseeable future.On top of that, global economic growth trends remain sluggish, with the manufacturing sector posting decade-worst growth and heading into a potential recession in 2020. GE has a ton of exposure to the manufacturing sector. Bad fundamentals there is bad news for General Electric stock.Further, Wall Street has become increasingly cautious on GE stock. According to YCharts, despite the 2019 rally, the sell-side consensus price target for GE stock has actually dropped year-to-date. One could very reasonably argue that the 2019 rally was brought on by undervaluation (GE stock was 30% below the consensus price target in January), and that such undervaluation no longer exists (GE stock is only 10% below the consensus price target today, roughly the same divergence it has had over the past five years).Broadly, then, current fundamentals imply that GE stock will remain in neutral for the foreseeable future. Bottom Line on GE StockI have faith that GE will downsize around its aviation business, and create a "new GE" within the next five years that is far healthier and more profitable than the GE of today. But, the jump from today to that future requires a leap of faith which investors aren't willing to take just yet.They won't be willing to take that leap until clarity emerges regarding what this company will look like in five years. Until that happens, the best way to play GE stock is by watching it from the sidelines.As of this writing, Luke Lango did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 9 Retail Stocks Goldman Sachs Says Are Ready to Rip * 7 Services Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 * 6 Stocks to Buy and 1 to Sell Based on Insider Trading The post Why GE Stock Is Stuck In Neutral appeared first on InvestorPlace.
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WWDC 2019: Does Apple’s $999 Mac Pro Stand Deliver?
Robert Hackett
Apple has amassed riches pitching itself as a luxury brand, selling expensive personal computers and electronic accessories that double as jewelry for the well-to-do. The strategy, core to Apple’s hardware-centric business model, occasionally causes headaches for customers.
The list of offenses is a long one. Apple fans have endured generations of “upgraded” chargers and inexplicably multifarious dongles. The company faced a backlash for removing a headphone jack from newer iPhone models, a move that, not coincidentally, encourages people to buy AirPods, Apple’s pricey (and easily lost) Bluetooth-enabled earbuds. But Apple’s latest up-charged product, introduced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose on Monday, takes the cake.
While debuting its new Mac Pro, Apple introduced a $999 computer stand. Yes, this weight-bearing hunk of metal costs the same amount as certain iPhone models—specifically, the 64 gigabyte iPhone XS. For $300 more, a person can buy a Macbook Pro laptop.
Don’t get us wrong, the Pro Stand is a fine piece of engineering. A pivot point on the support allows Apple’s fancy, new 32-inch, 6K display monitor ($4,999) to perform mesmerizing mechanical gymnastics, smoothly spinning 90 degrees.
But at this price, who wouldn’t flip?
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The Making of Fivelements
By Gove
“We have found a spark here in the jungle
that might just set the world on fire…”
Gove de Puy, Environmental Liaison
The Fivelements concept could really only have been born, have developed, in the nurturing verdure that is Bali. Over the past five years we have been nestled in the embrace of this ancient culture at the village of Baturning, discovering and re-discovering what is possible when traditional wisdom meets a spirit of innovation and excellence. We do not claim to have perfected our art just yet, but we can honestly say that we have found a spark here in the jungle that might just set the world on fire.
Designing for Life Transformation
We began this journey with a dedicated group of individuals. We are architects, designers, entrepreneurs, professionals, priests and, overall, believers. Our initial task was to “create a space for life transformation and love in action”. Quickly, we found that Balinese philosophy and culture would be our most valuable guides in this process. We set about forming and developing strong relationships with the Gods of the island, with its people, and with the tropical environment in which we work.
To support our architect and Master Planner, Ketut Arthana, some of the first consultants on the team were a Pedanda (local priest), several paranormals and, of course, residents of Baturning. The Master Plan for Puri Ahimsa includes Balinese Vastu concepts (akin to feng shui) and our first preparations consisted of complex Balinese ceremonies to adjust the use of the landscape from one of basic farming to one of international collaboration. We also undertook several collaborative team building excercises informed by corporate practice. We followed this up by inviting a team from the local university to conduct a full flora and fauna study and educate us on the original inhabitants of the site.
One of the first lessons we learned was that most of what we needed was already here on the island. Matching the aesthetic sense of architect Pak Arthana with the technical skill of local expert Arief Rabik (of PT Indobamboo) we built strong and beautiful structures from local Bamboo Petung (Dendrocalamus asper). We decorated these with minimally processed materials, adding stone walls, grass roofs and ponds. We were careful to add structural elements only where there was a clear need or use. The results are the contextually subtle, open air structures that have earned their initial brief as a “non-architectural architecture”.
After discussing the achievements of the Green Building era, we set about equipping our designed structures with the most efficient modern amenities available. Custom LED lights made in the USA and arranged by an Italian lighting designer illuminate the space, while highly efficient biomimetic fans support the natural airflow allowed by passive cooling design. We celebrate the abundant water resources of the Abiansemal region by drawing our water from an on site well, recycling and storing grey and rainwater, and discouraging bottled water by providing drinking water on site. The final step to creating Fivelements Bali was to re-seed the land with native and naturalized species including Balinese ceremonial, medicinal and decorative plants sourced from Bali and neighboring islands.
A Human-Centered Culture of Wellness
But 5 years after opening our doors to the public it is abundantly clear that the most important element of this beautiful space called Puri Ahimsa is the people that populate it. The stories of guests, staff and neighbors alike have perhaps done even more to shape this space than the technical drawings of our design team. It is the discovery and articulation of this human element in design and in operations that has come to define the Fivelements process and allowed us to set our sights on a creating a “human centered culture of wellness”.
It is clear to me now that Fivelements has become an early adopter of a paradigm that will eventually become the norm in wellness, destination travel, and even hospitality as a whole. The opportunity to innovate on this front and influence its outcome is inspiring, exciting and humbling all at the same time. As we gain experience in sustainable technologies, social innovation, and wellness techniques we will be creating a toolkit for conducting business in a healthier, more enjoyable and more sustainable world marketplace.
This space that is Fivelements was designed for “learning to respect and love life.” And guided by Balinese philosophies, we have spent the past five years doing just that.
Fivelements is a new innovative Wellness Group bringing design-minded
sustainable lifestyles to locations and organisations around the globe. The
restults are timeless space, which marry the traditional wisdom of the past with
the modern culture of rapid innovation.
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Winnipeg Airport (YWG), CanadaWroclaw, Nicolaus Copernicus Airport (WRO), PolandXian, Xianyang Airport (XIY), ChinaYangon, Mingaladon Airport (RGN), MyanmarYekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg Airport (SVX), RussiaYerevan, Zvartnots Airport (EVN), ArmeniaZagreb, Pleso Airport (ZAG), CroatiaZamboanga City, Zamboanga Airport (ZAM), PhilippinesZanzibar, Zanzibar Airport (ZNZ), TanzaniaZurich, Zurich Airport (ZRH), Switzerland
to toAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH), United Arab EmiratesAhmedabad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport (AMD), IndiaAl Ain, Etihad Town Office Bus Station (AAN), United Arab EmiratesAmman, Queen Alia Airport (AMM), JordanBahrain, Bahrain Airport (BAH), BahrainBangkok, Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), ThailandBeijing, Capital Airport (PEK), ChinaBeirut, Rafic Hariri Airport (BEY), LebanonBengaluru, Kempegowda Airport (BLR), IndiaCairo, Cairo Airport (CAI), EgyptChengdu, Shuangliu Airport (CTU), ChinaChennai, Chennai Airport (MAA), IndiaColombo, Bandaranaike Airport (CMB), Sri LankaDammam, King Fahd Airport (DMM), Saudi ArabiaDubai, Etihad Bus Station (XNB), United Arab EmiratesHong Kong, Hong Kong Airport (HKG), ChinaHyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi Airport (HYD), IndiaIslamabad, New Islamabad Airport (ISB), PakistanJakarta, Soekarno Hatta Airport (CGK), IndonesiaJeddah, King Abdulaziz Airport (JED), Saudi ArabiaJohannesburg, O R Tambo Airport (JNB), South AfricaKarachi, Jinnah Airport (KHI), PakistanKathmandu, Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), NepalKhartoum, Khartoum Airport (KRT), SudanKochi, Cochin Airport (COK), IndiaKolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport (CCU), IndiaKozhikode, Calicut Airport (CCJ), IndiaKuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Airport (KUL), MalaysiaKuwait, Kuwait Airport (KWI), KuwaitLahore, Allama Iqbal Airport (LHE), PakistanMale, Velana Airport (MLE), MaldivesManila, Ninoy Aquino Airport (MNL), PhilippinesMedina, Madinah Prince Mohammad Airport (MED), Saudi ArabiaMumbai, Bombay Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport (BOM), IndiaMuscat, Muscat Airport (MCT), OmanNagoya, Chubu Centrair Airport (NGO), JapanNairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Airport (NBO), KenyaNew Delhi, Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL), IndiaPhuket, Phuket Airport (HKT), ThailandRiyadh, King Khalid Airport (RUH), Saudi ArabiaSeoul, Incheon Airport (ICN), South KoreaSeychelles, Mahe Airport (SEZ), SeychellesShanghai, Pudong Airport (PVG), ChinaSingapore, Changi Airport (SIN), SingaporeThiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum Airport (TRV), IndiaTokyo, Narita Airport (NRT), Japan
preposition--origin-placeA Coruna, A Coruna Airport (LCG), SpainAberdeen, Dyce Airport (ABZ), United KingdomAbidjan, Felix Houphouet Boigny Airport (ABJ), Ivory CoastAbu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH), United Arab EmiratesAdana, Sakirpasa Airport (ADA), TurkeyAddis Ababa, Bole Airport (ADD), EthiopiaAdelaide, Adelaide Airport (ADL), AustraliaAgadir, Al Massira Airport (AGA), MoroccoAhmedabad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport (AMD), IndiaAl Ain, Etihad Town Office Bus Station (AAN), United Arab EmiratesAlbuquerque NM, Sunport Airport (ABQ), United States of AmericaAlbury, Albury Airport (ABX), AustraliaAlesund, Vigra Airport (AES), NorwayAlexandria, Borg El Arab Airport (HBE), EgyptAlexandroupolis, Dimokritos Airport (AXD), GreeceAlghero, Fertilia Airport (AHO), ItalyAlgiers, Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG), AlgeriaAlicante, Alicante Airport (ALC), SpainAlice Springs, Alice Springs Airport (ASP), AustraliaAlmaty, Almaty Airport (ALA), KazakhstanAlor Setar, Sultan Abdul Halim Airport (AOR), MalaysiaAmman, Queen Alia Airport (AMM), JordanAmsterdam, Schiphol Airport (AMS), NetherlandsAncona, Falconara Airport (AOI), ItalyAntalya, Antalya Airport (AYT), TurkeyAntananarivo, Ivato Airport (TNR), MadagascarAsuncion, Silvio Pettirossi Airport (ASU), ParaguayAthens, Eleftherios Venizelos Airport (ATH), GreeceAtlanta GA, Hartsfield Jackson Airport (ATL), United States of AmericaAuckland, Auckland Airport (AKL), New ZealandAustin TX, Bergstrom Airport (AUS), United States of AmericaAyers Rock, Connellan Airport (AYQ), AustraliaBacolod City, Bacolod Airport (BCD), PhilippinesBahrain, Bahrain Airport (BAH), BahrainBaku, Heydar Aliyev Airport (GYD), AzerbaijanBali, Ngurah Rai Airport (DPS), IndonesiaBalikpapan, Sepinggan Airport (BPN), IndonesiaBallina, Byron Gateway Airport (BNK), AustraliaBaltimore MD, Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), United States of AmericaBamako, Senou Airport (BKO), MaliBandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Airport (BWN), BruneiBangkok, Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), ThailandBanja Luka, Banja Luka Airport (BNX), Bosnia/HerzegovinaBarcelona, El Prat Airport (BCN), SpainBari, Palese Airport (BRI), ItalyBasel, Euro Airport (BSL), SwitzerlandBeijing, Capital Airport (PEK), ChinaBeirut, Rafic Hariri Airport (BEY), LebanonBelfast, George Best City Airport (BHD), United KingdomBelgrade, Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG), SerbiaBengaluru, Kempegowda Airport (BLR), IndiaBergen, Flesland Airport (BGO), NorwayBerlin, Tegel Airport (TXL), GermanyBilbao, Bilbao Airport (BIO), SpainBillund, Billund Airport (BLL), DenmarkBintulu, Bintulu Airport (BTU), MalaysiaBirmingham AL, Shuttlesworth Airport (BHM), United States of AmericaBirmingham, Birmingham Airport (BHX), United KingdomBloomington-Normal IL, Normal Airport (BMI), United States of AmericaBodrum, Milas Bodrum Airport (BJV), TurkeyBogota, El Dorado Airport (BOG), ColombiaBologna, Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), ItalyBordeaux, Merignac Airport (BOD), FranceBordeaux, Saint Jean TGV Railway Station (ZFQ), FranceBoston MA, Logan Airport (BOS), United States of AmericaBrindisi, Casale Airprot (BDS), ItalyBrisbane, Brisbane Airport (BNE), AustraliaBristol, Lulsgate Airport (BRS), United KingdomBroome, Broome Airport (BME), AustraliaBrussels, Brussels Airport (BRU), BelgiumBrussels, Midi Railway Station (ZYR), BelgiumBucharest, Henri Coanda Otopeni Airport (OTP), RomaniaBudapest, Liszt Ferenc Airport (BUD), HungaryBuenos Aires, Ministro Pistarini Airport (EZE), ArgentinaBuffalo NY, Niagara Airport (BUF), United States of AmericaBujumbura, Bujumbura Airport (BJM), BurundiBurlington VT, Burlington Airport (BTV), United States of AmericaBusan, Gimhae Airport (PUS), South KoreaCagayan De Oro City, Cagayan De Oro Airport (CGY), PhilippinesCagliari, Elmas Airport (CAG), ItalyCairns, Cairns Airport (CNS), AustraliaCairo, Cairo Airport (CAI), EgyptCalgary, Calgary Airport (YYC), CanadaCanberra, Canberra Airport (CBR), AustraliaCancun, Cancun Airport (CUN), MexicoCape Town, Cape Town Airport (CPT), South AfricaCardiff, Cardiff Wales Airport (CWL), United KingdomCasablanca, Mohamed V Airport (CMN), MoroccoCatania, Fontanarossa Airport (CTA), ItalyCebu, Mactan Cebu Airport (CEB), PhilippinesCedar Rapids IA, The Eastern Iowa Airport (CID), United States of AmericaChampaign IL, Willard University Airport (CMI), United States of AmericaChangsha, Huanghua Airport (CSX), ChinaChania, Ioannis Daskalogiannis Airport (CHQ), GreeceCharleston SC, Air Force Base Airport (CHS), United States of AmericaCharlotte NC, Douglas Airport (CLT), United States of AmericaCharlottesville VA, Albemarle Airport (CHO), United States of AmericaChelyabinsk, Balandino Airport (CEK), RussiaChengdu, Shuangliu Airport (CTU), ChinaChennai, Chennai Airport (MAA), IndiaChiang Mai, Chiang Mai Airport (CNX), ThailandChiang Rai, Mae Fah Luang Airport (CEI), ThailandChicago IL, O'Hare Airport (ORD), United States of AmericaChios, Chios Airport (JKH), GreeceChristchurch, Christchurch Airport (CHC), New ZealandCincinnati OH, Covington Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG), United States of AmericaCleveland OH, Hopkins Airport (CLE), United States of AmericaCloncurry, Cloncurry Airport (CNJ), AustraliaCoffs Harbour, Coffs Harbour Airport (CFS), AustraliaCologne, Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN), GermanyColombo, Bandaranaike Airport (CMB), Sri LankaColorado Springs CO, Colorado Springs Airport (COS), United States of AmericaColumbia MO, Columbia Regional Airport (COU), United States of AmericaColumbus OH, Port Columbus Airport (CMH), United States of AmericaCopenhagen, Kastrup Airport (CPH), DenmarkCorfu, Ioannis Kapodistrias Airport (CFU), GreeceCork, Cork Airport (ORK), IrelandCotabato City, Awang Airport (CBO), PhilippinesDa Nang, Da Nang Airport (DAD), VietnamDakar, Blaise Diagne Airport (DSS), SenegalDalian, Zhoushuizi Airport (DLC), ChinaDallas TX, Fort Worth Airport (DFW), United States of AmericaDammam, Khobar SABTCO Bus Station (DMS), Saudi ArabiaDammam, King Fahd Airport (DMM), Saudi ArabiaDar Es Salaam, Julius Nyerere Airport (DAR), TanzaniaDarwin, Darwin Airport (DRW), AustraliaDavao City, Francisco Bangoy Airport (DVO), PhilippinesDayton OH, James M Cox Airport (DAY), United States of AmericaDenver CO, Denver Airport (DEN), United States of AmericaDes Moines IA, Des Moines Airport (DSM), United States of AmericaDetroit MI, Wayne County Metro Airport (DTW), United States of AmericaDhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Airport (DAC), BangladeshDoncaster, Robin Hood Airport (DSA), United KingdomDonegal, Donegal Airport (CFN), IrelandDortmund, Dortmund Airport (DTM), GermanyDresden, Dresden Airport (DRS), GermanyDubai, Etihad Bus Station (XNB), United Arab EmiratesDublin, Dublin Airport (DUB), IrelandDubrovnik, Dubrovnik Airport (DBV), CroatiaDubuque IA, Dubuque Regional Airport (DBQ), United States of AmericaDumaguete City, Sibulan Airport (DGT), PhilippinesDunedin, Dunedin Airport (DUD), New ZealandDurban, King Shaka Airport (DUR), South AfricaDurham, Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME), United KingdomDusseldorf, Dusseldorf Airport (DUS), GermanyEdinburgh, Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United KingdomEdmonton, Edmonton Airport (YEG), CanadaEl Paso TX, El Paso Airport (ELP), United States of AmericaEmerald, Emerald Airport (EMD), AustraliaEntebbe, Entebbe Airport (EBB), UgandaErcan, Ercan Airport (ECN), CyprusEugene OR, Mahlon Sweet Field Airport (EUG), United States of AmericaEvansville IN, Evansville Airport (EVV), United States of AmericaExeter, Exeter Airport (EXT), United KingdomFaisalabad, Faisalabad Airport (LYP), PakistanFargo ND, Hector Airport (FAR), United States of AmericaFaro, Faro Airport (FAO), PortugalFayetteville AR, Northwest Arkansas Airport (XNA), United States of AmericaFlint MI, Bishop Airport (FNT), United States of AmericaFlorence, Peretola Airport (FLR), ItalyFort Lauderdale FL, Hollywood Airport (FLL), United States of AmericaFort Myers FL, Southwest Florida Airport (RSW), United States of AmericaFort Wayne IN, Fort Wayne Airport (FWA), United States of AmericaFrankfurt, Frankfurt Airport (FRA), GermanyFresno CA, Yosemite Airport (FAT), United States of AmericaFuerteventura, Fuerteventura Airport (FUE), SpainFukuoka, Fukuoka Airport (FUK), JapanGaborone, Sir Seretse Khama Airport (GBE), BotswanaGaziantep, Oguzeli Airport (GZT), TurkeyGdansk, Lech Walesa Airport (GDN), PolandGeneral Santos, General Santos Airport (GES), PhilippinesGeneva, Geneva Airport (GVA), SwitzerlandGenova, Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA), ItalyGeorge, George Airport (GRJ), South AfricaGlasgow, Glasgow Airport (GLA), United KingdomGold Coast, Coolangatta Airport (OOL), AustraliaGoteborg, Landvetter Airport (GOT), SwedenGrand Rapids MI, Gerald R Ford Airport (GRR), United States of AmericaGraz, Graz Airport (GRZ), AustriaGreen Bay WI, Austin Straubel Airport (GRB), United States of AmericaGreensboro NC, Piedmont Triad Airport (GSO), United States of AmericaGreenville SC, Spartanburg Airport (GSP), United States of AmericaGuangzhou, Baiyun Airport (CAN), ChinaHalifax, Stanfield Airport (YHZ), CanadaHamburg, Fuhlsbuettel Airport (HAM), GermanyHamburg, Hamburg HBF Railway Station (ZMB), GermanyHamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef Airport (HTI), AustraliaHannover, Hannover Airport (HAJ), GermanyHanoi, Noibai Airport (HAN), VietnamHanover, Hanover HBF Train Station (ZVR), GermanyHarare, Harare Airport (HRE), ZimbabweHarrisburg PA, Harrisburg Airport (MDT), United States of AmericaHartford CT, Bradley Airport (BDL), United States of AmericaHelsinki, Vantaa Airport (HEL), FinlandHeraclion, Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis Airport (HER), GreeceHervey Bay, Hervey Bay Airport (HVB), AustraliaHo Chi Minh City, Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN), VietnamHobart, Hobart Airport (HBA), AustraliaHong Kong, Hong Kong Airport (HKG), ChinaHouston TX, George Bush Airport (IAH), United States of AmericaHouston TX, William P Hobby Airport (HOU), United States of AmericaHyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi Airport (HYD), IndiaIbiza, Ibiza Airport (IBZ), SpainIloilo City, Iloilo Airport (ILO), PhilippinesIndianapolis IN, Indianapolis Airport (IND), United States of AmericaIoannina, Ioannina Airport (IOA), GreeceIslamabad, New Islamabad Airport (ISB), PakistanIsle Of Man, Ronaldsway Airport (IOM), United KingdomIstanbul, Istanbul Airport (IST), TurkeyIzmir, Adnan Menderes Airport (ADB), TurkeyJacksonville FL, Jacksonville Airport (JAX), United States of AmericaJakarta, Soekarno Hatta Airport (CGK), IndonesiaJeddah, King Abdulaziz Airport (JED), Saudi ArabiaJersey, Jersey Airport (JER), United KingdomJohannesburg, O R Tambo Airport (JNB), South AfricaJohor Bahru, Sultan Ismail Airport (JHB), MalaysiaKagoshima, Kagoshima Airport (KOJ), JapanKalamazoo MI, Battle Creek Airport (AZO), United States of AmericaKalgoorlie, Boulder Airport (KGI), AustraliaKalibo, Kalibo Airport (KLO), PhilippinesKaliningrad, Khrabrovo Airport (KGD), RussiaKansas City MO, Kansas City Airport (MCI), United States of AmericaKaohsiung, Kaohsiung Airport (KHH), ChinaKarachi, Jinnah Airport (KHI), PakistanKathmandu, Tribhuvan Airport (KTM), NepalKavala, Alexander the Great Airport (KVA), GreeceKazan, Kazan Airport (KZN), RussiaKefalonia, Kefalonia Airport (EFL), GreeceKerry, Kerry Airport (KIR), IrelandKharkiv, Kharkiv Airport (HRK), UkraineKhartoum, Khartoum Airport (KRT), SudanKiev, Boryspil Airport (KBP), UkraineKiev, Zhuliany Airport (IEV), UkraineKigali, Kigali Airport (KGL), RwandaKilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO), TanzaniaKisumu, Kisumu Airport (KIS), KenyaKnock, Ireland West Airport (NOC), IrelandKnoxville TN, McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS), United States of AmericaKochi, Cochin Airport (COK), IndiaKoh Samui, Ko Samui Airport (USM), ThailandKolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport (CCU), IndiaKos, Ippokratis Airport (KGS), GreeceKota Bharu, Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (KBR), MalaysiaKota Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu Airport (BKI), MalaysiaKozhikode, Calicut Airport (CCJ), IndiaKrabi, Krabi Airport (KBV), ThailandKrakow, John Paul II Balice Airport (KRK), PolandKrasnodar, Pashkovsky Airport (KRR), RussiaKrasnoyarsk, Yemelyanovo Airport (KJA), RussiaKristiansand, Kjevik Airport (KRS), NorwayKuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Airport (KUL), MalaysiaKuala Terengganu, Sultan Mahmud Airport (TGG), MalaysiaKuching, Kuching Airport (KCH), MalaysiaKunming, Changshui Airport (KMG), ChinaKuwait, Kuwait Airport (KWI), KuwaitLa Crosse WI, La Crosse Airport (LSE), United States of AmericaLabuan, Labuan Airport (LBU), MalaysiaLagos, Murtala Muhammed Airport (LOS), NigeriaLahore, Allama Iqbal Airport (LHE), PakistanLambert MO, St Louis Airport (STL), United States of AmericaLamezia Terme, Lamezia Terme Airport (SUF), ItalyLampang, Lampang Airport (LPT), ThailandLampedusa, Lampedusa Airport (LMP), ItalyLangkawi, Langkawi Airport (LGK), MalaysiaLanzarote, Lanzarote Airport (ACE), SpainLaoag City, Laoag Airport (LAO), PhilippinesLarnaca, Larnaca Airport (LCA), CyprusLas Vegas NV, McCarran Airport (LAS), United States of AmericaLaunceston, Launceston Airport (LST), AustraliaLeeds, Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), United KingdomLegazpi City, Legazpi Airport (LGP), PhilippinesLeipzig, Halle Airport (LEJ), GermanyLeipzig, Leipzig/Halle Railway Station (XIT), GermanyLexington KY, Blue Grass Airport (LEX), United States of AmericaLille, TGV Railway Station (XDB), FranceLilongwe, Lilongwe Airport (LLW), MalawiLimnos, Lemnos Airport (LXS), GreeceLipetsk, Lipetsk Airport (LPK), RussiaLisbon, Portela Airport (LIS), PortugalLittle Rock AR, Adams Field Airport (LIT), United States of AmericaLjubljana, Joze Pucnik Airport (LJU), SloveniaLombok, Selaparang Airport (LOP), IndonesiaLondon, Gatwick Airport (LGW), United KingdomLondon, Heathrow Airport (LHR), United KingdomLondon, London City Airport (LCY), United KingdomLos Angeles CA, Los Angeles Airport (LAX), United States of AmericaLouisville KY, Standiford Field Airport (SDF), United States of AmericaLuanda, Quatro de Fevereiro Airport (LAD), AngolaLuang Prabang, Luang Prabang Airport (LPQ), LaosLusaka, Lusaka Airport (LUN), ZambiaLuxembourg, Luxembourg Airport (LUX), LuxembourgLyon, Part Dieu TGV Railway Station (XYD), FranceLyon, Satolaos Saint Exupery Airport (LYS), FranceMackay, Mackay Airport (MKY), AustraliaMadeira, Funchal Santa Catarina Airport (FNC), PortugalMadison WI, Dane County Airport (MSN), United States of AmericaMadrid, Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport (MAD), SpainMakassar, Sultan Hasanuddin Airport (UPG), IndonesiaMalaga, Malaga Airport (AGP), SpainMale, Velana Airport (MLE), MaldivesMalta, Luqa Airport (MLA), MaltaManado, Sam Ratulangi Airport (MDC), IndonesiaManchester, Manchester Airport (MAN), United KingdomMandalay, Mandalay Airport (MDL), MyanmarManhattan KS, Manhattan Airport (MHK), United States of AmericaManila, Ninoy Aquino Airport (MNL), PhilippinesMaputo, Maputo Airport (MPM), MozambiqueMarquette MI, Sawyer Airport (MQT), United States of AmericaMarrakech, Menara Airport (RAK), MoroccoMarseille, Marignane Airport (MRS), FranceMarseille, St Charles TGV Railway Station (XRF), FranceMartha's Vineyard MA, Martha's Vineyard Airport (MVY), United States of AmericaMauritius, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Airport (MRU), MauritiusMedan, Polonia Kualanamu Airport (KNO), IndonesiaMedina, Madinah Prince Mohammad Airport (MED), Saudi ArabiaMelbourne, Tullamarine Airport (MEL), AustraliaMemphis TN, Memphis Airport (MEM), United States of AmericaMexico City, Benito Juarez Airport (MEX), MexicoMiami FL, Miami Airport (MIA), United States of AmericaMilan, Malpensa Airport (MXP), ItalyMildura, Mildura Airport (MQL), AustraliaMilwaukee WI, General Mitchell Airport (MKE), United States of AmericaMinneapolis MN, Saint Paul Airport (MSP), United States of AmericaMinsk, Minsk 2 National Airport (MSQ), BelarusMiri, Miri Airport (MYY), MalaysiaMiyazaki, Miyazaki Airport (KMI), JapanMoline IL, Quad City Airport (MLI), United States of AmericaMombasa, Moi Airport (MBA), KenyaMontpellier, St Roch TGV Railway Station (XPJ), FranceMontreal, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL), CanadaMoroni, Prince Said Ibrahim Airport (HAH), Comoros IslandsMoscow, Domodedovo Airport (DME), RussiaMoscow, Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO), RussiaMoscow, Vnukovo Airport (VKO), RussiaMount Isa, Mount Isa Airport (ISA), AustraliaMultan, Multan Airport (MUX), PakistanMumbai, Bombay Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport (BOM), IndiaMunich, Franz Josef Strauss Airport (MUC), GermanyMuscat, Muscat Airport (MCT), OmanMykonos, Mykonos Airport (JMK), GreeceMytilene, Mytilene Airport (MJT), GreeceN'Djamena, N'Djamena Airport (NDJ), ChadNadi, Nadi Airport (NAN), FijiNagoya, Chubu Centrair Airport (NGO), JapanNairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Airport (NBO), KenyaNantes, TGV Railway Station (QJZ), FranceNantucket MA, Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK), United States of AmericaNapoli, Capodichino Airport (NAP), ItalyNashville TN, Nashville Airport (BNA), United States of AmericaNay Pyi Taw, Nay Pyi Taw Airport (NYT), MyanmarNew Delhi, Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL), IndiaNew Orleans LA, Louis Armstrong Airport (MSY), United States of AmericaNew York NY, John F Kennedy Airport (JFK), United States of AmericaNew York NY, La Guardia Airport (LGA), United States of AmericaNew York NY, Newark Liberty Airport (EWR), United States of AmericaNewcastle, Newcastle Airport (NCL), United KingdomNewcastle, Williamtown Airport (NTL), AustraliaNewquay, Cornwall Airport (NQY), United KingdomNice, Cote D Azur Airport (NCE), FranceNiigata, Niigata Airport (KIJ), JapanNizhny Novgorod, Strigino Airport (GOJ), RussiaNorfolk VA, Norfolk Airport (ORF), United States of AmericaNottingham, East Midlands Airport (EMA), United KingdomNoumea, La Tontouta Airport (NOU), New CaledoniaNovosibirsk, Tolmachevo Airport (OVB), RussiaNovy Urengoy, Novy Urengoy Airport (NUX), RussiaNur-Sultan, Astana Airport (TSE), KazakhstanNuremberg, Nuremberg Airport (NUE), GermanyNuremberg, Nuremberg HBF Train Station (ZAQ), GermanyOdesa, Odesa Airport (ODS), UkraineOkinawa, Naha Airport (OKA), JapanOklahoma City OK, Will Rogers World Airport (OKC), United States of AmericaOmaha NE, Eppley Airfield (OMA), United States of AmericaOmsk, Tsentralny Airport (OMS), RussiaOrlando FL, Orlando Airport (MCO), United States of AmericaOsaka, Itami Airport (ITM), JapanOsaka, Kansai Airport (KIX), JapanOslo, Gardermoen Airport (OSL), NorwayOslo, Torp Sandefjord Airport (TRF), NorwayOstersund, Are Ostersund Airport (OSD), SwedenOttawa, Macdonald Cartier Airport (YOW), CanadaOzamiz City, Labo Airport (OZC), PhilippinesPadang, Minangkabau Airport (PDG), IndonesiaPalembang, Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin Airport (PLM), IndonesiaPalermo, Punta Raisi Airport (PMO), ItalyPalma Mallorca, Palma De Mallorca Airport (PMI), SpainPantelleria, Pantelleria Airport (PNL), ItalyParis, Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG), FrancePekanbaru, Sultan Syarif Kasim Airport (PKU), IndonesiaPenang, Penang Airport (PEN), MalaysiaPenza, Penza Airport (PEZ), RussiaPeoria IL, Greater Peoria Airport (PIA), United States of AmericaPerm, Bolshoye Savino Airport (PEE), RussiaPerth, Perth Airport (PER), AustraliaPeshawar, Bacha Khan Airport (PEW), PakistanPhiladelphia PA, Philadelphia Airport (PHL), United States of AmericaPhnom Penh, Phnom Penh Airport (PNH), CambodiaPhoenix AZ, Sky Harbor Airport (PHX), United States of AmericaPhuket, Phuket Airport (HKT), ThailandPisa, Galileo Galilei Airport (PSA), ItalyPittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Airport (PIT), United States of AmericaPodgorica, Podgorica Airport (TGD), MontenegroPonta Delgada, Joao Paulo II Airport (PDL), PortugalPort Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth Airport (PLZ), South AfricaPort Macquarie, Port Macquarie Airport (PQQ), AustraliaPortland ME, Portland Jetport (PWM), United States of AmericaPorto, Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport (OPO), PortugalPrague, Vaclav Havel Ruzyne Airport (PRG), Czech RepublicPraia, Praia Airport (RAI), Cape VerdePraslin Island, Praslin Island Airport (PRI), SeychellesProserpine, Whitsunday Coast Airport (PPP), AustraliaPuerto Princesa City, Puerto Princesa Airport (PPS), PhilippinesPula, Pula Airport (PUY), CroatiaQingdao, Liuting Airport (TAO), ChinaQueenstown, Queenstown Airport (ZQN), New ZealandRabat, Sale Airport (RBA), MoroccoRail n Fly, DB German Railway Service (QYG), GermanyRaleigh Durham NC, Durham Airport (RDU), United States of AmericaReggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria Airport (REG), ItalyRegina, Regina Airport (YQR), CanadaReno NV, Tahoe Airport (RNO), United States of AmericaReykjavik, Keflavik Airport (KEF), IcelandRhodes, Diagoras Airport (RHO), GreeceRichmond VA, Richmond Airport (RIC), United States of AmericaRiga, Riga Airport (RIX), LatviaRio De Janeiro, Galeao Airport (GIG), BrazilRiyadh, King Khalid Airport (RUH), Saudi ArabiaRochester MN, Rochester Airport (RST), United States of AmericaRochester NY, Greater Rochester Airport (ROC), United States of AmericaRockhampton, Rockhampton Airport (ROK), AustraliaRome, Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO), ItalyRostov, Rostov Airport (ROV), RussiaRotorua, Rotorua Airport (ROT), New ZealandRoxas City, Roxas Airport (RXS), PhilippinesSaint Petersburg, Pulkovo Airport (LED), RussiaSalalah, Salalah Airport (SLL), OmanSalt Lake City UT, Salt Lake City Airport (SLC), United States of AmericaSalzburg, W A Mozart Airport (SZG), AustriaSamara, Kurumoch Airport (KUF), RussiaSamos, Samos Airport (SMI), GreeceSan Antonio TX, San Antonio Airport (SAT), United States of AmericaSan Francisco CA, San Francisco Airport (SFO), United States of AmericaSan Jose CA, Norman Y Mineta Airport (SJC), United States of AmericaSanta Cruz De La Palma, La Palma Airport (SPC), SpainSantiago, Arturo Merino Benitez Airport (SCL), ChileSanto Domingo, Las Americas Airport (SDQ), Dominican RepublicSao Paulo, Guarulhos Andre Franco Montoro Airport (GRU), BrazilSapporo, Chitose Airport (CTS), JapanSarajevo, Butmir Airport (SJJ), Bosnia/HerzegovinaSarasota FL, Bradenton Airport (SRQ), United States of AmericaSaratov, Saratov Tsentralny Airport (RTW), RussiaSaskatoon, J G Diefenbaker Airport (YXE), CanadaSavannah GA, Hilton Head Airport (SAV), United States of AmericaSeattle WA, Tacoma Airport (SEA), United States of AmericaSemarang, Achmad Yani Airport (SRG), IndonesiaSendai, Sendai Airport (SDJ), JapanSeoul, Incheon Airport (ICN), South KoreaSeychelles, Mahe Airport (SEZ), SeychellesShanghai, Pudong Airport (PVG), ChinaShannon, Shannon Airport (SNN), IrelandShenyang, Taoxian Airport (SHE), ChinaShenzhen, Bao'an Airport (SZX), ChinaSiem Reap, Angkor Airport (REP), CambodiaSimferopol, Simferopol Airport (SIP), UkraineSingapore, Changi Airport (SIN), SingaporeSioux City IA, Sioux Gateway Airport (SUX), United States of AmericaSioux Falls SD, Joe Foss Field Airport (FSD), United States of AmericaSkopje, Alexander the Great Airport (SKP), MacedoniaSochi, Sochi Airport (AER), RussiaSofia, Sofia Airport (SOF), BulgariaSolo, Adi Sumarmo Wiryokusumo Airport (SOC), IndonesiaSouthampton, Southampton Airport (SOU), United KingdomSplit, Split Airport (SPU), CroatiaSpringfield MO, Branson 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Fogo Island has seven singular seasons. Each provides a different perspective for getting to know Fogo Island, and perhaps yourself.
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If the Inn is a ship, the Dining Room is its noble prow.
The traditional boats of Fogo Island represent a way of knowing born specifically of this place.
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There is no stronger definition, no stronger attachment or symbolism, than Newfoundland and Labrador with Atlantic cod.
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Summer brings a bounty of beautiful wildflowers followed by delicious berries in the autumn months.
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Find a cozy nest beside a fire at Fogo Island Inn to enjoy the power of nature over American Thanksgiving. Just outside your room’s floor-to-ceiling windows is the "mad" roaring sea, tossing waves meters high. It delivers a relentless pounding to all in its path. Some say that the rocks can be heard crying for mercy. And so it is for hours, sometimes days, and then... it relents... and everything has been changed in the wake of this natural fury. The weather on Fogo Island is an attraction in itself, often deemed unpredictable by locals and visitors alike; if you don’t like the weather here, just wait five minutes.
The full board, two-night itinerary for an American Thanksgiving stay includes: all meals, windy coastal walks, warm fireside gatherings, and full use of the Inn’s facilities.
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Exploring Cultural Identity by Smithsonian #LVMDayofDead Celebración
Anthrodesign, Art, Design, El Salvador, Frida Larios, Graphic Design, Guatemala, Indigenous, Journey
“We have chosen to illustrate the texture of a huipil to represent Macuilxochitzin; we find inspiring the fact that the art of backstrap weaving is still taught to the girls in Mesoamerica just as it was done with the princess back in the days…”
Frida Larios & Manuel León, Indigenous Design Collective
Follow the creative process of Frida Larios and Manuel León, as they visually interpret our LVM Day of the Dead cultural figure, Macuilxochitzin. They would reveal their final piece during the Dead Poets Virtual Reading & Open Mic Hosted by Mouthfeel Press. Join us this Saturday, Oct.31, 9:30 pm EST at the UTEP Second Life island-LVM Placita-Sin Fronteras Café.
For more information on the Latino Virtual Museum Day of the Dead Real/Virtual Festival, visit latino.si.edu/LVM. Connect with the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum on Twitter and Instagram @Smithsonian_LVM
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November 2, 2015 November 2, 2015 fridalarios Tagged Aztec, CulturalDesign, Frida Larios, GraphicDesign, IndigenousDesignCollective, Interpretation, Manuel Leon, Mesoamerica, NewMayaLanguage, Pattern, Smithsonian, SmithsonianLatinoCenter, typography, WashingtonDC Leave a comment
INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES STUDENTS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES WITH MAYAN GLYPHS
Anthrodesign, Children, Design, El Salvador, Graphic Design, New Maya Language, Washington DC
POSTED ON OCTOBER 7, 2015 BY THE BLOC
Milagros Reyes, a 13-year-old from Buck Lodge Middle School in Hyattsville, was fascinated when she learned about a “mini version” of Pompeii in El Salvador.
She had been creating a story using Mayan glyphs, which she learned from Frida Larios, an award-winning typographic artist from El Salvador
Larios works as an artist and ambassador for the International Indigenous Design Network. She collaborates with cultural institutions in El Salvador, as well as at the Salvadoran embassy in Washington, where she facilitates workshops that encourage young Salvadorans in the U.S. to embrace their native culture through art.
She brought this knowledge to campus Tuesday as a part of “Imaging Homeland and Belonging.” The event took place in Stamp Student Union’s Art and Learning Center.
The workshop attracted a large and diverse group of students.
For those of Latino/a heritage, and it provided an opportunity for them to reflect on [part of] their cultural roots and their idea of home.
For Frankie Jovel, a senior and a member of Lambda Theta Phi, a Latino fraternity on campus, this event helped him get closer to his Salvadoran heritage.
“This motivates me to look into my culture,” Jovel said. He was using the glyphs to write a sentence about corn tamales, which he said he loves to eat.
As an introduction to the event, Larios presented on Mayan culture and history, in which she discussed the meaning of the ancient glyphs and distributed a colorful guide that showed the various designs along with their English meanings.
“The Mayas were such thinkers. They are the ones who invented the number zero. They had a whole cosmology with constellations and stars. They domesticated corn and they invented chocolate. We owe a lot of things to the Maya. So we need to learn about them like we learn about the Greeks,” Rodríguez said.
Larios said she wants to show that Mayan glyphs are deeply rooted within people of Central American origin.
“We are genetically drawn to these forms due to the fact that the [Mesoamerican Indigenous] lived 2,000 years—maybe less—but the time we were colonized was even shorter. We belong to the region. We are natives. By exposing young people to the language, there is greater capacity for learning, because there’s empathy,” Larios said.
With the help of archaeological experts, Larios is working to [preserve] Mayan script. She is illustrating in bright, contemporary style that is immediately attractive.
One of her projects is a children’s book titled, The Village that was Buried by an Erupting Volcano, which she wrote and illustrated using Mayan glyphs. The book tells the story of an indigenous Mayan village in El Salvador preserved under volcanic ash for nearly 1,500 years.
Known as the Joya de Cerén Archaeological Park, this village is now an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
“That’s my mission—to transmit cultural heritage in a ludic, interpretative manner, using design as a tool,” Larios said.
She also designed the uniforms that the Salvadoran team wore to the 2015 pan-American games in Toronto. The uniforms, which were inspired by traditional Salvadoran costumes, were white and blue and adorned with ancient Mayan symbols.
However, Larios says it isn’t easy to encourage people in El Salvador to wear traditional costumes.
“It was a challenge because of the lack of attachment to traditional costumes. It’s a stigma. It’s persecution against indigenous peoples because they represent the peasant class, the class that [historically started] upheavals,” Larios said.
Featured Photo Credit: Belqui Ríos, a senior family science major taking a course called “Great Themes of the Hispanic Literatures; Home, Homeland and Be/longings in U.S. Latina/o Texts.” For students like Ríos, the workshop provided an opportunity to reflect on their cultural roots and the idea of home. (Gabriela Martinez/For The Bloc)
Gabriela Martinez is a communications graduate assistant at the College of Arts and Humanities and may be reached at gcmdavila@gmail.com.
October 9, 2015 October 9, 2015 fridalarios Tagged art, Centralamerica, Children, Design, Graphic design, Mesoamerica, New Maya Language, Type, typography, University of Maryland, Washington DC, Workshop, Youth Leave a comment
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UPDATED: Hacking Trial 2: Wallis Responds to charges: “needlessly vindictive… the ire has been turned on me”
Posted on July 30, 2014 by peterjukes
Neil Wallis has just responded to these new charges:
Neil Wallis (Photo credit: jon_cronshaw)
I’m devastated that more than 3 years after my initial arrest, this swingeing indiscriminate charge had been brought against me. My family and I have already paid a huge price for the police’s very public attention. Perhaps it is inevitable that after being such an outspoken critic of the collateral damage and pain caused by this needlessly vindictive and enormously costly investigation, the ire has been turned on me for something that occurred at NI of which I knew nothing and which I have always said was wrong Regrettably, legal reporting restrictions prevent me commenting further on this sad day.
Eariler from from the CPS
On December 2013, the Metropolitan Police Service submitted evidence for charging advice to the CPS in relation to Operation Pinetree, an investigation into an alleged conspiracy to hack phone messages by journalists at the News of the World. Additional evidence in the case was provided in June 2014. The file asked for charging advice on eight suspects; all were formerly employed at the News of the World. On 16 July 2014, the CPS announced that six of those individuals would face no further action whilst the evidence in relation to two further suspects remained under review. That review has now concluded.
Gregor McGill, a senior lawyer at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “The CPS has authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Jules Stenson, former features editor of the News of the World and to summons Neil Wallis, former deputy editor of the News of the World with an offence of conspiracy to intercept communications in the course of their transmission, commonly known as ‘phone hacking’.“Both Jules Stenson and Neil Wallis will appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 21 August 2014.
“May I remind all concerned that criminal proceedings against them will now be commenced and of their right to a fair trial. It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.“These decisions were taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors and the DPP’s guidelines on the public interest in cases affecting the media. We have decided there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.”
Details of the full charge:Jules STENSON and Neil WALLIS between the 1st January 2003 and the 26th January 2007 conspired with Andy Coulson, Greg Miskiw, James Weatherup, Neville Thurlbeck, Daniel Evans, Ian Edmondson, Glen Mulcaire and other persons unknown, to intercept communications in the course of their transmission without lawful authority, namely the voicemail messages of well-known people and those associated with them Contrary to s.11 of the Criminal Law Act 1977
via Operation Pinetree: two charged – CPS News Brief.
For further info on the new hacking victims emerging, BBC Home Affairs Reporter Tom Symonds has some details from the Metropolitan Police:
BREAKING: BBC told police have informed 1300 they are on list of targets in newly identified phone hacking investigation.
— Tom Symonds (@tomsymonds) July 30, 2014
Andy Coulson jailed for 18 months
Hacking retrial over corrupt payments
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Posted 11:11 am, August 2, 2014, by Staff Writer
COLUMBIA, MO (KTVI)- The University of Missouri-Columbia basketball team just got a big boost. On Saturday, Mizzou announced that Montaque “Teki” Gill-Caesar, a 6’ 6” forward, has signed a financial aid agreement to join the team for the upcoming season.
Gill-Caesar has been considered a top prospect for the 2015 recruiting class, but he graduated from high school in the spring, making him eligible to enroll in college this year. Originally from Ontario, Canada, he played three seasons of high school basketball at Huntington Prep in Huntington, WV. Huntington Prep’s head coach, Rob Fulford, joined the Mizzou staff as an assistant earlier this summer.
In a news release, head coach Kim Anderson said, “Teki has all the tools to be a big-time talent over the course of his college career and fits extremely well with the young perimeter players we have in the program because they are so versatile.”
Last season at Huntington Prep, Gill-Caesar averaged 16.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.7 steals. Schools such as Marquette, Memphis, Michigan State, West Virginia and Wichita State also tried to recruit him.
Mizzou has also recruited freshman guards Namon Wright and Tramaine Isabell and forwards D’Angelo Allen and Jakeenan Gant.
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Topics: basketball, mizzou, Montaque “Teki” Gill-Caesar
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The 25 best cities for millennial job seekers
Posted 6:56 am, October 16, 2018, by Tribune Media
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It’s a great time to be entering the workforce or looking for a new job. According to the New York Fed, the job market for young people, and especially college graduates, is the strongest it’s been since the 2008 Recession. Overall unemployment currently stands at 4 percent, dipping to 3.7 percent for recent graduates and just 2.3 percent for all college graduates. Similarly, underemployment for recent graduates, which is common for young people entering the workforce, has decreased by more than three percentage points from June 2014 to June 2018, suggesting that young graduates are not just finding “a job,” but rather, they’re finding jobs that match their skill level.
Of course, not all locations across the U.S. have the same employment opportunities, and employment rates are only one part of the equation when choosing a city to jumpstart your career. Unemployment rates vary from city to city, as does cost of living (especially housing), income, and demographics. If you are a millennial looking for the best cities for young professionals, it’s important to find one that’s affordable, has jobs, and is home to plenty of people close in age.
To find the best cities for millennial job seekers, Jetty commissioned research to analyze the largest 150 metropolitan areas in the U.S. It’s researchers looked at average millennial income, cost of living, unemployment, millennial population growth, and millennial share of the workforce using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Zillow.
Jetty found that many cities outside of notoriously high-priced New York and San Francisco—especially cities in the South and Midwest—offer compelling (and affordable) opportunities for millennials entering the workforce. Interestingly, while New York did not make the top 25 list of best cities for millennials to work, San Francisco and San Jose rank in the top three spots despite substantially higher living costs. For many, the Bay Area’s extremely high salaries, low unemployment, and influx of millennials outweigh its high prices. If that’s not for you, look to the many other more affordable options below. Here are the 25 best cities for millennial job seekers.
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25. Oklahoma City, OK
Average millennial income: $34,214
Cost of living: 8.4% lower
Median rent (2–bedroom): $807
Overall unemployment: 3.6%
5-year change in millennial population: No change
Millennial share of workforce: 40.7%
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24. Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
Cost of living: 1.5% higher
Median rent (2–bedroom): $1,300
5-year change in millennial population: 5.10%
23. Cleveland-Elyria, OH
22. Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
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21. Columbus, OH
20. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Median rent (2-bedroom): $1,455
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19. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
5-year change in millennial population: -1.90%
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18. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
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17. Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
Median rent (2-bedroom): $713
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16. Lubbock, TX
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15. Amarillo, TX
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14. Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA
13. Austin-Round Rock, TX
Cost of living: Same as national average
12. Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
11. Charleston-North Charleston, SC
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10. Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
9. Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN
8. Pittsburgh, PA
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7. Portland-South Portland, ME
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6. Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI
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5. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
Cost of living: 11.1% higher
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4. Colorado Springs, CO
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3. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
2. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
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1. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
To identify the best cities for millennial job seekers, Jetty created a composite score based on the following metrics in order of importance:
Average millennial income (30% – higher is better): Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year Estimates, the average millennial income was computed for all employed individuals between the ages of 18 and 35.
Cost of living (20% – lower is better): Using Regional Price Parities (RPPs) from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, cost of living differences were calculated for each metropolitan area. RPPs measure the geographical differences in price levels compared to the national average. RPPs used in this analysis are for 2016, the most recent available, and cover all consumer goods and services (including rents).
Unemployment (20% – lower is better): Unemployment rates for each metropolitan area were sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics. The data is for May 2018.
5-year change in millennial population (20% – higher is better): The change in the overall 18 to 35 population between 2011 and 2016 was calculated using data from the 2016 ACS 1-year Estimates. Changes were tested for statistical significance—”no change” is noted where applicable.
Millennial share of the workforce (10% – higher is better): Also using data from the 2016 ACS 1-year Estimates, the millennial share of the workforce was calculated as the number of employed individuals 18 to 35 divided by the total number of employed individuals over 18.
Median rent (0%): Median 2-bedroom apartment rents were sourced from Zillow. This data is not used in the overall score because rents are already factored into the Regional Price Parities. The data is provided for context; rents are from Q1 2018.
Only the largest 150 metropolitan areas were included in the analysis. Cities presented here are ordered by their overall composite score.
The content in this article is for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not to be viewed as legal and/or financial advice from Jetty or the author. A reasonable effort was made to ensure the accuracy of information contained in this article, but we provide no warranty, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of information. By using this information, you agree that Jetty and the author shall not be responsible for any errors or omissions contained in any material.
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DOD systems tougher to crack, but still at risk
By Lauren C. Williams
Although the Defense Department has enhanced its cyber capabilities, adversaries are improving their attacks faster than defenders are shoring up their systems, a Pentagon watchdog said.
According to the results of 50 cybersecurity assessments of combatant commands and the military services by the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, DOD missions and systems continued to be at risk of cyber intrusions, despite improvements in network defenses.
"There were an increasing number of instances where the cyber red teams employed during DOT&E assessments experienced greater difficulty in penetrating network defenses or maintaining previously acquired accesses," Director Robert Behler wrote in the report. But previously unknown vulnerabilities kept popping up.
"[W]e estimate that the rate of these improvements is not outpacing the growing capabilities of potential adversaries, who continue to find new vulnerabilities and techniques to counter the fixes and countermeasures by DOD defenders."
Behler noted that the DOD's red teams themselves are under-resourced and suggested that their results might impart a false sense of confidence to system owners across the Defense Department.
The report also stated that "realistic demonstrations" of advanced, multipronged cyber attacks "have yet to become routine" across the DOD.
In an overview of its operations, DOT&E reported that assessments of legacy weapons systems considered resistant to cyber attack by virtue of their age identified possible avenues of attack in more recent updates that were not part of the original design.
Additionally, trust relationships between different command networks allowed red team operatives to proceed from one network to another. "Trust relationships are critical to the operational support relationships between separate warfighter commands, but they must be designed and monitored to prevent mission impacts by adversaries," the report stated.
This article was first posted to FCW, a sibling site to GCN.
Lauren C. Williams is a staff writer at FCW covering defense and cybersecurity.
Prior to joining FCW, Williams was the tech reporter for ThinkProgress, where she covered everything from internet culture to national security issues. In past positions, Williams covered health care, politics and crime for various publications, including The Seattle Times.
Williams graduated with a master's in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park and a bachelor's in dietetics from the University of Delaware. She can be contacted at lwilliams@fcw.com, or follow her on Twitter @lalaurenista.
Click here for previous articles by Wiliams.
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Trailer for the Terrifying Horror Thriller THE BABADOOK
TrailerMovie Sundance about 5 years ago by Joey Paur
The Babadook is a horror film that is currently playing up at Sundance, and I've been hearing from a lot of people that it's scaring the shit of of audiences. I haven't seen the film myself yet, and I'm not sure I'll get the opportunity. I really hope I can because I love horror movies, and this one looks really freakin' good! On top of that, the buzz has been extremely positive.
The movie comes from Australia, and it was written and directed by Jennifer Kent. Here's the synopsis.
Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her 'out of control' 6 year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel's dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook' turns up at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he's been dreaming about. His hallucinations spiral out of control, he becomes more unpredictable and violent. Amelia, genuinely frightened by her son's behaviour, is forced to medicate him. But when Amelia begins to see glimpses of a sinister presence all around her, it slowly dawns on her that the thing Samuel has been warning her about may be real.
This actually could be an incredible horror movie, and I hope it gets a U.S. release for all of our sakes!
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Trump legacy
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Re: Trump legacy
Originally posted by bullseye View Post
And butt-hurt will be covered by Trumpcare.
Trump might like for that to be covered under his HSA when he has relations with Stormy
Where's the collusion, Bob?
And here we see GG, BB, cocasts, cal, and Eunice, getting the new about the President's health.
From a different angle
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise for to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. - Thomas Jefferson.
The view through the Bull's Eye
My question would be about STD's since he's banging porn stars.
We already have Roseann for dumb gifs, Bulls.
callache
"Moral Relativist"
Originally posted by TheFreakKingdom View Post
Dumbing down for Trump....let your inner child speak...
where's the play-doh
True believers can rationalize anything.
Especially when their job depends on it.
I said Trump might need his HSA to cover the "butt-hurt" and here you go
oh Donnie johnny - you are so naughty
(allegedly)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...rbes-magazine/
trixare4kids
Americans are Dreamers too
Now insert alleged before the 2009 emails and unnamed before political operatives into the MJ's excerpt below....
According to "______" 2009 emails between "______" political operatives who were at the time advising Daniels on a possible political campaign, the adult film actor and director claimed that her affair with Trump included an unusual act: spanking him with a copy of Forbes magazine
Thank you for sharing probable fake news from left leaning Mother Jones.
Originally posted by trixare4kids View Post
I was just having fun with Bulls' comment about being butt-hurt and needing Trumpcare for it.
So this is Trump being "butt hurt"
oh sorry--that is pretty funny
"I only hire the best people".
A Trump administration appointee resigned Thursday after CNN reported on his past use of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim language on the radio.
Carl Higbie resigned as chief of external affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a spokesperson for the department told CNN.
Higbie declined a request for comment from The Hill.
CNCS was created in 1993 and oversees initiatives such as AmeriCorps and the Social Innovation Fund.
Higbie’s resignation follows a CNN review of his past comments on radio appearances in which he makes disparaging remarks about multiple minority groups.
CNN found audio of a June 2013 radio appearance, when Higbie said “I just don’t like Muslim people.”
“Well people are like, ‘well, you can’t hate somebody just for being Muslim.’ It’s like, yeah, I can,” Higbie said.
In a December 2013 appearance, Higbie suggested black women think “breeding is a form of government employment,” CNN found.
Higbie, a former Navy SEAL, also made critical remarks of soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, saying the illness is “a trait of a week mind."
Higbie joined the administration last August. He was a frequent surrogate for the Trump campaign on cable news during the 2016 election cycle.
He previously stirred controversy when during one television appearance he defended Trump’s rumored proposal to create a registry of Muslim immigrants.
Higbie suggested Japanese internment camps established during World War II would provide legal precedent for the registry, drawing backlash.
TAGS CARL HIGBIE From the hill.com
GaVeLGraBBer
Where the wind takes me...........
TAS engaged
The spider never understands what the fly is complaining about.
Yep, only the best.
And his negotiating skills are doing a bang up job as well.
Originally posted by GaVeLGraBBer View Post
The best bigots and racists....oh well, nobody informed him of his TV performances during the campaign?
Riiight....and only "fake news"' reported on such little, insignificant details as having a bigoted, racist and homophobic supporter of the Donald....the "least racist person on this planet!"'
this can't be good for Dems:
Workers see wage hikes in the future
Consumer confidence continues to soar
And I'm hearing this morning Dems are blocking spending vote, even with DACA fix and SCHIP funding because they want amnesty. Nice to see the circular firing squad still exists on the left.
there is zero doubt - as you point out so well - the economy is moving upward - will wages continue to increase; will companies continue to bring back dollars to the states (Apple giving 2500 is one thing; moving some of that 250B back is the big news) and like you said, consumer confidence.
and I give him credit - he was supposed to go to Mar-a-Lago - canceled the trip. that to me, would have looked bad if he went to Florida while the govt shutdown - IF the shut down happens.
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Box of baking soda, over $38K in cash seized during Saskatoon drug bust
By Thomas Piller Online Producer Global News
Two Edmonton men are facing charges following an investigation into cocaine trafficking in Saskatoon.
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A drug bust yielded cocaine and a large amount of cash, according to the Saskatoon Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU).
The cocaine trafficking investigation in the city initially led to the arrest of a 24-year-old man on May 4.
READ MORE: Cocaine seized, trafficking charges laid in Saskatoon drug bust
A hotel suite was later searched in the 600-block of 25th Street East, where a 26-year-old man was also taken into custody.
Roughly 312 grams of packaged cocaine and over $38,000 in cash were seized, CFSEU said.
Items consistent with packing and processing cocaine — as well as a box of Arm & Hammer baking soda — were featured in a photo police provided of the seized items.
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The two Edmonton men have been charged with cocaine trafficking offences and possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000.
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