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French as a Second Language Labour Market Partnership
OPSBA has established a three-year Ontario Labour Market Partnership initiative with the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development entitled Meeting Labour Market Needs for French as a Second Language Instruction in Ontario.
This initiative was in response to concerns raised by OPSBA member boards about the growing gap between the number of students enrolling in French language programs and the recruitment and retention of sufficient numbers of FSL teachers and support staff. This issue has become an increasing challenge for all English language public school boards in Ontario. As part of the labour market partnership process OPSBA joined with other committed education partners in a collaborative process to share knowledge, experience, expertise and conduct research to generate workable solutions to this labour market issue.
In November 2018, OPSBA received approval for phase two of the initiative, which ran from November 12, 2018, to November 11, 2019, entitled "Moving Forward with Understanding Perspectives Regarding the French as a Second Language Teacher Labour Market Issue." This phase focused on action planning and facilitating the implementation of the phase one recommendations as well as research to examine the availability of French-speaking education workers in Ontario schools.
Read the full report at: Moving Forward with Understanding Perspectives Regarding the French as a Second Language Labour Market Issue
Read the Executive Summary
During 2017-18, OPSBA completed the first phase of the three-year project, producing a report entitled "Understanding Perspectives Regarding the French as a Second Language Teacher Labour Market Issue." The report from the first year of the French as a Second Language Ontario Labour Market Partnership Project is available at Understanding Perspectives Regarding the French as a Second Language Teacher Labour Market Issue.
Near North DSB produces Transforming FSL Resources
The Near North DSB (NNDSB), with the support of the Ministry of Education, has produced a series of videos to guide French as a Second Language educators throughout Ontario. These five videos capture the professional learning of some French Immersion Kindergarten Teams in the NNDSB. Through sharing classroom footage and teacher reflection, effective use of pedagogical documentation and strategies to support oral language development, the videos inform and support further discussions among FSL educators.
Entitled `Les petits en maternelle` the videos feature staff and students from the Earning Learning Kindergarten programs at Alliance and Sunset Park and provide an overview of the following:
Interacting with the (play-based) environment
Interacting with their peers and adults
Verbal and non-verbal communication
Pedagogical Documentation (Making the thinking visible)
Reflections on the journey
The videos and additional FSL resources can be found at https://transformingfsl.ca.
Release of Welcoming English Language Learners into FSL Programs document
In September 2016, the Ministry of Education announced the release of Welcoming English Language Learners into French as a Second Language Programs.
It builds on A Framework for French as a Second Language in Ontario Schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12 with additional case studies, research, and strategies relevant to English language learners.
In addition, this Spark slideshow has been shared with school board staff and provides an update on the document, as well as information about new professional learning resources produced in the 2015-2016 school year in support of strengthening FSL in Ontario.
Direct links to the new companion document:
Core French in Ontario Public Schools
OPSBA's Education Program Work Team has considered the delivery of Core French in Ontario classrooms, drawing information from a range of sources:
Report of the OPSBA survey of school boards


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The Second Day of Genesis 1 Describes … What?!?
Then God said: 'Let there be a rāqîaʿ in the midst of the waters, and let it keep separating the waters from the waters. So God made the rāqîaʿ, and he separated the waters which were under the rāqîaʿ from the waters which were above the rāqîaʿ. And it was so. Then God named the rāqîaʿ: "Sky! (/ Heavens!)" And there was evening, and there was morning, the second day.
For thousands of years this passage has been an enigma for interpreters of the Bible.1 What is the meaning of this word 'rāqîaʿ,' and what exactly were these waters that it divided? Was this simply describing the creation of the atmosphere? Do these upper waters simply refer to the clouds? Or are there details in this passage that make those interpretations problematic? Looking at this passage within its context, we must also wonder: What is it about this event that an entire day of creation was devoted to it? And what relation does it have to the works God performed on the other five days of creation?
While it may come as a surprise to many, modern scholarship has long argued that the Hebrews, along with most other ancient peoples, believed that the heavens (as in 'the sky')2 were made of some kind of solid substance, whether it be of bronze, iron, or precious stone. This heavenly vault or dome had hatches in it, so it is argued, that released the waters that were contained above it. According to this view, this was the ancient explanation for where rain comes from. While this modern scholastic view goes well beyond what pious ancient interpreters thought, we can conveniently group together all views that thought of the rāqîaʿ as a solid object the firmament concept. 'Firmament' being the well-known King James Version translation of the Hebrew word rāqîaʿ.
One may question if such a view is nothing more than a modern scholarly invention. As understandable as that would be, the very etymology and long-term usage of the (English) word firmament testifies that the notion of a cosmic 'vault,' or conversely of some kind of crystalline celestial sphere (which concepts, however, are far from identical),3 has long been believed in. Firmament is a transliteration of the Latin Vulgate's firmamentum, the Vulgate being a 1,600 year old translation. The Vulgate itself was influenced by the Septuagint's στερέωμα (stereōma), the Septuagint itself being a 2,300 year old translation. Stereōma comes from the word στερεόω (stereoō) – 'to make or be firm or solid.' While secular scholarship and conservative belief alike distinguish between the original intent of the Bible and later interpretations of it (no matter how old those interpretations may be), it is nonetheless a remarkable fact that the earliest ever translation of the Hebrew Bible, from circa 250 B.C., interpreted the rāqîaʿ as referring to some kind of hard heavenly object.
Typically, those arguing for this alternative explanation imagined that this expanse (i.e. the rāqîaʿ itself) represented the atmosphere,4 as opposed to a solid cosmic vault. A crux of their argument was that even though the root word behind rāqîaʿ (rqʿ) can indeed denote the notion of solidity, that it could also denote the verbal notion of expansion. From this latter sense they advocated that the rāqîaʿ should be translated an expanse. Nonetheless, the proponents of the firmament view argue that even aside from this word's etymology, there are many contextual and historical lines of evidence that seem to strongly support the firmament interpretation.
I will refer to this consensus view as the firmament concept, and will only use the term 'firmament' when referring to that notion.5 Conversely, I will use the word rāqîaʿ and the designation rāqîaʿ concept as a way of referring to this scriptural entity in an interpretation neutral manner. It must be emphasized that the firmament concept is not limited to instances in which the word rāqîaʿ is used, which in fact only occurs in six chapters of the Bible. To the contrary, in the vast majority of cases in which a reference to the cosmic vault is supposed, the underlying Hebrew word is šāmayim or one of its synonyms rather than rāqîaʿ.
The root rqʿ (the reader may pronounce this 'raqah') has the basic notion of stamping or of hammering something out thin, often in reference to a metallic substance.
Numerous passages throughout the Bible seem to depict heaven as something solid, if not even as a solid vault (e.g. Job 37:18).
Occasional statements concerning the 'windows of heaven' as well as references to 'the heavens being opened' in conjunction with heavy rainfall (Gen 7:11) are thought to refer to hatches within the cosmic vault whose openings release the waters above.
It is claimed that virtually all ancient peoples thought of "heaven" or of "sky" as being a solid object, or, that some such solid object existed within the (spacious) sky.
Although used in an auxiliary manner, it is noted that the later Jewish and Christian interpretations anteceded today's consensus view by as much as a couple thousand years.
Do you interact with the scholarly works of Evangelicals who DO point out the Ancient Near Eastern background of Genesis 1, like John Walton and Michael Heiser?
Thanks for posting Ed. I'm not sure where your emphasis is in that question, is it on the word "evangelical", or simply on interacting with opposing scholarship? As this article briefly demonstrates, I am of course interacting with opposing scholarship.
As for the prominent evangelicals making this case that you listed, as well as some others (e.g. Seely), yes, I do and will be interacting with their scholarship. Although I do not give them pride of place, since they simply build or expound upon the consensus view of secular biblical scholarship. I know of all the sources you just posted, and I have a marked up copy of Walton's newer academic book by Eisenbrauns (where he backpedals on one very important point). I also am aware that Heiser is unfortunately strongly pushing this narrative as well. I think they are wrong on this issue, and that the truth is on the side that vindicates God's Word from the claim that it supports a naive, mistaken cosmology.
As for the prominent *evangelicals* making this case that you listed, as well as some others (e.g. Seely), yes, I do and will be interacting with their scholarship. Although I do not give them pride of place, since they simply build or expound upon the consensus view of secular biblical scholarship. I know of all the sources you just posted, and I have a marked up copy of Walton's newer academic book by Eisenbrauns (where he backpedals on one very important point). I also am aware that Heiser is unfortunately strongly pushing this narrative as well. I think they are wrong on this issue, and that the truth is on the side that vindicates God's Word from the claim that it supports a naive, mistaken cosmology.
It is not much use calling the mainstream historical study of Genesis 1 "secular" in this case since ancient Near Easterners as well as early rabbis and church fathers (including Luther) agreed in writing about the rakia in a more or less solid fashion along with promoting the idea that vast celestial waters lie above the earth.
Richard J. Clifford, Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series: Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible 26 (Washington, DC: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1994).
And the Christian scholars and their articles over at BIOLOGOS.
There is a lot to interact with, beginning with first gaining an understanding of how ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians viewed the cosmos–I don't see much of that in your work. The overall ideas and terms in the Bible, sketchy as some phrases may be, does accord very well overall with ancient Near Eastern notions of a flat cosmos.
You emphasized in a question if I interact with evangelical scholarship. A counterpart to that can be called 'secular biblical scholarship.' If you don't like that term, I would rather not get in a protracted debate about mere terminology, it's not worth the time.
Ed, please read what I wrote more carefully. In this very article I make the case that we cannot just pass this issue off as merely an invention of modern secular biblical scholarship. See my sentence above: "One may question if such a view is nothing more than a modern scholarly invention. As understandable as that would be…" Even so, see what I wrote there, they were not simply arguing the same overall view as modern scholarship does either.
As for the rest of your sources, I welcome you posting them here (well within reason, there have been two posts with long such lists now, that will suffice for now). The fact is, the purpose of this post was precisely to make clear how important this issue is, and to highlight the problem. The sources you list (again most of which I am familiar with) actually serve a good purpose. Far from hiding such scholarship, I was intending to highlight such scholarship! See my blockquotes in this article, they present the same kind of view you seem to think I am not interacting with. I don't know why you seem to think I am not airing out the alternative view, it's quite to the contrary.
There is a lot to interact with, beginning with first gaining an understanding of how ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians viewed the cosmos–I don't see much of that in your work.
Simply because I have barely got to publish any of my material yet, unfortunately (I hope that will change in the next year God willing). However, note that one of my major arguments is that this focus on ancient cosmologies in modern times has often missed the boat, in my view, even for understanding the non-biblical conceptions correctly. They have focused almost exclusively on eking out a physical cosmology in cases where it is almost ridiculous to make that the focus. You mentioned Othmar Keel, I have some wonderful citations that help illustrate that point (Keel does then often I feel not listen to his own advice, but the point is, some very important critiques on how modern scholarship works on these matters were noted by Keel himself). Further I make the case that the supposed other precedents for a firmament notion are ultimately mistaken. So yes, there is a lot to say about the non-biblical ancient cosmologies.
Where does Walton recently deny that raquia has anything to do with firmness?
Given this fresh analysis of šĕḥāqîm, I propose that rāqī ʿa refers to the space created when the šĕḥāqîm were put in place. This would explain why the birds and sun and moon are seen to be in the rāqī ʿa.
Again, that Walton made this course change in his understanding of what the raqia represents was a big surprise to me, but even more pleasantly surprising was his recognition of the connection with Shu, which was the connection I had already made (though not published, but published to some friends privately by that time). Of course, he is still trying to find a solid firmament notion in the shehakim.
You emphasized in a question if I interact with *evangelical* scholarship. A counterpart to that can be called 'secular biblical scholarship.' If you don't like that term, I would rather not get in a protracted debate about mere terminology, it's not worth the time.
Ed, please read what I wrote more carefully. In this very article I make the case that we cannot just pass this issue off as *merely* an invention of modern secular biblical scholarship. See my sentence above: "One may question if such a view is nothing more than a modern scholarly invention. As understandable as that would be…" Even so, see what I wrote there, they were not simply arguing the same overall view as modern scholarship does either.
As for the rest of your sources, I welcome you posting them here (well within reason, there have been two posts with long such lists now, that will suffice for now). The fact is, the purpose of this post was *precisely* to make clear how important this issue is, and to highlight the problem. The sources you list (again most of which I am familiar with) actually serve a good purpose. Far from hiding such scholarship, I was intending to *highlight* such scholarship! See my blockquotes in this article, they present the same kind of view you seem to think I am not interacting with. I don't know why you seem to think I am not airing out the alternative view, it's quite to the contrary.
Simply because I have barely got to publish any of my material yet, unfortunately (I hope that will change in the next year God willing). However, note that one of my major arguments is that this focus on ancient cosmologies in modern times has often missed the boat, in my view, even for understanding the non-biblical conceptions correctly. They have focused almost exclusively on eking out a *physical* cosmology in cases where it is almost ridiculous to make that the focus. You mentioned Othmar Keel, I have some wonderful citations that help illustrate that point (Keel does then often I feel not listen to his own advice, but the point is, some very important critiques on how modern scholarship works on these matters were noted by Keel himself). Further I make the case that the supposed other precedents for a firmament notion are ultimately mistaken. So yes, there is a lot to say about the non-biblical ancient cosmologies.
I think to deny that the Bible (in particular genesis 1) uses common themes from the ANE you need to have your head in the sand.
Hello sir, I don't think you could have read what I've written (though I'm sorry it's not much more by now) very carefully and come to that conclusion.
First a semantic caveat: I would word this a different way. I would not say that Genesis "uses" ANE themes, and actually, since it seems you are into Walton (from your other comment), not even Walton would state it quite that way (it's been a bit, but he likes to talk about something like "shared cultural …" something or other, a quite different thing from one simply "uses" the other, I mostly agree with that). Instead, what I believe, and thus how I would state it, is that many ancient peoples (btw, NOT just ancient near eastern peoples, as if they were the only ancient peoples with shared traditions, we just have ANE traditions preserved the earliest) have parallels to the early Genesis history, though they are perverted and scrambled to various degrees. Let's just pretend for the moment that all of us believe, as I do, that the Genesis history is true, and that it is a simple accurate account of the origins of the heavens and the earth (that it is even as young as that would make it, very recent). Just pretend you believe that for one moment Reginald. In that case a world-wide flood recently wiped out the earth, just less than 2000 years after the creation, and some 4000 years ago. Would we not expect all of mankind, who dispersed from the 3 sons of Noah (as described in Genesis 9-11) to have shared traditions about this event? Well, that is exactly what we have. So, of course I believe in shared traditions and parallel accounts, but most of the non-Scriptural parallels are filled with total absurdities. Yes, I know, many believe, as perhaps you do, that Hebrew scribes were just smart enough to de-mythologize such accounts, but no need to debate that here. What matters is, yes, I believe all of mankind had shared traditions and parallels for the early history of the earth, and that includes details from the creation week.
On that matter, then, this is where you must not have read much of what I wrote (though again, unfortunately, I haven't got to write much of my views on this still). If you look at my title page, ask yourself why I am citing something about the Egyptian god Shu, and about the god Χαος from Hesiod, parallel to Genesis 1:6? Answer: I believe these, and other examples, are amazing ancient parallels to the Genesis 1 raqia'! Namely, defined as an expansive gap of space (world-space, etc), not as a solid thin metal object in the sky. (So I am hardly denying parallels) Maybe you just didn't read my next article where I make that clear, it's the next linked to article after this one at the bottom, namely here.
After I had come to these conclusions, I was gratified to see that Walton did a massive about-face and quit promoting that Genesis 1 describes a firmament, and that he made the connection with Shu. My jaw hit the ground when I first read this. So now Walton agrees with this! (Though obviously, he discerned that independently, given the timeline, but so did I). Though he now tries to place the firmament in Proverbs 8:28, and 1 or 2 other passages, see my article on the first of those on this site.
I believed YECism was true. I studied ancient flood stories, geology, and left YECism after seeing its arguments crumble in the face of widespread evidence of an old earth and improbability of flood geology as an explanation. Nor are all ancient flood stories the same. In Egypt the flooding of the Nike brought life giving silt to keep their land fertile, so they lacked a catastrophic flood myth.
First a semantic caveat: I would word this a different way. I would not say that Genesis "uses" ANE themes, and actually, since it seems you are into Walton (from your other comment), not even Walton would state it quite that way (it's been a bit, but he likes to talk about something like "shared cultural …" something or other, a quite different thing from one simply "uses" the other, I mostly agree with that). Instead, what I believe, and thus how I would state it, is that many ancient peoples (btw, NOT just ancient *near eastern* peoples, as if they were the only ancient peoples with shared traditions, we just have ANE traditions preserved the earliest) have parallels to the early Genesis history, though they are perverted and scrambled to various degrees. Let's just pretend for the moment that all of us believe, as I do, that the Genesis history is true, and that it is a simple accurate account of the origins of the heavens and the earth (that it is even as young as that would make it, very recent). Just pretend you believe that for one moment Reginald. In that case a world-wide flood recently wiped out the earth, just less than 2000 years after the creation, and some 4000 years ago. Would we not expect all of mankind, who dispersed from the 3 sons of Noah (as described in Genesis 9-11) to have shared traditions about this event? Well, that is exactly what we have. So, of course I believe in shared traditions and parallel accounts, but most of the non-Scriptural parallels are filled with total absurdities. Yes, I know, many believe, as perhaps you do, that Hebrew scribes were just smart enough to de-mythologize such accounts, but no need to debate that here. What matters is, yes, I believe all of mankind had shared traditions and parallels for the early history of the earth, and that includes details from the creation week.
Hi, thanks for the response, and thanks for acknowledging that it does exist. The problem I have (Alongside the fact that I don't think Genesis teaches an accurate cosmogony of the universe, I share Walton's view) is that I don't believe that your response can explain away all parallels, such as the link between Isaiah 27 and Psalm 74 with the Baal Cycle.


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The Global Climate Crisis Is the New Frontier of Justice
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Asia's Newest Generation of Female Leaders
Yukiko Koike and Condolezza Rice in August 2007. Source: Wikimedia
The presidential nomination of former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has received extraordinary attention across the globe. That heightened awareness has brought into focus how well other women - particularly in Asia - have done in terms of rising to political leadership. While Clinton's supporters celebrate her historic campaign, female presidents and prime ministers from several Asian countries have the American presidential hopeful beat by decades.
The latest Asian woman to win a major election is Yuriko Koike, who just claimed a historic victory in the race for Tokyo governor. A former defense minister, the 64-year-old Koike is a Middle East expert who speaks fluent Arabic and previously worked as a television presenter. Koike was elected by a wide margin, receiving 2.9 million votes as an independent when her own party refused to endorse her. These voters, who watched two of Koike's predecessors resign because of financial scandals, responded to her promises of transparency and her vow to "put the metropolitan government back into the hands of Tokyo's people."
The Tokyo campaign was incredibly negative, and Koike's gender prompted serious hostility -former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara publicly said a world-class city of 13 million couldn't be trusted to an old woman with too much makeup. Nonetheless, Koike won both the race and the task of setting Tokyo's preparations for hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics back on solid financial footing. Tokyo has been the target of attacks after being awarded the 2020 Games, with French authorities looking into an alleged payment to a Senegalese businessman on the International Olympic Committee. Some pundits see ulterior motives as France is staging its own bid for the 2024 Olympics and could bolster it by seeming tough on corruption. Of course, Tokyo's challenges are nowhere near the problems overshadowing the start of the 2016 games in Rio. While Brazilian officials have had to deal with political turmoil, the Zika scare, insufficient funds, polluted venues, and safety concerns, Japan still boasts one of the world's biggest economies and a track record of smoothly pulling off major international events, from the 1964 Olympics to last May's G7 summit. It's no wonder Koike made the Games a central issue of her governorship. Tokyo's new governor may have taken the election attacks in stride, but her battle demonstrates how difficult it is for women who take the helm in Asian nations. That seems counterintuitive, since countries ranging from the Philippines to Pakistan have had female heads of state long before North American and otherWestern counterparts. Corazon Aquino, the first female president in Asia, led the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. Benazir Bhutto, who became Pakistan's prime minister in 1988, was the first woman elected head of state in a Muslim-majority country.
And yet, there is one key similarity between these women and Clinton: their political ascendancy was made possible by familial ties. Even though these leaders have been eminently qualified in their own right, Aquino (the wife of an opposition lawmaker), Benazir Bhutto (the daughter of a prime minister), and even the celebrated Aung San Suu Kyi all benefited from the lineage and privilege of a male family member. Their careers have been shaped by fathers and husbands, and their paths to power paved by dynastic relationships. Wives, daughters and sisters Following this same pattern, female leaders like South Korean President Park Geun-hye find fertile terrain for their own political careers. At the same time, candidates who lack a pedigree have a much harder time breaking through the glass ceiling. The case of Park, elected in 2013 to lead South Korea, illustrates both the power of the familial connection and its liabilities.
Park is the daughter of Park Chung-hee one of the founders of modern Korea. South Koreans remember well the military coup that brought him to power and his 1979 assassination. They also remember the human rights violations and the iron fist that were a hallmark of his regime, The 62-year-old Park Geun-hye, elected by 52 percent of the voters, succeeded with her message of economic growth and security, but she also inherited the trauma of her father's memory. In late 2015, more than 70,000 protestors took to the streets of Seoul to protest far-reaching government policies that South Koreans said weakened democracy and whitewashed the legacy of President Park's father.
There are strong similarities in the case of Thailand's Yingluck Shinawatra, who was elected prime minister in 2011 but forced from office during the 2014 military coup that put former general and current strongman Prayut Chan-o-cha in the post. Shinawatra, the sister of former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra, followed his footsteps closely. Perhaps too closely: after all, he was also overthrown by the military in 2006. While Yingluck's link to Thaksin was one of the main factors behind her rise, it also meant she inherited his powerful opponents in the Thai establishment.
Hopes for a new era in China and Taiwan In other cases, even familial ties aren't always enough to overcome gender discrimination within the political sphere. In China, Liu Yandong serves as one of four vice-premiers. She is a former chemical engineer whose father was a top official in Shanghai and close to former president Jiang Zemin. She is one of precious few women in the highest echelons of the Chinese state, where senior leaders are reviewed just once every ten years. Only one other woman, Sun Chunlan, was serving in the 25-member Politburo when Liu took office. Despite her achievements and her family connections, Liu is still subjected to sexism by her colleagues within the government and observers outside of it.
For a new generation of Asian women connected to the world by unprecedented levels of education and technology - but not fathers and husbands - there are fewer role models and mentors. In Taiwan, at least, President Tsai Ing-Wen has helped buck the existing trend. Tsai, an unmarried 58-year-old woman with a PhD from the London School of Economics, was elected president this year without a family name in politics. Even though her focus is on security and economics as opposed to gender-related issues, her achievement has helped rewrite longstanding rules of female political participation on this side of the Pacific.
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Saving time, money and lives: analytics for the greater good
Hugo D'Ulisse, technical director for the public sector at SAS UK & Ireland, explains how data analytics can augment the ability of public sector professionals to make the best possible decisions.
Positive change and interventions rely on good governance. Injustices can emerge organically and often unpredictably, but it's when we do nothing that they're allowed to grow and spread.
For years we've depended on frontline services and response units to identify, resolve and prevent wrongdoing. This encapsulates everything from police forces tackling illegal drug use, social services rescuing vulnerable children from their abusers, to fraud teams exposing corruption.
At some point in each of these processes, a decision has to be made before action can be taken. The most valuable quality a public servant can have, therefore, is good judgement. This boils down to being able to make the best possible decisions with the insight available. However, in today's non-stop digital world, it's unfair and unreasonable to expect humans to make those decisions unaided.
Technology is a powerful tool for our emergency and public services. Far from trying to replace them, analytics augments the abilities of investigators and frontline practitioners, helping them to make faster, better decisions for the public. It gives them valuable insights from lots of information, so they can make the best possible decisions while drawing on their own expertise as well.
Clarity under pressure
We're all bombarded daily with massive amounts of information. Any investigator – whether they work for the police, social services or an anti-fraud team – typically has mountains of both structured and unstructured data they must assess before a decision can be made.
The stakes can be high, so investigators need to be confident in the quality and accuracy of their insight. Yet, the best decision is hard to guarantee when timescales are short. When lives are at risk, the reality is that humans will not be able to explore every lead. Inevitably, connections will be missed and opportunities lost.
Under pressure and under-resourced, decisions can be made mostly on gut feeling and experience. While experience is invaluable to an investigator,it will not lead to the best decision every time. Good decisions cannot be guaranteed without fast and valuable insights from analytics.
A trained AI system can then decide what connections are most important, helping the investigator prioritise their work."
To ensure data is accurate and is being used to its best potential, analytics should be paired with AI or machine learning technologies. A solution that's been trained on historic data or previous best practice knows what someone should be looking for. It can automatically make the link between seemingly disparate data sources, recognising patterns across masses of data that might otherwise have been missed.
A trained AI system can then decide what connections are most important, helping the investigator prioritise their work. Furthermore, machine learning means the model can adapt itself as it encounters changes in the data.
Case study: tackling tax fraudsters
In a field like tax compliance, where investigators must build up large bodies of evidence across many data sources, these capabilities are game changing. Tax fraudsters are adept at covering their tracks, using a multitude of different companies in various jurisdictions to hide asset ownership, profits and transactions.
An analytics solution can bring all this information together and reveal the incriminating untruths that link them. Through a visual interface, this information can easily be communicated to the investigator, giving them the clarity they need to make the right decision.
One company that is already ahead of the curve is Allianz Insurance. Using a hybrid, analytics-led approach to fraud detection, the insurer is able to sift through immense quantities of data, revealing organised fraud networks and communicating the information quickly and simply to investigators.
Analytics on the frontline
Yet analytics isn't just a useful tool for investigators in the back office. Increasingly, we're seeing these technologies applied in scenarios where practitioners have only a split-second to react or make a decision - for example, monitoring traffic to ensure that vital emergency services are best directed to their destination. Insight is no less important in such a scenario, but practitioners need faster response times than those offered by traditional solutions.
On the ground operations increasingly depend on Internet of Things (IoT) devices – such as mobile phones and connected cameras – as a source of data and insight. However, many practitioners don't have the luxury to wait for the data to be sent back to an analytics centre for processing.
Event stream processing solves this challenge. This is the process of quickly analysing time-based data as it is created and before it is stored. By performing analytics closer to the source, results can be pushed immediately to those who need them.
Analytics and AI solutions can help our public services gather more data and deliver better insight."
Event stream processing combined with computer vision (a branch of AI) could help with maintenance of a railway line, for example. A drone camera could use its computer vision capability to analyse images and identify any defects in the line, and rank them in order of priority for those attending to maintenance and repairs.
In this scenario, the drone delivers valuable information about the state of the railway line, and the resource needs now and over time to repair it. This information can also ensure that there is minimal disruption to services, as resources can be prioritised to where repairs are needed most.
Analytics and AI solutions can help our public services gather more data and deliver better insight. By automating certain tasks, they allow investigators and frontline practitioners to have more time to review insights, make decisions and be more productive.
Find out more on how analytics and AI are transforming society for the better.
Hugo D'Ulisse, technical director, public sector, SAS UK & Ireland
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"Contrary to Farrow's claims, his story was never cleared or approved for air by NBC News Legal or Standards," says the Comcast-owned network division this morning in the latest blast after days of dust-ups over how now Pulitzer Prize winning Ronan Farrow's investigation into claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein was handled and why the story never ran on-air.
All of which translates into the Andy Lack run organization not quite calling Farrow a liar from his pointed response last night to a supposedly definitive memo from the NBC News chairman and a fact sheet – but basically calling him a liar. Farrow, of course, took portions of the reporting that NBC News now says wasn't ready for broadcast and lacked sources who would go before the camera to the New Yorker, where he has dropped one extensive expose on Weinstein and others after another.
On Labor Day, following days of renewed dispute over what really went down BTS in 2017, Farrow called NBC News characterization of the events that occurred while he worked there as "misleading," among other things.
Ronan Farrow did not response to request from comment from Deadline on NBC News' statement of Tuesday morning, but can't imagine he would be embracing it, if you now what I mean?
Contrary to Farrow's claims, his story was never cleared or approved for air by NBC News Legal or Standards. As is common practice, NBC lawyers met with him on several occasions to offer legal advice in connection with his reporting. But at no time did they render a judgment on the draft script's readiness for air. While he was told by his editors that several elements of the draft script were technically "reportable," he was consistently advised that – even taken together – they were not yet sufficient to air a story alleging serial sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein without at least one victim or witness on the record. Precisely because the script was never ready for air, no one in the NBC News Standards department ever reviewed it.
NBC News based its judgments on the draft scripts Farrow presented to editors in July and August of 2017 and all the raw notes and information he shared with his colleagues, including, significantly, the editorial review team. With regard to Emily Nestor's statement, she is the "anonymous victim of verbal sexual harassment" referred to in the NBC News document and she was contacted during the editorial review process in mid-August by an investigative producer with two decades of experience. That producer took contemporaneous notes of their conversation and at no time then or since did Nestor tell her or NBC News she was willing to be named. NBC News of course respected and honored that decision.
Regarding Rose McGowan, as the interview transcript clearly indicates, she did not name Weinstein as her attacker on camera in the February 2017 interview or any time after that. The first time Farrow submitted a draft script on the Weinstein story was five months later, on July 23, 2017. If Farrow had McGowan naming Weinstein on the record but off-camera before that date, and wanted to proceed with airing a story, he did not submit one to his editors. The July 23 draft script, for the first time, included a reference to McGowan naming Weinstein off camera "in subsequent conversations." (It also included several other assertions that quickly did not hold up to scrutiny, including some that were soon found to be contradicted by Farrow's own interview transcripts, as described in the accompanying document.) Within days of that July 23 draft script being submitted, while Farrow attempted to get McGowan to name Weinstein on camera, she cancelled a follow up interview and her attorney sent NBC a cease and desist letter revoking all permission to use any material related to her.


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As you can see my lipstick and hat are not totally matchy - and later I saw that my nails are totally "too neon" for this outfit, but guess what? Not everything needs to be perfect and yes I saw that hah!
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Italy's Senate expels ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi
The Italian Senate has voted to expel ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from parliament with immediate effect over his conviction for tax fraud.
Berlusconi, who has dominated politics for 20 years, could now face arrest over other criminal cases as he has lost his immunity from prosecution.
He told supporters in Rome it was a "day of mourning" for democracy.
Ahead of the vote, he vowed to remain in politics to lead his Forza Italia in a "fight for the good of Italy".
Berlusconi told supporters gathered outside his Rome residence that "no political leader has suffered a persecution such as I have lived through".
He said: "It is a bitter day, a day of mourning."
Berlusconi, 77, said his struggle would continue outside parliament.
He said: "We must stay on the field, we must not despair if the leader of the centre-right is not a senator any more. There are leaders of other parties who are not parliamentarians."
The debate in the Senate had been heated, with two rival senators nearly coming to blows.
Manuela Ripetti of Berlusconi's Forza Italia party shouted: "Your only aim is to eliminate Silvio Berlusconi!"
After the vote, Beppe Grillo, the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, tweeted: "Berlusconi has been expelled by the Senate. One is out. Now we must evict all the others from the House."
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In London, a Zippy, Hippy Happening of an Art Show
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Happily Ever After — Even in Hollywood
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Gallery view of the 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 12 —August 19, 2018, showing Royal Valkyrie, by Joana Vasconcelos,
© Royal Academy of Arts. (Photography: David Parry)
The Royal Academy's colorful summer exhibit recalls the '60s, minus the rage.
The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London isn't called the Great Spectacle for nothing. The RA is the zenith of the British art establishment, grandly located on Piccadilly, so a more prestigious venue is hard to find. It's also an open-submission show and probably the only time any bloke-of-an-artist can compete with, say, David Hockney, for a spot on the walls. And almost everything is for sale.
It's a one-stop "What's On" for British culture. It's artist-juried, so there's no mediation by curators or academics and no labels. No one's telling you what a picture means. This year marks a milestone, the RA's 250th anniversary. A committee of the Academicians (the 80 artist-members of the RA) select a slender slice to display — they chose 1,351 works from about 20,000 submissions. Standards for selection are vague. The highest quality? Not exactly. "Represents the range of creativity" is closer to the mark.
For years the RA's zeitgeist was conservative, though it's gotten edgier. Nothing says this better than the selection of Academician Grayson Perry as the "coordinator," or visionary and chief curator, of this year's show. He makes clay pots, using forms nearly as old as humanity, and he decorates them with figures lost in muddled sexuality or relationships. Think ancient Greek vases, but instead of images of gods or athletes, we see bewildered children, drug-addled adults, or wrecked cars.
His work is giddy and colorful, but there's always one of life's snags getting in the way of the fun. He spoofs himself (and that's a gift that keeps on giving) as well as everything in Britain that is, as he says, "spiritual or profound." He's a transvestite, too, a trait he developed as a child to cope with trauma. His female alter-ego is named Claire. He often carries his childhood teddy bear, Alan Measles. He's evolved into a cross-dressing court jester, part Hogarth, part Feste from Twelfth Night, pungent in his opinions but silly and charming. Yes, he's a good artist.
I've gone to enough Summer Exhibitions to see immediately that it's Perry's show. The walls are bright colors like sunshine yellow and robin's-egg blue — it is, after all, a summer show — and it feels like a very campy indoor summer camp. There's lots of texture, whether in sculpture or textile, but Perry is a potter and fabric artist. There's less black-and-white work and fewer photographs than I remember from past shows. There's little video art, in part because Perry likes the wow factor of big, bright, open spaces. Video art requires carved-out, intimate caves of dark space. Perry's conception is vastly communal and sensual. Joana Vasconcelos's massive Royal Valkyrie — 487 pounds of crocheted wool, felt appliqué, and assorted ornaments — greets the visitor and sets the tone. It looks like a flying saucer has landed in a pajama factory.
Some of the walls are packed from floor to ceiling. That's not Perry's idea but the tradition of the show. It allows both abundance and that inscrutable power of a good picture to speak above the babble. Holland Cunningham's Joyce Has Issues is small, nicely painted, succinct and effusive, funny and deadly; and in that discreet combination lies its power. It didn't even need a title. It keeps supplying storylines. Everyone, after all, has a bit of Joyce inside, itching to get out.
Joyce Has Issues, Holland Cunningham
Timothy Blewitt's Rufus 3d is fiercely totemic, and so modern and gaudy that it could guard Liberace's tomb. I loved Richard Forster's Incoming Seas and Andrew Holmses's The Enchanted Ground; both are sublime drawings, but that's the traditionalist in me.
Nothing done by an Academician struck me as especially great, except for Jock McFadyen's gorgeous Le Village Hollandais, which captivated an entire gallery with its simplicity and palette.
Le Village Hollandais, Jock McFadyen, RA
Paula Rego isn't known in America, but she should be. Her triptych Human Cargo is very powerful.
Human Cargo, Dame Paula Rego, RA
Philip Sutton's Falmouth, a Windy Day is big and both flashy and tame, a good thing and expensive enough, at £46,000.
Academicians can each display six works of their choosing and the show is the best marketing tool ever because it's very widely seen. For the artists, it's a chance not to experiment but to show, and sell, safe, trademark work. So there are lots of landscapes and seascapes. The very good Tracey Emin seemed to mail it in. Her squiggle drawings were uninspired. Work from the Academicians is among the most expensive, but it's better known. But visitors can buy a good print by the under-the-radar artists for £150.
Perry is a performance artist, and as a curator myself, I love seeing the act of curating a show elevated to the art form I've long believed it to be. The pictures, after all, don't jump on the wall by themselves. A portrait by David Griffiths of the controversial, far-right United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage is unmissable in the show's biggest gallery only in part because of its size, placement, and riveting ugliness. It's from the pool of open submissions. It's competently done, technique-wise, suggesting that a little knowledge, whether by an artist or a politician, is sometimes a dangerous thing. Perry hung it next to a beautifully painted, however bizarre, picture by Nicholas Peall of a woman, or a man with painted nails, inserting a straw in a penis. Call it curator's prerogative. Much of the work in this gallery has a political theme, as does plenty of new art today, but Perry tells us he didn't want to get "too shouty."
This year, the Summer Exhibition looks and feels like the ultimate 1960s hippie happening in all its asymmetry, bright color, and irreverence but without the anger and idol-smashing. It's more than 50 years since the age of Swinging London, so perhaps we have gained perspective. For lots of visitors, the most serious business at hand isn't revolution but looking at art and people. Perry's respectful of the history he's helping us celebrate and well aware of the history he's made himself as an artist and in choreographing a delightful, beguiling show.
Brian T. Allen is an art historian.
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But... having watched enough of the show, I know that if I wanted "well-distributed" raisins I would just coat them in flour before adding them to the batter, and voila, they would be suspended throughout the dough.
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The people can prevent a no-deal Brexit – with a general strike
Jolyon Maugham
Crashing out of the EU would imperil hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here's how we can force the government to change course
Wed 19 Dec 2018 06.01 EST Last modified on Wed 19 Dec 2018 06.30 EST
'It is hard, for those still able to be honest with themselves, to pretend the referendum gave a mandate for no deal. Do we find one in parliament?' Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP
To fail to deliver Brexit would be to "break faith with the British people" said the prime minister earlier this week. And yesterday, in pursuit of that logic, she did an extraordinary thing. Recognising that there is no majority in parliament for her deal she began preparations in earnest for us to leave without one. And here is what that will mean.
Gavin Williamson said we will "have 3,500 service personnel held at readiness" – he must anticipate civil unrest. Dominic Raab had confirmed we were taking measures to "make sure that there is adequate food supply" and Matt Hancock says we have begun to stockpile perishable medicines. And if that planning is adequate, we will continue to be safe and have enough to eat and there will be no further deaths. If it is adequate.
This is not project fear; each is a serving or recent cabinet minister.
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The effects do not stop with the short term. The Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted, in addition to shortages, a sharp fall in asset prices (you will be poorer) and a squeeze in real incomes (you'll earn less too). The government's own economic analysis predicts a 7.7-9.3% hit to GDP over 15 years. The burden will fall most heavily on those least able to bear it: the north-east, the north-west, the West Midlands and Northern Ireland. All will be harder hit by far than London. Manufacturing jobs and farmers will be especially hard hit.
Project Fear? The Office for Budget Responsibility's record is of over-optimistic forecasting. The government's analysis is cheerier by far than the cross-Whitehall analysis produced earlier in the year. And here's an inside take: a senior civil servant working inside the Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) wrote to me earlier of what they are calling D1ND (Day One No Deal): "however bad it looks from the outside it is a thousand times worse from the inside." This, too, must be right – a government keen to sell no deal will downplay the downside.
Of course, for many, this decision is not about money. We do not find our sense of who we are by emptying out our pockets, a point I made of Scottish independence in 2014. But only 11% of leavers believed Brexit would leave them worse off. And the official Leave campaign promised the very opposite of no deal: "we will negotiate the terms of a new deal before we start any legal process to leave". You may wish to leave whatever the price – but how can you know your fellow voters shared your view?
It is hard, for those still able to be honest with themselves, to pretend the referendum gave a mandate for no deal. Do we find one in parliament?
Let us look first to the Labour party. All the while, as the political kaleidoscope has shifted and changed, it has held firm to one constant: "leaving the EU with 'no deal' is the worst possible deal for Britain." Its position is echoed by the TUC's general secretary, Frances O'Grady who says leaving without a deal "would be devastating for working people."
But surely parliament will need to consent? That is far from certain. Beth Rigby, the deputy political editor at Sky News, quotes a "Cabinet source" as saying "there is 'technically' no way no deal can be blocked by MPs if govt doesn't lay any legislation between now & then to allow MPs to table amendment."
Not in the referendum and not in parliament. Does this defining political event of our lifetimes need no mandate? Is there nothing we can do to stop it? Do we have nothing left but petitions and marches with the faithful?
During the general strike in 1926, armoured cars and troops at Hyde Park Corner, London, prepare to escort London's great food convoy Photograph: Brooke/Getty Images
Writing of our last general strike, in 1926, the then prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, said "Constitutional government is being attacked… The general strike is a challenge to parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin." But today the boot is on the other foot. A minority government boasts of its ability to bypass parliament. Our constitution is the emperor's new clothes and reveals underneath only centuries of complacency. The Conservative party, riven with division, is near collapse leaving behind a black hole that would swallow all of us.
It is time for the people, the workers to take control. For the hundreds of thousands who will lose their jobs this is no joke; to save our democracy this is no drill; it is no rehearsal for the sick and the vulnerable who will suffer if the government's planning fails.
If the government will not listen, if it refuses to recognise the supremacy of parliament, we must have a general strike.
• Jolyon Maugham QC is a barrister and director of the Good Law Project
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DoorQ.Com | Interview: Meet Travis Richey as the Inspector in 'Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time'
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Interview: Meet Travis Richey as the Inspector in 'Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time'
August 31, 2012	- spaced-odyssey	- doorQ.com News, Fantasy, Features, Latest News, News, Science Fiction, Webseries	- 2 Comments
I met Travis Richey last year at Bent-Con, but as a huge fan of the NBC series Community, and their Doctor Who parody called Inspector Spacetime, I was already a follower of his because by then I was following his Youtube page Sivartis.There I began watching his videos and so when December last year arrived, I was excited to meet him. Got his picture, and talked to him briefly.
I got a chance to meet him again several months later when he came to a reading for two scripts my friends were getting ready to produce as films in the coming months, Something Like Summer and The Dark Place, both to be helmed by Judas Kiss director J.T. Tepnapa. Something Like Summer is based on the popular novel by Jay Bell, while The Dark Place is written by DoorQ's own Jody Wheeler.
Then is June, I got a Facebook invite to his birthday party. And at first, I was not going to go. I thought, while I know him through his work, did he remember me? But I ended up going anyways, and had a great time. I'm not sure he fully remembered me, but it was still cool to hang with his friends (that included a mutual friend, filmmaker Steven Tylor O'Connor –A Fairy Tale and Welcome to New York). We played Cards Against Humanity into the wee hours.
I had proposed an interview (which I apologize for the long delay) of sorts with him, knowing that he and his writing partner Eric Loya were working on a web series based in and around the Inspector Spacetime character. Of course, by then, there had been some drama about the whole thing, legal stuff that came from Sony. But that did not stop Travis, and coming September 10 is the first episode of Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time.
So I asked some questions, which he happily answered for me:
Who is Travis Richey?
I'm just a kid from Wisconsin. I was always a class clown. I would watch SNL on Saturday night and go to school the next week doing all the voices and characters from Dana Carvey and Mike Meyers. It was probably a way for me to deal with growing up with Bells Palsy. It was either laugh and make other people laugh or curl up into a ball and disappear. And I'm just not the disappearing type… When I was 14 I realized that what I needed to do with my life was to be an entertainer. I've been pursuing that goal ever since.
2. How did you get the role on "Community?"
I have been going to casting director workshops for years. Virtually everything I've booked on TV has been from meeting a casting director at a workshop. It's a tremendously useful way for unknown actors to be seen when otherwise they wouldn't get past the role submission process.
3. At what point did you realize this role was bigger than what was originally thought as?
I suspected that the character would recur as soon as I read the script, and Abed says "this is the best show I've ever seen in my entire life." I'd been a fan of Community since it started, so I knew what happened when Abed became obsessed with something. Remember Kickpuncher? Then, when we were on set, we were all talking, joking around about there being an actual episode of Inspector Spacetime for the web or as a DVD extra. Then, on the way home from that first shoot, I realized that a web series would be perfect, so before I even got home I called my writing partner Eric Loya to say we needed to write something we could pitch to the Community folks, in case they didn't have time to deal with it. All that aside, I had NO idea HOW big is was going to be.
4. We've seen SNL take characters and expand them into movies. Some have worked, while others have not. Was there any reservation that this could not work?
Nope. I'm not really sure how to expand on that, but basically, every character can be an interesting character. Eric and I sat down and spent hours figuring out what the character of The Inspector was, how he was similar to The Doctor and how he was different. Too many of those unsuccessful movies are extensions of a joke, and that is almost always the low-success choice.
5. Were you shocked that NBC and Sony did not see the potential in this project as Tumblr pages and what not sprung up almost overnight?
Oh, absolutely! In all the webisode tie-ins of all the shows on TV, I can't think of another that was more appropriate than Inspector Spacetime. I mean, fans were literally demanding it! Plus, major portions of the Community audience is online and web-saavy, and engaged online. When Eric and I wrote the series, we thought there was a good chance that there was going to be a web series, even if it wasn't the one we wrote. And then after the season premiere, when fans created that entire history of Inspector Spacetime online, it seemed so obvious a decision. To this day, I'm baffled that it didn't happen through official channels.
6. After the network passed on the idea, you and your writing partner produced the animated teaser. Was your initial idea to do it that way to begin with?
No, I only put the animatic together because I wanted to do something really cool for the Inspector Spacetime panel I was invited to at Gallifrey One this year. Like I said, I'm an entertainer, I really wanted to do something great for that panel. So I recorded the episode with by friend Erin Neimeyer, and asked one of my Youtube friends, SharkeyeJones, to illustrate it, and it turned out fantastic.
The panel ended up being a standing-room only event, and everybody had an amazing time. We were planning at that point to launch the Kickstarter campaign to do the series ourselves, since Community had finished shooting Season 3 without another Inspector appearance, and Season 4 was still very much in the air. I was approached by at least a dozen people at Gallifrey One who told me that they were Doctor Who fans who found Community because of Inspector Spacetime.
Then, word got out that we were planning on doing the web series, and before I got home from the convention that night, IO9.com had picked up on the story, and then it was everywhere. So I spent the night finishing up the Kickstarter page and launched it right away, so that we could take advantage of the buzz.
7. Was there a surprise when Sony filed a cease and desist to prevent both of you from moving forward with your Inspector Spacetime idea and doing appearances as the Inspector at conventions?
This is a huge bit of misinformation that I keep hearing. There was never a cease and desist. Never anything official from Sony or NBC in relation to the web series. All that happened was that my agent (who had nothing to do with the web series) got this email from a producer at Community, and forwarded it to me. All the email said was "It's still up!" (referring to the Kickstarter) and originated at Sony Legal. So I called the Producer first and tried to tell him that we pitched the idea to them first and would much rather have worked with the folks at Community directly, and still would love to! I told him that fans were demanding that this series be made. His response was that everyone was gone from the show since it was done shooting the season, and that we should wait until Season 4. Well, at the time, Season 4 was still a huge question mark, which I told him. I said that the web series could bring fans to the show, if there were a Season 4. In the end, he said it wasn't his decision. It was Sony and NBC calling the shots.
So, I wrote a long, professional email to the lawyer who sent that original email (I should post mine somewhere, I really was proud of it), and she called me back within minutes. She said stop making the web series. I said, well, no, because except for the title and the look of the main character, it's completely original. I told her what I told the producer, that I thought it was a no-brainer idea to do a web series and that I'd much rather work with them than alone. She said there was no way for that decision to be made because it would have to be Sony and NBC that would have to make it. I said it was funny that they were able to make the decision to try and shut down the web series easy enough… Then I reminded her that we weren't going ot be making any money off of this project and that I thought it was funny that they allowed other fans to make money off of Inspector Spacetime merchandise like t-shirts, posters and iPhone cases. She said there weren't enough personnel in the legal department to chase down every case of infringement. Having worked at a studio legal department (and knowing how easy Google is to use), I just let that one slide. I told her I'd change the name and the look of the character and that I was sorry that we couldn't work together to bring the world more Inspector Spacetime.
8. I worked on the web series Star Trek: Hidden Frontier for its final season. Paramount seemed aware that all the fan series actually enhanced their product; do you feel you could have done the same here?
Absolutely. There's a term called "Brand Ambassador." And that's what all those fans are who make artwork, and t-shirts and posters and iPhone cases (and web series). They help spread the word about a show or a movie or even a product or business and help to increase it's success, without prompting by the company responsible for it.
Lucas Films has done a great job embracing Brand Ambassadors. Joss Whedon is brilliant at it. Star Trek almost died in the late 90s because Paramount was actually fighting fan-run web sites and productions.
9. How did the new title come about and the costume?
The title was mostly me being snarky. I didn't want to call it "Inspector When" or "Inblector Blacetime" (as Dan Harmon himself suggested). I wanted it to be clear to people that the title wasn't the real title, and when I came up with Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time it just made me laugh, so I hoped other people would get the joke. I almost added "For Legal Reasons" but decided that was crossing a line. I didn't want to fight or piss anybody off. I just wanted to make some good entertainment.
In the course of the Kickstarter campaign, I had a bunch of people approach me about helping out. I met a guy named Brian Uiga at Gallifrey One – he helped to restore the 8th Doctor's TARDIS console from the TV movie – and besides offering to design and build The Inspector's optic pocketknife, he introduced me to a couple of costume designers, Rebecca Jordan and Amanda Avery, who both do a lot of brilliant cosplay costumes. Rebecca designed and built The Inspector's new coat from scratch. And isn't it amazing?!? We basically worked from the fact that The Inspector, as an Infinity Knight, is sort of a Universe Police. So we wanted something cool and hip.
10. How much of Doctor Who –both old and new- are incorporating into the project, or are you moving away from parody now that you have some freedom and into another direction?
We are definitely trying to make The Inspector his own man, in a show that will stand on it's own, but the entire framework for his universe is based on Doctor Who, and me and Eric are both big Whovians. Our show is not going to be campy, though, so in that respect it is more similar to the latest incarnation of Doctor Who. The tricky thing is, Doctor Who already has a fair bit of humor in it, right? So, how do you parody something that already doesn't' take itself too seriously? The answer was to just concentrate on making The Inspector's series the best it could be, and maybe a touch funnier, but to not focus on The Doctor too much.
11. As the idea evolved due to Sony, at what point did you start thinking about using Kickstarter to crowd fund a full web series?
That decision was made as soon as it became clear that there was going to be no more Inspector Spacetime in Season 3 of Community. My thought was, "If fans want to see the web series enough to fund it, then we'll know it's a thing worth doing." Sony had very little to do with that decision, besides not making the web series themselves. And again, their insistence that we change the title and look of the character resulted in only those two changes. Nothing else in our original script needed to be modified.
12. I heard that at Comic Con that the new showrunners are planning an episode where the crew go to an Inspector Spactime convention. Do you think you'll be back?
I certainly hope so! I had a great idea of how to bring The Inspector to Greendale, but I have no idea what they're planning. There are SO many great ways to do a sci-fi convention story, and not all of them would require The Inspector to be there.
So I want to thank Travis for answering my questions and apologize for its long delay.
Hal says
Sony/NBC are crazy not to be producing this and including it as special features on the Community DVD's. But, if they insist on not taking advantage of the opportunity, I am so glad Travis and Eric are doing it!
I was at that panel at Gallifrey and it was AWESOME. (By the way, Travis has a video of the whole thing up on Youtube if anyone is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dom24wny-Uk) Love the Inspector!
Thank you for posting this interview with more details on how it all went down. 🙂
Christopher Jones says
I caught the panel at Gallifrey One as well and have been looking forward to seeing more of the good Inspector in action since then. I don't think the title and costume changes will throw me too much. Can't wait to see this web series. Go Travis. Viva the Inspector. And remember – a Rose by another name is probably actionable as well.
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They were recently spotted having a good time together and leaving a party hand in hand. Fans really believe that the two are meant to be so you can't blame them for giving color to it.
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Are the benefits of entrepreneurship worth the risks? On this episode of UpNext, Gabrielle interviews Natalia Wiechowski of Think Natalia, an international brand management coach based in Dubai.
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Welcome to day 5 of WEDDING WEEK! You didn't think I'd let the whole week go by without talking about fashion, did you? This is a fashion blog after all!
The only requirement that I put on my bridesmaids was that their dresses be blush pink and knee length. Other than that, I let them decide what dress they wanted. I picked tons of favorites from several retailers just to provide some guidance, but what they ended up choosing was totally their decision. I love how they each picked a dress that was truly their style. I also let them make their own styling choices – from shoes, to jewelry, to hair. It was important to me that they were all comfortable in what they were wearing. In the end, I think it's a cohesive look all together but you can definitely see their own styles shining through! I just can't get over how gorgeous each of them looked!
George knew right off the bat that he wanted to be in a classic black and white tux for our wedding. I think he looked so dashing! We picked out a classic look for the groomsmen to match, but he let me add in a pop of blush pink with the ties and pocket squares. We had George's groomswoman wear black as well so that she could match the guys, but we gave her a bouquet that matched the bridesmaids. I think they all looked so good together!
My cousins served as our three ushers for our wedding. I just asked them to wear grey shirts and black pants so that they could blend in with the wedding party without having to wear a tux. They actually ended up all going shopping together to get matching shirts, which I thought was so funny! I didn't really care if they matched each other exactly, but when I saw them all together I thought they were so adorable! I know they're grown men, but they're my younger cousins so I can use the term "adorable" if I want!
Our little kiddo served as our ring bearer (I really wanted to type "ring BEAR"…HIMYM anyone?) and our niece served as our flower girl. We essentially had both of them be mini-me's to George and myself. Aren't they the cutest?! Neal's tux was rented from Men's Warehouse and it's the exact same as his dad's. Kira's adorable white dress was an awesome find that my sister in law got from Amazon. I love how it mimicked my dress, right down to the sparkly belt!
I love that each of your bridesmaids are wearing different dresses and fits their personality. So pretty!


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The cycle track at Preston Park in Brighton is probably the best kept secret in the city. It is the oldest cycle track in the country (don't worry it isn't the original surface) celebrating it's 125th anniversary in 2012. In it's heyday the track drew huge crowds of spectators to watch some of the county's best riders. The crowds are not so big these days but the racing is just as exciting. Every Wednesday evening from April to August the track at Preston Park, Brighton, still comes to life with a fantastic series of races for all categories of riders and all ages. Usually between 60 and 80 competitors take part in the racing, which includes all types of events from scratch races, handicaps and points races to the more unusual keirins and devil-take-the-hindmost contests.
Dubbed "the friendliest track league in the country", new riders of all abilities are always given a warm welcome. Whether you are a potential rider or spectator, you can be guaranteed a great evening of entertainment at Preston Park. Racing begins at 6.45pm and continues until around 8.45pm depending on daylight. The website brings you all the latest results, overall points scores, rider profiles, etc. The generous prize-list is supplemented by weekly lap prizes for seniors.
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Solicitors have claimed that Foxtons Estate Agency, based in London, could be hit with a legal bill amounting to £42 million. It comes as a result of a landlord launching action because of the extortionate price he had been billed to have a light fitting repaired.
In 2011, Dr Chris Townley employed Foxtons estate agency to let and manage a property he owned in London. The relationship was going smoothly, until Dr Townley was left skeptical after receiving a bill for £616 for a repair of a light fitting.
When Dr Townley contacted Foxtons to complain about the standard of work, he was told that the work had in fact been carried out by a subcontractor – Maintenance1st – who he subsequently got in touch with. He was distraught to find out that the subcontractor had actually charged much less than what Foxtons had billed him for.
Dr Townley challenged Foxtons, who admitted to adding £203 in extra charges to the £412.50 bill from the subcontractors. Solicitors acting for Dr Townley wrote and demanded compensation, claiming the charges were not covered in the landlord's contract.
The solicitors go on to claim that if they are successful, thousands of other landlords who have experienced this could be entitled to pay-outs, resulting in Foxtons potentially having to pay more than £40 million.
The breakdown of the final bill received by Dr Townley shows a total of £550 plus an additional £66 for VAT, this is despite the subcontractor's bill being only £412.50. According to Dr Townley, Foxtons had explained that they added £137.50, equal to 33% of the subcontractor's bill, as commission.
As well as the extortionate commission fee, Foxtons decided to add a 10% "ad hoc management charge" plus VAT because the invoice totalled more than £500. However, Dr Townley stated that it only exceeded £500 because of the 33% commission fee.
However, Dr Townley's solicitors disagree and allege that the "hidden commission" was not covered.
It is believed that, since the original story made the news, hundreds of landlords and tenants have contacted Dr Townley with their concerns over how estate agents operate, leading to Dr Townley to call for the improvement of the letting industry as a whole.


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