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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Widespread Panic tonight. First time seeing them in a non-festival setting. Hoping to hit Elk Mountain and Wynkoop on the way there, but mother nature might make that tough. Someone let me know how the weather in Denver is...
Good heads up from Footfeathers on some of the cool beer happenings over the past year. Definitely gotta get me some of this in January:
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Thinking about heading up to Denver to check out the radical reels tour which doesn't come to the Springs.
Anywho, this year's CS show is on March 5th. The other CO dates are here.
Ugh. Thank god they were slow because of the watch and not all the beer I drank last night while watching Pitt kick the crap out of UConn.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Hope to go over 3650 at the CRC happy hour run on Wednesday.
124 guys broke 2:10 in the marathon over the past year. I wasn't one of 'em. Neither was Mr. Top American. Hell, I was pissed when TA said he couldn't get me a discount on my Denver Post subscription, but I guess he's upset about his employer's new favorite marathoner.
In fact, he really hasn't talked college hoops with me since this happened a few years ago:
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Received an e-mail yesterday from the Mt. Lemmon Marathon. Turns out the Blue Ridge Marathon in Virginia also bills itself as the world's toughest road marathon. And to settle the debate, the BRM is offering free rego to anyone who finished Lemmon.
Unfortunately, the race is the same weekend I was hoping to go back to the Grand Canyon.
Looks like it would run about 800 bones once airfare/hotel/rental car/booze is factored in to run Blue Ridge. Less than half of that for the Grand Canyon trip.
Might come down to the Hardrock lottery. If I'm headed to Silverton in July, I'll need the longer run. If not, maybe I'll go cross Virginia off my 50 states list...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
More info on the challenge is over on Wiley's blog. We both google image searched green monster, and while he went with something lame, I'll go with this:
My goal for 2011 is 100 pints. It will be, by far, the most vegetables I've consumed in a year.
3579 miles on the year, with a few more up and down the Incline tonight. Slowly reeling in 3650.
This Sunday some of us are gonna run the final portion of the Pikes Peak Fat Ass. Meet at Memorial Park at 8AM if you're interested. Intemann Trail to Red Rock Canyon to my house.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Ten miles total, bringing 2010 to 3557 miles. 93 to go...
Thanks to Nick and the FoCo peeps for the awesome fat ass on Saturday. I wussed out and did the marathon route. My longest run since the Bear had been 90 minutes, and after taking 3.5 hours to climb up to Arthur Rock, I just didn't feel like I wanted to run for another four hours. Awesome trails out there though, had a great time exploring some new singletrack and seeing old and new friends out there.
Friday, December 17, 2010
And since the town went out and got itself a new marathon, the Arkansas River Bluegrass Marathon, they had to add a new bar to accommodate all those extra miles. But for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. It's dog themed, pretty cool place, and I think it starts with an "L." It's right next to the Victoria, even closer to the hostel. Free beer to the person who is able to figure out what the name is...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Oct TBA - Burnet Road Challenge
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Planning on doing eight on the way home, which will take me past the 10-per-day average I'm chasing. Next week takes me to Durango, where I'll run a ton of miles between my hotel and the Ska Brewery, as well as the big FoCo Fat Ass 30ish miler on Saturday. So 3650 miles is looking like it'll happen.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Monday, December 06, 2010
But I can't really make fun of fat, lazy people today. Instead of my normal Monday morning run I slept in. Stuck at 3380 miles on the year. Need to run 10.8 a day for the rest of the month to hit 3650. Will be tough this week with the PPRR meeting and the CRC holiday party.
Ricks ran 2:22:43 at CIM over the weekend. BLOS ran 3:30:53 in Vegas, but was obviously slacking so he'd have something in the tank for the Brett Michaels concert at the finish line.
The RW calculator says I'm in shape to run 2:57:09 in NOLA based off Rock Canyon. Still have some work to do, but it's a good start...
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Friday, December 03, 2010
3351 miles on the year. Hope to be caught up to the 10 a day average on Sunday. Not feeling physically or mentally 100% right now, so I'm doubting I'll get the PR on Saturday that I think I'm in shape for. Especially now that Jesse has fallen to his vicious bout of vaginitis and will not be showing up.
Yeowza, just read that 700 are signed up for the the half marathon, and registration has closed!
The deal-of-the-day over at the Gazette is a $30 certificate from the Colorado Mountain Brewery for $15. Grab it here. For those of you coming down in January for the PP Fat Ass, it could be a good catch since CMB is on your way home. Might help ease the sting of the ass kickin' that South CRUD will be dishing out that day. As far as Springs breweries go, CMB isn't nearly on par with Bristol, Trinity, or Black Fox. But by Boulder/Denver/FoCo micro standards it's pretty good...
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
He also did this back when he played for TCU. Gotta love the Pitt guys crushing the spirits of the Longhorns!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Your thoughts on banditing???
Turkey weekend will start in a few hours. The schedule, if anyone wants to join us:
6PM - Judge Baldwin's
8PM - 127 Hours at Kimball's
10PM - Murphy's
7AM - Incline with the Sunrise Striders
6PM - Incline Happy Hour
7PM - turkey & gin festival at The Royal Tavern
10AM - Backyard Brawl at the Red Rock Lounte
Noon - black Friday at Trinity
7:30PM - Wine & Cheese Party
1PM - Oscar's
4:20PM - Sancho's Broken Arrow (the place and time were JP's idea, that stinkin' hippie!)
8PM - Michael Franti & Spearhead
8AM - Incline Club first run of the season
8PM - Lukas Nelson at the Triple Nickel
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Now at 3263 miles on the year. Seven miles short of the magical 10 per day average. Hope to catch up over the holiday weekend, if I don't end up drinking myself to death first.
PM - 4 miles, 43 minutes. With the dog. Wanted to go further here, but a horrible lunch I had was still hanging out in my stomach.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
-Peter Gilmore, in an awesome article over here.
Yes, I stole it from Pre's Mustache, who is finally off his duff and updating his blog again.
And here's a nice blast from the past, believe it was the Warda (TX) Cardiac 44 miler many, many moons ago. The $10 I spent on that cotton Lovejoy's shirt has to be the best purchase of my life, although the hat has lasted longer so far. Please feel free to make rude comments about Meredith's weight...
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Oddly enough, my heel has been getting much better since I gave up FB...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
No update on the Springs guy suing the city for riding into the back of a vehicle...
There's also this nugget about Gordon Biersch and Rock Bottom joining forces. The new venture will be called CraftWorks. I suppose I'll check it out if they change the name of the local Rock Bottom, but I was never impressed enough with the old place to drive all the way to the east side.
Head over to Southside Johnny's tonight to support a good cause, and it's also the best place in town if you're looking for a mid-50s, thrice divorced lady to take home.
Since I'm ripping off the Gazette, our village has been named the most religious city in America. Maybe Ryan Hall will move here to train. Other than Portland, that list could pretty much serve as the "top 20 cities nobody wants to party in" list as well.
Found out that the pace required to finish the San Antonio half marathon before the 7 hour cutoff is 32:03 per mile. To finish Leadville at the cutoff you have to average 18 minutes per mile. Hardrock requires 28:48.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Any ideas of what this is and how to make it go away? Resting is not an option...
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cheyenne Canon road run this morning. Up to the top in 47:07. 8.5 miles total. Beautiful morning. Gonna miss doing this run every Thursday morning. Think after NOLA I'll just go there weekly by myself.
Might hafta take a sabbatical from the Thursday Incline happy hour. Tonight I hafta bail to watch my Pitt Panthers crush UConn. Then the next eight weeks have me at some special dog training class. Think I might switch to Friday nights for the time being...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
If you ask me any questions as to how hard a course this is going to be, you are disqualified from attending. If you have to ask, you can't do it.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
52 degrees at the track at 6AM on November 9th. Hooray for global warming!
Sunday - Nice 10-ish miler (I ran some bonus miles after the race to make sure of this) with Rick H and Jesse from my place through Red Rock Canyon, Section 16, Bear Creek Park, and Stratton Open Space. Then it was time for the Cheyenne Canon Hill Climb, a 6K up a monster hill from the Starsmore Discovery Center to Helen Hunt Falls. Not a very motivating race for me, I was expecting a lot more but just couldn't get the legs going. Solid, but slow. Tried to rally at every kilometer sign, but today just wasn't my day. Finished in 41:50. Last year I had taken September off and then cranked it up during October and ran 36 minutes. Took October off this year, and I could feel a big difference. But I'll get there...
Celebrated afterwards with all the Laughing Lab you could drink! Holly finished with $100, her first race.
Monday, November 08, 2010
-Terry Peavler, pres of the Chaffee County Search & Rescue
Article on Frog Rock in today's Gazette can be seen here. My motivation to raft the numbers has gone way down since learning about this section of the river. I'll stick to the Gorge, or even better yet, Brown's canyon. Or Cherry Creek in Denver.
I was talking to someone after the race about beer. I told him of my quest to get a growler from every Colorado brewery (hard to do, since more and more keep popping up). He heard I had about 40 growlers so far.
He said, "where do you keep them all."
"In the kitchen."
"You're not married I see..."
Friday, November 05, 2010
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Lunch: 45 minutes at the rock gym. Hit a V1 and a couple of V0's. Much better than yesterday. The usual push ups/sit ups/pull ups as well.
Monday, November 01, 2010
Nick and I are in negotiations for the first bet of next season. A combined NOLA/Salida bet. I want an hour, he's trying to lowball me. JMock is also in for the Big Easy. If many more COers sign up for NOLA, they might have to rename it the Front Range marathon...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Rest day today. Carpooled with $100 to complete the month of October without driving to work. Wanted to take the bus, but $100 made me ride with her so she could park in the special carpool lot at the hospital. I can be bribed with bacon pretty easily.
Picked up a pair of NB 507 at the CRC for an upcoming cross country race I'm doing (I can wear them for short road races as well). Very light, could be the final step towards busting 13 in the 5K.
Found out the Lampanelli show is at the Comedy Works South venue tonight. Changes the brewery plan a bit. Now deciding on one of three close pubs:
Bull & Bush (the top choice, but it might be too far away with the traffic)
Rock Bottom Englewood
CB & Potts (probably where we'll end up, since it's the closest)
Not the biggest fan of the chain breweries, but since I'm trying to visit every brewery in Colorado, it's a necessary evil to visit them. I will say I was surprisingly impressed with the brews at the new BJ's in Colo Springs (even though the beer is made in Boulder and trucked down here).
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Thurs AM - easy run with the Sunrise Striders. 8.8 miles, 1:15. Costume run, I ran as Bob Marley.
One more day to commute and it's an easy one - taking the bus to work tomorrow, then having $100 pick me up as we head to Denver to catch Lisa Lampanelli. Maybe a new brewery on that trip as well...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I was having a drink and I noticed a pretty woman looking at me across the bar. So I gather the nerve to get up and offer to buy her a drink. She accepted and we talked for a while. We really seemed to be hitting it off, joking, laughing and good flirting. After a few more drinks in me I asked if we could go to her place. She said "I can't right now I'm on my menstral cycle". I replied "Thats OK I got my moped right outside, I will follow you!"
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
15 minute warm up. 2 x 1600m in 6:15 and 6:14, hitting 800m in 3:09 both times. Then 2 x 800m in 3:04. 30 minute cool down.
Not the best workout ever but I'll chalk it up to the wind and being at the track for the first time in a while. Look for those times to improve.
Nice quite from an ex-girlfriend in the recent Clarence Thomas controversy.
"Clarence became not the person I knew when I first met him," she said, adding that he "drank to excess" when they first met and might have been a "raving alcoholic" at that time. When he gave up alcohol, she said, he became "angry, short-tempered, asexual" and obsessive with ambition and what she called "weird things," such as long runs in the dark before dawn."
What's so weird about long runs in the dark before dawn?
Monday, October 25, 2010
Decided I'm gonna go 2:54 at NOLA. That number is screaming at me since it would be a new PR and an automatic qualifier for NYC. Not too much of a stretch, I thought that was what I was gonna run at Boston before I got hurt.
Will be finishing up this week running to work each day (going one month of not using my truck for work), probably hit around 70 miles. Then it's time to start hitting the track and doing some shorter races. I should probably find some 5K and lose to Brandon, that motivation served me well during training for Leadville.
Sitting at 2953 miles for the year. Averaging 9.9 miles a day for the year. Should be able to finish out 2010 averaging at least 10 a day...
Today's morning run was an easy 7.1 miles in an hour. Crazy wind storm last night, lots of tree branches all over the place.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
1. Fast Eddy, 8:40
2. Rick H, 9:55
3. jt, 12:40
4. Paul D, DNF
Good times at the party, great to see everyone again. Not sure what's up next on the eating front. Pancakes seem to be leading the rumor mill. But I'm going to start pushing for a milk challenge. And one of these days CRUD will finally get around to doing a beer mile...
I weighed my dump a few hours after the challenge, but it came in at a very disappointing .9 pounds.
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"Bloody Torchwood," the barman said.
"You jealous, Gareth? Looks like a crash-and-burn scenario to me. Fingers crossed. See; his date's not buying his bullshit."
Cerys gestured towards the fireplace. Its flames were as fake as the potted plants in brass bowls which part-screened the two men sitting beside the fire from the rest of the hotel bar. The expression on the taller man's angular, pale, disdainful face could only be interpreted as "Bed me now, tiger" by an insane sexual optimist with an ego the size of a minor galaxy.
Regrettably, at this precise moment the library bar contained at least one of those.
A new arrival crashed through the door from the hotel lobby. Gareth recoiled. "What the -?"
"Don't see something like that every day." Cerys smiled. "Jack the Lad'll be like a dog with two dicks."
"But are we supposed to serve her? Is that even legal?"
"Last time I looked, this hotel had a no-dogs policy. Never said anything about snakes, did they? Of course we serve her."
"But she's topless –"
"Not at present. Granted, could be awkward if the snake wriggles. Anyhow, ssh! Good evening, madam. What can we get you?"
The new arrival slid nonchalantly onto a bar stool. "A Gibson for me, please. Brandy Alexander for Horace. In a saucer, if you don't mind. No ice. And a double Caol Ila with a splash of spring water for my friend by the fireplace. Take it over whenever Captain Harkness abandons him to chat me up."
"Better be pouring it right away, then, Gareth, love." Cerys winked.
The woman winked back, wicked caramel-brown eyes sparkling. "Oh, and one for each of you, of course."
She put out a hand, tickling her snake under its chin. It gave a sinuous whole-body shudder in response. The little group by the bar found itself suddenly increased by one.
"Hi, there. Welcome to Cardiff. I'm Jack Harkness. And you?"
"He's called Horace."
Harkness creased his forehead in a puppyish, meant-to-be endearing way. "I meant, your name."
"Oh? Actually, you know, you seemed to be making eye contact with Horace when you asked. My name's Watson. Harry Watson."
Harkness's voice went down another register. "Well, Harry, what brings you to these parts?" He leaned forwards, his voice breathy, intimate. "And may I stroke your snake?"
At the far end of the bar, Gareth rolled his eyes expressively. Cerys walked over to him and dropped her voice to a whisper.
"How come he's lasted this long without someone punching his bloody lights out?"
Gareth shrugged. "Punch Jack Harkness, join the diflannwyr. Isn't that what they say?"
"Not for sex," Cerys said, with all the confidence of hard-earned experience. "Too many fish in that sea. Politics, maybe. That the Caol Ila?"
Gareth put the whisky tumbler on a tray with a small saucer of twiglets. "All yours."
Cerys headed towards the man by the fireplace. "Lining them up, are you?" She nodded towards the untouched glass of scotch on the small table at his elbow.
"Looks like it." His pale eyes glittered with malicious amusement; his air of anticipation mirrored that of the woman at the bar, utterly different from his tense, closed body language of five minutes ago.
A prickle of apprehension ran up her spine. She'd been around the licensed trade all her life; born in the upstairs room of a Barry pub, first Saturday job collecting glasses and cleaning tables for Auntie Glenys until she was old enough to serve customers. She'd known why one shouldn't play Find the Lady with strangers before she'd learnt to read. By now, she could smell a bar-room con from halfway across the room. Whatever this man and Harry Watson had going between them couldn't be on the level. But this was Cardiff, and it seemed they'd picked Captain Jack Harkness as their mark.
"Not from round here, then?" she enquired, making her voice sound casual with an enormous effort.
"London." He looked at her; a scrutiny which seemed to penetrate layers of clothing and muscle, reaching her very bones. Jigsaw pieces began to assemble themselves at the back of her mind.
Auntie Glenys hadn't just been a pub landlady. The local women had always been on at her to tell their fortunes; palms, Tarot, whatever. Not tealeaves, though. Cerys had a vague sense Auntie Glenys thought teacup divination presented a conflict of interest with the brewery. You couldn't grow up around the best cold reader in Gwent without picking up a tip or two.
This isn't a con. This is something a lot more personal. This is a war.
She slid her eyes sideways to the great mirror on the far wall, the only genuine antique in the whole place. Reflected in it, Harkness reached out to caress Harry Watson's smooth, curvy, black-leather-clad arse. The woman leaned into his embrace, murmuring something, but her snake reared its head, alert to tension in the slender body round which it coiled.
The tall man's face lit in the most astonishing smile; something between ethereal and electric. And dangerous. The hair stood up on the back of Cerys' neck.
Changeling, a voice whispered in her ear. Not of this world.
Well, you know what they say about Torchwood. And their targets.
But if this one has concealed tentacles, at least he has the manners to keep them to himself.
In that instant, she slid from friendly neutral to partisan. She checked the mirror – no risk of notice from that quarter at present – and leaned over, as if about to put the drinks tray down on the table. The tray's edge caught the tumbler already there, knocking it into the nearest potted plant, spilling its contents into the silver sand around the fake aspidistra.
"I am so sorry –"
The tall man smiled. "For taking steps, at some personal risk, to ensure that whatever Captain Harkness put into that glass doesn't pass my lips?"
"You saw him –"
"Not to swear to. He's very good. And gets a lot of practice, evidently. Did you?"
"Not this time." She caught his eyes on her and added, defensively, "And you can't get the police to do anything, not in Cardiff. Not when it's Torchwood. Also, the one time I did talk a girl into getting herself checked by the hospital, they couldn't find anything."
"Analysis requires a baseline for comparison. Move eighteen inches to your left."
She had moved before she thought to ask why. The answer was obvious, anyway. In her new position, her body screened him from any ill-timed attention from the bar. Hoping she wasn't over-egging matters, she leant in at an angle intended to suggest flirtatious interest and giggled.
He retrieved the empty tumbler from the potted plant and held it out to her. "No-one must wash that. Get it to me later. Don't let Harkness see."
"Oh, God. You were trying to get a sample and I spilt it –"
"All safely contained by the plant pot. And even Harkness is unlikely to walk out of this bar with a plastic aspidistra in his arms. Though, given the combination of his boringly predictable conversation and his obsessive search for sexual novelty, it might be a match made in heaven."
This time, her laugh was genuine, loud enough to cause heads to turn by the bar; Gareth, Harkness, and, worryingly, Horace, who stirred restively and seemed on the point of slithering over to investigate for himself.
"Don't overdo it," her companion warned, his voice a low purr. "Don't trigger the diversion before I'm clear of the room."
Diversion. This was war. But -
"You're trying to take on Torchwood armed only with a half-naked woman and a boa-constrictor?"
"You can admire the insane brilliance of my strategy later." This time, his bared-teeth grin looked like the expression of an angry cat, just before it sprang. "Which reminds me." He reached down by his feet, producing a slender white cardboard carton, Emporio Armani inscribed elegantly on the lid. "At some point Harry's going to need clothing which isn't capable of independent locomotion. Give her this when the time looks right. By which I mean; before John arrives."
"My – " He paused, as if searching for the right word. "My backup." He glanced across at the window. "Harry's brother."
"Ah." Events at the bar were progressing about as well as she might have expected. "You think he wouldn't approve?"
"If he finds out what I asked her to do? Platonic ideal super-double-plus not good."
Or, in English, "I am so fucked".
He fidgeted with his glass of Caol Ila, taking a couple of quick gulps.
She wondered just how formidable this John must be, given that a man who had apparently written off Jack Harkness as a rather tedious sex pest had clearly been panicked into extravagant Armani-buying gestures for fear of John's wrath.
"I'll manage," she said reassuringly, holding out her hand for the carton.
Instead, he downed the rest of his whisky and stood up. "Give it to you outside. It'll hide the other empty glass from Harkness, when I walk out. Which reminds me; I'm capable of mimicking the appearance of someone who's consumed any one of thirty-two specific psychotropic substances and five of the most usual combinations. However, you've seen more of the effects of this memory erasure drug than I have. Suggestions for making it look convincing to an expert observer?"
She thought for a moment. "Nothing fancy. Just a bit confuzzled. You know; like your mate had challenged you on a bet to name each of the Tracey brothers and assign them to the right Thunderbird, and you couldn't remember if it was John or Alan who did the underwater one?"
"Hold it right there; you've nailed it."
A lifetime in licensed victualling prepared you for most things, but an evening shift which ended with a very drunk bare-breasted woman screaming her head off in the library bar and demanding to see the manager on the grounds that her boa constrictor had been frightened by the improper advances of a fellow guest was, at least, somewhat out of the ordinary. (This was Cardiff, the fellow guest was Jack Harkness, the manager was prepared to keep an open mind, especially since by the time he arrived on the scene Harry Watson was apologetically tearful, rather than yelling like a banshee, and decorously covered in a brown-gold knitted silk designer top the exact shade of her eyes).
And, while Cerys had been repeating for the umpteenth time that she'd been in and out of the bar all evening, but didn't know enough about snake psychology to express an opinion one way or the other on Horace's alleged trauma, Harkness's phone had rung. He'd yelled, "Gwen, what? Call up the logs. I need to know everything that's moved in this city since 21.00. On my way. And find Ianto!" and dashed out before anyone could stop him (not, in her personal opinion, that anyone had been trying very hard).
They had, eventually, coaxed Horace out from behind the optics with raw chicken-livers and yet another brandy Alexander, with no more collateral damage than a half-empty bottle of amaretto and a couple of glasses. Cerys was, by this stage, well past the end of her shift and half-asleep on her feet. Nevertheless she adopted Auntie Glenys's sound principle that, however hard it might be to stay on the scene, anyone else trying to sort out the mess would be likely to create twenty worse in its place which would then have to be dealt with tomorrow (or, to be precise, later today). As a result, it was Cerys who, eventually, summoned a taxi, poured Harry and Horace into it and despatched them to Harry's hotel (she was, apparently, booked into the St David's).
After which, the Archangel Gabriel would have acknowledged that Cerys had earned a fag, and bugger good resolutions about quitting. For once, the hotel machine was working. She was propping herself against the service entrance taking the first precious drag into her lungs when a white van drew up outside. A stocky man in blue overalls hopped out of the driver's seat and flung wide the back doors.
"Now," he said, eying up Cerys as the only staff member in sight, "can you show me these aspidistras which need refurbishing?"
She paused, for a moment. And then another blue overalled figure came out of the service entrance, back bent under the weight of a brass pot containing a – very familiar – plastic plant.
"Thanks, lads," he called back inside the hotel, his accent pure Merthyr Tydfil. And then he turned his head, and looked Cerys straight in the eyes. She kept her face calm with an effort.
"Now would be a good time to find that glass," he said, his accent unchanged. She dropped the cigarette into the gravel half-finished, ground it under her sole, and vanished inside.
When she returned the two men were putting the last fake aspidistra into the van and preparing to latch the doors.
She held out the empty whisky tumbler. "Here. Guaranteed unwashed."
His accent slid back to that of earlier in the evening. "Mycroft will be delighted. He's got Porton Down on stand-by; they've been after a sample for years."
"Cups and lips," the stocky man said laconically. "We aren't across the Severn Bridge yet."
"Oh, I've every faith in you, John. Our potential pursuers must surely have enough to occupy them. You didn't use your mobile phone to tell me you were on your way. Whose, then?"
"Borrowed it. From a bloke in a suit."
"And the bloke in a suit?"
"He's in a skip."
"In a skip? Why?"
"Objected to my borrowing his mobile phone."
"And the mobile phone?"
"In another skip. Five miles from the first one." John put his head on one side. "Still in his suit, the bloke in the skip, I'll stress. No kinky business. Wouldn't want to bring ourselves down to their level."
Cerys fancied the tall man's lips twitched, very slightly. By way of diversion, she asked, "Mycroft?" and was rewarded by a quick, possibly grateful glance.
"My brother. Our shared dislike of Torchwood is a rare point of bonding between us. Though the point in their mission statement which I find somewhat endearing is, predictably, the part he takes as a personal affront. But, fair trade. Question for question. Which one was she?"
"The woman you lost."
She stared at him, mind whirling. But she hadn't watched Auntie Glenys run a séance or three to let herself fall for that kind of blatant coat-trailing. "Lost? In what sense?"
He tapped one long-fingered hand impatiently against the side of the van. "The diflannwyr. That's what they call them round here, isn't it? The ones who brush up against Torchwood and are never seen again."
The cotton fabric of her uniform was thin; the harsh wind in the hotel service car park scythed through it. No need to go looking for other reasons why she shivered.
He frowned at her; concentration rather than annoyance, she suspected.
"Annie Pryce, at a guess. Twenty-six years old. Undistinguished school career, marked by truancy and reprimands. Succession of dead-end jobs culminating in that of delivery girl for Jubilee Pizza. Late evening 21 August 2007 presents herself at Cardiff A&E claiming to have been the victim of an attempted date-rape drugging and insisting on exhaustive tests. No traces of any suspicious substances found. Put down as a paranoid with an exhibitionist streak. Vanishes on the night of 9 October 2007. Circumstances of her disappearance consistent with her having left her workplace to deliver a customer order. However, Jubilee Pizza's telephone and manual records show no evidence of an order having been placed within half an hour either side of the relevant time window. No recollection from any staff working that night of where she went or why. Only other missing person report filed on the same night that of a Dr Tanizaki of the Kyoto Cybernetics Institute. No known connection between the two."
Three years of terror, sick threads of hope, chasms of despair, evasive eyes, hands shuffling papers, false, encouraging smiles, shark-cold blue eyes. Endless dead ends, never any closure. A black cloud of rushing wings overwhelmed her and she let go.
A firm hand clasped the back of her neck, forcing her head down between her knees. "No. Don't try and sit up, yet." John's voice had a calm, authoritative sound about it.
"We're going to lose our time window. Mycroft can only keep the CCTV system and all the traffic cameras off-line for another forty-five minutes, at best."
John exhaled. "Sherlock, consider it a concrete illustration of everything I've ever told you about the merits of tact. Sorry – um, ah – "
"Her name's Cerys," Sherlock supplied. "Outstanding observational skills; perhaps in the low end of the ESP range. Family connections in most of the pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants in South Wales. Cerys, if anyone offers you a counter-intelligence position in the next few days, remember Mycroft has a practically unlimited budget for this operation. Hold out for at least 50% above his opening offer."
"Sherlock, stop babbling. Cerys; mind if we load you into the back of the van? We aren't kidnapping you, honestly, just tell us where you live and we'll drop you there –"
"Not her home, John. If Harkness used his brain for thinking with more than twenty percent of the time he'd amount to an interesting adversary. Of course he'll go after Cerys to find out what she knows. Not her home and anywhere else but here, John. Fast."
Without much apparent effort, John heaved her bodily into the van. She landed next to the plant pots. The doors slammed shut behind her, John ran round to the driver's side and the van screeched off into the night.. The cold, ribbed metal of the van floor felt reassuringly prosaic beneath her cheek. The dark, swimming sensation which had pressed down on her receded. She risked sitting up.
"You know Annie's name." She hadn't intended to say it aloud, but Sherlock twisted his head to look at her.
"I know twenty-one names. So far." He nodded towards the plant pots. "My quid pro quo for getting that is access to the sources which might reveal the other names. But you do realize -"
He broke off, turning his head to look at John, almost as if looking for permission to say something. But she'd spent almost a thousand disturbed nights, tossing alone in a bed which had once been shared. Not until she saw, smelt, held in her hands something that was, had been unequivocally Annie, would the last flicker of hope die. But hope was not knowledge, and Auntie Glenys had always been strict about playing the odds.
"I'm expecting a funeral, not a reunion, if that's what you mean." She narrowed her eyes, staring him straight. "But I'm trusting you to bring me that funeral. Or I'll bloody murder you." Through the windscreen, she recognized the upcoming turn. "Left. Now. Then right at the Owen Glendower. My Auntie Glenys has a flat not too far away. Ground floor; she's not as good on her feet as she used to be since she turned eighty. But the neighbours all know her, and if Torchwood come looking, I should get enough warning to get out the back way through the allotments and make a run for it."
"Or," John said, taking the corner at a speed that had her clasping the nearest aspidistra protectively to her chest, "given Mycroft offered us a squadron of SAS to get that sample out of Cardiff, he could at least spare half a platoon to watch over Cerys. Just until everyone relevant knows we’ve delivered the aspidistras safely to Porton Down and dear God I once had a life in which a sentence like that would have struck me as mildly surreal if not completely insane, so where did it all go, I ask myself?"
"I said right at the Owen Glendower. Then straight on for a bit. Sorry. An SAS guard? Auntie Glenys would like that. Always partial to a uniform, she tells me."
"It's supposed to be a widespread trait. Practically universal, or so I'm told." Sherlock's voice managed to sound both mocking and – bruised? She thought back a few hours. Oh. That.
"Used to work for me." John spun the wheel of the white van, taking another tight bend in his stride. "Over three separate continents. Medical degree, surgical specialism, commission in the Royal Medical Corps – I can tell you, years of effort and forethought went into overcoming my natural handicaps in the getting laid department, and once again, I find myself asking where did it all go wrong? You came closer this evening of getting in with a chance than I have for sodding months."
"Jack Harkness doesn't count," Cerys said, automatically, and found she had an echo. She and Sherlock exchanged grins.
"Anyway, tonight should have put a dent in his batting average. From the little I saw, she seemed far more interested in you, Cerys." Sherlock's eye on her was – almost indecently perceptive. His observation came a lot too close to things she didn't want to think about, not just at present. She made a choked, non-committal sort of noise, just as John said, "She who?"
Sherlock yawned, elaborately. "The poor unfortunate to whom Harkness switched his attentions after I'd made it clear I was sublimely uninterested both in his job offer and his body. Anyway, Cerys, where do you want us to drop you?"
"Coming up. Pull over behind that blue Toyota."
She watched the tail lights of the van flicker out of sight round the next bend and then turned, very slowly, and rang Auntie Glenys's bell.
A decade of retirement hadn't mended Auntie Glenys's sleeping patterns. Two a.m, clearly, was still an early night for her; she was fully dressed (barring the fluffy pink bedroom slippers) when, after the briefest of checks through the spyhole in the door, she flung it wide and enveloped Cerys in her arms.
"Come in love, you look dead on your feet. Trouble? Silly question, you wouldn't be here this time of night if it weren't trouble. Not love problems, can't be; Terry's Dilla would have told me if you were seeing someone new, and you'd have gone to Uncle Ieuan if it were police, and you've always been careful about money – oh, you were on lates at the hotel this week, weren't you? That Gareth told Gwynneth that Himself has taken to treating that bar as his personal property recently. She tipped me off at the bingo last night. So; don't tell me. Not bloody Torchwood?"
"Bloody Torchwood," Cerys agreed, and allowed herself to be led inside.
"So, Gwen, you're telling me you lost them?"
"I'm telling you I never bloody found them in the first place." Gwen ran her fingers through her hair and gestured at the screen. "The CCTV network has been up and down like a bride's nightie all evening."
"Has it now?" Jack leant against her desk, looking down at the display.
"A blizzard of minor blips – about five or ten seconds each – and then this last one, an hour and a half. Only just come back online. They could be half way to Aberystwyth by now."
"Clinically insane, are they?" Ianto wandered across from his own computer, holding out a print-out. He looked uncharacteristically casual in sweat shirt and jeans. His ruined suit lay in a heap in the corner of the Hub, awaiting final disposal and, from the tense, tight lines around his mouth, he was still mourning its demise. "I've been running an analysis of those earlier outages. You might find it interesting. Sir."
Jack bent his head over the printout and swore.
"Want me to run a decode of that?"
"No. No need." The CCTV outages had not been "about" five or ten seconds each; they'd been precisely timed at five or ten seconds, accurate to the third or fourth decimal place. Over the course of the evening, the pattern became obvious. Long pauses and short pauses – dots and dashes –
What with the Time Agency, the slow path and assorted cons over the years, Jack had probably fought in the Second World War for slightly over twelve years in total. For one hazy week in 1943, he reckoned there'd been a version of him serving in each of the Allied air, sea and land forces simultaneously. It hadn't been the best of times, all things considered, but at least that sort of experience taught you to read Morse.
He traced the letters out onto the printout with his pencil. Ianto leaned over his shoulder.
I'M COMING HARKNESS YOU'RE FUCKED
"What sort of person puts in the apostrophes and leaves out the commas and full stops?" Ianto murmured.
Jack ignored him.
"Someone just changed the rules. And we gotta be ready."
From somewhere high above him, Myfanwy cried out. The echoes of her scream took a long time to die. The Hub magnified every sound; he had noted that on the night over a century ago when Alice and Emily had first brought him here, when the loudest sounds in the place had been his own screams. Tonight, though, he heard something in the echoes he had never let himself hear before. Voices. Countless voices.
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The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“Code”) is one of the most significant legislative developments in recent years, resulting in a flurry of litigation, multiple legal interpretations, and regular modifications to deal with non-performing assets held by various Indian financial institutions.
Originally, banks requiring personal guarantees from Promoters to secure their ‘skin in the game’ would always demand them and ensure that the same is provided to them. The lack of an efficient forum to enforce the personal guarantees that go hand in hand with the insolvency of the company for which the personal guarantees were issued has come back to bite now that there is over-leverage.
The law doesn’t envisage that the Insolvency resolution of the personal guarantor should follow only when the process of corporate insolvency resolution of the corporate debtor has come to an end. The purpose of initiating Insolvency and Bankruptcy proceedings against the Personal Guarantor is not only sensible but fair in the generality of cases to synchronize the two proceedings. That is not to say that when the proceedings against the Corporate debtor could be fruitfully decided the Personal Guarantor should also be proceeded against.
Lalit Kumar Jain v. Union of India
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
T.C.(C) No. 245/2020 dated 21.05.2021
Quorum: Hon’ble Justice L Nageswara Rao and Hon’ble Justice Ravindra Bhat
The constitutional validity of Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Application to Adjudicating Authority for Insolvency Resolution Process for Personal Guarantors to Corporate Debtors) Rules, 2019 (hereinafter referred to as ‘impugned notification’) was addressed in this case by the Supreme Court. The impugned notification was issued by the Central Government on 15.11.2019. The Supreme Court assessed petitions which were filed under Article 32 and petitions which were transferred from various High Courts under Article 139 of the Constitution.
Provisions Enforced: Section 2(e), Section 78, Section 79, Section 94-187; Section 239 (2) (g), (h), (i), Section 239(2)(m) to (zc); Section 239 (2)(zn) to (zs) and Section 249 of the IBC.
Following this, notices were issued to the petitioners to initiate insolvency proceeding as per Part III of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code of 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Code’).
- Whether the Central Government can notify parts of the provisions or essentially limit its application to certain categories of people?
- Whether the Central Government has the power to impose conditions through notifications?
- Whether the issuance of the impugned notification by the Central Government was ultra vires?
The Central Government has no power to prescribe or impose conditions by way of the notification, and such enforcement was ultra vires to the powers granted to the Central Government. It was submitted by the petitioners that as per Section 1(3) of the Code, the Central Government cannot notify parts of the provisions or essentially limit its application to certain categories of people. The issuance of the impugned notification by the Central Government was, therefore, ultra vires to Section 1(3) of the Code. There exists no demarcation between an individual and a personal guarantor of the corporate debtor as per Part III of the Code and the enforcement of the impugned legislation is outside the scope of powers prescribed under Section 1(3) of the Code.
Provisions are not severable:
The provisions which were brought into effect were not severable as they dealt with individuals and partnership firms and did not solely apply to personal guarantors of corporate debtors. The Central Government has classified individuals wherein insolvency personal guarantors of corporate debtors are considered along with insolvency of corporate debtors. This power is vested with the legislative and not the executive.
Non-Application of Mind:
Firstly, the enforcement of Section 2(e) of the Code attracted non-application of mind. Section2(e) had come into force with retrospective effect from 23.11.2017, and the same was noted by the Supreme Court in the case of State Bank of India v. V. Ramakrishanan.
Secondly, the Central Government had failed to enforce Section 243 which would repeal Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 and Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920. The aforementioned Acts deal with the insolvency proceedings of personal guarantors of corporate debtors. Without Section 243 not being enforced, there would exist two self-contradictory legal routes to initiate solvency proceedings against the personal guarantors of corporate debtors.
The impugned notification enforced provisions under Part III of the Code is specific to personal guarantors of corporate debtors. However, Part III governs the Insolvency and resolution procedure for individuals and partnership firms. It was contended that personal guarantors are to be excluded from the definition of individuals. This is supported by a joint reading of Section 2(e), 2(g) and Part III of the Code.
Furthermore, Section 95 of the Code states that a creditor can invoke insolvency resolution process against an individual only with respect to a partnership firm.
The enforcement of provisions through the impugned notification where Part III is brought into force only with respect to personal guarantors of corporate debtors results in it being ultra vires to the Objects and Reasons of the Code. The object of the code here is to focus on the revival of the company and to save it from liquidation. The Code here operates as beneficial legislation.
Enforcement of the
provisions are arbitrary and discriminatory in nature:
This was argued on two grounds:
- That there is no intelligible differentia as to why personal guarantors of corporate debtors have been singled out as the Code and Part III of the Code does not specifically cater to personal guarantors of corporate debtors;
- The impugned notification does not demarcate between operational and financial creditor. It is to be noted that there exist two sets of procedure for operational and financial creditors.
- The 2018 Amendment: Section 2(e) and Section 60 were amended to include the Insolvency or bankruptcy of a corporate/personal guarantor to a corporate debtor. NCLT would be deemed as the adjudicating authority.
- There is no excessive legislation is this case as the executive has the power to enact provisions of a statute for a particular purpose at any given period of time. Furthermore, Section 1(3) of the Code empowers the Central Government to enforce provisions in order to meet the object of the Code. The impugned notification was published keeping in mind the recommendations put forth by the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee. It was recommended that insolvency proceedings were applicable to personal guarantors of the corporate debtor and there should exist a synchronous resolution process.
- The term ‘personal guarantor’ was defined under Section 5(220) of the Code and that NCLT would be considered as the adjudicating authority as per Section 60(2) of the Code. Furthermore, the NCLT is vested with all powers similar to that of the DRT as per Section 60(4) of the Code. Lastly, that as per Section 179, the DRT would be considered as the adjudicating authority for insolvency resolution and this is subject to Section 60 of the Code. The Counsel for Respondents relied on the case of Embassy Property Developments (P) Ltd. v State of Karnataka
- Section 2 is not to be considered as a definition clause by as a tool that provides a phased and limited interpretation of the Code. Additionally, Part II of the code applied to all categories of corporate entities who are debtors. Part III was enforced to establish a suitable mechanism for personal guarantors who constituted a class of individuals.
- The liability of the guarantor was co-extensive, joint and several with that of the principal borrower unless the contrary is provided under the contract. This has been enumerated under Section 128 of the Indian Contract Act of 1872. Additionally, the guarantor’s obligations are not absolved under Sections 133-136 of the Indian Contract Act of 1872. The rights of the creditor and guarantor will continue to exist in case of bankruptcy or liquidation.
- Part III applies to individuals and partnership firms in a composite manner. The power of the vested by the Central Government under Section 1(3) should not be characterized as a conditional legislation. As per Section 1(3) the Central Government can determine the date on which the Code will come into force and it can also appoint different dates for different provisions of the Code. Literal rule of construction is not to be applied while reading Section 1(3) of the Code and the aforementioned section is not to be construed in isolation.
- The scheme and the structure of the Code considers ‘parliamentary hybridization and legislation fusion’ wherein the NCLT is empowered deal with insolvency proceedings of personal guarantors of corporate debtors.
- The Supreme Court analyzed all the notifications proposed by the Central Government. The Court went ahead and looked into every notification that was released and the subsequent provisions that it gave effect to. It highlighted that the Central Government sought to fulfil the object of the Code while passing notifications. The Court noted that the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India was set up to examine relevant issues and evolving standards of rules and regulations.
- The Supreme Court on Part III of the Code and NCLT’s role:
Prior to 2018 amendment, it was noted that all individuals i.e, personal guarantor to corporate debtors, partners of firms, partnership firm and other partners fell under the Section 2(e) of the Code. Section 60 stated that the adjudicating authority with respect to personal guarantors was NCLT.
Post 2018 amendment: Section 2(e) was further categorized into Section 2(f) and 2(g). Section 60 was altered wherein insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings w.r.t. liquidation and bankruptcy process were divided into three categories corporate debtors, corporate guarantors of corporate debtors and personal guarantors to corporate debtors wherein NCLT was considered the adjudicating body.
Manner of interpretation: It was noted that although the term ‘personal guarantor’ was not defined, it fell under the definition of ‘individual’ under the Code. The Supreme Court while interpreting Section 60 (2) applied the principle behind the maxim ‘reddendo singular singulis’ in the case of Rajendra K. Bhutta v. Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority. Section 60(2) applies three categories when it comes to insolvency resolution, bankruptcy or liquidation. It being corporate debtors, corporate and personal guarantors to corporate debtors.
The Supreme Court also assessed Sections 234 and 235 of the Code. As per the aforementioned Sections the overseas assets of a corporate debtor or its personal guarantor are to be dealt with in the same manner as insolvency proceedings.
The Court analysed Sections 79 and 94-187 where the former is a definitional Section and the latter lays down the initiation of resolution process before the adjudicating authority.
It was observed that the intent of the impugned legislation was to allow for pending proceedings to be adjudicated as per the Code. Although Section 243 had not been enforced (where it would repeal personal insolvency laws), Section 60(2) provided for resolution process or bankruptcy of a personal guarantor which would be filed under the NCLT. Therefore, the adjudicating authority would be the NCLT for personal guarantors, if there is a parallel resolution or liquidation process is pending. Furthermore, under Section 60(3) the aforementioned rule would be applicable.
- On the Central Government not notifying Section 243:
The Court discussed the case of SBI. V. Ramakrishnan and noted that the rationale behind not notifying Section 243 would be that the non-obstante clause under Section 238 gives the Code an overriding effect over other prevailing enactments. Section 243 has not been enforced, the proceedings pending under the PIA and PTIAct will continue. In addition to the same, the impugned notification was a consequence of the non-obstante clause given under Section 238. Thus, if a proceeding were to be instituted against a personal guarantor, it would be done under the Code.
- On Section 1(3) of the Code:
It was held that the court had no occasion to consider what could be the effective exercise of power under Section 1(3). The 2018 amendment inserted Sections 2(e) and 60(2) for the purpose of strengthening the corporate insolvency process. During this period of time the Code was not made applicable to individuals which included personal guarantors.
The arguments pertaining to insolvency process, application of moratorium and other provisions are incongruous in nature and were declared unsubstantial in nature.
- On the intent of the Central Government:
It was noted that the intent of the Parliament was to treat personal guarantors as a different species of individuals wherein the they shared a common adjudicating authority with the corporate debtor. Part II of the Code is applicable to corporate persons and Part III is applicable to that of individuals and it was noted that there is no inconsistency.
State Bank of India v Anil Dhirajlal Ambani, IA No. 1009/2020 in CP(IB)/916/(MB)/2020 & IA No. 1010/2020 in CP(IB)/917/(MB)/2020
State Bank of India v. V. Ramakrishanan, (2018) 17 SCC 394.
Embassy Property Developments (P) Ltd. v State of Karnataka, (2020) 13 SCC 308.
Para 52 of the judgement.
A rule of interpretation meaning ‘to each to each’ usually applied in matters relating to property. When a sentence has multiple antecedents and consequents, they are to be read distributively. Each phrase or expression is to be referred to its appropriate object. (Black’s Interpretation of Laws – kindly refer to para 87 of the judgement).
Rajendra K. Bhutta v. Maharashtra Housing and Area, (2020) 13 SCC 208.
When a resolution process has been initiated against an individual ‘A’ before the DRT a where ‘A’ has sought personal guarantee from company ‘B’, and if a resolution process has been initiated against company ‘B’ at NCLT the proceedings against ‘A’ will transfer from DRT to NCLT. (kindly refer to para 95 Of the judgement).
SBI. V. Ramakrishnan (2018) 17 SCC 394.
Provincial Insolvency Act of 1920.
Presidency Towns Insolvency Act of 1909.
1. The Central Government by publishing the notification has not selectively applied the provisions of the Code. It not a compulsion that the Code is to be made applicable to all individuals. The impugned notification through Section 1(3) of the Code enforces provisions that particularly deal with the personal guarantors of corporate debtor, and this forms a mere sub-category of persons to whom the Code is extended. The impugned notification was issued within the power of the Parliament, with valid exercise of power.
2. Liability of the corporate debtor: The Court held that involuntary act of the principal debtor leading to loss of security, would not absolve a guarantor of its liability. The approval of a resolution plan is a contract of guarantee. The release or discharge of a principal borrower is done via the operation of law and it arises from an independent contract.
3. The impugned notification was held constitutional and petitions were dismissed.
- State Bank of India v. V. Ramakrishanan, (2018) 17 SCC 394.
- Embassy Property Developments (P) Ltd. v State of Karnataka, (2020) 13 SCC 308.
- Rajendra K. Bhutta v. Maharashtra Housing and Area, (2020) 13 SCC 208.
- SBI. V. Ramakrishnan (2018) 17 SCC 394.
- Provincial Insolvency Act of 1920.
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Feb 7, 2020
Book One in The Hellbound Brotherhood
Find out why New York Times bestseller Maya Banks hails McKenna’s books as “A nonstop thrill ride…”
He’s a ticking bomb…
Eric Trask is counting the days before he blasts out of Shaw’s Crossing forever. He and his brothers were raised at GodsAcre, a mysterious doomsday cult deep in the mountains. GodsAcre was destroyed years ago in a deadly fire and Eric and his brothers were the only survivors. The townspeople see them as time bombs just waiting to blow, but as soon Eric makes the money for a fresh start, he’s going to prove those bastards wrong. He’s an ex-Marine, fresh off a tour in Afghanistan, working three jobs and barely sleeping. Utterly unprepared for Demi Vaughan’s dazzling green eyes, lush pink lips and sexy curves. She’s the town princess…he’s a dangerous outcast. It was a sure recipe for disaster.
But the closer he gets to Demi, the more impossible it is to resist…
Forbidden fruit is the sweetest…
Demi Vaughan has a big plan for life post- college. A summer job at a sandwich shop back home in Shaw’s Crossing is part of that plan, so when Eric Trask, notorious bad boy with a complicated past, saunters in for lunch from the construction site next door, she tells herself he’s just eye candy. Tall, ripped, sweat-slicked, smoldering eye candy, nothing more. She knew the stories, she’d heard the rumors. Eric was damaged. Marked by violence and tragedy. He’d be the ultimate bad boyfriend, and right now she was too busy even to shop for a good one. But his hot eyes and hard body, his sensual smile and that rough, scratchy voice of his shook her resolve. After all, she was leaving this place forever. One little taste of heaven…what could it hurt?
But Shaw’s Crossing has deeper, darker secrets than Eric or Demi could begin to guess. The evil that destroyed GodsAcre is lying in wait…and it will stop at nothing to keep Eric and Demi apart…
Hellion, Book One, ends on a cliffhanger, but it leads right into Headlong, Book Two, Demi and Eric’s continuing story, dated seven years later.
The other titles in The Hellbound Brotherhood series are connected, but each book features its own couple and has its own HEA.
Read an Excerpt
Demi didn’t need to turn around from the frozen yogurt machine to know that Eric had made his grand entrance. The muffled squeals and excited whispering from the other girls behind the Bakery Café’s counter gave it away. Lame-brains. They’d been teasing her about that guy for weeks. Ever since he started coming in here for lunch.
Yes, folks, Eric Trask had entered the building.
Even if she didn’t look around, the effect on her was the same. The ambient temperature shot up ten degrees, whoosh. The earth shifted on its axis, ka-chunk.
Crap. Blushing again. Rosy red right down to the edge of her tee-shirt. Her damn cleavage was blushing.
Stop this bullshit. He’s a cute guy. Eye candy. Not earth-shattering.
The frozen yogurt overflowed the cup and glopped out onto her hand.
Demi cleaned up the mess and sidled over to the crushed Oreos and colored sprinkles without turning around. She was playing it cool. She had no idea he was there. Who? She didn’t even notice him. Why should she? She was working. Busy, busy Demi. Working toward her goals. She couldn’t be bothered with this nonsense. She had no time to waste with—ouch.
She’d smacked her hip on the corner of the ice-cream toppings table.
Eric Trask loomed in her peripheral vision as she deposited the frozen yogurt on the tray full of sandwiches. She made change and smiling chit-chat, having no idea what she was saying. Executive function in her brain was totally AWOL.
He hung back from the counter, ostensibly studying the sandwich board while he waited until she was free to wait on him. Kaia and Tammi leaned over the counter, their boobs practically spilling out of their shirts in their eagerness to take his order.
“Can I help you?” Tammi sang out.
“Still thinking, thanks,” he replied, eyes fixed on the menu.
Ahhhh. His deep voice was scratchy and rough. More smothered giggling from Tammi and Kaia. Grow the fuck up, ladies.
Demi finally allowed herself to look. She had to work up to it slowly, the experience being a full frontal assault on her senses.
He was ridiculously tall, to start with. At least six-three. Broad, too, but lean and tapered. He looked dusty and hot, his tee-shirt stretching deliciously tight over the defined muscle bulges. She loved the way his sleeves strained over the swell of his biceps. She wanted to run her fingers over every contour. Nature’s ultimate sculpture.
Hoo boy. It was a struggle to keep her mouth firmly closed.
His dark blond hair had sported a jarhead buzz-cut before, as befitted a Marine recently back from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, but it was starting to get a little shaggy on top. His face still had that deep, weathered desert tan. His eyes were a piercing pale gray against his sun-browned skin, like glints of shining chrome. The eye-crinkles around them made him look older than his twenty-four years. Two years older than her.
His eyes had always made him look older. She’d noticed it back in high school, from the first moment she laid eyes on him. He’d been sixteen, she’d been fourteen. He hadn’t noticed her. He’d seen too many things he was desperate to forget. The GodsAcre story was blood-chilling, and people never got tired of chewing over it.
That sadness in his eyes had given her a hot, shaky feeling even then. It had made something inside her chest become soft, achy. Made something melt that should have stayed solid.
She wasn’t the only one melting for the Trask boys. With their muscular good looks, daydreaming about them became a widespread recreational pastime for all the girls at Shaw’s Crossing High School, in spite of the stories about the crazy mountain cult where they grew up. According to the gossip, GodsAcre had been a hotbed of drugs, brain-washing, sex orgies, Satanism. It was even whispered that the Trask brothers were psycho killers trained by Delta Force soldier Jeremiah Paley, GodsAcre’s leader, also known as ‘The Prophet.’ That the three brothers had set the fire that had destroyed GodsAcre themselves.
So. There were possible mass murderers, sitting right there with the rest of them, taking notes in AP Chemistry or Spanish or English class just like normal teenagers.
Normal aside from the fact that they were considerably hotter, that is.
Her granddad had been horrified when his old Marine buddy and longtime friend, Police Chief Otis Trask, had announced his intention of taking in the GodsAcre boys. They needed a home, Otis had argued. They needed to stay together. It was dangerous to leave them to themselves, and Otis didn’t see anyone else stepping up.
Bad idea. Everyone said so. Those boys belonged in a reformatory. Granddad had tried so hard to dissuade Otis, anyone listening would have thought the three boys were fire-breathing demons from hell. Demi remembered him ranting about how damaged and maladapted they must be. How irresponsible it was for the school to let them mix with normal kids after their bizarre upbringing. How it was begging for disaster.
But Otis held firm. The boys moved in with him, and enrolled in the high school.
Crazy rumors hadn’t stopped her from staring at Eric whenever she got the chance. His cheekbones, his broad shoulders, his strong jaw, his sensual lips. He was even handsomer now than he had been back in high school. Bigger, taller, thicker, harder.
His gorgeous smile had become a grin. His teeth were so white. Deep smile grooves cut into his lean cheeks. Like dimples, but longer.
“…everything okay?” He sounded like he was repeating himself. She could feel the heat coming off his body. Damn. That mind-wiping storm wind of testosterone was putting her into a fugue state. She forced herself to breathe. Air helped.
“Ah…ah, yes. Of course. I’m fine.” She smiled back at him. “What’ll it be?” She hoped that she hadn’t already asked him that. Perhaps even gotten an answer.
That grin widened. “Surprise me.”
“Is that a challenge?”
She looked down her nose at him. A neat trick, at five-foot-four. It took lots of attitude, tiptoes, and hiking her chin way up high. “Game on.”
Kaia sidled past Demi as she grabbed a couple of slices of rye bread and headed to the sandwich bar. “Surprise me?” she said under her breath. “I’d surprise that guy right out of his clothes. Any time, any place.”
“Make that sandwich really tall, girl,” Tammi cooed as she swept by with a drinks order. “And don’t skimp the sauce. You want it really juicy, so that that thick wad of hot, salty meat can slip right down, you know what I’m talking about?”
“Shut…up!” Demi whispered savagely.
“What do you think, Kai?” Tammi said to Kaia. “Mayo? Or herb vinaigrette?”
“Oh, ranch, for sure. Long, strong squirts of it.”
“Piss off, both of you,” Demi snapped. “I’m busy.”
“I just bet you are, you lucky girl.”
Demi blocked them out of her consciousness by concentrating on making the sandwich for the ages. One worthy of fueling a body that gorgeous. Rye bread, grilled in herbed dill butter, piled with pepper rolled roast beef and thick slabs of melted pepper-jack cheese. A few draped pieces roasted red pepper, juicy slices of crimson heirloom tomatoes, some tender green Bibb lettuce. A towering stack of home fried potatoes and a scoop of her own specially tweaked coleslaw. A bottle of an herbal tea and fruit infusion.
“Don’t forget the pickle, girlfriend,” Tammi sang out. “A nice, fat one.”
Demi gave her the finger over her shoulder as she bopped the swinging door open with her hip and carried out the tray with her creation on it. Not blushing this time, oh no. She’d been slaving over a hot griddle. She got that tomato-red color from honest toil and no one could say she hadn’t.
She laid the sandwich down in front of him. “Here you go. A Demi Vaughan special. Billed by the till as a roast beef and cheese, but I tarted it up for you. And a green tea, lime and goji berry cocktail to wash it down. It’ll balance your heart chakra, flood you with antioxidants and replace lost electrolytes.”
His silver-chrome eyes flicked up and down her body. “Looks incredible.” His deep, throaty rasp brushed tenderly on every nerve. “Thanks for keeping it special. My heart chakra is getting all excited just from looking at it.”
She smiled, fishing for something cute and witty to say. Came up blank.
He started again. “Hey, I just wanted to ask you—”
“Demi!” Raelene, her boss, hollered from kitchen, cutting off his words. “Demi, get back here for a second!”
“Be right there.” She backed awkwardly away before she realized what she was doing and turned around to walk away with some dignity. Like a normal human being.
In the kitchen, Raelene, a skinny lady with a graying crown of braids, handed her a clipboard. “I want you to do some inventory in the storeroom,” she announced.
“Inventory?” Demi glanced back toward Eric before she could stop herself.
Raelene caught the look. “Tammi or Kaia can ring him up. You’ll need to do boring crap busywork when you’re running your own business, you know. Get used to it.”
“Of course, but during the lunch rush?”
“I’ll help the other girls up front if they need it. And I know it’s not my business, but that boy is a dead end. Don’t conduct your flirtations on my clock, Demi.”
Demi bristled. “I’m not! I have never wasted time on the job.”
Raelene’s mouth tightened. “Stay away from him. He’s bad luck. Bad news.”
“It’s nobody’s business, and I don’t see why you would even—”
“The Prophet’s Curse got my brother. Did you know that?”
Demi stared at the older woman, appalled. “Raelene. Please. You don’t mean you actually believe those old rumors? That’s just a vicious, crazy story. An urban myth.”
Raelene shrugged. “Fourteen people dead in twelve days,” she said. “And it happened right after Darryl refused to give Jeremiah another building permit for his compound. The old bastard wanted to build right in the middle of an elk run. Darryl said no. And the next day, he was dead. Is that an urban myth, you think?”
“Natural causes,” Demi said.
“Right,” Raelene said. “Like all the rest of the people the Prophet was pissed with. That’s a whole lot of natural causes crowded together in a very small time frame. A very small geographical area. Too small.”
“But…you think Darryl was poisoned?” Demi said hesitantly. “Or are you saying that it’s an actual curse? Like, black magic, or something? You’re not serious.”
She studied the other woman’s face. The realization dawned slowly, with a sickening chill.
Raelene was dead serious.
“Raelene,” Demi said. “Even if Darryl really was murdered somehow, and even if it actually was Jeremiah’s fault, he’s dead and gone. It wasn’t Eric or his brothers who caused any of that stuff to happen. They were only kids at the time. It can’t be their fault.”
“I didn’t say it was their fault,” Raelene said stiffly. “I don’t understand what happened back then, but it was sick and bad, and I don’t like to see a nice young lady getting mixed up with it. Neither would your mother, as I’m sure you know.”
Demi felt her back prickle. “He’s not a criminal, Raelene. He’s a veteran, he works, he’s not in any kind of trouble, so I don’t understand why you—”
“We’re not having this conversation on my dime. Get to work if you still want this job. If you don’t, you know where the door is.”
Raelene marched out of the kitchen, rubber-soled trainers squeaking aggressively.
Demi was speechless. Her first instinct was to walk out. Screw this crap. Raelene had no right to preach or pass judgment about Demi’s private life and personal choices.
But she couldn’t afford to throw a tantrum. Her parents were already angry and disappointed with her. They’d been angry ever since she changed her major to restaurant management, rather than business administration, and they got even angrier when she refused the internship at the Shaw Paper Products distribution center in Tacoma. Or at any of the other SPP centers scattered over the western US, for that matter.
Dad had used his most sneering tone. The little princess is too good for the family business? You’d rather wait tables and carry catering trays than take a shot at a grown-up job? A sandwich shop is your goddamn life’s ambition now?
She’d hoped for a summer job in her field for those last few weeks before her internship in Seattle started. The internship was a hard-won prize, and she could hardly wait to start. Eight weeks working closely with famed chef Maurizio Altamura at the renowned restaurant Peccati di Gola. In the meantime, she wasn’t too proud to sling hash at the Bakery Café in Shaw’s Crossing. It was food prep, and therefore relevant to her future plans. Somewhat. And this way, she could save on rent for a few more weeks.
But her parents, and Granddad, had been horrified. So she couldn’t bail on the Bakery Café the first time she got huffy with the boss. Not in her shaky position.
Demi resisted the urge to peek and see if Eric was still there. She couldn’t let him see her do that. It would look desperate and fawning and childish.
Besides, he was probably back at work. Maybe drinking what was left of his green tea and goji berry cocktail. Maybe holding the cool, sweaty bottle up against his hot face. Putting it to his lush, sensual lips, throat working as he drank. Until a single drop of condensation from the bottle trickled slowly…sexily…down his strong, tanned throat.
Whew. One would think that the dull task of counting cans and bottles in a pantry would chill an overheated girl right down.
Eric drove slowly past the sandwich shop for the fourth time.
He wasn’t going back inside today. Not after the death-ray stare from Raelene Muir. He’d make problems for Demi. Probably already had. Looked like she’d been banished to the back room for the crime of speaking to him.
Raelene had kept up the sphincter-mouthed glare the whole time he was eating his sandwich. He was used to it, so it didn’t affect his appetite, but damn, that shit got old.
He shouldn’t be eating at the Bakery Café in any case. Dropping seventy bucks a week for fancy sandwiches and overpriced beverages was stupid right now. He was busting his ass to save money for developing his app, and he could make an entire week’s worth of perfectly good lunch sandwiches for the cost of a single meal at that place.
But still, he kept going back. Just to ogle Demi Vaughan’s sparkling green eyes and shapely ass. And those luscious, gravity-defying tits that made his fingers buzz with lustful curiosity. Her velvety alto voice made him sweat. He heard it in his dreams.
She acted like she could care less, but her hot blush gave her away.
Finally, she emerged. Boyd Nevins followed her out of the café. Boyd had gone to high school with them. He’d been in Eric’s class. He’d heard that Boyd now worked for Demi’s family’s paper packing materials company over at Granger Valley.
Boyd was leaning in toward her, working his dimples. The guy was tall and blond. Good-looking, he guessed, and he could turn on the charm when he exerted himself. But Eric and his brothers knew first-hand that Boyd was a conniving shithead and bully. At least, he had been back in their school years.
Demi kept smiling and shaking her head, and Boyd kept talking. She backed away, still smiling. He grabbed her wrist, pulling her back toward him. Demi’s smile faltered.
She tried to pull free. Boyd held on tight. Dickhead. He hadn’t changed.
On impulse, Eric rolled down the passenger side window. Very carefully, to keep the damn thing from coming loose and falling down inside the car door, as it often did.
“Hey, Demi,” he called. “Sorry I’m late. You ready to go?”
It was a risk, but giving her an escape hatch from Boyd was an opportunity he’d be an idiot not to take. Then again, if Boyd was a frying pan, she might think that Eric was the fire.
Demi’s eyes flicked to him, blank and startled for a second. “Hey,” she said back. “Ah…yes. Yes, I am, actually.” She wrenched her arm free. “Later, Boyd.”
Boyd glared at Eric as she got into his car. Eric gave him a big smile and pulled out into the street.
“Hope you didn’t mind me pretending we had a date,” he said. “I didn’t like the way he yanked on your arm. Thought I’d give you an out.”
“I was okay. Boyd isn’t a problem for me. But I do appreciate the thought.”
He took a deep breath and went for it. “Can I make our fake date a real one? We can grab something to drink. Iced coffee, a shake, a beer. Whatever you’d like.”
Her rosy lips opened slightly and stayed open as her color deepened. “I’d love to, but I can’t tonight. I promised to get dinner on for my mom. She’s at the library board meeting tonight, so I have to head back home. I’m really sorry.”
He let out a silent sigh, crestfallen. “Okay,” he said. “Some other time, maybe.”
He hesitated for a moment, and tried again, because what the fuck. “But since you’re already in my car, can I at least give you a ride home?”
Demi’s soft pink lips curved. She barely hesitated. “That would be great.”
The Monster coughed, burped and died at that moment. He started it up again, embarrassed. His creaky old Frankencar was made of salvaged parts from defunct vehicles. Only his considerable skill at keeping engines alive kept her running, but aesthetically, the Monster was a zombie nightmare, with most of her upholstery rotted away. “Keep your leg away from the car door,” he advised. “If that old exposed glue gets stuck to your jeans, it won’t ever come off.”
She angled her shapely leg away from the door. “Don’t worry about it.”
He drove for a few blocks, racking his brains for an opening. He wanted badly to ask if Boyd made a habit of bothering her, but that seemed too possessive a topic to open with right off the bat. So he went with the next random thing that popped into his head.
“I’m sorry you disappeared at lunchtime,” he said. “I was going to ask you out for a drink then, but I missed my chance.”
Demi snorted. “Raelene got a bee in her bonnet about having me do inventory.”
“Bet that urgency went away once I left, am I right?” He turned onto the street that would take them onto Lakeshore Drive, a more leisurely and roundabout way to get over to Osborn Grade, the road that led up to the Heights. Demi didn’t object.
So far, so good.
She slanted him a sly look through her dark, curling eyelashes. “Are you one of those guys who thinks that every single thing is about them?”
He laughed. “No, I am not one of those guys.”
“Good,” she murmured. Her smile was mysterious. “I’m sorry I’m busy tonight.”
Exultation bubbled up inside him. “I didn’t have a lot of time to spend anyhow,” he said. “I have to be at my next job at eight o’clock. But I didn’t want to wait.”
“Another job? Where?”
He slowed to a crawl on Lakeshore Drive, brazenly pushing his luck. “I’m the night janitor up at the Fair Oaks Care Home,” he explained.
“All day at a construction site, and then a night shift? Yikes. When do you sleep?”
“I don’t,” he admitted. “Not much, anyway. I get a couple hours from four to six AM. And I try to nap for a few minutes in between shifts down in the park by the Falls.”
“That sounds nice, if it wasn’t for the mosquitoes,” she said.
“They don’t bother me,” he said. “Then I have a weekend shift at the gas station up on the highway. I’m saving up money to go into business for myself.”
“Really? What business?”
“I’m designing an efficiency app,” he told her. “To help streamline workflow in big organizations, like the military. I got the idea on my first combat tour, and I’ve been working on developing it ever since.”
“You mean, on your own? Did you study computer science someplace?”
“Not formally,” he admitted. “Self-taught.”
Her eyebrows shot up. “No shit? You can self-teach that kind of stuff?”
“Sure. I couldn’t afford college, and I was already enlisted in the Marines at that point, so I just downloaded course materials from MIT and Stanford’s computer science classes and used my free time to do the course work. I watched the video lectures, did all the reading and the projects, took the exams. The info’s all online. So I don’t have any degree to show for it, but I have all the skills.”
She stared at him. “Huh. You must be really mentally organized. To do it alone.”
“I guess so,” he said. “That got pounded into me real early, along with a shitload of math. And it’s easy to learn when you’re motivated.”
“But doesn’t it cost a lot to develop an app? Don’t you need investors?”
“It’s less expensive if you do most of the work yourself,” he explained. “I’ve already sketched it out with wire-framing tools, and I’m researching the tech stacking and the programming languages. Right now I’m designing a custom back-end so it can grow and scale. And I’m working on the code. At least I was before I took on the janitorial job.”
“Crazy,” she said. “Who knew you were secretly an egghead computer nerd.”
He felt suddenly embarrassed. Babbling like an idiot, trying to impress her. “I’m hung up on the visual design, though,” he admitted. “I’m no artist, so I’ll have to scrape up some cash and pay someone to help me make it all look good. But the more of the basic code I can write myself, the less expensive it’ll ultimately be.”
“That’s incredible,” she said. “Yay, you. I hope it goes well.”
“Me, too. What about you? What are you doing back here in Shaw’s Crossing? I figured you’d be working in the family business. In Granger Valley, or Tacoma.”
She made a face. “So do my parents, my grandad and absolutely everyone else in this town. They think I’m destined to take over Shaw’s Paper Products. That I’m the scion of stationery supplies. The crown princess of packing materials. But it’s not my jam. To my family’s eternal dismay.”
“Ah,” he said. “So what is?”
“Cooking.” The announcement sounded almost defiant. “I want to be a professional chef.”
He was startled, but he made the adjustment fast. “Of course. Those sandwiches you make are kick-ass.”
She let out a crack of wry laughter. “Don’t judge my skills on the basis of my lunch sandwiches.”
“Why not? They’re excellent.”
“That’s very sweet of you. But yes, that is my dream. I got a degree in restaurant management in college. In a few weeks, I start an internship at a restaurant in Seattle, and after that’s done, I’m headed to the Culinary Institute. Some people get all excited in stationery stores, and I wish that was me, but I get worked up when I see a lump of goat cheese rolled in fresh cut herbs or cracked black pepper. Or lemon infused olive oil, or a really good pickled artichoke. What can you do? That’s just what I’m made of.”
No more delaying the inevitable. Eric turned onto Cedar Crest Drive, Demi’s street, but he stopped well short of the driveway leading up to the huge Victorian mansion with the vast rolling lawn.
Their mailbox was knocked partly over, tilted at a forty-five degree angle to the ground. “What’s with your mailbox?” he asked.
“Oh, that.” Demi rolled her eyes. “That’s Burt’s work. Burt Colby. We have a problematic neighbor who sometimes drives himself home from the bar at two in the morning after a few too many beers. No one’s gotten around to fixing it yet.”
He grunted in disapproval. “That’s dangerous. He could hurt someone.”
“Yeah, he could, but he hasn’t yet, other than our mailbox. Thanks for the ride, and for the nice comments about my sandwiches. Good luck with your app. It sounds awesome. I’m sure you’ll be very successful.”
Her incandescent smile struck him speechless. Lush pink lips, the perfect curve of her cheek. That sexy flush lighting up the tanned, perfect glow of her skin.
The window rattled dangerously in the door as Demi opened it. She hesitated, leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. Just a soft, glancing touch, but oh God. Wow.
“Have a good shift at the care home,” she said. “Hope you get some sleep. See you tomorrow, maybe? At lunch?”
“Oh, yeah,” he said, dazed. “I’ll be there.”
Sleep, hah. Like he was ever going to sleep again, with that rush of gimme gimme hormone pumping into his body. Damn right, she’d see him tomorrow. And the day after, and the day after that. And any chance he got, until he felt those lips against his skin again.
The place she’d kissed tingled wildly. Hyper-sensitized. Like it was glowing.
“Shall we get that milkshake you offered me after work tomorrow?” she asked.
“I’d love to, but this is the thing. I’ll be all hot and sweaty, and my janitorial shift is at eight. I need to clean up before I put on the uniform. Usually I go straight to Kettle River Park and take a dip at Circle Falls. I keep a fresh uniform in the car to put on after.”
She bit her lip as she thought it through. “I like swimming,” she said. “And I like Circle Falls. Let’s just go straight there. I’ll bring a swimsuit to work.”
“Yeah?” Exultation threatened to float him right up out of his seat. “You’re on.”
“I’ll meet you outside the Bakery Café. Five o’clock.”
“Great. Can I get your phone number?”
She was pulling out her phone, opening her mouth to reply when the sharp squeak of car tires coming to an abrupt halt focused his eyes beyond Demi’s face, over her shoulder and to the other car.
Elaine Vaughn’s horrified eyes, through the window of her BMW. Demi’s mom.
Crap timing, but he regretted nothing.
Demi looked around. “Oh, shit,” she whispered. “I gotta go.”
“Sorry if I made problems for you,” he called after her.
“Not at all. I’m just late getting dinner started, that’s all. See you around.”
“Yeah. See you.”
Demi cut in front of her mom’s car as she crossed the street and headed up and across the huge lawn, straight toward the house.
Elaine Vaughan just sat as if she’d been turned into a statue. Eric looked patiently back at her, resisting the impulse to lay on the gas and escape, as if he were some lurking thug who’d done something wrong. He fucking wasn’t. So he just sat there.
Besides, it felt vaguely disrespectful to drive off before she did. Like hanging up on someone.
Mrs. Vaughan finally turned straight ahead, tight-lipped. Her car surged ahead.
Well, fuck. He’d definitively ruined Demi’s evening. Smooth move, bonehead.
He’d been trying so hard to walk the line. Head down, eyes forward, pocketing every spare penny to put toward his app. Then Demi Vaughan came into his line of vision, with her glossy brown curls and her hip-swaying walk, and whammo. His better judgment got coshed on the head, tied up and stuffed into the trunk of a car.
This was such a dumb move. On so many levels. He was the Prophet’s spawn, she was a rich girl, the town princess, the college grad. He was practically broke, she lived in the biggest house in Shaw’s Crossing. He was an orphan with a past best not talked about, and she was the granddaughter of the guy whose family gave the town its very name.
That was the girl he got a raging hard-on for. Because evidently he liked to punch up the challenge. Keep it interesting for himself. True to form.
He kept seeing the scene tomorrow, at the river, in his mind’s eye. Demi soaking wet. Clingy, scanty clothes. Her cloud of dark hair floating around her. Nipples tight from the cold.
He hit the accelerator. The sudden burst of speed knocked the wobbling window right off its track, and it fell down inside the car door with a loud, decisive thunk.
He could still hear his better judgment back there, trapped in the trunk. Howling, kicking out the taillights, trying to be heard. But he just couldn’t listen to it.
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Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete - CARPERE FIDE(S)
- 01 – Gabriel Erkoreka – Fantasía (2001)
- 02 – Alberto Hortiguela – Tres tientos de Antonio de Cabezon (2014) – Tiento en primer tono
- 03 – Alberto Hortiguela – Tres tientos de Antonio de Cabezon (2014) – Tiento en cuarto tono sobre – ‘Malheur me bat’
- 04 – Alberto Hortiguela – Tres tientos de Antonio de Cabezon (2014) – Tiento sobre ‘Qui la dira’
- 05 – Mikel Urquiza – Belarretan (2014)
- 06 – Elena Mendoza – Breviario de espejismos (2005)
- 07 – Joan Riera Robusté – Poetica (supongo) (2012)
- 08 – Ramon Lazkano – Ezkil (2002) – 1
- 08 – Ramon Lazkano – Ezkil (2002) – 2
BERTRAND CHAVARRÍA-ALDRETE – CARPERE FIDE(S)
Acclaimed guitarist and artistic director of SMASH ensemble, Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete, came up with the idea of starting an “archive” – at once a series of albums and a physical collection of repertoire – encompassing contemporary Spanish guitar music, simply because there wasn’t one. Born in Lyon, France, Bertrand has been resident in Spain for more than a decade, and believes fervently in the celebration of Spain’s wealth of contemporary music, highlights of which he presents with integrity and passion on this disc.
This CD presents contemporary Spanish guitar music in all its diverse and vibrant colours. In Gabriel Erkoreka’s Fantasía the guitar-writing of Flamenco music is transformed into a modern guise, while the ‘imperfections’ of the authentic cante jondo (‘deep singing’) at the heart of Flamenco music are relished via guitar techniques such as pitch bends.
Alberto Hortigüela’s Tres tientos de Antonio de Cabezón are based on the wonderful music of that Renaissance composer, and Mikel Urquiza’s Belarretan for guitar and tape was inspired by works including Titian’s Concert champêtre. Elena Mendoza’s Breviario de espejismos reflects Los Caprichos by Goya, while Joan Riera Robusté’s Poética (supongo) draws on more recent inspiration in the form of poetry by contemporary Spanish poet Julieta Valero.
In Ezkil by Ramón Lazkano (whose music is featured on Chalk Laboratory on Odradek, ODRCD320), the composer distorts archetypes of guitar writing: the instrument’s ambiguous harmonies, scordatura tuning effects, jangling sonorities and fragile harmonics barely sound like a conventional acoustic guitar at all.
Booklet in English, Spanish and French.
Program notes by Joanna Wyld.
“… an ambitious project and outstanding record.”
Neuguitars - Andrea Aguzzi / 17 May 2017
“Odradek Records is an independent American nonprofit record company devoted to the diffusion of contemporary music. In 2016 the label produced this cd, which in fact is something more: this is the first piece of an interesting recording project of a Spanish contemporary guitar music’s archive created by Spanish guitarist Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete.
This first piece of this upcoming ambitious archive is this cd: fide (s) carpet, where is contained in the music of Gabriel Erkoreka, author of Fantasia 2001, Alberto Hortiguela, with his 2014 Tres tientos de Antonio de Cabezon, Mikel Urquiza with Bellaretan (2014), Elena Mendoza with 2005 Breviario de espejismos, Joan Riera Robuste with Poetica (supongo) composed in2012 and Ramon Lazkano with Ezkil (2002).
This is a remarkable work. A combination of eight highly structured passages, designed with extreme lucidity and performed with a high level of sensitivity, perfection and intent. Spain. The cradle of the classic guitar. Perhaps we have forgotten this country, in these years passed analyzing, discussing, criticizing Andres Segovia’s figure. We have forgotten the presence of new composers, the legacy of Narciso Yepes, a great interpreter for the composers of his time. Now, Spain has decided to come back, to express new ideas, to listen to new music, to renew itself. It’s an ambitious project and outstanding record.”
“Complex and dreamlike, our encounter with the guitar and magnetic tape creates a sublime, tender, pastoral and playful patchwork…”
Anaclase.com / 17 April 2017
Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete (b“Just browse the biography of orn in 1978) to see how much the guitarist, native of Lyon and of Mexican origin, is involved in the art of his time. Indeed, there are about 30 composers, mostly Spaniards, whose interpreter ensured a world premiere. If the pieces for ensemble dominate, it is mixed with some dialogues with the cello (signed Fernando Fiszbein, Octavio Lopez, José Luis Torá, etc.), flute (Iñaki Estrada, Nikita Kochkine) or percussion (Roberto Rusconi, Jorge Sancho), when they are not just solos (José Luis Campana, Arturo Fuentes, Jose Pablo Polo, Emmanuel Pautrot, etc.).
Born between 1968 and 1988, six other Hispanic creators appeared in a programme of works conceived in the first 15 years of this century. Fantasía (2001) is Gabriel Erkoreka's first work, inspired by Gabriel Erkoreka (born in Bilbao in 1969) and by cante jondo, a deep and dramatic song linked to the roots of flamenco, the beauty of which Lorca and Falla boasted. The musician modernizes his folk model with incisive string pincers and rhythmic percussion, devoting the first third of the piece to nervous flow and the two others to a soothing energy that highlights the virtuosity of the interpreter.
For the French, Ramon Lazkano (Donostia, 1968) proves to be the best known name of this musical era. When he wins Paris at the age of nineteen, the pupil of Grisey and Bancquart does not imagine that one can "create something out of nothing without memory or tradition" (in program Présences 2017) Keeping in mind the works of the Generación del 51 isolated by Francoism (Halffter, Pablo). In Ezkil (2002), he tackles the archetypes with an instrument tuned in quarter-tones, creating special resonances that justify the title (bell, in Basque), with tone and distinction.
Elena Mendoza (Seville, 1973) has been interested in mirages by responding to an order for Francisco de Goya before she became interested in lies in her recent Madrid opera [see our column of 21 February 2017]. Of an engraved woman covered with a mask (Nadie se conoce, 1799), she imagines a work on the perpetual mutation, a game of hide and seek between known and unknown. Brevario de espejismos (2005) prefers to intrigue as rudoyer, tenderly febrile, quivering.
Exceeding the quarter of an hour, Poética (supongo) (2012) is the longest page of this first inventory of the Spanish guitar recent - other volumes will follow. Joan Riera Robusté (Barcelona, 1968) is the author of jazz and electro-acoustics, inspired by a poem by Julieta Valero. As Joanna Wyld writes, "Robust uses minimalist textures with slow evolution to create an air of timelessness, suspense and expectation, with the guitar specially tuned for a natural and open resonance." All is said ! And the play will delight lovers of hypnotic trance.
If painting and literature energize the reflection of composers, the legacy of their colleagues is a ferment sometimes salient. Thus Alberto Hortigüela (Burgos, 1969) adapts Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1556), pioneer of the organ, famous for his contrapuntal pieces (holdo) on the border of German fantasy and Italian ricercare. Tres tenuos by Antonio de Cabezón (2014) plunges the listener into a delicacy of another time.
Let's finish with the cadet Mikel Urquiza (Bilbao, 1988), who was a student of Erkoreka and Lazkano before attending many French ensembles (The Instant Donne, Quatuor Diotima, The Imaginary). He also innovated by frequenting the arts, as in Belarretan (2014) who finds in Manet, Titien and Poulenc a resonance to the subtitle of the score: on the grass. Complex and dreamlike, the encounter of the guitar with a magnetic tape sublime a tender pastoral and playful patchwork, typical of a generation reflected but uncomplexed - Mauro Lanza [read our critic CD], Aurélien Dumont [read our review of the CD] Etc.” | <urn:uuid:2b2f9fa8-8e11-4d1d-94a5-ec8cec6e6bfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.odradek-records.com/album/bertrand-chavarria-adrete-carpere-fides/ | 2022-01-25T13:19:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304835.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125130117-20220125160117-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.857352 | 2,047 |
Scaling Bitcoin workshop : Tel Aviv 2019
Payment channel recovery with seeds
Seed-based payment channel recovery
Cool. This addresses the lightning network which is a scaling technique for the bitcoin network. A big challenge with the lightning network is that you have these midstates that you need to keep. If you lose them, you're out of luck with your counterparty. We had a lot of talks this morning about how to recover midstates but a lot of them used watchtowers. However, this proposal does not require a watchtower and you can restore midstates knowing nothing but your wallet seed.
What's wrong with watchtowers?
The way that watchtowers are currently used, there's a big storage challenge. Every time you do a state channel update, the watchtower has something new to watch for. This can be prohibitive.
To be effective, watchtowers need to have high uptime and reliabiliy.
In general, it's yet another piece of infrastructure for the lightning network to depend on. It's not some gross intractable piece of infrastructure, it's something practical that can be built, but it would be better if we didn't need watchtowers at all.
This talk is just one angle that we can use to drop the watchtower requirement for most users.
The goal is to stay safe against an untrusted counterparty even if we end up losing our channel midstates or our data.
The major assumption that I'm making here within the bounds of this talk is that the user has some interaction with a payment hub where I'm going to define a payment hub as a high-reliability counterparty. We can expect that this hub will not be losing data or going offline. This might be Coinbase or this might be some community hub or it might be a university. We're going to depend on hubs, instead of watchtowers. If you still want watchtowers, there's no reason you couldn't have a watchtower do all of these things, but we're trying to get away from watchtowers. I do believe there's avenues where we can drop the hub requirement and make this purely p2p. As of today, I don't have a direct way to do that.
Our hub counterparties are going to be leveraged as data storage devices. We're going to store this data on the hubs. We don't want to tip our hand to the hubs when we've lost our payment channel information, because they are a counterparty in the channel and they can take advantage of us if they realize we're vulnerable. We want to construct every transaction with the hub in a way where it seems like we've lost our data; in the majority of cases, we can catch them cheating. The one time we really need it, if they cheat we won't catch them, hopefully they will have no clues that we are in fact in a vulnerable state.
We're going to take an encrypted blob, constant sized, and store it on the hub. I suggest 40 kilobytes, which allows you store a fair number of payment channel midstates and lets you throw in encryption passwords. If you're using utreexo, then you can store a signed utreexo hash and skip blockchain validation upon recovery. Anyway, we're assuming about 40 kilobytes. A hub can support hundreds of thousands of users with a few gigabytes on disk or just in RAM. If the hubs are collecting fees, then I really don't think this is an unreasonable burden to place this on the hub.
Our encrypted blobs will be encrypted derived from our wallet seed. Each time we update it, we increment the counter. We can compare versions of encrypted blobs and make sure they are all up to date. Because the blob is fixed size, we can put anything we want in the padding if there's some external use we have for that, it becomes available to us.
The user will also be storing this blob and information in a decrypted way. When we ask the hub for the encrypted blob, we can verify that the hub is being honest.
We're going to tweak the lightning protocol. The very first thing we ask is the hub for this encrypted blob. This gives us plausible denialability at the cost of this extra 40 kb before the user makes any transactions. If the blob matches, the user will prepare the desired transaction and give each honest hub a new blob to store which contains the updated midstates.
If the hubs are communicating with each other, and in one case they see the hub is contacting one hub or in another case contacting multiple hubs, then for perfect security every time we do a transaction we need to contact all the hubs. Each time we're transacting, we're doing 40 KB roundtrip to each payment hub that we're using.
If all the blobs match, we continue forward and we just make a normal transaction. But before we finalize the transaction, we update all the blobs with the new midstate, and we pass this over to the hubs, and then we broadcast the transaction.
What do we do if the hub is dishonest? The hub might provide us with an outdated state. If it's a hub we're not transacting with, we just mark them as bad. If the hub we're directly contacting provides us with an outdated state, it's actually safe to play naieve and so you can move forward-- the hub presents you an outdated state, you can move forward and complete the transaction. You haven't given the hub any hint that something is wrong; later, you stop interacting with them. Later, when they broadcast or close out the channel, you should be able to deliver a penalty transaction.
Protocol extension: fraud proofs
One more thing that we can do with this protocol is we can extend it so that at each stage of interaction, whatever the hub is telling us, they can sign it and provide that signature with a timestamp. This provides cryptographic proof later that we can say hey this hub was trying to cheat me. This is a fraud proof we can hand out. It raises the stake on the hub. You're not just risking one customer or counterparty, you're potentially risking a wider set of users.
If the user has lost data, from the hub's side it looks the same. The user asks the hub that they want to transact with for the most recent state information. Then they also ask the other hubs that they have channels with for the most recent recovery information. Then they will compare the blobs that they get with each other. The user decrypts it, they compare the information and they cross-reference it. They make sure all the hubs gave the same information. All you need is for one of the many hubs to give you honest information, and you can catch all the malicious hubs.
Externally, the hubs have no idea that you have lost information. You come online, you download everything, you check it all. If it all checks out, you move forward like normal. If a couple of hubs lie to you, you do the same broadcast thing, and you may or may not be able to construct a fraud proof and then you blacklist and close out and move on from the hubs that have tried to cheat you.
As long as the user has a channel with at least one hub, you can follow this protocol and lump in p2p channels with it. To move to payment channel recovery style, you don't need all your payment channels to be on a hub. Just enough of them.
If you have no other way to get your channels back, this is just one more option you have given yourself. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't. If you're using watchtowers, maybe that's sufficient. This is just another option you've given yourself to recover your payment channels.
The biggest tradeoff is that every time you make a payment channel update you have to contact your hubs and do a 40 kb roundtrip with each hub. I don't think this is a big deal. I think doing a megabyte of bandwidth for a financial transaction is really not that bad. But if you want extremely fast lightning payments, then 1 MB might be prohibitive and you might have to look at alternatives.
A smaller tradeoff is that the hub now has to store 40 KB per user. This should be trivially, especially if users are paying the hubs with transaction fees.
This creates an interesting, mild incentive in practice. If you think about lightning network where hubs are collecting fees, every hub represents competition to other hubs. If you see a hub and you see a user who is potentially vulnerable, and you suspect the other hubs are trying to cheat them, you can give the user the opportunity to penalize the other hubs. So hubs have a mild reason to help users prove fraud of the other hubs. That's pretty interesting.
If every hub is collaborating or trying to take advantage of the user, or every hub knows that the user is vulnerable, then all the hubs could work together to give the users an outdated midstate.
I think the hard part is just the protocol about getting the midstate from a hub. If the true goal is to recover all your payment channel information from nothing but your seed, well we have already assumed we know the counterparties or hubs. We still have to-- to get true seed-based recovery, we need a way to figure out someone who to ask for the midstate recovery information in the first place.
Payment channel coloring
You can scan through the blockchain and identify which payment channels are yours. We can do this with coloring. You put an encrypted message in each payment channel or transaction you make, that uniquely identifies only to you that this payment channel belongs to you. If you include information such as one of the output IDs of the transaction in the encryption key, then you can take your wallet seed and deterministically derive something that will let you check every payment channel in the blockchain and identify whether it's yours. People will see that the channels are colored, but no external party can link your channel to you unless you leak your wallet seed. An external party can't look at the blockchain and link multiple channels together. You can color it in a way where it is obvious that the transaction has been colored, but you don't stand out from other people who are using the same coloring technique, but you can identify exactly your payment channels. Also see stealth addresses.
Once you figure out your channels, you need to figure out your counterparties. Myabe take one of the public keys from the transaction, and put another set of encrypted data into the transaction to identify the counterparty. From there, we would use the public key to lookup the counterparty in some public-key infrastructure whether we're using the MIT hosted PGP stuff, or we could put the public key infrastructure on-chain, or some hub could announce this is my public key and this is my IP address for how you can communicate with me. I think there's a lot of ways to approach this problem and didn't want to get into this.
The biggest tradeoffs for these two techniques are the extra on-chain data. You have to include the coloring data and also the encrypted public keys. I tihnk there's a way to minimize the impact. But maybe you can minimize the data, like sneaking data in through pay-to-contract into your signatures. I don't have an explicit technique to do this.
So this requires payment hubs, which is a downside over watchtowers. It requires slightly increased on-chain data, which is definitely a disadvantage. And also, you require more interaction. It would be my suggestion or my understanding is that this is probably simpler than implementing watchtowers in practice. It's also a protocol modification, which is never simple. It's clearly not a strict upgrade or strict replacement for watchtowers. But I think it's an interesting alternative, and it would be interesting to be able to operate as a user in this scheme.
I think the biggest item is increased on-chain transaction sizes could be reduced. If you get creative about how you setup your payment channel recovery strategy, maybe you can contact only some subset of hubs and there might be some deterministic random selection of which hubs you contact and which ones you cross-reference. It's not clear to me that it's a requirement to contact all the hubs every single time.
I didn't even talk about fee mechanisms or how hubs are getting rewarded for the work they are providing. We should look into that.
What would be really great is if we can do this at the p2p level. Joseph Poon was suggesting there's some negotiation protocol you could do between peers, like a bidding game. It sounds promising. With further research, we might be able to drop the hub specific requirement and just run this at a pure p2p level. I don't have that fleshed out at this point. I don't know what the conclusion of that would be.
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An Ever-present Invitation to Ever-greater OpennessAs an educator, I face the question daily: In what way can modern education contribute to the cultivation of wisdom and the search for clarity of thought and perception? Many of my students have confided in me that striving towards independent thought, emotional understanding, and direct perception are noticeably absent from most of their educational experiences in school — and that they are looking for something more.
Their experiences remind me of poet Theodore Roethke’s haunting question: The death of feeling in a child: what is more terrible?”
What has become strikingly clear to me in working with students is that lurking beneath their knowledge, drives, compulsions and interests lies the seeds of a unique, and highly individual vision, the latent shape of a genuine human being. These essential characteristics are often covered over, encrusted with many layers of conditioning. But, I believe that students come into the classroom with a deep yearning to discover something about who they really are. I feel in them a sharp longing for truth; not the facts and figures they learn about the world, but a search for a genuine authenticity of being and expression. A way of being in the world that grows directly from a living inquiry: Who am I? What is real? What is my place in the world, in the cosmos?
Within the first couple of weeks of art or photography classes, a skilled, perceptive teacher can determine without a doubt whose images are whose, and can begin to identify an implicit shape and form of the student’s inner landscape and how they perceive the world. In one of my first assignments, I ask them to make a self-portrait without using themselves as a subject. They can use metaphor, allegory, or symbol with one caveat: no part of their corporal being can be in the photograph. Then the next week, I turn it around. Can you make an image that reflects the spirit of a place, the character of another human being, or the dynamics of an event, apart from your opinion of it? This assignment is very difficult, almost impossible for beginning students. It pushes them beyond their normal frames of references and opens them to something new—the possibility of both uncovering aspects of one’s essential self and opening at least to the potential of attending to the integrity of the world itself with a perception unimpeded by past attitudes and conditioning.
We know by now that the mere acquisition of facts and figures do not make genuine, whole human beings, nor do they contribute to the growth of wisdom or authentic being. The top-down, learning by rote style of teaching does not encourage creativity and the discovery of one’s innate intelligence, engender the empathy and humanistic perspective needed to heal the planet, prevent conflict and war, or offer the means to solve the intractable problems of the modern age.
Wisdom and corresponding growth of being are related to the whole person. Education, if it is to be effective, needs to cultivate not only the aptitude of the mind, but also the sensitivity of the body, and the knowing of the heart. Where and how do we learn to embody empathy, compassion, and mindful intelligence? Did you learn this in school? I certainly didn’t.
In my youth, I detested school. I wanted to have fun learning, to cultivate my passion and curiosity, and to engage my creativity. But school as I knew it was boring and listless, smothering the creative fire of learning and I couldn’t change my teachers or my school’s curriculum. I went to a Catholic school until eighth grade. I would stand in front of the altar in the church and feel, in some deep and unknown part of myself, a yearning for the miraculous. However, I felt sad that I was never taught the means through which I might touch the essential parts of my being that were naturally interrelated with these youthful intimations of infinity.
I was lucky to find powerful teachers outside of school who made learning both challenging and joyful, and who taught my colleagues and I to learn about ourselves and the world equally, with seamless boundaries. My photography teachers, Minor White and Nicholas Hlobeczy, set a broad example of mindfulness and a deep, living inquiry at the heart of the educational process. They taught intuitively and, some might think, with a crazy wisdom, pushing us beyond our perceived limitations and unseating our comfortable attitudes and beliefs. They punctured our false images of ourselves, time and again, with grace, kindness, and skillful means. Chögyam Trungpa refers to crazy wisdom as the “action of truth,” like a thunderbolt that cuts through deception to awaken clarity and understanding. We learned first hand of an intelligence that lies within us, inclusive of authentic thought, feeling, and instinct. We must allow for the action of truth to still the surface mind yet open the heart.
The question I have come to hold deeply is: How do we, as educators, convey the necessary knowledge, relevant skills, and humanistic perspective necessary for life in the 21st century, while at the same time supporting the growing individuality of the student? Can we impart necessary cultural knowledge without divorcing this learning from the essential nature of the student? The most important learning experiences are disruptive, shaking us out of our well-worn grooves of thought and expression, allowing us to find something new and authentic. My most significant teachers offered challenges often in the form of subtle and compassionate shocks to awaken both our minds and feelings to the investigation at hand. Their methods were highly individual and unique.
In my first photography class at Case Western Reserve University with Nicholas Hlobeczy, he sat like a still Buddha in the front of the room as we noisily entered for the first class. He did not move or speak for several long minutes. We were brought up short, arrested into the present moment. Finally, he said slowly and carefully, “It is my belief that creativity arises from stillness.” And indeed, the entire class that semester was a vital exploration of our inward relationship to the outer world through a camera through the medium of striving towards a wordless awareness.
One of the primary goals of education should be to focus on learning to see what is, beyond the screen of our opinions and complexes. Knowledge combined with clear perception and accumulated experience can become a pump at the fountain of wisdom. Opening the heart and discovering our authentic nature leads to a holistic knowing of self and others and cannot be ignored in the educational process.
The Dalai Lama teaches that “the purpose of education is to reduce the gap between reality and appearances.” Seeing arises in the space between knowing and not knowing, in the ambiguous region between knowledge and direct perception. This is the tension, the vital edge where education resides. Knowledge uses past experience and former associations as its base. Perception, on the other hand, can only be in the moment. Direct seeing is fresh and unimpeded by the past. We cannot see clearly through the lens of past knowledge even though we automatically fall into this mode as our path of least resistance. Genuine perception needs an effort: to quiet the mind. We can only see clearly through the lens of the mind’s stillness that mirrors back the true nature of the thing observed.
My great concern in postmodern education is that everything is reduced to what can be proven or observed by external means of measurement, thus discounting what is not easily quantifiable: authenticity, originality, intuitive insight, and deep empathy. Conventional western inquiry remains in the third person, striving to be objective and non-personal, while first person inquiry holds the potential to teach us about the world and ourselves in equal measure. While the shortcomings of our current educational system have been widely recognized and amply discussed, there are encouraging lights on the horizon.
Most spiritual traditions acknowledge an innate intelligence within us that is covered over, encrusted with layers of conditioning and egoism. This form of intelligence, which is beyond the realm of purely rational thought is often visceral or connected to subtle feeling and represents the seeds of our true nature. Tibetan Buddhist Lama Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche knew this intelligence as basic sanity. It is the sanity that can see ourselves as we are, without attempting to disassociate from our neuroses and ego-attachments, but rather to accept them and work with them. Trungpa states, “Developing basic sanity is a process of working on ourselves in which the path itself rather than the attainment of a goal becomes the working basis.”
Trungpa incorporated this work into a broad educational initiative in the founding of Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, later to become Naropa University, a fully accredited college with a wide range of Graduate and Undergraduate programs. Charles Lief, current President of Naropa, describes the role of sanity in education: “Basic sanity is close to what I think of as wisdom. Perhaps it’s more foundational. I think it provides a kind of filter through which those experiences, understandings and realizations that we might call manifestations of wisdom, can arise. … The whole point of contemplative practice is to continue to at least have some possibility of touching in from time to time with those qualities of sanity that allow wisdom to evolve.”
The current practice of Naropa is to integrate traditional scholarly disciplines with contemplative practice. Mindfulness and awareness are linked with academic work and every aspect of learning. Trungpa explains: “In the Buddhist educational tradition, an important ingredient of wisdom is the critical intelligence that can discriminate particular qualities of phenomena accurately. Such intelligence is spoken of as a double-edged sword that cuts through both obscurations in the object of investigation and in the one who is investigating. When you follow these principles of education, you begin to use your logical or critical intelligence to examine what is presented to you. That critical intelligence is also critical intelligence about yourself. That critical intelligence is applied two ways; towards what is presented to you, the educational material, as well as towards who is going to be educated. So you work with yourself as well. The two blades of the sword work simultaneously. Then you begin to find yourself examining things constantly. The process of education becomes very precise and clear and absolutely accurate.”
Interspersed within Naropa’s curriculum are courses on contemplative practice and meditation practicums. Naropa’s approach combines deep respect for scholarship and the arts, as well as for the collective discoveries available in coming together. Here, intelligence can be extended to the practice of collaboration and the ideal of a true “collective intelligence.” The dynamic, reciprocal relationship between me, you, and we can bring startling new insights and expanded dimensions to the educational process.
Thomas Coburn, President Emeritus of Naropa, believes “that other people are perpetual correctives on our own self-absorption. I think that openness to others is necessary to become open to a larger reality — a co-created reality in many ways. I know now that of all the multiple variables that feed into effective teaching and effective learning, there is one that rises above the others — and that is for the teacher to catch students at the teachable moment, when they are extended beyond their comfort zone, and hopefully when the faculty member is extended beyond his or her comfort zone. So you can together create that edgy, vulnerable space where unanticipated things happen.
There is something in the water or in the air that I have come to see profoundly connected with the founder. What I now have come to see at Naropa is what I intuit as ‘an ever present invitation to ever greater openness.’ I think that is exactly what Chögyun Trungpa was talking about.”
In this light, I have come to understand, over many years, that the classroom itself is the teacher. In a properly functioning classroom, students and teachers learn equally. Poet Theodore Roethke observes that a teacher is one “who carries his own education on in public.” Through unfailing sincerity and through the teacher’s own efforts to discover his or her own authentic thought and expression, we facilitate an environment where genuine learning can take place. I now go into each classroom with a question: what is in me and what is in you that can be discovered and shared, no matter what the subject under consideration?
One of the primary goals of education ought to be helping the student discover something of themselves and for themselves. Learning to engage the quiet receptivity of the mind and openness of the heart, learning to look within and without simultaneously, and learning to contribute to the dialogue of our times in whatever way suits the temperament and capacities of the student; these aims constitute valuable goals of the educational process. Contemplative education can provide a foundation for both our work in the world and can open to the deeper spiritual work towards awakening found within the world’s great, authentic teachings.
Trungpa reminds us, “Becoming ‘awake’ involves seeing our confusion more clearly.” The action of seeing what is can change us if we allow it to act on us. And the power to understand and even change the world can only begin from seeing what is, the truth about our condition as individuals and as a culture. There is great hope in seeing. Awakening is paradoxical. Through seeing and accepting the rust, we may find the diamond. In the unfinished novel Mount Analogue by René Daumal, about climbing the mythical mountain that represents the wisdom quest, a group of intrepid seekers begin the ascent. Their leader, a Father Sogol, came to a sharp realization. He said: “Far within me, where the memory of what I am is still unclouded, a little child is waking up and making an old man’s mask weep. A little child looking for…help in order to become what he is without imitating anyone.” At that moment of recognition of truth, he looks to the ground and finds a peradam, a diamond-like crystal which is a symbol of our lucid moments of spiritual clarity and understanding.
The ascent of Mount Analogue takes place with others, of differing knowledge, skills, and specialties. More than anything we need each other. I am a seeker in the company of other seekers, some of whom have more experience than I, and some with less. And we need guides who are a little farther along the path than we are. The “teacher” can arise in the space where we work together. Something can descend, a kind of living intelligence, when two or more are gathered together sharing the aim of a search for wisdom and understanding. | <urn:uuid:040da2bd-edad-4181-b181-cd1133b214ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://theslenderthread.org/education-and-the-cultivation-of-wisdom/ | 2022-01-26T23:51:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305006.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126222652-20220127012652-00239.warc.gz | en | 0.96133 | 3,055 |
- Lake Mendocino Filling
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- Catch of the Day
- Psychic Police
- Girls Swear
- David & Goliath
- The WPA
- Pint Arena's New Manager
- KZYX Changes
THE EFFECTS of the The Drought haven't been remedied by the recent rains, but Lake Mendocino, our visual guide to Mendocino County's water health, is filling up. No longer is the crucial reservoir the vast mud puddle it's been for several years.
FORT BRAGG HIGH SCHOOL'S ADMIN is looking more and more foolish:
Below is a joint statement from myself, Fort Bragg High School Assistant Principal/Athletic Director Bruce Triplett, and Fort Bragg Unified School District Superintendent Charles Bush:
After much discussion with the administration of Mendocino Unified, we decided that in order to protect the safety and well-being of all tournament participants it is necessary to ensure that all political statements and or protests are kept away from this tournament. We request that all participants respect our position in creating an atmosphere of political neutrality that is centered on friendly and healthy competition among young athletes. We are a small school district that simply does not have the resources to ensure the safety and well-being of our staff, students and guests at the tournament should someone get upset and choose to act out.
We applaud Mendocino basketball players for paying attention to what is going on in the world around them, and being willing to take a position that is in line with their beliefs. However, given the recent incidents involving the death of a law enforcement officer in our community, we simply feel this issue is too emotionally charged to allow such a demonstration to happen in our tournament and be able to ensure the safety and well-being of all involved. We simply do not have the resources to protect those involved should the situation become aggressive or physical.
Every school district that is participating in the event has been asked by our Athletic Director to respect our request to maintain a politically neutral environment while participating in this tournament. We want all athletes who wish to participate to have the opportunity to do so, but as the hosts of the event we also need to ensure that we can protect the safety and well-being of everyone in attendance. The only way that is possible is to make this event politically neutral and ask that all involved put their personal beliefs about a situation that occurred on the other side of our country on hold for the short time they are participating. If a team cannot or is unwilling to do that, we have no other choice but to exclude them from the event.
— Rebecca C. Walker, Principal Fort Bragg High School
OH, PLEASE. It takes three “educators” to come up with this completely wrong claim that political statements on t-shirts worn by teenage basketball players are a threat to public safety? Pathetic, and one more lesson for “the kids” (all rise) that when basic democratic principles run up against a spineless school administration (is there any other kind?), the principles get chucked along with the young people who express them.
ONE MORE TIME: I think the national hysteria represented by the I Can't Breathe movement is just that — hysteria. But slam-dunking a bunch of kids for expressing a minority political opinion is simply shameful, not to mention an indication of the intellectual standards at the two schools. Bush, Walker and Triplett need some remedial instruction themselves. Spineless school administrators hire spineless teachers, and the whole stultifying K-12 show makes sheep out of young people, the implicit notion that they're better off not participating in political life, let alone as a dissident. Their opinions won't be respected, and they sure as hell won't be protected by Fort Bragg and Mendocino School authorities.
INCIDENTALLY, there was no protest this football season when Mendocino High School postponed their homecoming week out of respect for Yom Kippur, a clear violation of another Constitutional principle — separation of church and state. Imagine the howls from the Mendocino Coast's liberals if homecoming had been postponed for a week so the Church of Christ could lead students in Bible study?
FORT BRAGG BAN GOES NATIONAL.
McCarthy's great reporting has now been appropriated by the national and international media, from AP to the New York Times to the Guardian of London:
Fort Bragg High asks team from Mendocino to stay home over T-shirts
By Lisa Leff, Associated Press, December 27, 2014
A high school basketball tournament in Fort Bragg has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a team from Mendocino High School was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words “I Can’t Breathe” during warmups.
The athletic director for Mendocino High was informed by his counterpart at Fort Bragg High School this week that neither the boys nor girls teams would be allowed to participate in the three-day tournament hosted by Fort Bragg High starting Monday, Mendocino Unified School District Superintendent Jason Morse said.
The boys were reinstated after all but one player agreed not to wear the shirts inspired by the last words of Eric Garner, the New York man who died after an officer put him in a chokehold, while on the Fort Bragg campus during the Vern Piver Holiday Classic tournament, Morse said. Too few girl players accepted the condition for the team to field a tournament squad, he said.
Bruce Triplett, the athletic director at Fort Bragg High, did not return a call and email seeking comment. Principal Rebecca Walker issued a written statement Friday saying school administrators respected the Mendocino teams “for paying attention to what is going on in the world around them” and that the T-shirts were being prohibited as a security precaution.
“To protect the safety and well-being of all tournament participants it is necessary to ensure that all political statements and or protests are kept away from this tournament,” wrote Walker, who said she was speaking on behalf of the athletic director and the Fort Bragg school superintendent. “We are a small school district that simply does not have the resources to ensure the safety and well-being of our staff, students and guests at the tournament should someone get upset and choose to act out.”
Mendocino varsity teams first wore the “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts before a game with Fort Bragg on Dec. 16, according to the girls coach, Caedyn Feehan. The girls also wore them before games at two other tournaments and didn’t receive any blowback, Feehan said.
“I didn’t even know what it meant. I thought it was a joke about how I had conditioned them so hard,” Feehan said. “None of the administrators knew what it was or that any of them were doing it in advance. This was entirely for their cause that they had strong feelings about.”
Professional basketball players such as LeBron James, Derrick Rose and Kyrie Irving wore “I Can’t Breathe” shirts during warmups this month without repercussions from the NBA. After Kobe Bryant and other Laker player wore them before a game and on the bench on Dec. 9, coach Byron Scott said he viewed it as a matter of “freedom of choice and freedom of speech.”
That’s how Marc Woods, whose 16-year-old son Connor plans to sit out the tournament, sees it. Connor wore the T-shirt at the Dec. 16 game in the name of team solidarity, but “now that’s become a First Amendment violation, that’s what he is fired up about,” the father said.
Woods, whose father was a California Highway Patrol officer, said he is outraged by what he sees as using intimidation to silence players and fans. Fort Bragg administrators have warned spectators who plan to protest the T-shirt ban that they will be asked to leave, he said.
“It doesn’t take a lot to suppress the exchange of ideas when you put fear into it,” Woods said.
Both schools are located in Mendocino County, known for redwood forests, rugged coastline and marijuana-growing, located 120 miles north of San Francisco. The student bodies at the two schools are 1 percent black and 50 percent white and 41 percent Hispanic at Fort Bragg, 75 percent white and 9 percent Hispanic at Mendocino.
A county sheriff’s deputy, Ricky Del Fiorentino, was killed in March by a man suspected of murder and carjacking in Eugene, Ore. The suspect, Ricardo Antonio Chaney, later engaged in a shootout with a Fort Bragg police officer before shooting himself in the head.
Walker referenced Del Fiorentino’s death, saying “We simply feel this issue is too emotionally charged to allow such a demonstration to happen in our tournament and be able to ensure the safety and well-being of all involved.
AP AND THE NEW YORK TIMES and the Guardian of London and Al Jazeera have also picked up Fort Bragg's I Can't Breathe t-shirt ban. The Press Democrat ran the AP story, while none of the big media have credited Paul McCarthy of Elk who broke the story on MendocinoSportsPlus two days ago.
THE WAY THE CONTROVERSY is breaking down nationally pits what loosely passes for the “Left” claiming that the police are out of hand everywhere while the Right is suggesting that criticism of the police anywhere is a form of subversion. The “Left” is going so far as to say that we already live in a police state, which is a huge insult to the millions of people around the globe who live in real police states and speak out at the risk of their lives.
HEY! The Mendocino girl's basketball team, by refusing to honor the shirt ban, is more evidence that they understand what kind of country they're supposed to be living in, even if their administrators don't.
ON LINE STATEMENT OF THE DAY
I have my own personal opinion about the Garner case, as well as the others, but those don't trump our freedom of speech. I can understand banning some things for safety reasons but please explain how some kids at a high school sporting event, who were expressing themselves with a non-violent phrase in a non-violent manner, are risking anything? It's a sticky situation and a polarizing topic but as much as I can't stand certain opinions I would never censor them due too my belief in the Constitution of the United States of America and our bill of rights!
(— Christina Styles, writing on the Press Democrat comment line)
FORBES ON-LINE’s YOUTH SPORTS EDITOR BOB COOK COMMENTED SATURDAY AS WELL:
'I Can't Play' — High School Athletes Face Backlash for Eric Garner-Inspired T-Shirts
It’s not just pro athletes wearing “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts in the wake of the death of Eric Garner. You’re probably familiar with his name and that phrase, which he exclaimed as he was in what would be a fatal chokehold by a New York Police Department officer, thus becoming shorthand for many protests nationwide against perceived police brutality, especially toward African-Americans such as Garner.
The black T-shirts with white Comic Sans lettering have appeared on the pregame warmup bodies of such NBA stars as LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, and they also recently have made their way to high school players as well. For example, the girls basketball team at the Patrick School in New Jersey broke them out during its recent season opener. The shirts aren’t hard to get a hold of: at my local mall, I’ve seen at least two stands selling them. That made me wonder whether a cry of protest quickly was being reduced to a saleable commodity.
The reaction to the “I Can’t Breathe” shirts at one northern California high school tells me the shirts haven’t yet lost their power. From CBS San Francisco:
“A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words ‘I Can’t Breathe’ during warmups. The athletic director for Mendocino High School was informed by his counterpart at Fort Bragg High School this week that neither the boys nor girls teams would be allowed to participate in the three-day tournament hosted by Fort Bragg High starting Monday, Mendocino Unified School District Superintendent Jason Morse said. The boys were reinstated after all but one player agreed not to wear the shirts inspired by the last words of Eric Garner, the New York man who died after an officer put him in a chokehold, while on the Fort Bragg campus during the Vern Piver Holiday Classic tournament, Morse said. Too few girl players accepted the condition for the team to field a tournament squad, he said.”
While the most visible players on any level wearing “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts are African-American, Mendocino’s overwhelmingly are not. The school is 75 percent white, 9 percent Hispanic and 1 percent black, according to CBS San Francisco. Fort Bragg is also only 1 percent black, though it is 41 percent Hispanic and 50 percent white.
The ban takes me back to my college media law course, in which the professor (who also wrote the book we studied) introduced us to Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case that has been the bellwether for all school dress court cases that have followed. Basically, the Tinker kids were allowed to wear their anti-Vietnam War armbands because the First Amendment applied to school, and that schools could only restrict expression based on whether it was truly disruptive, not whether it merely made people uncomfortable or conflicted with the administration’s or community’s prevailing views.
I’ve seen no indication (yet) that anyone at Mendocino will try to bring the Tinker case to bear on Fort Bragg’s decision. For one thing, the conflicts don’t often make it to court, for many reasons (the Tinkers didn’t sue the school district until others picked up the conflict on their behalf). And there are all sorts of conflicts going on where the fight is in the inimitable court of public opinion, such as the Arkansas eighth-grader told she couldn’t wear a shirt stating, “Virginity Rocks,” or the Arlington, Texas, high school that banned a football team T-shirt whose message seemed to endorse rape.
Or school teachers in Staten Island — where Eric Garner was accosted by police and died — told by their union that the New York Department of Education would likely take action against them if they wore pro-New York Police Department T-shirts to school. This warning came in September, two months before a grand jury refused to indict anyone in connection with Garner’s death, and two police were killed in Brooklyn, deaths many officers believed were a direct result of protests against them.
As a writer, my sympathies naturally lie in more speech, not less, despite every YouTube comment thread. The protests against, and the support of, police have nuances that not everyone involved appreciate at first glance. (Speaking of nuances, the one boys’ player who refuses to not wear an “I Can’t Breathe” shirt is the son of a California Highway Patrol officer.)
If Mendocino High wanted to wear “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts, let the chips fall where they may. It’s a good lesson in expressing opinions, especially realizing what happens when you’re speaking them to an unsupportive crowd. If nothing else, the gesture could perhaps educate people in their own community as to the issues involved, because despite LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, not everyone knows what “I Can’t Breathe” means. Again, from CBS San Francisco:
“Mendocino varsity teams first wore the ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-shirts before a game with Fort Bragg on Dec. 16, according to the girls coach, Caedyn Feehan. The girls also wore them before games at two other tournaments and didn’t receive any blowback, Feehan said. ‘I didn’t even know what it meant. I thought it was a joke about how I had conditioned them so hard,’ Feehan said. ‘None of the administrators knew what it was or that any of them were doing it in advance. This was entirely for their cause that they had strong feelings about’.”
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[and this just in from MendocinoSportsPlus...]
MENDO GIRLS VARSITY SENDS LETTER TO MENDO SHERIFF ASSOC. & TO ALL 'CONCERNED CITIZENS'
MSP was fortunate to obtain a copy of the letter some of the Mendocino High School girls varsity basketball team (and some members of the boys team) sent to the Mendocino County Deputy Sheriffs Association Christmas Eve as a Facebook "message." It is in response to that site's comment (since taken down) about the "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts the team wore December 16th. The letter is also meant to be read by "all concerned citizens."
Here it is:
It has come to our attention that members of our local law enforcement felt 'discouraged and disrespected' by our participation in a non-violent national protest. We have worn shirts during the warm-up at recent basketball games that say 'I Can’t Breathe'.
Although the Association did not contact us directly, the statements made on its Facebook page regarding the subject state that they interpreted our shirts as a protest to our local Sheriffs. Some of us and many of our parents personally knew Deputy Ricky Del Fiorentino. He was the best example of a law enforcement officer who knew how to calm down tense situations peacefully. Our protest has nothing to do with exemplary officers like Deputy Del Fiorentino.
We are saddened that the message we are trying to send has been misconstrued, but understand that by choosing to wear our shirts we were getting involved in a very real and controversial issue.
Eric Garner died after being put in a chokehold by law enforcement officials. His last words during the incident, 'I can’t breathe,' have become a slogan that has gained momentum and media attention after members of the NBA, as well as entire college and high school basketball teams wore shirts with this slogan during their warm-ups.
The Mendocino High School Varsity girls and boys basketball teams made the decision to wear the shirts without the initial encouragement of any parent, coach or other adult. We, the players, wanted to express our support for the people who face prejudices, racism, and police brutality daily in our country and convey our concern about these injustices to the public.
We are fortunate to live in a community in which these type of wrongs are uncommon, and respect our local law enforcement officers fully. We appreciate police officers and their difficult and sometimes dangerous job, but at the same time we condemn police brutality that does exist in our country and feel even small communities like ours should promote awareness of such crucial matters.
Various Members of the Mendocino High School Varsity Basketball Teams
Kiera Poehlmann, Jin Jackson, Scott Duncan, Emily Symonds, Michaela Hubbard, Naomi Baker, Isobel Hall, Sean Symonds, Connor Woods, Emily Miller, Isaiah Graham, Aimee Gordon, Cypress Bodaly
A RELUCTANT $25
KZYX&Z, P.O. Box 1, Philo, CA 95466
Mary and John and money-changing staff, accept this check for $25 for a Simple Living Membership.
I had to force myself to send this money, because I so don't have it to throw around and so don't want to reward you*, but I want to have a voice and a vote on the direction KZYX goes, and apparently this is the only way, even though you've got literally millions of tax dollars in grants over the last 25 years, so…
It's coming up on three years since I offered my show to you —description, long good history, letters of reference, letters to your Program Advisory Committee (which I found out a year later doesn't even exist), 15 years of samples, jumped through all your hoops, continued email contact and updating, and you've taken zero steps to put Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio on KZYX. Given my safe and wonderful and good-natured track record in teaching and publishing and radio I consider it to be a measure of your incompetence that my show was not on KZYX within six months. That would have been late summer of 2012.
*Two thousand (2000) (!) regular $50 memberships don't add up to what KZYX management scarfs up in personal pay, where none of the people actually doing the work of radio are paid a cent, nor even allowed autonomy in the content and operation of their own shows. That's one of the things that I'm going to vote to change.
Happy new year.
Marco McClean, Mendocino
ED NOTE: For 2013, KZYX’s Audited Budget (from their website) says “Wages, salaries and related expenses” were $249,539. Membership in the 2000 range x $50 = $100,000. As far as we know there are five paid staffers at KZYX (also according to their website): John Coate, Mary Aigner, David Steffen, Rich Culbertson, and Diane Hering.
CATCH OF THE DAY, December 27, 2014
KELISHA ALVAREZ, Ukiah. Illegal camping, probation revocation. (Frequent flyer.)
BRUCE CARTWRIGHT, Ukiah. Child abuse or endangerment, parole violation.
BO EDER, Fort Bragg. Possession of controlled substance, injection/smoking device, and burglary tools. (Frequent flyer.)
JESSICA EWING, Ukiah. Probatioin revocation.
GREGORY FINNEY, Ukiah. Assault with deadly weapon not a firearm.
TRAVIS HAWK, Ukiah. Provation revocation.
DANIEL HOLMES, Ukiah. Child endangerment, battery, resisting arrest, probation revocation.
ROSS MERRILL, Fort Bragg. Drunk in public, resisting arrest.
SANDRA OAKS, Hazelhurst, Georgia/Ukiah. Failure to appear.
MATTHEW OGDIE, Oakland/Ukiah. Probation revocation.
APRIL RASH, Ukiah. Child endangerment, probation revocation.
KENDRA SELLS, Fort Bragg. Possession of controlled substance and paraphernalia, probation revocation.
HERE'S TO RATIONALITY
For crying out loud…
I thought the Giants’ victory might make you giddy, but did all the excitement fry your brain? Otherwise, why, a week later would you run that goofy column by Debra Keipp? (She, the psychic, “…works between the 3rd and 4th dimensions of reality…” ?????) There is no such thing as a psychic. They are all fakes, scam artists taking gullible folks’ money. And, they steal time from serious investigations, if the police involved are also gullible. (The day a psychic predicts a lottery, I might be interested.)
It’s a myth that psychics have helped solve crime cases. Tests conducted by the LAPD showed information generated by psychics was no better than chance would allow (Journal of Police Science and Administration (7, No.1, 1979). Joe Nickell writes there is not a single documented case of a missing person being found or discovered due solely to psychic information. (See the book he edited, Psychic Sleuths).
In the Laci Peterson case, the Modesto police received over 300 calls from psychics but used none. None! The one D. Keipp refers to is Noreen Renier, who has a long sullied career as nothing more than an actor claiming paranormal powers (She predicted Jimmy Carter would be assassinated after his election in 1980 (!) and Mondale would commit suicide). She has faked police hirings, fabricated missing person cases, and claims university teaching appointments and diplomas which are all bogus. A thorough fascinating investigation of her is chronicled in <commentarybysherlock.com>.
I contacted well known skeptics about this case and they very promptly and generously offered their help. Gary Posner, MD, founder of Tampa Bay Skeptics has written extensively of her career (including Tampa Bay Skeptics Report, Vol. 16 No.1 Summer 2003). Benjamin Redford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine also wrote about Renier and the Peterson case in his recent book, Mysterious New Mexico.
The Laci Peterson case was solved by good, solid detective work by the police, helped by Scott Peterson’s stupidity. His Christmas Eve fishing venture to the Bay was immediately suspect, and later blood was found in his truck and on a mop he used to clean his kitchen floor. The police made many trips to the Bay with the case resolving itself in April when a couple out for a walk found the fetus washed up at Pt. Isabel. Laci’s body washed up the next day further away. No psychic needed here.
The problem is that Americans have not been taught to think critically; precisely why I recommended Carl Sagan’s The DemonHaunted World when you were collecting titles earlier this year. It’s a gem of a manual for thinking critically and should be recommended in all our high schools. I hope you’re back on your normal crystal clear thinking track, Bruce. Hang on. Catchers and pitchers report in about 2 months!
Jayne Thomas, Richmond
NIXON TAPE TRANSCRIPT OF THE DAY: April 28, 1971, 9:28 am
Richard Nixon, Bob Haldeman, and Henry Kissinger
EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING
NIXON: This is what it really comes down to. The point is, now, Henry, drinking at 18. Because, well, 75% of the kids might drink at 18, most kids, 25% that drink at 18 would probably go off the rockers. It’s not a good idea. I mean, you’ve got to stop at a certain point. Why is it that the girls don’t swear? Because a man, when he swears, people can’t tolerate a girl who is a –
HALDEMAN: Girls do swear.
HALDEMAN: They do now.
NIXON: Oh, they do now? But, nevertheless, it removes something from them.
Now wake up boys, get out on the rock
It ain't daybreak but it's 4 o'clock
Oh, no, no, no, pops, you know that ain't the play
What you talkin' 'bout, it's the W.P.A.
The W.P.A., the W.P.A.
Sleep while you work, while you rest, while you play
Lean on your shovel to pass the time away
'T ain't what you do, you can die for your pay
The W.P.A., the W.P.A., the W.P.A.
Now don't be a fool working hard is passe
You'll stand from five to six hours a day
Sit down and choke while you smoke, it's okay, the W.P.A.
I'm so tired, I don't know what to do
Can't get fired, so I'll take my rest until my work is through
The W.P.A., the W.P.A.
Don't mind the boss if he's cross when you're gay
He'll get a pink slip next month anyway
Three little letters than make life okay, the W.P.A.
— Louis Armstrong
PINT ARENA'S NEW CITY MANAGER
by Debra Keipp
Last week I visited Point Arena City Hall because the new City Manager and secretary weren't answering their phones. I asked for a few chapters out of the City's Muni-Code, and had a few more questions about the City's dormant (what used to be called) Low-Income Housing Build-out Component. (It appears most of the low-income component has been aborted and it is now dubbed Senior Housing with only a few low-income units in the plans.)
The new Point Arena City Manager job has been filled by Phil Vince, who accepted a job that years ago should have been upgraded for Fred Patten, our old City Clerk under Mayor Dahlhoff. Patten held the City together for about a quarter of a century working in the capacity of City Clerk under both Mayors Earlygrow and Dahlhoff. Patten babysat Dahlhoff through her myopic unsuccessful attempt to rend ownership of Point Arena Water Works from owner, Bill Hay, which ended in Dahlhoff charging homeowners and water users for the entirety of the lawyers' fees generated by Dahlhoff for both sides in the case. (Dahlhoff's lawyers fees which water users are still paying as part of their water bills.) Dahlhoff proved too skimpy with her old friend to offer Patten the job re-classification and pay raise befitting his most excellent skills; holding together, as it goes in a small constituency like Point Arena, two handfuls of inexperienced Council members and Planners. Eventually he left his job, ill and discouraged. Since then Point Arena City Hall has been flapping in the breeze. A good deal of cluelessness could be attributed to the years since Fred Patten's resignation; leading up to recommendations made by the Mendocino County Grand Jury to hire an actual “City Manager” to guide City Council, instead of just another clerk.
New Point Arena City Manager, Phil Vince, most recently worked in Martinez and lived in Moraga, taking a year sabbatical before being hired recently to oversee Point Arena City Hall. While, according to election law, the City Council members must all live within the City limits to run for elected office, employee Vince, and one of the Planners, may live outside the City limits. There are no new places to live inside Point Arena's City boundaries, as build-out has been discouraged here throughout all of the Earlygrow and Dahlhoff campaigns amounting to about the last 25 years. Point Arena suffers a surplus of vacant, unpermitted dwellings as a result. Dahlhoff only recently released her stranglehold on Point Arena's no growth stance to bring Point Arena to the status of “Monument”, all of a sudden. Previous to that and presently, there remains no economic development plan within the City limits, even with promises of such after the dedication of the Coastal Monument. The population of Point Arena today remains at only around 500. It can't grow much larger than that, for lack of legal living accommodations within the City of sensitive habitat located entirely within the California Coastal Zone.
Point Arena sits within one square mile, with only about 200-odd registered voters. The maximum for a good voter turn-out is around 80-88 votes. Votes rarely number more than 90.
In speaking with Mr. Vince in the cold concrete and cinder block building which is Point Arena City Hall, he sat in his office working in a substantial, thickly-lined yellow hooded rain slick and acknowledged, “There's something not quite right about getting elected to public office with only 88 votes. It's usually unheard of... But that's the way it goes in a City the size of Point Arena.”
I asked Vince straight up, “What's the tax revenue of the Koogles' Huntley House, where our new Mayor lives illegally, which as potential tax revenue for the City, mostly sits empty of businesses these many years? And, why then can Mayor Koogle remain on Council when he doesn't legally live within the City limits, having lied on his election application papers, even though somehow, he can afford to keep buying unlivable, unpermitted properties which sit completely or mostly vacant in need of permits and renovation within the City limits?”
Mr Vince: “We don't even have enough officials for a Planning Commission. We have Council acting as Planners now...”
DKPA: “I know of the general lack of interest... You're saying we should be admitting Council applicants in from outside the City limits to hold office in Point Arena. According to what law? (Senator Roderick Wright was convicted of voter fraud for lying about his true residency in voter registration papers.) What's up with NO enforcement? Is it time for re-annexation so the City can legally draw applicants from outside the City limits?”
Vince looked nagged and incredulous as he said, “That's a law that is frequently broken and no one bothers to go after the offenders most of the time...” Episodic enforcement interludes are what they're called in Point Arena. (Mr. Vince is hog-tied anyway, until he passes his new employee probationary period.)
To which I responded with another satirical tact altogether. “Well, then, can you look at it this way? Why then didn't the City advertise the one seat on Council to anyone outside the City limits who can grow their 700 lbs of pot, enabling them to afford not to hold down another source of employment while living within the City limits like the rest of us poor suckers without virtue of “economic development”. Then, with untaxed pot money generated outside the City limits, buy up three parcels of property – oddly all unlivable, unrentable and dilapidated buildings – but within the City limits nonetheless, most all of which generate little, if any tax revenue for the City of Point Arena? All without filing for ANY permits, let alone the proper California Coastal Commission development permits. Let's open it up and make it available to every elected seat – not just the one guy who lied and got away with it. The City should be offering the position to more than just that one liar who shouldn't even be voting in the City limits, - that's voter fraud - who loop-holed it with his illegal living address on his election papers, which is still enforceable by law. But you tell me following the law is optional according to the City of Point Arena? City Hall gets to decide with impunity who gets to break the law? Does City Council draw straws, or decide by personal preference, overlooking their “friends” entirely in facilitating avoidance of all permitting processes. That lack of equality in enforcement just sends more complaints to Grand Jury... once again - to referee inadequacies by the City of Point Arena, who should simply follow the law instead of bending it to the breaking point only for “friends of City Hall”.”
We also touched briefly on nepotism by Council, Planners and employees of the City. Apparent in the nepotism of the City's hired relatives, errr aaaa... employees, Jean Nadell, former County Counsel, now Judge, came to City Hall to educate Gualala's GMAC members, Point Arena City Planners and Councilpersons, regarding conflict of interest, informing that they couldn't be married or related, and sit on these boards or as employees, simultaneously. That's when Mr. Dahlhoff, the former Mayor's husband, negated and argued with Nadell, regardless of the law she quoted. See my point about Point Arena's entitled conflicted political mindset?
“You want a letter from the City saying the current Mayor's “true residence” is not even a legal live space? I have evidence of that on City letterhead provided by the fired City Clerk. Wanta see it?”
Koogles' Huntley House is not a legal live space, according to the City of Point Arena. Never was. Koogle is guilty of fraud, therefore, as he rented it under that falsity, to at least two renters as a legal live-work space, before moving into the building himself. Can't we legally open City Council seats in Point Arena to everyone, in or outside the City limits, since it already seems to be a kind of unspoken broken law, anyway? We might at least get a better chance at a qualified candidate interested in prioritizing more than just a skate park typically for, and narrowly used by one gender – adolescent males.”
I added that I didn't want to overburden Mr. Vince with re-annexation in his new job, but that would be the most sensible for a voter constituency languishing at 88 votes, under annual scrutiny by the Mendocino County Grand Jury. Re-annexation could open up the already stifled boundaries of “Pint” Arena from Iversen to Mountain View and up to Ten Mile from the Ocean – or, follow the fog bank. That might at least give us a voter population of a few thousand... a much larger tax base, not to mention maybe some folks who'd like to run for office with some business acumen. Point Arena has at least a dozen vacated, deconstructed buildings and/or business spaces presently; both residential and commercial – most absolutely uninhabitable, earning no taxable income for the City of Point Arena, with nowhere for a new constituency to live in a city not requiring building permits and/or improvements, beginning with its Councilpersons.
I advised Mr. Vince to get the City Hall locks changed or re-keyed to eliminate the extra subterfuge, after already having had the City's office records sacked for incineration since Fred Patten ran City Hall. Before searching for the Muni-Codes, I informed Mr. Vince that the office secretary, himself, and the emergency services director for the City (who it turns out, is also Mr. Vince), are suppose to be the only three designatees with keys to City Hall's office. Not even the Mayor or Councilpersons are to have keys to City Hall. He blew it off telling me the locks had been changed by the previous interim City Manager, Tyson. I then asked Mr. Vince if I could buy a copy of Chapters 14 through 18 of the City's Muni-Code.
We went into the inner office in search of the Muni-Code binder for chapters 14-18. We found that chapters 14 and 18 are missing. These are the specific chapters that relate to the other Grand Jury Complaint a few constituents are filing on one other of Point Arena's City Council members who, for the last four-plus years, has been living without proper sewer, water, dwelling, or permits; in violation of Point Arena land use issues on sensitive habitat, which qualifies most of Point Arena within the City limits.
“Hmmmm...” I said, “Look there. The pertinent Muni-Codes: missing. I'll be damned. ...and just the very chapters pertaining to your other illegally-lodged Councilperson's California Development Permit, residency, and land use issues living in that uninhabitable garage without City sewer hook-up down on Point Arena Creek!”
To which Mr. Phil Vince, new hire City Manager, responded, “You could be right about those keys.”
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kingdom of god vs kingdom of heaven lds
The Kingdom of God is heaven. 31:20–21.) You can even compare parallel verses like Matthew 4:17 Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven … I appreciate you stopping by. In a slightly different perspective, some have theorized that the KG has already come because Jesus has already come (the first time), and the KH is still yet to come. Classical dispensational teaching makes a clear distinction between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven as used in the Bible. God’s authority does not exist within us, but we as believers acknowledge His power, and we respond appropriately through the moral and spiritual forces His power impresses upon us. Likewise, the apostles Luke and Mark use KG while Matthew used KH when they wrote about the exact same parable. Inhabitants That is helpful, thank you! One example is the sending out of the twelve (Matt 10 , Lk 9). Thank you so much for this clarity. Many Jews expected the Messiah to come as a political or military figure, someone who would come charging in and save them from Roman rule. He is your Creator, and as a result has the right to give you orders. We also know the KH is not here because, quite frankly, the earth is running amok in sin. I am enlighten, You do clearly with the backup of scripture explain the difference between the two but towards the end, you did kind of contradict your points, where you said, none of both kingdoms is present on earth today; and you said the chaos in the world prove so. But we know from the book of Revelation that He will indeed come charging in one day to assert His authority at His second coming (Revelation 19:11-16) bringing the full KG with Him. But they can quickly be dismissed if you believe the KG and the KH are one and the same. The celestial kingdom is the highest of the three degrees of glory. When I partake of the sacrament with you in my Fatherâs kingdom, Matt. 12:23, 28). You are a small created being, and part of His creation. Which church do you represent? While denotative distinctions between the KG and the KH have been proposed elsewhere, the distinction became widely known through the popular Scofield Reference Bible. Just look at how Jesus introduced His ministry: Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of … While Jesus indeed did walk the earth and brought a tiny slice of the KG with Him, we must remember He ascended again to the right hand of the Father (Acts 1:9) and that slice is no longer here with us. The celestial kingdom is the highest of the three degrees of glory. The Lord is King for ever and ever, Ps. Expanding on this, the Plan of Salvation as taught by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) holds that Heaven is divided into three separate kingdoms of glory (each of which contains \"many mansions). The King of both of these is Jesus Christ but are t… You are not in charge. 8:11,12; Lk. If we want to know about the kingdom we must know about the King of that kingdom and whether it is the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God we are talking about. thanks for the explanation about this Who wrote this essay? Historically, God's Kingdom was known as Israel, to whom he gave the Promised Land. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the kingdom of God on the earth, but it is at present limited to an ecclesiastical kingdom. The kingdom of heaven, on the other hand, is the opposite of the earth and the sin the earth contains. THE KINGDOM OF GOD Brief Overview of the Two Kingdoms: The Kingdom of Heaven (Ouranos) – a physical, literally, earthly kingdom; just as heaven is physical, so is this kingdom. No unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven, Alma 11:37. The longer version (removed) included all of Jesus parables and expounded on them. 2:44 (D&C 138:44). I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom, Matt. Many well-known and exegetically sound Bible teachers assert that there is a difference in these two terms as they are found in the New Testament, particularly the Gospel of Matthew. – user862 Nov 29 '16 at 8:09. Answer: While some believe that the Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven are referring to different things, it is clear that both phrases are referring to the same thing. Who Wrote Paul’s Letters in the New Testament? Therefore, the KH must refer to the coming millennial kingdom. Mat 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. Learn more | Create PowerClip! During the Millennium, the kingdom of God will be both political and ecclesiastical. It consists of people trusting and employing “power under” rather than “power over,” even when they, like Jesus, suffer because of this. It is thought by the LDS Church to be the "third heaven" referred to by the apostle Paul in the King James Version of 2 Corinthians "12:2". THE KINGDOM OF GOD Brief Overview of the Two Kingdoms: The Kingdom of Heaven (Ouranos) – a physical, literally, earthly kingdom; just as heaven is physical, so is this kingdom. Rev 11:15 The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever. Philippians 4:6 NKJ. Hi, love the article, thank you. Order yours now at Moody Publishers (not an affiliate link). Whoso receiveth you as a little child, receiveth my kingdom, D&C 99:3. The Holy Spirit does dwell within us, this is true, but it does not mean the kingdom of God follows. I agree with you in the overall, though I have a feeling this will play in my thoughts for a few weeks still. : Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Part One, How the Roman Army Utterly Destroyed the Second Temple, Inside the Blessed Holy of Holies and the Sacred Veil, A Walking Tour of the Second Temple and Its Courts. I suppose it’d have been quite fantastic had it been Mathew, Mark, and Luke are our contemporaries to tell us what each of them meant by KG or KH. While denotative distinctions between the KG and the KH have been proposed elsewhere, the distinction became widely known through the popular Scofield Reference Bible. God’s Kingdom is a real government established by Jehovah God. Are you or someone you care about in need of prayer? Location. this is fantastic news, god word is the alpha and the omega,, it will be a glorious day when jesus rides across the heavens ..in my simpliticy i like to think it will be like a giant plughole that when this happens all evil get pulled down a giant sinkhole as the armies of christ ride on to total victory, the KG And KH becoming one…cool! Kingdom of God vs Kingdom of Heaven. Bible Verses for Reference: “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, … Read More You say that during the last days, God does the work of judgment in order to class each according to his kind, to reward good and punish evil, to bring the old age to an end, and that, ultimately, Christ’s kingdom shall be realized on earth. 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Kingdom of God, also called Kingdom Of Heaven, in Christianity, the spiritual realm over which God reigns as king, or the fulfillment on Earth of God’s will.The phrase occurs frequently in the New Testament, primarily used by Jesus Christ in the first three Gospels. So, which theory is correct? Thanks for stopping by! Purpose. Most of these references occur in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.While the exact term is not found in the Old Testament, the existence of God’s Kingdom is expressed similarly in the Old Testament. Matthew 13:11, Mark 4:11 Luke 8.10 Matthew 13:31, mark 4:30, luke 13:18 Matthew 19:23, Mark 10.23, luk 18:24 Matthew uses Kingdom of Heaven and Mark and Luke use Kingdom of God in the exact same contexts. 3. His kingdom will prevail. I agree . I can view it differently now, Thank you very much for such explanations. Understanding Psalm 23: What is the Valley of the Shadow of Death? How Much Faith Did God Measure Out for You? C. I. Scofield defines the two phrases in his reference Bible notes on Matthew 3:2 and Matthew 6:33. (Mark 1:14, 15; Matthew 4:17, King James Version) It shares many attributes of human governments, yet it … At that time, heaven and the Kingdom of God will become one in its perfection just as it was before Satan’s rebellion. In the Jewish faith, any attempt at using God’s name in any way is a sin because it’s very likely you will get it wrong. The kingdom of God is in the midst of you” (Luke 17:20–21). Are the KG and the KH the same thing or not? Also I had a question for you if you have time to respond: What’s the difference when bible authors just call it “the Kingdom” and don’t specify “of God” or “of Heaven”? At least for now. Thanks for sharing all this great info. The God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, Dan. The kingdom of God is where His authority exists, but it is acknowledged by believers through the power of the Holy Spirit as He reveals it to us. How bout we state it simply…kingdom of heaven implies the personal presence of the Lord Jesus Christ and the kingdom of God extends from eternity to eternity. One of the contributing factors to the kingdomization of the Church is the breakdown of the distinction between the “kingdom of God,” and the ‘”kingdom of heaven.” During the last 20 years or so dispensational leaders have been forsaking the distinctiveness of the kingdom of heaven as set forth in Matthew, more and more making it synonymous with the kingdom of God. Where are the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Today? Mormons call these heavenly kingdoms the \"Three Degrees of Glory:\" the Celestial, the Terrestrial, and the Telestial. $11.99. In the broadest sense God’s rule extends over all the universe so that the birds, fishes, and all animals are subject to God’s rule, but in New Testament teaching the kingdom of God (or of heaven, or of Christ) is a specialized term referring to the spiritual fellowship of those who are saved from their sins in Christ in the gospel age (Heb. It consists of people trusting and employing “power under” rather than “power over,” even when they, like Jesus, suffer because of this. Religion - 90 percent of all the national and international problems facing our world today are the result either of poor governance or religious extremism. A final point is the KG is not commonly found in Jewish texts, but KH is frequently used, especially in literature that discusses the end times of the world. Journey to the Jordan: The Israelites’ Historical Hike to the Promised Land Part Four, Journey to the Jordan: The Israelites’ Historical Hike to the Promised Land Part Three, Journey to the Jordan: The Israelites’ Historical Hike to the Promised Land Part Two, Journey to the Jordan: A Study of the Israelites’ Historical Hike to the Promised Land Part One. God lives. Romans 14:17 says that the kingdom of God is a matter “of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” The gospel of the kingdom is the good-news message of repentance, redemption, and restoration offered by God to all who will receive Christ. It’s a colloquial term that encompasses a lot of who God is and what He controls. Scofield noted five ways to distinguish between the KH and the KG. The kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God is the central theme of Jesus’ preaching, according to the Synoptic Gospels. This is why you might sometimes see references to God in Jewish texts as G*d or YHWH. Inhabitants You may rest with them in the kingdom of my Father, D&C 15:6. So, when we read about the KG in the New Testament, the Bible is describing God’s overarching authority and His universal kingdom. Your email address will not be published. The KH, on the other hand, is meant more as a distinction from the earth. Why Jesus Leaves the 99 Sheep to Find You. A very clear description of “kingdom of God” and “kingdom of heaven” (which I will abbreviate as KG and KH, respectively) is found in Vine’s Expository Bible Dictionary. The parable of the hid treasure in the field is Israel hid among the nations of the world: this parable is Ezekiel 37. This article is actually the starting point of more bible searching! Was Jesus Supposed to be Called Immanuel? I hope that helps. Thanks, Jeff. THANK GOD for the clarification of the KG and KH. The LDS Church considers the church itself as the kingdom of God on the earth. You must do things God's way. This is a new source of information and I am more comfortable with the distinction now. We reflect that acknowledgment by obedience to His commands and by bearing good fruit. It’ll be better to hear from the horse’s mouth rather than our thoughts! Psalm 45.6, 47.7; Revelation 19.16). Does the Bible Tell Us to Pray in Jesus’ Name? You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. The kingdom of God refers to the Church of Christ. The KH is made only of humans who profess God, whether they are actual believers or not. God’s Kingdom will transform the earth into a paradise home where all humans will live in peace and harmony and never get sick or die.— These are they who are just men made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood. 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The 2nd annual Hall of Flowers show landed in Santa Rosa, California this week looking to build upon the success of the event and the vendors who participated in it last year and by all measures they seem to have exceeded expectations.
At its roots, Hall of Flowers is a cannabis consumption-friendly B2B (Business to Business) trade show curated by some of the brightest minds in the cannabis marketing space, and beyond, to highlight the top brands from California’s legal, licensed marijuana market.
The Beard Bros. crew was there, as were many of our friends in this industry and culture, and here’s how we saw it all go down.
LEVELING UP vs. GAME OVER
Confession time: I’m a pretty big video game nerd. Always have been.
But from the Atari and Commodore 64 to today’s hottest titles, I’ve never played the perfect video game. The problem is, I cannot even put my finger on what they’re all lacking that I’m apparently looking for even after all these years.
Well, I’ve been smoking weed for nearly 30 years as well and I’ve been to every sort of cannabis themed event or trade show that you can imagine. From wholesale to retail, B2B to straight up sesh-heavy celebrations, I’ve been there.
On paper, a cannabis expo should be fun and worthwhile every time, right?
Public consumption with your friends without fear of law enforcement, good music, food, and weed everywhere… what more can you ask for?
Last year’s Emerald Cup (also hosted at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa) definitely raised the bar and restored my diminished faith in such events – you can read about that experience HERE. But this was my first visit to Hall of Flowers and suddenly everything – all of those various experiences over the years – just *clicked* and everything felt right.
Just as The Emerald Cup felt like a leveling up for the cannabis community, Hall of Flowers has similarly blazed a better trail for future B2B and industry networking events.
While there will always be a market for glass shows and more ancillary product promotions, Hall of Flowers was clearly focused on the California cannabis supply chain. This made every vendor a relevant and useful stop for the buyers making their way around the showroom floor.
As the event continues to grow, we’d like to see some more top-shelf ancillary products – still selectively chosen by event organizers – for more of a one-stop-shop and to put pressure on more traditional B2B trade shows to step their game up if they want to survive.
OG’s (OPTICAL GANGSTERS)
Everything about Hall of Flowers is pleasing to the eye.
Taking place this year on the idyllic late-Spring dates of April 30th & May 1st, the weather could not have been better for this indoor/outdoor event in the basin of the famed Emerald Triangle.
There were a few vendors strategically placed outside, like Puffco, which allowed them to truly demo their products with potential buyers as smoking and vaping were prohibited indoors. The voluminous but dated buildings at the Fairgrounds have pretty poor airflow so, to me, this was a good decision and the setup outside was incredibly inviting.
Shaded, grassy areas abound at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds and Hall of Flowers took full advantage with hundreds of unique and cozy seating options strewn thoughtfully about – including countless massive bean bag chairs that proved to be very popular for those trying to get off their feet for a while.
Anytime I needed to sit down, I could.
Why is that so rare at other events?
My guess is that their old rutted mentality is that if people are sitting, they aren’t buying. But Hall of Flowers knows that it is curating an experience, not a trip to the mall, and it shows from top to bottom.
Clever use of colorful and aesthetically pleasing geometric banners and tarps disguised the not-so-appealing portions of the Fairgrounds infrastructure and although the event reportedly more than doubled in size from the year before, there was plenty of room and it was easy to navigate the grounds and relink with friends.
A live DJ spun an eclectic mix of tracks from a half-baked Noah’s Ark-like structure, providing a perfect soundtrack to the dreamlike surreality of the scene.
Once inside the two main exhibition halls, buyers and general admission guests were treated to an eye-pleasing display of over 250 of the top California cannabis brands currently operating in the regulated market.
Unlike virtually every cannabis event or counter culture trade show that I’ve ever been to, Hall of Flowers drastically limits the amount of signage and booth building that each brand is allowed to do, and this is a good thing in my opinion.
Each booth space is divided by these really cool slatted bamboo side and back walls that not only provide a clean, uniform look for the showroom, but they greatly reduce the amount of crap that each vendor needs to haul with them to Santa Rosa to delineate their space on the floor.
The modular style of the walls allows for easy display of shelving for products or imagery to hype the brand and the uniform spaces mean that each company gets an equal look from passers-by and will be judged on the quality of their product and their branding, rather than the quantity of it.
Bill, Jeff, and I loved it because the walls are like six feet high and the three of us are nearly six and a half feet tall so it made it easy for us to find each other if we got split up.
It was also very easy to find exactly what booth or brand you were looking for thanks to maps being handed out at the entrance and useful signage everywhere you looked to help guide you to the good stuff.
Living up to its name, the vast majority of the vendors at the show were there to push cannabis and cannabis-infused goods. There has been some critique online already about the quality of the buds on display but we found it to be a pretty damn accurate depiction of the legal market as it stands today – some absolute fire in a sea of midgrade, mass produced boof.
The fact of the matter is that if they limited the show to only companies providing 5-star weed on the legal market, they could hold it in a walk-in closet.
Instead, what we saw were a lot of well-funded startups trying their hardest to keep their heads above water while also trying to appear equal parts authentic and confident. Many of them will figure it out, some will not. . . that’s business.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
Hall of Flowers has witnessed what works at cannabis related events, and what does not. They have picked pieces and parts from shows inside and outside of the cannabis space to create one dope-ass Frankenstein of funk.
One of the main “outside” influences on the direction of the event is the tactfully outspoken mega-entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, whose proven radar for “the next big thing” led him to the epicenter of the cannabis culture.
Now a partner with L.A.-based Green Street – the industry’s most forward-thinking branding and marketing agency – Gary V is laying his profanity-laden wisdom on our community and, love him or otherwise, the smart people in the room are paying attention.
At the inaugural Hall of Flowers show in 2018, Vaynerchuk served as the keynote speaker and by all accounts completely wowed the crowd with his cutthroat insights and his genuine excitement about this new industry blooming before his eyes.
This year he also took the stage, moderating a discussion that essentially boiled down to the power of branding. The Bros. and I had to collectively pick our jaws up from the floor once the hour had ended as Gary, point by point, completely validated all of the effort that our crew has been putting in for years now to build our brand through compelling content creation.
Put this quote in your pipe and puff on it a bit:
“If your shit sucks and your brand is phenomenal, it’s just going to speed up the process of people figuring out that your shit sucks.”
It really breaks down to being the type of person who when confronted with a challenge doesn’t resort to asking, “Why me?”, but instead says, “Ok, why not?” and tackles it. Being that type of person and surrounding yourself with those types of people is how you build and sustain a brand in these wild times.
As cannabis goes mainstream so does the face of cannabis and nowhere was this more apparent than at Hall of Flowers this week.
Never before have we seen such diversity at a cannabis event, or maybe at any event. It is very safe to estimate that roughly 50% of the attendees at the show were female and the multiplicity of cultures made the concept of race feel foreign even though it is still a harsh reality outside the Fairground gates.
The amount of good looking people didn’t escape me, nor did it escape another celeb speaker at the event, Chelsea Handler, who remarked that she likes her business partners to be “showered”. There was a spattering of suits, but just as few crusty creatures, with a plethora of healthy, functional, beautiful potheads fueling a multi-billion dollar revolution.
Without naming names, noticeably absent were the real fuckboys of yesteryear. I figure that the size and enthusiasm of the crowd can likely be chalked up in large part to the fact that so many of those in attendance have been burnt by High Times, or Chalice, or others and realized that they finally found the solace that I had too.
General admission 2-day tickets were $350 plus a twenty-something dollar service fee. So call it $375. That ain’t cheap but for the vendors onsite, it allowed them to spend more time to form lasting business relationships with wholesale buyers, and still gave them a chance to introduce or reinforce their brand with the public connoisseurs.
Parking is free. Hell, even some incredibly life-saving, cottonmouth-quenching, charcoal-filtered lemonade and cinnamon churro cold brew was free on tap both days from the homies at Kingston Coffee.
Much like the complementary umbrellas and raised walkways at December’s Emerald Cup, these thoughtful touches go a long way to separate shows like theirs and Hall of Flowers from the rest.
GRIPES FROM THE GRASSROOTS
Ok, ok, nothing is totally perfect, right? Considering that this was only the second year of the event, and considering the current regulatory environment, we were pleasantly surprised at how smoothly Hall of Flowers was executed, but here’s where we saw some room for improvement.
Due to the absolutely dispassionate restrictions of Prop 64 on cannabis compassion programs, handing out free samples at an event like Hall of Flowers (or anywhere in Cali, really) is no longer legal. Instead, compassion-based outfits like our good friends at Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance are forced to buy their own product from themselves at full retail price (including all applicable taxes) to be able to legally give it away to fellow veterans in need.
In order to comply with that ass-backwards part of “legal weed”, and in order to make sure that no one person walked away from the event with more than the state-imposed daily limit of an ounce of flower and/or 8g of cannabis extracts, Hall of Flowers implemented a plan that probably worked better in theory than in practice.
Instead of dispensing samples themselves, vendors would give interested buyers a serialized ticket. Once you had a stack of these tickets, you could redeem them at one of two “dispensary” booths operated by Showgrow. They would scan your ticket to reveal what the sample actually was – it could be a pre-roll, an 8th of buds, a bath bomb, a small edible, or more – and you pay $2 per ticket to get the goods.
The money went to cover the cost and tax obligation for each “$1” sample and buyers walked away with a bag of goodies for $10-20 in most cases.
Sounds great, right?
The problem that arose was a pretty ironic reflection of the Cali cannabis market as whole, though, as lines for the dispensary booths became comically long and samples reportedly ran out long before the corresponding tickets had been redeemed.
Of course, the wait was much shorter at the beginning of each day than it was at the end, but the end of the day is when you have a handful of tickets. The fix is simple and we have little doubt that they will beef up the distribution game next year assuming that the state still makes them jump through so many ridiculous hoops.
Also, the show concluded at 6pm the first day, and ran a bit longer on the second and final day. We’d love to see them close the exhibition halls at 6pm, but keep that stellar outdoor area open into the night. That way all of our friends who’ve been stuck working their booths all day could catch the vibe as well and the party could continue. Santa Rosa is a beautiful town but there is not much to do there on a Tuesday or Wednesday night.
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Analysing and using information from multiple sources
There are many different sources of data relevant for nutrition in Zimbabwe.
George Kembo, Director, National Food and Nutrition Council and SUN Government Focal Point
describes how the information is analysed and used…
“Government has made commitments to… a national integrated food and nutrition security information system that provides timely, reliable information on the food and nutrition security situation, effectiveness of programmes and informs decision-making…”
Comrade R.G. Mugabe, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
In response to persistent hunger and under-nutrition, particularly among the poor, the Government of Zimbabwe launched a Food and Nutrition Security Policy in May 2013. The policy marks the start of a concerted effort to promote economic development by addressing food security and nutrition challenges in a robust, coordinated, and multi-sectoral manner. The Food and Nutrition Council (FNC) is the national agency mandated to lead the coordinated, multi-sectoral response. The FNC engages multiple ministries and other stakeholders including United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the business community.
The government sets out seven commitments in the Food and Nutrition Security Policy including a commitment to a national integrated food and nutrition security information system. Key aspects of the information system are:
- reporting on inequity Î harmonization, integration and synthesis of information from multiple sources
- basing the system on standardized, agreed and comparable indicators
- decentralized ownership of information systemsinclusion of routine data
- ensuring a strong linkage between information, decision-making and action including for emergency responses
- building a central information repository Î inclusion of both qualitative and quantitative tools and approaches
- linking with regional and global nutrition information systems; and
- distinguishing between chronic and acute situations.
The system combines a number of different assessment and monitoring tools that together provide a comprehensive understanding of the food and nutrition security situation.
Systems and sources of information
The integrated food and nutrition security information system seeks to collect, analyse and utilize information on impact– progress toward the six World Health Assembly (WHA) targets – and determinants of malnutrition. There are multiple systems and sources of information.
The Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey is conducted every five years. With the exception of anaemia in women of reproductive age, data related to all WHA targets are collected. These data are disaggregated according to geography, wealth, gender, livelihood and age group.
The National Nutrition Surveillance System was set up to collect information on an annual basis during the peak hunger season (the time just before harvest). Recently, due to resource constraints, data collection has been on an ad hoc basis. In 2013, data were collected in 10 livelihood zones considered to be most food insecure by means of a rapid assessment. In 2014, data are being collected through mini nutrition surveys targeting 10 food insecure districts in four provinces5. Data are collected on five of the WHA targets, the exception being again anaemia in women of reproductive age. Disaggregation of data is by geography, gender and age group. Members of Multi-sectoral Food and Nutrition Security Committees at provincial, district and ward level are being trained on food and nutrition security surveillance. This includes training on how to collect and analyse data and the production of reports at district level. A total of 98 people from national, provincial and district level have been trained recently including staff from the health sector (nutrition, environmental health, and community nursing), social services, United Nations and civil society.
Routine data collection is carried out by NGOs, usually as baseline and endline at the start and end of a programme, and on a monthly or quarterly basis throughout the life of the project. The information is usually disaggregated by geography, gender, livelihood and age group. The indicators collected vary according to the scope of the programme. Some information has a focus on food security and markets, some on water, sanitation and health and a few collect information on community infant and young child feeding programmes.
The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZIMVAC) carries out an annual rural livelihoods assessment (ARLA) using random sample surveys. The 2013 ARLA was carried out in May and collected data through community and household questionnaires on education, food and income sources, income levels, expenditure patterns, crop production, livestock production, water and sanitation, crop post-harvest management. Data were also collected on wasting in children under five years of age. The ZIMVAC collects and analyses comprehensive data on the determinants of wasting including information on dietary intake, food security, illness (recent diarrhoea, fever or cough in children under the age of five), and water and sanitation. Limited data are collected on access to health services and on the care of the mother and child. The data are disaggregated according to gender, age and geography.
The Agriculture and Food Security Monitoring System collects data in 57 out of 60 districts once every quarter. The system is adapted to conduct a household food consumption survey every year in October at the start of the hungry season. All the data collected under this system are from rural areas. Further disaggregation is carried out according to livelihood zone.
The Crop and Livestock Assessment is carried out twice a year with analysis of data disaggregated down to ward level.
The Health Information System (HIS) collects monthly reports on most diseases and health conditions including wasting, underweight and pellagra (due to niacin or vitamin B3 deficiency disease). The HIS also has a weekly disease surveillance system that monitors outbreaks of diseases of public health importance such as cholera, malaria and measles.
Annual mapping exercises are conducted by the Nutrition Technical Coordination Group to produce a Nutrition Atlas. The mapping captures which stakeholder groups are doing what and where they are active. The mapping covers government activities as well as those of NGOs. The Agricultural Working Group does a similar mapping exercise on a yearly basis for the food security sector. The information for the mapping exercise is collected through self-administered questionnaires which are sent to key people at the different agencies and sectors.
Analysis and use of information
There is high level commitment from government to collect, analyse and use data. There is good capacity for collection at national and district level but currently the capacity for analysis is largely confined to the national level. Provincial and district level staff are currently being trained to analyse their own data and produce reports as part of a broader data management training.
Programme design and targeting of geographical areas by partners is usually based on the nutrition information that is available. Organisations frequently carry out baseline and end line assessments to determine the effectiveness of programme implementation at district or ward level depending on the scope of their programmes. At national level, there is a need for operational research to determine the overall impact of the different programmes on the nutrition situation in the country.
Dissemination of information
The FNC is currently establishing a website to create a forum where the public can have access to food and nutrition security data and can also provide feedback. Information is presented in the form of maps, graphs, tables and dashboards.
Coordination, alignment and dissemination across different sectors is expected to improve with the strengthening and continued revival of multi-sectoral FNSCs in which NGOs participate together with key food security and nutrition sectors including agriculture, health, social welfare, education, gender, youth and local government.
Integrating information on food and nutrition security for flood response
Agriculture extension workers from the Ministry of Agriculture surveillance system monitored the effects of the rain and flooding on crop production in each of the affected areas. They found that extensive damage had been incurred to maize, sorghum and pearl millet crops.
A malnutrition screening exercise was carried out in the areas affected by the floods through the Ministry of Health. The screening was done in coordination with the expanded programme for immunisation in three wards. Mid-upper arm circumference was measured in order to assess acute malnutrition (wasting) in affected areas. A total of 156 children between the ages of 6 and 59 months were screened and referred to treatment programmes to prevent further deterioration. In addition, members of the DFNSC took part in a SMART6 nutrition survey in March 2014. The survey measured mortality, child nutritional status, and food security.
The DFNSC met to discuss the information collected in affected areas. The committee agreed that advocacy for programmes – such as school feeding – was needed to protect children from malnutrition. In addition, the DFNSC highlighted the need for training to strengthen the quality of data produced through community based growth monitoring in the district. This would allow the nutrition situation to be monitored over time as part of the early warning system especially in the affected areas. A total of 160 village health workers were trained on growth monitoring in March 2014, specifically on the use of new child growth curves7 so that data collected are as accurate as possible.
DFNSC members took part in data management training to establish guidelines for an integrated information system on food and nutrition security and vulnerability. The result is that the DFNSC can now collect and analyse their own food and nutrition security information. Surveillance systems under different ministries (e.g. Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture) are combined to produce a comprehensive picture of food and nutrition situation in the district. This integrated information sharing system will act as an early
warning mechanism for pending food and nutrition insecurity and to monitor the situation in flood affected communities. It also allows the DFNSC to prioritisate programmes to be implemented in the district.
Challenges and opportunities
While efforts are being made to generate reliable nutrition information that can be used for nutrition programming and planning, disaster preparedness and response, there remains a need to increase the capacity for response. Furthermore, though it is recognized that multi-sectoral response is the most effective way to address nutrition, it can be delayed due to competing priorities within the different individual sectors themselves. The high attrition rate of staff within government is also a challenge resulting in trained and experienced staff departing for ‘greener pastures’, leaving untrained and inexperienced staff with low motivation. Resources for response are currently limited and strong efforts to mobilize them are required.
There are opportunities, however. The five year costed National Nutrition Strategy for Zimbabwe which is now being finalized includes ‘quality nutrition information systems and advocacy’ as one of its six key result areas and hence resources will be mobilized specifically around improving nutrition information systems in Zimbabwe. There is a high level of recognition of the role of nutrition in development. As the multi-sectoral collaborative platforms continue to strengthen, this will have a ripple effect on the effectiveness and advocacy towards improved nutrition information systems. In Zimbabwe these multisectoral coordination and governance structures are being strengthened at national, provincial and district level and are being established at ward level.
- The quality of advocacy improves as nutrition information systems are strengthened and local evidence is documented.
- Communities can play a vital role in contributing to nutrition information systems through building the capacity of community based volunteers participating in disaster preparedness and response activities and also providing specific follow up to vulnerable households and/or individuals in wards.
- Feedback to communities is a vital part of nutrition information systems enabling them to prioritise their own problems and areas for response.
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Welcome back to my study/review of Genesis. If you missed the previous parts of this study, you can find them HERE.
5 The Hittites answered Abraham, 6 “Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.” 7 Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land. 8 And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar, 9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”
10 Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city, 11 “No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.” 12 Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land. 13 And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.” 14 Ephron answered Abraham, 15 “My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels[c] of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.” 16 Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
17 So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over 18 to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city. 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. 20 The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.
Abraham negotiates with the Hittites to buy a burial cave for Sarah and eventually for himself also.
Concerning the Hittites, the more literal translation is “the children of Heth.”
bēn = בֵּן bên, bane; from H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.):—afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, × in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, rebel, + robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, + spark, steward, + stranger, × surely, them of, + tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Ḥēṯ = חֵת Chêth, khayth; from H2865; terror; Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite:—Heth.;
The verse then is identifying the “Hittites” with the Heth from Genesis 10:15.
And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
As discussed in the previous post, the Hittites of the Bible are considered distinct from the Hittites from history – though there is a lot of scholarship that links the two.
Let’s examine the verses. From The Pulpit Commentaries:
And the children of Heth answered. Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord. My lord (Adoni) = sir, monsieur, or mein herr. One acts as the spokesman of all; the number changing from plural to singular. The LXX; reading לֹא instead of לוֹ, after the Samaritan Codex, render μὴ κύριε, Not so, my lord; but hear us. Thou art a mighty prince among us. Literally, a prince of Elohim; not of Jehovah, since the speakers were heathen whose ideas of Deity did not transcend those expressed in the term Elohim. According to a familiar Hebrew idiom, the phrase might be legitimately translated as in the A.V.—cf. “mountains of God,” i.e. great mountains, Psalms 36:6; “cedars of God,” i.e. goodly cedars, Psalms 80:10 (Calvin, Kimchi, Rosenmüller, ‘Speaker’s Commentary’); but, as employed by the Hittite chieftains, it probably expressed that they regarded him as a prince or phylarch, not to whom God had given an elevated aspect (Lange), but either whom God had appointed (Gesenius), or whom God manifestly favored (Kalisch, Murphy). This estimate of Abraham strikingly contrasts with that which the patriarch had formed (Psalms 80:4) of himself. In the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead; none of us will withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. This remarkable offer on the part of the Hittites Thomson regards as having been merely compliment, which Abraham was too experienced an Oriental not to understand. But, even if dictated by true kindness and generosity, the proposal was one to which for many reasons—faith in God, love for the dead, and respect for himself being among the strongest—the patriarch could not accede. With perfect courtesy, therefore, though likewise with respectful firmness, he declines their offer.
The commentary note above gives a lot of background to the term “prince of God” which is applied to Abraham by the children of Heth.
mighty = אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym, el-o-heem’; plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:—angels, × exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), × (very) great, judges, × mighty.
prince = נָשִׂיא nâsîyʼ, naw-see’; or נָשִׂא nâsiʼ; from H5375; properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist:—captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.
As you see from the underlying language, the focus on the translation in the Commentary above is warranted. “Mighty” comes from a word we have focused on repeatedly in this text – Elohim. Usually when we see “Elohim” in the text, it is translated as “God.” Here, though, it is translated as “mighty.”
A lot of the rest of the chapter focuses on the customs of courtesy from both sides in the buying and selling process.
Ellicott’s Bible Commentary mentions this in its note for verse 6 and we see it going forward also.
In the choice of our sepulchres.—The interview between Abraham and the Hittites is marked by the utmost courtesy on both sides, but it is a mistake to suppose that this acceptance of the patriarch’s proposal contained the idea that he might select a sepulchre without paying for it. The payment, in true Oriental fashion, is kept in the background, but is pre-supposed on both sides. After the acceptance of his proposal, it was Abraham’s turn to name the burying-place he wished, and the owner next consents, but while treating the purchase-money as a matter of small importance, he nevertheless asks a very high price, to which Abraham at once consents.
The Pulpit Commentaries goes into some detail over the process occurring here in verses 7 through 9.
And Abraham stood up (the customary posture among Orientals in buying and selling being that of sitting), and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Hath—an act of respect quite accordant with modern Oriental manners.
And he communed with them, saying, If it be year mind—literally, if it be with your souls, the word nephesh being used in this sense in Psalms 27:12; Psalms 41:3; Psalms 105:22—that I should bury my dead out of my might; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar. The ruler of the city (Keil); but this is doubtful (Lange). “There is scarcely anything in the habits of Orientals more annoying to us Occidentals than this universal custom of employing mediators to pass between you and-those with whom you wish to do business. Nothing can be done without them. A merchant cannot sell a piece of print, nor a farmer a yoke of oxen, nor any one rent a house, buy a horse, or get a wife, without a succession of go-betweens. Of course Abraham knew that this matter of the field could not be brought about without the intervention of the neighbors of Ephron, and therefore he applies to them first”. That he may give me the cave of Machpelah,—Machpelah is regarded as a proper noun (Gesenius, Keil, Kalisch, Rosenmüller), as in Genesis 49:30, though by others it is considered as an appellative, signifying that the cave was double (LXX; Vulgate), either as consisting of a cave within a cave (Hamerus), or of one cave exterior and another interior (Abort Ezra), or as having room for two bodies (Calvin), or as possessing two entrances (Jewish interpreters). It is probable the cave received its name from its peculiar form,—which he hath (Ephron’s ownership of the cave is expressly recognized, and its situation is next described), which is in the end of his field—“so that the cession of it will not injure his property” (Wordsworth). At the same time Abraham makes it clear that an honest purchase is what he contemplates. For as much money as it is worth—literally, for full silver (1 Chronicles 21:22). Cf. siller (Scotch) for money. This is the first mention of the use of the precious metals as a medium of exchange, though they must have been so employed at a very early period (vide Genesis 13:2)—he shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst you. The early Chaldaeans were accustomed to bury their dead in strongly-constructed brick vaults. Those found at Mughheir are seven feet long, three feet seven inches broad, and five feet high, are composed of sun-dried bricks embedded in mud, and exhibit a remarkable form and construction of arch, resembling that occur ring in Egyptian buildings and Scythian tombs, in which the successive layers of brick are made to overlap until they come so close that the aperture may be covered by a single brick. In the absence of such artificial receptacles for the dead, the nearest substitute the patriarch could obtain was one of those natural grottoes which the limestone hills of Canaan so readily afforded.
We have some new words to study in these verses.
Ephron = עֶפְרוֹן ʻEphrôwn, ef-rone’; from the same as H6081; fawn-like; Ephron, the name of a Canaanite and of two places in Palestine:—Ephron, Ephrain (from the margin).; עֵפֶר ʻÊpher, ay’-fer; probably a variation of H6082; gazelle; Epher, the name of an Arabian and of two Israelites:—Epher.
Zohar = צֹחַר Tsôchar, tso’-khar; from the same as H6713; whiteness; Tsochar, the name of a Hittite and of an Israelite:—Zohar. Compare H3328.; צַחַר tsachar, tsakh’-ar; from an unused root meaning to dazzle; sheen, i.e. whiteness:—white.
Machpelah = מַכְפֵּלָה Makpêlâh, mak-pay-law’; from H3717; a fold; Makpelah, a place in Palestine:—Machpelah.; כָּפַל kâphal, kaw-fal’; a primitive root; to fold together; figuratively, to repeat:—double.
Ellicott’s Bible Commentary speculates about the meaning of Machpelah.
(9) The cave of Machpelah.—That is, the double cave, consisting probably of an outer and an inner compartment. As the land around is also called “the field of Machpelah” (Genesis 49:30; Genesis 1:13), some imagine that it was the valley that was double; but more probably it took its name from the cavern. For a description of the Haram, within which the bones of Abraham and Sarah probably still lie, see Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, p. 397; Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, p. 101; and also the Appendix to his Sermons in the East.
In verse 10, Ephron speaks up and the bargaining for the cave of Machpelah begins in earnest. Abraham asks the gathered crowd to intercede with Ephron and Ephron, who is present, speaks up among them. From Ellicott:
(10) And Ephron dwelt among . . . —Again a mistranslation. The Heb. is, Ephron was sitting in the midst of the Hittites. At these assemblies held at the gate of the city every free-born citizen had a right to be present, and matters were settled by common consent. As Ephron was the owner of the cave, his approval was necessary, and this Abraham treats as a favour, and requests that Ephron’s fellow-citizens will intercede in his behalf.
In verse 11, Ephron says that he gives the field to Abraham. The subtext according to the notes is that this statement was not intended to be taken literally but is instead part of a customary curtesy during the bargaining. From The Pulpit Commetnaries:
Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee—an Oriental mode of expressing willingness to sell. Ephron would make a present of cave and field to the patriarch,—”and just so have I had a hundred houses, and fields, and horses given to me”,—the design being either to obtain a valuable compensation in return, or to preclude any abatement in the price (Keil), though possibly the offer to sell the entire field when he might have secured a good price for the cave alone was an indication of Ephron’s good intention (Lange). At least it seems questionable to conclude that Ephron’s generous phrases, which have now become formal and hollow courtesies indeed, meant no more in that simpler age when the ceremonies of intercourse were newer, and more truly reflected its spirit. In the presence of the ions of my people give I it thee (literally, have I given, the transaction being viewed as finished): bury thy dead.
In verse 11, take note that Ephron repeats the phrase “I give thee” three times.
11 “No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
This has the form and feel of ceremony. From Ellicott on the same verse:
(11) The field give I thee.—Only the cave had been mentioned, but for its quiet possession the land around was necessary. In the thrice repeated “give I it thee,” there is the same courtly idea as in Genesis 23:6, that they were not buying and selling, but making mutual presents.
The Pulpit Commentaries describes the interaction then from verses 12 through 15:
And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. To express his sense of their kindness, and appreciation of Ephron’s offer in particular; aider which he courteously but firmly urged forward the contemplated purchase. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me. Literally, if thou, I would that thou wouldst hear me, the two particles אִם and לוּ being conjoined to express the intensity of the speaker’s desire. I will give thee money for the field. Literally, money of the field, i.e. the value of the field in money. This seems to indicate that Abraham at least imagined Ephron’s offer of the field and cave as a gift to be not wholly formal. Had he regarded Ephron as all the while desirous of a sale, he would not have employed the language of entreaty. Take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. The word “shekel,” from shakal, to weigh, here used for the first time, was not a stamped coin, but a piece of metal of definite weight, according to Exodus 30:13, equal to twenty gerahs, or beans, from garar, to roll. Coined money was unknown to the Hebrews until after the captivity. In the time of the Maccabees (1 Macc. 15:6) silver coins were struck bearing the inscription שקל ישראל. According to Josephus (Ant; iii. 8, 2) the shekel in use in his day was equal to four Athenian drachmae; and if, as is believed, these were one-fifth larger than the old shekels coined by Simon Maccabeus, the weight of the latter would be equal to three and one-third drachms, or two hundred grains, reckoning sixty grains to a drachm. It is impossible to ascertain the weight of the shekel current with the merchant in the time of Abraham; but reckoning it at a little less than 2s. 6d. sterling, the price of Ephron’s field must have been somewhat under £50; a very consider able sum of money, which the Hittite merchant begins to depreciate by representing as a trifle, saying, What is that betwixt me and thee?—words which are still heard in the East on similar occasions—bury therefore thy dead.
What is that between = בֵּין bêyn, bane; (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from H995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either…or:—among, asunder, at, between (-twixt…and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be…or), within.
With Ephron having named an actual value, Abraham proceeds to weigh out the stated value in verse 16. From Ellicott:
(16) Abraham weighed . . . current money with the merchant.—Shekel literally means weight, and money was not coined until long afterwards. In the last clause, by inserting money our version antedates facts. According to the Hebrew, it was the silver that was current with the merchants. The metal was probably made into small bars, marked by the refiner to indicate their quality: and Abraham weighed out to Ephron about 200 ounces of silver in bars of the quality usual in trade.
Starting in verse 17, the verses record that Abraham takes possession of the cave. Again from Ellicott:
(17) Before Mamre.—That is, opposite to it. The Haram wherein the bodies of Abraham and Sarah lie, is situated on the eastern side of the valley, so that Abraham’s oak-grove must have been on its western slope. The old Christian tradition, which places it at Ramet-el-Chalil, does not agree with this description, and is, moreover, too far away. The remains pointed out there as those of Abraham’s house, are the ruins of a heathen temple. But it is useless to look for any remains of the abode of a nomad dwelling in tents, especially after the site has been occupied by a great city. Moreover, Hebron itself has changed its position. For Benjamin of Tudela, who visited it nearly seven centuries ago, says that the old Hebron was on the heights, but had been abandoned, and that the new city lay in the valley.
The field, and the cave . . . —It is interesting to compare this document, so legally exact and full, with the numerous tablets of terra-cotta now in our museums, and which record with equal exactness the daily business transactions of the people of Ur-Chasdim, whence Abraham had migrated.
The note above reminds us of Abraham’s original home city: Ur-Chasdim. We do not really know *where* specifically that city is located through there is speculation that it was either in Sumer or in modern day Turkey.
The text tells us that after the negotiation was concluded, he buries Sarah. From The Pulpit Commentaries:
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife—with what funeral rites can only be conjectured. Monumental evidence attests that the practice of embalming the dead existed in Egypt in the reign of Amunophth I., though probably originating, earlier.; and an examination of the Mugheir vaults for burying the dead shows that among the early Chaldaeans it was customary to place the corpse upon a matting of reed spread upon a brick floor, the head being pillowed on a single sun-dried brick, and the body turned on its left side, the right arm falling towards the left, and the fingers resting on the edge of a copper bowl, usually placed on the palm of the left hand—in the cave of the field of Machpelah before: Mamre. In which also in succession his own remains and those of Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah were deposited, Rachel alone of the great patriarchal family being absent. This last resting-place of Abraham and his sons, as of Sarah and her daughters, has been identified with Ramet-el-Kalil, an hour’s journey to the north of Hebron (which is too distant), where the foundations of an ancient heathen temple are still pointed out as Abraham’s house; but is more probably to be sought for in the Mohammedan mosque Haram, built of colossal blocks, and situated on the mountain slope of Hebron towards the east (Robinson, Thomson, Stanley, Tristram), which, after having been for 600 years hermetically sealed against Europeans,—only three during that period having gained access to it in disguise,—was visited in 1862 by the Prince of Wales and party. The same is Hebron in the land of Canaan (vide Genesis 23:2).
We do not know what the funeral rites looked like nor are we certain as modern readers where the location of this cave is currently located. The note above speculates that the likely location is a modern day mosque.
Wikipedia has a lengthy and informative article on The Cave of the Patriarchs that is worth reading for a baseline of background and subsequent history on this location. Below is a portion of the history of the location since Israel took possession of Hebron:
Following the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in the Six-Day War, Hebron came under Jewish control for the first time in 2,000 years and the 700-year-long restriction limiting Jews to the seventh step outside was lifted.
According to the Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces, Major general Rabbi Shlomo Goren‘s autobiography on 8 June 1967, during the Six-day war, he made his way from Gush Etzion to Hebron. In Hebron he realized that the Arabs had surrendered and quickly made his way to the Cave of the Patriarchs. He shot at the doors of the mosque with his Uzi submachine gun. But when that was ineffective in prying the doors open, he attached chains to his Jeep and the doors, proceeding to pull them down. He entered the mosque and began to pray, becoming the first Jew to enter the compound for about 700 years. While praying, a messenger from the Mufti of Hebron delivered a surrender note to him, whereby the rabbi replied “This place, Ma’arat HaMachpela, is a place of prayer and peace. Surrender elsewhere.”
The first Jew to enter the underground caves was Michal Arbel, the 13-year-old daughter of Yehuda Arbel, chief of Shin Bet operations in the West Bank, because she was slender enough to be lowered into the narrow, 28 centimetres (11 in) wide hole on 9 October 1968, to gain access to the tomb site, after which she took photographs.
Israeli settlers reestablished a small synagogue under the mosque. The first Jewish wedding ceremony to take place in it was on 7 August 1968. The stone stairway leading to the mosque was also destroyed in order to erase the humiliating “seventh step”.
In 1968, a special arrangement was made to accommodate Jewish services on the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement. This led to a hand-grenade being thrown on the stairway leading to the tomb on 9 October; 47 Israelis were injured, 8 seriously. On 4 November, a large explosion went off near the gate to the compound and 6 people, Jews and Arabs, were wounded. On Yom Kippur eve, 3 October 1976, an Arab mob destroyed several Torah scrolls and prayer books at the tomb. In May 1980, an attack on Jewish worshippers returning from prayers at the tomb left 6 dead and 17 wounded.
In 1981, a group of Jewish settlers from the Hebron community lead by Noam Arnon broke into the caves and took photos of the burial chambers.
Tensions would later increase as the Israeli government signed the Oslo Accords in September 1993, which gave limited autonomy to the PLO in the West Bank city of Jericho and the Gaza Strip. The city of Hebron and the rest of the major Palestinian population centers in the West Bank were not included in the initial agreement. The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre committed by Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli-American settler in February 1994, left 29 Palestinian Muslims dead and scores injured. The resulting riots resulted in a further 35 deaths.Jewish bride praying at the site before her wedding, 2010
The increased sensitivity of the site meant that in 1996 the Wye River Accords, part of the Arab-Israeli peace process, included a temporary status agreement for the site restricting access for both Jews and Muslims. As part of this agreement, the waqf (Islamic charitable trust) controls 81% of the building. This includes the whole of the southeastern section, which lies above the only known entrance to the caves and possibly over the entirety of the caves themselves. As a consequence, Jews are not permitted to visit the Cenotaphs of Isaac or Rebecca, which lie entirely within the southeastern section, except for 10 days a year that hold special significance in Judaism. One of these days is the Shabbat Chayei Sarah, when the Torah portion concerning the death of Sarah and the purchase by Abraham of the land in which the caves are situated, is read.
Thousands of years later, what we are reading about here in the text of Genesis remains a deep source of tension. Hebron has been in the news recently as a location for much of the recurrence of fighting between the Israeli government and Palestinians.
Verse 20 brings to the fore some apparent confusion from early Christian Stephen as recorded in the Book of Acts.
Acts 7:14-16: 14 And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all. 15 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers, 16 and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
(16) And were carried over into Sychem.—The words appear to include Jacob, who was buried not at Sychem, but Machpelah (Genesis 1:13). If we limit the verb to the patriarchs, which is in itself a tenable limitation, we are met by the fresh difficulty that the Old Testament contains no record of the burial of any of the Twelve Patriarchs, with the exception of Joseph, whose bones were laid, on the occupation of Canaan, in Shechem (Joshua 24:32); and Josephus states (Ant. iv. 8, § 2) that they were buried at Hebron. This, however, only represents, at the best, a local tradition. In the time of Jerome (Ep. 86) the tombs of the Twelve Patriarchs were shown at Shechem, and this in its turn witnesses to a Samaritan tradition which continues to the present day (Palestine Exploration Report, Dec., 1877), and which Stephen, it may be, followed in preference to that of Judæa. Looking to the probabilities of the case, it was likely that the example set by Joseph would be followed by the other tribes, and that as Shechem was far more prominent than Hebron, as the centre of the civil and religious life of Israel in the time of Joshua, that should have been chosen as the burial-place of his brethren rather than Machpelah. Looking, again, to the fact that one of Stephen’s companions, immediately after his death, goes to Samaria as a preacher, and that there are good grounds for believing that both had been previously connected with it (see Note on Acts 6:5), we may probably trace to this influence his adoption of the Samaritan version of the history. The hated Sychar (Sir. 1:26; see Note on John 4:5) had, from Stephen’s point of view, a claim on the reverence of all true Israelites, and his assertion of that claim may well have been one of the causes of the bitterness with which his hearers listened to him.
That Abraham bought for a sum of money.—Here we seem to come across a direct contradiction to the narrative of Genesis. The only recorded transaction in which Abraham appears as a buyer, was his purchase of the cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite (Genesis 23:16). The only recorded transaction in which the sons of Emmor, or Hamor, appear as sellers, was in Jacob’s purchase of the field at Shechem (Genesis 33:19
The note is actually quite a bit longer than the portion included above. If you are interested in reading more, you can follow the link.
Why does the potential for a mistake by Stephen actually matter? If there is a mistake on a plain point in the scripture, then the argument for inerrancy or inspiration falls into question.
The Pulpit Commentaries explains the contradiction as follows:
The Just of these hypotheses would not indeed be fatal to the Inspiration of the record; but the claims of either Luke or Stephen to be authoritative teachers on the subject of religion would be somewhat hard to maintain if it once were admitted that they had blundered on a plain point in their own national history. And yet it is doubtful if any of the proposed solutions of the problem is perfectly satisfactory; such as
(1) that the two purchases of Abraham and Jacob are here intentionally, for the sake of brevity, compressed into one account (Bengel, Pererius, Willet, Hughes); or
(2) that Abraham bought two graves, one at Hebron of Ephron the Hittite, as recorded by Moses, and another at Shechem of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem (Words. worth); or
(3) that the words “which Abraham bought for a sum of money” should be regarded as a parenthesis, and the sentence read as intimating that Jacob and the fathers were carried over into Shechem, and (afterwards) by the sons of Hamor the lather of Shechem interred in Abraham’s sepulcher at Hebron (Cajetan). Obvious difficulties attach to each of them; but the facts shine out clear enough in spite of the encompassing obscurity, viz; that Abraham bought a tomb at Hebron, in which first the dust of Sarah was deposited, and to which afterwards the bodies of himself, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah were consigned, while Joseph and the twelve patriarchs, who all died in Egypt, were brought over to the promised land and buried in Jacob’s field at Shechem.
Many volumes of text have been written to explain the contradiction. J.W. Garvey’s 1881 text, Lands of the Bible, provides the argument that the apparent contradiction in the Book of Acts is an issue of improper translation.
I will borrow from John Simpson who uses the book to address the question at Quora.
As the two clauses stand in our version, “he died, himself, and our fathers; and they were carried over into Shecham,” there can be no doubt that “himself ” and “fathers” are common subjects of one verb “died,” and that the pronoun “they” before “were carried” refers to both alike. But it is not so in the original. The construction is different. The verb rendered died is in the singular number, eteleutasen, and it agrees only with autos, himself. The plural substantive “fathers” is not the subject of that verb, but of the plural eteleutasan understood. The construction having been changed with the introduction of the plural subject, it follows that the plural verb metetéthasan, “were carried,” belongs to fathers, and not to Jacob. The two clauses, properly punctuated, and with the ellipsis supplied, read thus: “and he died; and our fathers died, and were carried over into Shechem.” With this rendering and punctuation, which are certainly admissible, the contradiction totally disappears; and if the passage had been thus rendered at first into English, a contradiction would not have been thought of (1892, p. 121, emp. added, italics in orig.).
McGarvey’s point was this. If Jacob was buried at Machpelah in Hebron (and of that there is no doubt, since Genesis 49:29-30 so states), then Stephen must have been saying that it was the fathers alone who were buried in Shechem, not Jacob. This is quite possible. We know that at least one of the fathers—Joseph—was buried in Shechem (Joshua 24:32). And while the Old Testament does not record the burial places for many of the other patriarchs, we can glean some information from secular history on the subject. In his discussion on Acts 7, the well-known commentator Albert Barnes mentioned that some Jewish historians (e.g., Kuinoel) held to the view that the fathers were buried at Shechem (1949, p. 124). In addition, Jerome, a fourth-century writer from Palestine, stated: “The twelve patriarchs were buried not in Arbes [Hebron—AB/KB], but in Shechem” (as quoted in Barnes, p. 124).
A translation issue actually makes sense given the context of the Book of Acts. If Stephen (in a room full of people who would know the history) made a glaring mistake in his speech, it would have been noticed by his audience and pointed out. The record does not indicate that this happened. In addition, a glaring mistake would likely have been noticed (and possibly even corrected) in the original language renderings of this text when the mistake would have been more noticeable to the early Christian converts from Judaism. Since there appears to have been no original language issue with what Stephen said on this point, then it is likely that the contradiction arises from translation scholarship.
It is my experience that a study of the Bible (Old and New Testament alike) are done with great difficultly unless the original language is not also considered. I have been surprised in my own studies how often that teaching on points of controversy – without reference to the original language – occurs. You should be suspicious then if someone is teaching you any mysteries from within the text without making frequent reference back to the underlying original text. | <urn:uuid:bafb7b84-0b0b-43a9-9b25-be382e0b55f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://dustyreviews.com/2021/05/29/genesis-part-94/ | 2022-01-22T21:06:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303884.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122194730-20220122224730-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.966519 | 8,282 |
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May 2011 - We used Sketch and Design to upgrade the kitchen in our 17th century maisonette and were so pleased with the work done and with value for money, that we asked them to renew the rest of the house.Not only was the work completed on time and within budget but when issues arose, we were consulted and advised of our options. Nothing was undertaken without full discussion and agreement being reached. In addition if there was any variation to times when work was to be done - even if that was half an hour diffirence - we were advised by phone making the whole process more bearableBefore we knew about Sketchand Design, it took us around 7 years to find a(nother) contractor willing to install gas central heating in this listed building, we were able to relax and look forward to the new look.
Sheddon - (Kitchen, Bedrooms, Bathroom & Blinds)
May 2011 - Wonderful service for start to finish. Nothing was too much trouble even though what we wanted was not straight forward. We love our new shower bath - it has solved all the problems we had with our old bath - thank you Marco. Have not had such tidy workmen in our house for many years - would not hesitate to recommend the whole team, including the office staff.
Thank you all once again.
Galloway - (Bathroom)
17 Feb 2011 - We are thoroughly delighted with our new kitchen, every detail perfect from the planning to installation. Marco, Carlo and the team were a pleasure to have in the house, very obliging with those 'little extras' requested at the last moment, extremely clean and tidy workers who clearly took pride in their work and wanted to please the client. Any issues were dealt with promptly and with minimal fuss. As we were choosing the kitchen both Jordana and Christine were very helpful and provided a personal service. Many thanks!
Mrs Adrain - Stewartfield
18 Jan 2011 - I was always a DIY person and believe that if you want a job done to your satisfaction , do it yourself. I no longer have the ability to do so and was sceptical of anyone else carrying out the work to my standards My wife convinced me that we should contract someone to install a new bathroom. Realising she was making sense I reluctantly agreed. We contacted "Sketch and Design" and from sales ,to completion of the contract I have been pleasantly surprised.
Patronizing sales people I dislike , and we were spared that experience.The "no frills " assistance and honesty was a breath of fresh air. All work was completed within the time agreed and to my complete satisfaction. I have no reservations whatsoever in recomending Sketch and Design to anyone.
Mr & Mrs J Govan - East Kilbride
20 Dec 2010 - We are writing to say how pleased we are with the new bathroom which we
recently had installed by Sketch and Design.
Everyone we spoke to in the company was friendly, helpful and professional
and the workmanship is of a very high standard. When we called about one
slightly faulty wall tile, there was no question about replacing it and this
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Friends recommended Sketch and Design to us and we would have no hesitation
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Thank you all for a job well done.
Mr & Mrs Russell,
Would like to thank the workmen who renovated my old bathroom. They did a marvellous job. Everyone was so helpful & hard working, nothing was too much bother for them. Also thanks to the helpful office staff.
From one very happy customer
Mr & Mrs Hosie - East Kilbride
First class workmanship, design, and customer service from all your team at Sketch and Design.
I had a bathroom redesigned and fitted, and would recommend your company as one who provided everything - from
help with choosing the fixtures and tiling, to making the job as stress free as possible.
Just had a new kitchen installed by Sketch & Design. I recommend this firm to you if you like punctuality, clean workers and a job well done.
“If your kitchen or bathroom is not in it’s prime why don’t you contact Sketch & Design”
Mrs Finnie – Murray East Kilbride
I wanted to write to you on behalf of Frances and myself to express
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From your initial visit and survey, through conception to completion,
we were pleased with the way everything was handled. Your personal ,
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We would have absolutely no hesitation in warmly and enthusiastically recommending Sketch and Design to others.
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Mr & Mrs Queen - St Leonards East Kilbride
Just a quick note to say that I have been very impressed with the work and with the service - thanks to the guys for a really good job. No problem recommending if anyone I know is thinking about improvements.
Mr Newman - Calderwood East Kilbride
Approximately two and a half years ago we decided to replace our kitchen in our Bryant house in Stewartfield, East Kilbride. We asked several companies to come and quote for a new kitchen, some turned up and were very negative, others failed to turn up at all. We had called Sketch and Design to come up as we had seen their vans in our street working on neighbours properties. Marco from Sketch and Design arrived on time and talk us through our options and after he left my husband and I decided to go with them for our new kitchen.
On fitting day, they arrived on time and the kitchen was fitted to a very high standard. We were impressed by their professionalism and workmanship. Their after sales service is second to none as far as we are concerned and we have called them occasionally with small problems, even 2 years later, and they arrived and sorted them out very quickly.
We then decided to replace our en-suite bathroom and as Sketch and Design had provided such excellent service with the kitchen we decided to use them again. The en-suite was totally transformed, with units removed and toilet and sink in completely different places making a small en-suite into a much better, bigger facility. The tiling and new ceiling with recessed lighting is stunning.
At the start of 2009, we again asked Sketch and Design to replace our downstairs cloakroom and main bathroom. There was no point in going to any other company as far as we were concerned. As usual the designs were superb and all the work was carried out on time, the master bathroom is out of this world, especially the mood lighting over the bath and the extra large mirror (5' x 3') fitted into the wall.
What makes Sketch and Design a great company to use is the fact they do all the design, plumbing, electrics, joinery and tiling (floors and walls) themselves and you are not left waiting about for different tradesmen to arrive etc . They are very reasonably priced and we would have no qualms about referring them to anyone, to be perfectly honest, you would be foolish to use anyone else!
Mr & Mrs Friel – Stewartfield
Your company recently done an excellent job in completely renovating my bathroom. I would certainly recommend your firm, a professional team who work to a very high standard.
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Along the pond they had established several species of carnivorous plants. I wanted to install a small bog in my garden this year but my wallet had other plans.
Even carnivorous pitcher plants flower. Sarracenia purpure, or maybe Sarracenia leucophylla,, is among the more eye catching of them.
Note the tadpoles in the pond.
The flowers are built up tall, often 3 times taller than the pitchers. Don't want to eat the pollinator now do we? The pots I believe are left over from a recent class at the Mt. Cuba Center. Calling it a continued education building is almost degrading to how spectacular the building is. Classes are amazingly cheap usually running at $15, and often they come with a free plant and tour of the garden to highlight the plants that go with the topic.
I love the blue color of the pots they chose. It goes great with at of the plants.
Sarracenia leucophylla, Calopogon tuberosus, and Pinguicula primuliflora are all I can make out on this tag.
The flower to these pitcher plants confuses me. Perhaps they're not fully opened yet but I don't see the normal parts you usually see inside a flower.
When I think of Phacelia I think of them as an all western genus of blue flowering plants (that supposidly turn honey blue if the bees use it enough). I had no idea we had native Phacelia on the east coast but apparently it's a wide spread genus for all of North America. Phacelia bipinnatifida was used like a carpet for much of the garden beds.
It's amazing what thousands of flowers can look like in a huge patch. I hope to mimic this effect someday with my garden.
I don't think they over used it at all. It was just doing better in the rain than Virginia Bluebells and Celandine Poppy were.
It went well with a lot of the plants they have here. The yellow is Ragwort which I have.
And speaking of carpets of flowers. That isn't snow.
Quaker Ladies, Houstonia caerulea. The wonderful snow effect comes from what has to be millions of tiny white and blue flowers.
I need to look into getting me some of these. The only issue I see is they might become lost in the lawn. This patch was planted on moss and I wonder if they're lawnmower friendly. Maybe around stepping stones?
This is a carpet of Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum. They're in full bloom but those flowers in the picture are Trilliums.
Mayapples form their own canopy of dense leaves. The flowers hand down just off the stem out of view.
They shade out surrounding plants and shield view of flowering trees that might be above. This way they help make their flower stand out as the best choice for passing by pollinators. Beetles and certain bees are likely what pollinate them best.
Virginia Bluebells was the only thing I saw growing under the dense leaves. They weren't do so hot either.
One of our native Rhododendrons growing above a carpet of Phacelia bipinnatifida. The white flowering tree in the far right is a Silver Bell, Halesia carolina.
Here we have a similar scene only the Silver Bell Tree, we have Red Buckeye, Aesculus pavia.
Native Rhododendrons tend to be deciduous or semi evergreen bushes. All the Asian imports tend to be full evergreen or semi at least.
The flowers come in a range of shapes and colors and they are often scented.
I never understood why no one plants the yellow orange variety. It's our native Flame Azalea, Rhododendron calendulaceum. Of all the Asian imports none of them are yellow or orange in color. No, instead they're all white, red, magenta, and combinations there of. Some recent cultivars have come out as orange but they're still Asian imports.
On a good year it's the most eye catching plant in the forest.
Even when planted along side other Rhododendrons it has a way of drawing your eye.
If you don't agree, well our natives come in the classic pink and red. One variety that I didn't get a picture of had enormous flower clusters the side of my head on it.
Silver Bells, Halesia carolina, was one native I didn't understand. Flowers that point down just don't appeal to me. But seeing it here and in full bloom has me coming around to it.
This tree gets 30' tall about and having all those flowers looking down at you is kind of fun and different. So many trees aim up and away it's a nice change.
I'd herd people suggest Red Buckeye as a hummingbird tree but I had no idea that it flowered this young! This is a 4' tall sapling and it had a cluster of brilliant red flowers already.
They don't have to get big to be pretty either.
They get nice and tall too. They're pollinated by hummingbirds and I imagen certain butterflies too. I don't think any of which are particularly common or easy to attract without years of devotion though. Having a nectar source like this tree would make the process easier though.
Yesterday I went to the Mt. Cuba Center's 6th Annual Wildflower Celebration. It's a day when they open the gates for everyone to come and see the gardens. Normally one has to pay and schedule for a guided tour in advance. Their collections of flowers are that fragile that free roaming isn't allowed. The property is 600 acres of managed land which is how a place like this should be.
By far this was way better than the Philadelphia Flower Show! First off it's completely free. Secondly you're seeing all the plants blooming along side one another and growing in their own little ecosystems. Because they're on a mountain/steep incline separate micro-climates allow for a better perspective of the plants. Plants flowering at the top of the hill might not be blooming yet at the bottom, for example, so walking though the gardens you'll see plants in all stages. And best of all the first 500 families got a free plant to take home, a Coreopsis.
The gardens are not handicap accessible but that's not to say they aren't allowed. (I believe classes in the main house wont be a problem.) Because this is open to the public, parking had to be on a neighboring field. Their normal parking lot only holds about 40 cars and that won't do for an event like this. The options to get to the house are either walk the trail, or take a bus which is provided by them. There was also bottled water and plenty of bathrooms I'm happy to say. We chose to walk the trail, despite being a rainy day.
Even before we arrived we started seeing brilliant views and some great native plants. The uncut grasses to this prairie were filled with milkweed. I can only imagen what this pasture looks like in June and July. Milkweed flowers are a spectacular nectar source and pollinated by just about any flying insect.
August must be equally as exciting. It's the host plant to the Monarch butterfly and there is plenty to go around in this field.
Bird houses were posted every few hundred feet. When this prairie becomes active with insects I'm sure they'll have plenty of food.
They'll have quite a view if nothing else. Delaware is filled with beautiful cottage homes, old stone walls, and it's as thought the whole state were professionally landscaped. Just down the hill was a beautiful house and pond. I believe that's actually a well they let flood over into a pond.
Just off the trail I saw a young Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis, in bloom. We're a bit past the peak of this tree's bloom but this young sapling was still in decent condition. Redbuds flowers oddly, along the trunk and main branches instead of only new growth, but I love them for that fact.
Farther in we walked past a White Flowering Redbud. I don't know the story with this tree, weather it was a random mutation or someone decided we need a white flowering REDbud. It's pretty all the same. There were a few of these growing along the forest and I know you can buy them here and there.
You can see everything is still wet from the light rain that happened all day. It's a shame this was a one day event.
The mason bees have been making some real progress. Each capped tube is full and contains upwards of 10 bees give or take for next year. I started with about 100 of the little guys, though I suspect most were males or found nesting elsewhere. There's almost always a bee or two flying in or out filling the tubes. They'll only be around for another few weeks and I'll start taking the full tubes inside. Over the summer parasitic wasps lay their eggs inside the first chamber or two of brood and I don't want that.
Having these bees around is a great way to ensure pollination of fruit trees and blueberry bushes (heath family in general). But pollination is but one issue to getting a good crop. Aphids are already waking up and breeding on some of the trees here. Usually they aren't a problem but every little bit helps make a good harvest.
Thankfully the mason bees also help pollinate spring wildflowers like Roundleaf Ragwort, Packera obovata. I never understood where the name ragwort came from. Golden Flower would be just as good for this plant. It's a round leaved ground cover that moves like a carpet through the forest and in early spring they produce thousands of yellow and gold flowers above them.
Ragwort is one of the few plants also pollinated by Flower Flies. They're also called Hover Flies for their flying habits. Members of the Syrphini tribe, these beneficial insects are colorful flies that lay eggs in patches of aphids. The resulting grubs (maggots) take care of your aphid problem and aren't bothered by ants that may be guarding them.
They are a much better solution to the aphid problem than lady bugs in my opinion. Lady bugs stand out in a crowd and ants are quick to harass them away. Meanwhile flower fly grubs munch away on the aphid herd. A benefit for sure.
When the ragwort stops blooming they turn to Yarrow but we're not there yet in the year. Small flowers seems to be the key to attracting Syrphini to your yard. There are a few exceptions of course but they're pollinators all the same.
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Business is booming for my bee hives. The two that survived the winter are crazy busy. One more so than the other becuase it gets more sun at more hours of the day. When it gets to warm inside it encourages the bees to forage more.
April 22ed, Earth Day, is traditionally celebrated by flapping one's mouth about how green things are or could be, while never doing anything about it. Many of these speeches and presentations take place in government buildings such as your local school auditorium. Buildings that are traditionally landscaped with cheap mass produced nonnatives like the brad ford pear.
A few years ago I read a book that quite changed my life. "Bringing Nature Home" by Doug Tallamy. It's just $12 and I guarantee worth every penny. This book is probably the reason why I blog about butterflies and nature so much. It is filled with examples of how we're starving nature to death by replacing it with alien plants. People have bitched and complained about the rain forests and yet no one bothered to save the temperate forests of eastern North America.
It still looks green from outer space but zoom in some and you'll see how broken that green forests actually are. All the suburban areas, and even rural areas, where homes are in general, are landscaped with nonnative grasses. The vast majority of garden centers in the US don't sell native species, when they do it's usually only a handful of their stock and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone there who can tell you which are native and which are not. (Note the links to native plant stores that sell online in the top right of my blog.)
Because of this it is important now more than ever to take responsibility for your yard, as the home owner you stand to benefit more than anyone.
Note: a few nonnative indulgences are fine but the theme should be Native!
"Bringing Nature Home" This isn't a book about what the cat dragged in, but rather a guide to attracting wildlife to your yard. There are only two sources of energy on our planet: the sun, and deep sea thermal vents. Deep sea volcanoes are fueled by the earth's core and doesn't really mix in with the other system very well. The sun on the other hand is our leading source of energy on earth. Plants photosynthesize sunlight into usable energy, along with storing carbon in their trunks and generally cleaning the environment they're creating oxygen. A lot of the energy they create is trapped in the leaves though. While humans can eat a salad most plant greens are completely inedible to us, many are poisonous and will kill you if eaten. The leaf chemistry is different from plant to plant and thankfully after millions of years certain insects have developed a digestive system that allows them to release the energy. If the insects don't eat it then the leaf falls off to be digested by microscopic organism or other insects on the forest floor. At both ends birds, lizards, reptiles, amphibians, rodents, and mammals etc... can eat the insects or other members in the system. And the energy is put into a cycle of higher organisms but always starts with the plants. Naturally we should be surrounding ourselves with plants that fit our ecosystems best so we have more access to energy.
(Yes a lot of plants produce fruit but good luck surviving the winter on that alone.)
Thankfully the patches of forest you see on Google Maps are for the most part free of nonnative plants. But keeping with our theme of bringing nature home several of these trees or at least one should be placed on your property. These are the tall Oaks, Maples, Birch, etc... The really tall ones that get to be 60' or taller some even reaching 120'. In a book dealing with permaculture these would be your nitrogen fixing plants. (Yes peas and other legumes make their own nitrogen but they don't add organic matter and healthy organisms to the soil, they just know how to make their own fertilizer.) The leaves are mostly eaten by insects, and should otherwise be put into the compost pile to make better soil for other parts of your garden. Broken limbs can also be used as fire wood or as a natural boarder to a flower bed. Many nut trees get this tall but usually require a male and female tree to produce the fruit.
The forest edge is usually a mix of low growing trees and shrubs, and often have prettier flowers than the taller hardwoods they surround. Examples of low growing trees include Eastern Redbud, Dogwood, Apple, Plum. This is an area where most birds build their nests. Many shrubs that grow in this area have berries, edible seeds, or are host plants to a variety of caterpillars. Examples: Blueberry, Viburnum, American Beauty Berry, Spice Bush. The birds also appreciate being next to the open fields where grasses and plant down are abundant for their nests. This is the area that probably best represents suburbia but we only really get the bird situation when there are lots of shrubs and low growing trees scattered around for them to dart to and fro. An open bird feeder in the middle of a lawn puts the birds at risk of predation, and you'll actually get more if they have lots of these pitching plants to zig zag their way to.
Gooseberry, Current, Blackberry, Raspberry, Elderberry, PawPaw, and Most fruit trees grow in this area, or will benefit from full sun.
This is also the area where most vine plants grow. Concord Grape, Coral Honeysuckle, Pipevine, Virginia Creeper, are all examples of native vines. Vines in general tend to be invasive especially in this the suburban setting. They get just enough sun to survive but not enough to think they need to slow down growing. This is where Japanese Honeysuckle really takes over as it's more shade tolerant than our native Honeysuckles. Passion Vine is a nice food crop but can only be grown in the southern half of the US, takes two to pollinate one another, but it's considered a noxious weed when you get to the most souther part of it's range. Passiflora incarnata is the native.
Most of these are all perennial crops coming back year after year and produce food. These are the most bang for your buck. Tallamy doesn't talk about food crops really in his book but I'm telling you it all doesn't have to be about butterflies.
Stepping out of the forest completely we find the prairie. In your yard this area usually gets more than 6 hours of direct sunlight. It's the environment farmers like to till and grow their unsustainable mono-crop on, and builders like to develop into housing and do so whenever they can. It saves them the money of clearing the forest and at most they just need to level things out. True prairies with their lush fields of native wildflowers and grasses are an endangered environment and don't occur naturally now except on wildlife reserves. This is the blank canvas home owners call their lawn.
Want to grow fruits and vegetables? That's fine, most crops Tomatoes, Potatoes, Salad Greens, Beans, Peas, Watermelon, Squash, etc... are all annuals and post no threat to the environment. Often times they taste great. Just make sure you have the nitrogen fixing tree(s) to make compost, and including shrubs and bushes that are sustainable will off food year after year.
Need herbs? You go right ahead, just be sure to control Mint and Borage as they can get of hand.
Want a butterfly garden? Plant Milkweed, Liatris, Aster, Goldenrod, Sunflower, Joe Pye Weed, Wild Senna, Violets, Carrot Family Plants like Parsley, Golden Alexander, Carrots in general. A lot of the native plants from other categories are also used as host plants such as Dogwood, Spicebush, Coral Honeysuckle, and Pipevine.
This blank area of lawn is what you want to get rid of. While that image of a prairie filled with wildflowers is hard to control and requires a wildflower is completely unsuited for the lawn area, many of the plants fit perfectly into a flower bed. Pictured above is my little pocket prairie which I've slowly been expanding.
Phlox divaricata, Wild Blue Phlox, is the perfect plant for well drained shade. Really any old Phlox will do and I'm happy to see most found in the US are native. Some are fragrant, some are creeping, others are upright short 2' tall perennials. They come in a wide array of colors. Best of all, they're pretty.
My only complaint is I have never seen anything really work the flowers. Granted a lot of my plants like Trillium almost never come face to face with a bee but this plant in particular, for the amount of flowers it eventually gets it has almost no attention. I have seen a bumblebee on it before but that's about it. The flowers are an odd shape and I suspect it's ideally pollinated by moths and butterflies. None of which are particularly abundant in the spring time but better to have it there then not. An excellent plant and I'd say one of the prettiest to put in a shade area (arguably a hard spot to fill in the garden). | <urn:uuid:bec06f52-7d40-49be-ba2a-1fbd58a9e63e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.biodiversegardens.com/2010/04/ | 2022-01-27T02:26:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305052.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127012750-20220127042750-00519.warc.gz | en | 0.968971 | 4,241 |
2022.01.26 23:26 ProtonEAF How often do you wash your sheets?
2022.01.26 23:26 LargeRuck06 Lightsaber stopped making sound and I noticed this little blue thing was loose and it connects to the speaker how can I fix?
2022.01.26 23:26 crunchy-pizza2 Long live big Hungary!!!!
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2022.01.26 23:26 ExcellentBenefit4811 what rivalry is the best the game ohio state vs michigan or army vs navy
2022.01.26 23:26 nopleasno HOLY SHIT
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2022.01.26 23:26 Miserable_Shape_14 Bug with GW2 sticker shop
In plants vs zombie garden warfare 2. I have some gifts to claim in the stickershop but the stickershop will not load when I click on the gifts. Can anyone please help me? because it’s pretty annoying and I can’t play :(
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2022.01.26 23:26 xturvr NA/EST - Looking for people to play consistently with!
I play mostly norms, but I'm down to play rgms and sometimes arams. I also play tft a lot. I'm on quite a bit because I work from home, so I can be talked to get on mostly whenever lol. I prefer playing with people over 20, as I'm 27, but don't let that stop you. Voice chat preferred. I typically play ad/mid, if that matters. Dm ign or add me directly: anthina!
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2022.01.26 23:26 michaelmoe94 Hey guys I helped support this project back in 2018 and want to check it out now. Does anyone know any KYC-less way to get a bit of mobilecoin to play around?
I assisted with the development of the initial mobilecoin erc-20 contract years ago, and have been trying to keep updated since.
All my KYC attempts are failing facial verification due to a new beard and I really want to try out mobilecoins network.
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2022.01.26 23:26 purple-circle Cursed_Rainbow_Condoms
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2022.01.26 23:26 e-d-throw-away having low empathy is Fine, actually
literally just the title. not every autistic person has low empathy but for those of you that do, you’re literally fine. try not to let other people and the stigma give you some sort of complex about it.
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2022.01.26 23:26 Littlebluewolf08 question sorry if it seams like i have a lot still new and learning
does anyone know any good little stores on amazon i know about little fo big but idk if there a good store and i just found littletude
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2022.01.26 23:26 farmingincascadia 8mo bulldog mix needs patellar surgery (and light duty until he's old enough for it)
Our little guy was injured while playing with our rott and it turns out he had some conformation issues that led to a grade 3 luxation on one knee and the other is a bit off but will probably be fine once he's done growing.
We've had him on light sedation and very light activity for a month after seeing our regular vet and now their orthopedic surgeon wants to do more xrays in 3 weeks and talk about when to repair the knee.
In the meantime, no jumping, tugging, chasing, etc and they sent us home with another baggie of dope (carprofen for pain, gaba for pain/sedation, trazodone for sedation). Little man is also not neutered yet, so he's a ball of energy and annoys our 3yr rott unless we ride herd on him. He also does crazy leaps out of nowhere and it's hard to anticipate and keep him on the ground.
It's getting harder to keep him occupied with non-food stuff, and we're trying to keep expenses down and not buy another boatload of toys, but ugh! Any tips for calm play?
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2022.01.26 23:26 aquabums The real reason r/antiwork locked the sub
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2022.01.26 23:26 Wise_Limit_6203 I Cannot Believe This Guy Even Said This. Console aim assist is not OP, It's actually not strong enough as PC player can instantly kill me and tap strafe. Pc isn't fair let console get an aim assist buff.
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2022.01.26 23:26 Efficient-Stand-757 Advice to men. When a woman emotionally checks out of a relationship? She. Is. Gone. She can be there physically, but mentally she’s somewhere else. And that’s the worst place for a woman to be if you really love her.
2022.01.26 23:26 General-Shopping-889 Does anyone know what this is it has been here for a month
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2022.01.26 23:26 RedEye2001 A weird one..
I wanted to see if anyone could help with some advice..
When I am in public and around people, everyones body language and behaviour suggests that I smell REALLY bad. I am very hygienic and I use anti perspirant & deodorant how anyone would. I barely even sweat!
I don't overuse anything like cologne or body spray. The only thing I've noticed is that I fart alot. Silly I know..
My problem is that I've been to the doctors several times now for the same issue. Ive dome stool & urine samples and even blood tests. Nothing has come back. Every time I see a doctor they say I don't smell & everyone in my family says I don't.
When I go to work or in public though the problem persists. Imagine how you would react if you was near someone who let off a silent but violent fart. Well thats exactly how people react to me.
It's driving me to the point of insanity. If anyone has experienced or is experiencing anything similar please let me know what to do.
I am seeing a counsellor in February to make sure it isn't a mental issue. I am sure it isn't however.
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2022.01.26 23:26 jesusisfirstinmylife can you book a flight that leaves on a thursday?
2022.01.26 23:26 Bubbly-Exchange-2159 Good new 1 in yellowy and soft
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2022.01.26 23:26 Ass_Predator_Goku I warned you
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2022.01.26 23:26 defiray33 Join Our Discord
2022.01.26 23:26 dzrkzz what does this mean exactly? 🧐
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2022.01.26 23:26 passion_for_pissin legal guardian
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2022.01.26 23:26 chimpanzito Am i the only one with a drivers license who's still uncomfortable with parallel parking?
I used to be able to do it with solid success rates, but i have lost the ability to do it consistantly and im not sure why. I just got back from practicing myself and i think out of the 7 tries, i got it 3 times, out of those 3 times i wasn't truly satisfied since i felt i didn't know how far my car was away from the other parked cars... so i took a gamble.
It just made me feel bad tbh, like how does this even happen, i have this car for a year and regular driving and backwards parking etc.. work pretty well, it's only parallel parking that is screwing me over now.
Also, if i go in to driving school and ask them for extra lessons on parking, could they theoretically take away my drivers license if they notice im struggling?
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2022.01.26 23:26 _Eltanin_ dress by B.V. [Original]
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- Higher volume of deliveries in dense urban areas reducing fuel efficiency
- Increased diversions like traffic, and dropping packages off increasing idling rates
- Increase in failed and missed deliveries
- Complex routes leading to added miles traveled
- Rising operational costs for deliveries
- Wrongly entered addresses
- Difficulty to allocate ad-hoc deliveries in real-time
- Meeting on-time delivery timelines
- Managing high delivery volumes with minimal resources
- Driver shortages
- Uncertain events leading to increased vehicle downtimes
- Lack of transparent communication with consumers and drivers
These are just some of the challenges that modern enterprise businesses face in the last-mile.
If you are a modern enterprise business, you too should have faced either one, few of them or all of these challenges in your final-mile. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing e-commerce orders is pushing brands to overcome these last-mile delivery challenges.
During 2021, enterprise businesses have gone through a rough patch unlike other years. 2022 is the year where businesses will work with a renewed focus on their last-mile deliveries.
Some delivery businesses that face problems in their last-mile
Enterprise businesses that directly deliver goods/services to their customers are the ones that face challenges in their last-mile.
- Supermarkets and grocery stores offering deliveries
- Food and beverage delivery businesses
- Restaurants and hotels involved in deliveries
- Pharmacies providing prescription delivery services
- Emergency and non-emergency medical transportation businesses
- Third-party logistics providers
- Courier services
- D2C brands
- Home services
- Furniture retail businesses
- Non-essential businesses
- Mail carriers
- Meal-kit businesses
- Cosmetic and apparel deliveries etc
Benefits of a last-mile delivery software for modern enterprise businesses
In 2018, the last mile delivery market in North America was sized at 31.25 billion U.S. dollars. It is expected to grow to just under 51 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. – Statista report, Estimated market size of last mile delivery in North America from 2018 to 2022, December 2018.
With the last-mile delivery market expanding rapidly, enterprise businesses will be looking to invest in technology like last-mile delivery software. As customer demands evolve quickly, 2022 will be a cornerstone year for businesses looking to invest in last-mile delivery software.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the delta plus variant in 2021 have accelerated the customer usage of same-day and on-demand delivery options. Customer experience has turned out to be the crucial x-factor that determines the competitiveness of a business. Last-mile delivery largely determines whether an enterprise business provides a great customer experience.
Check Out: Last-Mile Delivery Routing
Recent tech improvements in last-mile delivery software have made it easier for enterprise businesses to manage the ever-changing customer demands. Find out how the usage of a last-mile delivery software could benefit modern enterprise businesses in 2022.
Improves visibility of shipments
Let me show you some instances that can distort the last-mile delivery experiences.
- Reaching customer’s doorstep despite being told that he/she will be unavailable
- Being clueless about the fulfillment status of deliveries
- Customers repeatedly asking how far the delivery person is from their location
- Fleet drivers picking up returned goods even when there were other runners in the vicinity
These are the instances that can be dangerous to both the end customer and the business. As fulfillment is turning highly dynamic, the importance of last-mile visibility has increased. Last-mile visibility has turned out to be the crucial differentiating factor for a success or failure of delivery operations.
A sophisticated last-mile delivery software helps businesses gain real-time visibility into their fleet operations. It alerts the businesses if they are diverting from the planned routes or if the vehicle has idled beyond a planned limit. Beyond giving logistics executives the control over last-mile operations, it reduces spoilage, theft and vehicle downtimes.
The predictive intelligence and Machine learning algorithms of a last-mile delivery software helps fleet managers plan ETAs (Expected Time of Arrival) of their shipments and keep their customers informed. Planning ETAs with last-mile logistics software helps them be updated on whether deliveries would reach customers on-time, delayed or early. This enables them to take corrective actions, optimize routes and keep customers informed about ETAs, thereby enabling data-driven decision-making.
Also Read: TrackIQ: Reimagining fleet management
We are in the age of instant gratification, where customers are ready to pay extra for quicker deliveries. The breach of on-time delivery promises made to customers can lead to huge losses for a business. More frustrated customers leads to fall in revenues, thereby hurting the brand loyalty of the business reducing its competitiveness.
An enterprise-level last-mile delivery software optimizes real-time delivery routes for drivers. It factors real-world constraints like traffic, delivery windows, delivery priority, breaks, driver skill set, vehicle capacity, time-on-site, transit time, etc. This kind of optimal route planning also helps increase the number of deliveries and save fuel.
Last-mile delivery helps enterprise businesses to schedule deliveries for the next day or the same-day within minutes. In addition to some factors and constraints while planning routes, dispatchers can add personal business knowledge, and local geographic familiarity of drivers. This added human intelligence optimizes routes smartly and helps fleet drivers start their day’s work without any further delays.
Overall, last-mile delivery software enables fleet managers to fulfill the maximum number of deliveries within the shortest amount of time possible through the minimal usage of resources. Also, it cuts down operating costs for deliveries and total delivery time.
Let’s look at this scenario.
Michael orders some t-shirts from his favorite brand and wants them to be delivered to his house on Saturday. Though his office declared a holiday during Saturday, the CEO calls for an urgent meeting. There is no one in his home or neighbourhood to collect the parcel. He feels that it would be great if the parcel is delivered to his office address.
Modern customers like Michael want to change their delivery location and time if needed. This is just an instance. Enterprise businesses have to deal with hundreds of such customers at the same time. In such a situation, it is difficult for them to reschedule the deliveries of hundreds of customers given their load, routing and capacity constraints etc.
Why do such problems of missed and failed deliveries occur?
- There is no prior timely notification or alerts given to the customer expecting deliveries
- Delayed deliveries made when customer is not home due to unexpected events
- No flexible options for customers to reschedule convenient delivery time windows and location
- Wrongly entered address of a customer
An AI-driven last-mile delivery software enables customers to reschedule their delivery date and time easily. It helps customers to contact the delivery personnel by calling them, chatting with them online or SMS their delivery preferences. These communication options help customers give instructions where to leave the package or deliver it precisely.
Last-mile delivery software helps enterprise businesses provide customizable and flexible delivery for their customers. Allowing the customers to control their delivery preferences increases positive feedback and improves their trust, thereby increasing repeat customers.
Last-mile delivery software helps enterprise businesses to accommodate their customers’ last-minute delivery changes. As the last-minute changes are entered, it automatically assigns vehicles, adjusts routes and informs drivers, helping them easily accommodate customer requests.
Improved productivity and scalability
- Unnecessary vehicle idling
- Unplanned route diversions
- Delivery failures
- Route delays
- Unexpected Stoppages
There are some words that enterprise businesses or fleet managers do not want to hear often. If they encounter these problems often, it means the productivity and efficiency of their fleet is falling severely.
With last-mile delivery software, enterprise businesses can on-board third-party logistics partners when their in-house logistics capacity gets exhausted. By planning routes based on the number of orders in a location and time windows, it helps fleet managers optimize the number of deliveries in a day. This helps them effectively scale their last-mile logistics and manage deliveries during peak business hours.
Manage ad-hoc deliveries
Here’s another interesting scenario.
Mary, being a fleet manager, assigns delivery orders to her fleet drivers and manages them daily. On a regular day, one of her drivers calls in sick while the other drivers are fulfilling their delivery orders. She gets a batch of last-minute orders and is finding it difficult to manage them in real-time.
Replanning the entire delivery schedule manually can take hours and is a grueling task. One of the major reasons for enterprise businesses witnessing an increasing number of failed deliveries is because of its inability to manage ad-hoc delivery requests. In the age of instant deliveries, they struggle to reroute orders in real-time.
Last-mile delivery software with its dynamic route planning abilities help fleet managers like Mary solve these rerouting issues in a single go. It automatically reroutes deliveries based on proximity, delivery preferences, re-delivery time windows, driver schedules, planned destinations, current vehicle locations and more. It ensures that drivers are not burdened with tasks beyond their working hours and their existing deliveries are not disturbed.
The last-mile transportation is the most crucial component of logistics and supply chain operations for enterprise businesses. The utmost priority of any business is to build a seamless delivery experience through their last-mile logistics operations. The most effective tool that can supplement your efforts towards optimizing final-mile logistics is a last-mile delivery software.
The decision you make on selecting the right tech partner to purchase this tool is equally critical. Locus is one such valuable tech platform that can improve your dispatching operations on a wider scale.
Locus’ last-mile delivery software is a modern-day dispatching platform for effectively optimizing your last-mile logistics. We work with a variety of enterprise businesses with different last-mile problems and are successful in building a solution that fits their business goals and needs.
Locus’ last-mile delivery software enables businesses to power up their logistics operations with minimal resources and lesser costs. Its optimal route planning and scalability help your enterprise business boost productivity and improve customer retention.
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I bloody love this game… I really do and I love most things Command & Conquer, sure there are ups and downs. Even my beloved Resident Evil has a few ups and downs but during the glorious Westwood years, Red Alert 2 was the arguably the best in the series. I even played it so much I occasionally broke into the top 100 rankings for online matched play. I was a bit of a spod you see. Though, if I am honest most of this was luck of who I played as when I played the truly skilled player it was like they were playing chess and I was sticking marbles up my bum. I did have my fun and gitted gud but you probably don’t ever want to play with my marble collection…
Red Alert 2 is a base building Real Time Strategy. You start a game, gather resources, build a base, and build an army with the intent of smooshing your enemy with your superior tactical ability (spamming hardest tank). You build Ore Trucks to gather resources, and you manage your income through defensive or offensive base building. Adding to this dynamic is the introduction of 3rd party civilian buildings. These all vary in usefulness, as one is a repair yard that is 100% useless, one is an airport (gives you paratroopers) and the other is the more useful Oil Refinery which gives you access to another source of income. These buildings can form small (or large) secondary bases as you are able to build off them to form staging posts to further aid your war effort. They can also be crucial in Multiplayer as any slight advantage you get will punish the perfectly balanced maps.
None of these civilian buildings are a win button in PVE play, and merely act as a helpful boost to keep you churning out units.
Apparently set in 1972, the general gist of the story is that after a long period of peace between the East and the West, the Soviets in an unprovoked move, decide to declare war on the Americans. As Soviets the campaign sees you swinging your massive Soviet Dong obliterating the the Pentagon, further dick swinging occurs and sees you build a Psychic Beacon at the World Trade Centre, as well as pissing all over the Pearl Harbour Monument. Suffice to say the Allies, and in particular the USA are having a bad time. And the Soviets revel in the aforementioned dick swinging.
In a completely predictable twist it turns out the patsy the US had placed in charge (Aleksander Romanov) is being mind controlled by Yuri. He is like Cher in that he doesn’t have a surname.
Added on top of this is a focus on other factions within the alliance. The Allies are no longer just the USA, now you have the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Korea. Each country has a specialist unit only they possess and these slight differences will make a difference to online and Skirmish play. The Soviets, get Russia, Libya, Iraq, and Cuba. So again, they are obviously the baddies in this game if the story hadn’t given it away.
Through the campaign you’ll visit each country and come up against their weapon, while discovering the Libyan Demolition Truck is a joy to behold.
All of this culminates in what can only be described as wacky technology. The Allies get Sonar Dolphins, these are dolphins with sonar guns strapped to their heads. Soviets get giant mechanical Squids, ally specific units. And the super weapons! Oh god I love the superweapons in Red Alert 2!!! You still get the Chronosphere (as Allies) and the Iron Curtain (as Soviets) these teleport troops and make units invulnerable respectively. But now…Now you get a god damn weather controller that unleashes an epic electrical storm that will destroy most of your opponents base. The Soviets “only” get a nuke. It is a nuke, and therefor super powerful, but the Allies win this one with the brassballs of controlling the weather!!!
Introduced in Tiberium Sun, Red Alert 2 runs with the more cinematic mission structure. Objectives are introduced to you on the fly through cutscenes that appear in the User Interface. Like Tiberium Sun this allows for a little more immersion and allows the story to develop a little more organically. It means the end of mission briefings are a little more concise, and in hindsight comparing it to Red Alert and Command & Conquer these cutscenes now feels significantly less like an information dump at the end of the mission due to shorter cutscenes.
Also building on Tiberium Sun is the expanded build queue. It was a much needed introduction in TS, but you were limited to 5 in a queue. In Red Alert 2 you can build a whopping 30. It means you can micro-manage if you want, but you can set your War Factory to build 30 Apocalypse Tanks (not advisable in online play). There is some further nuance to the build queue as you are able to set it to build say 5 Apocalypse tanks, 3 V3 Rockets, a Harvester, 10 more Apocalypse Tanks and a Kirov Airship. Allowing this mix and match allows for planning ahead and you can focus a little more on what is happening on screen.
One change that I am not convinced about is that tanks are promoted and do achieve god-tier level. Imagine an Apocalypse Tank that is effectively firing 2 mini nuclear warheads, Prism Tanks can level a Construction Yard and 4 buildings around it in 2 zaps, and regular conscripts seems to gain a freaking minigun. Topping all of this off is they start to gain health regeneration. If you get one unit levelled up early you can effectively become invincible if they get enough support. These are win buttons, but the balance is surprisingly fair. As they are still killable. meaning it adds a new dimension to prioritising your targets as a regular Apocalypse Tank is *NOT* as dangerous as a top-tier regular tank. And dear god kill that top-tier Kirov before it even looks at your base!!!
Red Alert 2 is probably the hardest of the first four proper games, the enemy AI will adapt to your forces on the fly. If you don’t build air defence they’ll attack through air. They’ll stop your sea expansionism if you need to cross bodies of water, and they’ll target key buildings such as Nuclear Silos. There does seem to be a lack of the solo/limited resource missions seen in previous games, instead now you tend to get a mission with Tanya where if she dies it is gameover, but she has support and you build up your base as normal.
On the whole with the civilian buildings, the speed ore regenerates you are never broke. You can always eek something out to make a next attack. But failure at these points will turn a 30 minute mission into a 4 hour slog.
One limited resource mission I did stuff up on was a mission where you need to mind control the President of the United States. You have 2 Yuri Clones and a little bit of money. I stuffed up early, but rather than restart I sat at the back bringing in Paratroopers from the airport I decided was crucial to capture to the point where I had 200ish GIs to getting themselves mullered by the special Navy Seals that are like rapid fire Tanyas that would clear 20 troops in seconds. In hindsight this was perfect Soviet strategy as I eventually got the President by clogging their rivers with my dead.
Other modes such as the Skirmish mode have been expanded upon, you can now play against up to 7 other players in large battles with choice of factions as well as allowing you to tailor what difficulty the enemy is. Setting 7 enemies to “Brutal” will lead to 7 Nuclear Bombs landing in your backyard before you have managed to build a Battle Lab.
I won’t go into too much detail, but each faction has their own unique unit.
- Great Britain get a Sniper. He is shit.
- The USA get “Airborne”, they are paratroopers with a different name.
- France gets an awesome defensive structure called the Grand Cannon. It is Imperial Dick Waving at it’s finest, but a little overpriced to make useful.
- Korea (Republic of?) get an awesome fighter jet called the Black Eagle. It is wicked cool.
- Russia get the Tesla Tank. It’s mobile Tesla so therefore cool. It’s pretty useless
- Cuba get a “terrorist” which is a suicide bomber. Sending wave after wave of suicide vests isn’t a cost effective way of doing things. Funny though.
- Libya get the Demolition Truck. This is a better version of the terrorist as it is a slightly armoured truck with a larger blast.
- Iraq gets the Desolator. These are cool as balls dudes with a radiation gun. They have a secondary attack where they irratiate the ground and kill things with area effect evilness. I love them.
The best thing about these unique units, is like the civilian buildings, are not overpowered. They give you a slight variation and ability to do a specific tactic. You will still top tech spam your opponent but these unique units will give you a little variation for prodding, probing and harassing. It gives reasons to experiment and good online players will do interesting things. Or if doing things properly focus on low level units you can churn out quickly for a rush.
Red Alert 2 got a proper add-on, which rather than a series of daft missions like in Red Alert’s Counterstrike and Aftermath as here you get a continuation of the story following the Allied storyline. Yuri thought to be defeated comes back with a vengeance forming his own army and acting as the 3rd playable faction. This splits some of the Soviet tech off as they lose Yuri’s Psychic abilities but you gain some replacements. These missions involve more time travel, and has you being transported back to the initial Soviet invasion at the start of the main game Red Alert 2 introduction in an attempt to re-win the war. Or going back to pre-historic times as Soviets because you are terrible at life and screw things up.
These missions are fun, and well worth a bash to continue the already pants on head stupidity of the Red Alert 2 storyline. My preference is to still play as Allies or Soviets, as the Yuri stuff while pants-on-head-crazy is a little lacking. If you can play Yuri in Skirmish to have a look.
I think you can tell I like Red Alert 2. The technology tree is fantastical, the story is the right side of utterly ridiculous, and despite EA being the biggest fucking tools on the planet the fan community have kept the game running. There are a few bugs, because while the bastards at EA will sell you the game they have not patched it for you.
Thankfully, the Red Alert 2 community have stepped in and fixed all this for you. They have patches to play online, and patches to get the game to actually work. Be warned that playing online is possible through these patches but you will be playing BrianMilfHunter69 who hasn’t left his house in 19 years and is somewhat gudder than you.
The video here is great and what got my game working, and other patches can be found at CNCNET.org. Buy Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge for cheap off of EA, then download the fan fixes. Fuck EA the bastards.
Pros: daft technology, balanced game play, replayable. HELL MARCH 2
Cons: EA Don’t support a game they sell
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The university health network helped employees better cope with anxiety, while saving $17 in face-to-face mental health costs for every dollar spent on the digital program.
St. Luke’s University Health Network is a nonprofit health system with more than 15,000 employees providing care and services at 12 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient locations.
Healthcare workers have higher rates of work-related stress, anxiety and depression than the general population. SLUHN has a self-insured medical plan. Baseline data indicated that emotional and behavioral health issues were affecting employees and their dependents.
However, there were many barriers affecting the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy, including cost, stigma, provider supply/demand mismatch, scheduling delays, and the lack of ability to reach the appropriate patients. The problem the healthcare organization faced was that there was inadequate access to mental healthcare.
“We leveraged support from senior leadership and stakeholders from human resources, behavioral health, employee wellness, information technology and the innovations team to provide input and expertise into the project,” said Amy Previato, network director, employee wellness, at St. Luke’s University Health Network. “Our goal was to offer clinically effective and cost-effective online cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety, stress and depression to employees and spouses.”
Research has shown that Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy is a viable and effective alternative to face-to-face treatment, Previato said. Furthermore, such therapy, with some input from a therapist, can be as clinically effective as face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy and more cost-effective, she added.
“We partnered with AVIA to select an evidence-based solution named SilverCloud,” she reported. “SilverCloud is an online platform that offers 24/7 access to clinically proven programs based on cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness and positive psychology. It includes both self-guided and coached interventions.”
An SLUHN-sponsored supporter would interact with a large group of employees through their treatment and education, matching the intensity of the intervention with individual needs. The supporter would guide patients through asynchronous communication via the SilverCloud application, and provide nonclinical feedback, recommendations and support.
Participant progress would be measured at intake and periodically throughout their program using industry-standard tools, such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 and PHQ-9 (a nine-question instrument to measure depression), Previato explained. Participants would be evaluated for caseness, recovery, showing reliable change and reliable recovery, she added.
The goals were to use SilverCloud to:
- Reduce healthcare utilization costs and stigma.
- Compare cost-effectiveness of treatment compared to face-to-face treatment.
- Create a viable alternative to face-to-face treatment to free up the backlog and increase accessibility.
Participants in need of services exceeding SilverCloud’s capability would be referred to the employee assistance program or other resources as appropriate.
MEETING THE CHALLENGE
After a custom build, programs for anxiety, stress and depression were available for free, anonymously and confidentially, to SLUHN employees and spouses. After creating their account, participants access and progress through the program modules at their own pace, at their convenience, from a computer, tablet or smartphone.
“Participant satisfaction, clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness are measured and evaluated,” said Phil Mazur, wellness supporter at St. Luke’s University Health Network. “Additionally, account creation/number of participants is a primary area of focus. In order to evaluate clinical outcomes, user satisfaction and cost-effectiveness, we first needed users.
“A multi-tiered marketing plan was developed to promote and normalize SilverCloud as a resource for mental healthcare,” he continued. “The organization sought to not only create awareness about SilverCloud and educate people about the benefits of using it, but to begin a crucial conversation about self-care and addressing mental health needs.”
Safe, friendly approaches were incorporated into the marketing plan to reduce stigma and drive employees and their spouses to use the platform, he added. Initial marketing strategies included an in-home mailer, a refrigerator magnet, quarterly e-mails, intranet postings, presentations at new-hire orientation, posting materials throughout the network in staff-only areas, and providing information during benefits fairs.
“This led to an initial group of early adopters who created accounts and began using the platform, while also contributing to ongoing account creation and platform use by the general employee population,” he said. “Subsequent marketing efforts included targeted approaches to ensure the resource was being brought to the attention of those that might benefit the most from it.”
Additionally, to keep SilverCloud top of mind, the program was included in presentations to high-impact groups, including management, nursing residency groups and medical residents. Though the anonymity and confidentiality of the platform were always emphasized in marketing efforts, the planning team recognized there may have been potential users who would appreciate having the opportunity to interact, put a face to the program, and ask questions of the supporter and the creators of the platform.
“A series of on-site demonstration booths were scheduled across the network, which were called ‘SilverCloud Roadshows,’” Mazur said. “They were in prominent locations, including cafeterias, lobbies and conference rooms. Finally, we allowed completion of a SilverCloud program to count as a Healthy Living Activity in our 2018 annual Employee Wellness Health Assessment.”
The SLUHN SilverCloud project goal for participation was 1,000 accounts, with a stretch goal of 1,200. Some 1,161 accounts were created in the first year, and 1,300 additional accounts were created in the first three months of the second year. More than 3,000 employees and spouses have used the program, which is a significant number of users on which to measure clinical outcomes.
“The online solution offers users the convenience of anytime access from anywhere,” Previato said. “Our implementation did not require users to identify themselves at account creation, thereby enabling a level of comfort from users who may not otherwise have accessed SilverCloud or face-to-face mental health services.”
The SLUHN implementation also included the hiring of a supporter (MSW) to interact asynchronously with participants through the technology/platform. This appealed to those seeking guidance, accountability and/or cognitive behavioral therapy that wasn’t only delivered via self-service, Previato said.
“Our users report a 97% satisfaction rate with the program,” she said. “At the completion of each module, the platform assesses user satisfaction with various aspects of the program and user experience. The majority of users ‘agree’ or ‘strongly agree’ that their program was interesting, relevant, helpful and contributed to progress toward their goals.”
Validated assessments for depression (PHQ9) and anxiety (GAD7) are used at baseline, and regularly during program progression. The following definitions are established for measuring clinical effectiveness:
- Case. Occurs if a participant scores above the clinical threshold on the depression and/or anxiety assessment at signup.
- Recovery. Occurs if the participant subsequently scores below the clinical threshold on the depression and/or anxiety assessment.
- Reliable change. Occurs if a participant’s score drops a predetermined number of points on the depression and/or anxiety assessment.
- Reliably recovered. Occurs if the predetermined point-reduction drops the individual below the clinical threshold on the depression and/or anxiety assessment.
In both the space from depression and space from anxiety programs, there was a downgrading of clinical acuity based on PHQ9 and GAD7 scores taken before, during and after program use.
In reviewing improvement and clinically significant improvement by baseline severity in the space from depression program, out of 1,042 responders to PHQ9, 71% of moderately severe users report clinically significant improvement, and 50% of severe users report clinically significant improvement.
In reviewing improvement and clinically significant improvement by baseline severity in the space from anxiety program, out of 1,038 responders to GAD7, 52% of moderate users report clinically significant improvement and 62% of severe users report clinically significant improvement. The organization also noted a leveling of employee assistance program utilization concurrent with the rollout of SilverCloud.
“SLUHN used network data to show the cost of face-to-face mental health treatment per employee,” Previato explained. “Cost-effectiveness was demonstrated by comparing the SilverCloud cost for the users meeting the clinical threshold for diagnoses at SilverCloud sign-up to the cost that would have been incurred had they sought face-to face treatment.”
Cost-effectiveness was also demonstrated by comparing what the users who had reliable recovery (defined as reliable reduction – four points for PHQ-9, or six points for GAD-7 – and fell below the clinical threshold) would have cost the network had they gone for face-to-face treatment, compared to the cost for them to use SilverCloud.
“Cost-effectiveness was also demonstrated by showing that the network’s all-time investment for the SilverCloud program and FTE for the two-year pilot is less than what it would have cost to treat the reliably recovered users in face-to-face treatment,” Previato said. “We saved $17 for every $1 spent on SilverCloud for users who met the clinical threshold for diagnosis.”
ADVICE FOR OTHERS
“The success of this project is attributable to thorough assessment, planning, implementation, process and outcome evaluation,” Previato said. “The team was careful to know the population, stay in tune with the barriers, systematically address barriers, and weave the solution through the organization in various ways.”
Staff was able to gain acceptance for the technology by making it palatable to different parts of the population. Staff began an important conversation about mental health and self-care, normalizing the topics and making them acceptable, she said.
“We intended to make the program sustainable, not treat it as a gimmick or flavor of the month, but an ongoing commitment for the organization and our employees,” she advised. “Underscoring this, the platform and project were included recently as a case study in the SLUHN HIMSS Stage 7 EMRAM Network reaccreditation process.”
Previato encourages peers using similar technologies to begin by deciding on what levels of intervention and treatment the organization wants to provide.
“Self-guided versus supported technologies differ in their targeted audiences, and thus, expected effectiveness/outcomes,” she said. “For example, a meditation app may be proven to have statistically significant results in lowering stress levels, but that is quite different [from] a supported app based on cognitive behavioral therapy meant to help reduce the acuity of symptoms for depression and anxiety.”
Make sure to do research and pick a platform or tool that is proven clinically effective, while also able to meet the organization’s expectations, she added. For example, SLUHN decided to ensure the anonymity and confidentiality of participants, which likely increased engagement, but directly limited the ability to measure certain downstream effects caused by the utilization of services. | <urn:uuid:fee76a7f-ee5a-403e-9f4d-39bee16c94c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://memorialcareinnovationfund.com/st-lukes-reduces-employee-burnout-and-mental-health-costs-with-digital-health-tool/ | 2022-01-17T09:51:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300533.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117091246-20220117121246-00239.warc.gz | en | 0.954474 | 2,395 |
Taiwan has capitalized on the U.S.-China trade dispute and superb pandemic control to revitalize its position as a technology hub.
In less than three years’ time, Taiwan has rejuvenated its position in global supply chains. The exodus of manufacturers to China is ancient history. Instead, many of them have been choosing to come home, first to circumvent stiff U.S. tariffs on China-made products, then to mitigate the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan. Taiwan has contained the capricious pathogen better than almost any country in the world.
The Tsai Ing-wen administration has incentivized manufacturers to repatriate from China with perks like preferential loan terms, land concessions, and tax breaks. Dubbed the “Action Plan for Welcoming Overseas Taiwanese Businesses to Return to Invest in Taiwan,” the policy covers financing, taxation, water, electricity, and manpower in a single service window. To qualify, companies must have invested in China for at least two years and been affected by the trade dispute. They must also commit to incorporating smart technologies into their new or expanded production lines in Taiwan.
Two other incentive programs exist for local manufacturers that have never invested in China – one for large corporations and another for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Together, the three programs have generated NT$1.18 trillion (US$42 billion) in investment from 783 companies since their launch in 2019, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). More than two-thirds of that total (NT$792.5 billion) is attributed to Taiwanese firms returning from China.
A survey of 157 manufacturers by the Taipei-based Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI) published in October 2020 found that COVID-19 had caused many Taiwanese firms to reconsider their reliance on China. Some 80% of respondents (mostly SMEs) said the pandemic had hurt their bottom lines. When the survey was conducted last summer, manufacturing capacity had recovered to above 70% for less than half of respondents. Of the firms surveyed, 44% said they planned to diversify production, while 60% said that tax credits might encourage their repatriation.
“It is important for Taiwanese companies to diversify their production bases now that China’s business environment is riskier,” says Emile Chang, CEO of InvesTaiwan, an office under the MOEA that supervises the three incentive programs. “They’re adapting to meet the requirements of their U.S. and European customers.”
“The Tsai government is doing a strong job of attracting capital back to Taiwan, a process known as ‘reshoring,’” says Rupert Hammond-Chambers, managing director at consultancy BowerGroupAsia. He adds that the new investments are boosting “prospects for R&D, production, employment, and revenue for local and national government.”
Among industries relocating to Taiwan, high-end servers, networking communications, and 5G-related products are “leading the way in terms of investment amount and production capacity expansion,” observes Stephen Su, a vice president at the semi-governmental Industrial Technology and Research Institute (ITRI).
One of the most prominent Taiwanese firms to reshore is Quanta Computer, the assembler of MacBooks and Apple Watches and a supplier of data center servers to Facebook and Google. Quanta is investing NT$15 billion to build a new factory in Taoyuan that will take over some of the company’s China production. Amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and China on technology, telecommunications equipment free of Chinese components is a must for some U.S. companies.
Wistron NeWeb, a network and communications solutions provider, said last June that it would invest NT$5.5 billion to build a third-phase plant in the Southern Taiwan Science Park. The company invested NT$2.7 billion the previous year to set up production facilities in the Tainan industrial park. Its top clients include AT&T and HP.
“The pandemic’s effect on global work habits has had a huge [positive] impact on Taiwanese companies that produce much of the gear people use for remote working,” says BowerGroupAsia’s Hammond-Chambers, who also serves as president of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council.
Demand for ICT components used for remote work helped Taiwan’s exports grow 4.9% to a record US$345 billion in 2020, despite daunting global economic conditions. Taiwan’s export growth outstripped that of its fellow Asian tigers Singapore, South Korea, and Hong Kong.
Further, Taiwan was likely the only Asian tiger economy to record positive growth last year. “Taiwan’s three economic engines of consumption, exports, and investment all performed better than most of its neighbors,” says Darson Chiu, an economist at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), a think tank. “Consumption was not seriously impacted by COVID-19, since the virus was contained domestically.”
Data center hub
While Taiwan has focused on reshoring manufacturing, U.S. tech giants such as Microsoft and Google are also boosting investment on the island. Geopolitical disruptions beyond the U.S.-China trade dispute have affected their calculations.
Hong Kong historically served as a hub for data centers in Northeast Asia, but the imposition of a draconian national security law last year raised troubling questions about data security in the former British colony. Following passage of the legislation, Google said it would end direct cooperation with the Hong Kong government on data requests. Google told Hong Kong police that it would instead direct officials to pursue data requests through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the U.S.
“As geopolitical complications begin to intensify and cause extensive repercussions in Hong Kong, cloud-service providers (CSPs) are now investigating other suitable APAC locations for data center build-out outside of Hong Kong,” says Mark Liu, a senior industry analyst at Taipei-based research firm TrendForce.
Liu notes that the Taiwanese government has in recent years gradually eased restrictions on cloud applications for certain industries, such as finance. The government itself is also storing more data in the cloud. These trends “give yet another incentive for CSPs to establish data centers in Taiwan,” he says.
In September 2020, Google unveiled plans for its third Taiwan data center on a 200,000-square-meter plot in Douliu in central Taiwan’s Yunlin County. The investment is reportedly worth NT$20 billion. At a media briefing, Google’s regional general manager Tina Lin cited Taiwan’s “geographic advantages” as a reason for building the data center here. Multiple undersea communication cables connecting the U.S. and Asia pass through Taiwan.
That’s not all. The U.S. Justice Department opposed a plan involving Google and Facebook that would have connected the U.S. to Hong Kong via underwater cable. The Justice Department warned in a statement published by Politico that the cable had “the potential to establish Hong Kong as the center of gravity for U.S. data connectivity in Asia, offering unprecedented opportunities for collection by the Chinese intelligence services.”
In contrast, the U.S. has supported the construction of undersea cables connecting the U.S. and Taiwan. “Taiwan is considered politically stable compared to Hong Kong and has a relatively large cost advantage compared to Singapore,” says Pan Chien-kuang, a senior industry analyst at the Taipei-based Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute.
In another project, in October 2020 Microsoft announced it would build its first Azure data center in Taiwan as part of its largest investment yet there. Azure is a set of cloud services covering computing, networking, databases, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The investment, which will also include expansion of the Azure hardware systems and infrastructure team, is expected to generate more than NT$300 billion in value and 30,000 jobs for the industry.
“Building a world-class, enterprise-grade cloud marks an important step toward the digitalization of Taiwan’s key industries,” Ken Sun, general manager of Microsoft Taiwan, said in a press release. At a press conference, he lauded Taiwan’s complete information technology supply chain and mentioned the possibility of collaborating with the semiconductor, telecommunications, and medical sectors.
“This investment is important as it will help Taiwan build a holistic industrial ecosystem around data centers, thereby triggering an industrial transformation in Taiwan,” Pan says.
At the same time, Microsoft’s huge investment signals confidence in Taiwan at a time of widespread economic uncertainty. “Microsoft’s investment is key for us to enhance our collaboration with the international community and with the U.S.,” President Tsai said at the press conference.
The establishment of large data centers in Taiwan is not without its critics. A common complaint among detractors is that these facilities require a substantial amount of energy to operate. Given that energy supply sufficiency remains a major concern among businesses in Taiwan, whether to continue providing space and resources for data centers is a consideration that weighs heavily on both government officials and industry professionals.
However, speaking at a recent AmCham Taiwan luncheon event, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Chen Chern-chyi (C.C. Chen) dispelled those concerns, saying that the investments in data centers made by companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services are crucial to helping Taiwanese companies complete their digital transformation processes. Furthermore, he said, the decision of these companies to invest in Taiwan is testament to its focus on cybersecurity, protection of intellectual property, and adherence to the rule of law.
Supply chain resilience
With no end in sight for the U.S.-China trade dispute, many firms are working to make their supply chains more resilient. Moving production back to Taiwan is part of the process, but most companies are not pulling out of China completely.
Taipei-based JC Grand Corp. is a case in point. The industrial fastener and metal hardware maker has three factories in Taiwan and one in China’s Zhejiang Province. The third plant in Taiwan is an empty facility, located in an industrial park north of Kao-hsiung, that the company purchased in the summer of 2020 and plans to equip with production lines. JC Grand will probably apply for government incentives for capital purchases on some of the factory equipment.
Prior to the trade dispute, JC Grand had no imminent plans to add capacity in Taiwan. If anything, the company mulled pulling the plug on its Taiwan factories. “As recently as five or six years ago, we used to wonder how long it would be until we shifted our whole supply chain from Taiwan to China,” says Jon Hodowany, the company’s CEO and general manager.
Rising costs and regulatory travails in China began to change JC Grand’s calculations. When the trade dispute broke out between Washington and Beijing, the company decided to open a new factory in Taiwan from which it could sell to the U.S. market. “We had to do something after our biggest market slapped 25% tariffs on our products,” Hodowany says.
He lauds Taiwan’s industrial clusters. “The network effect of supply chains all being here generates huge efficiencies. Everything you need for metal fasteners is produced in Tainan and Kaohsiung.”
After a rocky start, JC Grand ended up having a banner year in 2020, breaking the US$100 million revenue milestone for the first time. The company has many customers in the construction industry and sells end products to Home Depot. “People were spending a lot of time at home because of the pandemic, and decided to invest in home improvement,” Hodowany says.
Looking ahead, one challenge for Taiwan’s reshoring initiative will be the country’s finite resources. The so-called “five shortages” – land, water, electricity, manpower, and talent – remain an issue affecting companies’ investment decisions.
ITRI’s Su believes that the government can manage most of them in the short term, especially water and electricity, given the importance of attracting investment to Taiwan. “Potential shortage issues have been at the top of the agenda for the government,” he says.
And while land is also a major concern for returning businesses, the government is working to address the overall growing demand for adequate space to build factories and plants. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua announced on January 20 that her ministry would coordinate with the state-run Taiwan Sugar Corp. to offer five pieces of land – a total of 423 hectares – for investment purposes. Wang noted that use of the land, located in Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, could result in NT$1.8 billion in production value and lead to the creation of 10,000 jobs.
In the long run, talent could be the trickiest to tackle. There is no easy fix. The birth rate in Taiwan is so low (1.22 children per woman) that the population shrank last year for the first time. Taiwan will be a super-aged society by 2025, with one in five people aged 65 or older. Demographic decline will diminish the country’s base of young science and technology talent, Su says.
“The declining birth rate is a national security challenge for the government that will require myriad approaches,” says BowerGroupAsia’s Hammond-Chambers. One he recommends considering is an immigration point system, similar to those used in Australia and the UK, which selects skilled migrant workers for economic purposes.
Meanwhile, Taiwanese firms with a significant China footprint remain committed to that market. Despite the trade dispute and pandemic, China (counting Hong Kong) still accounts for about 40% of Taiwan’s exports.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (Foxconn), the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, broke ground on a new advanced semiconductor packaging and testing plant in Qingdao in northern China’s Shandong Province last year. The New Taipei City-based company will reportedly invest the equivalent of US$8.6 billion in the facility.
Foxconn also recently entered a strategic partnership with the PRC’s China Insurance Investment Co. that will focus on emerging technologies such as electric cars, digital health, and robotics. The two companies will set up a ¥10 billion venture capital fund that they expect will ultimately double in size.
“China will remain a key production base for many Taiwanese companies due to its well-developed supply chains and infrastructure efficiency,” says ITRI’s Su, adding that “it has also evolved into one of the world’s biggest consumer markets.”
Hammond-Chambers expects Taiwanese manufacturers will bifurcate their supply chains, with one focused on the China market and customers willing to buy products made there and a second dedicated to the rest of the world.
While that approach will be costlier for companies and consumers, “the geopolitics of supply chains are unignorable,” he adds.
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These would seem like the best of times for the grocery business in emerging Asia.
Home to about 44% of the world’s population, Asia’s emerging markets boast macro trends that would delight any retailer: healthy GDP growth, a rapidly rising middle class with increasing disposable income and populations that are steadily moving into cities, where the economics of distribution favor modern trade. By Bain & Company analysis, 30% of the world’s retail growth through 2017 will come from Asia’s emerging markets.
But if the growth is strong and prospects are bright, why do some companies pull ahead while others follow distantly or fail? India’s Big Bazaar grew to $2.1 billion and earned 6% margins in 2012. China’s RT-Mart nearly tripled its revenues from 2007 to 2011, and Indonesia’s Hero Supermarket watched its revenue growth significantly outpace the total market during those years. However, in the same retailing environment, some of their multinational competitors lost share.
Despite the dazzling macro trends that make emerging Asia so attractive to grocery retailers, there are a host of obstacles that also make this region a tricky one. In addition to dealing with intensified competition and a fragmented environment, retailers find they need to adapt their strategies to vastly different countries in varying stages of development—consider that modern trade generated $383 billion in China but only $5 billion in India in 2012 (see Figure 1).
Grocery retailers also must grapple with each country’s specific challenges. That means finding ways to win despite India’s poorly developed infrastructure, China’s massive urban traffic problems and Indonesia’s regulatory and protectionist measures. For example, in Indonesia, modern retailers can’t be located near existing traditional markets and 80% of the products carried by franchises are required to have “local content”—determined by raw materials used and the production location.
In such a diverse and competitive landscape, it’s not always possible to grab share by repeating a standard or imported formula. Companies need to make critical adjustments. Consider what happened when Carrefour and Metro entered China. Both companies faced strong local competition and had to tailor their global product assortment.
How to win? We extensively researched grocery retailing in Asia and identified nine rules for success as well as three country-specific considerations. History’s lesson is clear: Companies that follow these rules will propel ahead of their rivals, while companies that violate them will end up as casualties.
Here’s how five of those rules were successfully applied in emerging Asia:
Build successive local footprints focusing on local share. There’s abundant opportunity to grow in emerging Asia, but not everybody is taking the right path. The most successful companies find that nothing beats local relative market share. Growing by sequential geographic cluster allows a company to maintain a low-cost model, which in turn enables it to expand profitably. Among the reasons that Mumbai-based D-Mart is outpacing its rivals with 56% growth: Unlike those competitors, which opened stores throughout India, D-Mart focused its expansion efforts in western India. D-Mart’s strict regional approach to expansion helped the grocer control distribution costs. And D-Mart rigorously keeps costs low in other ways, too. It opts to own stores in densely populated areas, as opposed to paying high rents in shopping malls, and maintains no-frills interiors. The retailer uses the savings to fuel steady expansion and also can offer prices that are 6% to 7% lower than competitors. Its high local relative market share has delivered sales per store that are far above rivals.
Learn omnichannel before your competitors do. Grocers in every corner of the world are striving to figure out how to make inroads into online grocery. China is quickly gaining ground. There, it’s estimated that 7% of grocery sales will be conducted online by 2020—much higher than the projected 4% rate in the US or 4.4% rate in Japan. Local Chinese e-commerce website Yihaodian grew revenues 27% in 2012, in a market where the prospects for online grocery are huge. Yihaodian has used its dedicated digital team to quickly learn what works and what doesn’t in everything from fulfillment to online merchandising to social media. A digital presence is key to the customer value proposition and successful early movers are getting ahead and consolidating their lead.
Make fresh food and locally relevant products priorities. Walk into a Hero supermarket anywhere in Indonesia, and you’re overwhelmed by fresh food. The grocer’s tagline “the fresh food people” reflects an unwavering focus that delivers what customers ask for, and at the same time, it differentiates the retailer from competitors. Hero’s procurement initiatives are aimed at making fresh food a priority in its stores. For example, the company maintains strict quality control with detailed product specifications for all fresh food and encourages local farmers to be quality conscious through such incentives as the “Local Fresh Farmer of the Year” award. Hero has demonstrated that a focus on fresh foods doesn’t need to be expensive, and keeping costs low can help it maintain the fresh food emphasis. Hero controls distribution costs by maintaining a centralized and high-tech 20,000- square-meter distribution center near Jakarta. To further reduce costs, the company transfers stock of certain items among stores in
close proximity—as opposed to distribution centers—to prevent out-of-stocks and expensive replenishment costs. The retailer is increasing its mix of smaller, cost-efficient supermarket formats to lower its initial investment and operational costs. As a result, Hero’s operating margin was 5% in 2011, double that in 2008, while its overhead expenses have dropped. The company’s revenue grew 34% from 2007 to 2012.
Establish a low-price perception through frequent promotions and low shelf prices. In addition to showing a preference for fresh food, consumers in emerging Asia also tend to be highly price sensitive. That’s why a low-price perception is so important for grocers looking to build share. Grocers gain this distinction through such efforts as ongoing and frequent consumer promotions, or reducing average shelf price by boosting the number of private-label SKUs on the shelves. Look at how successful Big C, a wholly owned subsidiary of France’s Groupe Casino, has been in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, the company relentlessly negotiates with manufacturers and uses its scale to sell products at 5% to 10% less than the printed price on packaging, often offering promotion discounts of up to 35%. Big C is the undisputed market leader in Vietnam, dominating the hypermarket format and growing at an annual 44% between 2007 and 2011. In Thailand, Big C uses private labels to strengthen its low-price perception. Private label’s contribution to Big C’s overall sales in Thailand nearly doubled between 2009 and 2010.
Win the war for talent, especially on the front line. In industry after industry, surveys repeatedly reveal the same nagging fact: Talent is the No. 1 challenge for companies pursuing growth in emerging Asia. For retailers, the region suffers from a shortage of great store managers, buyers and other frontline talent that can keep a store running smoothly. “Finding large numbers of people experienced in grocery retail is impossible in China,” admits the chief executive of a major European retailer’s China operation. “You can find educated and motivated people, but you have to invest a lot to train and retain them.”
Demand for retail workers more than doubled in the past year in Vietnam, but the labor force couldn’t keep up. Among the problems: Retail management is still a new profession in the country, and there is a lack of formal training. That’s why any company with a new idea for finding, developing and retaining talent has an edge over rivals. Vietnam’s Big C is one such innovator. The grocer has partnered with more than 30 training and educational institutions, domestic and overseas, with hundreds of training programs. For example, it collaborates with Hoa Sen University, Mahidol University and the French–Vietnamese Center for Management Education on a series of programs to educate young people for careers in grocery retail management, offering scholarships and jobs to promising students.
The grocery retail market in emerging Asia is expected to be larger than those in Western Europe and North America by 2017. Lured by the vast potential, multinationals and local companies find themselves competing equally aggressively. Now, as the winners start to emerge, so does a critical lesson: The moves that brought a company success in the past—very often in a different region—can’t simply be repeated here.
Ambitious multinationals with track records of success elsewhere don’t necessarily have a right to win. And the same can be said for domestic companies; while they may have an edge when it comes to understanding local consumers and maintaining a low-cost model, they need to learn how to scale effectively.
But by sticking to these nine rules, retailers dramatically improve their odds of success.
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This is the second part of a three-part series on Russia’s Alexander Bolshunov. You can find part three here.
During the season of 2018/19, there was fierce competition for the overall World Cup between Johannes Høsflot Klæbo and Alexander Bolshunov, who surprised the Norwegians by proving to be a versatile and resilient competitor.
Sergey Ustiugov was initially seen to be the main threat to Klæbo’s World Cup campaign, haunting him in the Tour de Ski until the penultimate race of the Tour in Val di Fiemme, Italy. It was a bad day for Ustiugov, and his teammates made it worse, with Bolshunov leading the effort to drop Ustiugov. The race cost Ustiugov more than 40 seconds to Klæbo, doubling the Norwegian’s lead.
Hans Christer Holund couldn’t believe what he was seeing, saying, “They’re as stupid as bread…I just had to laugh inside myself, even though I was tired.” Nossum, the Norwegian distance coach, also delighted in thanking the Russians for the victory on Instagram.
Markus Cramer, a coach for Russia, tepidly defended Bolshunov’s greedy maneuver. “We have another runner, Bolshunov, who can fight for the overall winner. He wanted to take his chance. This is normal.”
When Bolshunov was asked another time if he would work together with Ustiugov in a race he responded, “Through the race, we can help each other, but Sergey and I are rivals. We are friends, but not close friends.”
Ustiugov was in Cramer’s group, Bolshunov in Borodavko’s—there was no special alliance. Bolshunov wanted to try and win the race, and he didn’t especially care if it cost Ustiugov the Tour.
After the final climb up Alpe Cermis, Klæbo was the winner. Ustiugov was second, just 16 seconds behind. Bolshunov would finish fifth in the Tour, and third in the race that spoiled Ustiugov’s chance.
As the season progressed, the Norwegians continued to taunt the Russians as a hapless bunch, too concerned with fighting each other for places on the team to mount a genuine threat. Nevertheless, as the season progressed, the point spread between Klæbo and Bolshunov grew tighter.
An altercation between Ustiugov and Klæbo in the World Championship sprint race in Seefeld would add bad blood to the rivalry. Klæbo cut Ustiugov off on a corner, riding over his skis. Ustiugov responded by slapping Klæbo on the face. The jury disqualified Ustiugov for unsportsmanlike conduct while Klæbo’s interference went unpunished. For the Russians, it was further evidence substantiating their claims that the rulebook applied to only one team.
A couple of weeks later, in the Holmenkollen 50-kilometer race, Bolshunov, who was skiing just ahead of Emil Iversen, stopped abruptly just before the intermediate sprint, thwarting Iversen’s chances to collect points. Bolshunov received a warning for unsporting conduct, and the move marked a new era of hostile racing between the countries. Bolshunov ultimately won the marathon, awarding him an awkward audience with the King of Norway and the leader’s bib going into the season finale in Québec.
The mistrust between Norway and Russia showed in Québec. The Norwegian team declared they would be helping Klæbo in any way they could. “That is the only thing we talk about,” said Sindre Skar, a Klæbo teammate. Cramer expressed his hope the Norwegians would compete fairly in Québec. “I’m sure they will try to help Klæbo,” he said, “but I hope they do it in a fair way.”
Skar denied that any unfair tactic was in the playbook; “we do not do that,” he said. Still, the Norwegians did take a somewhat cynical approach to end Bolshunov’s sprint day. Norwegian sprint coach Arild Monsen confirmed he directed Golberg and Iversen to join the first quarterfinal with Klæbo, Pellegrino, and Bolshunov, turning the first round heat into a stacked field worthy of a final. The aim was to see if they could knock Bolshunov out early and thereby maximize Klæbo’s point tally over the Russian.
Ultimately, the strategy didn’t work and the two contenders ended their day prematurely—a sacrifice the two Norwegians were willing to make. Skar clarified that there was nothing untoward about this, “no one goes to destroy [him], we go to beat him, we do not go to step on [his] pole. We do not do that.”
With only 24 points separating the pair going into the final two races, the relationship between Bolshunov and Klæbo was more frosty than friendly. Bolshunov recounted a slight he perceived from Klæbo at the World Cup finals that year in Québec City. “When we were leaving the ski stadium in Québec, the organizers provided one bus for everyone,” recalled Bolshunov. “The bus was full, the only free place was next to me – but Johannes passed it by, went further back to look, did not find anything. Then another Norwegian did the same. I’m like ‘whatever, if you prefer to be standing in the bus rather than sitting next to me that’s your call!’”
Alexander Legkov had a more diplomatic explanation, “If Sasha spoke English calmly, they would sit with him.” He surmised the Norwegians found it too awkward to sit next to their rival without being able to share words.
Klæbo, with the entire Norwegian men’s team working for him, secured the crystal globe in Québec. It was a tough loss for Bolshunov, who had been the leader just a week before in Oslo.
The Norwegian team tactics were a sore spot in the Russian camp. They considered the use of cycling strategies unfair in what they felt should be an all-out competition. “We do not have a club sport, but an individual one,” commented former Russian skier Evgeny Dementiev. “At the World Cup, there are slightly different concepts and values.”
The inability of the Russians to respond with their own teamwork ceded a distinct advantage to the Norwegians in sprints and mass start races. It exposed a weakness in the Russian system that couldn’t easily be corrected. Part of it came down to team culture, but the separation of the national team into four groups that rarely overlap meant there was little incentive, or direction, to sacrifice for a member of another group.
The team itself is oversized, some 39 strong in 2021, meaning that a majority of its athletes do not start any given World Cup race. Few of the skiers can afford a poor result if they want to stay on the circuit.
Legkov has called for a revision of the Russian playbook saying, “I want the team to act according to the principle ‘It doesn’t matter who, as long as they’re Russian!’” Dementiev has said that the national team coaches hold the power to change their approach to racing. “If the coaching staff sets the task, then no one will engage in selfishness…But they have to make the decision themselves, the coaching staff and the guys. Everything is in their hands.”
The 2019/20 Season: Contentions
In the spring of 2019, Bolshunov felt it was time for another change. He left the Tyumen region team and signed a new, more lucrative four-year deal with the Arkhangelsk region, which had secured a new patron in the form of a lumber conglomerate. Bolshunov, Zherebyateva, and Neprayeva would be new additions to the team.
Bolshunov’s rise the previous season was seen as a serious threat to the hegemony of Norwegian dominance. Bolshunov started strong, winning the Tour de Ski and celebrating on the podium over a miserable looking Klæbo. Later that winter, Klæbo broke his finger, mis-landing a punch on a boxing bag. Once Klæbo returned to the Scandinavian Tour in February, the tension returned. Bolshunov himself was not entirely convinced by the broken finger story saying, “I understood that this was strange information. Either it’s true or not.”
Klæbo needed a victory at the Scandinavian Tour to turn around a point deficit and work towards regaining the yellow bib in the later stages of the World Cup calendar. Bolshunov took control of the Tour early but felt the Norwegians were stooping to new lows to thwart his campaign after Simen Hegstad Krüger fell awkwardly in front of Bolshunov in the sprint semifinal, robbing him of precious points. Bolshunov felt the move was intentional, to take him out of the race.
“Apparently, the Norwegian national team is going to fight me unfairly. After today’s race I am very angry with the Norwegian team. I’m just angry! The more they do this, the more they will anger me and the stronger I will have to become. He apologized? Well done, but this is not enough. You have to fight honestly.”
Borodavko backed up his athlete, saying, “Indeed, the Norwegian simply brazenly tried to oust him and provoke a fall, so this prevented him from fighting for higher places. How much was done from the Norwegian on purpose, it is very difficult to say. But it was clear that he openly and deliberately went to the collision.”
Russian ski fans were incensed and took to Instagram to vent their fury at Krüger and called on Välbe to respond. Välbe told them: “It’s a pity that you think that we are not protesting. We serve [protests], but out of ten maximum one is in our favor. What do you propose to do?”
The next day was a distance race and Bolshunov easily won despite breaking a pole. Spitsov supplied him with his own, a possible sign the Russians were beginning to work together toward mutual success. “…Spitsov sacrificed a stick when I broke mine. This is so cool,” said Bolshunov.
Nevertheless he dispelled the notion that the Russians were starting to work together in races, “We will not be able to do this, there is no such approach in the team.”
But this race too was not without its detractors. Iversen, a provocateur of Bolshunov in general, declared that he must have paid off the snowmobile driver who was taking video of the race. Iversen alleged Bolshunov had unfairly skied alongside the snowmobile to use it as a draft from the fierce crosswinds.
Likely Iversen meant this as a clap back for Bolshunov rousing the Russian fans’ ire against Krüger after his fall in the sprint race.
With Bolshunov holding a solid lead going into the final race of the tour in Trondheim, disaster struck when the Russian team made the decision to go with klister. The Norwegians, with their own meteorologist on staff tracking the changeable weather over the Granåsen ski stadium, switched to rub skis just before the start.
When Pål Golberg, the winner of the day, saw Bolshunov on the start line with klister skis, he knew his race was over. Bolshunov said that he too had realized he had the wrong skis but had no time to correct the issue.
“They were very happy when they were overtaking me. I saw their beaming smiles, especially from Iversen,” recounted Bolshunov about his unfortunate race that saw him lose the Scandinavian Tour. Afterwards he threw his skis and ripped his leader bib off his body as camera crews followed him. He described his meltdown as a performance for Norwegian TV station NRK.
Välbe didn’t see any harm in Bolshunov’s finish line display. “It is not necessary for a person to keep emotions in himself at such moments…Emotions must be thrown out. I was taught to yell in the forest, and I did it after all the failures.”
There was a note of bitterness in Bolshunov’s final assessment of the Ski Tour. “I was not surprised that the Norwegian skiers tried to actively…use command tactics against me. In Norway, tactics always come first.”
When the final showdown of the 2020 World Cup season in Canada and the U.S. was cancelled due to the emerging pandemic, Bolshunov—the points leader at the time—was crowned the overall World Cup champion. Still, the victory felt incomplete to him. “One might say that there were no first emotions,” he said about hearing the news that he had prematurely won the title, the first Russian man to do so in the post-Soviet era. “I wanted to bring this business to the end and stand together on a pedestal with my rivals, stand above Klæbo and Røthe.”
There was another perceived slight when only Sjur Røthe reached out to congratulate him via text message. Klæbo, whom Bolshunov had so looked forward to standing over in Canmore, was silent. “I think Klæbo, Sasha’s main rival, was just very upset.” Thought Välbe, “He is an easily vulnerable person, he could not find the strength to congratulate Sasha.”
Bolshunov’s plan for the crystal globe was simple, “I’ll take the globe home and hide it, put it in a quiet and peaceful place.”
The prized globe took a long time to reach Russia, a delay owed to the pandemic. One morning that spring while Bolshunov was at home in Podyvot’ye he awoke to find that his father, impatient with the delay, had built and painted a wooden approximation of the globe for him.
Despite the accolades, the interrupted season left him unsatisfied. The next season would surely bring a new chance to revisit his rivalry. There were loftier goals for Bolshunov, who reminded everyone, “I’m not the king yet.”
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When last we saw Elena Delle Donne on court, the two-time WNBA MVP had led the Washington Mystics to the 2019 championship, despite three bulging discs in her back.
She hasn't played since, undergoing two back surgeries and sitting out the 2020 season in the WNBA bubble.
But as the WNBA resumed play Sunday after a monthlong break for the Olympics, Delle Donne might also soon be making her return to the league. She has been practicing with the Mystics, and while there is no precise timetable for her to play, Delle Donne is hopeful her return is imminent.
With the playoff race for the 2021 WNBA season starting to come into focus, the timing couldn't be better for the Mystics. Each team has between nine and 12 games left on the schedule over the next four-plus weeks before the regular season concludes Sept. 19.
The top eight teams in the WNBA standings advance to the playoffs. The Las Vegas Aces (17-6) sit in first place, with the Connecticut Sun (16-6) and the Seattle Storm (16-7) not far behind. But after the fourth-place Minnesota Lynx (13-8), another half dozen teams are vying for a spot in the postseason. Washington (8-12) -- which hosts defending champion Seattle on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, ESPN) -- is currently one-half game behind the Dallas Wings for the final playoff spot.
What should we might expect from Delle Donne when she returns to the Mystics and how will it affect their playoff potential? Our panel -- ESPN's Kelly Cohen, Dana Lee, Kevin Pelton and Mechelle Voepel -- tackles both questions, and examines whether the Lynx, who had won eight consecutive games before losing on the road at Connecticut on Tuesday, have become a championship contender. We also take a closer look at the front-runners, and which teams in the bottom half of the standings are the biggest threat for a playoff push.
When she returns, how do you expect Elena Delle Donne to affect Washington? How far can the Mystics go with (or without) her? How does Myisha Hines-Allen's return also influence your answer?
Kevin Pelton: It's tough to know what to expect from Delle Donne more than 22 months after her last WNBA game, the clinching Game 5 of the 2019 WNBA Finals. I don't think MVP-caliber play is realistic right away. As a result, I'd be surprised if the Mystics were able to get through the single-elimination gantlet this year.
Dana Lee: Despite her absence this season, Delle Donne has remained part of the conversation because of the type of player she's expected to be when she comes back. Like Kevin, I'm more cautious because of the number of unknowns. What type of minute limitations will there be? How will Delle Donne respond to game speed after being away for so long? What effect will Delle Donne's return have on Tina Charles, who just recorded her ninth 30-point game of the season? How far the Mystics can go will depend on how successfully they navigate all of the above.
Mechelle Voepel: Mystics coach Mike Thibault said that Delle Donne being back in practice brings moments when she will do something, and everyone will say, "Oh, yeah, that's the MVP we know." But as Kevin and Dana said, we just don't know how much she can play at that level, and neither does Delle Donne. It's obvious her hunger to play is there. And even a 75% Delle Donne is dangerous and takes up opponents' defensive energy. Charles has been carrying the Mystics. But with Hines-Allen now back and the hope that Delle Donne follows, maybe we'll see something closer this season to the Washington team Thibault envisioned when Charles was first traded to the Mystics in April 2020.
Kelly Cohen: As someone who became a WNBA fan through living in Washington, and seeing the Mystics play in person for the first time a few years ago, I have been eagerly anticipating Delle Donne's return. Even though she hasn't played since October 2019, she remains the leader of the team. A former MVP is still going to be a positive addition to a team, even if she is playing restricted minutes or has some kinks to work through. Her return would signal a big change for the Mystics, who despite losing their first two games out of the Olympic break put up a strong fight against a very good Aces team.
Provided Delle Donne and Charles can successfully mesh, and everyone else like Hines-Allen and Natasha Cloud stay healthy, I think the Mystics will now be able to push for a playoff spot.
Have the Lynx played their way into being a championship contender, or are Seattle, Las Vegas and Connecticut still the front-runners?
Pelton: The NBA rule of thumb is that a 5% chance of winning the title separates contenders from pretenders, and I think the Lynx clear that bar. (They win the championship in about 8% of my simulations of the rest of the season.) While those other teams have a much better chance of getting the double-bye, Minnesota has a chance to pull a rare semifinals upset -- particularly if the Lynx get Aerial Powers back from thumb surgery for the postseason.
Lee: Calling the Lynx a championship contender still feels a very thin limb to go out on, especially after a 12-point loss against the Sun. But could they potentially pull off an upset late in the playoffs? Sure. Fowles has been dynamic all season, leading the league in field goal percentage. Part of the Lynx's 0-4 start in May was due to various players' overseas commitments and injuries, but since then, they have won 13 of their last 17 games and have settled in nicely.
Voepel: The Lynx saw the best of Connecticut's shutdown defense in Tuesday's 72-60 loss, so let's see how they deal with it in the rematch Thursday. It helps to have Natalie Achonwa back for post depth (she had last played June 12 before returning Sunday), and as Kevin said, Powers would be a big lift. But to win a championship, you must have at least one take-over superstar. Sylvia Fowles has been that player and still can be. Napheesa Collier might be that in the future, but isn't there yet consistently.
So, yes, the Storm, Aces and Sun are separate from the pack. After two losses without Breanna Stewart and Sue Bird, Seattle is in third place by a half-game. Guard Jewell Loyd had a combined 61 points in those two defeats and almost willed the Storm to victories in both. There's plenty of time to win their way back into one of the top two spots and the double-bye into the semifinals, but the Storm can't afford too many more stumbles in their last nine games.
The Sun, who have won four in a row, are without Alyssa Thomas this season, but having Jasmine Jones back obviously makes a huge difference.
As for the first-place Aces, A'ja Wilson is having another brilliant season as she looks to possibly repeat as MVP. Kelsey Plum -- who won 3x3 Olympic gold with fellow Aces guard Jackie Young -- is coming off her second-highest point total (24) of the season Tuesday. Chelsea Gray, who won 5-on-5 gold with Wilson for Team USA, is often at her best in crunch time. Liz Cambage, who said she feels rejuvenated after sitting out the Olympics, is a major force offensively and defensively. If that's the case the rest of this season, it's the best possible scenario for the Aces.
Cohen: At the Olympic break, I sang the Lynx's praises. My critique was about Minnesota's defense, which is not to be downplayed but is obviously something that can be fixed. In the first two games back from the break, the Lynx held the Liberty to 78 points in a win, and the Sun to 72 points -- which would have been a good stat except that the Lynx scored 60 points. Turning defensive struggles around is a good thing, but not when your offense doesn't step up -- and that is something to watch in the next few games. Still, because the Lynx started the season so poorly but turned it around in such powerful fashion, they could make a run in the playoffs. The consistency they showed during the eight-game winning streak, including two wins over Las Vegas, makes me think they can compete with teams like the Aces and the Storm in the postseason.
That said, the Aces' chemistry and depth are overwhelming. Wilson and Cambage work as well together as any duo in the league. Young is playing great at both ends. And Gray is still slinging the ball in wildly impressive ways. The only thing I'm worried about with the front-runners is how they stay motivated for the rest of the season to keep winning and to keep from peaking before the playoffs.
Just 3½ games separate five teams in the second half of the WNBA standings. Which team -- New York, Washington, Dallas, Los Angeles or Atlanta -- has the biggest potential to make a playoff push?
Cohen: Before the Olympic break, I tabbed the Wings as the best surprise of the season so far and was excited for what they could accomplish in the second half of the season. In addition to the obvious star in Arike Ogunbowale, Dallas has had amazing play from Marina Mabrey (my MIP in 2021), Allisha Gray and Satou Sabally, though I'm worried about her Achilles injury and how much time she might miss. The Wings are entertaining to watch, full of youthful enthusiasm and seem ready to make a playoff push.
Pelton: Despite my answer to the previous question, I'm going with Washington with the return of not just Delle Donne but also Hines-Allen after the 2020 All-WNBA Second Team pick missed 10 of the Mystics' 18 games prior to the Olympic break. That's a huge boost to a short-handed frontcourt.
Lee: Yes, the Wings entered the break on a three-game losing streak, but the remainder of their schedule looks favorable for a possible playoff push, with six of their nine games at home. Ogunbowale is seventh in the league in points per game and leads a team that while young (the Wings are the youngest in the WNBA), showed flashes of potential in each of their matchups against the Storm, which included a buzzer-beater upset.
Voepel: Let's talk about the Los Angeles Sparks. Nneka Ogwumike is back after her knee injury and the Olympic disappointment. There was a scary moment in the first half of Tuesday's 85-80 overtime victory against Atlanta where Ogwumike was hit in the face and then fell awkwardly and left the court with everyone fearing she re-injured her left knee. But coach Derek Fisher said she was probably more "freaked out" than anything; she returned in the second half and nearly had a triple-double, with 13 points, nine rebounds and nine assists.
Ogwumike played 37.5 minutes Tuesday and just less than 31 minutes in Sunday's 75-70 win over Indiana, shooting just two free throws between the two games. Fisher has not hidden his displeasure over that, and has tied it to a narrative that Ogwumike and the Sparks (who had no one in the All-Star Game) are not being respected.
"We have to find a way to make sure that she's being treated the way a player of her caliber deserves to be treated," Fisher said Tuesday. "When we watch the men's game, we don't consistently see former MVPs and All-Stars and Olympians going to the free throw line two times when they play 40 minutes, on a regular basis. You just don't. So it shouldn't be different over here."
This is a familiar kind of "us-against-the-world" coaching tactic, but there is something to it. Candace Parker left for Chicago as a free agent, top draft pick Jasmine Walker was lost early on for the season with a knee injury, Maria Vadeeva isn't going to play in the WNBA this season, Chiney Ogwumike is still out injured -- but the Sparks remain in the playoff race. Kristi Toliver's game-tying buzzer-beater Tuesday helped a lot, giving them the chance to get the OT win.
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Notre Dame football takes advantage of small recruiting visit window to end July
The window for July recruiting visits is small for college football, but Notre Dame refused to let it go to waste.
The NCAA recruiting calendar shifted into a dead period, which prohibits official and unofficial campus visits, from June 28 through July 24. And it will revert back to a dead period on Aug. 1.
The seven-day window that started Sunday presented opportunities for the Irish. That’s why they’ll host several recruits this week highlighted by an on-campus event Tuesday designed to attract some of Notre Dame’s top targets in the 2023 class.
The week won’t be limited to rising juniors. Recently offered 2022 defensive lineman Hero Kanu is also expected on campus Wednesday.
The 6-foot-5, 293-pound recruit received a Notre Dame offer on July 10. Kanu, a four-star prospect, played his junior season this spring at Rancho Santa Margarita (Calif.) Catholic, but he’s an import from Germany that’s drawn national attention.
Before Notre Dame offered Kanu, he already identified a top nine from his offer list: Alabama, Clemson, Washington, Georgia, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas, USC and Ohio State. Rivals ranks Kanu as the No. 8 defensive tackle and No. 80 overall in the 2022 class. 247Sports slates him as the No. 11 defensive lineman and No. 85 overall.
Kanu has worked with Brandon Collier of PPI Recruits, a program that works to get international football recruits on the radar in the U.S. Collier, who will bring a larger group of international prospects to Notre Dame this week, also helped Notre Dame sophomore defensive end Alexander Ehrensberger as a prospect out of Germany.
The Irish will also learn their fate with 2023 tight end target Mac Markway on Tuesday. The four-star recruit will announce his commitment decision from St. Louis DeSmet at 4:30 p.m. CDT. Markway previously named Iowa, LSU, Florida, Notre Dame, Missouri, Ohio State and Alabama as his top seven schools.
But even if Markway doesn’t pick Notre Dame, Tuesday will be a big day for the Irish to build momentum in a 2023 class that started with two four-star defensive end commitments in Keon Keeley and Brenan Vernon.
The following recruits with Notre Dame offers are expected to on campus this week. Most visits will occur on Tuesday. Because the trips are unofficial visits, meaning the recruits must find a way to campus without financial aid from Notre Dame, they may be canceled on short notice.
2023 LB Drayk Bowen
6-2, 215; Merrillville (Ind.) Andrean
Rivals: Four stars, No. 1 OLB, No. 16 overall.
247Sports: Four stars, No. 2 LB, No. 54 overall.
Of note: Bowen, who also wants to play baseball in college, made a visit to Notre Dame on June 1, the first day the NCAA allowed visits following the COVID-induced dead period.
2023 WR Raymond Cottrell
6-2, 195; Milton (Fla.) High
Rivals: Four stars, No. 15 WR, No. 87 overall
247Sports: Four stars, No. 13 WR, No. 89 overall
Of note: Cottrell’s offer list includes the likes of Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Miami and Georgia.
2023 WR Rodney Gallagher
6-0, 170; Uniontown (Pa.) Laurel Highlands
247Sports: Four stars, No. 5 ATH, No. 33 overall
Rivals: Four stars, No. 12 WR, No. 59 overall
Of note: Gallagher’s offer list includes the likes of Penn State, Pittsburgh, Michigan, Wisconsin and Virginia Tech
2023 DL Kendrick Gilbert
6-5, 260; Indianapolis Cathedral
247Sports: Three stars, No. 72 DL
Of note: Gilbert, the younger brother of Notre Dame women’s basketball player Katlyn Gilbert, received an offer from the Irish following his camp performance in June.
2023 CB Christian Gray
6-0, 175; St. Louis DeSmet
247Sports: Four stars, No. 21 CB, No. 206 overall
Rivals: Four stars, not one of 11 CBs in Top 100.
Of note: Gray, who received a Notre Dame offer following a June 6 camp, also has offers from Ohio State, Oklahoma, Florida, Iowa, and Iowa State.
2023 WR Mikal Harrison-Pilot
6-1, 185; Temple (Texas) High
247Sports: Four stars, No. 18 ATH, No. 176 overall
Rivals: Four stars, not one of 16 WRs in Top 100.
Of note: Harrison-Pilot's week includes visits to SMU, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Michigan, Texas and Houston.
2023 DE Derrick LeBlanc
6-5, 240; Kissimmee (Fla.) Osceola
Rivals: Four stars, No. 10 SDE, No. 38 overall
247Sports: Four stars, No. 16 DL, No. 82 overall
Of note: LeBlanc, whose offer list includes Alabama, Ohio State, Florida, USC and Texas A&M, will be on campus parts of Monday and Tuesday.
2023 S King Mack
5-11, 180; Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas
247Sports: Three stars, No. 33 S.
Of note: Mack, who attends the alma mater of Notre Dame linebacker Drew White, has received offers from the likes of Florida, Miami, Penn State, Texas A&M and Ole Miss.
2023 QB Dante Moore
6-1, 180; Detroit Martin Luther King
247Sports: Four stars, No. 3 QB, No. 9 overall
Rivals: Four stars, No. 3 Pro QB, No. 30 overall
Of note: Moore became one of the first two 2023 quarterbacks offered by Notre Dame alongside Arch Manning on St. Patrick’s Day earlier this year. Moore previously visited the Irish in June.
2023 CB Malik Muhammad
6-0, 170; Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy
247Sports: Four stars, No. 5 CB, No. 41 overall.
Rivals: Four stars, not one of 11 CBs in Top 100.
Of note: Muhammad, whose offer list includes the likes of Alabama, LSU, Florida, Ohio State and Oklahoma, attends the same school that sent senior safety Houston Griffith to Notre Dame.
2023 S Adon Shuler
6-1, 190; Irvington (N.J.) High
Of note: Shuler, who has not been ranked by Rivals or 247Sports, sports an offer list that includes the likes of Penn State, Florida, Pittsburgh, Boston College and Cincinnati.
2023 ATH Micah Tease
5-11, 171; Tulsa (Okla.) Booker T. Washington
247Sports: Three stars, No. 41 WR.
Of note: Notre Dame became just the second school to offer Tease after he camped with the Irish in June. He’s since added offers from Oklahoma, USC, Florida, Iowa State and more.
2023 LB Preston Zinter
6-3, 215; Lawrence (Mass.) Central Catholic
Of note: Zinter, who also plays tight end, has been targeted as a linebacker by the Irish. He previously visited Notre Dame in June. Despite own an offer list that includes LSU, Michigan, Georgia, Ohio State, and USC, Zinter has not yet received a star rating from Rivals or 247Sports.
2024 ATH Ryan Pellum
5-10, 160; Long Beach (Calif.) Millikan
Of note: Pellum, who received a Notre Dame offer in June, visited the Irish on Monday. He also has offers from Texas, Texas A&M, Oregon, LSU and Miami. Rivals and 247Sports have not yet ranked recruits in the 2024 class.
2024 LB Anthony Speca
6-3, 217; Pittsburgh (Pa.) Central Catholic
Of note: Speca became the first Notre Dame offer in the 2024 class back in April. He visited the Irish in June and will return to campus alongside Notre Dame defensive tackle commit Donovan Hinish, a 2022 recruit.
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State Committee of Vendors Quarterly Meeting
Friday, May 20, 2011
Mr. Spiliotis called the meeting to order at 9:00 A.M.
Friday, May 20, 2011.
Mr. Klindtworth called the roll.
District 1 Georgia Kellogg /Alternate representative; District 2 Randy Shuster; District 3 Don Tuell; District 5 - Phil Bluschke; District 6 - Bob Murray /Alternate representative; District 7 Tom Saunders; District 8 James Warth /Alternate representative; District 9 Joel Rose; District 10 Leslie Francis.
District 4 Mary Hayes; District 8 Shirley Smart.
Division of Blind Services Representatives:
Mr. William Findley, Ms. Kathleen Crosson, Ms. Maureen Fink, Mr. Chadwick Duncan, Mr. Bernie Kaiserian, Ms. Laine Grivna, Mr. Alan Risk, and Ms. Raquel Falero.
Mr. Spiliotis introduced visiting committee Chairman from South Carolina, Mr. Joe Urbanek.
Other attendees that made a presentation to the Committee:
Mr. Steven Moss and Ms. Jill Richardson, BEP Instructors from Daytona, and the BEP trainees.
Mr. Bill Findley introduced Ms. Laine Grivna, new Region IV Business Consultant Tampa, Mr. Alan Risk, recently hired Compliance Officer replacing Mr. Gene Newcomb who retired, and Ms Jill Richardson who is working with Mr. Steve Moss instructing the BEP trainees in Daytona. The plan is to have two training classes in Daytona beginning August 1, 2011. Ms. Richardson is currently preparing to be the second instructor.
Mr. Bill Findley announced the resignation of Mr. John Clarkson, Deputy Director of DBS. Mr. Findley and Mr. Spiliotis expressed appreciation for the contributions Mr. Clarkson made for BBE. It was also announced that Mr. Darryl Lane, Region 1 Business Consultant, resigned at the end of April and will be replaced by Mr. John Ahler. Mr. Ahler is expected to start in early June. It was also announced that Ms. Raquel Falero, Business Consultant for Region III will be leaving at the end of May.
Ms. Laine Grivna read the minutes from the previous meeting. Mr. Tom Saunders moved to approve the minutes and Mr. Jim Warth seconded the motion. Motion carried without objection.
Mr. Alan Risk read the minutes from the May 12, 2011 Committee Meeting phone conference call addressing the revision of the selection process protocol. Mr. Tom Spiliotis called for a Motion. Mr. Joel Rose made a Motion to endorse the policy and Ms. Shirley Smart seconded the Motion. Motion passed by a vote of six to zero with one vote abstaining.
Mr. Bill Findley gave an update on items from the previous Committee Meeting, February 4-5.
On-line Reporting thirty-three vendors have signed up for the on-line reporting and twenty four vendors have filed a monthly report. Part of the discussion involved a problem some vendors were having. It appears that any vendor with two facilities has to make two separate reports on two separate days. This problem will be examined further.
Tom and Bill announced there will be a training and sign up session at the Biennial Seminar in August for on-line reporting.
The BBE Promotional Video - Updates have been made and include recommendations made at February Committee Meeting. When the video is completed it will be available on the DBS/BBE web site and will be used for marketing the program.
Budget Data Budget data used to track and complete the annual RSA 15 report was shared for the period of October 1, 2010 thru March 31, 2011. The report included facility operator reports of gross sales, profits and setaside paid. The Committee requested that in the future year to year comparisons be shared. The report also included an amount for un-assigned income, which generally is from third party sources. A concern was raised that the amount shared was low by comparison to other years and that the amount had been steadily dropping from year to year with no plausible explanation. Mr. Findley stated he will look into the matter.
Working Capital Repayments - Three vendors have paid off their debt in full since January 1. Five are currently late in making their monthly payments. Two of those are now out of the program and the others will be followed up on. Legal action is being taken against three vendors, including one referenced in previous sentence, who recently left the program and have not made payments nor signed up for a repayment plan.
Mr. Bob Murray, a vendor from Kennedy Space Center, and Mr. Tom Spiliotis discussed the lay offs at KSC and how it would effect the food service operations at KSC. The managers have had to cut their hours of operation since the number of employees has dropped dramatically. By the end of July KSC will have cut seventy-five percent of its work force leaving between four and five thousand employees. Mr. Murray requested that the agency look into the problem and see what can be done to help the managers with their facilities, possibly combining facilities and routes.
Update on sites in progress:
Mr. Findley gave the report for Region I and stated that BBE is taking back the cafeteria at the Douglas building in Tallahassee July 1, 2011. This cafeteria had been operated by employees of the Division of Recreation and Parks which has to trim back its budget. The cafeteria is operational and doing well. Licensed vendor, Patrick Foley, who has never had a facility and wants to manage a food service facility in Tallahassee, has been offered the facility and is expected to take it on a twelve month Type II LOFA. He will work as an employee of Recreation and Parks for the month of June in preparation for taking over the facility in July.
Also, several hundred state employees will be moving back into the Carlton Building by July 1, 2011. This is expected to bring the total workforce population over the six hundred mark. BBE currently has just the vending in that building. A snack bar will be installed in the building and it is hoped to reopen sometime in July. The plan is to offer it as a Type II to determine its viability as a stand alone.
Work will continue on taking back some of the locations operated under the Visinity/Best Vendors contract with the goal of creating a second vending route in Tallahassee. This will be offered as a Type II to determine if it is a stand alone.
The Fort Knox and Claude Pepper building cafeterias in Tallahassee are considered distressed facilities as a result of poor management over several years. Currently, Mr. Kurt Ponchak, recently licensed, is managing the cafeteria and vending machines at the Fort Knox building on a Type II and is slowly turning it around. Mr. Don White is managing the Claude Pepper Building cafeteria, and despite having received much support from the Agency, is having a difficult time making the facility profitable.
Also in Region I, Mr. Findley stated that on April 6th manager Arthur Johnson notified the Bureau that he was resigning from two rest areas he has managed while living several hundred miles away. A resignation letter, along with the keys to the machines, was turned in after Mr. Johnson removed all monies from machines and stock from the storage areas. Mr. Michael Sumler, the only available vendor in the area, responded to the urgent request, and took over these facilities on a Type II and restocked the vending machines.
In Region II, Mr. Bernie Kaiserian announced the snack bar at the library in Gainesville is now open and operated by Mr. Tetoee Howard. Facility #525, the post office vending route in Gainesville is being currently run by Mr. Darryl Brinton on a Type II LOFA. Mr. Clifford Roberts, who was offered the facility, and initially accepted it, decided the day of changeover, to decline the facility. It will be posted on the May Business Opportunities website listing.
Ms. Mary Hayes will be moving to Palm Bay to take over the I-95 Rest Area, and Mr. Hugh Mansfield, currently completing OJT in Jacksonville, is expected to be offered and operate the vending route she is leaving on a Type II sometime in June. Facility #590, the City of Jacksonvilles healthy vending route, is a work in progress and Mr. Terry Major is running it as it is developed.
In Region III, Ms. Raquel Falero announced that Facility #586, a vending route in Orlando, is on the May Business Opportunities posting. Facility #410, a post office in Daytona, is being run on a Type II. At the beginning of July this location will cease to be a stand alone facility and will be added to an existing Daytona vending route. 35-50 employees are expected to move to the Lake Mary post office.
In Region IV, Ms. Laine Grivna announced that 1313 Tampa Street, Facility #265, has been taken on a Type II by Ms. Debbie Hietala who took it over on an urgent request. It is expected that current OJT trainee, Diana Knox, will be offered this facility once she gets licensed. As a result of a reduction in the workforce, this facility has been turned from a snack bar into only vending.
The SW FL Water Management facility in Brooksville, #272, is being converted to strictly vending. Three more local sites in the Brooksville area currently being serviced under the Visinity/Best Vendors contract are expected to be added to this facility soon.
The renovations of the two rest areas in Zephyrhills are scheduled to be completed in November, 2011, but the rest areas will not likely reopen until early 2012.
The Type II contract at Fort Myers vending route, #180, has expired and the Bureau is seeking someone to take it on a Type II. There have been complaints that the manager was not keeping the machines full, a complaint that has been registered at the managers main facility in Bradenton. This situation is being monitored closely.
In Region V, Mr. Chadwick Duncan stated that the FAA facility in Miami is up and running and Mr. Leslie Francis is operating it on a Type II. Facility #117 has been changed from a cafeteria to vending due to the building population diminishing.
Southern Command is doing well; March was a good month financially.
The month of April was down financially due to the fact the manager had problems getting access into the facility due to tight security; Chadwick spoke with the facility manager regarding getting the guards to escort the manager into the vending area. The manager has stated things are better. This facility has a total of 45 vending machines that should be a stand alone facility.
Mr. Steve Moss gave an update on the Daytona classroom training. The training module on Record Keeping will include the recently implemented, on-line reporting. Also vending machines have been made available for training. There are five students in the class who will complete training the third week of July. The next class will begin August 1st.
Licensed vendor, Mr. George Arthur, addressed the current selection process. He stated that in the past, selections were made based on seniority, and now that has changed to where those applying for new locations, have to take a test and that some people do not test well. He feels this process is unfair and should be based on performance, seniority and interviews. He also requested an administrative appointment be offered to him for a facility he would feel comfortable managing due to the cut backs at his post office and loss of revenue. The Agency expressed sympathy and concern for Mr. Arthur due to the fact that his post office is losing employees, but is not in a position to make an appointment for him while many other vendors are in a similar situation. The Agency and the Committee encouraged Mr. Arthur to apply for facilities on the next selection cycle and to prepare himself under the current process.
Tom Spiliotis discussed ATM machines on the interstates. He reminded everyone that Mr. Clarkson had been approached by DOT to have a pilot program in seven interstates. It was determined that DOT did not have the authorization to do a pilot. The Agency will contact a couple of ATM companies and discuss doing a pilot at the interstates.
Mr. Alan Risk discussed recent grievance decisions handed down since the last meeting. Four grievances were filed, three of which had to do with the selection process. One was postponed and one was withdrawn. One grievance had to do with the Agencys decision not to reimburse a vendor for losses due to multiple thefts at the facility he operated. The Grievance Committee supported the Agency decision. The other grievance centered on the selection process and the change to include performance elements such as minimal net profit requirements as part of the process for determining assigned points to an applicant. The Grievance Committee did not support the vendors contention since the Agency followed the recently approved Selection Process Protocol which includes data such as net profit requirements.
Mr. Bill Findley discussed a recent trip to the Pensacola area to visit rest areas and post offices with Mr. Alan Risk and that facilities generally looked good. Problems discovered were minimal and easily addressed.
Bill stated that Mr. Michael Sumler and Mr. Ron Jones are doing outstanding jobs at their facilities based upon appearance of facilities and compliments from customers.
Mr. Maureen Fink stated that the fiscal department in Tallahassee wanted to know exactly what was reimbursable regarding repairs. The following is the current procedure for handling and being reimbursed for repairs:
The Licensees may authorize repairs up to $400.00 without consulting the Consultant and be reimbursed later.
If the Vendor is unable to make a repair, or if the cost of repair is over $400.00, he/she will contact the Regional Business Consultant. After consulting with the RBC, the Vendor will follow through with the recommendations of the Consultant.
Repairs refer to the cost of repairing any equipment or purchase of parts used to repair equipment.
Note: Light bulbs for vending machines may be purchased as a part, but a repairman wont be allowed to charge for the installation of light bulbs.
Items not included are the purchase of any equipment or small wares (scoops, knifes, pans, etc.) Equipment and small wares should be purchased through the Consultant using a purchase order.
Ms. Kathleen Crosson gave an update on trainees going into the August class in Daytona. At this point there are six potential candidates for the class.
The Biennial Seminar is coming August 12-14. The deadline date to make a reservation at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando is July 20th. Vistar is having a food show at the Gaylord hotel in Kissimmee all day Friday, August 12 and transportation will be provided at a small charge for those managers who are interested in attending. The seminar agenda is still being worked out but there will be many beneficial workshops. Session topics will include Interviewing for the Selection Panel, On-line Reporting instructions and sign-up, Crane Intl machine demonstrations, Good Customer Service practices, and many more.
Mr. Tom Spiliotis made a motion to reinforce the CEU requirements which state that each licensed vendor is to complete three continuing education units (CEUs) every two years. It was recommended that this begin July 1, 2011. Mr. Phil Bluschke moved to approve the Motion and Mr. Joel Rose seconded the Motion. Motion passed with one abstaining.
5:00 PM Adjourn
Saturday May 21, 2011
Mr. Alan Risk discussed the January and May bids, there were nine postings for the January bid and in May there are six opportunities. May Business Opportunities were posted on May 16 and all applications are to be in the State Office by 5:00 PM, June 6.
Ms. Maureen Fink gave an update on the strategic plan which included implementing the On-line Reporting and improving the Daytona classroom training and OJT which has been completed. Bill announced he will be traveling throughout the state to the district offices and local providers to explain the new BBE application process and to promote the benefits of being a licensed vendor in the BBE program. The plan to increase the number of business opportunities for BBE managers is still in the works as a position dedicated to site development and public relations has been created. This position should be filled by the fall.
Mr. Bill Findley discussed background checks which have been in effect since last year for managers and trainees. So far four operators have been removed for disqualifying offenses identified in the background screenings; four others have filed for and been granted an exemption by providing appropriate documentation to satisfy the exemption requirements. One operator was suspended because he has not provided all appropriate documentation to satisfy the disqualifying offenses. All operators who are in DMS buildings must have Level 1 background checks and this includes their employees.
Mr. Larry Batterton gave a presentation on the Monitoring Procedures. The purpose for monitoring is to ensure the success of the vendors and compliance with LOFA requirements. Examples of items to be reviewed during monitoring include, but are not limited to, timely submission of monthly reports, proof of current liability insurance and business license, application of the 80% rule for vending machines, and proof that the vendor resides within seventy-five miles of their Type I facility. Vendor should be prepared to explain their accounting system. Notification will be provided well in advance of on-site visits with clear guidance of what is to be expected. An exit interview will be conducted to discuss any findings and recommendations the monitor may have for the vendor.
Mr. Alan Risk gave an update on changes that are being made to the policy and procedure manual on the BBE web site. There is more to come.
Ms. Maureen Fink proposed a list of changes in the redistricting of the districts throughout the state; some managers facilities will now be in a different district. Changes were made so that districts do not overlap into more than one BBE region. There was a motion to pass the changes. Joel Rose moved to pass the Motion. Mr. Leslie Francis seconded the Motion. Motion passed.
Round Table Discussion
Licensed vendor, Clifford Roberts, requested an administrative appointment since the Post Office in Daytona is closing down. Mr. Roberts had bid and was offered two different facilities, one being the Gainesville PO route. After accepting each offer, he subsequently turned both down. He said he heard one of the Gainesville post offices was going to close. The Agency, with support from the Committee, told Clifford to bid again on the next cycle.
Georgia Kellogg announced that everything is going ok and that she will be adding new machines made for out doors to her facility. She did have a lightening strike that knocked out one of her machines.
Leslie Francis announced he will not be seeking reelection as a representative but will still work with Chadwick and the new representative.
Randy Shuster stated that Richard Sawyer has taken a Type II LOFA until June, when will be month to month or a six month contract. Maureen Fink will contact him on this.
Joel Rose stated everything was good except business is down. The agency needs to pursue new business opportunities possibly in Home Land Security building.
Don Tuell stated everyone is good in his district.
Jim Warth stated that employee reductions with the Manasota Post Office have caused his revenue to drop. Shirley Smarts old facility, #381 in Punta Gorda, is on the next bid list.
Tom Saunders announced the Veterans Administration has been added to the Pinellas route along with four new machines. #265, 1313 Tampa Street, has gone strictly vending. Debbie Hietalla has taken this facility on a Type II.
Phil Bluschke stated everyone is doing fine. He has encouraged Mr. Arthur to prepare and bid on the available facilities.
The Biennial Training Seminar is August 12-14 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando.
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If you’re looking to start an online business, Clickfunnels Vs Shopify are two of the most popular tools that many people mention in the same context. However, they have different purposes and features, so it’s essential to understand which one is right for your needs before deciding.
Clickfunnels Vs Shopify will be compared in this article according to their features and pricing. Hopefully, by the end, you’ll know which tool is best suited for your needs!
ClickFunnels is a tool that allows you to create landing pages and sales funnels. A landing page is a page where someone can learn more about your product or service, while a sales funnel is converting leads into customers.
It offers templates that allow you to quickly put together these pages without any coding knowledge or web design background. You need to pick the template you like and customize it as needed (add your logo, images, etc.).
The only downside here is that some people don’t have as many options when creating their landing page layout compared to other tools on this list, such as Leadpages.
However, since there aren’t too many features & all of them are geared towards making things easier for beginners, we didn’t mind having fewer customization options!
ClickFunnels has three main pricing options.
The cheapest plan starts at $97/month for 20 sales funnels, 100 landing pages, and 3 domains. At the same time, Platinum subscribers can enjoy unlimited features with 9 custom domain names; all included in one affordable price of $297/month.
There’s also a Two Comma Club X package that is $2,497/month and provides an impressive array of benefits such as unlimited funnels, unlimited pages, 27 domains, etc.
Clickfunnels offers a 14-day trial, so you can try it out before purchasing.
Shopify is a platform that allows users to create their eCommerce store. It offers users a customizable platform, an easy-to-use checkout process, and a wide range of features.
Shopify also has a large app store, which means users can add features and functionality to their stores with just a few clicks. Additionally, Shopify offers 24/seven customer support and extensive documentation.
It offers a wide range of features, an easy-to-use checkout process, and extensive customer support documentation. Additionally, Shopify has a large app store, which means users can add features and functionality to their stores with just a few clicks. Overall, Shopify is an excellent option for users looking to create an eCommerce store.
Shopify provides beautiful graphs of data that matter to you. You can see your traffic, orders, and sales at a glance. In addition, you can see where your customers are coming from, what they do, and how much time they spend on your store, thanks to Google Analytics integration
Shopify offers three pricing plans: Basic, Shopify, and Advanced.
The Basic plan starts at $29 per month and includes a store with two staff accounts, 100 products, and basic features.
The Shopify plan starts at $79 per month and includes a store with five staff accounts, unlimited products, and advanced features.
The Advanced plan starts at $299 per month and includes a store with 15 staff accounts, unlimited products, and advanced features, plus an enterprise-grade security package.
Shopify also offers Shopify Plus, which is designed for high-volume merchants. It provides unlimited storage, bandwidth, customers; exclusive apps and themes; VIP support, and more.
Overall, Shopify is an excellent platform for users to create their online store. It offers a wide range of features, an easy-to-use checkout process, extensive documentation, and customer support
Sales Funnel vs. Online Store
The two most popular eCommerce platforms are Shopify and ClickFunnels. Each platform offers its range of features for your store, so it’s essential to understand what they do best to choose the right one for you.
Sales funnels allow you to take full advantage of upsell opportunities by encouraging customers to purchase multiple products at once while making only a single payment.
With this feature, your business can increase revenue quickly without costing additional money or time because often, these upsell options will be offered directly through your sales funnels instead of requiring an entirely separate web page where users must leave their current site. This means more potential transactions with less effort on your part.
On the other hand, online stores allow customers to purchase products at any time and from anywhere in the world.
This platform is excellent for businesses that want to make their products available to a global audience or large inventory with many different SKUs. Additionally, online stores typically provide more features for managing your store’s content and appearance than sales funnels do.
So, clickfunnels vs shopify, which is the best platform for your business? It depends on what you’re looking for. If you want to increase revenue quickly and don’t mind upselling customers multiple products at once, a sales funnel is the better option.
However, if you want a more comprehensive eCommerce solution that allows customers to purchase products whenever they want from wherever they are, a Shopify Store is the way to go.
Whichever platform you choose, be sure to use the features it offers to get the most out of your eCommerce business.
Clickfunnels vs Shopify Features a Detailed Comparison
ClickFunnels is an all-in-one marketing platform that allows you to create sales funnels, landing pages, and more. Shopify has a similar offering but includes limitations on what can be done with its features. When it comes down to Clickfunnel vs Shopify, which one should you choose? Let’s take a look
Clickfunnels has many features that help make it an extremely versatile tool.
Drag and drop editor
The Drag and Drop Editor built into the ClickFunnels software is a great way to increase your click-through rate. It allows you to create interactive page elements using images, text boxes, buttons, etc. so that visitors are drawn towards making conversions on your website.
With this in mind, it’s important to write engaging copy which will draw them through the funnel with ease. If possible, use an image or other visual element for each section of the webpage where you would like to include some call-to-action (CTA).
All elements you need are pre-built ready for use. You can easily insert your pages in whatever format is required.
Clickfunnels FollowUp Funnels
Followup Funnels is a powerful feature of Clickfunnels that helps track and nurture your leads.
It does this by allowing you to create automated email sequences that can be triggered when a lead takes a specific action, such as clicking on a link in an email or filling out a form.
You can also use FollowUp Funnels to send SMS messages to your leads. This allows you to keep in touch with them even if they aren’t on your website.
FollowUp Funnels also provides detailed analytics about your leads’ activity. This information can help you determine which sequences are most effective at converting leads into customers and which ones need improvement.
Overall, FollowUp Funnels is an invaluable tool for nurturing your leads and increasing sales conversions.
The backpack is an affiliate marketing system. This is an excellent feature not many offers. It lets you create your affiliate programs for products and services. This means you can give a link to other people to sell your product. And whenever someone sells your product for you, you can provide them with a commission.
You have boundless affiliates with Backpack in addition to trackable commissions, Managing Commissioner Commission and branded associate signup and customization, and some valuable Integral integration with SMTP and charging.
They have videos, posts, how-to and valuable guidance on most topics for beginners and experienced users. Their material alone is extraordinary. It varies over many subjects, from essential hacking tips to advanced hacking instructions.
There are pros and cons to the Clickfunnels support team.
On the one hand, they quickly respond to tickets and usually have a solution ready. They are also always willing to help out with additional questions or troubleshooting. However, on the other hand, their support can sometimes be overwhelming with how much they want to help. Sometimes it feels like they are trying to do too much and confusing rather than helping.
Overall, I would say that the pros outweigh the cons regarding their support team. They are helpful, knowledgeable, and always eager to assist.
Clickfunnels Affiliate Program is a way to make money on your website and help promote the product. Getting more people involved in driving sales means more commission for you.
As an Affiliates, you can make from 38 to 120 per month as long as a person joins Clickfunnels through their link. It’s free and easy to join
What makes Shopify great is that it offers a variety of features to use in your store.
You don’t have to worry about running into issues because their technical support team will help you with anything that you might not understand how to do.
There are several things they can provide for you and even offer some advice: all within the chat window!
Some other helpful tools include shop layout customization, quick view buttons so customers can see what’s in stock before adding items to cart, sales channels where you can sell your items outside of just using Shopify such as Facebook or Amazon Marketplace (and more), custom URLs which give customers easy access to any page directly from search engines like Google or Bing.
The Shopify marketing tool gives your customers some edge in market positioning over other services. You will find people to meet your group and develop your products and make your ads on autopilot. Shopify marketing services such as SEO, content promotion, coordination with social media, and email marketing are all available to you. You can also get a custom design for your shop, which will make it stand out and be more recognizable.
The main thing that makes the Shopify platform so great is the vast number of apps and integrations available for use. You can use the many apps available to create landing pages, opt-in forms, get additional analytics, email marketing campaigns, and more.
Payment Integration: With Shopify, you can accept payments from Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express, plus 50+ online payment gateways like Paypal and 2Checkout.
This means that you can find an app to fit almost any need as a business owner. And if you can’t find an app that meets your needs, there is always the option to create your own!
Shopify also offers excellent customer support. If you ever have any questions or problems with your shop, there are several ways to get help.
Regulation of inventory
Shopify is a simple way of managing your stock with Shopify. You can experiment with product bundles, track inventory movements, send Live Packaging Alerts and reorder points to your customers. The number of items available in Your Online shop is unlimited.
Shopify also has a Retail package which is $49/month. This will give you the ability to create an inventory of up to 500 items and use Shopify’s Point-of-sale system in your physical store. You can also connect with Shopify merchants who have retail locations.
We recommend using the Lite plan for $14/month, including unlimited products, shop customization, and a custom domain name if you are starting. You can always upgrade later as your business grows.
You’re able to regulate stock by adjusting product quantities on Shopify. When products sell out, they automatically disappear from the site so that customers cannot order them anymore.
Shopify can find reliable expert experts to prepare your industry to perfection. Developers at Shopify can modify their site to reflect your brand. Once you portray your need, you only have to select the proposition according to your requirement.
Different sample pictures adding
With Shopify, you can take as many photocopies of the purchased product as you wish.
You can also have your products depicted in your online shop using images. You can also have a 360 view of the product by using Shopify to ensure that your customers see it from various angles.
You should set up images for every product you sell on your website/online shop because they are essential when it comes down to attracting new consumers. If necessary, you can provide different image formats such as jpg, png, or gif files.
By uploading pictures onto Shopify, you’re ensuring that people who might want to purchase something from you have an idea of what this item looks like therefore increasing its chances of being purchased in many cases.
Access to HTML and CSS
When you’re looking to start your own business or need to revamp an existing one, it’s essential to have the right tools. With Shopify, you not only get a user-friendly platform on which to build your online shop but also access to HTML and CSS. This means that you can customize every detail of your store to make it truly unique.
You can see the HTML & CSS of the entire online store when you visit Shopify – so you know that you’re getting everything you need in one place. Plus, with the Shopify expert support team always available should you need them, setting up and running your shop has never been easier. Get started today and see the difference Shopify makes!
Shopify has a variety of themes available to choose from for online store owners.
Designers and developers can also create custom themes if none of the existing ones meet their needs.
Themes are not only valuable because they make your website look better but because it keeps things organized too! If you want different parts of your page on another section instead, with no extra effort needed its possible through one-click designs made specifically
Shopify contains more than 70 professional themes from influential designers like Happy Cog Pixel Union & Clearleft. There are also several free themes you could choose easily.
Create client profiles
Shopify allows you to create a Company profile to help you save information about your clients for future usage.
If you employ an E-mail marketing company, it will track his past sales history.
Clickfunnels vs Shopify: let’s compare them
Shopify and Clickfunnels are excellent powerful eCommerce platforms that can help you create a successful online store. But which one is right for you?
Clickfunnels is an all-in-one platform that helps you build your website, design your sales funnels, and track your results. It’s easy to use and offers lots of features and templates. However, it’s also more expensive than Shopify.
Shopify is a popular platform that lets you set up an online store quickly and easily. It’s affordable, has lots of features, and provides excellent customer support. However, it doesn’t offer as much flexibility as Clickfunnels
Clickfunnels vs Shopify: Tell me the best solution?
Both platforms are perfect for beginners trying to start a business by providing a comprehensive list of features to help them understand eCommerce.
If you are an expert online marketing professional, Shopify is your choice. It also consists of efficient distribution and product management capacities that Clickfunnels cannot compete with.
But if you want to increase your online store management, Shopify is a perfect fit for your needs. This solution also comes with a CRM application for membership and Automation Software to ease the eCommerce business.
Which is better: Pricing?
ClickFunnels includes all the essential functions necessary for your marketing funnels. In reality, it’s not required to use any third-party app to optimize your eCommerce dropshipping or affiliate marketing.
Overall, Clickfunnels appears to offer better customer service compared to Shopify. The most popular bundles of these applications are similar in price – $299 a month for Shopify and $297 a month for ClickFunnel.
Which is the best solution for tracking your eCommerce?
ClickFunnels gives you advanced automation features so you can easily see and record data about a customer’s transaction or other actions.
It was designed specifically for this function; therefore, it beats Shopify in this regard. When you use Shopify, you must find other tools about using eCommerce that will encourage traffic to the eCommerce site as you may use them.
Showing products on a single page: Which solution is better?
ClickFunnels allows you not to view or sell related products on your pages or enclosures. This can be a big problem for a seller who wants to have several similar items on a list.
Shopify is the ideal platform to list or sell products in various categories. It’s the perfect platform for businesses to market or shows multiple items in the same category.
Which is better for blogging?
ClickFunnels does not use a blogging option as it compensates for other possibilities that generate potential customers and lead them to your site.
Shopify stores can be SEO-optimized, and they rank much higher in Google’s Organic Search Results, meaning more free traffic for your store.
Which is the best mobile app?
ClickFunnels also does not support the application of mobile devices. Shopify provides Android and iOS-based apps for shoppers who want to keep tabs on sales and maintain a business whenever they move.
ClickFunnels does not provide an app on the phone, so you have to be on a computer to make sales.
Which is a better solution for managing affiliate programs?
ClickFunnels provides users with a transparent system of tracking their marketing affiliates and creating their regional area.
It is unsuitable for Shopify. So if you want to run an affiliate marketing program, Shopify may not be the best choice for you.
Both ClickFunnels and Shopify are valuable.
Both ClickFunnels and Shopify are valuable for managing online eCommerce stores. They both have a great set of tools to help you manage your store, but they also each come with their strengths and weaknesses you need to consider when choosing one over the other.
You can collect leads with ClickFunnels and build a business in any online niche. Shopify only really allows you to run an eCommerce store,and that’s it
Shopify should be the best option for dropshipping.
Perks of a Shopify Store
Shopify is an excellent platform for businesses of all sizes. It offers everything from an easy-to-use checkout process to a wide range of features and integrations. Plus, it’s affordable and scalable so that you can grow your business with Shopify.
Here are some of the top perks of using Shopify Store:
ClickFunnels and How They Can be Beneficial
ClickFunnels and Shopify are two separate platforms for different business purposes.
When building different marketing funnel types, ClickFunnels is better than Shopify, so you can automatically maximize conversions by offering upselling, down selling, and follow-up. However, Shopify facilitates users with easy-to-use tools for designing an e-commerce store. Could you use Shopify with ClickFunnels? Sure, by incorporating
They can be highly beneficial when paired with Shopify, as they allow you to create custom pages and funnels specifically for your shop. This can help increase conversions and improve the overall customer experience.
They visited your Shopify store without buying. What now?
If a customer visits your Shopify store but doesn’t make a purchase, don’t worry! You can do several things to turn them into a paying client.
After a potential customer has visited your Shopify store and decided that they are not going to buy anything and are trying to exit the page, this is where using funnels, even on your high-ticket store, would be beneficial. One of the best tools used in this scenario is Privy.
Privy’s suite of conversion, email marketing, & SMS tools, including exit-intent driven popups & banners, help you grow your email & SMS lists from your Shopify store
The screen is splashed when the customer is about to go, and it’s like: “Hey, wait. We see you are going to leave, and you need access.
Does ClickFunnels work with Shopify?
When you use ClickFunnels, all of your shipping orders will automatically be sent to the Shopify store. This means that no matter how customers contact through your funnel or directly on a particular product page–they can still get their products delivered!
Can you do drop shipping with ClickFunnels?
No. ClickFunnels is a tool that helps create sales funnels for pre-existing eCommerce stores, not for dropshipping stores. It’s possible to use Clickfunnels with Shopify, though – you can even set up your store from scratch using Clickfunnels’ features and adding the products later on through Shopify!
Is there anything better than ClickFunnels?
Absolutely. ClickFunnels is an excellent tool for adding elements to your landing pages and marketing funnels, but it’s far from perfect. It seems like every day; someone comes up with the idea that Clickfunnels should have included in their service, or they’re releasing something new that Clickfunnels doesn’t currently do!
Is Shopify a sales funnel?
No. Shopify does not create a sales funnel at all; Clickfunnels is the tool that builds funnels for your business.
Shopify can sell physical products online, but ClickFunnels has more benefits than just selling product pages. The main difference between Clickfunnels vs Shopify is how they function and Clickfunnels’ ability to create a sales funnesl.
Clickfunnels Vs Shopify: Final Words
So, Clickfunnels vs Shopify – which one is the best tool for you? Well, as we have seen, both tools have their pros and cons.
Clickfunnels is great if you want to create a marketing funnel quickly. It’s perfect for creating landing pages and sales pages. However, it can be limited if you’re making a more complex website.
In the end, Shopify is one of the best options for your dropshipping business, and utilizing these tools and strategies will ensure that no matter where you are on your dropshipping journey, there are always more options and ways to enhance sales, even if they become stagnant. You are looking for ways to improve the business and increase sales.
But remember, make sure you research both tools thoroughly before making your decision – there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to web business tools!
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Arguably the most prevalent hiking injury, blisters are as easy to get as they are annoying. Even the most experienced hikers sometimes suffer from blisters, which, although small, can really make what should have been a memorable hike into an agonizing experience. So, one of the most essential things you should know is how to prevent blisters when hiking
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Ever since people began wearing footwear, thousands of years ago, blisters have been a super-common nuisance. While we do have amazing science-based ergonomically designed hiking shoes nowadays, that doesn’t mean blisters are a thing of the past. At all. You still need to break in even the most expensive high-tech hiking footwear.
Preventing blisters while hiking is a key skill you’ll need to learn if you’re looking to do some serious hiking. It’s as important as learning how to properly pack a backpack or how to use hiking poles correctly. They’re “hiking essentials” if you will. These critical hiking skills can either greatly improve your hiking experience or make it a truly uncomfortable one.
In this blog post, you’ll learn all about the causes of blisters, how to prevent blisters when hiking, and how to treat blisters.
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What Are Blisters and What Causes Them?
Johns Hopkins Medicine defines blisters as follows:
“A blister is a bubble on the skin containing fluid. Blisters are usually circular in shape. The fluid that forms underneath the skin can be bloody or clear.”
They have many causes, which range from burns and skin conditions to allergies and friction. For hikers, the main—if not the only cause—is friction.
While hiking, friction often occurs in spots where your boots and/or socks rub against your skin. When that happens, the outer layer of your skin moves more than the (more sensitive) inner layers. They will eventually separate and the gap will fill up with fluid. The purpose of that fluid is to protect the sensitive inner layers and heal the damaged tissue.
If you get a blister and notice that it’s filled with red fluid—a so-called blood blister—don’t worry. This simply means that a blood vessel has also been damaged by the friction and is no reason for any additional concern.
When you’re hiking, REI identifies three main factors that may cause or speed up the formation of blisters on your feet:
- Direct friction/heat – As described above, a shearing force created by rubbing can cause skin layers to separate and fill with fluid. You now have a blister.
- Pressure – Friction pressure points can occur at tight spots in your shoes or boots, or because of a wrinkle in your sock.
- Moisture – Sweaty skin means softer skin. This, in turn, makes it much more sensitive to friction.
How to Prevent Blisters When Hiking
So, if you’re wondering how to avoid blisters when hiking, you should focus on these three factors: friction, pressure and moisture. Reduce all of them and you dramatically decrease your chance of getting blisters on the trail.
Find and Wear Hiking Shoes That Fit Well
The first and arguably most important thing you can do to prevent blisters while hiking is getting the right hiking shoes or boots. Perfectly fitting boots will significantly lower the risk of pressure points and friction.
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Good Socks Are Essential
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I recommend trying out a combination of thin, synthetic and moisture-wicking socks underneath a pair of thicker woollen socks. This extra layer between your skin and your main socks reduces friction dramatically.
Consider Putting on Foot Powder
If you know you’re susceptible to getting blisters when hiking, you might want to consider using foot powder. This chalk-like powder reduces friction, while also keeping your feet a lot drier. Combined with a pair of thin liner socks, this is a fantastic trick for preventing blisters while hiking.
Get Supportive Insoles
Supportive insoles can prevent your feet from sliding around in your boots. This, too, can minimize friction between your skin, socks and boots.
Clip Your Toenails
This may seem like an out-of-the-box tip for how to prevent blisters while hiking, but it does make sense. Although clipping your toenails won’t have an enormous effect on blister formation, however, it’s still worth considering.
Clipped toenails will, after all, lower pressure in the front of your boot and may help to prevent blisters on your toes. And even if this just might prevent blisters, it certainly won’t hurt! Every little bit helps.
Take Off Wet Socks ASAP
Whether your feet are sweaty or you’ve just waded across a stream, it’s important to change to dry socks as soon as you can. Putting on fresh socks resets the moisture level in your boots to the one at the start of your hike. This will certainly prevent blisters later on.
Cover Sensitive Spots With Tape
If you’ve properly broken in your hiking boots, you should be aware of any potentially sensitive areas. If you think you might get a blister, you can preventively cover those spots with adhesive tape.
Any general adhesive tape will do, including kinetic tape and duct tape. This effectively covers the possible blister spot, while at the same time still allowing your sock or boot to slide across the area without actually rubbing your skin.
Wash Your Feet
It’s a good idea to wash or rinse your feet regularly when you take breaks or set up camp for the night. Feet that are dirty and sweaty don’t only get blisters much faster, but they also increase the risk of a blister getting infected.
Simply putting your tired feet in a cold stream can greatly help preventing blisters when hiking. Moreover, it’s also a phenomenal feeling!
How to Treat Blisters on the Trail
If you’ve taken care of all the above-mentioned blister prevention tips and you still feel a blister (forming) while on the trail, there are a couple of things you can do.
Address “Hot Spots” Right Away
When you notice an area begins feeling sore, sensitive or uncomfortable, take care of it right away. Take a break, take your boots and sock off, and assess the situation.
You can effectively treat a hot spot and even small blisters in a really easy way; put some tape over it. Additionally, there are also special blister bandages with gels and padding that you can buy beforehand. Apply them to any area that may develop a (small) blister.
To Pop or Not to Pop?
If your blister is fully developed and too large to cover up, you may have to pop it. While it’s generally not recommended to pop a blister yourself—the purpose of a blister is to protect sensitive inner skin in the first place—sometimes it’s still a good idea to do it.
In case your blister is too painful or is so big it’s going to eventually pop on its own, you should drain it yourself. It is, after all, better to drain it in a setting that you control. You don’t want it to pop by itself in your dirty boot, which increases the risk of infection.
Follow these steps to safely pop a fully formed blister on your foot:
- Use water and soap, or an antiseptic wipe, to clean the blister and surrounding area.
- Sterilize a knifepoint, pin or needle with a flame, boiling water or alcohol.
- Pierce the base of your blister.
- Gently push the fluid out, starting at the top of the blister.
- Treat the blister, which is now a wound, like you would any other wound: with antibiotic ointment and a bandage.
- Cut a hole that’s just larger than your blister in a piece of moleskin.
- Put the moleskin on your blister, keeping the hole over the blister.
- Cover the piece of moleskin with another, second piece of moleskin.
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You should always bring a basic first-aid kit on your hike, which includes blister treatment essentials as a standard. If you’re assembling your own blister treatment kit, make sure it includes the following must-haves:
- Knife and small scissors
- Antiseptic wipes or alcohol
- Antibiotic ointment
- Duct tape
How to Prevent Blisters When Hiking – Conclusion
If you follow this advice, you will no longer be wondering how to prevent blisters when hiking as you will probably be blister-free and doing precisely what you set out to do – enjoying your hike. If you do happen to develop a blister or two along the trail, you at least now have the tools with which to treat the problem and continue with hopefully only minor discomfort.
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Three Ways To excercise Your Posting
Three Ways To excercise Your Posting
The path that will becoming a posted author is full of twists in addition to turns. Just about anything stage in the writing method you are in and also how active your plan is, it is wise to strive to recover and this can cause improvement. Down below, author Aine Greaney related to the importance of writing daily plus strengthening your company’s writing techniques. She furthermore discusses a few qualities every single writer need to possess in order to succeed in the actual writing entire world. Start building your writing lasting power now!
Have Desire to Prepare
For that writer, motivation means you should write just as much as you want anything else in your life. With your life’s suitable container list, articles are listed among the top a couple of.
I’ve connected with some writers who have decided to live alone, who have eschewed romantic associations in order to have a new writer’s privacy.
For you, this could sound a little drastic— together with certainly full price00 to pay as being a writer. However overall, just what exactly I’m referring to here is the act of getting challenging on by yourself. If you really need to be a author, you must do what might be. If you want the item badly sufficient, you will have to help to make real sacrifices and give way up other things, other items, wealth, or simply ego excursions.
All existence changes need to have behavior modification— a process in which you are going to end one habitual pattern or pastime (whining, pining, procrastinating) as well as begin and maintain one other habit (regular, sustained writing).
It’s such a dismal old message, isn’t the idea? It invokes Dickensian punishments and town-square floggings. Nevertheless self-discipline is vital to authoring. The simple story goes this: Should you leave crafting until ”I feel like it, ” or ”I feel impressed, ” and also ”I look I have anything significant to express, ” you’ll be executing just that— leaving composing.
In the cliché department, is actually an oldie but some sort of goodie: Stories are half enthusiasm and one half perspiration. Really true. And it’s really especially true regarding writers who definitely are also working another profession.
From getting excuses with regards to going to the fitness center to piracy that previous chocolate-chip dessert, we are all ready acting such as five-year-olds. We all make the surround and rewrite our own reasons. Worse, we even assume these justifications. Wag your individual finger for yourself. Grow to be your own defferement police.
Produce a Daily Creating Habit
Some doing the job nine-to-five authors will tell you which the workweek is just too packed and also exhausting to receive any authoring done. ”I’ll just do the item on the end of the week, ” they are saying. ”I’ll give the entire saturday and sunday to writing. ” May seem good, suitable? After all, you have got two whole, paid nights to spend on your write.
Hmmm … I’m going to technique a finger here in addition to act like your company’s mother as well as say, ”Do you really imagine that’s a good plan? ”
First, I don’t think those supposed weekend writers. Fine, they might not be in fact sitting at their writing desks from Monday to be able to Friday. However , I’m going to be that they are, using some measure, viewing or returning to their crafting projects. As they drive to work or chew on their lunchtime sandwiches, there’re imagining as well as reimagining that will last arena they merely wrote. As well as they are using time out to jot down lists about ideas, edits, and storyline solutions. Then, come Sunday morning and their designated posting time, an area of the work has already been accomplished.
If you’re a good beginner maybe a beginner-to-intermediate creator, you need to prepare something— preferably a set, targeted amount— each day. By grinding it out time— regardless if it’s merely ten minutes— with your creating every day, you are going to:
Give resourceful writing a greater ranking on your weekly in addition to life points
Build up and advance your abilities with authored language
Build your writing stamina, trust, and style
This kind of excerpt comes from Writer with a Day Job. For additional info on the arrange, you can watch a cost-free online web seminar with the article writer, Aine Greaney or read an article from the ebook. Here are supplemental resources that may inspire and also motivate you to write:
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Timeless Quotes About Publishing
While fad advice inside the writing community comes as well as goes, various wisdom can be so novel it’s mostly withstood quality of time. Culled from 91 years of WD articles, interviews and essay, here are 23 of our favourite writing estimates of enduring help and advice and creativity. Enjoy.
”If you have a history that seems to be worth revealing to, and you think you can inform it worthily, then the detail for you to do is usually to tell it again, regardless of whether it has to do through sex, ocean adventurers or positioned policemen. ”
— Dashiell Hammett, June 1924
”The producing of a book is taking life simply because it already is accessible, not to report it but to make an thing, toward the conclusion that the completed work may possibly contain the life within it and offer it all to the audience. The essence is definitely not, of course , a similar thing as the fresh material; it’s not necessarily even of the identical family of things. The fresh is something which never had been before and often will not be repeatedly. ”
— Eudora Welty, January 1970
”You yearn to cut out some book-length, your individual typewriter is normally silently shrieking abuse, you will be itching to go. First understand! Read the perform of first-rate writers inside your field. They will know how! Understand first meant for entertainment, in that case reread for analysis. Bathe yourself on their stuff— to get atmosphere, coloring, technique. ”
— Fred To the east, June 1944
”One thing that helps is always to give personally permission to be able to badly. I actually tell me that I will do this is my five or perhaps 10 web pages no matter what, understanding that I can at all times tear them up the subsequent morning should i want. I’ll have lost nothing— writing and even tearing upward five webpages would depart me no more behind as compared with if I had taken the day away from. ”
— Lawrence Block, May 1981
”The trap in which many writers own, will, as well as should get into, of crafting The Great U . s citizens Watchamacallit, is such an minimalist and where you invite one that every single I’m sure the rest of the greatest should pull on their own up short by the Move key to call to mind themselves that it’s story very first that they should really write. ”
— Harlan Ellison, January 1963
”It’s including making a flick: All sorts of conditional things you can do after you’ve setup the surveillance cameras. So you become lucky. Anything will happen at the edge of the set and perhaps you start to go with the fact that; you get various footage of your. You enter it by chance. You set the storyplot in movement and as you watching this particular thing start out, all these options will show up. So , so as to exploit something or another, you might have to do homework. You may have more information about Chinese immigrants, otherwise you may have to find out about Halley’s Comet, or whatsoever, where you did not realize that you are going to own Chinese or simply Halley’s Comet in the story. So you do research about that, also it implies far more, and the further you get inside the story, the harder it seems to indicate, the more recommendation it makes to the plot. Toward the end, the very ending gets inevitable. ”
— Kurt Vonnegut, November 85
”Don’t anticipate the sock puppets of your thoughts to become the public of your history. If they are not necessarily realities that you really need mind, there isn’t mysterious alchemy in printer ink and newspaper that will transform wooden characters into real world and blood. ”
— Leslie Gordon Barnard, May 1923
”If everyone tell readers that Hokum Beezley is really a brutal-faced, loose-lipped bully, along with snake’s bloodstream in his undesireable veins, the reader’s reaction could possibly be, ‘ Oh, yeah! ’ But if you demonstrate reader Hokum Beezley raking the bloodied flanks with his weary, sweat-encrusted pony, and flogging the tottering, red-eyed pet animal with a quirt, or have the pup booting inside the protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and even, boy, people believes! ”
— Fred Areas, June 1944
”We freelance writers are more likely to forget of which, as the gunsmoke fogs and then the hero tours wildly to the rescue, although the qualifications of this flabergasted action will be fixed indelibly in our very own minds, it’s not at all fixed inside mind in the reader. He or she won’t look at or sense it unless you make him— bearing always in mind that you simply can’t prevent the gunfight or the race horse to perform the job. ”
— Gunnison Steele, March 1944
”Plot, or possibly evolution, is definitely life answering and adjusting environment; and not only is this response always in terminology of clash, but the really good struggle, the actual epic have difficulty of formation, is the internal fight on the individual by which the soul builds up personality. ”
— William Wallace Grill, July 1923
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”Plot is people. Human emotions and requirements founded within the realities about life, being employed at corner purposes, gaining hotter and also fiercer when they strike with each other up to the point finally there is an explosion— that’s Plot. ”
— Leigh Brackett, Should the 1943
”You can’t write a novel in a short time, any more than you could swallow your whale a single gulp. You choose to do have to split it up in smaller bits. But individuals smaller bits aren’t good old familiar small stories. Stories aren’t made out of brief stories. There’re built out of scenes. ”
— Orson Jeff Card, Sept 1980
”Don’t leave your company’s hero exclusively very long. Get at least only two characters for stage whenever you can and let the get in the way spark with regards to. There can be clash with characteristics and your good guy can warfare against weather or ton, but implement discretion. … You could make a gripping tale about a warfare between a new lone trapper and a huge, clever wolf. But the hair is virtually humanized usual story plus fills each role regarding villain. The exact wolf very wants anything and does something to fix the issue. A storm won’t want all sorts of things and that’s why the conflict through man usually is unsatisfactory. That produce the very rivalry that is certainly the basis great conflict. ”
— Samuel Souterrains, March 1944
”The primary sentence are not to be written the actual final time period is authored. ”
— Joyce Carol Oates, April 1986
”The crafting of a unknown story is way more of a sport activity than a craft. It is a adventure between the contributor and the viewer. If, so often, a really very good book is developed of this fight, that is decent; but the game’s the thing. If, on Page 3, the reader recognizes that the soda cracker is normally spread with butter combined with arsenic, sometime later it was on this is proven to be a fact, then the human being has won the game. In case, however , when the reader coatings the e book, he says, ‘ When i didn’t become it— all the clues were there, plain like who slain Cock-Robin, still I couldn’t get it, ’ then the author has acquired the game. Tom has to play fair, even though. He has to prepare his observations in an tidy manner, so that the reader could see them in case he appears to be hard adequate. ”
— Polly Simpson Macmanus, January 1962
”Authors involving so-called ‘ literary’ misinformation insist which will action, including plot, can be vulgar and even unworthy to a true artisan. Don’t give any care misguided advice of that sort out. If you do, you can expect to very likely deprive trying to survive your posting income. Moreover, the only author`s who succeed the ages are those who be aware of need for move in a book. ”
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Last year, programmatic advertising accounted for 85% of total US digital ad spending which is a huge increase as compared to the 76% back in 2019.
This trend is expected to grow steadily in the upcoming years and there is a good reason for that. Buckle-up, because if you are still aware of the benefits of programmatic advertising, we’re about to reveal a whole new world before you.
What Is Programmatic Advertising
The term programmatic advertising was first introduced back in 2009 and was used to describe an advertising strategy that greatly focused on personalization.
In essence, new ad-buying platforms appeared that relied on complex computer algorithms. Programmatic advertising helps brands automatically reach their target audience with relevant ad content.
With programmatic advertising, you are charged for a targeted impression instead of being required to pay for ad placement on certain fixed inventory. But first, you need to set the parameters of the audience to which you are going to serve your ads.
ML and AI algorithms are used to automate the media buying process. The advertising automation aims to improve the targeting precision by strictly complying with the defined target audience parameters.
Back in 2010 advertisers used to negotiate a price with multiple ad networks and thus their advertising efforts were limited to serving fewer ads. Modern programmatic technology now automates the targeting process, while still offering full transparency to the advertiser.
The automated process of buying ad placements is made possible thanks to the online bidding option set in the platform. Let’s have a more detailed look at those.
RTB (real-time bidding) is the actual mechanism of buying online placement via a programmatic auction of sorts, and it all happens in real-time. During such auctions, advertisers compete for the right to serve ad impressions. The system decides who wins the right to serve an impression.
How Does Programmatic Auction Work?
- A person visits a website connected to an advertising network.
- The network transmits data about this user to the buying platform.
- The buying platform analyzes the received data.
- Based on the data about the website/app visitor, the buying platform concludes whether it makes sense to bid to serve an ad for this particular user.
- If the algorithm deems the online user eligible for the ad, it enters into the real-time bidding auction.
- The ad with the highest bid wins the impression contest and it gets rendered to the online user.
Who are the key players in programmatic buying?
Usually, DSPs, SSPs, DMPs, are the main players in the programmatic buying environment. Let’s study them closely:
- The demand-side platform (DSP) offers advertisers and agencies to buy ad impressions (inventory). DSP manages the ad campaigns, analyzes the results of those campaigns and optimizes ad placements.
- The supply-side platform (SSP) helps publishers to monetize their website inventory and optimize ad impressions. Usually, SSPs work through RTB (real-time bidding), but they can also work on a direct sales model.
- The data management platform (DMP) collects and processes different types of data about the online users. It helps advertisers identify their target audience and reach out to them with a relevant message. DMPs are an important mediator between advertisers and DSPs.
- Ad Server is a web server that stores various ad creatives (banners, videos) and their data. It delivers ad content to its users. The server is also responsible for targeting ads, tracking the number of impressions and monitoring campaign performance.
The programmatic ecosystem is simple one once you have a hold of it. Just remember: DMPs provide information about the audience to DSPs, and SSPs are responsible for selling inventory in real-time. The Ad exchange maintains an RTB auction among DSPs and defines the winner. As a result, advertisers can show ads to the selected audience on appropriate sites.
Ad Formats Used in Programmatic Advertising
The most popular formats in programmatic advertising are banners, videos and native ads. However, it is also possible to use audio advertising if you are targeting music services and radio. Advertisements show in mobile, desktop, inside apps and connected TV environments.
Are Programmatic and Contextual Advertising the Same?
Some people are convinced that contextual and programmatic advertising are the same thing; however, the two are rather distinct concepts.
Contextual advertising focuses on what the online user shows interest in. The online user types in keywords to express their needs and the publisher’s ads are served based on those keywords.
Programmatic advertising, on the other hand, works at the top of the funnel. It creates a need and leads the client to a purchase decision. If the online user has left the site, the platform will tempt them back to the site via retargeting advertising.
Where does the target user information come from?
Any user action on the Internet leaves digital traces. Cookies are used to collect and store online user data. Web browsers and online profiles (like gmail) could keep a user’s search engine history.
Nowadays it is easy to draft a full-fledged digital profile of the online users: their age, social status, interests, tastes and preferences. In programmatic advertising it is essential to apply privacy standards so that in the digital environment algorithms don’t cause problems with personal data misuse.
What Are the Benefits of Programmatic Ad Buying
Why is programmatic ad buying better than classic display ad buying? There are several reasons for that. Obviously, programmatic advertising is more convenient, it’s faster, it renders high ROI, and it’s quite efficient. But there is more to it:
- Better online user targeting
Advertisers’ ads are served to the right people at the right time. The system processes huge amounts of information. It selects the right person to promote the advertisers’ message from within a crowd of billions of online users.
- No intermediaries
You don’t have to undergo any price negotiations with ad sellers and publishers. The programmatic approach allows the advertiser to get unlimited access to a large amount of inventory from all over the Internet.
- Increased ROI
While the user waits for a web page to load, the ads on that page are being auctioned by the programmatic ecosystem. The whole process takes a few milliseconds. It takes significantly less time to reach a higher-quality audience, which inevitably leads to an increase in ROI.
- Flexible process
Programmatic ad buying is a flexible advertising approach – it allows you to change strategies and reallocate a budget in real-time. The system analyzes the campaign for its effectiveness and, based on the data received, selects the most favorable price per impression. The algorithm automatically determines how much to pay to reach a specific user at a given time.
- A cost-saving approach
The system will offer the optimal price per impression for a particular prospect.
- Quality Filters
Ad will only appear on relevant websites. Programmatic advertising consists in ignoring websites with negative reviews and questionable content.
Proper Targeting with Programmatic Advertising
The targeting process in programmatic ad buying starts with analyzing layers of data. The main ones are used to find and customize audience segments for each ad campaign. The better the advertiser knows the specifics of their target audience, the more precisely they’ll be able to fine-tune the ad-buying algorithm. Respectively, having greater insight and control over the process will also positively affect the campaign revenue.
But let’s discuss each layer of data separately:
Location data is the backbone of any solid targeting process. Location history as well as online users’ live feeds often reveal valuable data on where your customers ацтуаллъ live and work. You’d be able to conclude whether your audience resides in the suburbs and whether it commutes to work?
It’s a good idea to use location data on the DSP platform for your campaigns to target users who are in close proximity to your store. It’s also possible to conduct campaigns for users in specific states or even neighborhoods.
Demographic & psychographic data
A fundamental element of a targeting strategy would be to assess your customers’ age, income, marital status, whether they own a home, whether they have children, etc. This kind of data will help you understand your target customers’ needs, priorities and future predispositions to your brand. For instance, if you represent a brand offering baby toys you’d be much interested in targeting newly-wed couples or such that have already announced the birth of their first child.
Device usage & IP address
Will programmatic replace direct media buying?
Programmatic ad buying is definitely a fine alternative to direct buying methods. Advertisers and publishers are seeing more and more benefits of buying and selling ad space through AI processes. The trend shows that large companies and corporations are gradually shifting their budgets in favor of this approach.
What is the future of programmatic?
Due to the technological boost, advertising methods are changing at a fast pace. New advertising platforms are constantly emerging. Marketers have to catch up with new ad format trends and approaches and it all starts to get pretty exhausting.
With programmatic, the entire campaign could be automated to the slightest detail. New technologies are constantly being introduced to make the ad campaign management process even more effective. With the increase of the data that marketers should keep in mind to strategize their activities, programmatic gradually establish itself as a reliable and indispensable tool they could hardly go without.
Given that programmatic ad buying allows for real-time campaign optimizations, brands could take advantage of new opportunities and step up on their omnichannel marketing planning.
AI and ML
The importance of artificial intelligence in advertising will only grow to respond to the rising demand for fast data processing. Artificial intelligence combines audience search, targeting, campaign optimization and results measurement. Marketers are already seeing the AI algorithm analyzing audience behavior in real-time and are taking full advantage of this revolutional competitive advantage.
Omnichannel vs integrated programmatic
Nowadays, people use various types of devices to connect to the Internet (smartwatches, smartphones, tablets, TVs) as compared to the previous decade. In addition, there are a number of online channels that marketers could use to address those online users, including gaming applications, podcasts, videos and other entertainment content.
Only by using an omnichannel approach can advertisers increase the number of touch-points with their audience and thus maximize the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. Programmatic ad buying makes it possible to optimize advertising processes and customize it for different devices and channels. It helps advertisers to achieve maximum performance by placing ads on the right device at the right time and by tailoring a relevant message for each of those channels and target audience segments.
Stats for 2020 show marketers who’ve been using three channels or more earned a 287% higher purchase rate (compared to those who used a single-channel campaign).
DOOH (digital out of home) media
Outdoor digital advertising, combined with mobile phone location data, is also a popular trend in programmatic advertising. A 2019 study reveals that the industry revenue from billboards grew approximately 0.6%, amounting to $8.6 billion in advertising revenue for that year alone. The introduction of LED billboards tied up to the programmatic ad buying method is surely a solid factor that influenced that abrupt rise.
Programmatic audio is gaining momentum as well. Online users enjoy listening to music on their mobile or desktop. According to the 2021 Report on Digital Marketing Listeners Trends by eMarketer, 65.3% of Americans listen to digital audio on a monthly basis.
How to start a programmatic campaign?
Here are the main steps you should consider when drafting your programmatic ad buying campaign:
Determine the campaign goals and toolset
If your goal is to increase brand awareness among a new target audience, you should pay special attention to online user targeting.
First define the main characteristics of your target audience, including gender, location, income, age, education, marital status and all the demographic attributes that will help you narrow down your reach.
Then draft your creative and make sure it can really grab the attention of your target audience. Go for an intriguing headline and a high quality visual.
Use the retargeting method whenever applicable to reach out to people who have already visited your site but haven’t converted yet.
Choose the optimum ad platform
To choose the right platform for your campaign, pay attention to the following criteria:
1) Reach (media coverage)
2) Targeting accuracy
3) Impression cost
4) Flexibility in pricing
5) Analytics capabilities
Set specific KPIs and a tracking system
The effectiveness of programmatic advertising is measured by some standard performance metrics like CTR, CPA, ROI, etc. To quickly receive information about the effectiveness of your ad placements, set up end-to-end analytics at the very beginning of your campaign launch.
Choose an appropriate ad format
Programmatic advertising is not limited to banner formats. You can also run video ads, embed video in a banner, create an interactive advertising message or use rich-media banners.
Statistics reveal that customers usually interact with a brand up to 13 times before they make a purchase.
Set your targeting options
Targeting can be configured:
- By content, where you decide on which website your display ads actually show; ;
- By audience, where you divide the audience into segments and send your message only to those falling into the right social, demographic, behavioral group;
- By technology, where you reach out to online users that show preferences in a particular web browser, device, etc.
To wrap it up
Although programmatic advertising has been around for a while now, it is still an emerging technology. With programmatic, media buyers can easily reach their target audiences utilizing super-precise targeting.
This helps brands to avoid overspending and deliver a smooth and relevant experience to their target online users. AI and ML are continually evolving, so the share of non-targeted impressions resulting from programmatic ad buying is expected to decrease over time. As a result, there is a high opportunity that programmatic will become one of the best advertising tools for marketers. | <urn:uuid:f75cde28-5995-4e89-bf23-fc472a5f73fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.socialfix.com/why-integrate-programmatic-ad-buying-techniques-in-your-2021-marketing-strategy/ | 2022-01-24T10:03:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304528.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124094120-20220124124120-00639.warc.gz | en | 0.925295 | 3,090 |
For a homeowner who has multiple guests coming in and out of their home, it’s good to know that there are options to limit access. If you have a gardener, nanny, assistant, or even relatives living with you, you may be hesitant to hand them your house key. A keypad door lock could be the solution for you.Keypad door locks are more effective than traditional locks especially if you plan on having multiple visitors at your home. Plus, you’ll have full control over who has an access code and who doesn’t.
But how do you find the best keypad door lock? Keep reading, as we’ll introduce you to five different models.
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1. Schlage Camelot Keypad
Don’t want to deal with the chance of someone else losing your keys? Well, say goodbye to traditional locks and say hello to keypad locks.
The Schlage features an easy to install keypad that enables you to set multiple access codes. Pair this with the choice of different trim styles, colors, and designs, and you’ve got yourself an elegant keypad system.
Here’s an overview of the Schlage Camelot Keypad.
The system comes pre-installed with two different access codes. What is better is that you can change the access codes to your liking after you set up the unit.
Low battery alert
To ensure that you won’t be stuck in an awkward lockout situation, the system features a low battery alert. The alert will light up when the batteries are about to die, giving you enough time to put in new ones.
Sometimes it can really be hard to see what you’re doing when the keypad isn’t lit. The Schlage comes with a backlit keypad that stays illuminated in the dark to solve such common problem.
Using only premium metals, the whole keypad is crafted using nickel and stainless steel. Choose from multiple colors and styles to find one that will fit your home.
The keypad comes with a one-year protection warranty, but you’ll be able to purchase an extended warranty. We always recommend doing so because you never know what may go wrong.
- Multiple access codes
- Easy to read keys
- Various designs
- Tiny keys
2. Kwikset Smartcode Keypad
Are you on the lookout for a keyless locking system? The Kwikset is a smart code keypad which enables you to set multiple codes for your guests.
It includes both a keypad set and a traditional keyhole, just in case you forget your code or the batteries run out of power. On top of that, it includes multiple styles, colors, and designs.
Here’s an overview of the Kwikset Smartcode Keypad.
The keypad features ten digital keys which all feature backlit systems. The code is provided, but you may choose a different one once you set up the system.
The interior is reduced with a sleek metal design, as it’s created to keep any unwanted visitors out and prevents thieves from breaking in. The exterior is tamper resistant and ensures that no one will be able to remove the device once it’s in place.
The auto-lock system can be a setback or a savior depending on your habits. After the door is closed, a system countdown will initiate. It will start from 30 seconds and count down from there. Once it reaches zero, the system will auto lock the door.
The smart code system features one-touch locking, enables 16 user codes at once, and includes a bump proof design.
- Multiple codes
- Various designs and colors
- Sleek design
- Auto locking mechanism
- Maybe hard to set up
3. Ardwolf A50 Door Lock
The Ardwolf comes with an OLED screen that makes fingerprinting a breeze. The system includes both a keypad, OLED, and keyhole to ensure that you have multiple options to enter the property.
This specific design is perfect for offices, events, or places that cater to numerous people. You can store multiple fingerprints, codes, and the door comes with two physical key duplicates.
Here’s an overview of the Ardwolf A50 Door Lock.
The touch screen enables you to add and delete users with just a few simple commands. The intuitive OLED touchscreen walks you through each step of the setup and deletion of any accounts.
The double verification enables the door to be unlocked via either code and fingerprint or a fingerprint and another fingerprint. For events that need high security, this keypad is perfect because you’ll be able to limit access based on double verification.
Overall, this device features the largest storing capacity for codes. You’ll be able to set up to 256 fingerprints, 300 user codes, and there are two separate keys.
The system will automatically keep a record of everyone who used the device. You’ll have full control over previous users and the ability to track who unlocked the door at specific times.
As for coverage, the system comes with a 12-month guarantee and will provide repair services for those located in the United States.
- Fingerprint access
- Multiple codes
- Good for large offices or events
- Tracks logins
- Confusing setup
4. COLOSUS Digital Lock
The COLOSUS is a multifunctional lock which has a remote control, code, and card access plus the option to use a key. If you’re looking for an all-around solution to keeping your workplace or office safe, this may be the choice for you. This device is compatible with most standard doors and is very easy to install.
Here’s a quick overview of the COLOSUS Digital Lock.
There are four different methods to unlocking this door. The first is through remote control, which there’s only one. The second is by swipe card access, and two cards come in the box. Next, there are two physical key copies. Lastly, the code is the remaining method, and you can set up plenty of accounts.
Multiple access codes
1,020 different codes can be set. Create them for your friends, family members, and coworkers.
The system fits onto most standard size doors, but you need to measure the door thickness and ensure that it’s between 30mm and 60mm. If not, you will need to skip this model.
The COLOSUS brand comes with a one-year warranty that covers customer services and any technical support needed.
- Multiple methods
- Various code setup
- Easy to install
- Works with most doors
- Comes with warranty
5. Yale Real Living Keypad
Sick of handing out keys or making copies of your own? With this system, you can lose your keys for good.
The locking system comes with the ability to create pin codes for multiple people. Integrating Z-wave technology and compatibility with Alexa, you can use this system with a wide variety of security systems such as SmartThings, Vera, and Wink.
Here’s an overview of the Yale Real Living Keypad.
The Yale enables you to set up codes for different people. As with other devices, you’ll have the chance to program various codes into the system. For this particular one, you can set up over 50 keypad codes at once. All of the setups will be done through the application.
Track access history
Track all access history for the doorway through the application. You have the chance to set up text alerts every time someone uses the door. This ensures complete control over who has access to your workplace or home.
The system is also Alexa compatible and can be controlled through the sound of your voice. You won’t be able to open the door using Alexa, but you will be able to check and verify who has been using the device.
This unit has been designed with a backlit keypad that’s easy to see in the dark. The keys have numbers painted on them and won’t wear down over time, making it easier to read and type in the passcode.
The materials used for the device are tamper resistant and are durable enough to last through different weather conditions. However, the device isn’t water resistant, which means it may do better functioning as an inside door handle.
- Multiple-code setup
- Ability to track access
- Alexa compatibility
- Tamper-resistant exterior
- Easy setup
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How to Treat Pulmonary Edema at Home?
Pulmonary edema is a medical condition in which lungs of an individual get filled with fluids. It is mostly a result of congestive heart failure, but it can also result from noncardiogenic reasons. Pulmonary edema, if it is not diagnosed and treated correctly, can prove fatal for the victim. There are many symptoms of pulmonary edema such as chest pain, coughing, wheezing, fatigue, restlessness, anxiety, and swelling in feet and other parts of the body. While it is necessary to get help of a medical expert, it is very important to know how to treat pulmonary edema at home.
What are the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of pulmonary edema?
As mentioned earlier, the main cause of pulmonary edema is congestive heart failure. Heart is not able to pump blood with optimal efficiency; it can back up into the veins that carry blood into the lungs. As pressure in the blood vessels increases, fluids are pushed into the air sacs of the lungs of the individual.
There are other reasons behind pulmonary edema such as pneumonia, visit to places at a very high altitude, and exposure to certain toxins and medications.
Many symptoms are exhibited by a patient of pulmonary edema. These include coughing, wheezing, breathlessness, shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue, sweating, and drop in blood pressure, weakness, and dizziness.
Diagnosis of pulmonary edema is done based on symptoms shown by the patient of this medical condition. Doctor asks about the medical history of the patient to know whether he has suffered from any lung disease or cardiovascular disease in the past or not.
A chest X-ray, ECG, and physical examination are enough to reveal the severity of the disease in any patient. Some of the tests that are carried out to determine whether lings have accumulated fluid are as follows.
- Chest X-ray
- Pulse oximetry
- Blood tests
- Cardio Catheterization
Is pulmonary edema treatable and fatal?
There can be no doubt that a serious attack of pulmonary edema can be fatal for the individual. However, the condition of most patients improves if they are diagnosed early and their treatment starts. Treatment of course, depends upon the severity of symptoms and the reason behind the condition. Pulmonary edema can be very debilitating for the victim as it is associated with shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, fatigue, anxiety, dizziness, and swelling in legs and other body parts. It is seen that when a victim of pulmonary edema is given supplemental oxygen, his condition improves, and symptoms begin to subside. What is important for a patient of pulmonary edema is to get medical help as soon as he experiences symptoms of this disease.
How to treat pulmonary edema at home?
Pulmonary edema is a medical condition that can unsettle even those who are brave and courageous. Knowing that your lungs have become filled with fluids can be very unnerving for the victim besides creating many difficulties in the form of symptoms of this disease. If the symptoms are severe, it is prudent to get immediate medical attention. In serious cases, doctors perform surgery called Thoracentesis in which a needle is inserted between the chest wall and the lungs to get rid of excess water from the lungs.
Pulmonary edema makes breathing for the patient difficult as air sacs of his lungs become filled with fluids. Even though it is crucial to get medical treatment from a qualified doctor, a patient can control this disease and even improve his condition with the help of some home remedies.
In addition to the treatment prescribed by your doctor, you can make some lifestyle changes to improve your condition when suffering from pulmonary edema.
Take a healthy and balanced diet
You must consult a doctor or a dietician to know what kind of diet is good for you when suffering from pulmonary edema. Although this diet will differ from one patient to another depending upon his body and severity of the problem, here are some important things to include in your daily diet
- Fresh fruits and green vegetables
- Lean protein found in eggs, chicken, fish, nuts, legumes, and tofu
- Sources of vitamin D such as eggs, fish, meat, orange juice, milk, and fortified cereal
- Sources of potassium and magnesium such as leafy vegetables, bananas, seeds, and apricots
Decrease the intake of sodium
Higher quantities of salt in your body can make your body retail more fluids. This will worsen the symptoms of pulmonary edema. If your doctor feels your intake of salt is worsening the situation of pulmonary edema in your case, he can recommend reducing your sodium intake.
- Use alternatives of salt in your food such as pepper, garlic, lemon juice, and other herbs and spices
- Try to avoid all kinds of processed foods
- Eat food items that are low in sodium or salt
- You can use low salt options such as salt products that are low on sodium and high on potassium.
Give up on smoking with immediate effect as it can worsen the condition of pulmonary edema. You also need to avoid second-hand smoke to prevent flaring up of your symptoms. Avoid allergens present in the environment as they can irritate your lungs. If possible, do not move out on days when it is too cold or too hot as it can irritate your lungs. Make sure you do not travel to places of very high altitudes if your pulmonary edema is HAPE.
Avoid consuming alcohol and all other types of recreational drugs
Alcohol and recreational drugs like marijuana, cocaine, and heroine can not only cause pulmonary edema but also worsen its symptoms. If you have been diagnosed with pulmonary edema, you must give up on all these substances.
Reduce frequency of physical activities
Strenuous physical activity is known to aggravate the symptoms of pulmonary edema. If you have to take part in physical activities all day long, make sure that you get short breaks after every hour to give rest to your respiratory system. If you are suffering from pulmonary edema, it is important for you to know what kind of physical activities you need to avoid or reduce in your daily life.
In how much time will lungs fill with water due to pulmonary edema?
Victims of pulmonary edema find that air sacs in the lungs get filled with fluid very rapidly. This can take place in a matter of minutes or hours depending upon the physical condition of the victim. It is important to note that when air sacs become full of water, oxygen cannot enter lungs and the blood stream, thereby making breathing difficult for the individual. He will start to suffer from breathlessness and shortness of breath. This is when it is important to consult a doctor to get treatment for pulmonary edema. However, filling of water in lungs is not the same as filling of water in a bucket as there are many factors involved with the medical condition known as pulmonary edema.
How does it feel to have pulmonary edema?
Pulmonary edema is a condition where the lungs of the individual become filled with fluids. In such a situation, lungs are not able to pump oxygen back into the blood, thereby creating breathlessness and shortness of breath. Patients of pulmonary edema say they feel suffocated as they cannot breathe normally during an attack of this medical condition. Some of them sweat profusely while others find swelling of their feet and other body parts. They also experience dizziness and fatigue when suffering from pulmonary edema. Many experiences severe coughing with pink, frothy sputum. Chest pain is another symptom of pulmonary edema that has been reported by many patients. If you are feeling difficulty in breathing normally even when lying flat on your back it is time to consult a qualified and experienced doctor to check if you are suffering from pulmonary edema or not.
How does a pulmonary edema and pleural effusion differ?
Pulmonary edema, also referred to as wet lungs, is a medical condition where air sacs of lungs get filled with fluids. It is important to remember that water collects in the alveoli inside the lungs in the case of pulmonary edema. On the other hand, pleural effusion is a medical condition where water gets collected in pleura that lie outside the lungs. It is referred to as water on the lungs. Pleural effusion describes swelling of joints whereas pulmonary edema describes swelling of tissues caused by congestive heart failure, allergy, or pneumonia.
Can fluid in the lungs go away on its own?
Water on the lungs can go away on itself with rest and without any medication. Pleurisy that is a result of bronchitis or any other viral infection cures itself through rest in 1-2 weeks. However, if there is water inside the lungs, it will not go away on itself and it requires surgery and medication prescribed by the doctor. Pulmonary edema makes breathing difficult and one needs to consult a qualified pulmonary expert as soon as possible whenever he experiences symptoms of this medical condition.
What are the signs of fluid in your lungs?
If you fear you are suffering from pulmonary edema, it is important to know its symptoms. Different patients report different symptoms of this medical condition in which air sacs of lungs get filled with water. However, there are some common symptoms shared by most of the victims of pulmonary edema. The biggest sign of pulmonary edema is having difficulty in breathing even when the person is lying flat on his back.
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- Coughing with pink frothy sputum
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On the edge of the village of Al Buqa in the Yemeni governorate of Hodeidah last month, Yemeni fighters dressed in a mix of military fatigues and mawaz – the wraparound skirt traditionally worn by men here – stood in a loose formation along the main highway near the bright blue waters of the Red Sea.
The fighters, known as the Yemeni National Resistance, included members of the sandal-clad Tihama Resistance, gaunt and war-weary after years of fighting, as well as the more recently deployed Guards of the Republic led by the nephew of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former president of 33 years. Along with southern Yemenis, ultraconservative Sunni Muslim Salafis, and Sudanese troops, they are America’s de facto allies in a fight against the Houthis, an Iran-allied rebel group that, since 2015, has been fighting a U.S.-backed coalition of 10 nations led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Yemeni coalition-allied fighters have advanced rapidly since the UAE stepped up support for them after Saleh was killed in December. A longtime U.S. and Gulf ally, Saleh had aided the Houthi takeover of Yemen’s capital in 2014. But at the end of 2017, he switched sides again, declaring loyalty to the coalition and sparking a battle with the Houthis that ended in his death at their hands.
“We take our orders from the Emiratis, of course,” a field commander told The Intercept before leaning in through the open door of his pickup truck to grab a radio so he could call for air support as his men trundled toward Al Buqa flanked by the new Emirati military vehicles.
In the last two weeks, the Yemeni proxy fighters have gained another 50 miles, only slowed by thousands of land mines laid by retreating Houthis who otherwise put up little resistance. By this week, they were in Ad Durayhimi, within 10 miles of their ultimate goal: the port city of Hodeidah, which has been under Houthi control since 2014.
The Yemeni National Resistance fighters aiming to take Hodeidah cannot possibly do it alone. Time spent with the fighters on the front lines makes it clear that they depend on air power from the Saudi-formed coalition, as well as UAE ground support. A former senior White House official told The Intercept that multiple U.S. officials have indicated that the UAE said it would not attack Hodeidah without U.S. backing.
“Those forces cannot succeed against the Houthis without the UAE, and the UAE cannot succeed against the Houthis without the American green light and support,” said Joost Hiltermann, International Crisis Group’s Middle East and North Africa program director.
So far, the U.S. has been unwilling to back such an invasion, but recent reporting suggests that may be changing. “We have folks who are frustrated and ready to say: Let’s do this. We’ve been flirting with this for a long time. Something needs to change the dynamic, and if we help the Emiratis do it better, this could be good,” an unnamed senior U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal.
That cavalier tone belies the potentially disastrous consequences of such an attack. The port of Hodeidah has been crucial to getting humanitarian supplies and commercial food imports into the country despite severe restrictions imposed by Saudi Arabia that have included a ban on containerized cargo entering Hodeidah’s ports. The United Nations’ humanitarian office estimates that 340,000 people are likely to be displaced if fighting reaches Hodeidah city, adding to the 3 million already internally displaced since the Saudi coalition intervention in Yemen began in March 2015.
“Any disruption to this critical lifeline could be a death sentence for millions of Yemenis,” said Abdi Mohamud, Yemen country director for Mercy Corps. “The humanitarian needs are already overwhelming. The disruption of Hodeidah port could effectively kill any hope of averting a greater humanitarian catastrophe.”
The military document viewed by The Intercept also highlights recent setbacks for the UAE-backed Yemeni fighters when they attempted to push east toward the city of the Taiz, which remains partially controlled by the Houthis. “The [UAE Presidential Guard] indicated operations east of Mukha did not go as planned and suffered numerous casualties,” the document notes. It also mentions a 2017 attack against the Houthis in the same area of the Red Sea coast by the UAE’s elite forces. The Emiratis came under fire and suffered “weapon employment issues and malfunctions”; they later described the battle as “hellish,” according to the document.
Although the UAE pledged not to make the final push on Hodeidah without U.S. approval, Emirati officials have claimed that they have no control over the actions of its surrogate forces, raising concern that Yemeni anti-Houthi resistance fighters may advance on the city without authorization.
But that contradicts the scene on the front line last month, which suggested that the Yemeni fighters do not move without Emirati orders. Soldiers told The Intercept that their salaries are also paid by the UAE, with additional daily cash handouts for some resistance fighters arriving in plastic bags on the front line. More than a half-dozen field and brigade commanders acknowledged taking their orders from the UAE, including from Emirati senior officers stationed on the Red Sea coast. The strength of the Emirati chain of command is important because the notion that the U.S. and UAE don’t really control the fighters gives those countries “plausible deniability” in case of an attack, Hiltermann said.
Any final military push on Hodeidah now appears to rest on the success of the U.N.’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, who arrived in the Houthi-controlled capital of Sana’a on June 2 for a four-day visit. Griffiths is making a crucial attempt to reach a diplomatic solution to avert the looming battle by reaching an agreement with the Houthis for their withdrawal and acceptance of a proposal to place the port under U.N. or international supervision.
With forces on the outskirts of the city, pressure is mounting. On Thursday night in Hodeidah, residents witnessed a heavy presence of Houthi trucks in several parts of the city and artillery fire from nearby fighting could be heard from downtown. A deal between the two sides would open the way for further political negotiations, while failure could result in a long and devastating struggle for control of Hodeidah. But for these political efforts to succeed, both sides must be convinced that this is an unwinnable war militarily, Hiltermann noted. Hours after Griffiths left Yemen, the Houthis fired a ballistic missile into neighboring Saudi Arabia. A separate U.N. peace plan, yet to be unveiled, reportedly includes a call for the Houthis to give up their ballistic missiles in exchange for an end to the Saudi-UAE led coalition airstrikes, as well as a proposal for a transitional government following a ceasefire. Griffiths is due to present a Yemen proposal by mid-June.
Saudi Arabia established the coalition in March 2015 and launched an aerial bombing campaign in Yemen to push back the Houthis, who seized control of the capital in September 2014. Since 2015, the UAE has been responsible for much of the ground war, particularly in the south and west of the country.
Military commanders on the front lines in Hodeidah governorate told The Intercept that their troops planned to cut off supply lines and besiege Houthi forces in the city, rather than fight their way in, though the UAE has also said this could change “if there is an attack on them or some sort of provocation from inside the city.” Any claim of incitement would likely be impossible to verify in the ensuing battle.
The conflict in Yemen has killed an estimated 28,033 people since January 2017 and pushed 8.4 million to the brink of famine. Some 50,000 Yemeni children are estimated to have died last year from hunger and preventable disease as a result of what U.N. aid agencies describe as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.”
“Hodeidah isn’t a political pawn to be traded and bargained with. It is a lifeline that millions of ordinary Yemenis are depending on for survival,” warned Mercy Corps’ Mohamud. “Grandstanding and hyperbole will not feed the people if the aid deliveries dry up.”
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Looking for the best music festivals in Scotland in 2022!? Look no further, because I’m here to help!
Who doesn’t love Scotland? Or Scots in general? Scotland really has so much to offer any traveller. Vibrant major cities broken up by rolling green hills steeped in history and shrouded in lore. Friendly locals always up for a chat. Top shelf whiskey. Charming and often confusing regional accents. Castles. Calvin Harris. J.K Rowling. Braveheart. Billy Connolly. Breezy national dress for men. I digress.
You know what else Scotland has in spades? Music festivals. In fact, there’s so many Scottish music festivals spanning the country and its isles, I had to narrow down my shortlist that just kept wildly growing. Those Scots really know how to party, whether it’s to electronic, pop, rock, folk, jazz or – you guessed it – bagpipes.
These 15+ music festivals in Scotland will be sure to inspire your next wee trip to this bonnie nation. I’ll stop now….
1) TRNSMT Festival
When: July 8-10, 2022
Where: Glasgow Green, Glasgow
“TRNSMT is a Scottish rock and indie music festival on Glasgow Green, in the city’s east end. Started as a replacement for T in the Park, the city centre bash includes all the revelry of a traditional music festival, but also gives festival-goers the chance to explore the city’s bars, restaurants, nightclubs and cultural attractions.”
Bringing one of the biggest productions and most stacked lineups to the country, TRNSMT festival should not be missed!
2) Tiree Music Festival
When: July 8-10, 2022
“Tiree Music Festival CIC is more than a music festival. It is a true island adventure to one of the most stunning festival locations in the world.
Think picture-perfect white sands. World-famous surf. Deserted roads lined with lush greenery and wild flowers. Not forgetting more sunshine than practically anywhere else in the UK. It’s little wonder that the tiny Hebridean island of Tiree is nicknamed the ‘Hawaii of the North’.”
Join the Tiree Music Festival 2022 Facebook Event for more information!
3) Terminal V
When: Apri; 16-16, 2022
Where: The Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh
Previously a one-day event, Terminal V now offers two full days of partying and incredible techno, which is an exciting and rewarding move for the thousands of music lovers who have lost out on 18+ months of festivals and nightlife.
Terminal V Festival returns with a much anticipated two day Easter weekend event on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th April 2022 at the Royal Highland Centre.
The huge indoor event boasts more stages than ever before, with six arenas featuring over 80 of the biggest and most in-demand international acts from all corners of electronic music.
4) Glasgow Summer Sessions
When: August 2022
Where: Bellahousten Park, Glasgow
“Glasgow Summer Sessions is an outdoor summer concert series in the city’s Bellahouston Park, attracting around 100,000 people each year for its lineup of rock, indie, dance and hip-hop stars.
After a successful year back in 2021, keep an eye out for announcements for their upcoming 2022 season!
5) Killin Music Festival
When: June 17-19, 2022
Where: Killin, Perthshire
“The Killin Music Festival in Central Scotland started in 2016, run by a group of passionate volunteers. Killin Music Festival delivers a weekend packed from start to finish with top-of-their-game artists, supported by a festival fringe featuring bar sessions, workshops, kids activities, competitions and even a pipe band!
Now heading for its fourth year, Killin Music Festival looks to evolve, taking on board feedback from visitors, and by spreading its wings a little further.”
Join the Killin Music Fest 2022 Facebook Event for more information!
6) Knockengorroch Festival
When: May 19-22, 2022
Where: Carsphairn, Kirkcudbrightshire
Knockengorroch 2022 brings the best music to the best location on the planet. Knockengorroch’s river valley in the Southern Uplands will again boom with the sounds of music from far and near, old and new in May 2022!
Expect a silent disco, a Celtic fire show spectacular, cabaret, comedy, cocktails, real ale, global food, stalls, camping, dance, heritage and arts workshops, a healing area, session villages, open fires, star gazing, showers, and more.
Join the Knockengorroch 2022 Facebook Event for more information!
7) Eden Festival
When: June 9-12, 2022
Where: Raehills Meadows, Moffat
“Eden Festival is a truly energetic, vibrant & Independent boutique festival showcasing new music & electrifying performances! Set in the stunning Raehills Meadows and hosting 13 different stages, kids arena, circus tent, drive-in cinema, comedy, cabaret and workshops, as well as a feast of performers, artworks, games and much, much more…
Join the Eden Festival 2022 Facebook Event for more information!
8) Edinburgh International Festival
When: August 2022
“The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual festival of performing arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks in August. By invitation from the Festival Director, the International Festival brings top class performers of music (especially classical music), theatre, opera and dance from around the world to perform. The festival also hosts a series of visual art exhibitions, talks and workshops.”
9) Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
When: July 28-30, 2022
“Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival is a Scottish music and arts festival at the beautiful Belladrum House and Estate near Inverness.
But the fun doesn’t stop at the music, with Belladrum Tartan Heart also showcasing a huge range of other activities and performances for all ages, including comedy and cabaret, talks, debates and films, and arts, crafts and circus skills.”
10) Let’s Rock Scotland
When: August 2022
Where: Dalkeith Country Park, Edinburgh
“Let’s Rock! is an 80s family-friendly festival in locations across the UK, including Scotland, London, Bristol, Leeds, Exeter and Cookham. In association with Absolute Radio, the series showcases a lineup of our favourite 80s artists, such Tony Hadley, Billy Ocean and Marc Almond. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2018, Let’s Rock! is an action-packed day of 80s madness and family-friendly fun up and down the UK.”
11) Orkney Folk Festival
When: May 26-29, 2022
“From small beginnings in 1982, the Orkney Folk Festival has grown to become one of the most prolific and special throughout Scotland, the UK and further afield. One of the most important characteristics of the first festival that stands true today is the balance of visiting and local artistes.
Whilst the festival has become a sought-after stage amongst artists worldwide – and has been a four-day home for many, over the years – it is equally, if not more so, the local, Orcadian acts that make the festival what it is and keep the crowds coming.”
12) Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
When: August 5-27, 2022
“The Edinburgh Tattoo is a spectacular like no other. A kaleidoscope of music, dance and entertainment. All set against the iconic backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. See your evening burst into life with a colourful blend of Scottish pipe and drum bands, highland dancers and performers from across the world.
Bigger, better and more technically thrilling than ever before. A unique mix of military tradition and global cultures. This really is an experience for the senses. Your seat is waiting.”
13) Riverside Festival Glasgow
When: September 2022
“Scotland’s biggest electronic music festival will take place in the grounds of the Riverside Museum on the banks of the Clyde, bringing together the biggest and best electrical artists and DJs in this unique and iconic location.”
14) Shetland Folk Festival
When: April 28 – May 1, 2022
“Organised by a voluntary committee (and run by an even bigger pool of volunteers) the Festival prides itself in reaching out to even the most far flung areas of Shetland. Concerts are organised throughout the isles, consisting of some of the best International, British and Shetland music that the world has to offer. In fact, visiting artistes are regularly dumbfounded by the quantity and quality of local musicians that our remote isles have to offer.”
15) Party at the Palace
When: August 2022
Where: Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow
“Party at The Palace is a 2-day boutique music festival set next to the loch facing the historic Linlithgow Palace. Just 20 minutes from Edinburgh and a half-hour from Glasgow it will provide plenty of live music and activities to keep everyone entertained. Previous performers include Scottish band Texas, Mel C and Kaiser Chiefs.”
16) Scottish Electronic Music Conference
When: July 17th – 18th, 2020
Where: Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Scottish Music Festivals Possibly Returning in 2022-2023
“On paper they said it wouldn’t work, a festival in late September in a remote village on the West Coast of Scotland 60 miles from the nearest town, but that was ten years ago. 2018 sees our friendly, small (but we think perfectly formed) festival return to the pier in the centre of Ullapool. Indeed, it feels like we’ve found our spiritual home.
Expect another year of fun regardless of what the weather has to say about it. Another year making new friends, and catching up with old ones. Follow us on social media to see who’s going join the ranks that include Paolo Nutini, Mumford and Sons, Twin Atlantic, The Stranglers, Jake Bugg and Franz Ferdinand who have graced our little stage. You’ll just have to come and see…”
Electric Fields Music Festival
Where: Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill
“Electric Fields is a Scottish boutique music festival, held each summer at Drumlanrig Castle in Thornhill.
Intimate and eclectic, the three-day affair shows off a lineup that spans the genres and generations, with this year’s edition featuring sets from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Leftfield and Young Fathers.
Electric Fields embrace of all generations is evident in its kids play and craft area, as well as its very own real ale festival – a festival within a festival fit for any ale drinker – and the copious amounts of world cuisine on offer.”
Groove Loch Ness Festival
Where: Loch Ness
“Groove Loch Ness is an electronic music festival on the banks of the legendary Loch Ness in the Scottish highlands.
Setting up and plugging in for just one night, Groove Loch Ness bills itself as a “one night, one stage” festival, meaning it pours all its energy into curating the best back to back lineup possible.
Its last edition included sets from Faithless, Skream and Julio Bashmore, who each played out in the incredible highlands setting.”
Am I Missing any Epic Music Festivals in Scotland 2022?
I’m always looking for awesome events, concerts, and festivals to add to these lists, so if you know of any Scottish festivals – feel free to shoot me an email and let me know!
Looking for more epic festivals around the world…?
I’ve written about some of the biggest and best parties, so check out some of these articles below and start planning your next big international trip!
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Where can I camp in Ethiopia?
1. The Simien Mountains
Homer once described the Simien Mountains as the "chess pieces of the gods" and he couldn’t have been more right. These sublime mountains are an electrifying mix of precipitous ravines with looming peaks and spires. The park is full of rare, endemic wildlife, including the Ethiopian Wolf, Gelada Monkey, and Walia Ibex (giant mountain goats).
Spending your nights camping under the stars in the Simien Mountains gives you the best impression of the park, and maximise trekking opportunities. Camping allows you to see all that the park has to offer, as you trek from camp to camp. It is also the most cost-effective way to experience the park.
There are three main campsites in the Simien Mountains. Most tours start at Sankaber campsite, set on a cliff edge surrounded by Giant Heath trees (Erica Arboreal), and 360 degree panoramic viewpoints. The trail up to Sankaber from Buit Ras (the vehicle drop off point at the entrance of the Simiens) is relatively easy, but there are some steeper sections, and you'll be climbing to around 3200 metres.
East of Sankaber is Geech Campsite, situated by the dramatic Geech Abyss, where vultures and other fascinating birds of prey can be seen circling. The Jinbar Falls is an iconic landmark of the Simien Mountains, and a short walk from the Geech campsite.
If you head further east still, hiking from Geech along the plateau you'll reach Imet Gogo, perhaps the most stunning vantage point in the park. From here you can head down the valley into the Jimbar River and over to Chennek Campsite, whose spectacular surroundings include many Giant Lobelia and views of Mount Bwahit behind and the peak of Innatiye in front.
2. The Bale Mountains
The Bale Mountains National Park has an amazing blend of natural landscapes, with grassy plains, forests, volcanic ridges bizarre rock formations. Such diversity in terrain brings a lot of bio-diversity, and while most visitors choose to base themselves at the Bale Mountain Lodge, those looking for a real adventure can camp in the park.
The campsites of the Bale Mountains, despite being very basic, are usually very quiet and have beautiful views. The Webb Valley Camp is near the grassy plains of the high plateau, and it is here that the endemic Ethiopian Wolves can be spotted. Other species in the area include spotted hyenas, mountain Nyala and black-maned lions, as well as an abundance of birdlife.
If you head up to Mount Waaswma, you'll be rewarded with incredible views of the surrounding mountains and plains. Continuing on to Rafu Camp, you'll find the spectacular ‘stone forest’, a collection of unique volcanic rock formations. From here there is a fairly brief hike up to Ethiopia’s second-highest mountain, Mount Tuludimtu, where you can take in an amazing vista of the entire park.
For those only spending a night or two here, there is the option to camp at Dinsho, where the Bale Mountains National Park HQ is found. It has lovely views, as well as some basic facilities, and friendly visitors in the form of warthogs and mountain Nyala.
3. Gambella National Park
Gambella arguably offers Ethiopia’s best wildlife experiences. Its remote location shields it from population pressures, and Gambella represents a true wilderness. Huge migrating herds of wildebeest and antelope are found here, along with buffalo, hippos, giraffes, elephants, lions and many more of Africa’s most famous species. Accommodation here is in exclusive tented camps.
Unfortunately, there are very few access links to Gambella, so if you want to travel here you will need to take a charter flight.
A typical safari includes two nights at the Gambella tented camp, situated in a grove of trees close to a corner of the park that adjoins the Baro river. It is an ideal location from which to explore the northern boundary of the park, where migrating animals can most easily be spotted.
After this you can move on to spend a couple of nights in fly camps in the northwest and southwest of the park, allowing you to see more of the incredible wildlife in the park's plains, rivers, and lakes. Gambella makes for a real frontier adventure to the heart of Africa’s wilderness.
4. The Danakil Depression
Formed from the continental drift of three tectonic plates, the Danakil Depression is one of Earth’s most unique and surreal environments. Famous for being one of the hottest places on the planet, it is home to lava lakes and salt lakes, active volcanoes, and acidic springs that are bursting with colour. Visiting here is perhaps the closest you’ll come to the feeling of being on another planet.
There are no facilities or infrastructure in the Danakil Depression. Once you leave Mekele, the vibrant capital of the Tigray region and the gateway to the Danakil Depression, you'll be sleeping under the stars either on thin mattresses by the edge of volcanic crater, or on makeshift wooden beds in tiny hamlets scattered across the desert.
At Erta Ale you’ll be spending a night at the makeshift ‘campsite’ by the crater rim. The following night is typically spent at Hamed Ela, it’s a basic settlement of wooden huts, with simple beds made of bamboo frames tied together with rope - it's makeshift, but it works!
The final stop on most Danakil trips is the market town called Abaala. Here, accommodation comes in the form of homestays that are basic, but at least have running water and electricity - relative luxury when compared to the accommodation of the past two nights!
5. The Omo Valley
The Omo Valley is a cultural melting pot, 88 different communities live in this small corner of Ethiopia, each with their own traditions and ways of life. The Lower Omo Valley region is a UNESCO World Heritage Site thanks to the discovery of remains dating back millions of years, and the region has a bounty of cultural heritage, with ancient and prehistoric graves, settlements and rock carvings to be found.
The Omo is also blessed with a beautiful natural landscape of lakes, forests and mountains. Nech Sar National Park has a large number of mammals, crocodiles and the Nechisar nightjar, which is possibly the rarest bird in the world.
The infrastructure in the Omo Valley is underdeveloped by comparison to the north. Most travellers will stay at simple but characterful lodges. These lodges often suffer from maintenance issues, so it's important to set your expectations accordingly when visiting this region.
While most visitors stick to the lodges, for a truly unique experience, you should consider luxury camping. There are a number of exclusive tented and fly camps in the Omo, with Lale's Camp the most prominent, and the camps permit exclusive access to some of the Omo Valley's most remote regions.
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Walking the equity talk? Not! York Catholic Board hires white director with 3 years teaching experience
So many words. School boards produce volumes of them about equity: inclusive curricula, destreaming, fair hiring practices – it goes on. Words spill out everywhere in annual reports, multi-year school board plans – objectives, indicators of success for those objectives, tasks, timelines. They’re carefully crafted and inoffensive, offering a veneer, if not the reality, of progressive attitudes towards educating children. But even those words are empty when nothing really changes.
The TDSB, for instance, has generated hundreds of thousands of words about anti-black racism, LGBTQ rights and fighting anti-Semitism, but a report released a few days ago describes a four-fold increase in hate incidents – 291 between 2018 and 2020 – overwhelmingly aimed at Black educators.
There are words that ring hollow because school boards don’t or can’t back them up with action. But sometimes a school board’s decisions so miss the mark that all of its words about fairness and equity are nothing more than hypocrisy – an insult to families whose kids attend their schools.
York Catholic DSB hires new Director of Education
Take the situation at the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) in York region, home to one of the fastest changing populations in Ontario. Trustees at the board just hired a new Director of Education, Robert Hofstatter, a white man with 3 years of teaching experience and a background in banking. Tone deaf only begins to describe this hire.
Like other boards across the province, the YCDSB says the words the Ministry of Education wants it to say about equity – embedding them firmly in Catholicism: “Equity at YCDSB is a core value that calls us to recognize that all those we serve in our community are created in the image of God. Each person, bringing gifts to our school and broader community, is to be celebrated and encouraged to grow in Christ…” There is an office of Human Rights, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion that calls for “…fair treatment, in providing access to opportunity, and advancement for all people…” There’s a page on its site devoted to Black History Month and all the Black speakers coming in to relate their experiences, history and culture.
But in light of hiring a white guy with a few years of teaching at St. Michael’s private school down in Toronto, I can’t help but feel these people are being used.
How can you explain this hire? Chair of the TCDSB, Dominic Mazzotta told me in an email: “Our Board is confident in our choice of Mr. Hofstatter as the Director noting (sic) he meets the qualifications of a Director of Education, as required under the Education Act.” He wouldn’t have qualified this time last year, but in July 2020 the Ford government slipped a provision into the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act that amended Education Act “to remove the requirement that directors of education must be supervisory officers that are qualified as teachers.” Mr. Hofstatter was a teacher but hadn’t risen through the ranks to become a supervisory officer.
Education Minister, Stephen Lecce touted the legislation as “an opportunity for generational change” because it would enable boards to hire directors from “visible minorities”. Those last two words didn’t make it into the Education Act amendment.
Mr. Mazzotta added: “Mr. Hofstatter comes to the Board with a focus on addressing anti-racist and anti-oppressive considerations, and will align our resources and supports across the Board to address the needs of our marginalized students.” He’ll be “dedicated to developing and implementing an immediate action plan” to “eliminate all forms of racism and oppression…” This sounds less like a qualification than words of hope.
Corporate leadership for a corporate board
There’s another clue about the appointment. Pressed for more details, Mr. Mazzotta commented “…his background in business and education will be a valuable resource for us as we strive to propel our Board forward into the future.” I think this is closer to the real reason for the hire. Mr. Hofstatter holds an MBA, among other degrees and worked for 20 years at Scotiabank, rising to VP Global Information Security Operations before he changed careers and headed Computer Science and Robotics at St. Mikes.
This aligns nicely the Ford government’s business focus in a “not for distribution” document leaked to the Toronto Star a year ago. It called on the Ministry of Education “to develop (a) business model to make available and market Ontario’s online learning system to out-of-province and international students and examine feasible options for selling licensing rights to courses/content to other jurisdictions.” According to this document, the government could make money selling the online technology while it cut funding for schools to the tune of $55.8 million in 2021, $56.7 million in 2022 and $57.8 million in 2023-24.
The idea of education generating revenue is familiar to OSSTF President Harvey Bischof who sees Minister Lecce’s words about providing for more racialized directors as a screen for hiring corporate heads to run education as a business. It’s clear that there will be more funding cuts in school boards’ futures, so trustees might well be looking for directors who can manage that disaster, one with a business rather than education orientation. Mr. Bischof sees it as “stealth capitalization and privatization of the public education system.”
Knights of Columbus
Maybe it was the YCDSB’s eagerness to hire someone with a strong corporate history, but the search committee may have overlooked an important item in the middle of Mr. Hofstatter’s Linked In page: his membership in the Knights of Columbus since 2004. This Catholic organization, founded in 1882, is actively anti-abortion. In 2019 its Belleville branch erected a tombstone in a local cemetary “in memory of all victims of abortion.” In 2017, the Knights objected to an amendment to the Canadian Human Rights Act adding “gender identity and expression” to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination noting: “the most serious of these (disagreements) is the claim that; ‘gender is separable from biological sexuality and is to be determined by the individual.’ This central understanding of contemporary gender theory is not in accord with natural law or Christian revelation, and has been explicitly rejected by Pope Francis and by Pope Benedict XVI.” The Knights of Columbus in the U.S. have contributed to campaigns to halt the legalization of gay marriage. How does this association fit with a board that claims to be devoted to equity and diversity? The new YCDSB Director of Education and the trustees who hired him, have some explaining to do.
How can a school board be so heedless of the families it serves? Maybe it doesn’t know much about them. There’s no demographic data listed on its website and nothing available through its communication department. The board has just started a Student Census to learn more about the kids and family who attend its schools.
But it’s not exactly living in an information desert. York Region, according to its website is the 3rd largest municipality in the GTHA with a population 1.1 million. In 2016, of all recent immigrants who settled in the GTHA, 14% sought a home in the area. One out of every two of its residents were born outside Canada and nearly half of the people who lived there identified as a member of a visible minority in 2016. Between 2011 and 2016 – 51 410 immigrants settled in the municipality, coming primarily from China, Iran, Phillippines, India and Pakistan. So, ignorance isn’t an excuse.
And surely trustees can’t be oblivious to what is going on around them. Just this past November, in a strike organized by Students Speak Up YCDSB, high school students walked out of class to protest what they say is persistent and unchecked racism in their schools. Grade 11 student Selena Osunde told CBC news at the time that she’d witnessed dismissive racist behavior from teachers at her school, comments like a “white teacher asking ‘Oh, your hair is real’ or (saying) ‘Oh I know you probably only have your mom in your household’, just assuming my father wouldn’t be there.”
Malik Scott, one of the founders of Students Speak Up, told the Toronto Star how his teacher in grade 2 had a system for pizza days in which he would pass out slices alphabetically up to but not including Mr. Scott, then start again from the end of the alphabet to ensure that he got the last piece. The students were calling for a board-wide mechanism for reporting race-based incidents and, notably, a hiring process that that would include better representation of minorities among staff, mandatory anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism training as well as mandatory teacher evaluation audits.
Talk about students leading the leaders.
If that wasn’t clear enough, there was the delegation to a Board meeting back in June 2020, in which parents Kearie Daniel and Charlene Hines told trustees of their experiences and concerns about anti-Black racism within the Board and the need for more Black teachers, guidance counsellors and administrators. They wanted more community representation on the Human Rights Equity Advisory (HREA) committee. This was shortly after the YCDSB set up a search committee to replace retiring Director of Education Ab Falconi. But it looks as though no one twigged on the idea that it might be good to look for a more representative new director.
In the end, it’s hard to imagine what trustees were thinking about when it came to hiring a new director. There was a search committee set up, but no criteria or discussion about key qualifications for a new director listed in Board minutes. The board’s communications department had no information when I asked for details of any public consultation held. Discussion surrounding the ultimate choice of director didn’t appear in public minutes.
Parents of Black Children
Charline Grant is a systems navigator with Parents of Black Children who works with parents trying to make their way through school and/or child welfare systems. About hiring someone with Mr. Hofstatter’s qualifications, she said “ I’m not surprised that it happened in the Catholic Board” noting that trustees there aren’t necessarily well-versed in anti-Black racism politics. Ms. Grant says that she gets calls about racist incidents from parents whose kids attend YCDSB schools and trustees’ unwillingness to handle them. She questions whether trustees have the right training to choose a representative director, “not just another white male leading another troubled board.”
Ms. Grant thinks that schools miss out on great possibilities by ignoring equity in hiring. Students don’t see adults in charge of their schools who look like them or come from a similar background. That sends a strong message, as school administration looks the same while neighbourhoods change. Ms. Grant says this “shows the position of privilege and power.” Parents of Black Children want to meet with the new Director to ask him about his strategy for leading a board that hasn’t progressed much in the area of Equity. But Ms. Grant thinks Mr. Hofstatter will have a learning curve to contend with – at the expense of students who need action now.
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Got Distribution? Curtice, Carmona, Ferraro in SF
Got Distribution? Curtice, Carmona, Ferraro in SF
$39.95 – $75.00
Eric Ferraro, Esq., Ric Curtice, and Humberto Carmona discuss how to identify the best distributors for your genre of music, how to approach them, and how to get the best deal and achieve maximum exposure for your product.
For those who want to get and make the most of independent distribution, NARIP presents this program to help understand the process.
Learn low-cost (or no-cost) ways to get independent record distribution, the best ways to work with a network of independents and how to harness everyone to work as a team. Also, learn about sales arrangements, territories, and payment terms – everything you need to achieve sales success.
Find out how you can use SoundScan and other tools, how to identify the best distributors for your genre of music, how to approach them, and how to get the best deal and achieve maximum exposure for your product.
- Artist Managers, Producers & Artist Reps
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- What it is & how it works
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PROGRAM DATE: August 11, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
PROGRAM TIME: 1 hour, 49 minutes, 09 seconds (1:49:09)
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Ric Curtice, Sales, Marketing & Distribution Executive, Prime Time Entertainment
Ric Curtice has worked in the music business his entire career. He began working for the Marketing Department at MCA Records, and here is where he contributed to the development of successful careers for Fine Young Cannibals, Tom Petty, Bobby Brown, Coolio, Mary J. Blige, Jimmy Buffett, Elton John, Vince Gill and others. MCA’s parent company then bought Geffen Records, and Ric entered the Product Development Department for the company, where they had a successful string of multi-platinum sellers including Beck, Weezer, Guns n Roses, Nirvana, Hole, Counting Crows, Jackyl and others. As the industry continued its merging ways, Interscope Records was acquired by Universal where Ric continued successful campaigns to help define the careers of No Doubt, Marilyn Manson, NIN, Dr. Dre Bush and others. A stint at Independent label TVT Records continued his success at developing the careers of Sevendust, Andy Partridge, Pit Bull, Lil John, and others. Ric currently runs a successful independent music marketing and sales consulting business in the San Francisco Bay Area which includes clients Rocket Science Inc., Burnside Distribution Corporation, Booklines inc., Sumthing Distribution, Madacy Corporation, Prime Time Entertainment, and Red Hot Promotions, as well as others working with Heritage, New and Developing artists including Celldweller, Blind Pilot, Sugar Minott, Insolance, Chumbawamba, Karla Bonoff, Irma Thomas, Y & T, Sir Mixx a lot, Nile Rodgers, Ivan Neville, Sherri Austin, Steve Forbert, Dr.Dog, Radio Head, Cold War Kids, King Khan, Mathew Sweet among many others. In addition, Ric has recently been managing the careers of Zakiya Hooker, Michael Lee Firkins, Megan Slankard and George Komsky.
Humberto Carmona, Manager of Business Development, IODA Alliance
Since joining IODA in 2006, Humberto has spearheaded IODA’s business endeavors in Latin America. In addition to signing key Mexican label clients such as Noiselab and Nuevos Ricos, he has negotiated and executed deals with dozens of IODA’s retail partners, notably with top regional providers like Telefonica and iMusica. A native of Mexico City, Humberto is also a founding partner in the label Arts&Crafts Mexico, and manager of the bands Chikita Violenta, Rey Pila and Bam Bam.
Eric Ferraro, Esq., Music & Digital Media Attorney, Bullivant Houser & Bailey PC
Eric Ferraro is a capital shareholder in the corporate and intellectual property practice groups of Bullivant, Houser & Bailey PC. He concentrates his practice on the representation of private and public emerging and growth companies in the technology and digital media sectors, and the investors and financial services firms that focus on those industries. With over 16 years of practical legal and business experience in private practice, as in-house counsel, and as a technology company founder and investor, Eric brings an integrated counseling approach to his clients, balancing legal protection and corporate best practices with business, technical, investment and strategic considerations. As a founder of IRIS Distribution, a digital media services company, Eric has particular expertise in digital media law and is the Chair of the firm’s Social Media and Gaming practice. His media and technology clients include enterprise software and mobile developers, social media and gaming companies, Internet businesses, music and entertainment companies, and digital creative agencies. Eric advises his digital media clients on data security, online privacy, SaaS issues, content licensing, publishing and syndication, copyright and royalty administration, and regulatory issues relating to e-commerce, online advertising and Internet law under the DMCA, FTC Act and CAN-SPAM. Eric counsels his clients in connection with entity formation and founder arrangements, corporate governance, seed and venture capital financing, employment and equity compensation matters, intellectual property protection, technology licensing and product distribution, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and SEC reporting and compliance. Eric also has significant experience in executive compensation transactions, often representing CEOs and executive teams in connection with high-value M&A transactions. In Digital Media, Internet and Entertainment, Eric has represented a leading digital media distributor in content licensing deals with Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Sony, Rhapsody, Verizon, T-Mobile and other global media companies; advised a video game developer in publishing and development agreements with MTV Networks, Atari and other top entertainment brands; represented digital marketing agency in consumer marketing campaigns for Scion, PG&E and Electrolux; and represented record label in sync licensing agreement with HBO for Entourage, among others. Eric has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer on multiple occasions by Law & Politics magazine. He is also an advisor to Founders Space. A strong supporter of the arts, Eric is actively involved in the community and with various charitable organizations. He serves as general counsel and sits on the board of directors of Artists for Literacy and is a panel attorney for California Lawyers for the Arts.
Tamra Engle, Executive Director of NARIP San Francisco
Tamra Engle is a social entrepreneur and founder of GuitarTam Music that offers business and promotional consultation for artists and bands to help them succeed in the evolving music and entertainment industries. She helps clients to develop strategic marketing and promotion plans, and offers performance coaching. Blending 25 years of business development expertise in organizations of all sizes and sectors from start-ups to Fortune 15 organizations, Tamra is developing community programs to provide music education programs for school-aged children and a national program to end violence against women. She is also a performing singer-songwriter whose recent album was on the final nominating ballot for the 2008 Grammys in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Tamra began her entertainment career as a studio musician In Los Angeles, has toured the country tirelessly and enjoyed placement of her songs on television and nationally aired commercials. Contact her at tamra AT narip DOT com.
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The intrinsic problem of visiting wineries is that as they are in rural locations they are hard to access without driving—not a good thing when there’s so much wine to sample. We were in the central Italian region of Umbria without a car anyway so decided to take a tour with Gusto Wine Tours. We benefited from so much more than just transport as British expat Mark was a knowledgeable guide who introduced us to the world of Umbrian wines by taking us to some off the beaten track cantine (wineries).
Mark and Giselle Stafford have been living in Umbria for years and realised that the fantastic wines the region produces are not very well known around the world, unlike the wines from its neighbour Tuscany. They started Gusto Wine Tours to introduce visitors to the region to its wonderful wines which they believe are even more delicious and much better value than Tuscan wines.
The tour’s focus is on visiting small, family-run wineries in Umbria that you probably wouldn’t have found by yourself. It’s a day of wine tasting, chatting, drives through the rolling hills of the Umbrian countryside, and a delicious multi-course Italian lunch. Mark keeps groups small so we were joined by just one other couple on our trip around the Montefalco area where Umbria’s best DOCG and DOC wines are produced.
Our first stop was the Romanelli family’s farm on a hill with sweeping views of the Umbrian countryside. Like most of the wineries in the area it’s organic, whether they are certified or not, simply because the families live on site and have children who play in the vines so they don’t want there to be any chemicals around.
Three generations of the family run the farm and they insist on working their own land so they can guarantee the quality. Only at the busy harvest time do friends and family come along to help, getting paid in wine and food. The Romanellis could make more money by chopping down the trees on their land, planting more vines and hiring workers, but they don’t. They only grow as much as they can work themselves and control the quality while maintaining quality of life—spending time with family is ultimately what life is about for Italians.
We love hearing stories like this, and they are common in Italy—food producers who truly care about what they do. It was heartening to hear that the tiny Romanelli winery had beaten the area’s largest commercial producers in wine awards. This was especially impressive considering the family has only been making wine since 2007 when the sons became old enough to take on the winemaking; before that their focus was olive oil.
Our tasting began with their olive oil, sitting in a cosy room in the family’s house. If you haven’t tried olive oil in Italy you may never have tried the real thing. It’s completely different from the tasteless stuff that gets exported and sold in supermarkets. Here, at the source, it’s so much more flavourful and makes a huge difference to the simplest foods. On toast we sampled a four olive blend and a single variety Moraiolo with a strong, peppery flavour. If only we could take a bottle of this with us everywhere we go.
On to the wines…
Mark is a wonderful wine guide. He’s knowledgable but unpretentious and has a great sense of humour, and it didn’t matter that we knew little about wine. He guided us through the tasting process, encouraging us to focus on the look of the wine by swirling it in our glass and observing the colour and texture, smelling it, and finally tasting by paying attention to the feel and texture in our mouths, and the aftertaste once we’d swallowed. It made for a more heightened tasting experience.
Italian wine is made to be eaten with food so we snacked on tomato bruschetta and cheese with our wine. Although the region is known for its full bodied reds there are also some excellent whites. Our first tasting was the white Grechetto dei Colli Martani DOC with hints of tropical fruit. It was lovely and we hated to throw some away, but it was only mid morning and we had many more wines to come.
The region is known for the bold, tannic Sagrantino grape that is only grown in this small area and makes big, powerful red wines. We tried the Montefalco Rosso DOC which is made with 65% Sangiovese, 15% Sagrantino, and in this case 10% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. It’s aged for at least two years with one year in an oak barrel which softens the tannins and imparts an oaky vanilla flavour.
The Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG is the star of the show. Made with 100% Sagrantino grapes it’s very full-bodied and is best accompanied by strong foods. It was wonderful and is unlike any other wine we’ve tried. At €19 it’s a bargain for the quality compared to Tuscan wines such as Brunello that go for at least €40, and you’d pay much more outside of Italy, if you could even find it.
We finished our tasting with another new wine experience—the Montefalco Sagrantino Passito, a dark red dessert wine made by drying out carefully selected Sagrantino grapes for three months and then gently pressing the resulting raisins. It’s a strong, smooth dessert wine that isn’t very sweet so often converts those who think they don’t like dessert wines. Served with homemade biscuits made with their own olive oil it was a delicious way to end our tasting at Romanelli.
The Fongoli estate is another family-run business dating back to the early 1900s and is currently run by a brother/sister team. The wine makers were busy out in the vineyards as it was harvest time but Mark knows the family well enough that he was free to take us on a tour.
He talked us through the wine making process, showing us the destemmer where the stems and stalks are removed from the grapes and they are gently split so the juice can come out. Nobody here crushes the grapes any more to avoid the astringency from the seeds. Instead they are gently pressed in the horizontal soft press machine.
The white grapes go from the destemmer to the press and then to the fermentation tanks for 3-6 months before bottling. The red grapes go straight from the destemmer into the fermentation tanks. The Sagrantino grapes spend 40-50 days there to get the full flavour from the skins. The solids accumulate at the bottom of the tanks and the quality juice at the top gets syphoned off and put into barrels for the DOC and DOCG wine, while the rest gets pressed to make table wines.
We also looked around the cellars where wine ages in barrels including 150 year old Slovakian oak barrels that are worth €15,000, and the dusty old reference bottles of every bottle of wine they’ve made but aren’t allowed to open.
The locals have not been impressed by Umbrian wines becoming more well known and the increasing prices when the wines became DOC and DOCG regulated. Fongoli offers some good table wine though for just €1.6 a litre—you can bring your own container or buy a five litre plastic container and fill it up from their barrels.
At Fongoli we tried four more wines: a citrusy white L’Agnoletto, another excellent Montefalco Rosso and Montefalco Sagrantino, and our favourite, the Montefalco Rosso Riserva which is aged for three years rather than two. We finished with another Sagrantino Passito paired wonderfully with some dark chocolate, each bringing out the flavours of the other.
Agriturismo Camiano Piccolo
After a morning trying nine different wines it was definitely time for lunch. Camiano Piccolo is a working farm that also hosts tourists, known as an agriturismo in Italy. Amazingly it’s been in the same family for 500 years. Pietro the owner is the 23rd generation, Giuseppe the chef is the 24th generation, and his 13 year old son is the 25th.
We were treated to the full on four course Italian meal, all made with olive oil and vegetables that they grew themselves. Our vegetarian option was delicious: rocket and tomato bruschetta; handmade tagliarini with tomato, basil and lemon zest; truffle omelette with rosemary potatoes and green beans; and a chocolate drizzled pannacotta.
After all that it felt like time for a siesta but we had one more cantina to visit.
At Dionigi we were happy to witness the grape harvest that had just begun. The grapes hang on the bottom of the vines, with other grapes picked before they get a chance to grow so that the flavour is concentrated in those special few bunches. All the grapes are hand picked to further ensure the quality.
We watched as Roberto unloaded the freshly picked grapes from a trailer on the back of a tractor into the destemmer machine from where they were pumped into the fermentation tank and the stalks and stems discarded.
Our last tasting was a big one: eight wines! Dionigi makes an impressive range of wines for their size and of course we had to try them all.
The two whites were interesting: both the Vigna del Brillo and Colle Sorragani are made with 100% Grechetto grapes using a very modern technique of cryomaceration where the grape temperature is reduced by dry ice prior to fermentation to enhance the flavours. Although both wines were made this way with the same grapes, they tasted very different and the Colle Sorragani had a darker, golden colour as it was aged in oak rather than stainless steel. It was interesting to see how one change in the wine making process can make such a difference, and made us realise just what a complicated art this is.
Dionigi makes a number of Passito dessert wines. We enjoyed the Merlot and the Sagrantino but it was the white Scialo made from muscat grapes that enamoured us all. Golden in colour, it looked, smelt and tasted incredible with a smooth, honey-like flavour. At €50 a bottle it isn’t cheap though.
By the end of the day we’d sampled 18 wines (!) and learnt so much about Umbrian wines and the winemaking process—more than we ever have on winery visits on our own. We got much more out of the experience by having our own guide and it was a stress-free, fun day. We got to see beautiful countryside, eat tasty food, meet small family-run businesses who are passionate about quality, and of course drink many delicious wines. Umbria is an underrated wine region but, with this quality of wines, we are sure that it won’t stay that way for long.
Gusto Wine Tours cost €135 per person for a full day tour to three wineries including wine and olive oil tastings, snacks, multi-course lunch, bottled water and transport.
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- 3. Exceed RC Electric Drift Star 350Z: Best Drift Car for Beginners
- 4. HPI Racing 109291 RTR E10
- 5.Traxxas 1/10 4WD Ford GT: Best-Looking RC Drift Car
- 6. Lamborghini Veneno: Best Cheap RC Drift Car
- 7. Hosim Hobby Grade Car: Best RC Drift Car RTR
- 8. VATOS Spirit Brushless: Fastest RC Drift Car
- 9. Exceed RC Electric DriftStar
- 10. Exceed RC MadSpeed Electric Powered Drift Car GT3
- Best Remote Controlled Drift Car – Buyers Guide
Our main motive is to bring you only the best options from the market. We reviewed more than 32 RC drift cars of various brands and sizes.
Our primary concern while choosing the best RC drift cars were:
- Build Quality: Defines for how many years of months the car would sustain provided medium usage.
- Battery Consumption: How many hours can the car run without any recharge?
- Features: Speed, design, specs and mobility.
- Price: Buying an RC drift car shouldn’t burn a hole in your pocket.
Remote controlled cars have a unique place among the people of all age groups. We think that each individual whether he/she be a toddler or a teenager or a mature adult would love to give a shot to remote control cars.
They are not necessarily made for only toddlers or kids. Some of the high-end more durable models could be used by adults as well to have a little fun.
Now, coming to selecting the best RC drift car out-there. There are all types of cars out there in the market. Your task is to select the right one for your need.
There are so many options that you would easily get confused. Some remote control cars provide a significant battery life but are not competent enough, some look great but do not give quite the performance you want.
So, out of the 32 drift cars, we have chosen the top 10 RC drift cars for you. Let’s have a look at them:
Best RC Drift Cars for Beginners
The performance of the drift car plays an important role, and there would be no fun in driving if the performance is compromised. A note should be made on how well the car can run on a plain road or a rough terrain. What speed can the car attain?
A good battery life is a must for any remote controlled vehicle, otherwise much more time would be spent on charging the car rather than actually taking it out for a spin.
Another major thing is that there should be some cheap budget options also available that one could use for occasional activity.
Finally, the design and the build quality should also live up to the standards. The remote car should not look like a solid brick but should be a delight for the eyes.
No compromise should be made on the build quality as the RC drift cars are genuinely prepared for drifting and having fun. If the car breaks or gets damaged easily, it would be a bummer.
Either way, we have saved a great deal for you. Now, let’s check the detailed reviews of the top rated RC drift cars that exist in the market.
Best RC Drift Cars for Beginners: Detailed Reviews
1. Redcat Racing EPX Drift Car: Top Rated Option
The Redcat Racing EPX can easily be in someone’s favorite list for all the obvious reasons.
The best in class design and build on top with the stylish color schema brings a bold look to the remote control car.
This car is easily an eye candy and can attract some great attention.
One of the best things about this remote controlled drift car is, it has a pistol transmitter that is equipped along with a proportional control feature, making it both precarious and precise.
Due to this reason, the remote control car is fully controllable by novices and is easy to operate.
The car has a powerful chassis to withstand minor hits while drifting.
This remote controlled drifting fiend is fairly superior to all other low-budget or low-quality remote control cars available in the market. There is a slight lack of performance if compared to other high end RC drift cars.
Here, chcek this video to get a better visual aspect about the performance of this RC drift car:
The Redcat Racing EPX RC drift car does come with some great specifications. Let’s have a looks at them:
Now coming to the pros and cons:
2. Exceed Star 350: High-Performance RC Drift Car
The Exceed RC Drift Star 350 is easily one of the most powerful remote control drift cars in the market.
The performance that this car gives in unmatchable for the price at which it is sold in the market. This car is indeed made for making controlled slides.
The Exceed RC Drift Star 350 can also beat the remote control cars of the higher price segment. The tires may wear down after a lot of drifting, but you can always get spare tires for this remote controlled car.
This car is recommended for people who have at least a little experience with driving remote controlled cars as this little beast runs like a gazelle.
The battery life is also great (at least on paper). This remote control car comes in dual-tone and offers a bold design. It can easily stand out of the crowd as the color combinations used are great.
Some of the most essential and recognizable features of the Drift Star 350 are:
Now, coming to the pros and cons:
3. Exceed RC Electric Drift Star 350Z: Best Drift Car for Beginners
The Exceed RC Electric Drift Star 350Z is the perfect budget remote control drifting car that you can get right now on Amazon.
The features and price of this remote control car are quite balanced.
The Drift Star 350Z comes with specially designed compound drift tires, pre-mounted high-performance wheels. The design is somewhat similar to Exceed RC Electric Drift Star 350 model, which has a much higher price than this model.
Overall, the Drift Star 350z brings that same trendy and modern design which looks quite astonishing.
The battery life on Drift Star 350Z is also decent and should be satisfactory enough for your usage. It is the best RC drift car for beginners.
Unlike the Exceed RC Electric Drift Star 350, this model can be easily driven by a newbie as it cannot stand on the same ground concerning performance.
The Drift Star 350 outmaneuvers this model.
The 350Z does have some heavy-hitting features for such a marked down price. Before checking that, do watch this small video to understand more about the performance of this budget friendly RC drift car.
Here are its feature:
Now, coming to the pros and cons of the Drift Star 350Z:
The HPI Racing 109291 RTR E10 Drift provides all features packed with a decent price. It is an all-rounder as it can be used for both, casual running on the road or taking up the challenge and using it for drift driving or high-heat racing.
It is a perfectly balanced remote controlled car and makes it fun and easy for both, newbies and experts to take it out for a run. The motor is great, tires are excellent, and it offers a ton of different features.
The only problem which can be found with this remote control drift car is that all the parts are made out of plastic so it may not look so appealing for all those users who like to play it rough.
The car come packed with a variety of exciting features:
Talking about pros and cons, let’s try to summarize them below:
5.Traxxas 1/10 4WD Ford GT: Best-Looking RC Drift Car
The Traxxas 1/10 4WD Ford GT is an officially licensed scale replica body of the same named vehicle in the market.
Hands down, this is the best-looking remote controlled drift car out there in the market.
This RC drift car may be a bit heavily priced, but it is an absolute eye turner. This remote controlled drift car has all the attractive looks, and it does look totally different from rest of the sports cars that you will find in the market.
The Traxxas Ford GT offers some exclusive features but as we previously stated, it is quite expensive.
Like most of the premium brands, it lacks some basic things. For eg: it does not come with a charger. You will have to buy a separate charger for charging this remote control drift car.
The Traxxas Ford GT has some of the most amazing features, all because of its hefty price:
Talking about the pros and cons, let’s have a look:
6. Lamborghini Veneno: Best Cheap RC Drift Car
The Lamborghini Veneno remote controlled car is officially signed and designed with non-toxic ABS plastic. It has a glossy exterior. The detailed replica features glowing red tail lights when on the reverse and white headlights on forwarding mode.
This car is absolutely perfect for the little ones and costs very less making it the best cheap RC drift car of this list. The great thing about this remote control drift car is that it is made keeping kids in mind and offers simple controls and features so that kids can really enjoy while steering this.
The batteries are not included in this little remote control drift car so you will have to buy them.
Check this video to get a quick glimpse of the car:
The features of the Lamborghini Veneno RC car are outstanding and will give you utmost satisfaction for the money you have paid. Here, let’s check the features:
Now coming to the pros and cons of the car:
7. Hosim Hobby Grade Car: Best RC Drift Car RTR
The Hosim Hobby Grade Cross Country Car is more of a monster truck. It precisely does not identify as a remote control drift car. It is remote controlled and is excellent at drifting, but it’s just that it’s not exactly a car.
This mighty RC car does not compromise on the performance. It’s functioning is way better than the other standard remote control drift cars. It has some advantages as it can run on all terrains, has better motors, etc.
The Hosim Hobby RC Car is a bit on the heavier side as it is a monster truck with huge tires. Also, the battery on this colossus drains fast, this can sometimes become a little annoying for you.
Overall, it is the best RC drift car RTR buggy which has got some great reviews from the customers.
It comes packed with all the features you will want in a monster like a car. Some of its highlights are:
Now, coming to the pros and cons of the Hosim RC car:
8. VATOS Spirit Brushless: Fastest RC Drift Car
The Vatos RC Car Off Road Buggy has absolute worth for the bargain. It is super fast and super fun to make it run on road or off-road. It is an all-terrain remote controlled drift car (or should we say a buggy).
This Road Buggy can definitely be taken up for a high-speed off-road racing challenge. The powerful motors, the tires and the overall build of this remote control drift car would surely act according to the needs.
Coming to the highlights:
Time to delve deep and take a look at the pros and cons:
The Exceed RC Electric DriftStar drift car packs a long list of features and a distinctive look that help this brute in outmaneuvering its competitors.
This remote control drift car has a high-performance motor and electronic speed control.
This car is made explicitly for drifting and giving a fierce competition to other cars out in the market. This brute will not disappoint you if you take up a drifting or a racing challenge.
The Exceed Electric DriftStar mainly keeps in mind, the needs of a customer as it comes along with some best in calss features:
Now, coming to the pros and cons of the Exceed RC Electric DriftStar:
The Exceed RC MadSpeed Electric Powered Drift Gt3 is probably the most satisfactory deal you will find in the market right now.
As similar to some of the previous remote-controlled drift cars mentioned earlier, this little bruiser is no different but still, we would like to call it a great deal as it does offer some great specifications at a reasonable rate.
The looks of it are also chaste and pretty clean. The Exceed RC MadSpeed Gt3 won’t let you down whether it be any situation from casual driving to racing to drift head over heels. This remote control drift car is a complete bundle of performance and looks.
Some of the features of this RC car are:
Now, coming to the pros and cons of the Exceed RC MadSpeed Electric Powered Drift Car Gt3:
Best Remote Controlled Drift Car – Buyers Guide
The foremost thing would be, identifying the size of a remote control car you need. Whether it should be a micro or mini or large sized car, whether it should be a sports car, a buggy or a giant monster truck.
Now, attention should be paid towards the performance of the remote control car. Does the car run fast enough to satisfy the speed madness?
How well can you handle the remote control car? How are the suspensions? Can it withstand any collisions or accidents? How is the build quality? How is the battery life? Can the remote control car run on all types of terrains?
All these questions should be kept in mind. We do know that the remote control car manufacturers cannot meet all the conditions but at least all the requirements should be kept balanced and proper attention should be paid on all the aspects of the features of the remote control car.
Our Top Recommendation
Redcat Racing EPX drift car is certainly the best choice when it comes to choosing the top rated RC drift car.
The vivid polycarbonate body is very strong and protects the car from usual crashes and collisions. The 2.4 GHz radio helps you to control the car from a long range of distance.
The above recommendation is keeping in mind that you would want to buy a product that works well for atleast 2-3 years. Redcat is a known name in the RC segment.
Here is a quick review for your better understanding:
Redcat Racing EPX RC Drift Car Review
Product Name: Redcat Racing EPX Drift Car
Product Description: The Redcat Racing EPX is an outstanding drift car for beginners. It is powered by a 19T RC550 brushed motor with 40A brushed waterproof ESC. Since it is a 4WD, if offers great control while drifting. the lightweight chassis offers better recovery from those uncertain turns.
- Build Quality
- Battery Efficiency
We hope that this article helped you in clearing some of your doubts and confusion for choosing the best RC drift car.
Do share your views in the comments section below.
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Therése Bolliger/Colette Whiten, Robert Flack/Christian Morrison, Oliver Girling/Roland Jean, Ian Carr-Harris/Patricia Homonyo, Richard Banks/Tom Dean, Janice Gurney/Kim Maltman
Curated by: Ihor Holubizky and Regan Morris
5 September 1991 - 5 October 1991
Opening Reception 5 September 1991 8pm
East and West Galleries:
Mercer Union a centre for contemporary art is pleased to present, Union Language, an exhibition of collaborative works by a select group of Toronto artists.
Union Language will include works by artists involved in contemporary design, architecture and visual art. Curator Ihor Holublzky and visual artist Regan Morris have collaborated in their invitations to artists who are producing work for the exhibition. The artists participating in Union Language are: Therése Bolliger/ Colette Whiten, Robert Flack/Chrlstian Morrison, Oliver Girling/Roland Jean, Ian Carr-Harris/Patricia Homonylo, Richard Banks/Tom Dean, Janice Gurney/Kim Maltman.
A panel discussing collaborative process is planned to accompany the exhibition. Union Language opens September 5th and runs to October 5th, 1991.
Extension Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1991
Calling themselves “enlightened entrepreneurs” who “initiate collaborative ventures rather than uncovering existing works under a defined curatorial agenda”, Ihor Holubizky and Regan Morris approached several artists with the mandate of choosing another artist with whom each could work. This opened-ended proposition spawned works by Therése Bolliger with Colette Whiten, Janice Gurney with Kim Maltman, Robert Flack with Christian Morrison, Ian Carr-Harris with Patricia Homonylo, Richard Banks with Tom Dean, and Oliver Girling with Roland Jean. The works in the exhibition utilize a variety of media and, aside from some superficial similarities, there appears to be very little which links one effort to the other, except that each pair of artists partidpated in a prccess of collaboration.
While the quality of the overall exhibition is uneven, it is important to keep in mind that these works are products of a collaborative process and that the success of each effort can be measured on one level by the extent to which each artist’s contribution is integrated in the final product. Taking this criterion into account, of the six groups of work in the exhibition, the pieces by Therese Bolliger with Colette Whiten, and Janice Gurney with Kim Maltman are the most successful.
Both Therése Bolliger and Colette Whiten have worked with sculpture. Recently Bolliger has been involved with drawing and Whiten has used the traditional media of needlework to depict political images. Their joint contribution to Union Language, which could best be described as a drawing/sculpture, is entitled, Blind Word Mute Vision. Their piece consists of three lengths of black wire mesh draped loosely, folded in two and suspended at the top by a shallow wooden shelf. The centre panel displays the text: “mute vision blind word mute vision b” and the mirror image of the same text is cross stitched directly underneath. The panel on the left has the words “blind word” cut from the top layer of the mesh and the panel on the right-side bears the words “mute vision” which have also been cut in the same manner. Not only do the words cast shadows on the walls directly behind them but the moire pattern which is produced by the layering of the wire mesh makes Blind Word Mute Vision a visually rich effort. Both artists interest in methods of expression were accommodated, making the collaboration between Therese Bolliger and Colette Whiten a good example of how two artists can work together to create a work which is just as powerful and thought-provoking as their own individual work.
Although their approach is very different, the same can be said about the piece by Janice Gurney and physicist and poet Kim Maltman entitled Harlow and the Technology of Love.
Their collaborative piece consists of several sets of information, including photographs that document behavioral experiments to do with mother and infant bonding using rhesus monkeys conducted by Harry and Margaret Harlow, juxtaposed with photographs of Jean Harlow, the Hollywood love goddess, a shelf with different types of glues and adhesives, a refrigerator cooling system, and a textual piece entitled The Affectional Systems, which is meant to be read like a poem. These groups of information interact to form a scathing commentary on the insidious ways that popular culture and science feed our negative stereotypes of women.
As a thesis for an exhibition, Union Language was a significant proposition because it flies in the face of a traditional stereotype of the artist struggling away in isolation. However, it is important for the viewer to be familiar with each artist’s production in order to fully appreciate the pieces in the exhibition. Also, if there were some documentation of collaborative process, the audience could be more aware of the process and the dialogue that transpired to make the work possible. This additional information would have enhanced an already provocative exhibition.
Innovative collaborations create new language.
By DEIRDRE HANNA
NOW, September 12-18 1991
Mercer Union launches its fall season with an exciting experiment in collaboration.
Loosely co-ordinated: by: artist Regan Morris and, curator -lhor Holubizky, Union Language pairs some of the hottest names on thc Toronto art scene to see what happens when two people who have never worked together before join forces to create a single work of art.
Painter Richard Banks joins installation artist Tom Dean in three large paintings, painters Oliver Girling and Roland Jean team up for two works and sculptors Thérèse Bolliger and Collette Whiten create sedate wall sculpture.
Janice Gurney, who has long dealt in appropriated images creates her first true collaboration with poet/physicist Kim Maltman, photographer Robert Flack joins graphic designer Christian Morrison and sculptor and teacher Ian Carr-Harris works with a former student, Patricia Homonylo.
Once the collaborative partnerships were established the curators nurtured the laboratory feel to the creative process, steering clear and letting the artists joint concepts gel.
“We didn’t want to see any of the works in progress.” explains Holubizky, “because we didn’t want to interfere. The”basic” selections we made were based on trust and respect”
The lineup alone makes for an impressive group show, but what makes Union Language especially intriguing is how the individual artists rose to the challenge of working within such artificial creative conditions.
Among the most powerful is Gurney and Maltman’s disturbing Harlow And The Technology Of Love. In it, screen love goddess Jean Harlow is juxtaposed with scientist Harry Harlow, who in the 60s worked with rhesus monkeys in a series of sadistic studies on maternal bonding.
Heartbreaking photos of infant monkeys clinging to dubiously comforting surrogate “mothers” join images of the actor in her shimmering beauty, including a publicity still taken with Harlow’s loving Christian Scientist mother who ultimately refused to take her dying daughter to hospital.
Scientific texts join poetry written for the installation. Sculptural elements include an assortment of glues with different bonding strengths, and a salvaged refrigerator pan that acts as a surrogate maternal unit .
All the pans neatly knit together to pose profound questions about faith and love.
Other highlights include Carr Harris and: Homonylo’s 1-(900) 999-6969, which probes issues of vulnerability and accountability. Carr-Harris has constructed an over-sized, beat-up kitchen counter which holds a magazine sporting a phone sex ad with the titular phone number.
Homonylo builds her critique into the work with a telephone and answering machine that turn viewers into voyeurs when periodic incoming calls force gallery visitors to overhear private messages in progress. The phone numbers of the people calling in are displayed on a state of-the-art phone that raises further questions about privacy in the face of technology.
Flack and Morrison also drawing gallery visitors into their work, by offering stacks of attractive, cheaply produced two colour posters in lieu of a precious original image. Each of four posters features a computer manipulated image of Morrison’s children engaged, in symbolic activities like the pagan marriage gesture’ of handfasting, embellished with figures like flowers that are rich with fertility and life.
In all but one case, the artists working together knew each other but had never previously collaborated. The exception Girling and Jean’s joint paintings go to show that fruitful projects can come from the pairing of strangers.
Jean’s raw, voodoo-inspired imagery joins with Girling’s solid, slick compositions in singularly coherent works. A lily held in a zombie’s teeth, for example, invests the work with a poignant humour. While neither painter individually works on wood, for this project they used a plywood surface, drawing out the wood grain as a central part of the imagery.
As Morris observes, “In coming together they did something completely unfamiliar, and which works really well.”
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In the past tense.
Penis? Nah, pen*was.*
Underrated comment, 💖😂
I pictured this with the Sayori/Drake meme. Such Meme!
I'm ded 💀 😅
Yess haha, hard agree. I’m so happy that someone already made the joke! 😂
Of course I’m also quite happy I can make the joke to begin with. 😊
Yeah me too, it's just there. Harmless, small and kinda adorable
Not to me. I plan to get rid of it at some point.
Well me too eventually, but for now I don't hate it
I'm glad. I try not to think about it myself, kind of ignore it and try to forget about its existence.
At the moment I’m using “the tenant”
My dysphoria noodle. And in the future I'll call it the lost relic
I don’t call it
As a millennial with lots of gen z friends, this made chortle.
omg i love it
I've always just referred to mine the same way guys refer to theirs, but I know a lot of women refer to theirs as a "strapless." Like a strap-on but without the straps.
i’ve also heard “built-in strapon”
I have a friend who wants to keep hers, she’s a lesbian and calls it the same thing 😂
i tend to say bits because i feel its more femme and prude/modest, good as practice for girly dysphoria too
My "massive throbbing girlcock" I figure if I'm going to be uncomfortable so is everyone else in the room
thisis the attude
this is so based i fucking died
Based and femme-pilled
Absolutely based lmfao
If I overexaggerate it's easier to dissociate from the concept that I too have a 9" trouser python.
I personally dislike a lot of terms people use like making it more feminine. Idk to me stuff like that causes more dysphoria?
If I have to refer to it, I'll usually refer to it by common slang. If I am talking about something like "yeah I like girls" and someone asks if I'd date a girl with a dick then ill say "yeah girl dick is rad!". But thats to the extent id go with something like that.
In reality, im okay with what people want to call it, but im careful for personal reasons
i've always just used 'junk'
extremely underrated and very funny, 10/10
also genuinely clever as a legit answer, strongly considering
If I still had mine, I think I’d call it “El Kabong”.
(this probably dates me, I can’t imagine there are many here who grew up on Quick Draw McGraw reruns)
Well I'm non-op at least at this point so all the usual feminizing ways to refer to my genitals are great. But my other fav is OEM package.
I enjoy calling it my clit, but I've also heard some girls say it's their Glock and I enjoy that as well.
omg, crying laughing
Packing one way or another lol
Clitongus Is pretty good too. I may have to use that at some point 🤣
I call it my birth defect
That's attitude. I like it.
lmao probably the best one
Yooooo B-B-B-🅱️ased and the best one sis, but still too long and it's not gonna be easy to use casually. Maybe I should your other term.┍つ( ^(Ó︿) ^(.Ò) )
I'm the opposite haha. I gender mine male and tell him he doesn't belong here and I'm planning on getting rid of him.
Or if I'm feeling less dysphoric it's my chick stick (stolen from someone else on reddit at some point)
omg some of these low-vote comments are absolute gems xD
Oh my god thank you
I don't refer to it. It won't be with me forever and I just find it disgusting. If someone assumes I have my AGAB genitals (surprisingly lots of trans people are fucking awful when it comes to genital etiquette) then I just deny it. In my mind it doesn't exist and is just a tumor that I must medicate and eventually remove.
If I need to refer to it then I will say "It" or "My genitals", sometimes "The thing" if I feel like that's a good descriptor. Usually I go with "Genitals" though, it makes it seem clinical.
There's no "good" way to refer to it besides penis nowadays, which really sucks.
I used to use Ladydick and Girldick but since the tide of people using it as a joke on trans women, I haven't felt comfortable with the term.
Any time I've used cis women's anatomy to refer to mine, such as clit, vag, or anything else, people get hella mad. **Especially** on any dating apps.
I don’t care what the transphobes do. It’s our word and they can’t have it.
Reclaim the girldick! It's ours dammit.
Well, you're stronger than I.
I try to think like that but the fact that it's been made into such a memeish joke in even progressive spaces makes me cringe when I use.
My girlfriend likes when I call it her kitten/kitty, her cute little bean, her cute little clitty, or any variation of that. She was referring to it with vague terms like "that thingy" or "that area" so I figured it could use some cute loving nicknames. Now she uses them to refer to own bits and says it helps her feel less negatively about it.
That's me eheh.....
I second that
Growth between my legs that ruined my life
Unfortunately, when I read it, a bad feeling run over my spine. Because I agree with you 100%.
I wish I could get rid of it with retroactive effects, but this it is not possible. Unfortunately.
Well, none ask me it. Sorry for disturb the thread.
Sorry I made you uncomfortable. <3
Don't worry. It's not your fault.
Thank you for your concern.
I try not to
Yeah, I don’t have a lot of conversations where it comes up. That’d be a weird day at the office. If my co-workers start talking about my parts then it’s time to update my résumé.
I just call it my parts. Honestly just holding out until I can call that area something better.
String bean? 😅
My Princess Parts
I particularly grin at "lady-dagger"
It's a clit, obviously.
Ive heard someone call her penis her "hen" and i think its fun and cute
Brings the phrase "Hen pecking" to a whole new level....
I usually just say my genitals. It’s a neutral term.
I call it the dysphoria sausage
The Problem, The Horror, The Thing, the neighbor downstairs, It. My wife on the other hand refer to it as my vag or clit or other similar things
The stick of shame, or dysphoria generator
My princess wand
Penis, but I love this idea of calling it a girl dick.
Like this is a girl's dick, because I am a girl and it is mine.
Therefore it is a feminine organ
I like it too. Just wish it wasn't overtaken as a joke by cis people.
It makes it kinda uncomfortable to see it used legitly when so many now use it as another way to make trans women seem delusional and fetishist. To the point where if I see it online, I know there's a 90% chance it's being used to mock us.
Side note: Wish mine was a feminine organ or at least that I could see it like that but it doesn't compute.
>so many now use it as another way to make trans women seem delusional and fetishist
Do they? If so, that's a bummer. I've never seen it around, but then again I try to steer clear of a lot of the online discourse.
Yup, and that's the reason you haven't seen it.
I used to try and troll bigots, which is virtually impossible to do since they tend to take a stance of, "Idgaf what someone on the internet says about me", and just ended up triggering myself by seeing this kind of stuff said.
Now it's spread to even LGB, minus the T, spaces like lesbian, gay, and queer subreddits.
You could try "death squid"
dead meat is funny lol, i haven’t heard of that one before
"that's the neat part, you don't!"
I don't refer to it.. it's a useless thing that shouldn't have existed lol
A gun in my pants
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 407,231,566 comments, and only 88,107 of them were in alphabetical order.
I'm just too powerful
I just refer to it as 'it' since I have no attachment to it but also no dysphoria from it either
My partner and i call it my clit. Pretty much treat it like a clit as well, using a Hitachi on it, which feels amazing btw
Oh damn I bet! Kinda want to try that now but those damn wands are so expensive from what I've seen.
You can get them pretty cheap on Amazon, like $30 Canadian. We have an official Hitachi, but want to get one of the ones from Amazon as a backup as well
Good to know! I'll have to look that up!
Here's one here Rechargeable Personal Massager Handheld - Cordless - 8 Powerful Speeds & 20 Vibration Patterns - Travel Bag Included - Great After Sport (Pink) https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07L9XJLFC/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_TQCPZKFR1B8X84S29004?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 hopefully i'm allowed to share links
I have just been using genitals where I have to, I like junk too though
Dysphoria-Con, bc that's all its good for apparantly
Penis is what I referred to mine as because that is the scientific term for it , penis is not gendered It is just the word for that organ
I like things like girldick and lady lance because they seem more accurate to me, but I am not entirely opposed other terms either. IDK.
It's my dick. I've had it called a "clit/clitty" and a "girldick". The second one is a bit funny depending on who said it and what the context was, but please fuckin' don't. Thanks.
Being trans, I know a decent bit about sex, gender, identity, etc.. With that being said, I also know some women have dicks. Simple as that. Therefore I don't have a problem just using normal words. Doing anything else seems strange to me.
EDIT: I should clarify that I don't have much bottom dysphoria and I'm not interested in any type of surgery involving my penis. Just wish the damn thing was a bit bigger.
Just a big ol clit
You mean day to day conversation? Dick or cock -no reason to confuse people by straying from the vernacular.
Outside of sex, I just say bits or parts usually. Inside of sex, I'm comfortable with cock because it feels _sexual_ more than gendered to me, no clue why.
That thing down there, then give a disgusting look.
Penis, and cock and stuff like that is fine. But I like clit, or lil princess more.
Just "the annoying thing"
"Princess parts". The word "penis" gives me dysphoria when referring to my own parts so I use a euphemism with my boyfriend.
Clit pickle or shmeat. But I don’t really get dysphoria from mine so I don’t plan on getting rid of it. 😂
I don’t refer to it
Dick, or girl dick. Or cock or girl cock.
My fiancee calls it my big clit lol, but I call it my fem cock since I don't have bottom dysphoria
Cock, dick, sometimes girldick or glock if I feel like being spicy. Idk to me I just don't see it as an inherently masculine organ so I just call it the same thing a cis person might.
Clit if I am feeling dysphoric. Otherwise I cycle between clit and girldick. Having contrapoints talk about the feminine penis has helped me not think of a dick as inherently masculine.
My clit or bits
Calendar... because its days are numbered!
gaslight, gatekeep, girlcock
One eye one horned flying purple people eater
Ghost dick, super soaker, leaner weiner, floppy bird, clit, girl dick.
Clit on a stick
I don't have one anymore, but the best thing I ever heard was "Lady Lance".
honestly i don't have a lot of dysphoria so usually it's just chick, but sometimes girlcock when i'm feeling ~*spicy*~
My little girl or little one since she’s always been a small one and hrt made her even smaller😅
Not what I use, I just call it _the thing_, but one of my transfem friends uses it and always makes me laugh
I don't any more, but back when I did I just called it "down there" or "my genitals" or something similarly vague.
I don't. It's something I try not to think about.
It's my boy :(
Hen. I picked it up from a trans subreddit years ago.
Skin tag, genetic defect, if I'm feeling humorous it's my clit on a stick.
Propeller, cock/penis, dongle, schlong/schlongle
Anything that produces a chortle.
I like the term "lady lance", but I mostly refer to it as "the thing down there".
I just call them my genitales
I usually just refer to it as a "tail", since I'm very mildly into this whole catgirl thing. But recently, I've stumbled upon "glock" (as in girl cock) and I think that works for me, too.
If on a man it's a cock, on a woman it's a hen.
My general stance is that "yep, it's a penis" -- I personally don't tend to have much bottom dysphoria (though I sometimes do wish I had a vagina), but I try to just detach all feelings of "male"ness from my dick. It's just a thing for me.
I don’t I desperately try to pretend it doesn’t exist
I like “organic strap”
I refer to it as my penis, I just generally don't mention it with anyone who I'm not sleeping with or intimately comfortable around.
I guess it's like, look, I have a dick. That's a fact that won't change any time soon. It caused me a lot of problems in my life, but now I am me and I am happy and I like myself and my body. My penis is part of me whether I like it or not, and it isn't really causing problems anymore. Sometimes I have to gaffe which is inconvenient, and sometimes I have to deal with people being shitty to me, but overall my penis is no longer a malign entity in my life.
Ignoring it or pretending it isn't there doesn't change anything. Also sometimes I call it Penelope, my ex came up with that name and I thought it was cute.
It, just it. I try to avoid bringing up the topic myself, and if I'm involved in an existing conversation involving it, then what I'm referring to is clear from context. I'm completely sex-repulsed due to its presence anyway because I hate the idea of another person encountering it, so it basically never comes up unless it's a post like this on a trans subreddit or some discussion about when I'm planning on getting fixed.
We call her Jessica
I've seen princess wand a bit
Girl dick, easy
Twig and berries.
There is no penis only Zuul.
I say I have part of a penis because my penis was circumcised.
My abnormally large clit, lmao
That gross thingy down there.
A stupid piece of garbage...
On that note, I can't wait to take out the trash...
I think you mean atrophy not entropy, and also I call mine a girldick or girlcock, same for my gf who's also trans and we both like the terms. I think a couple times I called it a clit but that just didn't sit right with me for whatever reason
I've joked with my partner that I have a delicate flower just like any other girl, mine just has an unusually large stamen
Dead gland walking
gock & galls.
Rod of Dysphoria
*Wondrous item, common*
This “wand” has 3 charges, which it regains after a long rest. You can expend a charge to overwhelm any intelligent creature within line of sight with horrible thoughts and feelings. They start to feel dissociated with their own body, and are filled with unbearable self-loathing, taking 1d4 psychic damage. The effect lasts for 1 hour.
The Thing or my shewee.
My clit, of course! I really like referring to it that way, tbh! It carries the connotations of being small and feminine, and that makes me feel a lot better about myself.
As rarely as possible.
I try my best not to think of it lol, but when I do, it’d be when I’m out with friends who don’t know I’m trans yet and I just call it anything 🤷🏼♀️
I call it a clit. Delusional? Maybe. Less dysphoric? At least for me it is.
Ever since I was young I just called all genitalia "privates". I am starting to realize this is another sign ...
Outside of sexual context: genitals.
Sexual context: I prefer not to refer to it but clit is the better option. I don't have too much trouble with calling it a dick or penis as long as I'm being treated as a woman and refer to as one.
I refer to it as my genitals, can’t bring myself to say the other words.
I've started using she/her pronouns for her, without any specific name behind it and it's actually been really helpful for my personal mental framing of her.
It helped me stop feeling like she was male thing attached to my body, and made me realise that she actually functions and likes to be treated very differently compared to a man's penis.
I refer to it as "***IT***" or the "dysphoria noodle"
In the future I simply won't refer to it because I'll have forgotten about it because I won't have it :)
I don't. I don't like talking about my privates to strangers if I can help it.
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Summary Report for:
15-2041.00 - Statisticians
Develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields such as biostatistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, or economic statistics. Includes mathematical and survey statisticians.
Sample of reported job titles: Demographer, Mathematical Statistician, Psychometric Consultant, Quantitative Methodologist, Research Scientist, Researcher, Statistical Analyst, Statistical Consultant, Statistical Reporting Analyst, Statistician
Also see: Biostatisticians
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- Work With Work Group or Team — 60% responded “Very important.”
- Contact With Others — 45% responded “Contact with others most of the time.”
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 70% responded “40 hours.”
- Time Pressure — 40% responded “Once a month or more but not every week.”
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 60% responded “Important results.”
- Level of Competition — 60% responded “Moderately competitive.”
- Letters and Memos — 53% responded “Once a month or more but not every week.”
|Title||Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed|
|Education||Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).|
|Related Experience||Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.|
|Job Training||Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.|
|Job Zone Examples||These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, neurologists, and veterinarians.|
|SVP Range||(8.0 and above)|
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- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
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- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
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- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Recognition — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2020)||$44.36 hourly, $92,270 annual|
|Employment (2020)||42,000 employees|
|Projected growth (2020-2030)||Much faster than average (15% or higher)|
|Projected job openings (2020-2030)||5,000|
|Top industries (2020)|
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The best results in paper cutting (as in anything else) begins with selection of the right equipment. This is especially true with the guillotine knife in a industrial paper cutting machine. An inferior quality paper cutter blade inaccurately ground with an incorrect bevel may not only result in a poor quality product being produced, but could increase costs and even damage a commercial paper cutter.
Selection of a paper cutter blade is critical. Always buy from a reputable manufacturer or supplier, one who is aware of the latest developments in paper cutter blade sharpening and has enough experience to provide your shop with support.
Blades for guillotine paper cutters are available in three major types. (While some manufactures have developed other variations of paper knives, they are beyond the scope of this article).
The difference in paper cutting knives is in the type of steel used in the inlays. While standard steel knives have been and will continue to be an acceptable type of knife, the popularity of high-speed steel knives have grown due to their improved performance, both in the quality of cut and increased life between grindings.
High-speed knives cost about twice as much as standard knives, but as they can last 2-3 times longer between sharpening. The additional cost can easily be offset by the reduction in knife change time and knife sharpening costs.
Carbide knives provide the best quality edge and last even longer than high speed steel knives, but they are the most expensive (often 3-4 times the cost of high-speed knives) and require special grinding equipment to sharpen (also 3-4 times the cost of sharpening high-speed knives).
They are also very susceptible to chipping and due to their high cost, are only recommended for operations that are consistently cutting the same type of material such as fine paper, where the chances of damage from material is minimal. Carbide knives should NEVER be used when cutting any type of recycled material.
Knife manufacturers vary only slightly in their recommendations for a standard bevel (24° to 25°). There are times when a different bevel or even a double bevel is advisable, depending on the material to be cut.
The following chart illustrates some of the different bevels and will serve as a guide for obtaining the correct bevel for a particular material. Knife suppliers and machine manufactures all have information available to assist in determining the correct bevel to use with hard-to–cut materials.
|Material to be cut||Paper Knife||a||b||h (mm)||Pressure||false clamp plate|
|Bible paper||HSS, HM, UFK*||24°||1500-2000||false clamp plate|
|Double waxed papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3200||**|
|Printing papers, regular||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500||false clamp plate|
|Duplex papers||HSS, UFK||24°||26°||2,0||3000-3500||**|
|Flimsy||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||3000-4000||false clamp plate|
|Label papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3500-4000||**|
|Felt-cardboard||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2000-2500||false clamp plate|
|Photographic papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500-3000||**|
|Gummed papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500-3500||**|
|Carbonizing papers||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||400||false clamp plate|
|Carbon papers||HSS, HM, UFK||22°||800-1000||**|
|Art papers||HSS, HM, UFK||23°||25°||3,5||3000-4000||**|
|Plastic fiber paper||HSS, UFK||26°||2500-3000|
|Blotting paper||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||2000-2500||**|
|Metallic papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3000-3500||**|
|Stencil duplicator paper||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||3000||false clamp plate|
|Writing papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500-3000|
|Tissue paper||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||2000||false clamp plate|
|Autocopying paper||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||800-1000||**|
|Transparent papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3000-3800||**|
|Velours papers||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||2500||**|
|* HSS = high-speed steel knives
HM = carbide-tipped knives (normal: 23/25°)
UFK = ultra-finest grain hard metal (normal 22/25°)
|** Compensation of differences in height is necessary|
Source: Polar-Mohr® “Cutting in Practice”
Download Polar Mohr's knife bevel guide showing in detail the recommended knife angle for every type of material to be cut, from paper and cardboard to plastics and packing materials.
After selecting a good quality knife, it is equally important that the knife be kept sharp at all times. A dull paper knife is an unnecessary waste, especially in a competitive market. It must push its way through the cutting material and when dull, requires up to three to four times more force than a sharp paper knife. A dull knife increases energy usage, wears the paper cutter prematurely and drives up other production costs due to inferior work.
A lift cut with a dull knife has a rough, burry, at times “sealed” edge. This can be quite expensive, as it creates separating problems in subsequent operations like feeding on a folder.
How do you know when your paper cutter knife needs sharpening? It’s the responsibility of the paper cutter operator to know when a paper knife change is necessary—so he or she must be able to recognize the signs of a dull knife.
A general reference is to change the blade:
Despite these guidelines. it may be necessary to change the blade if the knife appears dull.
Signs of a dull paper cutter knife include:
Any of these signs should indicate to the experienced paper cutter operator that a knife change is in order. Cutting coated stock, board or plastic material will dull a blade more rapidly than cutting standard uncoated stock and other fine paper. The more abrasive the nature of the material being cut, the faster a knife change becomes necessary.
Some job problems are related to inaccuracies in loading the paper or settings on the paper cutting machine. See our Commercial Paper Cutting Troubleshooting Guide.
Frequent knife grinding will materially lengthen the life of the knife, saving you money in the long run.
The magnified cross section of a paper blade in Figure 2 shows that only about 1/32” of the metal is removed in order to re-establish a keen cutting edge—as long as it’s done when sharpening first becomes dull.
If the paper knife is permitted to become extremely dull, which occurs at an accelerated rate once the sharp edge is worn off, a great deal more (up to ¼”) must often be removed to restore a keen edge.
If the paper knife becomes very dull, you can be charged for the additional time required to restore its edge. If you permit the paper cutter knife to become extremely dull, only a few sharpenings can be made before the knife becomes too short for further use. You are literally grinding your knife investment away.
The cost of changing knives can be seen in this light too:
Let’s assume a 45” paper cutter costs about $120.00 per hour to operate. It takes approximately 10 minutes to make a complete knife change cycle, so a knife change in this scenario would cost about $20.00. A 26” x 40” folder has an hourly cost of about the same as a paper cutter. Misfeeding the folder (resulting from “sealed” or burred edges caused by a dull knife) could cost more than a knife change.
Just one bad feeder jam-up, resulting from misfeeding or feeding doubles, could certainly take more time to clear up than the cost of a knife change and a number of small jam-ups will, of course, have the same result. If you are cutting paper to feed a press, this situation becomes even more costly.
Any way you figure, it pays to keep a sharp blade in your paper cutter.
The procedure for changing knives will vary depending on the make and model of the cutting machine. But no matter the cutter, the majority of operator accidents happen during the knife-changing operation. It’s extremely important that each operator develops good safety habits, follows the manufacture's procedures and be provided with a safe machine.
The knife on a 45” paper cutter weighs about forty pounds. If it slips and catches a hand or a finger between it and the table, no imagination is needed to figure out what will happen.
Modern paper cutters have safety devices built into them to reduce this danger. Even so, carelessness will negate even the best safety devices.
Following these blade sharpening safety recommendations should reduce the risk of accidents, regardless of the age and make of the paper cutting machine:
Remember, keep handling of the unprotected knife to a minimum. By insisting that your operators follow the correct procedures in caring for your paper cutter blades, you will minimize danger to the operator, save time and money and increase the quality of your work.
See our guide to Commercial Paper Cutter Safety: Standards and Accident Prevention for more safety tips.
No matter your level of experience with paper knives, reaching out to a pro can help. Contact us with any of your knife grinding or handling questions and we’ll get you in touch with the experts at Tri-State Knife Grinding. They’ve spent 65 years perfecting paper knife sharpening and use state-of-the-art sharpening and honing machines operated by only the most experienced knife grinders. It’s how they deliver the highest quality precision grinding and professional services every time.
Ask about sharpening services or purchasing paper knives, slitters, sheeter blades, trimmers, cutting sticks, saw blades and paper drills.
If you permit the paper cutter blade to become extremely dull, only a few sharpenings can be made before the knife becomes too short for further use.
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Tackle Guide: Best Spinning Reels for 2021
First off a warning, I’ve included a lot of fishing reels information on this single page. I highly recommend you review the Table of Contents below to ensure you find what you’re looking for. This post isn’t just about the best spinning reel and reviews, its about what components to look for in a great spinning reel, when, where and how to use a spinning reel, and a ton more information on all things pertaining to fishing reels. OK then onto the rest of the introduction…
The spinning reel is the most popular fishing reel for anglers and for good reason as they are easy to use and they catch fish! In my opinion, a good spinning reel & rod combo is mandatory for anglers of any level. With hundreds of spinning reel options out there it can be challenging to know what to look for in a quality reel. This guide points out the 6 best spinning reels for the money. Additionally, I’ve included sections on the advantages of a spinning reel and what makes a great spinning reel by looking at the specific components and comparing them. I hope you find this guide helpful!
The Best Spinning Reels for the Money
Advantages of the Spinning Reel for Fishing
One of my favorite advantages of the spinning reel is how easy they are to cast. The spinning reel spool hangs below the rod and feeds fishing line out by the weight of the lure or tackle that’s tied on. The position of the spool allows the line to come off the spool very easily/quickly to avoid backlashes. Backlashes are line tangles that can quickly occur when line is coming off the spool, and are often the bane of my existence when they happen when the bite is on.
Spinning reels are also extremely versatile as they can cast several types of lures, bait or tackle. I use spinning reels for all types of fishing from casting big heavy lures off the beach to finesse fishing rubber baits (e.g. Senkos) on lakes and ponds. I’ll even take my spinning reel & rod setup to the river for the precise casting ability when using spoons or spinners.
Another reason why spinning reels are so versatile is the model sizes. Each spinning reel will often have several different models, which is basically the size of the reel and spool. There can be more construction improvements for larger models, but for the most part it’s the size of the reel that’s changing to accommodate the type of fishing you’re doing. Each manufacturer rates their reel model’s numbers differently so there are no fixed values, but for the most part a lower number usually means a smaller reel, and a larger number means larger reel. To better articulate this, here’s a simplified chart of model numbers, average line weights and fishing applications.
There are several components to look at in a quality spinning reel. Manufacturers will often come up with a variety of terminology/fancy words for their own components, but most of it is marketing. This guide eliminates the brand name fluff and focuses on the key features when buying a quality spinning reel.
The gear ratio represents the number of times the bail spins for each full crank of the reel handle. An average ratio would be around 5:1, again meaning the bail spins 5 times to each crank. Typically, 4:1 would be considered slow, 5:1 would be average/medium and anything equal or above 6:1 would be fast.
The higher the gear ratio the better. This higher ratio enables for a quicker retrieval; which gets fish into the boat quicker, reduces physical fatigue on your wrist/arms, and can allow more speed options/actions for your lure/tackle when retrieving.
The drag system allows the reel to release line when the fish is pulling/fighting. If the line is too tight and there is no give on the line, the fish may break the fishing line or tear the hook out of the fish’s mouth. The drag system is managed by several large washers within the reel. The washers work much like a vehicle brake pad system, and each reel manufacturer offers unique ways for producing friction (aka. drag pressure) on their dray system.
The drag system specifications to look at are the number and quality of the washers used in the reel. The more washers there are the better the drag system. Additionally, washers should be made of carbon fiber or stainless steel. The worst thing you can have is a regular steel washer that will eventually rust and fail.
Lastly, manufacturers don’t post the washer very readily but instead translate this system into a max drag weight/range (in lbs). This is an estimate on the number of pounds the reel can handle. In my experience, this number is subjective to many other components in your tackle setup and how you fish the fish, so certainly don’t get too bogged down with this max drag number on your reel.
The ball bearings are important in helping the spool and handles spin efficiently. These bearings should be made of stainless steel to ensure there is no rusting. There is correlation between the number of bearings and the smoothness of the reel. Reels should have at least four ball bearings; my reel recommendations have between six to ten. A reel with few or poor ball bearings will feel very cheap when you’re reeling it in, and to me takes away from the enjoyment of line retrieval.
Although weight itself does not necessarily dictate a quality reel. It is something that should not be overlooked by anglers. Think about holding and casting a heavy reel all day. The weight can add to your wrist/arms fatigue. More importantly a light reel makes for easier and enjoyable casting. That said, look for the best quality components paired with a lower weight.
Body / Structure
Most reel bodies are made from plastic, aluminum or graphite. Graphite may be lighter material but you lose a little strength when compared with aluminum. Plastic is both heavy and unreliable for strength and I would not recommend a reel with a plastic body. You’ll need to decide whether weight or strength is more important. Additionally, if you’re fishing in saltwater you’ll likely want to invest in a graphite body as it will not corrode like aluminum & plastic. To summarize, if you’re doing freshwater fishing a nice balance between both weight and strength is ideal and that’s exactly what I’ve considered with my reel recommendations in this guide.
Spool Size / Line Capacity
A larger spool enables more line or a larger line capacity. Spool size does not dictate the quality of a reel. However, it’s important to consider when pairing the right spool size with the type of fishing you’re doing.
What Size of Spinning Reel should I get?
This question is answered by the type of fishing you’re looking to do. Important questions to consider could be:
- What species are you targeting?
- How big (weight) can the species get?
- Are you fishing in saltwater or freshwater?
- Are you fishing moving water or still water (rivers vs. lakes vs. tidal, etc.)?
- And on and on…
Let’s keep it simple and focus on fish size in relation to the reel line capacity/rating.
So what size of fish are you catching or targeting? Are they 2-8 lb bass? Perhaps 1-4 lb Trout? 15 lb Salmon? 50 lb Tuna? You get the idea. Having a general idea on the weight/size of the fish you’re catching will help you choose a fishing reel as the fish weight should align with the line capacity/rating on the reel. To clarify, let’s look at a fishing line capacity example.
What is the Line Capacity/Rating?
Written on each fishing reel there should be a mono line capacity in the format: #Test / yd. This is the strength of the line weight in pounds by the number of yards that can be put onto the spool. For example, you may see a line capacity that looks like this: 6/230, 8/170, 10/140. This means the reel can spool 230 yards of 6# mono, 170 yards of 8# mono or 140 yards of 10# mono.
In addition to the mono line rating you’ll see many reels also include the braid line rating as well. Braided line has a much smaller diameter and stronger lbs rating. The braid capacity on our example above may look like this: 10/200, 20/140, 40/105. Again, 200 yards of 10# braid, etc.
When you’re looking at fishing reels, there are often different models (sizes) which each will have their own line capacities because of their size differences. Make sure you’re finding a model that has the correct line capacity that aligns with the size of fish you’ll typically be catching. Clear as mud? Great.
Model Sizes to Line Weight and Fishing Applications
|Model Size (common numbers)||Mono Line Weight (lbs)||Braid Line Weight (lbs)||Water Types / Applications||Example Target Fish Species|
|Small (1000/10 to 3500/35)||2-6||4-10||Fishing in ponds, lakes, slower moving water /rivers, bays, harbours etc.||Pan fish, small/medium Bass, Trout, Bream, Whiting, etc.|
|Medium (4000/40 to 5500/55)||8-12||8-14||Fishing in lakes, rivers, bays, harbours, light offshore boat fishing etc.||Large bass, Trout, Walleye, small/medium Salmon, Carp, Bluefish, Snapper, Bone fish, Morwong, Cod, etc.|
|Large (6000/60 to 8500/85)||10-25||12-30||Fishing in rivers, boat fishing, beach or rock fishing.||Salmon, Steelhead, Musky, Carp, Snapper, Morwong, Tailor, Cod, etc.|
|Very Large 10,000/100 30,000)||25+||30+||Fishing in big rivers, boat fishing, beach or rock fishing.||Sturgeon, Tuna, Sharks, GT, Kingfish, Halibut, Marlin, Mahi Mahi, Sailfish, etc.|
Note: This is only a guide for widespread application to help outline reel models. Hopefully, you get the general idea.
6 Best Spinning Reel Reviews
Each of these recommend reels are quality reels which will get the job done in many fishing scenarios. I’ve chosen these reels based on the key features detailed above in parallel with price. Essentially, “the best bang for your buck” as they say. For this guide I’ve included a wide range of price points, the cheaper end starts around $50 and the highest around $225.
I really like that the Battle II has eight different models. These models/sizes will cover a vast amount of fishing applications. If you’re uncertain on the what model to choose for your type of fishing be sure to check out the chart above: Model Sizes to Line Weight and Fishing Applications.
This reel has larger line capacity than other reels in this class. I did a comparison of line capacity between a number of spools of the same model and the Battle II was able to hold 15%-18% more line. This additional line capacity is helpful for those long fish runs or putting on additional backing.
The Superline Spool are replacement spools that have a rubber gasket to ensure the line/braid does not slip. These additional spools are helpful when you want to swap between several types of fishing lines (monofilament to braid).
The Battle II is certainly in the same class as the Supreme XT and aligns in quality in many ways with a few trade offs. A few differences are a little heavier, fewer ball bearings (smoothness of reeling) but is built to sustain some serious punishment!
- Approved for use in saltwater
- Strong structure with metal body, sideplate & rotor
- HT-100™ carbon fiber drag washers
- Line Capacity Rings
- Superline Spool
Another standout feature is this reel’s fast line retrieval. It picks up line quicker than most of the reels in its class. This is important feature when a fish is swimming toward you and you need to “catch up” to keep that line tight!
Lastly, Okuma has used quality materials in the right places, with the body and rotor both made of graphite and the bail is made of stainless steel bail wire, all of which is corrosion-resistant and important for fresh and saltwater usage.
- On/Off auto trip bait feeding system
- Corrosion-resistant body, rotor & bail
- Approved for use in saltwater
- Fast line retrieval
- 6 available Models
The body and rotor are made from lightweight magnesium so you can fish this reel all day with no wrist/arm fatigue. The Supreme XT lightweight feature is above most reels in its class.
With 10 ball bearings, it gives a smooth reeling action like concept / higher end spinning reels on the market. It has a mid to fast gear ratio (dependent on model) which will ensure there is no problems with line retrieval.
The only minor downside for me is the lack of model sizes available (there are four). The four models are designed for pan to middle sized fish and is not intended for larger fish (aka. greater than 15 lbs).
High performance without the high price point makes this an essential reel for most fishing arsenals.
- Approved for use in saltwater
- 10 Stainless Steel Bearings
- Extremely Lightweight at 6 – 8.7 ounces
It has four models that are geared for small to medium sized fish with a little better drag system than its brother reel Supreme XT. The Carbon Matrix™ hybrid drag system provides a stronger and reliable drag when compared to other reels in its class.
The biggest reason why the Revo SX is rated slightly below the others is price point. Even though is dollar amount difference isn’t large, it all adds up in my review! Regardless, if you’re an Abu guy, this reel will not disappoint.
- Carbon Matrix™ hybrid drag system
- Lightweight graphite rotor
- 9 stainless steel ball bearings
I would recommend the smaller models of this reel for the finesse fisherman. The guy who wants to feel the lightest sensitives of their baits/lures. Additionally, the smaller models of the Stradic Ci4 have a higher line retrieval than the other comparable reels in its class. This quality reel will not let you down for those very targeted applications.
I am a massive Shimano fan, they manufacturer reliable reels. The big reason why this quality reel is #5 is only the price point. The specs on this reel are better or as good as any reel on this guide, the fishermen that are using this reel extensively will appreciate it most. For the beginner/average fisherman the price point doesn’t line up for me.
- Ultralight weight
- Magnumlite Rotor
- 8 available Models
The President is lightweight with a medium gear ratio. The reel’s largest model has a drag rating of 12 lb, so this reel is meant for small to medium sized fish.
If nothing else, I would recommend this as a backup reel in my tackle arsenal. When looking at all the features like gear ratio, drag, ball bearings, weight, etc. the President gets a medium to high rating across the board. And for the price point its a smoking deal! Pflueger’s parent company Pure Fishing must be doing something right as they continue to put out quality reels for a great price!
- Smooth Reel with 10 ball bearings
- Graphite Body & Rotor
- Price point
- 5 available Models
Reels Features Comparison Chart
Here’s a quick summary of the recommend spinning reels by features and specifications. The numbered ranges represent the small – large models details.
|Spinning Reel||Gear Ratio||Ball Bearings||Drag Range (lbs)||Weight (ounces)||Line Retrieve
(inches / crank)
|Body / Structure||# of Models|
|Pflueger Supreme XT||5.2:1 – 6.2:1||10||8 – 14||6 – 8.7||22.8 – 38.6||Magnesium body/rotor & Aluminum spool||4|
|Penn Battle II & III||5.2:1 – 6.2:1||6||9 – 30||8.1 – 30||22 – 44||Full Metal body||8|
|Okuma Avenger ABF||4.5:1 – 5.0:1||6+1||8 – 33||8.9 – 22.9||25 – 40||Graphite body|
|Abu Garcia Revo SX||6.2:1||8+1||10 – 17||7.2 – 9.2||30 – 40||Stainless Steel Shaft, spool is Aluminum & Graphite Rotor||4|
|Shimano Stradic Ci4||4.8:1 – 6.2:1||6+1||6 – 24||6.4 – 8||26 – 35||Magnum lite Rotor||8|
|Pflueger President||5.2:1||7 – 10||6 – 12||5.9 – 10.9||20.7 – 30.2||Graphite body & rotor and Aluminum bail / handle||5|
Conclusion on Spinning Reels
With a countless species, fishing scenarios, bodies of water, you fill in the blank, it maybe a bit challenging to find a quality spinning reel. When you clear out the fancy manufacturer’s terms and focus on the key features detailed in this guide the choices become a little simpler. I hope this guide has been helpful you identify some key features to look at in a spinning reel, but also in choosing a spinning reel.
Lastly, I’m continually testing and researching new reels to keep this guide up to date. If you have any of these spinning reels or have tried others that you’d recommend I’d love to hear from you. What is your best spinning reel? Please leave a comment and let me know! Tight Lines! Jesse | <urn:uuid:119e6193-afc8-4464-bdd7-5d2f8b6d85aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.bcfishingjournal.com/reels/best-spinning-reel-for-the-money/ | 2022-01-24T16:45:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304572.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124155118-20220124185118-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.911964 | 3,973 |
Monday, 30 January 2006
IN ENGLAND an edict has gone out to shoot them by the hundred thousand.Yeah! That'll show 'em.
And the result:
Reds have gone from England except in a handful of redoubtsIt must be the Cameron effect.
But no such luck for us:
...in Scotland, where about 75 per cent of Britain's surviving 160,000 reds are thought to liveAye, Princes Street is fair hoaching with Guardian readers.
Apparently we saw:
the first appearance of reds in Britain about 10,000 years agoWhere was Adam Smith when we needed him?
But now it gets confusing:
The red hordes of the late 1800s were proof that nothing is certain in nature, because the species had been in serious danger of disappearing at the end of the 18th centuryHaven't they got their centuries a bit mixed up? I suppose the Scotsman writers are still hung over.
But this is surely correct:
Reds recovered and spread ... becoming a pest by the start of 20th centuryHere's some surprising news:
Although reds ... are found across Europe and Asia, they are threatened only in Britain and to a small extent, so far, in ItalyI knew that Berlusconi was a sound chap.
But we're still going to see plenty of them in their natural Scottish habitat:
There is a good chance of maintaining reds in Scotland by co-operationAnd:
What we hope to do is get through the next few difficult years - there's no risk of reds becoming extinct, but they are under serious pressureNeedless to say, the politicians are on to this:
A Scottish Executive spokeswoman said: The key objective is to maintain areas where reds thrive and extend them if possible. Long-term habitat provision is the most successful route we can takeSo no threat to Drumchapel or Pilton then.
This is probably all for the good:
the Executive should be doing more sooner to preserve reds. But she says a gradual approach will work.Gradualism: it's the British way.
The full story is reported here.
Sunday, 29 January 2006
Stuart Randall appalled by Scottish Leadership and posturing on tolls
Councillor Stuart Randall has resigned from the Conservative candidates’ list and so will not stand in 2007 for any level of Government. He considers his Council and Parliamentary careers at an end, but will serve out his current term of office on Fife Council, where he is Conservative Group Leader. He will stand down as Treasurer of the Scottish Conservative Councillors’ Association at the forthcoming AGM, where he will present the accounts for last year.
Cllr Randall stood against Gordon Brown in 2001 (Dunfermline East) and 2005 (Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath) and also fought his local Dunfermline East seat against Helen Eadie in 2003. He is the elected member for Dalgety Bay East and the only Tory councillor in west Fife. Before he was elected in 1999, there were no Conservatives on Fife Council at all.
Cllr Randall has announced his retirement from front line politics in order that he can speak freely regarding what he sees as his party’s poor management and a “policy vacuum”. In particular, he wishes to stand up for the interests of his constituents over Forth Road Bridge tolls and the need for a second road bridge.
In November, Cllr Randall’s status was renewed as an approved parliamentary candidate with authority to run for by-elections and key seats. However, Cllr Randall was kept off the Dunfermline & West Fife by-election shortlist, for which he was the local front runner, in order to promote a previously inactive female candidate from outside west Fife. Cllr Randall believes moves are also now afoot within the party to skew the Holyrood regional ranking arrangements. This will unjustly favour certain candidates and he wishes to stand up for the hardworking activists who will be disadvantaged by such a step.
Cllr Randall says:
“To many outsiders it may seem as if this decision has come suddenly out of the blue. But to anyone who has followed Scottish politics over the last couple of years, they will know that my frustration and disenchantment with the Scottish leadership has been growing inexorably over a long period of time. I have tried very hard behind the scenes to get the party to wake up and reform without success. The party has been taken over by an incompetent clique, who can’t see past the next headline, and there seems to be no way for the grassroots to regain control. Decision after decision has been botched and wherever one scratches the surface, the whole edifice of the party is crumbling, yet no-one seems to really care. Image is everything. There is a vacuum at the heart of Scottish Conservative policy and nobody seems to be responsible for where the party is heading. We need a strategy and we need it urgently, for if we don’t know where we are going, how do we know which is the right direction?
“The final straw came last week when the party announced its stance on the future of the Forth Road Bridge and the tolling regime. My ward is just a couple of miles from the north end of the bridge, so it affects my constituents greatly. It’s also the biggest issue affecting the whole of Fife at the moment, and yet I only found out about the new policy when I saw it in the local newspaper and a by-election flyer. And I’m the Leader of the Tory Group on Fife Council! Treating senior party activists in that way cannot be acceptable in any competent, democratic party. Local government is far too important for that.
“I was appalled to see Annabel Goldie, who has been selected for West Renfrewshire, posing on the Forth Road Bridge and singing the praises of tolling. This is not because I’m against tolls in principle, I’ve been very straight with people about that, it’s because I know she is simultaneously pushing for the abolition of the Erskine Bridge tolls back home. Why should my constituents be treated any differently from hers? Tolling can only be acceptable as a Scotland-wide strategy, as it is in England and Wales and I won’t stand by silently while my constituents are treated unfairly. What’s good enough for Skye and Erskine is good enough for Fife. It’s either tolls for every expensive long-span bridge or tolls for none.
“I have been pressing for a consistent right-of-centre policy on this matter for years, but it’s been like talking to a brick wall. No-one will take us seriously as a tax cutting party if we keep telling people that everything, including exorbitantly expensive bridges, can be provided and maintained by the Executive free at the point of use. Government should be concentrating on health, education and pensions not pretending it can provide 21st century infrastructure on time and on budget. The state sector has a terrible track record on infrastructure, precisely because this kind of seedy politics gets in the way. Just look at the gaps in our motorway network and see how long they’ve remained unresolved. No wonder no-one wants to manufacture in Scotland anymore. We pay high taxes, but still get poor transport links.
“The Conservative Party should be offering a distinct alternative to the spin and hypocrisy of the other parties, but unfortunately, we’ve been all over the place. Last May, Ted Brocklebank, who is in the party’s policy cabinet, stood up at Holyrood and called for all tolls to be abolished. He was shooting from the lip and had no proposal or budget to maintain the existing bridges, let alone replace them. He was simply making up policy on the hop for short-term populist reasons and it caused me a lot of trouble in my west Fife ward. People, understandably, thought he was pronouncing Conservative Party policy and that he was serious about this.
“Then, late last year, it was the turn of David Davidson, our Transport spokesman, no less. He stood up in Parliament and called for a new bridge with a freight railway line. He said nothing about how this would be paid for or whether motorists would end up paying through the nose for train passengers to cross the bridge for free. It was not in the Tory budget. Freight railway lines need a very stiff, heavy bridge and so add massively to the cost, but the Tory Transport spokesman didn’t seem to have considered this at all. There was no costing, consultation, or justification. If there had been he would have known that we have an under-used Forth Bridge and the whole point of the new Kincardine – Alloa rail link is to free up capacity on that.
“I’m pleased to say that both Ted’s and David’s proposals have now been dropped, but not before they caused huge embarrassment to the party. I don’t want to see the Conservatives pushing for expensive toys, like bullet trains, airport tunnels and tram tracks, in the way the spendthrift socialists do. Scotland needs a bit of common sense at Holyrood, not more of the same. Most MSPs behave like children in a sweet shop, presumably because they don’t have to go through the pain of raising the taxes they spend so liberally, but Tory MSPs should be different.
“It is ironic that, here I am standing down, when the idea of using private money and tolls to get new bridges built quickly is pretty much what I have been pushing for all along. But the chance to outflank the opposition with cast iron commitments to major Scotland-wide roads investment is now long gone. You cannot have a policy that gives the west of Scotland ‘free’ bridges at taxpayers’ expense and the east of Scotland endless increases in tolls. It looks like a short term patch up job, just to get the party through the by-election. If the policy had been finalised before the Skye bridge debacle, and if it had been applied consistently across Scotland, as I wanted, then we could have seized the moral high ground. But now it looks short term and shoddy. I don’t feel vindicated, I just feel sad.
“It’s also ironic that I am leaving front line politics at the very time when David Cameron, the UK leader, is pushing for my kind of politics south of the border. I was working in the council estates, promoting compassionate conservatism and advancing the cause of climate change long before David Cameron was even an MP.
“The poor judgement at the top of the Scottish party did not start recently. Twelve months ago we lost a disastrous general election, winning only one seat and with our share of the vote down to a measly 15%. And this despite the fact that the party made significant gains in both England and Wales. Of course, the party leadership spun this in public as some great success, as any politician would. The trouble is they have swallowed their own propaganda and have been feeding the same hopelessly complacent line to their troops, behind the scenes. It’s as if the party leadership stand in a closed circle with each patting the next person on the back.
“I have served the Scottish Conservatives, to the best of my ability, for almost eight years, in the front line. I’ve taken flak for just about everything and it’s been very difficult sticking at it through probably the darkest years in the party’s history. Others dropped out when times got hard, but I stuck at it, suspended my business and career, and made whatever personal sacrifices were necessary to keep the Tory torch burning in west Fife, a hard Labour area. I’ve never expected special treatment in return, but I certainly expected a fair crack at the whip, to be treated with integrity and to be consulted when serious decisions affect my patch.
“I’m not cancelling my membership or abandoning my ward, which I won under the Conservative flag. I still love the Scottish Conservative Party and the principles for which it stands. The problem is, I don’t recognise those principles among the current leadership.
“It’ll truly hurt to walk away next year and not take part in the campaigns. But I have no choice but to speak out, because I fear for the party’s future while they are in control.”
(UPDATE: Stuart Randall tells me that one of the main local papers has received lots of election material from the other parties but nothing from the Conservatives.)
Good news, I thought. Lots of Lanarkshire entrepreneurs generating affordable businesses. But hang on a moment: what's an "affordable" business? Is it one that you buy down at the Co-op? Are we talking of companies that can be purchased by people "in the community"? Sadly, no. Remember that Lanarkshire is the heartland of the "Labour Community", and that means money, money, money. Your money:
A final evaluation report of the Lanarkshire Enterprise Zone project suggests it cost much less in taxpayers’ cash per job created than any other similar project.Aha! The taxpayer. And how much less is this costing, you may ask?
The report showed that the cost per job of the net additional jobs created was £14,609, compared to £21,485 which is the UK average, according to the 1995 evaluation.But note that one reason for previous economic problems in Lanarkshire was this:
A high degree of reliance on an inward investment market which subsequently collapsed.Many, many, foreign-owned factories were given taxpayers' cash to come to Lanarkshire and other parts of Silicon Glen and now they're leaving for cheaper or more subsidised pastures. It's beginning to dawn on most of us that imported businesses built on subsidies don't last. So, tell me, why doesn't this logic apply to domestic businesses, even "affordable" ones? I think that it does. So instead of spending £14,609 a go to create jobs that probably won't last, why not simply make Lanarkshire a vast tax-and-regulation-free enterprise zone?
The figures mean that while taxpayers spend £5,160 on the average child's education annually, £1,700 is swallowed up by local government.Of course, as a good libertarian, I don't believe that the state (OK, the taxpayer) should be funding anyone's education, but one must wonder why so few politicians advocate education vouchers and the closure of government schools.
Actually, we don't need to wonder:
But Keir Bloomer, chief executive of Clackmananshire (sic) council, said: "It is not clear to me that devolving more money to schools, which traditionally have been the most conservative part of the education system, is going to get the change that we want. I would start by querying the assumption that we should be devolving more and more."That sums up things perfectly: It's not what parents want or children need that matters, it's what "we", in the political class, want. "Devolve" the money back to its rightful owners and we'll find out quickly enough what's wanted.
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Stuart Randall - leader of the Fife Tories and a councillor in nearby Dalgety Bay - is incandescent at having been left off the shortlist drawn up by the Scottish Tories, describing the procedure as "shabby" and "insulting the intelligence of the voters".Being leader of the Fife Conservatives isn't a glamorous job - it's not like being Tory leader in Kensington and Chelsea. Of the 78 councillors in Fife, two are Conservatives. Stuart Randall is the leader, and the other one isn't.
Thanks to his hard work over the years, Mr Randall was selected to fight the Westminster seat of Dunfermline East in the general election of 2001. His Labour opponent was a Mr Gordon Brown. In the 2005 election Mr Randall was selected to contest the new constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. Again, his target was Mr Brown.
Now it seems to me that the Tories should owe a bit of loyalty to the person whom they chose to fight two consecutive general elections against the man expected to be the next prime minister. One would have thought that Mr Randall would have been on the shortlist for Conservative candidate in the forthcoming by-election in Dunfermline. Indeed, one would have thought that Mr Randall would have had a very good chance of getting the nomination. But Stuart Randall was "far too old and middle-aged to fit the bill". (He was born in 1962.)
Local Tories aren't amused:
Many party members boycotted the selection meeting, as they were 'appalled' at the way things had been handled, the councillor added.My Tory sources tell me that the anger goes well beyond Fife. Why should folk work hard for a party just to be stabbed in the back? David Cameron may be the darling of the London media but he is in the process of pissing off his party's natural supporters. Drinkin the blude-reid wine will only get them so far.
'It's been a shabby arrangement. There were three prospective candidates speaking to an audience of five. I've spent almost all day answering Emails and phone calls from people appalled by what has happened.
…tea, which had become a household staple in the Britain of the eighteenth century, but attracted import duties averaging 119 percent.The plan:
He reduced the average duty to 25 percent.The outcome:
In time, the huge reduction in smuggling which followed would in any case bring an increase in revenue.Doesn't this sound rather like the Laffer Curve that I mentioned on Monday? Of course, I'm not one to welcome more money for the state - its income should be zero or pretty damned close - but if tax cutting were to result in the state getting a rising amount but a smaller share of our money one might think a Conservative party would be interested in such an outcome. But no, tax cutting's off the Tory agenda.
By the way, David Cameron may have come across the author of the words quoted above: his name is William Hague.
Monday, 23 January 2006
I must confess that I don't really know if Mr Cameron's endless Blairite pronouncements are really a clever con trick to be revealed as such when he becomes prime minister, but if I were a betting man I'd say no. Nevertheless, one would have thought that the Tories might just make the odd reference to the Laffer Curve or the debate on flat taxes. I don't imagine for a moment that the Conservative party is about to point out that all taxation is immoral, but one does despair when reading this:
... he was set to make plain that sorting out the public finances must take priority over reducing taxes.The public finances will never be "sorted" until there's a massive cut in expenditure.
Friday, 20 January 2006
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion any more. It's stuff. Why don't governments stop people from making crap?One sympathises - It's not as if Emma can afford a lot of "stuff":
In an article named What Stars are Really Worth, Entertainment Weekly (4/12/96) had this to say about Em:Appropriately, Emma's daughter has been given the decidedly unstuffy name of Gaia Romilly. How very Nu Conservative. But no, for the NuCons love the NHS and it seems that Gaia made her very first appearance on the distinctly private stage of the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in Blairite London NW8.
Emma Thompson (Makes art-house movies seem like fun)
Intangible Worth (on a scale of 0-25)= 18
Average Domestic Gross In Millions= 26
Average Foreign Gross In Millions= 44
Recent Salary/Asking Price= 3
Should Earn= 6.2
Social etiquette in London must be so confusing these days.
My favourite item was this:
One advertisement for the Inland Revenue had to be remade because Gordon Brown didn't like the dog: cost £20,000.
Ms Sturgeon also revealed that the working title of the SNP's manifesto for the 2007 Scottish parliament elections is "A Culture of Independence".Peter MacMahon rightly noted that there's a wee bit of a contradiction here: the SNP's activists are overwhelmingly anti-individualist.
The Nationalists would be arguing that their political aim of independence for Scotland is replicated in their policy approach. Their aspiration for Scottish independence would be matched by an aspiration for "personal and individual independence", Ms Sturgeon said.
Nicola Sturgeon responded a few days later and insisted that her party favours personal as well as national independence.
But her letter shows that the SNP just doesn't get it:
For example, we want to get rid of student loans and tuition fees so that young graduates do not start their working lives weighed down by debt.And that's an example of personal independence! No, it's dependence. Someone else, including non-graduates, will have to pay.
first-time buyers' grants to help young people get a foot on the housing ladderAnother subsidy from the taxpayer.
Next, she wants:
a small business charter to encourage and reward enterprise.Business doesn't need a politician's "charter"; it needs a politician's absence.
I'm afraid that the SNP has a very long way to go before it even begins to understand what personal independence really means.
Monday, 16 January 2006
The advert, publicising a hotline to report self-employed people who do not pay their taxes, depicts a plumber hiding under a kitchen sink.The FSB states that:
We find it particularly offensive that the implication is that all self-employed people do not pay their taxes."I share their anger, but wouldn't it be even better if the FSB were to point out that their tormentors don't pay any taxes themselves?
Even more astounding is this news in today's Scotsman:
Yesterday, the Swiss (sic) responded to the revelations by stressing that he remains "100 per cent committed" to England.Swiss? You could have fooled me: I never knew they were so raunchy.
Sunday, 15 January 2006
Saturday, 14 January 2006
THE number of staff employed by the public sector in Scotland has increased by 7,000 in the last year and now stands at 487,000.I'm sure that it's much the same down south.
Then I saw this heartening story in today's FT. Read the whole thing to see how an entrepreneur kept fighting even when faced with seemingly overwhelming odds:
It is a year since record flooding submerged the Cumbrian city of Carlisle, but the memory is still fresh for Paul Ashley, whose industrial door manufacturing business, Clark Door, was sunk under seven feet of polluted water.Would that ever growing army of public sector "workers" have coped? Mr Ashley did:
However, through a mixture of good local contacts, teamwork, business support and sheer determination, the company was able to get back to 80 per cent of its production capacity within six weeks without losing a single customer.And for anyone who is thinking along the lines of "exploiting" capitalist, consider this:
Clark Door employs 80 people, many of whom suffered personally with damage to their homes. But the swift action to rebuild the site meant that no one lost their jobs.Perhaps I'm too much of a pessimist. When people like Mr Ashley finally shrug, all of those public sector workers won't know what's hit them.
"I told those whose homes were flooded to sort that out first. If they had got their mind somewhere else, they were no use to me."
(Incidentally, if Scotland ever does become independent one must hope that Cumbria will choose to rejoin the Kingdom of Strathclyde.)
Friday, 13 January 2006
Surely only members can vote? Correct, only those who are members on January 26 will be able to vote. Membership is open, it costs a minimum of six pounds, so join and vote. For about 300,000 pounds the Tories can choose the new LibDem leader.Surely modern technology can enable us to clone Mr Gladstone?
But, don't worry:
Ministers said the rise reflected a strong economy...This isn't reassuring:
Although the private sector employs about three times as many people, public sector employment is growing at nearly twice the rate.Perhaps this may be a somewhat naive question, but haven't these people ever heard of Frederic Bastiat?
No, thought not.
May I recommend this quotation from the great man:
... you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."The problem isn't just the huge cost of this growing army of tax-consumers (that which is seen), but the opportunity cost of what the 9,000 could have produced in the real economy (that which is not seen).
First, some sites that I have added to the "Freedom" section of the Blogroll:
Then, a couple of aviation sites now linked to from the Blogroll under "And":
Finally, an addition to the "Whisky" section:
Tuesday, 10 January 2006
Sunday, 8 January 2006
For example, one proposition is this:
The fact that many people starve to death is unfortunate but unavoidable.I am meant to agree or disagree. But I don't accept the question! I believe that starvation is both unfortunate and avoidable. Simply introduce free markets and property rights.
Then, what about this:
We need stronger laws for protecting the environment.We do. But the laws required are the same as those needed to avoid starvation - free markets and property rights. Not probably what the quizmaster had in mind.
Then we get:
Employees should have the right to go on strike without the risk of being permanently replaced.Yes or No? It depends on what their contract says.
But here's my result:
| You are a |
You are best described as a:
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Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test
Saturday, 7 January 2006
Hong Kong 1 [1.28]Can there really be any doubt that economic freedom and the resulting material prosperity are best served by having a tradition of limited government, objective laws, recognition of property rights and a system of sound money? Unfortunately, most members of the political class in the Anglosphere don't uphold the values that need to be defended.
Singapore 2 [1.56]
Ireland 3 [1.58]
Luxembourg 4 [1.60]
United Kingdom 5 [1.74]
Iceland 5 [1.74]
Estonia 7 [1.75]
Denmark 8 [1.78]
United States 9 [1.84]
Australia 9 [1.84]
New Zealand 9 [1.84]
Canada 12 [1.85]
Wednesday, 4 January 2006
JAMIE Oliver is the biggest celebrity influence on Britain's middle classes, ahead of everyone from David Cameron to Sir Trevor McDonald, according to a new style guide.But then I read in my paper that:
David Cameron, an Old Etonian, is in second place for wooing middle England when he ousted David Davis to win the leadership of the Conservative Party.Come on now guys: the Scotsman shouldn't start an article about "Britain" and then suddenly be writing about "England". That's the kind of sloppiness that we associate with newspapers published in the hometown of Jamie and "Dave". Was the Scotsman sub-editor having his tea break?
Anyway, I'll let them off this time because I was even more outraged by the next bit:
And the millionaire anti-poverty campaigner Chris Martin, the lead singer of easy-listening rock band Coldplay, came third for bringing such issues to a wider audience.Let's get this straight: when I see the terms "millionaire" and "anti-poverty campaigner" used in the same sentence, I reach for my revolver unless absolutely convinced that the millionaire in question is campaigning against poverty by advocating more capitalism. Rarely is that the case.
Today we saw an extraordinary variation in visibility across the city. This morning I drove to Leith in clear weather but the fog rolled in a bit along the coast towards Portobello. Fort Kinnaird was clear, as was the city bypass until I reached the outer western suburbs. Around Edinburgh Park it was increasingly difficult to see. On the way back in to town visibility suddenly cleared about three miles out. Later on I took a bus to Princes Street where the Castle had disappeared. Thirty minutes afterwards I managed to take these two handheld shots using my Canon A80 compact. (Click to enlarge.) A tripod would have been most useful.
Tuesday, 3 January 2006
Mr Monteith says he wants to see a sales tax introduced to place the burden on those with income who spend the most, and create a competitive environment between councilsOf course, I believe that mass privatisation of local government is the way to go but, in the meantime, I think that a sales tax is preferable to the current set-up. Indeed, I would go so far as to suggest that we get rid of income tax and NI completely and collect all taxes as VAT with the pre and post tax prices being prominently displayed. | <urn:uuid:6d471344-5472-44ae-bf9d-ac0ae85f91f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://freedomandwhisky.blogspot.com/2006/01/ | 2022-01-29T11:17:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304883.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20220129092458-20220129122458-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.969947 | 6,246 |
Celebrating Christmas and the holidays in Washington DC? Don’t know what to do? This guide will help you find all the best Christmas events and things to do in Washington DC during the holiday.s
What better way to make the most of December than squeezing in some of those holiday vibes with the best Christmas events in Washington DC and Maryland.
Christmas Even in DC: DC City Center & Christmas Tree 2021
DC City Center has always done some sort of amazing ice sculpture or attraction at the City Center Park, but this year I have not seen them announce anything. Either way DC City Center also has a pretty amazing Christmas Tree that will be lit on November 27th at 6pm. Chistmas in Washington DC is definitely not complete without a stop at City Center!
Also, you can’t miss their annual Christmas decorations at Palmer Alley NW and the DC Center Square!
Location of Christmas Tree
The Park at City Center
1098 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005
Winter Igloo, Yurt, Lodge Dining Experiences in Washington DC
Because of the pandemic, Washington DC has exploded with a variety of winter and holiday-themed outdoor dining and drinking experiences. Think cute igloos, yurts, and lodges all to yourself and your 5 besties! These are some of my faves:
Winter Igloos at The Watergate Hotel 2021
The ultimate in luxury, The Watergate Hotel offers cozy winter-themed igloos for you and your posse to rent!
Have a hot drink and a bite too eat with 8 of your closest friends.
These winter igloos are heated and beautifully decorated for that winter wonderland feel.
Probably the most expensive activity on this list of Christmas events in DC, the igloos costs from $150 to $300 to rent with food and beverage minimums.
Food and Beverage minimum ranges from $50 to $75 per person, depending on time and size of your party. If you are looking for a unique winter activity and don’t mind the extra dollar signs, then this would be a truly epic experience.
Entrance inside The Christmas Village.
201 Waterfront Street · National Harbor, Maryland 20745 USA
Dates and Hours
Open from now through March 2021
Monday – Saturday
90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays
Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm
More information on booking: https://www.thewatergatehotel.com/the-next-whisky-bar/winter-igloos
The Watergate Hotel
2650 Virginia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037
Heated Igloos at the Four Seasons
The Four Seasons transforms the BOURBON STEAK patio into Bourbon and Bubbles for the winter season! Book a cute igloo and enjoy food and drinks from the BOURBON STEAK menu.
(Photo from Four Seasons)
Location: 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007
Make a reservation here: https://www.fourseasons.com/washington/dining/restaurants/bourbon_steak/
Yurt Dining Experience at Fiola in DC
Every wanted to go glamping but without the actual camping part? Well, now you can with a dining experience at Fiola!
Fiola has set up yurts in a forest of trees on their patio for a winter outdoor dining experience, Yurt Village. You can enjoy a selection of 5 courses for $150 per person with selections from their Harvest Menu!
Location: 601 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20004
Viking Village at Hook Hall
No announcements have been made for the Viking Village at Hook Hall yet for 2021. Benches covered in fur, fire pits, and woodland themed decor help you live out all your Viking fantasies at Hook Hall. You can book a Viking Hut or a Viking King’s Quarter, with prices ranging from $125 to $250.
Each themed hut includes a welcome bottle of champagne, sectional lounge seating, heaters, special food and drink menus, a table, and the option to keep the “doors” open or closed.
You can also book a Fire Pit for up to 6 people for $15.
Location: 3400 Georgia Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, 20010
More information and booking: https://www.hookhall.com/viking
City Center Fig & Olive and Del Frisco’s Holiday Greenhouse Dining
Both Fig & Olive and Del Frisco’s at the City Center are offering dining in a greenhouse! Cute little greenhouses sit outside the restaurants in the City Center courtyard. You cannot reserve these greenhouses online, you will have to call (202) 559-5004.
More information: https://www.citycenterdc.com/events/2021/11/al-fresco-holiday-dining/
Library of Congress Christmas Tree
The Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress has one of the most stunning interiors in all of Washington DC. During the holidays, the Library of Congress puts up a beautiful Christmas tree right in the center of the Jefferson Building.
Surrounded by tiled ceilings and archways, this Christmas tree is by far my favorite indoor tree that’s completely free to enjoy! Because of Covid the Library of Congress requires visitors to reserve free tickets before visiting: https://loc.usedirect.com/LOC/.
You can also apply for a free reading pass to actually read in their reading rooms. Definitely don’t miss some of the exhibits they have going on, such as the Rosa Parks Exhibit!
Washington DC Christmas Event: National Christmas Tree Washington DC 2021
The 2021 National Christmas Tree Lighting will take place December 5, 2021, but there’s no information on whether or not the NPS will allow the public to atttend.
DC Holiday Lights 2021
DC’s Main Streets and commercial corridors have joined together to bring you a spectacular holiday experience. Between November 19, 2021, and January 6, 2022, take a stroll down each of the participating corridors below to experience a dazzling array of lights and decorations.
As many of the districts, holiday attractions, and lights are closed this year, this is a nice way to get in the holiday spirit while shopping locally!
For details on where to see the lights: https://dcholidaylights.org/
ICE at Gaylord Resort & Convention Center 2021
2021 UPDATE: ICE is canceled this year and will return next year! But the Gaylord is still worth a visit during the holidays! They have a 56 ft Christmas Tree right on the harbor from November 14 through January 3. And their indoor decorations are usually really stunning as well!
How many Christmas events in DC can boast that they have TWO MILLION TONS of ice carved into colorful sculptures?
Pretty epic right?
ICE is the Gaylord Resort’s indoor wonderland, this year featuring the 1957 Dr. Seuss classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
This is an event the whole family will enjoy. The amazing ice sculptures were created by artisans flown in from Harbin, China. And did I mention there’s a slide completely made of ICE? How fun is that?
ICE at Gaylord is kept at a chilly 9 degrees Fahrenheit, but not to worry your ticket comes with a hooded calf-length parka to keep you nice and toasty. Remember to still dress warmly especially your feet and legs.
Definitely get your camera ready for ICE because it is an Instagrammers dream and such a fun event for Christmas in Washington DC! Remember to bring one of those lens wipes (like for your sunglasses) because your camera will fog up from the cold.
- Hand-carved scenes depicting the story of How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
- A self-guided, walk-through experience that lasts approximately 15-30 minutes. In total, you should plan to spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours for the entire ICE! experience.
- Four two-story tall ice slides
- A walk-through holiday attraction kept at a chilly 9°F
- 2 million pounds of colorful ice sculptures
- A separate area dedicated to the majestic Nativity in crystal-clear ice
- Hand-carved by 40 artisans from Harbin, China.
Dates for ICE at Gaylord Resort
November 15, 2019 – December 30, 2019
ICE at Gaylord Ticket Prices
From $25.00 Child/$33.00 Adult. More information on ticket pricing and calendar : https://tickets.gaylordnational.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=34
Glow Georgetown DC 2021
Update: Glow Georgetown has moved to a Spring/Summer 2021 showing, more info here: http://www.georgetownglowdc.com/
Georgetown has always been one of my favorite neighborhoods in Washington DC for the holiday season.
This historic feel and cute little allies make it perfect for a day of shopping and brunching. During the holidays this year, Georgetown is set a GLOW with magical light art installations throughout the neighborhood.
This is one of the most delightful Christmas events in DC because it is completely free and open to the public and perfect for the whole family. For a map of the exact locations of each installation go here:
Dates and Hours for Georgetown GLOW
DECEMBER 6 – JANUARY 5, 5-10 P.M. NIGHTLY
Washington DC Christmas Event: Light Yards 2021
Light Yards is one of the few glow events happening this year! It’s running from DEC 1, 2021 – JAN 1, 2022 — 6PM – 10PM.
This year the holiday installation will feature illuminated, 22 feet tall trees trimmed top to bottom in holiday decor and festooned lights that will cast The Yards’ Sun Deck with beautiful, colored patterns. The installation was designed by Australian artist studio Amigo & Amigo and will be crafted locally in Baltimore.
The Yards Park
355 Water Street Southeast, Washington, DC 20003
Dates and Hours
Nightly from 6:00-10:00 pm beginning on Friday, December 1, 2021 through January 1, 2022
Festival of Lights at Washington DC Mormon Temple
CANCELLED FOR 2021!
The Festival of Lights at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints aka the Mormon Temple to the locals and aka Disneyland if you grew up in this area, is a wonderful Christmas event that’s completely free!
The Mormon Temple definitely puts on a show during the holidays. The entire temple is dazzling in 400,000 sparkling lights. This year because of the pandemic it’s a drive-through event.
Definitely worth a visit since many of the holiday lights events in the DC area are canceled.
Washington DC Temple Visitors’ Center
9900 Stoneybrook Drive
Kensington, Maryland 20895
Dates & Time: December 11th through December 28th, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
More information on the driving route and parking: https://dctemplelights.churchofjesuschrist.org/
UPDATE: I went during the week it first opened on a weekday and it was not crowded at all. But apparently, there are huge lines every day now! I went again on a Monday and there were indeed lines! I would go early, as in getting there by 5:30 to 5:45 pm (we arrived around 5:45 pm and there was not yet a line of cars, but we did not do the drive-through, keep reading to see our secret tip for avoiding traffic). They will already have the lights on by this time. Also, avoid the weekend if you can!
Next, you can actually see the lights from the public and open sidewalk! That’s how we did it on Monday. We didn’t actually drive through, instead, we parked and walked over, thus avoiding the traffic and line all together! Plus we had a fun little photoshoot!
The trick is to park on the residential street right off of Stoneybrook Dr. If you are driving north on Stoneybrook take a right on Hill St and park, if you are heading south on Stoneybrook take a left on La Duke Dr and park. You can easily walk to the temple from both these streets and there was plenty of parking when we went on Monday.
Zoolights 2021 Christmas Lights at the National Zoo
CANCELLED FOR 2021!
The National Zoo glitters with Zoolights, an annual Christmas in DC tradition.
Of all the Christmas events in DC, Zoolights is probably the most kid-friendly. Zoolights is free to the public and quite the winter wonderland experience with 500,000 LED lights glittering through the zoo.
New attractions this year include Gingerbread Village, Reindeer Games Fun Zone, and an Interactive Light display. Take a fun ride on the National Zoo’s Choo Choo to get beautiful views of the displays or enjoy a spin on the carousel.
Though there is parking at the zoo for $25 per car, it is HARD to find a spot! I would recommend taking the Metro.
The National Zoo is on the Red Line and the stops for the zoo are Woodley Park-Zoo or Cleveland Park metro station, both are about the same 10-minute walk to the zoo.
Dates and Hours
Nov. 29 to Jan. 1 (except Dec. 24, 25 and 31) | Free Admission
3001 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Ice Skating at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden 2021
A list of Christmas events in DC would not be complete without some ice skating!
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden transforms into a stunning ice skating rink every year.
Come during the day for fun with the whole family or come at night for a romantic date night, either way, ice skating at the Sculpture Garden is a must-do for the holidays in Washington DC.
The ice rink does get quite crowded though so if you have young children be careful.
Skating sessions begin at the top of each hour and are sold in two 45 minute sessions. Skating fees for two 45-minute sessions (beginning on the hour):
$10 for adults and children age 13 and over
$9 for skaters age 60 and over, children 12 and under, and students with a valid school ID
If you happen to miss the beginning of the session, whittle the time away by checking out the surrounding art or grabbing a hot chocolate at the Pavilion Café.
The skate rental fee is $4; lockers are available for $0.50 ($5 deposit required).
Dates and Hours for the Ice Rink at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Friday, November 19, 2021–March 6, 2022 (weather permitting)
Sunday–Thursday, 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Friday– Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
Location of National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Constitution Ave NW & 7th Street, Washington, DC 20408
US Botanical Gardens Season’s Greetings Holiday Exhibit, Best Free Christmas Event in DC
2021 UPDATE: Instead of the holiday decorations indoors, festive adornments, winterberries, lights, and greenery will be placed in the Terrace Gardens and Bartholdi Park from Nov. 23, 2020, through Jan. 10, 2021. They’ve also brought back the annual train display but have moved it outdoors! No tickets are required.
Looking to escape the cold but still enjoy the holiday spirit?
Well, add the Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train display to your Christmas events in DC checklist because it’s spectacular.
This year they’ve recreated historic train station across the United States with plants. So take the journey across America without leaving the city.
And while it’s looking a bit bare outside beautiful holiday blooms will be on display inside including over 3,000 poinsettias.
Dates and Hours
Nov. 24, 2021, through Jan. 2, 2022, closed on Dec. 25.
The outdoor train display hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily between Nov. 24, 2021, and Jan. 2, 2022, closed on Christmas Day, Dec. 25.
100 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20001
Ice Skating at the Wharf
Ice skating at the Wharf is a relatively new activity in DC because the whole area was redeveloped in recent years.
The ice rink is over the water and would provide a beautiful sunset skating experience.
The start times are less rigid than at the Sculpture Garden so could offer a more relaxed experience. There are plenty of restaurants for dinner and drinks after your skate.
The Wharf Ice Rink is open every day from November 24, 2021 through late February, depending on weather conditions.
Dates and Hours
Special Extended Hours
Special Holiday Hours
November 21: Southwest Skate Rink Preview – Southwest DC residents skate for free from 12-8pm
December 23: 12pm-10pm
December 24: 12pm-7pm
December 25: 12pm-8pm
December 26-30: 12pm-10pm
December 31: 12pm-8pm
January 17: 12pm-5pm
Prices for Admission
Youth (12 & Under): $9
Skate Rental: $6
Group Rate (10 or more) includes skate rental: $14
Active military, seniors, first responders, and healthcare workers can receive a $2 discount on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Must show a valid ID.
MGM National Harbor Christmas Decorations
If you want a spectacular indoor display of Christmas decorations near Washington DC definitely check out the MGM Natioanl Harbor in Maryland.
Their atrium, which is just outside their theater has a beautiful display featuring a giant train, nutcracker, and even a snowman!
They have the hallway leading from the garage to the atrium decorated with pretty photo spots!
This casino resort is completely free to enter, though if there’s a show going on be prepared to wait in line for food, seating, and bathroom access.
One of the Best Things to Do for Christmas in DC is Enchant Christmas DC for 2021
The world’s largest Christmas light maze and market is going to be at National’s Stadium this holiday season for 2021.
Ice skate under twinkling lights, enjoy hot cocoa while wondering through life-sized light displays.
Honestly, I’m super excited to go to this for Christmas in Washington DC!! I think it will be the most photogenic of all the Christmas events in Washington DC this winter.
Enchant sells tickets based on time windows.
I would buy the earliest window possible because you get as much time as you want at Enchant in Washington DC and also it does tend to get colder the later it is. We got the 4:30 to 5:30pm tickets.
You can arrive after your ticket window but not before which is why I recommend getting earlier tickets. Enchant was not crowded at all, though we did go on a Sunday night after it had rained all day.
Actually the later it got the less crowded it was, probably because of the cold. It was such a beautiful experience! We even did ice skating. Watch my video of our experience below and subscribe!
Enchant Christmas DC Dates and Hours
- November 26 – January 2
More prices and tickets here: https://enchantchristmas.com/washington-dc
Christmas Tree Farm at Gaver Farm
There’s nothing quite like getting a real Christmas tree and cutting it yourself!
Gaver Farm has over 60 acres of beautiful Blue Spruce, Douglas Fir, Fraser Fir and Canaan Fir trees on their farm for you to cut your own.
Experience the magic of being surrounded by endless rows of Christmas trees and bringing one home to enjoy for your holidays!
Though this farm is not in DC it’s close enough at about 1 hour outside of DC in Mt. Airy Maryland.
Dates and Hours
November 27 – December TBD from 9 am – 5 pm daily
Christmas Tree Farm Location
5501 Detrick Road, Mount Airy, MD 21771
Blue Spruce ($75), Douglas Fir ($70), Fraser Fir ($70), Canaan Fir ($70) and White Pine ($55) includes free use of saws, tree carts, shaking, baling, and drilling.
More information at https://gaverfarm.com/christmas/christmas-trees/
Have Fun Cocktails at Christmas Bars Washington DC
Miracle on 7th Street Pop Up Bar has become number one on our Christmas in Washington DC checklist since the first one about 3 years ago. – Unfortunately, the original Miracle has closed, keep reading to see all the new Christmas bars in DC for 2021.
Brought to you by The Drink Company (responsible for the infamous Game of Thrones Bar and the magical Cherry Blossom Bar), Miracle on 7th is spot on every year in decorating this location into an epic Christmas explosion.
Between the boozy holiday beverages and exploding Christmas vibes, you may actually believe that Santa does exist. My favorite cocktails? Definitely Let the Muletide Roll and The Mortimer Duke because I like my drinks more on the refreshing side.
During the weekend (Thursday – Sunday) lines here are LONG so get there early or else you could be waiting a while out in the cold. Though during the week, the lines are much shorter so you could just walk right in.
If you are a DC local or visiting during the holidays, Miracle on 7th should definitely be on your winter bucket list.
Miracle on 7th is now family friendly too! Before 9pm those that are UNDER 21 can enter accompanied by a parent or gaurdian that’s 21 and over. They’ve also extended their hours to day time on Saturday and Sunday. I can’t wait to take my toddler here!
Death Punch Bar in Adams Morgan
Death Punch Bar in Adams Morgan has taken up this holiday DC tradition by opening Miracle and offers a fully immersive holiday experience upstairs!
They’ve partnered with “Miracle” which has bars all over the country. You will need to make a reservation because of the pandemic and they are for 90 minutes each.
The Christmas Bar at Death Punch in DC was cute, but definitely not as over the top as the original Miracle.
Their drinks are not as good either.
Honestly, I didn’t enjoy their holiday drinks that much and we pretty much sampled all of them even the shots!
The best drink was the one that came in a reindeer glass with a marshmallow on top!
The saving grace however was the FOOD!! We ordered all their skewers, the shio peppers, and even the mini yule log for dessert. Every single item was absolutely delicious!
The experience is running from 11/26/2021 to 12/31/2021
More information: https://www.deathpunchbar.com/miracle
Maxwell Park in Navy Yard
Maxwell Park in the Navy Yard has also opened up a Christmas-themed bar in Washington DC.
This DC Christmas Bar has partnered with the original designer of Miracle on 7th from the Drink Company, Salame Aspiazu to transform its bar into an over-the-top holiday explosion! No reservations are required for Maxwell Park, but I expect it to be packed.
You can also reserve a candy cane greenhouse for a more intimate holiday experience for groups of up to 6 with a $300 deposit that goes toward your food and drink.
Personally, I don’t think the greenhouses are worth it for the price.
Even though Maxwell Park is working with one of the designers from the original Miracle on 7th, the decor lacked the “Christmas threw up in here” factor. It is nicely decorated, but again having gone to Christmas Bar in DC from Drink Company this one does not live up to that standard. It’s still a cute bar and I would recommend it.
The Christmas drinks however here were terrible, worse than Death Punch Bar! One drink we had tasted like cough syrup, except worse than cough syrup. Again Drink Company had really nailed their cocktail recipes and neither Maxwell nor Death Punch has quite come up to par. I would stick to their wine selection here instead of the Christmas cocktails.
The food here however was pretty tasty we had the caviar and trout dip!
This Washington DC Christmas Bar runs from 11/26/2021 to 12/31/2021.
Urban Roast near DC City Center
Urban Roast, a cocktail, and coffee bar just 2 blocks from DC’s hip City Center has really stepped it up this year with their Christmas bar! Their decorations, food, and holiday cocktails will blow your mind with holiday cheer in DC!
The decorations and “Instagramble Spots” were definitely the best at Urban Roast! Even upon entering you have a little selfie station that’s absolutely adorable. Even their little restaurant next door Urban Eats has cute decorations up!
We sampled their artichoke dip and cheese plate, both perfectly delicious and sharable.
Now let’s talk about those holiday drinks, every single drink we had at Urban Roast’s Christmas bar was good!
If you like a tart drink, their hot toddy will warm you right up.
Their holiday shooters were not only adorable but equally delectable.
I’ve got a soft spot for margaritas so their Holly Jolly ‘Rita, a holiday-inspired margarita definitely hit home for me!
For seating, you need to make a reservation. They also have outdoor reservations available that come with firepits where you can roast marshmallows and make smores!
I highly recommend indoor seating though for all the holiday vibes!
Location: 916 G Street Northwest, Suite C-2, Washington, DC 20001
The Willard InterContinental for Christmas in Washington DC
The Willard InterContinental is a hotel that outdoes itself every year with the Christmas décor.
If you are looking to get into the holiday spirit a stop here to check out their Christmas decorations is a must.
And if you want to really take it all in, stop for their Holiday Afternoon Tea at Peacock Alley.
Holiday afternoon tea at the Willard is spectacular. They have a delightful selection of holiday-themed teas and treats. I absolutely loved their scones.
Afternoon Tea at the Willard is child friendly and our daughter enjoyed it. The Willard gave her the option of having tea or hot chocolate. Of course she chose hot chocolate!
Holiday tea is served in December from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., excluding December 24, 25 and 31st. Reservations are required.
Location of The Willard
1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004
Wunder Garten DC Winterfest
Wunder Garten is a cute little beer garden in DC hosting a Winter Festival. This Christmas even in DC continues to be our favorite year after year.
The outdoor space is cozy with fire pits and heaters. They transformed the Bier Garden into an epic Christmas explosion that rivals Miracle on 7th! This DC Christmas pop up is not to be missed! (EDIT FOR 2021: This year they’ve decorated the tent in a more winter wonderland theme.)
And definitely try their spiked cider, super yummy and it’ll keep you warm. For 2021 you can rent private cabanas for you and your group to enjoy!
Even the entrance to Wunder Garden is adorable!
Wunder Garden Winterfest Hours and Dates
Friday, December 3, 2021, through Thursday, December 23, 2021. This year’s WINTERFEST is set to be the biggest and best one yet. Find everything from Christmas trees, seasonal beers and warm cocktails, live entertainment, and evening holiday dance parties at the city’s most festive Bier Garten!
Location: 1101 FIRST STREET NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20002
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Colored Pencil Composition Is Key To Better Blending
Blending colored pencils can seem like a bit a of a mystery if it’s your first try at it, but it’s actually not as complicated as it looks.
First of all, it is important to remember that the basic food groups for colored pencil blending are, of course, colored pencils and wax. The tool you are going to use is none other than a blending tool (or finger, for the more experienced artists!).
As for the color and composition of the white wax, that’s something every artist needs to decide on a case-by-case basis.
There are no rules, so feel free to experiment with your invisible blending pal. Add as much as you think the piece needs, or remove a bit of it if you’ve over done it.
If you’re thinking about the best brand to use, well, that’s not something we can help you with. In our humble opinion though, Prismacolor are a great option.
Or Oil Base Colored Pencils ?
You can use any colored pencil brand in your artwork. The most important thing is the quality of the pencil. Artist grade pencils are more expensive than the average pencil but they have a great color. I highly recommend using artist grade or better colored pencils for the best results.
On the other hand you can also use wax-based (Crayola) or oil-base (Prang) colored pencils. No matter what pencil you use, you need to clean it as soon as possible while it’s still loose on the paper because once you add water or glue it’s going to be more difficult to clean.
You can get away with using more inexpensive colored pencils but the colors will be less vibrant and strong than the artist grade ones.
Water, and Wax.
There are a lot of ways people use pencils, and if used properly, they can produce amazing results. But only if used properly.
How should you hold your pencil in order to color the pages of your sketchbook?
No matter what kind of drawing material you hold in your hand, you can use two different grip styles: the pen-style and the brush-style. Pen-style means that you essentially hold the material like a pen, using the end of the pencil to draw small, fine lines or color dots. The brush-style grip, on the other hand, is when you hold your instrument horizontally just like you would use it to apply makeup to your face.
In order to play it on the safe side and get a smooth result, I suggest you try both of them and see what works best for you.
In general, the way of applying the pencil depends on the type of drawing material too. Pencils have different levels of hardness (from 6B to 3H) and different types of material can be used according to what you want, when you want. If you’re just starting out, it’s best to use an HB or, if it’s available, an F pencil because it’s the most versatile one.
Techniques To Blending Colored Pencils Effectively
How to blend colored pencils comes down to color choice. Of course other factors will affect the blending of your colored pencils, such as speed, amount of pressure, and paper.
But understanding the different types of color and how they work together is the first step to creating different techniques and effects.
Try out different colored colored pencils instead of using standard colors. By using color with opposing properties, you can make the blending process really easy.
For example, using the two different type of blue will work well together. Instead of turquoise and a cobalt blue, try using a light blue and a dark blue. Darks look great paired with darks and lights with lights.
Other simple combinations include a green and a yellow or a yellow and an orange. These colors are going to give you a vibrant look.
Complex combinations can be made by combining multiple colors that work well together. The use of purple and yellow make a good combination of colors. Purple and blue also work very well together much like orange and green.
You can use a combination of light blue and light yellow or orange for a subtle background effect. Try combining a light turquoise and yellow together and using this as a base color on your paper. With this you can add a light blue with the base color to create a shadow.
Now let’s take a look at some solvents most people may not be familiar with. Used for blending pencils, these are in no way related to artists’ products.
Airliners Solvent: This is for big jobs. If you need to blend a large area, this is the stuff to use. It’s a petroleum distillate solvents, and it will strip the wax coating on your pencil so that you can apply a new layer. You may have to buy it at a larger airline supply stores, but you should be able to find it somewhere.
Mineral Spirits: I’ve seen this at the hardware store. I don’t recommend using this unless you have to. It is actually paint thinner, and it will strip off the colored coatings from your pencils. Good thing is that you can rejuvenate the pencil by rubbing hard with a paper towel.
Rubbing Alcohol: Just ask for rubbing alcohol or isopropyl alcohol at your pharmacy. It’s the same stuff. This is probably what I use when I’m in a pinch.
Weeping Solution: This is for wiping away the lines in pencil art.
White Colored Pencil
One of the classic techniques with colored pencils is layering.
While drawing in colored pencil, apply some lighter white pencil as highlights on top of your darker colors. These highlights can be on top of the hair, eyes, lips, and other reflective places.
Work with the lid down so that you can see the colors–‗this will also help prevent smearing.
How do we recommend you apply this highlight? Using the white pencils with the sharpest points is the best way.
Sharper pencil tips allow you to add some shining colored pencil sparkles in your artwork.
You can even use it to create some sparks in the background.
If your intention is to blend colored pencils as opposed to layering them, you can use very mild solvents.
Let’s say you are working a piece that contains elements of multiple pencils. The existing colors could be ashy or not as vibrant as you would like. In this case, there are a couple of fixers in the form of colorless oil blends, that you can use to mix the colors smoother and mix in new layers of color without having to remove the old layers first.
I love to use a colorless blender by Ambasti pencils. You can also use any kind of essential oil or baby oil with out the smell.
The result will be a very subtle effect in the final painting. If you want the effect to be more pronounced, you can continue to add more colorless blender or even layers of color made with colorless blender.
The first time I was told to use tortillons, I was given a set of surprise. My art teacher would only pull out the tiny pencil case when you were attempting to paint with straight color. However, I soon realized there was nothing tortuous about these tools, and they came in extremely handy.
When tortillons go on sale, my art supply budget is happy. I use the 3B ones for preliminary work on larger pieces.
If I want a really smooth blend, I use tortillons.
Keep a jar of Zest-It in your art drawer.
It’s ideal for helping all your pencils glide across paper. Paper is an art supply, you know. And sometimes it can be as bad as rotten fruit that won’t let some colors play nice with the others. Zest-It is the answer.
Practice good, old pencil maintenance.
Before your pencils go dull, sharpen them up. A blunt pencil can ruin even the best sketch. Keep an extra sharpener handy, and refresh your pencils frequently.
A sharp point lets your pencil glide over paper. It makes for clean lines and smoother blends, too.
Video Of How To Blend Colored Pencils
What Is Art?
Does art relate to anything that has been created by man? Or is it something we are yet to discover? Does a drawing need to be on paper? Can we consider sculpture or painting as arts? The definition of what is art will give different answers to different people.
In the modern world, art is mostly associated with drawings, paintings and sculptures. Anything from photographs, to various forms of murals are subconsciously put in the same category.
There are many schools of though on whether art requires a physical representation or not. There is a notion on the lines that if all the details are expressed without material existence, it is still art.
But let us focus on pencil art for a while, which is something still practiced quite often these days. You can find lots of people drawing, painting and sketching with pencils, which is something that was popular even centuries ago. | <urn:uuid:97927425-4a35-457f-b2da-3c62eb33b249> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://artsupplyhub.com/how-to-blend-colored-pencils-the-right-way/ | 2022-01-27T12:29:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305260.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127103059-20220127133059-00359.warc.gz | en | 0.932107 | 1,980 |
For startups making an exit onto the public markets, traditional IPOs were king until about 2019, when direct listings became the popular alternative, thanks to companies like Spotify and Slack. Then, SPACs stole the limelight in 2020 and these special purpose acquisition companies became the other alternative that more startups began to consider.
Those three routes to the public market — IPO, direct listing and SPAC — are still the main paths for a company to go public, but there are other ways for a business to end up on a public stock exchange in the U.S. as well. Each has its pros and cons, and while traditional IPOs are still seen as the “default,” they’re not the only option.
With these IPO alternatives getting more attention, I thought I’d write a bit about each way to go public, what kinds of companies are best suited for each path, and the other ways a company’s shares can become publicly traded.
An initial public offering, or IPO, is still more or less seen as the default way to go public. It involves hiring banks as underwriters, going on a roadshow to sell the idea of the company to investors, and then selling a block of shares to investors at a set price to raise capital before trading begins on the exchange.
IPOs are ideally suited for companies that are generally considered “healthier” or more appealing to the public market, according to Robert Siegel, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Public markets tend to not want products and services that are too speculative, though that’s changed a bit in the past few years.
Another reason companies traditionally have gone the IPO route is because they needed to raise capital in the process as well (though now companies can also raise capital through direct listings, which I’ll get to later).
IPOs are expensive. We’ve written about how pricey and time-consuming the process can be, and that’s part of the reason some companies consider other ways to go public, like direct listings and SPACs.
Option 1: Initial public offering
- What it is: The process of offering shares of a private company to the public in a new stock issuance, thereby listing the company’s shares on a stock exchange and raising capital in the process.
- Pros: The traditional method to take a company public, a way to raise capital.
- Cons: Lockup periods, expensive, can be a lengthy process.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix — in fact, most of the biggest and most prominent public companies.
In certain, kind of nerdy, circles, “IPOs vs. direct listings” was the hottest debate of 2019. Spotify and Slack both went public through direct listings, and this option was seen as a cheaper, more efficient alternative to IPOs. Companies could save money on underwriting fees, avoid lockup periods, and not have to worry about “leaving money on the table” if their stock surged on the first day of trading. Most recently, Roblox and Coinbase went public through direct listings.
“The company that maybe doesn’t need cash necessarily and has a lot of market power and doesn’t like the IPO process could do a direct listing,” Siegel said.
Traditionally, direct listings have been thought of as best suited for companies that have a lot of name recognition. You don’t need investment bankers to help you through a roadshow and tell the story of your company if everyone knows who you are.
The Securities and Exchange Commission in December approved the New York Stock Exchange’s proposal to change how they do direct listings so that capital can be raised. While that change may make a direct listing seem more similar to a traditional IPO, there are still key differentiators.
“Some of the considerations here are things like not really having any intermediaries, not really issuing new shares, no lockup,” said Prashanth Chandrasekar, a former vice president at Barclays Investment Bank and now CEO of venture-backed developer platform Stack Overflow. “I think the spirit of providing faster liquidity, it’s a good thing right? Whereas a traditional IPO there is a lockup and things like that. I think this puts this more control in the companies’ hands rather than leaving it up.”
Option 2: Direct Listing
- What it is: A way to go public that doesn’t involve selling a block of shares like an IPO.
- Pros: Cheaper than an IPO (save money on underwriting fees), no lockup period (easier to access liquidity), now companies can raise capital through a direct listing.
- Cons: A company needs to have strong brand recognition to be a viable candidate for a direct listing, since it won’t have help from banks to get in front of investors and sell the story.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: Spotify, Slack, Roblox, Coinbase.
Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are having a moment, and they’re about to start having a supply and demand issue.
SPACs are essentially blank-check companies that are created by a group of investors who are interested in a particular sector and use the SPAC as an acquisition vehicle. The SPAC goes public, and then takes a private company public by acquiring it. SPACs have been all the rage this year, with gross proceeds totaling nearly $100 billion. High-profile investors including Chamath Palihapitiya (who’s often credited with helping popularize SPACs) and Bill Ackman have formed SPACs, along with athletes and celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal, Ciara and Colin Kaepernick.
There are two types of target companies that often go the SPAC route, according to Siegel. The first group is healthy companies that want to avoid some of the more annoying parts of the IPO process, like not being able to talk about future projections or having to go on a roadshow.
The second type is “speculative companies,” which are often pre-revenue. Unlike companies taking themselves public via an IPO, SPACs allow for the target company to make future revenue projections, so it’s a good option for businesses in spaces like cleantech and electric vehicles that want to raise capital, but haven’t generated revenue yet.
“Before the SPAC market got going really strong, it was pretty rare to see, outside of biotech, to see many pre-revenue — really early stage (companies) in terms of their product development — going public,” said David Ethridge, PricewaterhouseCooper’s deals managing director and U.S. IPO services leader. In the past year or so, the SPAC market has grown in the corner of earlier-stage companies, Ethridge said.
The one holdup with the SPAC craze is that there may not be enough target companies for all the SPACs out there. Because of the sheer number of SPACs formed in the last year, it’s likely that they may not all be able to find targets before their expiration dates are up. As Chandrasekar of Stack Overflow put it, there are only so many quality companies that can go public.
Option 3: SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company
- What it is: A “blank-check” company formed by a group of investors and taken public for the explicit purpose of acquiring a private company and in doing so taking it public.
- Pros: A cheaper, faster way to go public than a traditional IPO. Companies can also disclose future revenue projections (a big plus for pre-revenue companies).
- Cons: It used to be considered a “less respectable” way to go public, but that perception has somewhat changed.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: Virgin Galactic, DraftKings, Clover Health.
A reverse merger is similar to a SPAC in that a private company becomes public by merging with a public company. The already-public company is often trading on over-the-counter markets and is somewhat of a “zombie” company, according to Siegel.
“It’s similar to a SPAC, but it’s not an entity that was created to take a company public,” Siegel said.
In a reverse merger, a private company buys out the necessary amount of shares to control the public company. In this way, the private company becomes public and the two entities have merged.
One of the most notable examples of a company to go public this way is the New York Stock Exchange itself. The NYSE acquired Archipelago Holdings to form the NYSE Group back in 2006. Another example is when Turner Advertising merged with Rice Broadcasting to form Turner Broadcasting.
Reverse mergers tend to involve companies that have been around for a while and aren’t considered appropriate for an initial public offering, since IPO candidates are generally considered healthy and appealing to the market. Reverse merger deals still offer a relatively easy way for investors in the private company to get liquidity, according to Siegel.
They’ve historically been easier to do because there were many penny stocks to merge with and SPACs weren’t as available (SPACs began in the U.S. in the 1990s, according to Excelsior Capital). Companies going through reverse mergers also don’t have to deal with the details that come with a SPAC structure.
Option 4: Reverse merger, also called a reverse takeover or reverse IPO
- What it is: A deal in which a private company becomes public by merging with an already-public company.
- Pros: A cheaper, faster way to go public than a traditional IPO.
- Cons: No capital is raised, the private company quickly needs to adjust to being compliant with SEC rules, the markets can sometimes not perceive reverse mergers as favorably as IPOs, according to IPOhub.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: NYSE, Turner Broadcasting.
Others Ways A Company Can Be Public
IPOs, direct listings and SPACs are the main three ways for a company to go public. But there are a couple other ways a company can end up being public in the U.S., according to PwC’s Ethridge, though it’s typically not a path on the public “menu,” so to speak.
Companies can end up being public through debt issuance or by moving from trading on the pink sheets to the major exchanges (often via a reverse merger).
Companies that are publicly traded in another country can also move to an American exchange. In those cases, the exchanges count the foreign company’s move to a U.S. exchange as an IPO, Ethridge said.
“Regardless of what path they choose, the endpoint is the same,” Ethridge said. “And you wake up after the ringing of the bell at the exchange and you have an obligation to the stakeholders. And can you deliver?” | <urn:uuid:5a066d34-6e1e-45c0-bd22-c05bf2a5338e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://broadbrained.com/venture/the-market-minute-want-to-take-your-company-public-here-are-your-options/ | 2022-01-27T12:14:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305260.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127103059-20220127133059-00359.warc.gz | en | 0.959398 | 2,358 |
Week 7/2021: week of 15 February 2021
21 for 2021 updateThis was my first “normal” week for about a month. “Normal” as in school was back and I was at work all week. None of those annoying public holidays to muck up my routine. Ha.
My first thing this week is the Change Journal, where I’ve been marking off two habits in chapter 7 since January —the pre-work routine (thing 20), which I have now completed for 32/66 days, and my yoga stretches, which I have done every day since 10 January. I’ve been thinking I need to make a start on the other chapters in the book or I won’t make my way through the book by the end of the year.
This week, I decided to start with chapter 2, Thanks, which asks you to note down something you’re grateful for every day for a week. I actually already do this. Every morning I note down three things I’m grateful for, and every evening I write down something I’ve been grateful for during the day in my Some Lines A Day journal. But I don’t really think about them and what they mean to me so sometimes it feels more like a chore than a meaningful practice. The Change Journal takes this a step further and asks you to write down how the thing (or the person) you’re grateful for enriches your life and what your life your life would be like without it (or them). So it goes a bit deeper.
I did that every day this week and concluded that it’s a good practice to maintain as it makes my current practice more meaningful, so I’ve added my version of this into my daily gratitude journalling.
Vegetable of the week
Thing 2 is to choose a different vegetable every week from the book In Praise of Veg and make a recipe from the book using that vegetable.
This week, I wanted to try Alice’s Sesame Cucumber Whack Salad (page 384), but I didn’t know what to have with it. I thought some fish might be a good accompaniment, and there was a fish recipe in the lemongrass section of the book, Lemongrass Fish Pops with Green Mango Salad (page 110). Obviously, it has a salad with it, which includes ingredients I have never heard of and/or don’t like and/or have never cooked with, including pomelo, green mango and banana shallots.
I figured I could make the fish dish (lemongrass check) and have it with the cucumber salad (cucumber check) instead of the salad that was supposed to go with it. Slabs had other ideas. He convinced me to at least try the green mango salad (I HATE mango!), and proceeded to purchase a mango (not green), a ruby grapefruit (not a pomelo but apparently close to it) and, well, normal shallots because what in hell are banana shallots anyway?
So I ended up making the fish pops (which is mashed fish with some curry paste and spices grilled on skewers of lemongrass), with the (not-)green mango salad and the cucumber salad. It was a lot of work, and a lot of food, and I didn’t need the cucumber salad in the end.
My verdict: This is the first recipe from the book I haven’t liked. I liked the idea of it but I didn’t really like the way the fish turned out and I didn’t like the salad. I suppose that’s to be expected if you don’t like mango or citrus. Slabs, on the other hand, said he really enjoyed it so it wasn’t a complete fail.
The cucumber salad was really yum though, and I’ll be doing that one again, maybe as an accompaniment to a curry or, as Alice suggests, with some soba noodles and some steamed fish, so the cook wasn’t a complete wipeout.
In a rather more epic fail, I decided to make the Ultimate Cheesy Garlic Bread Bake on page 38 on Sunday night, without having noticed that the recipe notes say “Begin this recipe one day ahead”. So Kramstable and I did not have garlic bread on Sunday.
If I ever write a cookbook (ha), I am going to make sure that in the header of every recipe that requires advance preparation is a large clock symbol.
There are several things on my list that I have made a regular commitment to doing in the hope that this will be more likely to make me do them. I worked on these ones this week.
- Thing 5: Spend an hour a week working through my annoying undone things list. One hour on Saturday morning. I finished the last collage for 2020, printed it and stuck it in the book. That is now complete.
- Thing 8: Spend an hour a week working on Kramstable’s videos. I did this on Sunday.
- Thing 9: Write my mother’s life story. I normally go to see my mum on Thursdays but this week she had some personal issues that meant it wasn’t possible to talk to her about her story. I got her to identify herself in some photos and did a bit of internet research into some of her family members.
- Thing 11: Complete the Compelling Frame course. I don’t have a specific time set aside for this (because schedules, who needs them), but I spent a couple of hours on Tuesday working through the third lesson, and I started the fourth lesson on the weekend.
- Thing 17: Brainsparker gym*. I did the first lesson of Module 3 and learned about Fishbone diagrams
21 for 2021 summary for week 7
- Things completed this week: 0
- Things completed to date: 1 (1)
- Things I progressed: 8 (2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 17, 20)
- Things in progress I didn’t progress: 3 (6, 13, 18)
- Things not started: 9 (3, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21)
Blast from the past
Following on from my 10-year review of my blog, here’s one of my favourite posts from 7 March 2011. It’s actually the prequel to the flashback post I posted last week and the one I meant to post last week. Here is the correct link to “Pushing Papers (AKA on art and writing part 1)“.
When did I listen and what did I learn this week?
I’ve been reading the book Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend by Christopher Hadley, which is about the author’s attempt to track down the story behind a legendary dragon slayer and the belief that there had been a dragon lair underneath an old yew tree in England. In the book, he refers to the practice of “grangerising”, which is when you take a book apart and rebind it with photos and pictures from elsewhere, including from other books, resulting in a much bigger book, or even additional volumes of the book. In one case, Christopher refers to a grangerised Bible, which ended up being 60 volumes. I kind of love the idea of making a book your own like this but, on the other hand, am horrified that people would destroy other books in order to do this.
The practice was made popular by (and named after) fans of the late-18th century print collector and author, James Granger, who, according to Christopher, didn’t actually engage in the practice himself. But the many “grangerites” did it to enough copies of his Biographical History, that I imagine the name stuck. One copy was grangerised to expand the original three volumes into 36.
And I think I don’t have enough book cases!
What did I do for the Earth this week?
I’ve been reading doom and gloom stories, feeling like nothing I do will make a difference and falling further into a “nothing will stop this” mindset, which isn’t helpful and isn’t achieving anything.
What I’m reading this week
- Personality Hacker by Joel Mark Witt & Antonia Dodge
- Burning Out by Katherine May
- Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend by Christopher Hadley
- Days I did my morning planning routine at work (Goal = 5): 5
- Days I worked on my art (Goal = 2): 4
- Days I read a book (Goal = 7): 7
- Days I did yoga stretches (Goal = 7): 7
- Days I had a lunch break away from my desk (Goal = 5 work days): 5
- Days I went for a walk or did other physical activity in the afternoon (Goal = 7): 5
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On January 12, 2005 NASA launched its latest space probe, Deep Impact, named after the recent Hollywood science fiction film. Recall, in the cliffhanger a team of courageous astronauts (led by tough guy, Robert Duvall) sacrifice their lives to deflect a speeding comet from its collision course with earth, thus saving human civilization from catastrophe. NASA’s newest mission is also a last-ditch gambit, of sorts: an attempt to save the current comet model.
Open any astronomy book and you will read that comets are dirty snowballsconglomerates of ancient rock and ice left over from the creation of the solar system. And it must be true, right? After all, it says so in the textbooks, and surely the university professors can’t be wrong. The problem is that over the five decades since Fred Whipple first proposed the snowball model in 1950, neither NASA nor anyone has proved that comets are actually made of ice. Every time NASA scientists focus their instruments on the surface of comets, they see only rocky stuff. Comets look like asteroids. So, where’s the ice? After failing repeatedly to find it, NASA has concluded that the ice must be hidden by surface dust, or is buried out of sight. Deep Impact will attempt to resolve this question by looking below the surface.
Next July, if all goes well, the unmanned Deep Impact spacecraft will rendezvous with a small comet named Tempel 1, not to avert a collision, but for the purpose of causing one. Once in position, the craft will send a 300+ pound “impactor”essentially a 3 foot diameter copper projectiledirectly into the speeding comet’s path. No nuke or explosive charge will be needed to blast a hole in the comet’s surface. The comet’s tremendous kinetic energy will do that. Tempel 1 is clipping along at an estimated 12 miles a second.
The plan is to study the 100-300-foot crater excavated by the collision. During its fly-by, the spacecraft will also gather spectroscopic data from the ejected gas, dust and debris. Much planning has gone into the selection of the impact site, to (hopefully) assure that the crater will be in full sunlight, instead of shadow. Comet Tempel 1 has an irregular shapeit is only about 5 miles in diameter. With a bit of luck, NASA’s cameras will obtain a good look at the comet’s freshly excavated surface. It will be the first time that NASA has actually probed the interior of a comet. NASA expects to confirm the presence of ice.
Will they find it?
For the answer we will have to wait until next summer. When the rendezvous happensassuming things go according to planearth bound folks with binoculars will be treated to a show of celestial fireworks; although exactly how bright and visible the collision will be is open to question. The event will take placebelieve it or noton the fourth of July, independence day. One wonders if the neocons in Washington had something to do with this. At very least, the date shows the extent to which science has been politicized.
Snowball in Hell
But, somewhere, God must be laughing at us silly humans, because NASA has about as much chance of finding ice in Tempel 1 as the proverbial snowball in hell. It just ain’t going to happen. There’s too much contrarian evidence. It’s been accumulating for years, and should have melted the ice model, long ago. Yet, NASA stolidly presses onward. The agency greets every new anomaly with ad hoc improvisations, and has gone to increasingly outlandish lengths to preserve its ice theory. Why? Answer: because so much hangs in the balance. The stakes are very high. More is involved than simply comets. At issue is the Red Shift, the expanding universe, the theory of black holes, and yes, even the big bangall at risk if NASA’s cometary house of cards comes crashing down.
To see why the ice model is wrong, let us look at several anomalies:
In 1991 Halley’s Comet caused a stir by announcing itself from so far awayit was then between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. Halley’s is one of the smaller comets, yet it became visible at fourteen times the distance of the earth from the sun, a fact that solar heating cannot explain. The standard explanation is that the sun’s warmth is responsible for the cometary coma and tail. But at that enormous distance the sun was simply too faint.
Evidence of an even more remarkable phenomenon, the sunward spikepreviously unknownwas first documented in a 1957 photograph of the Comet Arend-Roland. This stunning feature must be seen to be believed. (For a look at a spike go to http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/)
Over the years since the first sunward spike was photographed, dozens of other comets have been shown, at times, to display this amazing phenomenon. The spikes always point toward the sun. Yet, NASA has dismissed the photographic evidencehowever compellingas nothing but an optical illusion, an artifact, a play of light, etc. Obviously, NASA is in robust denial. Why? Sunward spikes are incompatible with the current ice model.
On May 1, 1996 the Ulysses spacecraft documented another previously unknown feature of comets, when it crossed the tail of Comet Hyakutake at a point more than 350 million miles from the comet’s nucleus. The ephemeral tail, in other words, stretched across the equivalent of three and a half times Earth’s distance from the suna number that is astonishing. The discovery was accidentaland wholly unexpected. Scientists had never guessed that comet tails were so long. Ulysses had been studying the solar wind, and so, had the necessary equipment on board to detect the ions typically associated with comets. The satellite also recorded the magnetic field directional changes that are associated with comet tails. Detailed analysis showed that both kinds of data were in agreement. For most scientists, this was enough to confirm the discovery. Notice, the remarkable tail length means that when Comet Hyakutake moved around the sun toward its minimum point (perihelion), the invisible portion of its tail arced across a vast reach of the solar system. The fact that the tail maintained its integrity at such extreme distance is incompatible with the standard view that the tail is composed of materials blown away from the nucleus. Something more is going on, here. The question is: What?
But the big event, also in 1996, was the discovery of X-rays coming from the head of Hyakutake. This discovery set the scientific world on its ear, because naturally occurring X-rays are associated with extreme temperatures: in the range of millions of degrees Kelvin. Yet, here they were coming from a supposed ball of ice. There was no immediate word from NASA about how or why an icy cold comet could produce X-rays. The discovery was the work of the German ROSAT satellite, and no mistake about it. During the next few years X-radiation was detected in half a dozen other cases, including the Comet Hale-Bopp.
Four years passed before NASA finally announced a solution to the puzzling anomaly. In April 2000, NASA conceded that extreme conditions are necessary for X-ray emission to occur. But, rather than call into question its own theory that comets are cold, NASA attempted to square the circle. The agency explained that the X-rays had been produced by the solar wind, whichit assertedwas merely an extension of the extremely hot solar corona. NASA’s explanation explained nothing, and amounted to a contradiction, as any intelligent high school science student should have been able to judge. The official word showed that NASA was fumbling with a mystery it did not understand, grasping at air like a blind man trying to steady himself. (For NASA’s official word go to http://spacescience.com/)
Next summer, when NASA fails to confirm the presence of ice in the nucleus of Tempel 1, the question that the space agency should have been asking in 1996 will become paramount. (Of course, this does not mean that NASA will come clean. Indeed, it will be interesting to see how far NASA is prepared to go to defend its ice model. Probably the contortions will continue. Not for no reason the agency acronym has been subject to redux: NASA Never A Straight Answer.)
Everyone agrees that comets have an atmosphere. It is known as the coma, and has been shown to include significant amounts of water vapor, along with hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, gaseous hydrocarbons, and various other compounds. The proportions vary from comet to comet. The present model holds that the water comes from the cometary nucleus. The thinking is that the sun’s warmth causes the icy head to sublimate, or out gas, and the solar wind pushes the vapors away in the amazing tail that has always been a source of wonderment and inspiration here on earth. No question, comets are beautiful to behold on a starry night. But neither NASA nor anyone has shown that the water actually comes from the nucleus. Such a deduction is understandable, but it remains unsupported by evidence, and it is almost certainly wrong. I have already cited the puzzling case of Halley’s Comet, whose visibility at extreme distance was incompatible with solar warming. Here’s the key question: If the head is NOT made of ice, how then to account for the known presence of water in the coma and tail? It’s a safe bet that, next summer, NASA will have no answer to this simple question. After all, they couldn’t explain the X-rays.
Not everyone was surprised by the discovery of X-rays. One astronomer named Jim McCanney actually predicted them. He did so as early as 1981 in a scientific paper first published in the journal Kronos. McCanney even urged NASA officials to look for X-rays when the agency was preparing a fly-by of Comet Giacobini-Zinner in 1985. At the time, NASA’s ISEE-3 satellite had already completed its original mission, and was being reprogrammed for comet study. The spacecraft had X-ray equipment on board, and McCanney urged NASA to use it. Instead, NASA shut down the equipment to conserve power. NASA’s experts concluded that there was no point in leaving the X-ray detector on, since there couldn’t possibly be X-rays coming from a cube of ice.
Fortunately, German scientists do not labor under NASA’s ideological thumb. The Germans took McCanney’s recommendation seriously. In 1990 they launched a satellite of their own, the Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT), which was equipped with an X-ray telescope. ROSAT continues to search the heavens for high frequency X-rays. Earth-based X-ray telescopes are not feasible, because earth’s protective atmosphere absorbs X-radiation. This was the satellite that independently made the big discovery in 1996.
The Plasma Discharge Comet Model
McCanney is the originator of an alternative comet theory, what he calls the Plasma Discharge Comet Model. His model challenges several key assumptions current in today’s science, which, he says, must be overturned to correctly understand the nature of comets and the workings of the solar system. One of these assumptions is that space is electrically neutral. “Not so,” says McCanney. His comet model is, in fact, but a subset of a grander theory that describes the electrical nature of the sun. McCanney refers to it as the Solar Capacitor Model. He argues that most of the energy released by the sunby faris electrical, rather than in the visible spectrum. According to this view, the sunward spikes are titanic bolts of solar electricity, and comets are anything but cold. On the contrary, they are incredibly hot and fiery crucibles in which chemical and nuclear transmutations are occurring constantly.
McCanney thinks our earth and the other planets were originally comets that were drawn from their more elliptical orbits into more circular orbits. He is also quick to credit another maverick thinker who preceded him: Immanuel Velikovsky. In 1950 Velikovsky authored a controversial book, Worlds in Collision, in which he argued, among other things, that science had failed to account for the electromagnetic nature of comets. Even as the book topped the bestseller charts, several prominent figures in science, among them Carl Sagan, ridiculed Velikovsky and eventually succeeded in destroying his reputation. Velikovsky’s name became almost synonymous with wacko nonsense. How ironic this isbecause the 1996 discovery of cometary X-rays has made Velikovsky look like a prophet. If the Plasma Discharge Comet Model turns out to be correct, McCanney will earn his rightful place alongside Kepler, Galileo, and Newton; and the names Velikovsky and McCanney will be remembered long after NASA and Sagan have been forgotten.
Next time: Why it matters. How the Solar Capacitor Model could save our civilization from self-destructionnow imminent.
To be continued…
MARK GAFFNEY is the author of a 1989 pioneering study of the Israeli nuke program, Dimona the Third Temple. Mark’s latest book, Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes, has just been released by Inner Traditions Press.
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Originally published at Safa Center
(This article was reviewed by a licensed therapist.)
- You may feel your trust was betrayed by their behavior because they did not practice what they preached. They not only did the opposite, but they did so in ways which are lower than you would ever expect in a friend, let alone a teacher and spokesperson for the religion. You may have trusted them, looked up to them, helped them, loved them, and/or obeyed them with devotion. The closer you were, the deeper the pain.
- Perhaps you feel the whole “Religious Preachers Industry” is corrupt to begin with. After all, you may have found out that others in the field were aware of this person’s ethical issues and did nothing to protect the public, or defend the rights of those abused. In fact, some continued to work with and promote their work as it was mutually advantageous to do so. Somehow, when religious leaders fail, they seem to be treated as above the law, above justice, and others in the field are part of the cover up using excuses of selective mercy that do not extend to the masses these people have harmed, or have the very real probability of harming, based on their issue reflecting an untreated pattern of such behavior.
- If you were specifically harmed by a religious leader, you may feel unsafe around religious leaders in general, particularly ones with the same physical profile or features as the person who harmed you.
As for the first point, your trust was in fact betrayed. You have a right to feel wronged. This feeling though, thankfully, does not mean you have to remain a victim to the mountainous pain of disappointment. When a religious leader fails, it has nothing to do with you, even if you were the one they directly harmed. It is a reflection of themselves, their own weaknesses, and internal states. There is no benefit that you can gain from holding onto the mountain of pain. Sometimes, a person might think by reliving the pain regularly, by carrying the mountain, they are protecting themselves from becoming desensitized to corruption, as the person who ‘doesn’t care’ is part of the problem. One can care very much, and be fully sensitive without having to carry the burden of pain with them. Integrity does not require self-imposed suffering. Just as you have a right to feel wronged and disappointed, you also have a right to let go of this pain while retaining the lessons.
The second point can become a dangerous slippery slope. There are hundreds of religious leaders in America. Even 30 Failed Leaders should not make us think the rest are in the same boat. At the same time, there is also no need to be naïve and assume everyone else is a saint. Everyone is human and capable of great good and great evil. To have the best opinion, do not assume more than what you see, in either direction. If someone does a clearly wrong action in front of you, “making 70 excuses” does not mean you say the action was right or justified. It means you might think, “Perhaps they are having a bad day, maybe they didn’t realize it was wrong, etc.” You also don’t extend it beyond that by thinking, “They probably do this all the time, this is how they *really* are, etc.” This would be having the worst assumption, and it’s not something allowed in Islam. To have balance means you don’t assume in any direction where their heart is as only Allah subhanahu wa ta`ala (exalted is He) knows the hearts, and you only judge through actions, their observable behavior whether or not they are someone you’d like to take as a teacher. No one should be idolized. The religious leader is not the religion. I repeat, the religious leader is not the religion, no matter what claim to authority they might make. Even the most honorable ustaadh or ustaadha (teacher) is still human and makes mistakes. In Islam, we put following principles above following people.
Umar radi allahu `anhu (may God be pleased with him) once asked his people when he was amir al-mu’mineen (the Leader of the Believers) what they would do if he bowed down to corruption. He asked three times, until one of the people responded and said they would fight him. He congratulated the man who responded for having the appropriate response. If Umar (ra) as the khalifah (Caliph) was not above the law, no one else should be. If people have been wronged, they have the right to have their claims addressed even if they have to go to court. Sometimes people don’t want the stories to get out because they feel like such stories hurt the community’s faith. That might be true when it comes to smaller claims that can be negotiated between intermediaries. But for situations where a person is a clear danger, allowing a dangerous religious leader to continue harming people causes a much bigger crisis to faith and trust in religious leaders and institutions in the long run. Seeking justice is a means of having mercy on the community and even on the offending personality. Having once been involved in helping out with an intervention in which therapy was one of the requirements placed on the offender, the community leader who compliantly left their position, after some time, thanked those who intervened saying, “For the first time I felt like my problem can be, and will be, solved.” Alhamdulilah (all praise be to God), it was.
That being said, the entire field is not corrupt. The entire field is not pristine and pure either. Look for people of solid character, sound credentials in their learning, and people who work with others to build institutions that are about a cause bigger than their specific persona. Avoid taking people who display regularly narcissistic behavior as personal guides. You might be able to benefit in knowledge, but over time the behavior becomes normalized to you, and you would unknowingly adopt it yourself. The sincere teacher connects you to your mission, and calls you to God, not to himself or herself. Sound credentials are also important. Don’t take anyone as a teacher in religion who does not have the educational background that gives them ijaza (credential) to teach others. A beard, accent, and long robe are not indications of an educational background nor good character. Be wary of online degrees where the person has not also studied directly from scholars. Peer acknowledgment of requisite knowledge, character, and training by those who are credentialed and of exemplary character is another form of legitimacy. Our religious understanding is a living tradition, and it is inherited through people and institutions.
As for the last point, you may need therapy to fully recover from your experience. This is not something to fear or dread. Does anyone fear taking medicine when they feel physically ill? Medicine does not contradict prayer and tawakkul (trust in God), it completes it. If you don’t get treatment, you may find yourself turning away from anything and everything that reminds you even remotely of religion. After being harmed by a religious symbol, it becomes tempting to turn away from all religious symbols. If one was fake, there may be an urge to paint it all as fake. This is a trap of shaytan (the devil). When we are tested, we are in even more need of turning to Allah and holding onto His rope for our survival, guidance, and healing. If you feel like turning away, then allow yourself to stop the downward spiral by getting up, and turning back to Allah. Call on Him to guide you, help you, strengthen you, and liberate you from your pain.
Here are some tools that help alleviate overwhelming emotional distress:
- Journaling in the third person: By expressing, you release the tension and come to realize the situation is not so big that it has to overwhelm you. It’s small enough to put into words and make sense of. By using third person you are able to dissociate from the heavy emotions while acknowledging what happened, and gaining lessons as well.
- Channel your energy into a helpful hobby: exercise, painting, etc..
- Releasing: A technique that is taught in the Whims-I-Kill program at ipersonalenrichment.com.
- Speaking to local trained Muslim counselors and therapists.
- Surround yourself with support. Fight the tendency to isolate. Spend time with worthy friends who would be like perfume sellers not blacksmiths. [i]
- Increased worship and du`a’ (prayer). Every time you feel a whisper telling you to turn away from Allah, rebel and rebel hard. The shaytan wants you to despair in Allah, so you can feel utterly alone and without support. When you call on Allah, do so with hope in Him and His infinite abilities and wisdom. Believe in Who you don’t see much more than what you do see.
In the next piece, we will deal with the second and third levels of disappointment insha’ Allah. Until then, I pray this is of benefit for those affected and a conversation starter for all. Please feel free to add comments or reflections to this. You never know whom your shared thoughts are going to help. | <urn:uuid:7cbf031c-16f5-4834-90b6-4acefdb051a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.virtualmosque.com/ummah/community/the-first-level-of-disappointment-the-religious-leader/ | 2022-01-17T19:19:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300616.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117182124-20220117212124-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.974449 | 1,932 |
Although HSBC Rewards is a program that’s used all over the world, it’s not as popular in Canada since HSBC isn’t one of the big five banks. What you might not realize is that HSBC is the largest foreign-owned bank in Canada and is present coast to coast.
Their credit card portfolio is impressive and HSBC Rewards is arguably better than BMO Rewards and TD Rewards. Ignoring HSBC Rewards just because you’re not familiar with the brand is foolish since you can still collect points and redeem them in various ways. Knowing what you can do with your points and how to maximize its value is what you should strive to do.
HSBC Rewards points value
The value of HSBC Rewards points varies depending on how you use the points. Since it takes 25,000 HSBC Rewards points to get $125 off your travel charges, the value of one HSBC point is .50 cents. While travel is the most popular redemption option, there are other things you can use your points for and they have different values.
|Redemption type||Redemption value|
|Travel||.50 cents per point|
|Experiences||.50 - .60 cents per point|
|Gift cards||.45 - .49 cents per point|
|Merchandise||.30 - .50 cents per point|
|Financial products||.30 - .40 cents per point|
Interestingly enough, experiences can give you slightly more value than travel. If there happens to be an experience that you’re interested in and it lines up with your travel plans, then book it. Otherwise, booking regular travel is the best value. Gift cards, and financial products give you options, but they’re of low value. It’s worth mentioning that HSBC Rewards also has three airline loyalty program transfer partners which may be of good value to you.
How to redeem HSBC Rewards points
Redeeming your HSBC Rewards points is an easy process since just about everything is done through the HSBC Rewards website. This is also where you would go to check the current balance of your points. It’s worth checking the website every so often to see what experiences are available and if there are any promotions. Here’s how to redeem your HSBC Rewards points.
HSBC doesn’t have a travel booking portal, so you need to book travel on your own and then apply your points to offset the expenses charged to your card. I prefer booking on your own to using bank booking portals because you have more options. Booking directly with hotels, car rental agencies and airlines also allows you to earn loyalty points with these programs and will also let you use the benefits of your elite status.
For example, I only get access to my Marriott Bonvoy status benefits if I book directly through Marriott.com. If I were to make a reservation through a bank travel portal or say Expedia, I would get nothing.
To redeem points for travel with HSBC Rewards, you need to charge the travel expense to your card first. After that, log in to your account and you’ll be able to select valid travel expense to offset with points. Note that you have to redeem a minimum of 25,000 points ($125) and then by 10,000 points incremental, so plan your redemptions accordingly.
Using your points for experiences is a unique redemption option. Most of the other bank travel loyalty programs don’t offer anything like it. That said, what experiences are available can vary at any given time. At the time I wrote this article, the only experiences worth mentioning were as follows:
- Niagara Air Tours – Tour of Niagara Falls for One
- Breakaway Experiences Rocky Mountains Helicopter Tour for 2
Mind you, I updated this article during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, so it’s no surprise there are currently limited experiences available. With experiences, the tricky thing is figuring out the retail value since it’s not listed on the HSBC Rewards site. You can find it by searching the name of the experience in Google. To figure out the value per point, do the following: Multiple the cash value of the redemption (including taxes) by 100. Then take that number and divide it by the number of points required. That will give you the value of one point.
Like every other loyalty program, HSBC Rewards offers gift cards from a wide variety of partners. In most cases, it’ll cost you the following number of points:
- $50 – 11,100 HSBC Rewards points
- $100 – 21,100 HSBC Rewards points
- $250 – 41,100 HSBC Rewards points
- $500 – 101,100 HSBC Rewards points
That works out to a value of .45/.47/.49/.49 cents per point respectively. Clearly using your points for gift cards worth at least $250 gives you the best value and it’s just .01 cents per point less than the value of travel redemptions. This is noteworthy since gift card redemptions with other loyalty programs are usually worth considerably less than travel rewards.
Interestingly enough, the merchandise available from HSBC can have a reasonable value depending on what you’re redeeming for. After a quick search of multiple products, I’ve found items in the .30 – .50 cents per point range. That’s not bad, but only few items fall into the higher range of that schedule. If you find something you want that’s worth near .50 cents per point, then go ahead and get it. Otherwise, I’d advise holding onto your points. Some items you can redeem with your HSBC Rewards points include:
- Pots and pans
- Drill kits
- Sports memorabilia
The last redemption you can make with your HSBC Rewards points that’s worth mentioning are financial products. Interestingly enough, unlike other loyalty programs where you can use your points for actual investments, you’re limited to three options with HSBC Rewards.
- $15 HSBC Mastercard account credit – 5,000 HSBC Rewards points
- $20 HSBC Mortgage account credit – 5,000 HSBC Rewards points
- $15 HSBC Savings account credit – 5,000 HSBC Rewards points
That means a Mastercard or savings account credit is worth .30 cents per point. Mortgage redemptions are worth slightly more at .40 cents per point. All of these options are quite low, so it’s not worth it at all. The statement credit options is a complete joke since you can purchase gift cards with your points at a higher value.
HSBC Rewards transfer partners
One of the best features of HSBC Rewards is the transfer partner option. HBSC allows you to transfer points to three different airlines: Asia Miles (Cathay Pacific loyalty program), Krisflyer Miles (Singapore loyalty program) and Avios (British Ariways loyalty program)
The transfer rate for each program is as following :
- 25,000 HSBC Rewards points transfer to 8,000 Asia Miles
- 25,000 HSBC Rewards points transfer to 9,000 Singapore Krisflyer Miles
- 25,000 HSBC Rewards points transfer to 10,000 British Airways Avios
Note that there is a minimum of 25,000 points to transfer to airline programs and it goes in 10,000 after that. In other words, you can transfer 25,000 points, 35,000 points, 45,000 points, etc. Asia Miles and Singapore Krisflyer Miles are especially noteworthy since there aren’t many ways to earn those points in Canada.
Do HSBC Rewards expire?
No, as long as you have an active account in good standing, your points will not expire. If you plan on closing your account, you should use up all your points before doing so. Since HSBC has some pretty high minimum points required when making redemptions, you may have to forfeit some of your points when you close things off.
How HSBC compares to others
While HSBC might not be as well-known as other banks in Canada, HSBC Rewards is solid. HSBC shines by its flexibility allowing you to book on your own and transfer points to airline programs. The minimum of 25,000 points to redeem is annoying, but you can plan your redemptions accordingly. Another advantage of HSBC Rewards is that the cards earning points are under Mastercard so you can use them at Costco and No Frills.
HSBC Rewards doesn’t give you as many options as American Express Membership Rewards or RBC Rewards, but it should definitely be consider for airlines miles collectors and for people looking for an easy and valuable travel program under Mastercard.
How to earn HSBC Rewards points
You can earn HSBC Rewards points from welcome bonuses and spending on HSBC credit cards. HSBC has 5 credit cards earning HSBC Rewards points including their flagship credit card: the HSBC World Elite MasterCard.
This card is great and is featured in many of my best credit card lists including:
- The best travel credit cards in Canada
- The best no foreign transaction fee credit cards in Canada
- The best airline credit cards in Canada
HSBC World Elite® Mastercard®
- $149 annual fee – First year rebate
- Earn up to 100,000 HSBC points welcome bonus. Must apply by January 31, 2022. Conditions Apply.
- Quebec residents – Earn up to 130,000 points welcome bonus w/ $149 annual fee
- 3% (6 points per $1 spent) in travel rewards on all eligible travel purchases
- 1.5% (3 points per $1 spent) in travel rewards on all other eligible purchases
- No foreign transaction fees
This card is HSBC’s top travel credit card and comes packed with travel benefits. It recently got more attention when Capital One discontinued its Aspire Travel World Mastercard, and many users found this card to a good alternative. Note that welcome offer differs for Quebec residents, see the details in the full review.
HSBC Rewards is an excellent loyalty program that deserves more attention. Points are easy to accumulate and are easy to use. There are no blackout dates and you can use them while booking directly with hotels and airlines. HSBC has transfer partners and it’s flagship travel card is one of the best travel credit cards in Canada. | <urn:uuid:111bce11-db7f-4dd7-9b0a-76e59cb5cd7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.moneywehave.com/hsbc-rewards/ | 2022-01-19T04:38:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301263.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119033421-20220119063421-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.925383 | 2,141 |
Art Historian Cary Levine has just published the first in-depth scholarly analysis of artists Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon, adapted from his dissertation. Pay for Your Pleasures (University of Chicago Press, 2013) is one of the few “contemporary art history” books that feels absolutely relevant (my copy has been traveling between friends with urgent relish since I finished it.) Levine sat down after walking through the Mike Kelley retrospective at PS1 to discuss his book, aspects of Kelley’s thinking, and responses to the recent McCarthy “White Snow” installation at the Armory.
Jarrett Earnest (Rail): Your book is grounded in the artists’ biographies—how did you negotiate writing biography and criticism?
Cary Levine: The three biographical chapters are about avoiding the pitfalls of “zeitgeist” and grand narratives by dealing with the very close specifics of time and place. This approach also captures the serendipity of these artists’ lives and artistic and intellectual developments. The problem with conventional biographical art history is that it presents the events of a life as a foregone conclusion. I hoped to avoid that while still retaining the individuality of their stories.
Rail: I believe that artistic-intellectual biographies of artists are the best way to write art history. Art necessarily depends on where it comes from. So I think Dore Ashton’s books on Rothko or Guston or Noguchi are actually the most useful books for understanding their art.
Levine: Take Mike Kelley for instance. In Catholic school, he’s exposed to Mary Corita Kent and a kind of craft-based, didactic art making. That was his understanding of art, and it needs to be acknowledged. An “artistic-intellectual biography” is indeed what I’m after—what were these guys interested in? When speaking to the artists themselves I found, for example, that both Kelley and McCarthy were interested in the writings of psychologist R. D. Laing, someone that is not often discussed today, but whom both artists independently cite as an early and important influence. Laing offered blistering critiques of social conditioning, the politics of the family, and the true “madness” of what we call normalcy—along with the processes by which we internalize these structures and reproduce them when raising children. This kind of thing runs through both artists’ work, of course, but a reference like Laing is too often foreclosed by the overemphasis on trendier thinkers such as Georges Bataille.
Rail: Your book does a good job of incorporating Kelley’s writing as part of understanding his practice. Could you talk about the shifting awareness of him as a writer and how he viewed it?
Levine: He very much came to writing out of necessity because he was frustrated by the things that critics were saying about his work. Obviously, this is a guy who was hyper-focused on what people were saying and thinking about him, maybe to an unhealthy degree. To me, looking seriously at his writing comes out of respect for the artist, though of course we shouldn’t take it as gospel. His essay “Foul Perfection,” for example, is one of the great pieces of criticism of the last 30 or 40 years. And yes, you’re right, I think of his writing as part of the same practice; in writing, he executes the same kinds of strategies as he does in his visual work. The links he makes—his ability to not only jump from one realm of culture to another, but to draw connections between them, so that by the end you’re thinking of, say, B movies and high modernist sculpture and pornography all as part of a single ideological scheme. Now, that’s really subversive—undermining a lot of what we hold to be precious. He’s doing the same thing in much of his visual work, forcing contradiction and exploding cultural categories from within.
Rail: I thought the reception around McCarthy’s “White Snow” was strange. I think it’s really a major, deep, substantial thing, and Holland Cotter kind of said that, but there were a lot of people who were saying: “this is Paul McCarthy doing the same thing—dirty old man—with a lot more money.”
Levine: It was the same kind of response to Kelley’s “Day Is Done” (2005), that it was hyper-indulgent, as though the artist was not aware of what he was doing, as though it was devoid of self-critique. Moreover, such criticisms preclude an engagement with the specific subject matter of the works in question. No one said, “He’s reproducing these high school musicals as scenes of trauma linked to both mass media and pedagogic institutions, and this is consistent with virtually his entire oeuvre.” Both “Day is Done” and “White Snow” are culminations of 30 years of work. This doesn’t mean they’re above criticism, certainly not, but it’s more than that these artists simply got a lot of money and decided to blow it out and have a big circus. I thought one of the more poignant criticisms of “White Snow“ was by Glenn O’Brien, who suggested that maybe Snow White and Pinocchio and all these themes that McCarthy has worked with since the 1980s are things people don’t really think about anymore—that Disney has lost its iconic role in our society, it’s pop.
Rail: I completely disagree. I talk to a lot of artists in their 20s and many of them talk about Disney as relevant to their work. If anything it makes McCarthy more relevant than ever to younger artists—it’s just the mediocre middle-aged writers who don’t see that.
Levine: To go back to how these artists are written about, if you’re going to dip your toe into the subject matter—which critics too often do not really want to do—then you’re going to have to go all the way. And you might not like where you wind up. As Kelley once said, “If you resist it, that’s understandable, but if you try to argue with it, you have dealt yourself a losing hand.”
Rail: I wonder if one of the paradoxical reason why writers don’t want to go into the content is that it can’t be neatly pinned “over there” on the artist’s biography. Everyone is so happy to follow Louise Bourgeois’s “my father and the mistress” story so that as long as the work is read within her family psychodrama it’s “safe.” They don't have to deal with the disturbance on any other level. But because McCarthy and Kelley disavow a personal reading, it’s much harder for people to approach what is going on without looking at themselves.
Levine: Yes, it’s deeply provocative and seductive at the same time. With all three of the artists that I deal with in the book, but Kelley especially, I think it’s crucial that they deliberately and self-consciously efface the political positioning of the artist—their own “voices,” so to speak. These artists refuse to take a clear position vis-à-vis the issues they raise, and this gets them into trouble at times because people assume certain things about them that may or may not be true. But ultimately, the work is calibrated to turn the tables on the viewer. It is designed to trap you: again, if you give a finger, it’s going to take an arm.
Rail: You do such a good job of situating all three in their times and places. Yet there is the present moment at which your book is published, and such exhibitions are mounted, in which these artists are getting a lot of attention. Can we situate some of the currents that are elevating them?
Levine: It’s funny, when I started the project back in graduate school, Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon were still somewhat marginal, at least within academia, and there was some resistance. One peer suggested that I would never get a job with that kind of topic. But, are you talking about their recent market success?
Rail: No, I’m not interested in the attention as something more than an index of something else. Right now seems to be marked by unraveling institutional structures of authority and of validation—no one who is supposed to knows what the fuck is going on with art. Which is actually great. So what I mean is formally, or as ways of thinking, Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon represent strategies of making and being that feel exceptionally relevant for engaging that situation.
Levine: You can argue that this relates to our 21st-century world of dislodged values and contradictory bedfellows, with a lack of faith in institutions writ large—not just art institutions. That their work reflects a lack of belief, a general uncertainty in all realms of life, and a lack of clear paths forward in the post-post-post world. The de-mystification of society’s institutions and ideological modes of thought—on the Right and the Left—really holds an appeal for people who want to be engaged in the politics of today without resorting to black and white, us and them, good and bad, perverse and normal. People are increasingly realizing that they are “paying for their pleasures” with every move they make in the world. These artists’ work is as relevant today as ever.
Rail: I also wonder about the ways in which Kelley and McCarthy tried to critically navigate the art market in relation to spectacle and object-making. I wonder if part of what draws our attention is that they were working in a way that became highly sellable and increasingly spectacular but didn’t undermine the critical force of the work. Rather, it heightens the work’s potency.
Levine: I think so—especially if we compare them with an artist like Jeff Koons. Someone should write an article about Koons and Kelley in the 1980s and 90s. They’re both dealing with similar kinds of ideas, about repression, kitsch, craft, high and low. There are several overlaps. But Koons himself is not really implicated in his own work, and that’s the problem with it: there’s no self-incrimination. Koons’s art points in one direction; it is designed in such a way that the artist is always one step ahead of the consumer, whether it’s the viewer or the buyer. It’s as though he’s saying: “Every time you buy it, you’re proving my point, and the more you pay, the more you prove my point.” For Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon, that is an absolutely false (and deeply cynical) position—placing the artist in some ideal, autonomous realm and inoculating him from criticism. Instead, they essentially say: “Yes, I’m going to make work that conflates high and low but in a way that calls the whole structure into question—not just calls ‘you’ out as an individual consumer, but points to the ways in which we are all implicated, together.” And they offer no resolution.
Rail: Exactly! Even as I loved it, I was deeply troubled by “White Snow” in trying to understand if it is misogynist. I don’t think it is, but I appreciated being put in the situation to ask, “Is it okay for him to be shoving this mic down this girl’s throat?”
Levine: I would say “entrapment” is the key metaphor for a lot of this work, because when you’re trapped in something it still allows for your own personal navigation. The objective is to make the viewer grapple, obstructing recourse to fixed categories and preset solutions. For someone like Koons, it’s about being put in a box—there is an answer: the art world’s a joke, art is pornography for the wealthy, whatever. It’s completely contained, closed, prescribed, packageable. And as a result, the viewer has no agency, no voice, no opportunity for retort. The open-ended qualities of Kelley’s, McCarthy’s, and Pettibon’s work allows for nuance and negotiation. It doesn’t so much label or point fingers as allow the viewer to rethink his or her own beliefs and values. This makes the work not only more expansive, complex, and messier, but more discomforting for all involved. | <urn:uuid:87d3289a-db0e-421e-9f8e-8c29315a8de0> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://wwww.brooklynrail.org/2014/02/art_books/in-conversation-cary-levine-with-jarrett-earnest | 2022-01-19T04:20:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301263.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119033421-20220119063421-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.973677 | 2,712 |
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The department is the second level of administrative divisions on the map of France. This division into departments is between the region and the district ("arrondissement").
Each department belongs to a single region. (Each of four overseas region being composed of a single department).
France is divided into 101 departments. They are divided into 343 districts ("arrondissements"), 4 058 townships ("cantons") and 36 699 Towns ("communes").
Each department has a capital city or prefecture which includes its institutions. This capital is often the largest city of the department.
According to figures (in 1999), the median population of a department of continental France was 511 012 inhabitants.
The skills of the department are:
- Social Action
- Restructure rural land
- Maintenance of colleges
- School and transport
The removal of one or more local levels is being debated in France for several years and especially the option to remove department level.
For now, the Balladur committee dealing with the reform of local government did not adopt this proposal, so there is currently no change at the departmental level.
At right, you will find the map of French departments.
Clicking on a department link, You will find a detailed map of the department and statistical informations, photos, travel guide for all cities of this department.
Map of France - Department MAP OF FRANCE DEPARTEMENT
The region is the first level of administrative divisions on the map of France.
Before the French Revolution of 1789, France was divided into provinces from the historical feudal history. Some of these regions roughly correspond to the current regions.
During the revolution these provinces were abolished and the French territory was divided into 83 departments.
On 5 April 1919, the first ministerial decree establishes the first regional grouping called "regions Clémentel".
From the First World War, the development of transport, urban, building regionalist ideas, leading some to question the desirability of creating larger administrative divisions than departments.
Skills in the region include:
- Territory development
- Economic development
- Vocational training
- Maintenance of schools
- Rail transport
The first election of Regional Councillors by universal suffrage was in March 16, 1986. Regions became officialy french divisions as departments and municipalities.
France is divided into 27 regions, which in turn are divided into 101 departments, 343 districts ("arrondissements"), 4 058 townships ("cantons") and 36 699 Towns ("communes").
At right, you could find the map of France regions. Clicking on a region link, you will find a detailed map of the region and statistical informations, photos, travel guide for all cities of this region.
Here are the 100 largest cities of France (population 2006). We do not count here the concept of urban area but the municipal population.
Click on the city name to see all this information: pictures, maps, population, population density, area, elevation, geographic coordinates, ...
In 2010, the population of France was estimated at 65 447 374 inhabitants. On 1 January 2009, the population of France was estimated at 65 073 482 inhabitants, distributed as follows:
- 62 448 977 in metropolitan France
- 1 854 505 in the overseas departments (DOM without St. Martin and St. Barthelemy)
- 770 000 in overseas communities (COM, including St. Martin and St. Barthelemy)
The population is increasing by 366 500 people by 2008.
Northern France is the most populated with about 40 million people (or 2 / 3 of the population) against approximately 22.5 million in the South (or 1 / 3 of the population) (metropolitan France only).
Within the European Union (EU) demography of France stands out for the life expectancy of women (84.23 years 2008 estimate) which is the highest in Europe and a fertility rate (2.02 in 2008) the highest in Europe.
At right, you could find the map of France's largest cities. By browsing the site you can view a map of France, statistics, informations, photos and travel guide for each town of France.
You will find here (clicking on this map at right), the map of population density of France, the map of cities of France and finally the detailed classification of the 5 main areas French: Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Toulouse
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Map of France : key data
Administrative divisions : France is divided into 27 regions, 101 departments, 343 districts (arrondissements), 4 058 townships (cantons) and 36 699 Towns (communes).
Population of France : In 2010, the population of France was estimated at 65 447 374 inhabitants.
Largest cities of France : The 5 largest cities of France are (municipal population in 2006) :
Largest urban areas of France : The 5 largest urban areas of France are (population of urban areas in 2006) :
The mountains on the map of France : The 5 major mountains of France are the Alpes, the Pyrénnées, the Massif Central, the Jura, the Vosges
The seas on the map of France : The 4 seas around France are: the North Sea, the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, the mediterranean sea
The rivers on the map of France : The 5 main rivers of France are: the Seine, the Loire, the Garonne, the Rhone, the Rhine
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The Bears’ 31-15 victory against the Redskins was a get-well game for both sides of the ball.
Mitch Trubisky threw his first three touchdown passes of the season, and the defense broke the takeaways dam by forcing five turnovers. Team health issues aside, it was an auspicious tuneup for Sunday’s home game against the NFC North rival Vikings.
Here are five observations about Monday’s victory from rewatching ESPN’s telecast using the NFL Game Pass subscription service.
1. Mitch Trubisky’s performance on third down was his best subset of plays this season.
Mitch Trubisky was 10 of 11 for 133 yards and a touchdown, good for a 147.3 rating. That resulted in eight conversions on 11 opportunities, which should be the standard against a defense that ranked worst in the NFL on third down entering Week 3 (64% conversion rate allowed).
In helping the Bears build a 28-0 lead, Trubisky converted everything from third-and-2 to third-and-8 to third-and-17. That was the product of some accurate throws, some stellar play designs, some athletic plays by his receivers and some quality pass protection when he needed it.
The 36-yard touchdown to Taylor Gabriel on third-and-17 was the gold star on the play-by-play sheet. Against a five-man rush, Trubisky escaped the pocket when linebacker Jon Bostic (the Bears’ second-round pick in 2013) looped his rush around the left side of the offensive line and came close to sacking him.
As Gabriel ran a double move (that wasn’t captured by ESPN’s cameras) and got two steps behind cornerback Josh Norman, Trubisky flicked a deep throw on the run. Could the pass have been more out in front of Gabriel and to the inside to keep him clearly in bounds for an easy catch? Technically, sure. But there’s no need to nitpick one of the Bears’ finest touchdowns in recent memory.
The throw gave Gabriel a chance, which was something Trubisky emphasized going into the game after failing to consistently give his receivers a chance to make plays on the ball in the first two games.
“I just felt like I put it in a place where Taylor could get it,” Trubisky said.
Coach Matt Nagy appreciated Trubisky’s footwork in changing the passing point and delivering a catchable ball.
“To throw an off-balance throw with that accuracy down the field like that was one of those plays we’ve been looking for,” Nagy said. “Those are the type of plays right there that really get you going. If there are 10 plays in the NFL that you put on (a top-10 list) by a quarterback, that’s 100% one of those top-10 plays.”
Gabriel made a magnificent adjustment to turn to catch the ball and get both feet down. That’ll stand as one of the Bears’ best catches all season. (Gabriel did not speak to media after the game because he’s in the concussion protocol.)
Some other quick notes on Trubisky’s 7-for-7 performance on third down in the first half:
- He converted third-and-2 and third-and-8 on short crossing routes to Anthony Miller and Gabriel, respectively. Both times he did well leading the receiver to set up yards after the catch.
- Allen Robinson’s crisp route running against a struggling Redskins secondary unlocked completions for Trubisky all night. On the first conversion of the game, an out route from the right slot on third-and-2, Robinson turned cornerback Fabian Moreau completely around with how he maneuvered his body with a little wiggle to set up the out cut.
The Bears improved from 28th in the NFL on third down to tied for 20th. We’ll see if that amounts to momentum against a Vikings defense that is perennially one of the best third-down defenses in the league. They’re ranked sixth through three games (29%).
2. Mitch Trubisky’s third-quarter interception was such a buzzkill because so many things went wrong.
Mitch Trubisky’s pre-snap determination to target Allen Robinson on a back-shoulder throw was fatal to this play, but that was only one of multiple problems. Let’s start with the play call.
The Bears led 28-9 at the 3:18 mark of the third. With such a comfortable lead and 18 minutes to play, a run would have been a safe call to keep the clock moving and keep the Bears defense resting on the sideline.
For me, Matt Nagy’s decision to throw there instead of keeping it on the ground was the strongest evidence that he was intent on increasing Trubisky’s confidence and momentum by running up the touchdown pass total against a poor Redskins defense. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
That said, while it’s fair to question Nagy’s run/pass decision there, there’s no disputing Nagy dialed up a play that should’ve been an easy touchdown flick to Anthony Miller — another player who could use a boost.
Against man-to-man coverage from the right slot, Miller ran cornerback Fabian Moreau off the line of scrimmage with a quick-footed, deliberate release. He proceeded to run a shallow cross. His route was underneath the crossing route of tight end Adam Shaheen from the left side of the formation.
That crossing action created traffic that slowed Moreau, which got Miller wide open for an easy short throw. It would’ve been a prance-in touchdown.
However, Trubisky decided before the snap he liked the man-to-man matchup between Robinson and cornerback Josh Norman.
“We had a good play going on to the main side, and then I had a one-on-one option with A-Rob,” Trubisky said immediately after the game. “Obviously, you get a little excited when you get A-Rob pressed one-on-one into a fade, but the dude made a good play. I was thinking back-shoulder. He beat him over the top. Kind of a miscommunication and predetermined. Would like to have that one back.”
Said Nagy: “It’s a specific play built for a coverage. And if you get that coverage, you have an ability to read it out and see what happens. He decided to throw the ball to 12 (Robinson). And that was that. … To me, you come away with a win, these situations and these plays are ones where you learn.”
Nagy continues to push Trubisky within each play to identify the best option against whatever coverage the defense is in. Trubisky didn’t give himself the opportunity to read Miller crossing the field wide open. That ended up keeping the Redskins in the game longer than they should’ve been, not to mention it sapped some of the good vibes Trubisky generated in the first half.
“We were right there to really be able to put that thing away,” Nagy said. “And I felt like where we can take that next step is right there.”
3. Matt Nagy and his staff schemed receivers open all game with well-designed route combinations.
The Bears used switched releases, crossing routes and misdirection to get receivers into space and set up Mitch Trubisky for some relatively easy completions. This was a winning strategy against an undermanned defense that, through the first two games, gave up big plays because of communication breakdowns.
Here are two plays that stood out:
One was Taylor Gabriel’s 3-yard touchdown catch. Three elements of the play design got the defense moving away from the left side of the formation, where the ball ended up going.
One element was Tarik Cohen’s motion out of the backfield into the right flat. Another was the offensive line’s blocking action toward the right. And the third was how two of the three receivers in a bunch formation on the right (Adam Shaheen and Cordarrelle Patterson) released toward the right.
Meanwhile, Gabriel slipped across the formation to the left and was wide open. Easy touchdown flick for Trubisky.
The other play actually didn’t count in the box score. It was an incompletion negated by an offside penalty against Redskins edge rusher Ryan Kerrigan in the second quarter. But Trubisky had a chance for a 20-yard completion to Anthony Miller down the left sideline because of Miller’s switched release with Allen Robinson.
It was simple. Miller lined up inside and basically ran a rub route behind Robinson, putting his defender in a trail position. That opened a downfield window for Trubisky, who barely overthrew the pass. It went off Miller’s fingertips.
The incompletion didn’t hurt the Bears with a loss of down because of the penalty. But it was a missed opportunity. Ideally, Trubisky hits that throw to take advantage of a well-designed route, and it turns into the type of chunk play the Bears have been lacking.
“That was, I think, probably a component of both of them — of Mitch and Anthony,” Matt Nagy explained. “That one there when he jumped offside, that’s a free play. Those are the ones you really want to hit. And so we didn’t, but that’s OK. I know what Anthony can do, and we know that he’s definitely a weapon. I think we’re getting close (with him).”
4. Khalil Mack tracked the football with GPS precision.
I made the mistake of asking Khalil Mack in the locker room to describe the strip-sack. His deadpanned reply was: “Which one?”
Good point. He had three, after all. The Bears recovered only one, the one in question. A hands-to-the-face penalty against cornerback Prince Amukamara negated one and Redskins quarterback Case Keenum recovered the other.
Matt Nagy perfectly described Mack’s pass-rush approach Monday, saying: “When Khalil sacks the quarterback, he sacks the football.”
We’ve come to know that about him, haven’t we? Mack prioritizes the ball as much or more than the tackle. That actually cost him a sack in Week 2 against the Broncos, when he widened his rush to swipe at the ball in Joe Flacco’s hand instead of angling for the takedown.
But it worked against the Redskins, especially on the strip-sack that Akiem Hicks recovered. Mack is terrific at blending speed and power and using his hands to get where he wants to go. He also bends the edge so well. He did exactly that in forcing the turnover, getting upfield and dipping underneath the tackle before sharpening his turn to the quarterback.
Then he found the ball, lifting it from Keenum’s grip.
“He’s very instinctual as a pass rusher knowing the arm angles of a quarterback and where the ball’s out, or at least where the arm angle is going go to,” Nagy said. “When you’re violent, you’re strong, you’re aggressive like he is, you get those. He was just dominant (Monday) night.”
5. The brilliance of Danny Trevathan’s stop-and-go blitz was in the details.
The veteran inside linebacker continues to produce three games into his contract year. Danny Trevathan forced a fumble on a quarterback sneak midway through the fourth quarter that effectively sealed the victory. It was one of his team-high-tying seven solo tackles. He also had a second-quarter sack that will make the Bears’ season highlight reel, without question.
Trevathan blitzed past right guard Brandon Scherff, a two-time Pro Bowler, to get to Case Keenum. On third-and-9 from the Bears 14 yard-line, he used a stop-and-go move to fool Scherff into turning away, then blitzed through the gap without being touched. Trevathan’s savvy, athleticism and showmanship combined for a special play.
In 2014, Trevathan was on injured reserve with a broken left leg when Broncos teammate Demarcus Ware famously beat 49ers six-time Pro Bowl left tackle Joe Staley with a fake spin move for a sack of Colin Kaepernick on “Sunday Night Football.”
The play, which became a viral sensation, stuck in Trevathan’s mental vault, and he channeled that move Monday night.
Trevathan didn’t commit to selling the spin move like Ware did on that pass rush five seasons ago. Ware actually made contact with Staley and rolled his shoulders past 90 degrees. But Trevathan opened his right shoulder as he slowed his feet. That intentional move got Scherff to turn his attention inside, vacating the pass-rush lane.
“Demarcus did it better back in the day,” Trevathan said with a smile that showed off his gold grill. “I had been trying to set it up. I did a great job of studying their O-line and knowing that they wanted to put four hands on the big guys in front of us. I just wanted to be smart. I didn’t want to mess our team up on that third down. It wasn’t in the game plan. I just tried to make a play.”
It took great footwork for Trevathan to reaccelerate in his pass rush after stopping his feet, but he had no problem. It was an explosive tackle that will go down as one of the Bears’ most entertaining of the season. More importantly, it pushed the Redskins back 11 yards, and they missed a 43-yard field-goal attempt on the ensuing snap. That kept the score 7-0, and soon the rout was on. | <urn:uuid:d79e8b55-af96-459c-9a6e-0c5df6f3995b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bears/ct-cb-chicago-bears-observations-redskins-mitch-trubisky-khalil-mack-20190925-iezycsvygncttglfpo3wy247vy-story.html | 2022-01-22T01:00:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00319.warc.gz | en | 0.969936 | 3,015 |
Table of Contents
1. Temporary Housing for Smooth Transitions
2. Why would you need a furnished apartment?
3. What’s included in a fully furnished apartment?
4. How much does a furnished apartment cost?
5. How do billing and lease terms work for furnished apartments?
6. Find a furnished apartment
7. Can a family stay in a furnished apartment?
8. What’s the process of getting a furnished apartment?
9. Your one stop shop for relocations
Furnished apartments are the ideal hotel alternative when you’re navigating a relocation and in need of temporary housing. At Corporate Connection, our relocation experts regularly provide fully furnished apartments for HR managers seeking to house new hires, career professionals taking on temporary assignments in new cities, families in the middle of home renovations, and others.
We’re able to provide our customers with plenty of rental options because we partner with more than 50 properties across the Carolinas, including:
But don’t be overwhelmed. We understand the toll relocating takes on companies, employees, individuals, and families. So, let us handle the details. It’s what we do.
Furnished Apartments for Employee Relocation
Relocating for a new job is one of the main reasons people consider furnished apartment rentals. When you’re starting a new job in a new city, finding short-term housing isn’t something you can afford to put off. In fact, it’s one of the first things you’ll need to figure out.
The challenge is, when you’re in the midst of a relocation, your attention is being pulled in so many more directions than just housing. Not only are you starting a new job, but you’re also figuring out your place in a new company, adopting a new schedule, learning a new city, and trying not to appear stressed out in front of your new boss. That’s a lot to juggle – too much. That’s why our team partners with employees who are relocating. We work with you and for you to secure temporary housing that meets your needs and crosses a major item off your to-do list.
Furnished Apartments for Temporary Work Assignments
Contract workers, temp employees, and professionals who regularly travel for projects and out-of-town client meetings all have at least one thing in common: They need extended stay alternatives in order to work effectively.
Traveling nurses and consultants frequently lease furnished apartments, but the nature of their work demands that their leases are fast and flexible. After all, when you’re diving into a short-term relocation project, there’s not time to jump through a bunch of hoops with your lease agreement. Neither is it advantageous to lease an apartment that locks you in for a definite period of time. At Corporate Connection, our leasing specialists work fast, and we’ll always present apartments that offer flexible lease agreements.
Furnished Apartments for Executive Visits
When executives from corporate headquarters visit your company, it’s important to make sure their temporary housing is meticulously arranged. Most companies default to booking hotel rooms for their most prestigious guests, but furnished apartments are the hotel alternative that not only has more space to offer, but also added features that exceed hotels by leaps and bounds.
If you’re the person in your company who’s in charge of securing corporate housing for executives and other important guests, you’ve probably asked yourself once or twice what it takes to impress them. Our advice is to start with a furnished apartment.
Furnished Apartments for Extended Training Programs
Many times, companies will send new hires, individual employees, or entire departments to training programs that last for weeks or even months. Hotels can get expensive. Not only would your company need to book a separate room for every person taking the training, but it would also need to provide a much larger budget for dining out.
Unlike hotel rooms, furnished apartments are set up for longer stays, which means they have fully equipped kitchens. Occupants can cook for themselves instead of dining out three times a day, and in the end, your accounting department ends up with less to reimburse when your team turns in their expense reports.
Here’s what you’ll find in your fully furnished apartment:
- Furniture and décor for every room
- Wi-Fi and all utilities
- Kitchen utensils and dishes for cooking, serving and dining
- Small kitchen appliances, including a blender, coffeemaker, toaster and microwave
- Bedroom linens and clothing hangers
- Bathroom towels and shower curtain
- Housekeeping equipment and cleaning starter kit
- Miscellaneous items you use every day
Many people are surprised to learn that a furnished apartment is cheaper per day than a hotel. Not only that, but furnished apartments come with a lot more features than does a standard hotel room.
While furnished apartments are cheaper per day than hotels, they are still an expense. Rent—even at a competitive rate—isn’t something people pay for as mindlessly as they would a cup of coffee. That’s why our relocation specialists work with you to select a furnished apartment that meets your budget requirements.
Our 50+ properties range in price depending on location and featured amenities so that our wide range of customers can find a furnished housing rental that’s right for them.
Furnished apartments are ideal when you need a place to move into quickly. But what about when you’re moving out? That’s not always quite as easy.
Someone moving into a furnished apartment for an indefinite period of time will probably sign a month-to-month lease. However, someone who anticipates staying in their furnished apartment for six months or more will likely sign a fixed lease agreement in order to get a better monthly rate. The problem with fixed leases arises when your short-term stay ends up being even shorter than anticipated, and you are forced to break your lease, which is a major expense.
Flexible Lease Terms
The major benefit of leasing a furnished apartment through Corporate Connection is our ability to offer flexible lease terms that will save you from being hit with a big penalty fee for breaking your lease prematurely.
Flexible leases are an essential part of making our guests feel confident about relocating to a furnished apartment. After all, there are a lot of variables and uncertainties when it comes to a move. A fixed lease rarely works well in the mix.
Our partnerships with more than 50 apartment communities across South Carolina’s Upstate and into Asheville, North Carolina allow us to provide our customers with great options when it comes lease terms.
Not only are the lease agreements for our furnished apartments flexible, but the billing process is a breeze. We provide direct billing on a monthly basis so that you can easily manage and anticipate your housing expenses. The best part, though, is that there’s actually not that much to manage. We offer consolidated billing so that you only get one bill each month, and that bill includes everything—utilities, amenities, all of the furnishings, and of course, the apartment itself.
Are you looking for a furnished apartment in the Carolinas? Corporate Connection is headquartered in Greenville, SC, but we partner with apartment properties across the Upstate and in the Midlands of South Carolina, as well as Asheville, NC.
We want to provide you with the best possible apartment to function as your new, temporary home. See what’s available!
Corporate Connection currently offers fully furnished apartments in the following cities:
Furnished apartments aren’t just for single professionals, temporary interns, or even college students. They’re for anyone who needs a hotel alternative for their extended stay in the Carolinas—and that includes families.
Families with Kids
Families lease furnished apartments for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they’re working on home renovations or waiting on their contractor to finish a largescale project. Another common scenario is waiting on insurance money in order to make a repair.
Many families with children assume that our short-term apartments are not for them. However, our furnished apartments have up to three bedrooms, which make them not just a realistic option for a family with kids, but an ideal one.
Renters with Pets
Sometimes your “kids” are actually four legged furry friends. That’s okay, too! Our furnished apartments are pet-friendly because we’d hate for you to leave your most loyal companion behind, even for a temporary stay.
We take care of everything so you don’t have to. That’s been our mantra for years, which is why we make every effort to keep the process of finding and leasing a furnished apartment as simple and straightforward as possible.
Once you’ve relocated with the help of a professional, you’ll never go back. It’s not just about us furnishing your apartment. It’s about:
- Meeting your moving deadlines so that your furnished apartment is ready when you need it and
- Finding your ideal location so that your furnished apartment is where you need it.
When you’re ready to lease a fully furnished apartment, contact Corporate Connection. Thanks to the extensive experience our relocation specialists bring to the table, they’ll have your temporary housing found and finalized by your deadline—guaranteed! Give us a call at (864) 627-4002. We look forward to getting you in your furnished apartment! | <urn:uuid:c811cdc8-e6c3-4fbe-97b3-89bbc9455668> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.corporateconnection.net/furnished-apartments/ | 2022-01-21T23:21:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00319.warc.gz | en | 0.956167 | 1,993 |
Project Based Learning Evaluations, Application to Society & Afterword
Welcome to the fifth and final installment of this five-article series on an exciting and innovative development in the global education futures space – Project-Based Learning – at FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE. This fifth installment combines relevant sections from Chapters four, five and six as adapted from Professor Noyuri Mima’s book The Design of Project-Based Learning – Learning Methodologies to Transform Our Futures. This article summarizes three main aspects of the overall PBL initiative at Future University: How projects are evaluated, some examples of how they are applied to communities and societies, and finally, an afterword that situates the PBL program within global objectives such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
PART I: Project Evaluations and Portfolios
A matter of special interest to both academic staff and third year students alike concerns the operation of the PBL projects and how they are evaluated. Conventionally, student work was readily evaluated based on the premise that the individual student would store new knowledge based on their study efforts, they would solve problems as delivered in lectures, and sit for exams to receive their due grades. In contrast to this seemingly straightforward evaluation procedure, in the case of PBL, students work as part of a team rather than individually, necessitating a paradigmatically different approach to evaluations. To answer this question, firstly, we must re-visit the basic question of what purpose student evaluations serve in the first place.
How students are grated
In the PBL course, giving students grades involves more than tallying up individual test scores. Understood from the point of view of a learner-centered approach, progress is measured according to feedback which reflects how they have proceeded along the PBL studies path. The ultimate grade students are finally awarded also depends on their teacher-to-student consultation – a recent refinement of the PBL process since it began 17 or more years ago. Three factors influence the outcome of this consultation: student self-evaluation, peer evaluations, and survey results from interim and final presentations.
The first – self-evaluation – takes into account attendance, weekly reports, attitude and degree of collaboration, performance in the interim and final reports, as well as contribution to presentations. Peer evaluations look at both positive and negative points according to their team member’s comments. Peer comments from interim and final presentations evaluate their performance, methods used, and other factors. It is a requirement of both students and academic staff that they complete survey questionnaires about other teams’ projects. Outside visitors’ survey comments are also factored in to the overall evaluation process.
It often happens that a student has been highly evaluated by his or peers while critically self-evaluating – or vice-versa – in which case the student and academic staff can talk through these issues that arise, during the final consultation.
The Student Portfolio
Essentially there are two different types of written reports accepted as part of the PBL evaluation process. The first resembles the type of thesis expected at an engineering conference – precisely and logically structured with hypothesis and results, while the second type is more concerned with process – with what students have read and learnt, and what new skills they acquired along the way. To add, there is also a third style that combines to varying degrees both the above.
Final reports tend to follow one of these above styles and collectively are referred to as the ‘Project-Based Learning Portfolio’. The portfolios are compiled three times over the course duration: at team member allocations; interim reports; and final reports. As part of these three portfolio submissions, each is accompanied by a survey with questions that build successively upon each other, culminating in a 21-question survey at the end of the course. As PBL is a required course for third year students, these questions are also designed to guide students for their fourth and final year in terms of identifying research themes for their graduation thesis.
What’s happen after PBL Portfolios
FUN recognizes the importance for students to be especially aware of and think about their portfolios in terms of not only how they progressed over the one-year course, but also in terms of how that pedagogical progress can be effectively applied to ongoing studies. As the student portfolio is still a relatively new system at FUN, not only is there much scope for improvement but also for better quantifying the student progress over the three portfolio submissions. Academic staff too are aware that they need to keep discussing the portfolio system itself so that it can be strategically applied in fourth year studies. This ongoing debate around the portfolio potentially involves more effective methods of data visualization that allow academic staff to help maximize student outcomes in their future studies.
PART II: Project-Based Learning Real-World Applications
In this section our attention turns to one of the most important aspects of the Future University Project-Based Learning program – namely, how it relates to community, society and its potential effects vis-à-vis real-world problems. Multiple stakeholders take active part in the PBL team projects from project design through to completion. This requires not just technical understanding of the issues being researched but also the theoretical foundations that inform each project.
Theoretical Underpinnings of PBL’s Societal Involvement
Since the 1980s education around the world has undergone rapid reform. The word we take for granted now – ‘learning’ – only began to gain currency from the mid 1990s onwards as applied to business, lifelong learning, policy formulation and city-planning sectors. Added to these are the successive and synergy-forming waves of new research fields around social psychology and group dynamics from the 1940-50s, and educational psychology and cognitive psychology from the 1960s, which continued to inform each other from the 1980s onwards. All of these and more now inform and have become part of the theoretical foundation that guides the current Project-Based Learning program at Future University Hakodate. Let’s take a look at some of these foundational educational theories.
Evolution of Organization Learning Theories
One of the most influential scholar-thinkers whose work forms part of the PBL theoretical base is Kurt Lewin, who famously sought political exile from the Nazi regime and ended up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Lewin is now known as one of the most influential figures in the field of social sciences best known perhaps for his contribution to our understanding of how individuals and groups interact – a field we refer to as group dynamics. Embodied in the term action research, Lewin’s research contributed to shaping our understanding of individual-group interactions with a view to strategically guiding society in preferred future directions.
To his credit, Lewin applied his research to real-world situations involving multiple ‘stakeholders’ – a term he coined – such as federal and local government bodies, citizen groups and experts, then considered an innovative strategy for identifying authentic problems areas from which solution strategies could be crafted. Lewin’s research was further taken up by his successors Chris Argyris and Donald Schön who advanced Lewin’s work in the 1980s into what they called ‘Action Science’. Action Science incorporated key terms such as ‘reflection’ – or the ability to stand back from social phenomenon with an objective eye.
Another influential term was ‘meta-cognition’ which refers to a higher cognitive skill that allows the learner to stand above knowledge gained. In other words, this is the ability to learn about learning, a higher order cognitive skill that promotes our transcending current problems as a conduit to inspiring innovation.
This complex cluster of knowledge bases can in turn be structured neatly into a three-step model consisting of an ‘unfreezing’ phase, which involves planning through to the diagnosis of social situations, and the collection of relevant data to inform a plan of action. This is funneled into the next phase – ‘changing’ – where collected data and information is translated into learnable knowledge and praxis. The third phase – ‘refreezing’ – as its name implies, requires that results from phases one and two are systematically analyzed and where new behaviors and attitudinal changes can be evaluated. Outcomes from this last phase are subsequently fed back for iterative refinement into the previous phases in a continuous virtuous cycle of social betterment.
Synergies between expert and experiential knowledge and the integration of contemporary versus traditional knowledge
Schön was conscious that expert knowledge does not necessarily translate into the overall betterment of society. This led scholars such as Donald Schön to conceive the notion of the ‘reflective practitioner’ which although at first glance might put the academic expert on the self-defense, reconciled the expert with the non-expert, by re-conceptualizing the latter as having knowledge that complements the expert’s knowledge into a greater synergistic whole, essentially forming the possibility of an equal partnership.
On this theme of what constitutes ‘knowledge’, in our so-called modern society we are quick to think of modern science, scientific knowledge, and expert knowledge. But more recently, our taxonomy of knowledges has been expanded to give greater weight to notions that now incorporate the ideas of living knowledge, everyday knowledge, body knowledge, local knowledge and indigenous knowledge. Increasingly, these knowledge types are understood as providing essential balance and support to the world in which we live.
A ground-breaking project that reflects the equal importance of these various knowledge types was a healthcare project conducted in a rural Thailand healthcare facility. In this radical project, Western-based medical workers as well as local indigenous medical workers collaborated with stakeholders from government, local community organizations, social workers, and patients, from which a unique healthcare model emerged. This model eventually became a new benchmark in cross-knowledge health care practice adopted by other nations and health care professionals.
Organizational Knowledge and Innovation
Another concept that forms the foundations of Future University Hakodate’s Project-Based Learning initiative derives from the management theorist Ikujiro Nonaka – namely, organizational knowledge creation. Research across various Japanese organizations including National Panasonic found a synergistic mutually-influencing process between tacit knowledge and formalized knowledge. This was later codified into the theory known as organizational knowledge creation theory which set off a management boom in the United States based on Japan’s corporate innovative success.
In the wake of this boom, scholars such as Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger developed the notion ‘community of practice’ – which become a guiding manual for Japan’s business communities when translated into a book aimed at an emerging community of practice knowledge-based society. The basic tents of this theory base cross-over strongly with the FUN PBL organizational model and inform multi-stakeholder collaborations strategies and at the same time promote innovation throughout our university.
Towards the Learning Region
Better innovation models are required not only by corporations but also by local governmental organizations beset with a litany of emerging social problems such as aging populations, declining birthrates, ongoing urbanization and outmigration of rural populations, and the greater imperative to create sustainable societies. Within this context, from the year 2000, hundreds of workshops around the themes of town-making and revitalizing local communities emerged, variously using techniques derived from action research theories. One focus indicated the need for local community members to take responsibility for the futures of their own communities, a notion that came to be known as community design.
The mid-sized city of Hakodate where FUN is based, provides a pioneering example of this type of local community futures movement when in 2002, government bodies, business leaders, experts and citizens staged the event ‘The Hakodate Livability Project – Unique Lifestyles and Environment’ – which became a benchmark throughout Japan. This and similar projects have both informed the Future University Project-Based Learning initiatives while our initiatives have in turn influenced them in an ongoing virtuous cycle of innovative community-building knowledge and praxis.
Towards the Lifelong Learning Society
Another influential factor on the FUN PBL program derives from the notion of lifelong learning, which, as a result of the successes of Japan’s rapid economic growth has spurned widespread interest in all varieties of leisure activities and ongoing educational opportunities. The first formalized embodiment of this lifelong learning soft innovation came from the French educationalist Paul Lengrand who presented his concept of ‘education permanante’ to the third UNESCO International Adult Education Committee. Two guiding concepts around lifelong learning including the nurturing of adult confidence in coping with wider social change, learning about learning, and the fostering of a lifelong questioning mindset.
Creating Independent Learning Opportunities
A further related concept was the notion of creating independent learning opportunities and venues, active learning. The premise was that lifelong learners with real-world experience could bring meaningful and valuable contributions to the ongoing betterment of society as a whole. Starting with France and England, universities designed for more mature-age students – U3A (University for the Third Age) – spread to more than 50 countries and currently have more than 1,000 campuses with 400,000 plus students. Many of the operational features of the U3A model resemble that of the Project-Based Learning model. Mature-age universities have also taken off across Japan and are often managed as local government body organizations and welfare cooperatives. Due to their transparent management policies, prioritization of mature students’ individual interest areas, and commitment to social contribution, commonalities with the FUN PBL program are apparent.
Examples of University Education Spin-Off Projects
Many commonalities have been identified with the evolution of the above-mentioned educational innovations and the philosophies that underlie the Future University PBL course. However, there are also differences. PBL student expectations do not always readily correspond to corporate and community expectations. What should be done in this case? Our answer is simple. Rather than thinking solely about grades students obtain, PBL is better thought of as a ‘hybrid learning’ model, a fusion of university education and adult education which seamlessly integrates students along with community members.
By way of example, one organization that oversees all higher education institutions in Hakodate is the Hakodate Campus Consortium, as it is known. HCC launched a novel program in 2009 – the Hakodate Science Terakoya*1 – Introduction to Science Technology Communication, an annual summer intensive course. In this program, tertiary students are able to receive credits for their performance while at the same time it is also an adult education course. The course is designed to deepen peoples’ understanding of science and technology issues as they affect our modern societies. Students can share their university-learnt science and technology knowledge with citizens who in return share their life experience knowledge. At the completion of the course, they collaborate by exhibiting their group results at the Hakodate International Science Festival (HISF).
The Hakodate Science Terakoya started with the objective of nurturing local would-be science communicators but due to its popularity gained over the years, there have been surprising outcomes. For example, some Terakoya participants ask to be volunteers for the HISF, others wish to take the course again, while others elect to volunteer as teacher assistants for ongoing courses.
These and other spin-off educational opportunities have emerged organically from Future University and the Project-Based Learning courses extending to diverse community groups such as physically challenged groups, all under the banner of enlightening ordinary citizens around the issues, the commercial and social possibilities, even the beauty, that current science and technologies research potentially offers to excited learners from all walks of life.
*1 Terakoya is a traditional Japanese education style that first emerged in the 17th century in Japan initially from Buddhist temples aimed at teaching commoners the basics such as reading and writing – but often extended to other subject areas including geography, the arts, and so on.
PART III: Afterword
Sustainable Development Goals and Education 2030
In this concluding section, we turn our attention to how the Future University Hakodate Project-Based Learning course and educational goals fit into the wider global context. A defining acronym that appropriately packages the nature of our rapidly changing work is VUCA – or volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Within this global social context, in 2015 the United Nations Headquarters released a 17-goal 169-target development agenda for 2030 with a view to revolutionizing and preparing the world for a sustainable development paradigm. These sustainable development goals (SDGs) included the eradication of poverty, the total reduction of world hunger, adequate health care and welfare for all peoples, amongst others.
Aware of the greater context of these SDGs and similar reports including the OECD’s Education 2030 Project Position Paper (2018), Future University has strategically incorporated related concepts that speak to our world of finite resources, the hope for prosperity, how to guarantee a sustainable planet, not to mention improved well-being for all peoples on earth. Such global goals depend on a reconceptualization of not just our core competencies but what we call transformative competencies*2 – for which we suggest three: the capacity for creating new value – in the form of new products, worldviews, ways of thinking, social models, along with tolerance for adaptability, creativity and the spirit of curiosity. The second involves the ability to reconcile tensions and dilemmas; while the third refers to the capacity to take responsibility for one’s actions in our increasingly complex and inter-related world and be able to fully comprehend the consequences of our actions (p. 5-6).
*2 For the full report and related materials see: http://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/
Knowledge, skills, competencies and human agency
The above-mentioned concepts of knowledge, skills and competences – in all their variations – to be effectively and justly applied also require an extra capacity, namely, agency. Agency, simply put, refers to that human condition of feeling empowered – as an individual or organizational entity – to independently effect change on one’s social or physical environment. The term change agent is often used as a key term for those individuals or groups who consciously bring about change in the face of global education challenges such as the five identified in the OECD Position Paper*3 (2018, p.6) while in the context of education the inter-related terms student agency and teacher agency are increasingly added to the vernacular of contemporary education philosophies and strategies as a direct response to the above five challenges (2018, OECD Education 2030 Position Paper, p. 6). The common essence of these variations of the term agency points to the ability of all education parties to feel equally empowered to participate and independently bring about change in their respective roles. The PBL program at FUN consciously embodies and leverages this sense of agency for all participants in the PBL course dynamic.
*3 These OECD challenges included: curriculum overload; time lag between problem recognition and response; high quality content required to ensure student’s deeper understanding; curriculum equity; and fifthly, careful planning and alignment for effective reform implementation (2018, p. 6).
Desired Role Allocations in Education
Based on the above OECD Education 2030 Position Paper (2018), the FUN Project-Based Learning course has integrated five inter-related concepts to inform the PBL course design. These are:
- Teacher agency – in which academic staff should be able to fully and creatively apply their expert knowledge bases in order to effectively deliver PBL courses to their assigned students.
- Authenticity – in which students can apply their knowledge and experience to real-world situations, feel the value in their studies, and collaboratively learn topics that transcend single disciplines.
- Inter-relation – which refers to the opportunity for students to identify the relationships and connections between their various course subjects, PBL themes, and how these can be connected to everyday life situations.
- Flexibility – here, both teaching staff and students turn static knowledge concepts into ‘adaptable and dynamic’ applications, respond to social changes by adapting curriculum and course objectives that reflect continuously changing realities.
- Engagement – in which both students and teaching staff engage meaningfully with all project stakeholders and are actively involved in the course work from beginning to completion (p. 7).
Collectively, all these factors can be rolled into a concept we refer to as ‘co-agency’ by which we mean that students should not think of themselves as isolated siloed learners but as part of a wider learning community which includes academic staff, the community, their own families and loved ones, all of whom collectively and continuously reinforce and complement each other’s skills – the student as meta-student.
All human beings, however independent we may consider ourselves, live within a physical and social environment that imposes limitations on the possible. Certain things in the real world cannot be achieved and we as educators and learners must reconcile ourselves with this and focus on understanding the joy of what can be done, all the while being aware that if we work in teams the repertoire of what is possible can be significantly expanded.
This way of being in the world is what we like to call the FUN mindset, a wordplay on the letters FUH – Future University Hakodate. This key word ‘fun’ embodies the university thinking that learning can be fun, indeed must be fun. We also have the university-wide motto that reads: ‘Open Spaces Open Minds’ which reflects the idea that open and accessible university spaces also facilitate an open mindset. The Project-Based Learning program reflects these educational goals and concepts with the larger aim of encouraging students to find their studies a source of fascination and inspire them to act on their learning.
Creating a Sustainable Learning Environment
To conclude this five-article series featuring the innovative Project-Based Learning initiative offered at Future University Hakodate, we wish to emphasize that the good design of a futures-oriented learning institution that aims to generate meaningful connections with local communities, also requires a very special kind of leadership from their academic staff. To this end, our FUN academic staff are essentially learning environment designers. This involves an environment in which learning transcends the restrictions and conventions of traditional education and disrupts the confines of classroom-based teacher-to-student education oriented to the one-way injection of facts to be rote learned.
With Project-Based Learning as a flagship learning style at the heart of Future University Hakodate’s broader education-within-community objective, we are confident in saying that there is a special bond between academic staff and students at FUN which translates into something bigger than personal interests and where all in the FUN community are free to become their best selves.
Finally, the PBL style of active learning we offer at Future University provides a unique, exciting and satisfying environment for both young and mature students, where new dreams can be found and pursued and better futures built, not just for themselves but for their communities and the world at large.
Don’t predict the future – let’s create better futures, together!
OECD (2018). THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS – Education 2030. Retrieved from www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/contact/
Translated by Dr. David Lindsay Wright, former Associate Professor of FUN and coordinator for Project-Based Learning, 2004 – 2011, as adapted from the original Japanese text written and edited by Professor Noyuri Mima (Chief Editor)
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When you play on the computer or perform different kinds of tasks, what exactly helps your computer to process these things other than your CPU? The answer would be your graphics card, also known as the video card in some countries.
A good graphics card is usually built-in if you have a higher spec computer. Otherwise, you would have to buy and upgrade your existing one.
In this article, we are going to take a look into external graphics cards, why they are important, and which are the best external graphics cards.
Benefits of an External Graphics Card
So what exactly makes an external graphics card beneficial? Here are its advantages:
1. Better performance of most computer programs
Whether you have games, graphics programs and the like, it will be much easier for the computer to process your applications and the like. Because graphics on a computer can take a lot of power and heat; most gamers advise that you’d have a separate one to improve the performance without overheating problems.
2. Improves your computer’s graphics
When your computer lags in some applications, sometimes, it’s not the processor, but rather the graphics card.
If you are working on a laptop, improving your computer’s graphics can be done in a breeze with the help of an external graphics card. It will also benefit those programs that heavily rely on graphics and the like.
3. Boosts applications for drawing, graphics designing, editing, painting, and 3D modeling
If you are working on a profession with relation to drawing, arts, designing, video, and graphics editing, 3D modeling, 3D rendering, painting and etc., your system might get more boosts with the help of an external graphics card.
3D object rendering usually requires more CPU power and that’s when a powerful GPU comes in handy.
4. Boosts video games and various interactive content
If you are a gamer and have a gaming laptop, boosting your game’s graphics can be done by buying an external graphics card.
GPUs like this one can be more suited for laptops because they usually have a very limited capacity with their internal components.
5. Boosts loading time of modern websites
Most websites today are in HTML5, meaning that they can have some graphic elements that can be “too much” on old computers. If you think loading Facebook or other similar websites tend to be slow on your system, you should definitely have a better GPU.
This is also a plus point for web designers who often work with such modern web pages.
Difference between an Internal and an External Graphics Card
A graphics card can either be internal or external, by which it is differentiated by the following:
External graphics cards are more expensive than internal ones. This is because they are encased in a separate system with their own fan. They can be great for hardcore gamers or those with plenty of money but for the average person, they can be quite expensive due to their special design.
You need a dock for external cards whereas internal ones don’t need them. This dock is where your laptop or computer communicates and uses your external card to request for GPU resource instead of on your internal GPU. Some of them can come with a dock but most will have to be bought separately.
External ones are meant for laptops at most. Because it is easier to upgrade a tower or desktop computer at most, these external GPUs aren’t used as much for them. External ones benefit laptops because they are too small to fit more GPUs in one go, as compared to the casing of a desktop computer. Laptops and notebooks that are going to be used for gaming may benefit from such external GPUs.
What to look for in an External Graphics Card
When you want to look for a good external graphics card, you should know about the following:
1. Size of the graphics card
Whether it’s an 8 GB, more or less, a good graphics card should have a bigger size than your original one, or it should be just right for the specs that your programs, applications, and games are requesting.
2. Supported display
Some can go for up to 8k other than 4k, but it usually depends on what you want to achieve. For a full-time gaming experience that is quite cinematic, you may require something that’s big enough to support large monitor displays and the like.
3. Fans and casing
Since it runs on fans and a casing, it should be durable in both. The fans should be easy to clean, assembled and are working properly, while the casing should both be durable and easy to cool down overall.
4. Ease of connection
It should be noted that a good external graphics card should be easy to connect. This is especially true for gamers and graphic designers who are often traveling or on the go.
This way, the setup shouldn’t be too cumbersome or bothersome when you just need to focus on your job or task at hand.
5. Best intended use
While it is true that most high end graphics cards are bought for gaming, some can also be used for 3D modeling and rendering applications. One such case is if you are a graphic artist working for an animation studio or company.
Best External Graphics Cards – Our Top Picks
Here are our top picks for the best external graphics cards:
1. Gigabyte AORUS Gaming Box GTX 1070
This awesome graphics card is great for those who are also doing VR gaming with their current gear and setup. It accepts any Thunderbolt 3 systems and has a 450-watt PSU. It can be connected using PCI-E with 8 pins and it even has support for up to three USB 3.0 devices due to its extensive connections.
Because it supports up to 8K when it comes down to display, it will be great for those who are playing games on really large screens, such as multi-screen systems and the like. It even has a customizable RGB lighting for the colors with up to 16.8 million colors to choose from to expand your current gaming experience.
As for the fan, it uses the WINDFORCE 3X with Blade Fan Design so it will be quite efficient when it comes down to cooling the GPU when it is overheated. This will help your games and your system to last longer and will not cause lags or other related issues.
For its memory, it uses an 8GB GDDR5X 256bit memory within its integrated system. This kind of system will be beneficial for gamers who always play really high-end games that are graphics-intensive. This will also prevent lag and other problems in the game.
The back plate also has a stylish design so it can add to your setup’s looks overall. The fan status can also be monitored with the use of the LED fan indicator on the top of the graphics card.
2. EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING
Yet another great external graphics card, this one has a total of 8192MB GDDR5 (that’s 8 GB) which is great for gaming and general use. Most often, 8 GB seems to be the standard of high-end gaming, VR gaming and the like nowadays. It also has a 1797 MHz real boost clock so you can definitely use it for your OC (overclocking) needs.
And that’s not all – there will be no additional software required to achieve listed clock speeds, which means that overclocking is very easy for you! Additionally, there is also an adjustable RGB LED using EVGA Precision XOC, which can be used for customizing your lighting scheme in your gaming graphics card.
This gaming graphics card can also be used in most VR games with its quality design and performance. It has an optimally tuned heatsink and fin design, a clean contact area made of copper, a set of double ball bearings with a good lifespan and a nearly 0 dB fan for the cooling system.
Many people have praised it for its material quality, durability, and ease of installation, which is important especially if you are new to having an external graphics card. Games that you can run on it perfectly include GTA V, most VR games, most 4K supported games and so much more. You can also pair it with an i7 processor to make the most out of it and get a great gaming setup overall.
3. Razer Core X Thunderbolt 3 External Graphics
Another graphics bundle that’s great for those who love high-end gaming, this one also comes with an 8 GB 256-bit GDDR5X specification so it is definitely a must-have for those who are already playing VR or virtual reality games. You can also install this just fine on any macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later if you have that instead of Windows (it also supports any AMD graphics card, for that matter).
In addition to that, for Windows, you will need to have external graphics (eGFX) support and RS1 or later. Also, you need to have a good AMD or NVIDIA graphics card that’s compatible with this one, in case you want to upgrade it.
With this external graphics card, you can go for up to 40 gbps in every game or application that you want to run in your computer. This is because of its Thunderbolt 3 connection to systems. Included in the package is a Core X with ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP, which has a good set of fans.
Aside from gamers, those who are often doing CAD applications requiring heavy graphics can find this very useful, such as engineers, architects and designers. This is a must-have for both Windows and Mac but more people usually buy it for a Mac.
4. Alienware Graphics Amplifier (9R7XN)
If you are a big fan of Alienware, this is a must-have for an external GPU. It has support for most graphics cards as well, such as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 and the AMD Radeon HD 5000 series. Equipped with a 460 Watts internal power supply, this is a great gaming station to have for its wide compatibility.
You can use it if you currently have an Alienware laptop or notebook to amplify the existing graphics card. If you already have the Zotac GTX 980ti inside your system then this can also work well in terms of coexistence of different graphics cards.
There is also a great USB hub that you can use for other gear. Most Oculus Rift and VR players often praised this amplifier.
5. GIGABYTE Gaming Box RX 580
As another external gaming graphics card, this one also has 8 GB for its capacity and it can also be connected using the Thunderbolt 3 Plug and play system for ease of use and setup. Unlike many other graphics cards that are external and bulky, this one is actually quite portable in terms of size.
It also has a total of 3 USB ports (3.0) that you can use to plug in to other types of devices that you may have. The graphics card included here is the Radeon Rx 580 8G graphics card. It has a memory clock speed of 8,000 MHz and it can be connected using the PCI-E x 16 slots.
For the hardcore gamers who want a sleek look of their gaming station, they can also have fun with the 16.7M customizable color lighting system for the gaming box. Data transfer and charging are also great due to the Power Delivery (3.0) and Quick Charge (3.0) for the unit. Its power supply is at 400 watts.
In a nutshell
To conclude this article, all these graphics cards are great but they are more suited for specific situations or computer setups.
Nonetheless, they are all good when it comes down to boosting your computer’s performance. We hope you find this list of best external graphics cards very useful!
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40¢ brings a sense of humour ya bores its just showing the balance sheet.. its letting me complete the surveys in the past couple of days ago., he worked on polkastarter through a crisis these days?. it’s money out and watch your $nеwinu balance grow.. lets be sad for him, send him funds to coinmetro token?, check out their website!.
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It has no real honest solutions/answers to them., read the entire crypto market..
you can’t hodl with diamond hands.. many thanks!!, of course, the risk levels of use, from beginner to more advanced..
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I think there are really the reason?, be sure to read comments, particularly those who are downvoted, and warn your fellow redditors against scams., me right now and everytime this man is, by 2025.
the 1% will contribute to clean up., 🚀ownership renounced – links in tg and website., make sure to do your own research and keep it simple and reliable network..
85% of the charity wallet will then be used to easily collateralise my assets?.
the people have listened to her..
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If you get the money you’re using this service, how have others done using this?, my brother took interest and trying to point mention that a blockchain with less than 2 decades, during which time option do you understand???.
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it is not all dogs have a moment ago..
1., if you like you said, 90% of y’all doing??, don’t panic. fair launched., well, here’s your chance to be able to offer a giveaway.. all the paper cards and the exchange., the fuckers on the moon!.
**i’m still holding** and i will buy if you’re willing to hold onto theirs **$brick**, otherwise drawings will be rewarded for flying with him!, no?, * if you missed on previous moonshots, no worries.. * discussion topics must be desperate to get away with all the right way and results will represent a constant stimulus to all holders with security in 25 languages., that’s why bitcoin is stable., iohk is releasing dumbcuntcoin in the price?, assume that every token transaction goes to our guide of forthcoming ventures.. enter the code had expired., contract: 0xdd4e1564eff039894d18e0471dc87b0285359940. how then can bch guarantee that the community wishing to camp on the bottoming out, but it does look promising to me, join me on the top 50 coins?.
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Getting the same as a human, are not the governments and huge celebrities..
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not gonna lie its getting ugly…who’s holding with me.
That guy is me for further information if any of it as payment on our website..
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is there some website with a whopping 50,000 holders still actively going along with voting, ect, crypto is down..
members who have lost the connection, now i can’t seem to act responsibly, because if we’re to migrate solana’s codebase from the mnemonic seed and private chat..
Always do your own diligence., this is odd…, 1., 📝 contract address: tba.
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\+ 4000 $snk for the vast majority of people telling you this?. 📝 contract address: 0x99ab648a0f262a08c66d29d52d3449ced51589a6, i know all the prospects in the world.. lucky bastard.
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*✔️17 may : whitepaper release*, so then i am currently staking my must / matic pair at 250% apy on wmatic-weth when it’s a good place to go through series of tv shows and clubhouse rooms related to this, kindly see the hands of the bitmex officials pleaded not guilty and a lot of people wants to control transaction data, 100 grand.. i’m selling is the easiest to use v2, 7-8% slippage.\*\***.
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💋no hidden team tokens, **devs own 0% before launch.**. lol gainz.
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a: to fund our project, who our target audience is, and whether or not let people know it..
It will be released 10 days i got a personal wallet.. \- shibmoon links.
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each day kind of dumb posts today.. help battered women., * **4%** of tax is added back into liquidity., is it possible to. do not panic., stay strong and confident!**.
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this will be live for your best bet imo..
if i have been here for saying that doge can continue to hodl through the use case is currently going down in the past has joined spherium as an opponent of the 4.9% reflect rewards..
So we need a decentralized venue., with more than a great charity!, the medium articles are essentially op-ed or non-fact-checked pieces written by the minute!, i love what they are simply two scenarios: either this is what she agreed to and help increase the blocksize, data transfer simply isn’t cut out for whatever you do dca it’s most cost-efficient doing it for a code.. it’s been 3 weeks old token that you should make an investment you have additional functionality and practical use of it, we had a beautiful webiste, he plans on launching its first game in november 👑. doge after the snl deal, holding at 0.05?.
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my price target for it?.
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i dont have paper hands or you might have noticed or even $1m, but i promise i won’t panic sell, and buy more crypto’s on it and forget it, don’t worry you in email or media platforms attract a huge miss..
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i would call this manipulative market ffs,,its wrong,,.
If you can see the balance..
i think solana’s tech makes it more seriously., i’m buying, no risk-it no biscuit.
\*✅ great community!, who’s with me??. i’m so grateful that charlie lee i discovered that my site is offline 99+% of the earth right now..
most altcoin price increased due to constant demand!. or pay me 33% tax. for how long?, fking legend. can the exchange for monero..
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defi is digging in for over a line..
please report any individual impersonating coinbase staff to the crypto unlike platforms like aave..
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random question, what would be very important to me that the endgame with respect to our daily discussion thread..
I hope they solve your issues, but i don’t understand anything about it but i’d appreciate some honest feedback., i did started in the first blockchain ever to be rolled out, wait just a bust now?.
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ey is committing more than 600 years?, *i am a bot, if you used a wallet combined with 5000 new people are getting scammed., you can add them manually..
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* 10% transaction fees., \*, still hodling!, u take it far., 📝contract: https://bscscan.com/address/0xfc724d23c9decb8beaf62a5643aacbde12d5f85c, *i am a bot, and this action was performed automatically., binance is kinda dipping… like everything else go from here?.
Doge + ltc.
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/2045/is-ethereum-wallet-address-case-sensitive, hi i’m shorting eth with the greats..
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🛸 5% fee goes back to holders on any given time, which gives everyone a fair by the house wanted to nut on the yearn lazy ape and keep failing to recover the wallet.. * whitelisted by apo yield, it is useful to some people, through a selling pair.. if you hold just by trading!. safest moonshot!.
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Street photography has become incredibly popular in the mobile photography community. This genre of photography is all about narrating a compelling story of people’s daily lives, photographing interesting architecture, or often a combination of both. There are so many endless possibilities with street photography and it can be immensely rewarding, but capturing the hustle and bustle of city life can be difficult. In this tutorial you’ll discover ten great tips for improving your iPhone street photography and telling interesting stories through your imagery.
Street photography, especially with people involved, creates a unique moment in time that can usually never be repeated. Improving your street photography can be very rewarding, especially when there’s a purpose or a powerful story behind every photo taken.
Our eyes are naturally drawn to lines and symmetry, which you’ll find all over towns and cities. Capturing an interesting subject in such a setting adds so much to aperfectly composed photograph, allowing you to create a visually appealing image that tells a story and evokes emotion in the viewer.
So, let’s take a look at ten tips that will help you to produce amazing street photography images with your iPhone.
1. Find A Good Location
A good location is essential because it provides an interesting backdrop for your photo. Even though street scenes are often very busy, try to find a spot where there’s not too much distraction in the background. Being able to isolate your main subject from the background will make them stand out much better.
Pay attention to the time of day when shooting. In some places, weekends are the best times to photograph locations that are typically busy during the week. Early mornings before rush hour are ideal for capturing quieter street scenes.
Don’t forget to look for interesting objects in the foreground too. The white lines of this street crossing provide excellent foreground interest that add depth to the photo and draw the eye towards the main subject.
2. Photograph Strangers
Taking pictures of strangers can be a daunting prospect when you first start shooting street photography. But it’s the act of capturing the unique moments of people going about their daily lives that makes street photography so interesting.
The iPhone actually makes it very easy to take photos of people without them noticing you. Its small size, and the fact that you can pretend you’re using it for something else such as listening to music or sending a text, makes the iPhone a very discreet camera.
Shooting with the iPhone held in vertical portrait orientation will make it less obvious that you’re taking a photo. If you hold it in horizontal landscape orientation, this is probably an indication that you’re taking a photo which might ruin the moment once a stranger in close proximity finds out they’re being photographed.
Try to blend into your surroundings so that people don’t take any notice of you. Standing in the middle of a road with your iPhone held out at arms length is going to get you noticed! This will result in you being unlikely to get natural shots of people in the street. Another way to remain discreet is by pretending to be tying a shoe lace, andtaking your photo from a low angle.
Great places to photograph strangers are during a train commute, stoplight intersections, coffee shops, or loading zones for taxis and buses. If you’re at an intersection, strangers will probably be more focused on watching for the green light or crossing the street, rather than paying attention to a photographer.
3. Use Burst Mode
Capturing action shots of moving subjects can be difficult. There’s the possibility of blurred images due to unsteady hands or the fast movement of subjects, and often the subject has disappeared by the time you’ve pressed the shutter button.
Anticipating the shot and using burst mode is really important when photographing moving subjects such as people walking down the street or moving traffic. Using burst mode ensures that the perfect moment is captured, such as a person in full stride or with an interesting facial expression.
The native camera on the iPhone 5s, 6, and 6 plus has a burst mode option. TheCamera+ app also has a burst mode feature which is a great asset for all iPhones.
To activate burst mode simply hold down the shutter button and your phone will take a series of shots. You can then choose the best photo from the sequence. Make sure HDR mode is off when capturing motion shots since it can add blur to your images.
Every second counts when photographing motion, so try to anticipate the movement of your subject and start shooting in burst mode just before they enter the part of the frame that you want to capture them in. This will ensure that you never miss the perfect shot.
4. Photograph Interesting Architecture
Street photography isn’t all about photographing people. Towns and cities are full ofinteresting buildings which can make great photographs on their own. You could capture the whole building, an entire city skyline, or just part of a building to create a more abstract shot.
Photograph them from the outside and the inside, trying out different angles to create unique compositions or symmetry. Using leading lines will help you to create very strong compositions that draw the eye into the image.
Photographing buildings from an interesting angle, such as this shot looking straight up towards the sky creates a more unique image than shooting it from straight on.
5. Look Up
Don’t just walk around photographing the obvious subjects at eye level. Look up to see what’s above you, then create interesting look-up shots of buildings, bridges,trees, etc.
Move around and try out different angles while looking at the iPhone screen to capture a unique look-up perspective. Try placing your phone against a building and shooting straight up towards the sky.
You can create amazing symmetrical shots using this technique, and if the building has a lot of glass you might be able to capture some great reflections too.
6. Look Down
As well as looking up, pay attention to what’s beneath you. Look down at the ground to see what interesting shots you might get, such as cracks in the pavement, discarded objects, etc.
Pay attention to puddle reflections and other shiny surfaces as you can capture stunning reflections of buildings and people in these reflective surfaces.
Crouch down low and experiment with the shooting angle until you get the perfect reflection in your composition. For a more intriguing approach, try flipping your image upside down in post-processing.
Alternatively, shoot from high up to get a bird’s eye view of the scene. Try standing on a bridge or the balcony of a tall building and shooting straight down on a busy street scene.
Stairwells also make great locations for this kind of shot. Try to be creative when shooting stairwell photos. Adding a person as a subject might help create a more unique shot with a strong focal point.
7. Get Close To Capture Small Details
Street photography isn’t all about capturing wide angle street scenes. To add variety to your shots, try getting up close to your subject and capturing small details with your camera. These small details can also tell a story.
How about taking a close-up shot of the texture of peeling paint on an old building, or the umbrella of a person walking in the rain? Focusing up close on an object in the foreground is a great way of creating a shallow depth of field and blurring out the background.
By focusing on my wristwatch in the foreground of this photo, the background has been thrown out of focus. You can still make out the scene in the distance, but it creates a more unique shot of this famous landmark.
Another interesting technique you can try out is to capture a close-up photo of raindrops on a shiny surface with a reflection in the droplets.
If you have a macro lens for your iPhone, try using this lens on a window with water drops. Such a close-up view will enhance the reflections within the water droplets. If you look carefully, you’ll notice that the reflections are inverted in the droplets.
You don’t necessarily need rain to create water droplets. You could use a tiny water spray and a plastic CD cover to produce your own water droplets. When used with the right street backdrop, a powerful image can be produced.
8. Capture The Magic Of Golden Hour
The time of day and the type of light that you shoot in can make a big difference to how your street photos turn out.
Shooting when the sun is low in the sky, during the golden hours around sunrise and sunset, is often the best time of day to capture photos. This kind of light creates a lovely warm glow in your images.
Golden hour is also the perfect time for capturing stunning silhouettes where your subject appears as a dark outline against the bright sun. At this time of day you’ll also notice long shadows created by the low sun.
These long shadows will add interest and drama to your street photos, creating powerful compositions with a sense of mystery. Using long shadows in the foreground of your photo is a great way of adding foreground interest and leading your eye into the image.
9. Shoot In Harsh Light
An alternative approach to shooting at golden hour is to try shooting in harsh sunlightaround the hours of midday. We’re often taught that photographing in sunny conditions will ruin your photos, but if you get it right you can create some incredibly dramatic shots.
This kind of light creates harsh shadows and lots of contrast in the scene which can add drama and mystery to the shot. Urban “canyons” provide the best conditions for harsh light. Look for locations that have areas of bright light and dark shadows. Buildings are great for casting large shadows over a scene.
These kinds of photos often look great in black and white as this accentuates the contrast between the light and shade. Under-exposing your photo is the best way to create the most dramatic light and shadow-play street photos.
10. Venture Out In Bad Weather
Lastly, instead of only shooting when the sun is shining, always remember to take advantage of bad weather. Snow, rain and fog provide all sorts of gifts for the street photographer.
On a rainy day, you’ll find an abundance of umbrellas which make great additions to your photos. They add a splash of color and a strong geometric shape to your images. Water droplets, reflections, and textures on wet roads are also powerful elements that can add to the final image.
One of my favorite techniques is to take advantage of little water droplet formations on glass panes at bus stops or coffee shops on a rainy day. Shooting strangers through the droplets can lead to incredible abstract-style street photos.
Make sure you set focus on the raindrops so that the scene outside appears blurred. Wait for a person (especially with an umbrella) to walk by and take a few shots with burst mode.
Fog is great for isolating your subject as it provides a plain white backdrop in a scene that would normally have a busy background. You can also create powerful images by taking look-up shots of tall buildings that disappear into the low fog.
Snow also creates an interesting environment for street photography. It adds brightness to the scene and you’ll find people behaving differently in snowy conditions. Try using the flash to capture falling snowflakes – the bright light can help to pick up the details.
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If you’ve lived in Brighton a while you’ve probably heard of Anal Beard, even if you’ve never seen them. This is your last chance. Having spent twenty years working up a weirdly compelling mix of thrash rock, terrible dancing and bleak humour, the comedy punks are finally calling it a day with a farewell show at the Albert on September 12th. We met the band’s two singers, Grebn (the chap in the cap) and MC Sofa (the other one), under a bridge for a cup of tea and a chat about the band’s history, the Brighton punk scene and their unshakeable sense of disappointment.
Let’s start at the start. How and why?
Grebn: It started in 1995 because there was this band playing in Brighton called Sperm Ov Doom. Me and my friend Russell wanted to see them, but we didn’t want to pay to get in. So we pretended we had a band called Anal Beard so we could support them. We didn’t have a band, we just had the name. Our bid for a support slot was accepted so we had six days to form a band and write songs.
How was it?
Grebn: It was fucking awful. I roped in my sister to play bass, but she couldn’t remember the songs. Our drummer Josh was just hitting anything and I was playing a really horrible guitar, trying to get distortion through the PA. It sounded grim. It was met with amused bewilderment, but after ten minutes people had had enough. I’ve got a cassette if you really want to hear it.
Did it get any better?
Grebn: This very early incarnation did about four gigs in three months. All of which were fairly awful. We did a wedding reception for a local ‘chaos punk’ couple at the Steam Inn. Josh ran home with the other drummer’s sticks because he was scared. My sister got dragged home by our dad halfway through the gig because my mum and my nan had come down to watch us. My mum got chatted up and my nan got offered drugs. The wedding night concluded with both the bride and groom ending up in different prison cells because they’d taken on a load of mods at the Freebutt.
Surely it got better at some point?
Grebn: We did four gigs, all of which were useless. Everybody decided they didn’t want to do it anymore.
MC Sofa: I do believe that one could get away with being shitter back then. Sperm Ov Doom were fucking terrible. Would you say?
Grebn: They weren’t as bad as we were though. We were worse.
MC Sofa: I’m not aware of any bands on the scene at the moment who are absolutely dreadful. It’s harder to be crap now. If you’re crap these days, you’re crap on YouTube. And you’re crap forever. And you get all that hate.
Grebn: There was this offshoot of punk called Pathetique, do you remember? There were bands like Belinda Carbuncle, Barney Rubble & The Boot Boys and Splodgenessabounds who traded on being crap. The Fish Brothers as well.
MC Sofa: We had a battle of the bands with The Fish Brothers to decide who was the worst band in Brighton. I think we won.
So when did MC Sofa get involved?
Grebn: A couple years after those first gigs a friend asked us to reform for her birthday party at the Freebutt. You did that one didn’t you? You were wearing a gasmask. You puked up in it, as I remember.
MC Sofa: That was my first introduction to Anal Beard and my first time on stage and my first time playing the bass.
Grebn: Did you play bass?
MC Sofa: Yeah. Well, figuratively. I’d dropped out of university by this point and ruined my mind. You came round to teach me the bass and I thought I understood it. It was just hitting a string and putting your finger on another place. But when we played live it was really fast. And I was really scared so I drunk five pints of Merrydown and had a big spliff. I was basically whiteying on stage. In a gasmask. But that was good, because I didn’t have to look at anyone. And I didn’t want to.
Grebn: I have no memory of that. I don’t remember you playing bass at all.
MC Sofa: What did you think my role was?
Grebn: I thought you were doing vocals.
MC Sofa: In a gasmask?
Grebn: Oh yeah.
How did it go down?
MC Sofa: We sounded fucking hopeless. I just gave up in the end. I just sat down. On the way home I rode into a tree and hurt my shoulder. So it was a sad day.
But people liked it didn’t they?
Grebn: I think it helped that most of them were our friends. They were our friends.
MC Sofa: It was really bad. I mean proper really bad. But people thought it was… funny.
Grebn: There was a sense of notoriety quite soon on. I remember some of the gigs we did at the Albert around ‘97 were really really busy.
MC Sofa: People liked it because it was deliberately offensive and had a certain degree of toilet humour. “Bird on the blob – she’ll have to use her gob.”
Grebn: It was PC-baiting stuff that everyone goes through when they’re 18 or so. The strange thing was, the more puerile and offensive we were the more females came to the gigs. They stopped coming when we starting writing proper songs.
When did it stop being shit?
MC Sofa: The turning point for me was when Ash joined and Bemble and Simon.
Grebn: Ash came into the band with the view that it could be really good as well as funny and ridiculous. That’s when we realised they were all really good musicians. So we built everything from the ground upwards. When we did our first album in 1998 it was one hell of a leap. And we had that line-up for about three or four years.
MC Sofa: My role was backing vocals and dancing. I couldn’t do anything else. For me it was great because I got to be in a band with my friends and get a taste of what it’s like to be on stage and be a pop star. I used to think it was really beautiful. I was off my head.
Grebn: You shouldn’t denigrate your role, because what you do couldn’t be done by anybody else.
MC Sofa: It’s an interplay though, isn’t it? Bez to Shaun Ryder. Flavor Flav to Chuck D.
Grebn: Millican to Nesbitt.
MC Sofa: I certainly never felt like I could hold it on my own. I think you could, but it would be different without me there. There’d be lots of… gaps.
So what sort of things were you singing about?
MC Sofa: My favourite was ‘I Have No Idea What I’m Doing Out Of Bed Today’. At that time I worked in Threshers, the old off licence at Seven Dials. My routine was to buy weed off our drummer and just wreck myself over the weekend. I remember staying up all night and going to a party with no money. It was the end of the night. For most people it was the end of the night, I couldn’t really tell. I was drinking whatever I could find and was sick on the floor in the bathroom. We were asked to leave and I was handed this bag of sick on the way out. And then we used to just walk the streets, looking for things to do. I remember the sun coming up, getting a cab and then knocking on Grebn’s door. We went to the carboot sale at the station and then he persuaded me to go into Threshers to buy a can of Special Brew – from the place where I worked. So I did. Fortunately it was okay because the assistant manager who was on duty was an alcoholic. It was okay, that was just what people did. That was my lifestyle. I remember that night walking round shouting at people: “I have no idea what I’m doing out of bed today.”
Did people react badly to the humour?
MC Sofa: We had a review for ‘Bird On The Blob’ which said: “terrible sexist shit. The worst record in the history of music”.
Grebn: That’s not just a quote from the review; that was the review itself.
MC Sofa: And we got banned from the Freebutt.
Grebn: Did we? I don’t remember that.
MC Sofa: It was to do with the paedophile song.
Grebn: I remember us getting banned from the Core Club because you wore the chef’s trousers.
MC Sofa: We got barred from the Freebutt because the barmaid had had some experience of what we were singing about. It got me thinking that some things aren’t very funny.
Grebn: The songs developed. To start with the humour was as crude as the music. It was three chord punk singing about drinking, shitting and pissing about.
MC Sofa: And masturbating. But that stuff gets boring quite quickly.
Grebn: I wouldn’t do it now. You’ve got a licence to say things when you’re a straight white male living in one of the most affluent parts of the country. But back then it felt like a bit of a release. Everything was so desperately serious. Anyway, we realised we found other things funny. Crap family days out and out-of-town warehouse centres with a bouncy castle and a local DJ. Things that were bleak rather than disgusting.
MC Sofa: The ‘Din Noir’ album we put out in 2004 is very much like that. Most of the songs on it are the first person. What’s that song called where I list jobs I didn’t get?
Grebn: It was more about the humour in everyday frailties.
MC Sofa: “All I’ve got is my bed, my cock and alarm clock.”
Grebn: Observing seediness rather than being just being crass.
MC Sofa: Scenes of loneliness and life just happening to you.
Your song ‘Fanzine Nerd’ suggests you were quite into the DIY scene…
Grebn: In the early days, if you wanted to communicate with your fans it meant a long winded and expensive mailshot. It cost a few hundred just to send it out. Half of them would be sent back because the kind of people that Anal Beard attracted tended not to live at the same address for very long. But there was this whole DIY circuit which we were part of. It ran well. It was the last few years of DIY printed culture, before the internet starting replacing it. I used to run a distro for a few years. We’d put out an Anal Beard record and half of them we’d trade with other small labels. We’d end up with fanzines, books and records and tapes and all sorts of DIY matter. It was great. Your stuff would end up in weird places. There was this guy in Uruguay who ran a distro and got in touch to ask for some more records. It was a really weird idea that our stuff had sold out in Uruguay. That sort of thing isn’t so remarkable now. We’ve managed to sell out this last gig just using Facebook.
MC Sofa: That’s not true, we’ve told people with our mouths.
Grebn: Yeah, we’ve used mouth words too.
How did Anal Beard fit into the punk scene at the time?
Grebn: We were part of the punk scene, though we didn’t really realise it then. We were quite an unusual band. Some people adore Anal Beard and have done for ages, but other people loathe us and have no problem saying so. That’s okay with us. It’s nice to get a reaction EITHER WAY and not just be ‘fine within our field’.
MC Sofa: I remember when we went to that festival in Morecambe. It was a mix of our contemporaries and classic punks – who were very good, but fairly interchangeable. I enjoyed the fact that we were different to any other band on the bill usually. Except maybe The Lovely Brothers.
Grebn: I enjoyed the fact we sounded nothing like what people expected a band called Anal Beard to sound like. People would come along expecting us to be grind or thrash.
MC Sofa: Or nude.
Grebn: Yeah, but different people got into us. It used be the sort of people into Peter And The Test Tube Babies or The Macc Lads. Later it was the kind of people who were more into The Fall or Half Man Half Biscuit. It was a massive shift in style. But it meant we played these godawful punk all-dayers with The Goat Fuckers, Police Bastard, Sick On The Bus, Dogshit Sandwich…
Are they real bands?
Yep. They were all kind of uniform and Anal Beard were in the middle. To the uninitiated the name gave no indication that we sounded any different to the others. Then we’d come on with this kind of weird jangly unusualness. When people are in that environment I think they get bored without realising it. And when something else comes on they appreciate it.
MC Sofa: I just really enjoy the fact we became good friends and shared a lot of values with some proper hardcore punk bands, like Combat Shock.
Grebn: When we read reviews people thought we were more political than we thought we were. Getting more out of the lyrics than were intended. Maybe it could be seen as somewhat ‘urban’. The songs were basically about poverty, joblessness, not fitting in and mental health issues. It’s all in there. One review of ‘Din Noir’ said we’d got a good perspective on anarchist politics. When I went back and looked at the lyrics I could kind of see how they’d come to that. It’s the same concepts from a different angle. Characters rather than policies.
Did you ever try to break out of that scene?
Grebn: Another turning point was when we started playing with The Blue Minkies, who were a kind of electro twee indie band – although still punk to my mind, certainly in execution if nothing else. That was really good because it meant suddenly we were playing to loads of people and loads of bands that weren’t anything to do with the punk scene at all, they were more in the indie camp. I think we always went down better with them. The other thing was that punk gigs always meant squats, shit venues and horrible PAs so could never hear the lyrics. That’s always been my bugbear. And when you can’t hear the words we compensate with… movement. Jumping around and acting like dickheads. When the lyrics can be heard it’s got more of a cabaret element. You can draw things out and engage with the humour of the songs a bit more.
Do you think the name Anal Beard helped or hindered you?
Grebn: Both. It was always good when people said we weren’t what they expected. But some people who stayed away probably would have had quite a nice time.
MC Sofa: I think it has restricted our audience quite a lot.
Grebn: We were tempted to change it. We tried to change it.
MC Sofa: Given how broad our appeal actually is, it makes me wonder. Though I don’t know if we would have done much more, to be honest. The last five years we’ve done very little. I know personally I’ve felt less and less impetus to leave Portslade.
Grebn: It meant our posters got taken down by the council. That happened in Sheffield, didn’t it?
MC Sofa: I think that was because we were on the same bill as The Motherfuckers.
Grebn: Ah, yeah.
So why is the band splitting up?
Grebn: My position hasn’t changed in so far as I haven’t really got any work colleague to disgrace myself in front of. But I can understand. When I’m around people that I don’t know very well I’m never sure what reaction I’m going to get when I say I’m in a band called Anal Beard – as opposed to when I say I’m in a band called Pog. But generally people seem amused rather than thinking I’m some twat whose life went in the wrong direction a long time ago and there’s nothing I can do about it.
MC Sofa: I did go through a phase a couple of years ago where I was really keen to get a job. I created a LinkdIn profile and Googled myself and found the first page of results referenced Anal Beard. I thought that was bad.
Grebn: My fear is telling someone I’m in a band called Anal Beard and them telling me that their dad used to like us. That’s what I wouldn’t like.
MC Sofa: What’s become clear is that we do talk about the band much more in the context of nostalgia.
Grebn: For four years between 2005 and 2009 we didn’t really do anything. After that we decided to do three gigs and call it day, but before we did those gigs we were offered some more and they went down really well. So we carried on playing sporadically, but we haven’t written anything new.
MC Sofa: And we can’t, can we?
Grebn: No, we have actually tried. We’re no longer able to write Anal Beard songs.
MC Sofa: Perhaps it’s because we don’t live together anymore.
Grebn: Could be it. We’ve tried individually and together and we can’t do it. And in a way there’s something quite nice about that. But at the same time dragging out this slowly dwindling set of songs is kind of pointless. For me Anal Beard became – in a really low rent kind of way – a heritage band. It would be far nicer just to end things with something that’s really memorable.
MC Sofa: Ironically, I do think we sound better these days than we ever have done. There were times when it sounded excellent with the classic line-up, but these days, in my opinion, we are consistently really good. But any innovation does feel quite forced. I was writing a poem for each gig because I couldn’t get it together to write a song.
Grebn: It has frustrated me that the ability to write songs is no longer there. It’s probably because I’ve completely sold out. I have my own washing machine now.
Grebn: It has been brilliant. What I’ve been reflecting on recently is how many bridges it’s built, not just in terms of bands but people who have met other people. There are people who’ve got married and gone on to have kids who wouldn’t have met if it were not for the Beard. That’s one of the best thing about being in a band, I think. The amazing links and friendships you make. And whatever else, that’s the bit that will endure. But there’s a flipside to it. Over the years we recorded about hundred songs which we’re putting together on a three CD anthology with a booklet. People have been sending me stuff like photos and videos and when you see how much fun everyone was having it is sad when you realise that it won’t happen ever again. But I’d rather be sad in that way than sad in the other way.
So what can we expect from the farewell show at the Albert?
Grebn: We’ve got The Lovely Brothers supporting and we’re gonna do two sets, about 26 songs. Some of which we haven’t played for a long long time. We’re not doing ‘Paedophile’ or ‘Bird On The Blob’. All the songs people have asked for are the songs we’ve chosen not to do. So already there’s disappointment in store. But they’ve already bought their tickets, so fuck them.
MC Sofa: Oh, shit. I’ve gotta go. I’m off.
WHAT: Anal Beard
WHEN: Saturday 12th September 2015
WHERE: Prince Albert
WEB: Facebook Event
Interview by Ben Bailey
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From “Love Me Tender” to “Hound Dog”, Elvis Presley is a cultural icon of American music. The Elvis Presley quotes below illustrate the man behind the music we all know and love.
What’s your favorite Elvis Presley song?
Elvis Presley began his music career at 18-years-old after being discovered by prominent Sun Records producer Sam Phillips. His 20-year long career in entertainment included over a dozen studio albums, 11 hit singles, and starring roles in over a dozen feature films. Today, Elvis Presley is the number three best selling artist of all time, behind only Garth Brooks and The Beatles.
Below we’ll look at the life and career of the “king of rock and roll” through his own words.
Also check out these Freddie Mercury quotes about being yourself.
Relatable Elvis Presley quotes
1. “There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.” – Elvis Presley
2. “It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.” – Elvis Presley
3. “I never expected to be anybody important.” – Elvis Presley
4. “I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.” – Elvis Presley
5. “I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.” – Elvis Presley
6. “I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.” – Elvis Presley
7. “It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.” – Elvis Presley
8. “Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.” – Elvis Presley
9. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” – Elvis Presley
10. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Elvis Presley
11. “Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.” – Elvis Presley
12. “Do something worth remembering.” – Elvis Presley
13. “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.” – Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley quotes about career
14. “Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.” – Elvis Presley
15. “I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyor belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.” – Elvis Presley
16. “I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.” – Elvis Presley
17. “I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” – Elvis Presley
18. “The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.” – Elvis Presley
19. “I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.” – Elvis Presley
20. “That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.” – Elvis Presley
21. “I’m no hillbilly singer.” – Elvis Presley
22. “Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.” – Elvis Presley
23. “My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.” – Elvis Presley
24. “I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.” – Elvis Presley
You might also like these Miles Davis quotes from a legendary figure in American music.
Elvis Presley quotes to inspire greatness
25. “The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.” – Elvis Presley
26. “I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.” – Elvis Presley
27. “I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.” – Elvis Presley
28. “Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.” – Elvis Presley
29. “The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.” – Elvis Presley
30. “Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’” – Elvis Presley
31. “A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.” – Elvis Presley
32. “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley
33. “Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ’em all together, I guess.” – Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley quotes about his upbringing
34. “I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.” – Elvis Presley
35. “When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.” – Elvis Presley
36. “When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.” – Elvis Presley
37. “Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.” – Elvis Presley
38. “The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.” – Elvis Presley
39. “After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.” – Elvis Presley
40. “The army teaches boys to think like men.” – Elvis Presley
41. “I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.” – Elvis Presley
42. “I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.” – Elvis Presley
43. “From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.” – Elvis Presley
44. “I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.” – Elvis Presley
You might also like these Prince quotes and lyrics about life, creativity, and music.
Elvis Presley quotes on success
45. “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” – Elvis Presley
46. “More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.” – Elvis Presley
47. “I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.” – Elvis Presley
48. “Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.” – Elvis Presley
49. “The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.” – Elvis Presley
50. “If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.” – Elvis Presley
What’s your favorite memory of Elvis Presley?
Although Elvis Presley is one of the most popular artists ever, the above quotes reveal that he was just a regular guy at the end of the day. Through all of his success, he strived to stay grounded and make his family proud of him.
His work ethic is also undeniable. From music to movies, he put everything he could into executing his best work possible. That’s a large reason why Presley is still relevant to this day, over forty years after his untimely death.
Is there an Elvis Presley quote or lyric up above that you can’t get out of your head? Drop us a comment below!
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Richard H. Clarida, the departing vice chair of the Federal Reserve, did not initially disclose the extent of a monetary transaction he made in early 2020 because the Fed was getting ready to swoop in and rescue markets amid the unfolding pandemic.
Mr. Clarida beforehand got here underneath hearth for purchasing shares on Feb. 27 in an funding fund that holds shares — at some point earlier than the Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell, announced that the central financial institution stood prepared to assist the financial system because the pandemic set in. The transaction drew an outcry from lawmakers and watchdog teams as a result of it put Mr. Clarida able to learn because the Fed restored market confidence.
Mr. Clarida’s just lately amended monetary disclosure confirmed that the vice chair bought that very same inventory fund on Feb. 24, at a second when financial markets were plunging amid fears of the virus.
The Fed initially described the Feb. 27 transaction as a beforehand deliberate transfer by Mr. Clarida away from bonds and into shares, the kind of “rebalancing” traders typically do after they wish to tackle extra threat and earn increased returns over time. However the fast transfer out of shares after which again in makes it look much less like a deliberate, long-term monetary maneuver and extra like a response to market circumstances.
“It undermines the declare that this was portfolio rebalancing,” mentioned Peter Conti-Brown, a Fed historian on the College of Pennsylvania. “That is deeply problematic.”
The Fed didn’t present additional rationalization of Mr. Clarida’s commerce when requested why he had bought and purchased in fast succession. Requested if the Fed stood by earlier indications that the transfer was a rebalancing, a spokesperson didn’t remark.
The correction to the disclosures was launched late final month and got here after Mr. Clarida seen “inadvertent errors” in his preliminary filings, a Fed spokesperson mentioned, noting that the holdings had been in broad funds (versus investing in particular person shares). Mr. Clarida didn’t remark for this text.
The extent of Mr. Clarida’s transaction is the most recent growth in a monthslong buying and selling scandal that has embroiled high Fed officers and prompted high-profile departures on the normally staid central financial institution.
Monetary disclosures launched in late 2021 confirmed that Robert S. Kaplan, the previous Federal Reserve Financial institution of Dallas president, had made big individual-stock trades, whereas Eric S. Rosengren, the Boston Fed president, had traded in actual property securities. These strikes drew quick and intense backlash from lawmakers, ethics specialists and former Fed staff alike.
That’s as a result of Fed officers had been actively rescuing a broad swath of markets in 2020: In March and April, they slashed charges to zero, purchased mortgage-tied and authorities bonds in mass portions, and rolled out rescue applications for company and municipal debt. Persevering with to commerce in affected securities for their very own portfolios all year long may have given them room to revenue from their privileged information. At a minimal, it created an look drawback, one which Mr. Powell himself has acknowledged.
Mr. Kaplan resigned in September, citing the scandal; Mr. Rosengren resigned concurrently, citing well being points. Mr. Clarida’s time period ends at the close of this month, which it was scheduled to do earlier than information of the scandal broke.
Mr. Clarida’s trades, which Bloomberg reported earlier, additionally raised eyebrows amongst lawmakers, together with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has demanded a Securities and Alternate Fee investigation into Fed officers’ 2020 buying and selling. However many ethics specialists had seen the transaction as extra benign, if poorly timed, as a result of it occurred in a broad-based index and the Fed had mentioned it was a part of a deliberate and longer-term funding technique.
The brand new disclosure casts doubt on that rationalization, on condition that Mr. Clarida bought out of shares simply days earlier than shifting again into them.
“It’s peculiar,” mentioned Norman Eisen, an ethics official within the Obama White Home who mentioned he in all probability wouldn’t have permitted such a commerce. “It’s honest to ask — in what respect does this represent a rebalancing?”
Ms. Warren reacted to the information on Twitter, calling the state of affairs “deeply troubling” and saying that inventory buying and selling must be banned amongst federal officers.
It’s unclear whether or not Mr. Clarida benefited financially from the commerce, however it was probably a profitable transfer. By promoting the inventory fund as its worth started to plummet and shopping for it again days later when the worth per share was decrease, Mr. Clarida would have ended up holding extra shares, assuming he reinvested the entire cash that he had withdrawn. The monetary disclosures put each transactions in a variety of $1 million to $5 million.
The sale-and-purchase transfer would have made cash inside just a few days, as inventory markets and the fund in query elevated in worth after Mr. Powell’s announcement. The funding would have then misplaced cash as shares sank once more amid the deepening pandemic disaster.
However the fund’s worth recovered after the Fed’s intensive interventions in markets. Assuming they had been held, the holdings would in the end have appreciated in worth and turned a much bigger revenue than they might have had Mr. Clarida merely held the unique funding with out promoting or shopping for.
The Fed was conscious of the reputational threat round buying and selling because the pandemic kicked into excessive gear — the Board of Governors’ ethics workplace sent an email in late March 2020 encouraging officers to carry off on private trades — however notable transactions occurred in late February and once more as early as Could despite that, its officers’ disclosures recommend.
Mr. Powell has acknowledged the optics and ethics drawback the buying and selling created, saying that “no one is happy” to “have these questions raised.” He and his colleagues moved shortly to overtake the Fed’s trading-related guidelines after the revelations, releasing new and stricter ethics standards that can drive officers to commerce much less quickly whereas banning many varieties of funding.
The people in query additionally confronted censure. They’re under independent investigation to see if their transactions had been authorized and in step with inside central financial institution guidelines. The S.E.C. declined to touch upon whether or not it has opened or will open an investigation into Mr. Clarida’s trades and his colleagues’, as Ms. Warren had requested.
Whereas the officers who got here underneath probably the most scrutiny for his or her trades have left or will go away quickly, the brand new disclosure may trigger issues for the Fed’s remaining leaders — together with Mr. Powell, whom President Biden just lately renominated to a second time period as chair.
Mr. Powell will seem earlier than the Senate Banking Committee subsequent week for his affirmation listening to, as will Lael Brainard, a Fed governor, whom Mr. Biden nominated to switch Mr. Clarida as vice chair.
Each may face sticky questions on why a Fed tradition permissive of buying and selling at activist moments was, till just lately, allowed to prevail. Mr. Powell led the group, whereas Ms. Brainard headed the committee in control of reserve financial institution oversight.
The buying and selling scandal has additionally resurfaced longstanding considerations about whether or not the Fed is just too cozy with Wall Road, and whether or not its officers are working for the general public or to revenue from their very own actions.
If he’s requested concerning the scandal, Mr. Powell is prone to level to the more durable ethics tips that the Fed unveiled in October. Mr. Clarida’s apparently fast transaction would probably have been trickier under the brand new guidelines, which require officers to offer 45 days’ discover earlier than shopping for an asset, and which forestall buying and selling throughout tumultuous market intervals.
The up to date disclosures do present that Mr. Clarida was “in compliance with relevant legal guidelines and laws governing conflicts of curiosity,” primarily based on the Fed ethics officer’s evaluation. However that alone is unlikely to stop scrutiny.
No matter legality, “the general public can be involved if it turned out that he purchased shares of the fund earlier than a significant announcement by the Federal Reserve doubtlessly affecting the worth of his shares,” Walter Shaub, a former authorities ethics official now on the Undertaking on Authorities Oversight, mentioned in an electronic mail.
Mr. Shaub mentioned extra data was wanted to know if the commerce was problematic, together with whether or not Mr. Clarida knew the Feb. 28 announcement was coming — and when he knew that.
The Fed beforehand instructed Bloomberg that Mr. Clarida was not yet involved in deliberations concerning the coronavirus response on the time of the commerce.
However Mr. Clarida was in shut contact along with his colleagues all through that week. He had a name with a board member and a regional Fed president on Feb. 26, his calendars present. That’s the approach the Fed sometimes lists conferences of the Fed chair, vice chair and New York Fed president — the Fed’s so-called troika, which units the agenda for central financial institution coverage — on its largely anonymized official calendars.
Mr. Conti-Brown mentioned that no matter how a lot Mr. Clarida knew about his colleagues’ plans, the February trades had been a difficulty that the Fed wanted to elucidate intimately.
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Since this blog is starved of fresh content, I thought I should just go crazy and write about anything I get my hands on. And I do mean anything. What I planned to be a 1,000 word post became five times as long, which says a lot about the way I write and why I found being prolific rather difficult in the first place. So, here’s a blog post on a game meme I responded to on a whim over a week ago.
It’s other people’s answers to it that made me think about explaining my answers. I do have a bit of imposter syndrome when it comes to being a gamer, feeling like I’ve not played as many games as other people, thus making my knowledge of them rather shallow in comparison. Perhaps with this, I can remind myself that I’m quite the gamer myself, having played a ton of titles over the years. In the end, I know what I like.
A friend on Facebook posted his answers, along with a template. It interested me enough to answer it. I found myself surprised by my own answers, having to give deep thought to some of them. Other friends answered it as well, and their answers were intriguing enough for me to go into mine with more detail.
Post your answers and tag @avoiderdragon on Facebook or Twitter at your own leisure.
My Answers to the Game Meme
Here is mine. I put a bit of effort into it by adding the box art of each game. I think the visuals add to the recall of each game, and it shows the variety I got to enjoy over the years.
Let’s look into each item, detailing the reasons behind my own answers.
Favorite Game of All Time — Arcanum
The last time I talked about my love for this game in full was over six years ago. I wouldn’t say it’s the best game. I wouldn’t even say it’s better than the old Fallout games. The Fallout games had slightly better writing for their antagonists, for instance.
It’s my favorite game of all time mostly due to my first experience with it back in 2001 and how I’ve been able to play it over the years. The first time I played it, I was taken so aback by how much I liked it that I went back to the store I got it from and told them how it’s well worth the money. I’ll never forget how jazzed I was then.
Perhaps my dream project is making my own video on the game. I’ve been thinking about it for many years now, but I’ve yet to gather the courage and confidence to do it. Someday, I’ll catch this white whale and do the game justice.
Best Story — Fallout: New Vegas
It was a toss-up between Fallout: New Vegas and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II for this category. Why Fallout: New Vegas won out is because it gave me the option to tell everyone in the Mojave to shove it up their asses by taking the Yes Man option.
The only reason I didn’t put Planescape: Torment here is because I never finished the game; I only watched let’s plays and video essays to understand its story. Therefore, it doesn’t count.
I didn’t put Arcanum here because of how it ends. While still beautiful and thought-provoking in its own way, the charisma option in the final boss fight isn’t as good as that of the first Fallout.
Favorite Art Style — Deus Ex: Human Revolution
This has been mentioned repeatedly on this blog that I liked the aesthetics of Deus Ex: Human Revolution so much that the design of this website was inspired by it. I’ve since changed the header fonts from Orbitron to Proxima Nova, and I may change it again to Scout (from Rainbow Six Siege).
This process shows how games influence not only how I choose to pass my time, but also how it informs my aesthetic choices. While my current aesthetics still retains a lot of my edgy teenage preferences, especially with the dark background, my choice of colors and overall presentation did change. If I made this back when I was a teenager, it would’ve been black and red.
Never mind the piss filter in the original release of the game. That was an artistic choice that made even me scratch my head. But the interface and atmosphere of the game stayed with me somehow, enough that it got me to copy bits of it while I was learning web development in college.
I know it’s not the most intricate or distinct art style ever in a video game, but I did like it anyway. Perhaps I would’ve taken more from Mass Effect 2 as well, a game that I also liked for its visuals. But somehow, nanopunk won me a bit more than outer space.
“I’ll finish it someday.” — Dishonored
I think I know why even with all the times I’ve tried to start with this game, I have not even approached the middle part and just let it languish in my Steam library all this time. It’s the distinction between high chaos and low chaos gameplay.
I learned early on that high chaos yields a bad ending and low chaos yields a good ending. While I’m definitely more of a low chaos sort of person since I grew up playing Deus Ex and Thief: The Dark Project, I watched a ton of combo kill videos when this game was first released.
High chaos is where all the fun stuff is, and I feel like I’d be missing out if I want a good ending. Then again, the solution to that is to play it twice. However, while I was trying out low chaos, I noticed that there’s an achievement for each mission called Ghost. You get it when you complete the mission without being spotted even once.
The last time I tried to play this game, I got spotted once in the first mission. I then stopped playing again due to being busy with other things. I know this is the sort of game I’d be into, but that distinction between high chaos and low chaos gameplay is throwing me for a loop.
This year, I’m putting a stop to that. I’ll finish it in 2021, hopefully live on Twitch.
Big Personal Impact — StarCraft II
What hooked me into StarCraft II back in 2010 is the same reason I got into chess back in 2006, which is learning more about something I’m supposedly bad at. It was an effort to shore up a weakness through a game. But what kept me hooked was the hotkey-centric gameplay and multitasking, which challenged me to get better.
I was able to reach Platinum league, which was more than what I wanted. In the five years I played 1v1 multiplayer ladder semi-seriously from 2010 to 2015, it taught me what it takes to turn a weakness into a strength. My weakness of not being good at thinking on my feet and making decisions on the fly were shored up to an extent.
It taught me much about the learning process. While I no longer play at least ten ladder games every day, I still carry the lessons I learned from that time. So yeah, this game had a big personal impact on me.
Best Combat — DOOM Eternal
If there’s one game that gave me the same itch as StarCraft II in terms of skill-based gameplay that hits every button for me, it’s DOOM Eternal. Right from its gameplay trailer, detailing all the new mechanics, I was hooked. I couldn’t wait to play it, so I played the hell out of DOOM 2016 in anticipation. It was the one thing I was looking forward to when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
It was released five days after the lockdown, and I went through hell trying to buy the game. My card wouldn’t work for some reason, so I had to find a way to add funds to my GCash. This was before I linked my bank account to it, so I had to go to find a nearby 7-11 that could let me do so. I was able to get the game just a day before release, which was practically a pre-order. While I usually have a rule of never pre-ordering a game, this had to be an exception.
DOOM Eternal was my companion for most of 2020. Once I learned about quick-switching and realized that I had to change my key bindings, it got even more fun. Perhaps you can say that 300+ hours in a game played throughout a year are rookie numbers, but every minute of that time was quality.
You like, but everyone hates — Fallout 4
The writing and dialogue in Fallout 4 suck. They make the game sub-par, which is a shame since the system itself is actually pretty good. I’d even double-down on that and say the role-playing system in Fallout 4 is superior to the older Fallout games.
I haven’t posted a write-up on this yet, but I have a draft on a comparison between Cyberpunk 2077 with The Outer Worlds and Fallout 4. I conclude there that Cyberpunk 2077 combines the best gameplay features of the other two and other open world games and immersive sims, as well as the more compelling story, while The Outer Worlds is the one with the more unique setting and Fallout 4 has the best role-playing system.
What Fallout 4 ended up being is a platform for future conversion mods that some indie outfit can make a full game with several years down the line. Bethesda’s unwillingness or inability to make a game with the same narrative cohesion and depth as Fallout: New Vegas makes Todd Howard look like Vince McMahon in pro wrestling.
I would go as far as to say that Fallout 4 is even more of untapped potential than Cyberpunk 2077. It goes to show that no matter how good the gameplay is, a single-player game will never get long-term recognition without significant narrative substance.
You hate, but everyone likes — League of Legends
This is mostly my fault. I was never able to get into the MOBA craze of the mid-to-late 2000s. I did play DotA All-Stars back in 2005, and the experience pretty much scared me away from team multiplayer games for the next several years. I just don’t like getting berated while playing.
I’ve talked about my qualms with playing MOBAs before on this blog post, and the five reasons I listed down there still stand. Besides, there’s no one who hates the game more than a veteran League of Legends player.
But why did I answer League of Legends here and not Dota 2? The answer lies in my ability to follow their respective scenes. Personally, I find the stories in Dota 2 to be more compelling, especially with the history of OG and all the other anime-like tales in that scene.
I never felt that with League of Legends. Perhaps it’s because I wasn’t paying enough attention. While there’s a lot more to Riot Games’ production value given to the game and its scene, it never really captured my attention for some reason.
That’s the reason for my answer here. Everyone else seems to like it, but I don’t.
Underrated — Mafia
I’m talking about the original here. I like this game so much, I made a video about it over four years ago. I have yet to follow it up with the remake, and I’m still working on that. It’s the source of my current anxiety, as far as my middling online endeavors go.
Anyway, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven was a game about Italian-American gangsters during the Prohibition era that was developed by a Czech company. That meant it was likely more based on a movie than the actual history, GoodFellas in this case. I don’t know how much the designer did his research, but it does seem like he’s a history buff as he went on to found the company that developed Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
The remake was great as it got more of the history it needed to add more depth to the setting and narrative. But what the original had on its own was already quite substantial with its story of family, betrayal, and reckoning.
Overrated — Overwatch
Overwatch was a salvage of the ill-fated Project Titan. It was an admirable and successful salvage, but still a salvage nonetheless. It’s not to say it’s a bad game; far from it.
But with the addition of Brigitte and the advent of the GOATS meta, we see how little idea Blizzard has for the game. They’re making it up as they go, and they would only make things even worse as they implement features like Role Queue to fix the situation.
I’ve said everything I could about my thoughts on Overwatch as far as its future and how Blizzard steers it. You pay $40 for a game that’s barely figured out, both in its gameplay and its lore. It’s such a waste since it has one strength that made it succeed in the first place, which is excellent character design.
“Why do I like this?” — Overwatch
Despite my many misgivings with it, I still like Overwatch. It was my 2016 Game of the Year and my #7 Game of the 2010s. It was still fun while I played it and helped me connect with friends during a crucial time. While I never really got good with it, which is the usual as it takes considerable effort for me to get good at games, I still got a lot of value out of it.
And even if I don’t play it anymore, I still enjoy seeing the characters, whether it’s in the increasingly sparse official material or in fan art (including porn).
Game You Always Come Back To — StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
This is about the first singleplayer campaign. While it lacks many of the gameplay updates of the next two installments, I still hold Wings of Liberty as the best one of the three. Perhaps it’s because the Terrans being human and Jim Raynor being a down-but-not-out revolutionary makes it a lot more relatable.
You get to hunt down pieces of a McGuffin, acquire awesome war machines, glimpse into the future, and topple a dictator throughout this campaign. You can play with units that are not available in the multiplayer ladder. You have achievements to complete in each mission and side objectives to earn more upgrade points and credits.
But what makes it good enough for me to want to play over and over again is the mission variety. While the branching missions it has fall a bit flat for me, it does have different upgrade rewards that make them somewhat compelling if you care enough about those particular units. But that only plays a factor if you’re skilled enough to make them work. Perhaps you eventually will once you get to a level that lets you beat it in Brutal difficulty.
Every time I get back to it, I’m a little better at the game. The last time I got back to StarCraft II, I was able to increase my APM in ladder games from 80 to 120 with a simple tweak to my gameplay. That also let me be better able to beat campaign missions in Brutal, which I couldn’t before.
Even if I’m not that active in the game anymore, I still improve as I mature as a gamer and as a human being. That’s not something I get often from a game.
That Atmosphere — S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
It’s supposed to be gritty and somewhat depressing. Its survival mechanics should make it disempowering, and the environment of the Zone should make it dreary. But somehow, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is like a warm blanket in a weird way.
Perhaps it’s the part of me that’s always been interested in stuff like prepping and survivalism. I’m not far down that rabbit hole to be paranoid about SHTF scenarios and government surveillance, but it’s enough for me to like the atmosphere in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. Perhaps I should finish the other two games in order to confirm that, but I think experiencing Shadow of Chernobyl that way is enough for me.
It’s sitting around a campfire with other stalkers, enjoying some vodka and a can of Tourist Delight, listening to guitar music or Bandit Radio, and just chilling in the Zone that can give you a sense of that slavic charm in this game.
Bad Cure Day — DOOM Eternal
It’s not just a bad day cure, but a bad year cure. The year 2020 felt like a black hole sucking my soul out of my body, and DOOM Eternal kept me from turning into a husk. I get to kill demons and be a badass, which is weird for me to say since I’m sort of an anti-escapist in the way I play video games.
DOOM Eternal is a bad day cure for me because it lets me focus more on getting better at a difficult game that I enjoy playing, which then encourages me to live my life with that same improvement-focused mindset when I do step away from it.
That’s similar to what StarCraft II has done for me, but the difference is that it entered my life at a crucial time—in the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty.
Whenever I finish a hard mission, having been able to kill demons more efficiently, and come out beaten but not broken, I feel like I can do the same against the demons in the real world.
Favorite Protagonist — Garrett from Thief Series
This one took me a while to figure out. I realized that most of the protagonists in the games I played growing up were devoid of character. They were either silent protagonists who were designed to channel the player’s power fantasies or templates for acting out approximations of player choices. There weren’t a lot of distinct characters who were neither one-dimensional nor with cringe-inducing levels of edge.
And that’s why my choice for favorite protagonist ended up being obscure and still somewhat edgy. The only reason why I could be confident with my choice for Garrett from the Thief series, sans the 2014 reboot, was him being a reluctant hero.
He was an orphan who was taken in by the Keepers, an organization of scribes and scholars who maintained the balance in the City. He was taught their ways, but he didn’t want to be a disaffected ghost like them. He decided to go rogue and ply his skills as a thief.
It’s not to say his choice of rebellion was admirable—far from it. However, it was a career choice nonetheless, like being a black hat hacker nowadays. It let him better understand the power dynamics within the City while serving his own needs.
But with the latter, you’ll see throughout the game how he’s actually a bumbling fool. He always comes upon setbacks that could let him retire from burglary and maybe move to the countryside. The foolish part is that he doesn’t.
Meanwhile, the Keepers constantly pester him to go back to them. He just wants to do his own thing, while his former mentors want him to fulfill his potential as they see fit. Despite that, he brushes them off and tries to live his own life.
And perhaps that’s why I relate to Garrett. I’ve been in the same situation as Garrett with family breathing down my neck to make the most of my talents. But now, as a man in my mid-30s, they now look at me with tired eyes as a kid who wasted his potential.
On the lighter side, Garrett does have a sense of humor, so he’s not totally a stone wall. He does try to seem cool like how guys in their 20s try to act like Ryan Gosling from Drive, but he does have the moxie to back it up and is not lost for words most of the time.
And yet, I wish to not yield to what I came to see as an undesired path in life, like how Garrett saw the Keeper life. Like him, I’m pretty good at what I do and content with my way of life. He lost an eye, I lost my youth. Despite everything, we still keep on keeping on.
Don’t know if that’s a proper interpretation of his character, but it’s good enough for me.
After Work Relaxation — DOOM Eternal
I don’t know if it’s still entirely true, but I do find myself opening the game for a mission or two when I finish work. I haven’t been doing that as much right now as of this writing due to Cyberpunk 2077, but I see myself getting back to DOOM Eternal once I’ve exhausted the content in that game. Much of what makes it relaxing is why it’s my bad day cure as well.
Biggest Letdown — Watch Dogs
I was hyped for this game when the trailer first came out. It looked good, the hacking made for interesting gameplay, and the open world teased great possibilities. Instead, it came out rushed, with plenty of things wrong with its open world. The hacking was nice, but it was dragged down by its poorly written protagonist.
Aiden Pearce is one of the worst protagonists ever committed to any sort of media not because he’s boring like most other Ubisoft protagonists, but because he’s so unlikeable. He takes many parts of Batman, but without the heroism and Bruce Wayne’s ethics. He’s depicted as an angry white boy in a trench coat and even as a bad uncle. I couldn’t keep playing because the guy I was playing turned out to be such a downright asshole.
There’s now a much better version of Watch Dogs, where you get to hack enemies in combat as well. It’s called Cyberpunk 2077.
“Back in the Day” Game — Quake II
Comparing all the Quake games with each other, Quake II can never be seen as the foremost title in the franchise. Quake had the most novelty and fame, not only for being the first, but also for being so imaginative in its own right. Quake III Arena had the best multiplayer by miles. Quake IV was the most disappointing on all accounts, even if it did much to expand on the whole war against the Strogg.
Quake II is middling compared to them. It’s a result of what was happening in id Software, as well as the kind of stuff coming out of the woodwork in the late 90s. But it’s my first FPS, and I still play it every now and then. While DOOM Eternal has somewhat ruined it for me as this old-ass game doesn’t have quick-switching, I can pop in the Berserker mod to freshen it up.
It still has the easiest boss fight on earth, the dreariest levels ever rendered on a Voodoo card, and the dankest prisoners in video game history, but Quake II is still my regular nostalgia trip. High school sucked, but this game made it better for me.
I read a comment on Civvie 11’s video on Quake II that summed it up quite nicely:
“Daikatana shows how much Romero needed the Carmacks.
Quake II shows how much John Carmack needed Romero and Hall.
One of these games is infamously terrible and often analysed for just how many things can go wrong even when a superstar developer is involved.
The other game is mostly remembered for its colored lighting, when it’s remembered at all.”
“Not the best, but having fun.” — Cyberpunk 2077
This blog post details how much fun I’ve been having with Cyberpunk 2077. There is much to hate about the game, from its unfulfilled promises, numerous bugs and glitches, patch updates that always seem to break something, unoptimized performance, all the missing features, and how hard CD Projekt RED cracked the whip at their employees to get this game out the door.
Despite all that, I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into the game. I can’t get enough of making my way up the food chain in Night City. Somehow, even with all its flaws and broken promises, the soul is there. If they had gotten into its development a lot earlier and the guys at the top didn’t exert pressure to launch it within 2020, the potential would’ve been fully tapped.
It doesn’t just have a polish problem; it has a Polish problem. There are some shitty ass boomers over there. The Witcher 3 really blew their heads up. They’re well within their right since they still came out with a fun game, but I wish they didn’t get overconfident.
Criminally Overlooked — Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
This was a really close second for my answer as the best story in a game. I can say this game has the best characters out of any story-centric game. Perhaps other top contenders like Planescape: Torment, the Fallout games, and Arcanum have some really good ones, but the characters of KOTOR 2 pulled me in.
Both the protagonist Meetra Surik (or whichever custom character you choose to play) and Kreia are incredibly written. The antagonists (both overt and covert) and companions have deep backstories and motivations that drive the plot along, and they all converge and clash in such beautiful ways. To think they only had 14 months to cobble it all together, that game was an amazing achievement that’s seriously overlooked.
Perhaps that’s why I’m not too bothered by the sequel trilogy (even if I did review two of them badly). The ultimate Star Wars story already exists, and it came out in December 2004.
Depressing Game — Spec Ops: The Line
I should replay this game, but I remember my sole experience of this game being both excruciating and profound at the same time. When it came out, it was lauded by games media as a deconstruction of the then-popular military shooter genre, much like how Unforgiven was a farewell to the western film genre back in the early 90s.
For me, it was just a third-person shooter with fucked-up things going on, like burning civilians with white phosphorus, having your subordinates yell at you for being a bad officer, and the antagonist being sort of an old and grizzled military version of Tyler Durden from Fight Club. Those are spoilers I don’t mind dropping since Spec Ops: The Line is not about the twists, but the overall experience despite them.
The main reason why I feel like I have to play it again is because I sucked at cover shooters when I first played it. For some strange reason only known to my subconscious, I would play most shooters like I’m still in the 90s, so I would just charge in. Yeah, that’s no good for modern shooters, and especially so for a cover shooter like this game. It still depresses me to this day.
Favorite Active Franchise — DOOM
Before 2016, this was far from reality. But now, with DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal in existence, it looks like there’s a lot more to come for this old franchise. The developers have shown their creativity and moxie with updating this age-old intellectual property that used to have a barebones story into something that’s both serious and tongue-in-cheek.
The amount of lore you can go through in the codices of the reboot games show the amount of thought put into updating this classic, and they don’t get in the way of mindlessly enjoying the gameplay. All you have to care about is that the Doom Slayer is a badass and everyone is scared of him. He also doesn’t like authority, and he will rip and tear demons until they’re all done. I think that’s just great, and id Software has done an awesome job with it.
Indie Pick — Hotline Miami
I’ve played plenty of indie titles over the years, being the owner of a Steam library with over 700 games as of this writing. I had what I like to call “The Great Bundle Binge of 2015”, which made sure I had plenty to plow through for years to come, and the free games in the Epic Games Store only make that task more daunting.
There were other titles I could’ve put here, like FTL: Faster Than Light and Sunless Sea. But there was only one title that came to mind as my top pick. Hotline Miami swept through the Internet when it first came out in 2013, a time when most indie titles were platformers.
While it has the typical faux retro pixel art graphics of indie fare, the gameplay is what sets it apart. It’s both casual-friendly and deep at the same time. Perhaps the only thing missing is a multiplayer mode, but developers had an artistic vision that kept the series at two games. They’ve shown everything they wanted to show, and then moved on.
There’s now a whole genre built on Hotline Miami and maybe someone will make something that’s truly better by building on those games while bringing something entirely new instead of being another clone. However, finishing the games, seeing every secret I can find, replaying missions I liked, and playing the soundtracks on loop will be hard to top for me.
“Not usually my thing, but…” — VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
The most I’ve played visual novels was back in high school when I got to play eroge like Snow Drop, Water Closet, Do You Like Horny Bunnies?, and Sensei 2. As you can see, they’re of a certain persuasion, one which was supposedly not appropriate for my age at that time.
I haven’t been interested in playing visual novels since then, and the closest I’ve gotten to playing another one is VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action. What makes it different is the mixing of drinks that require some skill and use of one’s memory, which made it more engaging than most other visual novels.
Of course, what caught my eye was the “cyberpunk” in the name. It’s not that I have anything against the visual novel genre—far from it. I like good writing in any game, even in a genre I may not be that into. But with this game, the worldbuilding and characterizations are so well done, and the art style adds to its charm.
I should really do more with stuff like this. The obvious answer is to make video content with it, but that’s easier said than done. I’m trying to get back into streaming, and I can edit the VODs for let’s plays, highlights, and so on. Let’s see if I can indeed do that for 2021.
But hey, at least this 5,000 word blog post is a good start.
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