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29 Sep 2017 30 Sep 2017 by Shawn
Building Epoiesen
archaeology, history, making, publishing
The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired*—but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On.
Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
* Probably at the first pawn.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Epoiesen is now alive, a journal for creative engagement in history and archaeology. But when did Epoiesen begin? What was its genesis?
As I look through my notebooks and emails and miscellaneous files, I can't find the *exact* beginning (I know that I've been interested in new publishing models for a while though). I find in my inbox an email setting up a meeting with George Duimovich and Pat Moore from our Library to talk about Open Journal Systems in March of 2015. I find scribbles of ideas in notebooks going back to about 2014 (not coincidentally, shortly after my tenure and promotion portfolio was shoehorned from its born-digital format into dead pdfs). In October 2015, I find a google doc that I shared with some folks for an idea of something called 'Paradata: A Journal of Digital Scholarship in Archaeology and Ancient History'. The influence of HeritageJam I think is clear too ;) I wrote,
"I see this idea as being parallel to things like http://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/ which publishes 'data papers'. Paradata would publish the scholarship that goes into making something of that kind of info, while the dead tree versions can be where people duke it out over the interpretations. Moreover, since link rot and website death is a real issue, Paradata would hit a real niche where projects could continue ever after"
But that idea seems to have run out of steam. I'm not entirely sure why. I find one note that suggests we felt that our idea perhaps was too close to what DHCommons Journal had in mind.
My notes go silent for a while. Then I find scribbles in my notebooks again from around the time of my participation in MSUDAI, the Digital Archaeology Institute at MSU, concomitant with the creation of @tinyarchae my Tracery-powered dysfunctional excavation bot. That was August 2016. Then, sometime in September of last year, I find a website I built:
O what could've been, eh? Here, I'm clearly going for a bit of whimsy; not so much just paradata for conventional digital projects, but maybe something more. The core idea still seems to be there – a place to validate digital things. I rather like that template, and I need to remind myself what I was using to build it. Structurally, there's a debt here to open research notebooks done in Jekyll, so that's probably it. I did show this 'Miscellaney' to people, but there were some very strong reactions to the name, to the whimsy, as it were – see below. (I still like 'Haptic Visions' as a category though).
The actual email that led to Epoiesen seeing the light of day comes from October 16 2016:
As I was saying to George – and I think you and I have talked about this too on occasion – I've been interested to explore creating an open access journal for digital archaeology. I've seen the open journals platform, and while it is very cool, it's not quite what I'm thinking of. I'm interested in something a bit more idiosyncratic that would be based on simple text files in the markdown format, and building the site/journal from that with a static site generator.
The idea is to create what amounts to a kind of literary journal, but for creative engagement with the past. I would solicit everything from twitter bots (I've created one that tweets out what amounts to a procedurally-generated soap opera, scenes from an excavation) to music, to art, to creative writing, to data viz… I would solicit reviews, but these would also be published alongside the work under the reviewers' name. The Hypothesis web annotation architecture would also be built in […] In a way, it would be a place to publish the 'paradata' of digital making in archaeology … Does this sound feasible? Is it something we could do? Maybe I could drop by sometime to chat.
Pat said 'Yes'. Simple word, 'yes'. Strong word, 'yes'. Librarians are powerful.
From that initial meeting, many more meetings took place. Research. Emails. Phone calls. I'll try to summarize… My first port of call was of course those folks who've done this kind of thing before. Martin Paul Eve published a series of posts on his blog that offered his advice on starting an open access journal, and I can't recommend them enough. Indeed, if you're one of the people who received an email from me about joining the editorial board, you'll recognize that I adhered rather closely to Eve's model.
I was still going with the 'Smith's' name until about November of last year, when I find an email I wrote,
I have, on the advice of several people whose situation is far more precarious than my own, gone for a bit of a name change to signal a bit less whimsy….They rightly pointed out to me that as junior folks the perception of their work is everything, and my whimsical 'Smiths' name would undermine rather than help them…
One of the earliest folks on board was the wonderful Sara Perry. I find we exchanged several yonks-worth of emails, throwing ideas around about who to contact, who might be persuaded to submit, and so on. The wonderful folks of the editorial board as a group kept me grounded, found potential contributors, suggested Trello as a way of keeping track of who was doing what, and basically helped keep things on track when my enthusiasm threatened to derail things.
While all of this was going on, I continued to play with the design and platform. I eventually settled on Hexo as a static site generator. I'd been using Jekyll with my open research notebook, but Jekyll frankly is just not something I can work with.
Now Hexo is not without its idiosyncracies. I learned how it builds the site out of little snippets of 'ejs' code. I learned how to embed (that is, into what 'partial' to paste) Hypothes.is . I figured out where to place the bits and bobs of Tipuesearch (an open source jquery search engine plugin) into the site. (It generates a full json representation of all the site content, so not only making it searchable, but other folks can use it for remixing, data viz, whatever). You wouldn't believe how hard it was to work out how to make the list-of-articles page, list alphabetically, rather than by date. There was also a battle where the hexo deploy command for pushing everything to my test site ingested accidentally a bunch of stuff I didn't want – super huge image files – and so I had to wade deep into the waters of git to fix (and I thank the DHAnswers channel in DH Slack for the help!). Turns out, if you're using Hexo and Github, don't fiddle with anything via the website. Getting DOIs embedded into the page metadata, that was also difficult.
Here's what the YAML metadata for an article looks like:
title: Destory History
tags: interactive fiction
cover_index: /imgs/coyne/quinten-de-graaf-258711.jpg
cover_detail: /imgs/coyne/11146352055_64c730a741_o.jpg
author: "Coyne, Lucas"
doi: "10.22215/epoiesen/2017.4"
The partials grab the 'author' for alphabetizing posts, and the doi for embedding into the metadata:
<% if (page.doi){ %>
<meta name="dc:identifier" content="<%= page.doi %>" />
That might not mean very much to you, or look very impressive, but darnit, it took several hours of reading stackoverflow and fiddling with things, generating the site over and over again, so I'm pasting it here for posterity…. anyway, I now have a default template for creating articles, that has reminders within it of the kinds of information that I need to include and where they go.
One year later, Epoiesen exists in the world! I announced it with a tweet…
https://twitter.com/electricarchaeo/status/913041896238436352
… we will be doing a formal 'Ta Da!' during open access week in October. So many people come together at just the right time to make something in this world. Serendipity, and someone says 'Yes', and suddenly, there is something that wasn't before. What else is tenure for, if it isn't to make space for someone else to do something new? I hope you'll consider Epoiesen for your own experiments and creative engagements.
~o0o~
I'm grateful to everyone who has sent me a note or tweeted regarding the start of Epoiesen. I look forward to seeing where this adventure will lead! Thank you, all. I'm also grateful to Neville Morley, who writes about Epoiesen's situation in the broader publishing landscape in 'Changing the Rules'
Moving forward, I've very excited to work with Bill Caraher and The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota to publish the Epoiesen Annual, where all of the articles from a given year are gathered together and given (printed) flesh.
Stay tuned! Make wonderful things!
30 Jan 2016 31 Jan 2016 by Shawn
The Minimal Viable Digital History Virtual Machine
history, making
I have three classes on the go, all of which are heavily digitally inflected. In the past, I've always figured it was better to teach students how to use the machines they have to hand, rather than trying to get them all on a single virtual machine; after all, most of the students come to my classes with only the vaguest idea of what their machines can actually do. Being able to click around madly in Word or Powerpoint is not digital literacy. In which case, figure out what this (real) thing is capable of before we complicated matters with another (virtual) thing.
That means a lot of tech support. I've always undertaken to help the windows people put things into their path variables, and mac people to guide them around the terminal (terminal?! path!?) and so on and so on. Normally, not a big deal. But this term, the three courses combined are taxing me pretty heavily.
Have you tried turning it off and on?
I'm thinking that the next time I run these courses, it'd be better to just bow to the inevitable, get everyone working on the same image, and spend time sorting out a virtual machine and then getting on with life. My question then is, what is the minimum viable digital history virtual machine? What are its components? What flavour of linux? Should it have a GUI? etc.
There are some places to start. Turkel, Start, and Milligan have the 'HistoryCrawler' available for use. But the instructions are, well, complex . (EDIT- As Ian points out in the comments, those instructions are for replicating/building from scratch; to use, just download, load into virtualbox, and Go. It's still 8gb though). One of my undergrads* built a VM last year for me – which was awesome, A+, that man – but it was still too heavy and a touch unstable. Ben Marwick has a VM set up script for archaeological computing (and me futzing with same).
It would have to be extremely straightforward to install. I'm thinking, no more than a handful of commands (that includes setting up all the virtualization framework too). It would have to automatically be configured to communicate with the students 'my documents' folder or similar, for getting stuff in and out (that's a mission critical point, by the way. Configuring that would cause brain melts). It would have to be extremely light. No one has turned up with a chromebook (yet), but people are buying some godawful cheap laptops with next to no RAM.
Anyway, those are just some initial thoughts. What should the minimum viable machine have in it? What are the crucial things? Answers on a postcard.
*He also rewrote one of the exercises in the workbook to use a vanilla linux VM – see https://github.com/Ottawagunner/ResearchHistoryNotes/blob/master/MOD2.md#instructions
(edited Jan 31, rewritten a bit)
19 Nov 2015 19 Nov 2015 by Shawn
Teaching History in/with/via Video Games
games, history, immersive learning
digital history, video games
Prompted by Lee, I'm collating here materials that I've put out there regarding my teaching/thinking related to video games & history and archaeology. The list below is in no recognizable bibliographic style (mostly because I'm tapping this out and can't be bothered this AM).
2006 The Year of the Four Emperors – CivIV scenario that started it all http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=171164
2012 Stranger in These Parts http://playfic.com/games/shawn_graham/stranger-in-these-parts—v01
Write up: https://electricarchaeology.ca/2012/08/17/stranger-in-these-parts-an-interactive-fiction-for-teaching/
After action report: did we learn anything? http://www.playthepast.org/?p=3289
2009 Kee, Graham, et al. Towards a Theory of Good History Through Gaming. Canadian Historical Review 90.2 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/can/summary/v090/90.2.kee.html
2010 My Glorious Failure playthepast.org http://www.playthepast.org/?p=352
2010 Kee, Graham, and Vaughan The Haunted School on Horror Hill: A Case Study of Interactive Fiction in an Elementary Classroom http://www.graeworks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/haunted_school_on_horror_hill.pdf
2014 Kee, Graham Teaching History in an Age of Pervasive Computing: The Case for Games in the High School and Undergraduate Classroom Pastplay http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dh/12544152.0001.001/–pastplay-teaching-and-learning-history-with-technology?g=dculture;trgt=div2_ch13;view=fulltext;xc=1
2014 Graham Rolling Your Own: On Modding Commercial Games for Educational Goals Pastplay http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dh/12544152.0001.001/1:6/–pastplay-teaching-and-learning-history-with-technology?g=dculture;rgn=div1;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=Rolling+Your+Own%3A+On+Modding+Commercial+Games+for+Educational+Goals
2015 Pulling Back the Curtain- Writing History through Video Games Web Writing http://epress.trincoll.edu/webwriting/chapter/graham/
I think that's everything.
Syllabi, websites, random presentations etc
Playing Pedagogy: Videogaming as Site and Vehicle for Digital Public Archaeology http://digitalarchaeology.msu.edu/saa2015-session235/papers/playing-pedagogy-videogaming-as-site-and-vehicle-for-digital-public-archaeology/
An introduction to writing history through videogames (for High School students) https://github.com/shawngraham/highschoolhistorygaming/blob/master/readme.md
HIST3812a 2014 version, Minecrafted History worlds: https://github.com/shawngraham/hist3812a
HIST3812a 2014 version, playable syllabus http://hist3812a.dhcworks.ca/teaser/
HIST3812a 2014 version, course blog http://hist3812a.dhcworks.ca/
HIST3812a 2013 version, http://www.3812.graeworks.net/
15 Nov 2015 by Shawn
Book Launch: 'Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope' Nov 17
We're launching our book on November 17th, at 11.30 in the History department lounge, 4th floor of Paterson Hall. Drop by if you're around!
I'm also going to undertake to stream the conversation on youtube. I've never set a livestream up (there seems to be an assumption round here that if you're the digital guy, you're also totally au-courrant with audio/vidsual tech and the ins and outs of broadcasting. This is not the case) so I'm not guaranteeing this will work. But if it does, it'll be at:
Finally, what does a book launch entail? I have no real idea. And so, what we've done is this – Shawn Anctil, who is one of our PhD students and doing very cool work in digital history himself (he sometimes blogs here) will moderate a round table discussion with myself, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart (Scott will be skyping in). We'll field questions from those assembled and of course via twitter (use #hmbook as a tag).
The round table conversation will last about an hour, and then Ian and I will give a bit of a digital history workshop. Our plan will be to focus on network analysis, so if this interests you, bring a laptop and have Gephi installed. Note that Gephi sometimes has Java issues – this will help. The workshop won't be streamed, I think. Maybe it will. Really depends on whether I a) can get streaming to work and b) forget to turn it off again.
See you on Tuesday!
6 Mar 2013 7 Mar 2013 by Shawn
Living the Life Electric
digital history, history, humanities, presentations
colloquium, graduate students, history department
I'm addressing the Underhill Graduate Students' Colloquium tomorrow, here in the history department at Carleton U. Below are my slides for 'Living the Life Electric: On Becoming a Digital Humanist'
update March 7: here are my speaking notes. These give a rough sense of what I intend to talk about at various points. Bolded titles are the titles of slides. Not every slide is listed, as some speak more or less for themselves.
I wanted to be an archaeologist – I graduated in 2002.
'Digital Humanities' wasn't coined until 2004.
It emerges from 'humanities computing', which has been around since the 1940s.
In fact, computing wouldn't be the way it is today without the Humanities, and the Jesuit, Father Busa.
Eastern Canada's Only Stamped Brick Specialist -Roman archaeology
Stamped brick
Eastern Canada's only Stamped Brick Specialist, probably
….things were pretty lean in 2003…
Life from a suitcase
Comin' Home Again
Youth development grant to study cultural heritage of my home township
Also a small teaching excavation based in Shawville
Which led to a teaching gig at the local high school.
A Year of Living Secondarily
What was it about my academic work that I really enjoyed?
Possibilities of Simulation
Random Chances and the virtues of 'What the Hell'
Coronation Hall
Meanwhile, I enter business – 3 different startups, one of which has survived (so far!)
Heritage focus
Heritage education – learned how to install my own software, LMS
Trying to monetize the information I uncovered in my cultural heritage study
Coronation Hall Cider Mills
(Shameless Plug).
What are the digital humanities – think about it: modern computers were developed in order to allow us to map, forecast, the consequences of massive annihilation and death. Simulation is rooted in the desire to predict future death counts. My interest emerged from trying to simulate my own understandings of the past, to understand the unintended consequences of my understandings, to put some sort of order on the necessarily incomplete materials I was looking at. I call it 'practical necromancy'
Do your work in public blog was originally intended to chronicle my work on simulation, but it has become very much the driver of my online identity, the calling card that others see when they intersect my work – and because it's been up for so long, with a sustained focus, it creates a very strong signal which our algorithms, Google, pick up. This is how academics can push the public discourse: interfere with the world's extended mind, their entangled consciousness of cyberspace & meatspace.
Allows you to develop your ideas
Forces you to write in small chunks
Exposes your work to potential audiences
My blog posts have been cited in others' academic monographs
Has improved the readership of my published work
A quarter million page reads over the last six years.
My book: maybe 40 copies, if I'm lucky.
Basic Word Counts
Top words:
digital 1082 research 650 university 577 experience 499 library 393 humanities 386
History: 177 times
Broadly, not useful or surprising. But consider the structure of word use…
Group 1: gives you a sense of technical skills, but for the most part not the kinds of analyses that one would use that for. That's an important distinction. The analysis should drive the skill set, not the other way around (a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail)
Group 2: European centres!
Group 3: Canada!
Job adverts – to – topics. Six broad groups based on how the adverts share particular discourses. Gives a sense of where academic departments think this field is going. If I'd done this according to individual researcher's blogs, or the 'about' pages for different centres, you'd get a very different picture – game studies, for instance.
Important point: I wanted to show you how you can begin to approach large masses of material, and extract insights, suss out, underlying structures of ideas. This is going to be big in the future, as more and more data about our every waking moment gets recorded. Google Glass? It's not about the user: it's about everything the user sees, which'll get recorded in the googleplex. Governments. Marketers. University Administrations. Learn to extract signals from this noise, and you'll never go hungry again.
Keep in mind that in 1994 I wrote that the internet would never be useful for academics. My ability to predict the future is thus suspect.
So how to join this brave new world? Twitter, etc.
About a Barn
history, presentations
I found another presentation on that same laptop, this time related to the agricultural vernacular… that is to say, about a barn. I was very pleased with that title… Again, the venue was the Friends of Gatineau Park annual research forum.
6 Nov 2012 by Shawn
HIST3812, Gaming and Simulation for Historians
digital history, games, history, humanities, making, teaching
Finally, with a bit of space to breathe, I am turning to getting my HIST3812 Gaming and Simulation for Historians course put together. In response to student queries about what this course will explore, I've put together a wee comic book (to capture the aesthetic of playfulness about history that games & simulations naturally contain). I'm not a particularly good maker of comic books, but it does the trick, more or less.
See it on Issuu here
30 Aug 2011 19 Sep 2012 by Shawn
Getting Started with MALLET and Topic Modeling
data management, digital history, history, humanities, tools
UPDATE! September 19th 2012: Scott Weingart, Ian Milligan, and I have written an expanded 'how to get started with Topic Modeling and MALLET' for the Programming Historian 2. Please do consult that piece for detailed step-by-step instructions for getting the software installed, getting your data into it, and thinking through what the results might mean.
Original Post that Inspired It All:
I'm very interested in topic modeling at the moment. It has not been easy however to get started – I owe a debt of thanks to Rob Nelson for helping me to get going. In the interests of giving other folks a boost, of paying it forward, I'll share my recipe. I'm also doing this for the benefit of some of my students. Let's get cracking!
First, some background reading:
Clay Templeton, "Topic Modeling in the Humanities: An Overview | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities", n.d., http://mith.umd.edu/topic-modeling-in-the-humanities-an-overview/.
Rob Nelson, Mining the Dispatch http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch/
Cameron Blevins, "Topic Modeling Martha Ballard's Diary" Historying, April 1, 2010, http://historying.org/2010/04/01/topic-modeling-martha-ballards-diary/
David J Newman and Sharon Block, "Probabilistic topic decomposition of an eighteenth‐century American newspaper," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57, no. 6 (April 1, 2006): 753-767.
David Blei, Andrew Ng, and Michael Jordan, "Latent dirichlet allocation," The Journal of Machine Learning Research 3 (2003), http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=944937.
Now you'll need the software. Go to the MALLET project page, and download Mallet. (Mallet was developed by Andrew McCallum at U Massachusetts, Amherst).
Then, you'll need the Java developer's kit – nb, not the regular Java that's on every computer, but the one that lets you program things. Install this.
Unzip Mallet into your C:/ directory . This is important; it can't be anywhere else. You'll then have a folder called C:/mallet-2.0.6 or similar.
Next, you'll need to create an environment variable called MALLET_HOME. You do this by clicking on control panel >> system >> advanced system settings (in Windows 7; for XP, see this article), 'environment variables'. In the pop-up, click 'new' and type MALLET_HOME in the variable name box; type c:/mallet-2.0.6 (ie, the exact location where you unzipped Mallet) in variable value.
To run mallet, click on your start menu >> all programs >> accessories >> command prompt. You'll get the command prompt window, which will have a cursor at c:\user\user> (or similar). type cd .. (two periods; that ain't a typo) to go up a level; keep doing this until you're at the C:\ . Then type cd:\mallet-2.0.6 and you're in the Mallet directory. You can now type Mallet commands directly. If you type bin\mallet at this point, you should be presented with a list of Mallet commands – congratulations!
At this point, you'll want some data. Using the regular windows explorer, I create a folder within mallet where I put all of the data I want to study (let's call it 'data'). If I were to study someone's diary, I'd create a unique text file for each entry, naming the text file with the entry's date. Then, following the topic modeling instructions on the mallet page, I'd import that folder, and see what happens next. I've got some work flow for scraping data from websites and other repositories, but I'll leave that for another day (or skip ahead to The Programming Historian for one way of going about it.)
Once you've imported your documents, Mallet creates a single 'mallet' file that you then manipulate to determine topics.
bin\mallet import-dir --input \data\johndoediary --output
johndoediary.mallet \ --keep-sequence --remove-stopwords
(modified from the Mallet topic modeling page)
This sequence of commands tells mallet to import a directory located in the subfolder 'data' called 'johndoediary' (which contains a sequence of txt files). It then outputs that data into a file we're calling 'johndoediary.mallet. Removing stopwords strips out 'and' 'of' 'the' etc.
Then we're ready to find some topics:
bin\mallet train-topics --input johndoediary.mallet \
--num-topics 100 --output-state topic-state.gz --output-topic-keys
johndoediary_keys.txt --output-doc-topics johndoediary_composition.txt
Now, there are more complicated things you can do with this – take a look at the documentation on the Mallet page. Is there a 'natural' number of topics? I do not know. What I have found is that I have to run the train-topics with varying numbers of topics to see how the composition file breaks down. If I end up with the majority of my original texts all in a very limited number of topics, then I need to increase the number of topics; my settings were too coarse.
More on interpreting the output of Mallet to follow.
Again, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Rob Nelson for talking me through the intricacies of getting Mallet to work, and for the record, I think the work he is doing is tremendously important and fascinating!
30 Jun 2011 30 Jun 2011 by Shawn
A Small Revolution
"It was a small revolution: you could see something infiltrate the room – pride – as this person from the University talked about their history, their story."
I was speaking with Lisa Mibach, from Deschenes, Quebec, once an independent town, then part of the city of Aylmer, and now part of the larger city of Gatineau. We were talking about her and her group's efforts to document the heritage of this part of the city. It's an anglophone sector of the city. If you look on the google map satellite image, you can see one of the most significant pieces of built heritage in the entire city of Gatineau – the former Deschenes Electric Company. When you cross on the Champlain Bridge, you can see this impressive ruin to the west. This plant electrified the town of Deschenes and Aylmer, and provided the power for the Ottawa Electric Railway Company (back when Ottawa had working light rail).
Lisa's been working hard to document this community's history; the story she told me was about one of the 'heritage days' that they've put on. This was where they had someone come in and look at their materials that they'd collected, and re-present them to the community.
Sometimes, the public historian or archaeologist's most important job is to listen to the community, and tell them what he's heard. In that way, it somehow becomes more 'real', more 'important', more worthy of study and serious consideration in the eyes of that self-same community. The act of observation changes that which is observed.
I'm entranced by this small community's history, and hope to explore there more this summer, ideally as part of HeritageCrowd.org.
7 Oct 2010 by Shawn
Serious Games for Archeaology & Imagining The Past
archaeology, game theory, games, history
Ruth Tringham and her team at Berkeley continue to do extremely interesting work! I've just come across this course description for 'serious games for archaeology', a course that asks probably *the* most important question when it comes to the content of historically-themed video games:
[…]We will explore and learn to critically analyze existing games that deal with archaeology, history, and the past. How, for example, does the game "Colonial Williamsburg" that MIT is developing differ from more popular games such as "Civilization"? We'll discuss why it is that the commercial game producers are not interested in the educational value and content of their games.[…] (emphasis added SG)
That's the nub, right there. Why does it matter that the Taliban can be swapped out of Medal of Honor without any consequences to game play? These are questions that historians and archaeologists need to address. In a similar vein, that was the motivation behind our paper from this past summer on a theory of good history through good gaming.
Players of history games are interested in the past and in the big questions that drive historical scholarship. In this way, games have the potential to draw players into the discipline if we can discover the best way to express history though simulation. But what research do we draw on as we study how to accomplish this transformation? This essay is the product of a meeting of historians, educators, and gamers who joined previously separate lines of inquiry to identify literature and models that we believe form the foundation for developing a theory of good history through gaming.
15 Jul 2010 by Shawn
Exploring Resilience in Shawville – Lyndal Neelin
In the Canadian Studies department at Carleton, Lyndal Neelin is studying the anglophones of Shawville Quebec. Being one of those myself, I thought I'd highlight Lyndal's study & blog here, in the hopes of reaching more of Shawville's Diaspora. After the mines closed in the 70s, and the PQ came to power, there was quite a substantial exodus of talent and resources; Lyndal's study examines how the community responds and recovers from that. Shawville is sometimes still a target for some of the more extreme fringes of the separatist movement.
Rewriting history by exam
As a product of the Quebec education system, it was always apparent that what we were being taught was designed to promote a very clear agenda. Robert Wilkins, a retired high school history teacher, reports today in the Montreal Gazette how the provincially-mandated final exam in history has evolved in the decades since separatism raised its ugly head:
Yet far more captivating is the content, and how the subject matter evolved through the years. Its rapid change might also help one better appreciate the present polemics. On the June 1970 examination, for instance, the first 10 questions contained queries about Canada's system and form of government, as well as the rights and duties afforded by citizenship.
Contrast that with today's students who receive essentially no instruction in civics whatsoever.
Interestingly as well, the 1970 Canadian History examination employed the word "Quebec" on just one occasion -a reference to the pre-Confederation Conference held in the Vieille Capitale in 1864. On the other hand, the word "Canada" was used repeatedly. Now, of course, it is quite different.
by the early 1990s, what had long been known as "Canadian History" was replaced by the very suggestive title "History of Quebec and Canada" -not the history of Quebec IN Canada but the history of Quebec AND Canada. Increasingly, references to Canada have taken on a biased tinge with the regular June reminders of the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, the Conscription Crisis of 1917, the federal plebiscite of 1942, the October Crisis of 1970, the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1981, the failure of the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, etc.; in short, anything that in the eyes of those nationalist educators putting the examination together would make Canada look bad and, by inference, Quebec its victim.
If you want to change the world (or at least the country), become an education bureaucrat.


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Felixkirk
The pretty and peaceful village of Felixkirk lies on the edge of North Yorkshire's Hambleton Hills and is situated around three miles to the north-east of the market town of Thirsk.
The village derives its name from its church, which is dedicated to St Felix (died 647 or 648). St Felix is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals that was compiled in the late ninth century.
Felix was a Burgundian, who travelled to England with St Paulinus in the seventh century to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons. St. Felix converted Sigbert, King of the East Saxons to Christianity and served as Bishop of Dunwich and East Anglia from 630 A.D.
The village may have not been known by its current name at the time of the Norman conquest as it is referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Fridebi. At that time the manor lands were held by Gamal, son of Kalri and Ligulf. Following the Norman conquest they passed to Hugh, who is recorded as the son of Baldric, who made Gerard of Boltby lord of the manor.
There are varying etymologies for the name of Fridebi. It is recorded in some texts as being the same as the old place name of Firby near Snape Castle near Bedale, and which means Peaceful Place deriving from the Old Norse word for peace which is fred. Alternatively it has been recorded as Freda's dwelling along the same naming convention for hamlets with Danish influences at that time. Freda as a personal name in Danish, would also mean Peace.
The fine village church of St Felix has parts which date back from before 1175. The interior contains the basin of an early font which is believed to have come from a long-disappeared church in the neighbouring village of Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe. There are also two stone medieval effigies, of a Crusader knight and a contemporary effigy of a woman, assumed to be his wife.
Opinions differ as the to the identity of the two effigies in the church. They may be of members of the de Roos family, lords of Helmsley. However it is also thought that the woman is Eva de Boltby, a local heiress, who had three husbands. The church also contains a fine example of modern stained glass in a window in memory of Brig. Walker, last of the three generations of Walkers at Mount St John and Ravensthorpe in nearby Boltby.
A nearby hill, Mount St John, was the location of a Preceptory of the Order of St John of Jerusalem which was built in the eleventh century. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the Preceptory buildings were handed to the Archbishop of York. In 1720 the buildings were demolished and a new manor house built. Still known as Mount St John, it is a grade II* listed building.
The Carpenters Arms (pictured above right), an award winning traditional village inn, is located in the heart of Felixkirk. The Inn has a wonderful traditional bar, stocked with local beers, which accommodates informal dining. The restaurant is located overlooking the beautiful Vale of Mowbray and provides a spectacular backdrop for meal. The inn also offers en-suite accommodation.
The Motte opposite the Carpenter's Arms was probably once a timber castle and is partly man-made. A bowl barrow at Howe Hill in the parish is a scheduled ancient monument.

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Why Brazilian clubs and their fans are experts in coping with star sales
16/06/2017 by Tom Sanderson
His team fresh off their fifth consecutive win, this one a thrilling 3-2 nail-biter over cross-city rivals São Paulo FC to keep them unbeaten and top of the table, Corinthians coach Fábio Carille refused to budge from a stiff-lipped stance exerted days prior in the build up to one of Brazilian football's most famous clássicos.
Cast down by their rivals and the media as the 'quarta força' (fourth force) in São Paulo state – let alone the rest of the country – after the pitiful defence of their 2015 Série A title ceded to a foe even more loathed than SPFC, Palmeiras, pride has been restored through a master turnaround from Carille, charged with navigating the rubble only slightly still dusty from the ashes of glory left by Tite after he too was called in to salvage the national team from comparable troubles.
Spurned on by a lifting of the Paulistão state championship, this near-perfect start, marred only by an opening day draw to Chapecoense, now has tongues wagging as to whether Corinthians, contrary to expectations, are genuine contenders this season. Carille, though, reiterated his comments that any genuine push to be crowned champions comes down to whether or not an already threadbare squad can keep its players for the duration of the campaign.
Spearheaded by a lost sheep tangent of ex-Manchester City striker Jô, new Seleção inductee Rodriguinho and to a lesser extent a diminished Jádson, who between them as a trio have made their way back from spells in China and the Middle East at various points to finally unite at this crucial hour, with added help from tireless Paraguayan international Romero, Corinthians are currently playing an attractive brand of attacking football that has brought an increased amount of goals conceded against them in comparison to the norm, but finds the team also scoring far more at the opposite end whilst freeing themselves of the shackles that have them widely reputed as specialists in 1-0 defensive-heavy scrapes.
The real revelation, however, has come from defence. Linking with Romero and devastating opponents down their right flank, as witnessed in Sunday's derby ad nauseam, academy graduate Guilherme Arana looks to be a classic Brazilian left-back who, although some considerable years younger, could one day pose a serious risk to Alex Sandro's quest to succeed Marcelo as the country's number one choice in the position.
Read | How Marcelo replaced the irreplaceable Roberto Carlos
Already capped at under-20s level, Arana was pivotal in the Paulistão, forcing his way into the team of the tournament, and, with eight assists until now, is only lacking an elusive goal to top off a purple patch which has naturally attracted foreign attention from Bordeaux, interested in a trade for on-loan defender Pablo, Sevilla, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid and Inter Milan's newly-formed Chinese democracy.
Carille's comments were more a thinly-veiled allusion to this speculation above all. While injuries remain a possibility for any squad, championship credentials are faced with a constant threat as their best talent is picked off, and although left financially improved, Brasilerão hopefuls become overtaken by the competition in the long run.
More specifically, with the Brazilian season officially starting in May, any promising start as that made by Corinthians this time round can come to an abrupt halt once the summer transfer window unleashes a stampede of European clubs, teeth sharpened clenching bulky chequebooks, hurtling over the savannah to relieve Brazilian outfits of their prized cubs, the majority of which have been personally reared since infancy or early adolescence.
This phenomena, amplified in cases when a player barely manages to see out a regular season as a starter before setting sail across the Atlantic, becomes a case of "So long, kid, we hardly knew ye" and makes Brazilian clubs and their fans seasoned veterans in coping with footballing grief and loss – left with no other choice than to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and plod on towards the finish line.
An easy bunch to rile up in the best of times, Corinthianos will be particularly ticked off should any agreement for Arana at all resemble that struck by Roma for Marquinhos. Nurtured since eight years of age, a sturdy centre-back well on his way to become one of the world's best made just 14 first team appearances in Brazil before heading to Serie A for a paltry €1.5 million that was doubled upon completion of a handful of games in Italy.
After barely a year in Rome, Marquinhos would swap one European capital for another when Paris' Arab-backed money men came knocking with a fee over 10 times the amount the Giallorossi acquired him for, at €31 million – then the highest paid for a teenager – with Corinthians receiving just a small cut of the proceeds. It's a development no doubt resonating with fans of teams from the lower reaches of English football yet occurring in South America on a far grander, more frequent scale.
Read | Playboy or the Bible? Choosing your path as a Brazilian footballer
There was ample competition for the debacle that was eventually dubbed by domestic media as the worst deal in recent club history. Player of the season two times running as Cruzeiro succeeded Corinthians as champions in Tite's most-fabled reign and claimed back-to-back titles in 2013 and 2014, Everton Ribeiro was granted passage to Coritiba for a meagre £350,000 before being sold on to Cruzeiro for £1 million, Dubai's Al-Ahli for €15 million and then this week Flamengo for a fee of €6 million. An integral part of the 2015 winning side Malcolm, spotted age 12, was bought by now regular business partners Bordeaux for an undisclosed fee shortly before his 19th birthday.
Lest we forget to factor in the ever-present culture of third-party ownership – now outlawed but manifesting itself in alternative forms such as the takeover of smaller, lower tier clubs by consortiums of entrepreneurs commonly behind Brazil's largest supermarket chains or in Corinthians' case, premier electronics retailer and past sponsor Kalunga. These takeovers often include the biggest clubs selling stakes in players to keep their head above water, and left with as little as 30 percent of the profits. There remains little hope of deserved, adequate profit being achieved through the certain future offloading of other exciting prospects like Maycon and Pedrinho.
Featuring in just 15 matches in Tite's domineering title-winning side two years ago, and more of a work-in-progress back then, Arana's rise to prominence in 2017 means that any potential sale, despite protests from Corinthians hierarchy that he will be staying put at all costs, could make his time in Brazil a mere flash in the pan as mirrored by sales of the likes of Marcelo, Dani Alves and Philippe Coutinho among others to European suitors before Brazilian fans were given the chance to become properly acquainted with them.
While once, partly down to an allowance of just one non-EU player in a starting line-up in Europe's top leagues in the era, Brazilians stayed at home for longer before making the switch, this modern trend of pouncing on young talent as early as possible has caused distance between fans and their national team in that some of those featuring for it are alien to their countrymen.
This was highlighted in 2014 when locals knew little of World Cup attacker Hulk despite his relatively fresh €60 million move to Zenit from Porto, and in the following year when fans booed the mention of Shakhtar Donetsk's Fred, mistaking him for his Atletico Mineiro namesake and goal shy number 9 for said ill-fated tournament on home turf.
Read | A journey to England: why Brazil's youngsters want Premier League football
Sometimes success and reasonable monetary gain have been achieved whilst keeping the wolves at bay until the door comes firmly off its hinges. First paraded in front of Real Madrid, Barcelona and later Chelsea by agent Wagner Ribeiro as young as 11, Santos extracted three consecutive Paulistãos, a Copa do Brasil, a Libertadores and a South American Supercup from Neymar before caving in to an €86 million package from the Camp Nou.
Preceding talks that saw Gabriel Jesus wind up at the Etihad for £27 million, Palmeiras were also able to seal a Copa do Brasil in 2015. Possessing the foresight to realise that his ability would find him plying his trade in the Allianz Arena for a limited time only, Palmeirenses' insistence on seeing their boy wonder in action spelled part of reluctant coach Marcelo Oliveira's downfall in a blessing in disguise that brought the appointment of Cuca and a Jesus-inspired first domestic championship in 22 years.
This all brings us to a sticking point. By the time Santos and Palmeiras were ready to sell, Neymar and Jesus were already beginning to demonstrate trophy-winning credentials, therefore upping their price. For every dicey, monstrous outlay, who's to say whether a European buyer has the next Latin genius on his hands or another Kléberson or Keirrison, resulting in cut-rate offerings. In financial difficulties, Brazilian clubs are keen to get rid as soon as possible to balance the books but could also miss out on the millions if a talked-up target doesn't come to fruition and flops whilst still in their employ.
An against the grain case, Flamengo boss Zé Ricardo presently finds himself in a similar pickle as Marcelo Oliveira was to a soundtrack of Flamenguista chants for Vinicius Junior to be played while they still have the chance and the club nestles in a peculiar yet welcomed predicament.
Inextricably linked to the Neymar deal in a bid to prevent a repeated eleventh hour ransacking from Barcelona, with the services of part-time-jail bird Wagner Ribeiro as an intermediary seeing the settled sum mysteriously jump from €30 to €45 million almost overnight for an unproven product, a clause that won't see Junior head to Real Madrid until 2019, could result in Flamengo capitalising on two quality seasons from him whilst having the cash to spend on reinforcements such as Everton Ribeiro in order to mount a decent title challenge.
Whether leaders Corinthians, on the cusp of losing key players to Europe, or reigning champions Palmeiras – simultaneously invested in an attempt to scoop the Libertadores as Barcelona constantly amend the details of their already struck agreement for star defender Yerry Mina in desperation to make the transfer happen sooner than later – will be up there in the mix come late November, only time will tell
By Tom Sanderson @TomSandersonSP
Tags: brazil, corinthians, palmeiras
Tom Sanderson 16/06/2017


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Marp become boring place after complain becomes tecnique.
I also upload very few recordings after cameltry becomes void.
Definitely there are better sites for autofire kiddies.
The TJT wrote: Definitely there are better sites for autofire kiddies.
better replay sites than MARP? is a joke? which are?
The sarcasm wasn't necessary... we know you don't consider anything done after 1990 a classic, but please understand there are some people who do.
Chufoglu wrote: better replay sites than MARP? is a joke? which are?
EDIT: I should point out that I'm not suggesting that these sites are better than MARP. There are very seldom any recordings there that interest me, but the Japan fetishists amongst us drool over the stuff there like junkies over smack.
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Why does he make his web page to show pattern?
He always says "want to know better pattern.""want a rival."
He understand that "he will find any worthy tecnique at MARP or not."
Competition of Rick and Notman is suitable for MARP.
Speaking of Mog's, it hasn't had any activity in a while, might be dead?
The_Pro wrote: Speaking of Mog's, it hasn't had any activity in a while, might be dead?
hmm... Less a month to go on T10. I wonder why everybody isn't playing T10. Maybe it has to do with JTC's protest of games that scare everybody away. Nice going, JTC! If you want to take your protest somewhere else instead of killing any future tourney at MARP. :/ Oh well... Maybe I should stop playing T10 for now.
Zhorik has pointed it out that there is RotaxMame vs MARP tourney over RotaxMame's web site.
I doubtful that the next tourney (Olympiad) may be worse or possibly drop out, IMO.
just because people dont submit doesn't mean they aren't playing. 100 scores are scaring people away? Isn't it a pointless protest anyways, as it actually shows peoeple who only want to play in one game how to enter.
NotMan wrote: I wonder why everybody isn't playing T10. Maybe it has to do with JTC's protest of games that scare everybody away.
You think my submitting for 7 games somehow dissuaded others from participating? That's stupid.
An alternate possibility is that there are people who would participate, but don't want to be bothered to submit for all the games, so they don't submit at all.
I also may not be the only person who feels that Barry's actions documented in this thread were grossly wrong. If so, you're blaming one of the victims.
NotMan wrote: Nice going, JTC! If you want to take your protest somewhere else instead of killing any future tourney at MARP.
I fear the only appropriate response to this would be deleted or censored by the moderator, so you may find it posted to alt.games.mame with the subject: "Attn: NotMan".
yeha, I am surprised myself...but have not played anything myself the past few weeks.
holidays are busy time etc. busy with family...new toys etc.
I was surprised that T10 started and included the holidays. maybe the thinking was some students would have the week off or winter break so would get to play. I am not sure how many regular MARPers are students though...likely a minority.
destructor...let us know you still exist....submit a score or two!


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How to Use the SUMPRODUCT Function in Excel
BY ALAN MURRAY, UPDATED ON DECEMBER 21, 2021 7 mins read
The SUMPRODUCT function in Excel is a very powerful function.
It is a very versatile Excel function and has special powers that are of particular interest to users of Excel versions prior to Excel 365.
The SUMPRODUCT function returns the sum of the products of the corresponding ranges or arrays. Its most common use is to sum or count values based on multiple criteria. This makes it a very useful function for data analysis in Excel.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the SUMPRODUCT function. This will be supported by a few examples to showcase its versatility.
We'll cover:
What is the SUMPRODUCT function and why use it?
How to use the SUMPRODUCT function (step-by-step)
Things to remember when using the SUMPRODUCT function
Sum values that meet specific criteria
Sum values that meet multiple criteria
SUMPRODUCT working with arrays
Download the Excel workbook and follow along with the examples in this tutorial.
So: let's dive into the SUMPRODUCT function.
1. What is the SUMPRODUCT function and why use it?
The SUMPRODUCT function is available for all versions of Excel and has secret powers that bring joy to users when they first learn it.
It sums the products of given ranges or arrays. However, other operations such as addition can also be applied.
It is most well-known for its ability to handle multiple criteria when performing aggregations such as sum or count. If you're using Excel for data analysis, then this function is incredibly useful.
The SUMPRODUCT function requires only the arrays that you want to multiply and then sum. It can handle up to 255 arrays. These ranges or arrays must be the same size.
=SUMPRODUCT(array1, [array2], [array3], …)
2. How to use the SUMPRODUCT function in Excel (step-by-step)
Let's start with a simple example of SUMPRODUCT performing the role of summing the product of two arrays.
In the image below, we have 5 events along with the quantity sold and the ticket price.
We would like to return the total revenue of ticket sales. In the following image, the total for each row is calculated using the formula B2*C2 and so on for each row from cell D2.
A SUM function is then used in cell D8 to total the values in range D2:D6. This is a common Excel approach to finding the total revenue.
This approach is great, and possibly better if you wanted the total for each row. However, SUMPRODUCT can achieve this in one formula, eliminating the requirement to create those row totals first.
The following formula is used in cell C8 to return the total ticket sales revenue with just one formula.
=SUMPRODUCT(B2:B6,C2:C6)
The SUMPRODUCT function is provided with the two arrays. That is all that it needs.
It multiplies the values from the corresponding ranges together i.e. B2*C2, B3*C3 and so on, stores the results in an array i.e. {1860, 1210 …}, then the values are summed to return the final result of 10,807.08.
3. Things to remember when using the SUMPRODUCT function
There are a few important things to remember when using SUMPRODUCT:
The dimensions of each range or array must be the same.
It is recommended to avoid the use of whole column references such as B:B. In this tutorial, table references are used. These are a superior method of referencing.
The double unary (–) can be used to convert TRUE and FALSE values to 1 and 0 respectively.
When working with multiple criteria, the asterix (*) is used for AND logic and the plus operator (+) is used for OR logic.
4. Sum values that meet specific criteria
The SUMPRODUCT function is used for many reasons as it is such a versatile function. Summing and counting values that meet specific criteria is its most popular use.
Let's begin with an example that includes a single criteria, and then move on to see SUMPRODUCT work with multiple criteria.
The following image shows a table named 'Sales' with columns for the Region, Category, and a Total. We will use SUMPRODUCT to return the total of all values for the region in cell E3.
The following formula is used in cell F3.
=SUMPRODUCT(–(Sales[Region]=E3),Sales[Total])
It tests if the values in the 'Region' column are equal to the value in cell E3. These results are returned as TRUE and FALSE values, so the test is enclosed in brackets and the double unary (–) is used to convert these to 1 and 0.
The 1s and 0s are multiplied by the corresponding value in the 'Total' range and then summed to return the final result.
As an alternative to the double unary, the bracketed criteria could be multiplied by the 'Total' range. The multiply operation will convert the test result to 1s and 0s.
=SUMPRODUCT((Sales[Region]=E3)*Sales[Total])
Finally, to change the sum to a count, you just need to remove the 'Total' column from the second array. This is shown in the following formula.
=SUMPRODUCT(–(Sales[Region]=E3))
5. Sum values that meet multiple criteria
As mentioned already, the SUMPRODUCT function is most well-known for its ability to handle multiple criteria.
It can sum and count values with ease, and also work with both AND and OR logic. This is especially impressive as the COUNTIFS and SUMIFS functions only work with AND logic.
Continuing with the same dataset, the following formula is used to sum the total values when the region is equal to that entered in cell E6, and the category is equal to that entered in cell F6.
=SUMPRODUCT((Sales[Region]=E6)*(Sales[Category]=F6),Sales[Total])
Each criteria is enclosed in its own set of brackets and the asterisk (*) is used to multiply the two arrays. The asterisk can be thought of as the AND operator in SUMPRODUCT.
To apply OR logic, the plus operator (+) is used.
The following formula sums the total values when the region is equal to the one entered into cell E9 or F9.
=SUMPRODUCT((Sales[Region]=E9)+(Sales[Region]=F9),Sales[Total])
6. SUMPRODUCT working with arrays
SUMPRODUCT makes it easy to work with arrays. This makes it a very important function for Excel versions prior to Excel 365 as they do not have the array engine found in modern Excel.
Using SUMPRODUCT avoids the requirement to press Ctrl + Shift + Enter when running array formulas.
In this final example, we have a table named 'Locations' with Reference and Total columns.
The following formula is entered into cell E3 to sum the values for the reference that ends in the three characters entered into cell D3.
=SUMPRODUCT(–(RIGHT(Locations[Reference],3)=D3),Locations[Total])
The formula uses the RIGHT function to extract the last three characters from the values in the 'Reference' column. These are then tested against the value in cell D3.
The SUMIFS function would not allow the use of RIGHT nested within itself. So, this example gives further insight to the power of SUMPRODUCT and why it is so highly valued by advanced Excel users.
Excel formulas are an extremely handy tool for anyone working with data—especially data analysts. For a hands-on introduction to the field of data analytics, try out this free five-day short course. And, for more Excel tutorials, check out the following:
How to use the INDIRECT function in Excel
How to use the COUNTIFS function in Excel
How to use the CONCATENATE function in Excel
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Jonathan Allen at Politico writes on the never-ending Congress that finally evaporated into history last week. "The 112th Congress came in with a bang, but it is crawling out with the soft whimper of failure. … They racked up more processes than policies: a blue-ribbon White House commission, Vice President Joe Biden's working group, bilateral talks between Obama and Speaker John Boehner, a 'Supercommittee,' a 'Gang of Six' that became a 'Gang of Eight' and, finally, Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) coming to a deal that leaves open as many politically thorny issues as it solves. This Congress had no signature achievement — no Bush tax cuts, no Medicare prescription drug law, no big energy-production law, no lobbying reform, no bank bailout, no health care overhaul. One small measure of the failure: This Congress will leave town having enacted fewer laws than any since 1947, when such statistics were first kept. The very best the 112th Congress could manage, in its last dying gasp, was to avert the worst. Time after time, the most basic functions of government were left to last-minute, half-a-loaf deals that narrowly avoided shutting down federal agencies, cutting off funds for road projects and letting unemployment insurance lapse in the midst of economic strife." Thoughts shared my many.
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The search for the Best Ramen in Denver continues. When I first heard about Gaijin Ramen & Yakitori at Zeppelin Station, I was immediately intrigued. Chef Bill Espiricueta has an impressive background, having worked in the kitchens of Acorn in RiNo as well as the Japanese restaurant Nobu, and his recently opened Denver-based BBQ joint, Smok, at the Source Hotel.
During the Smok pop-up at the Source earlier this year, there was a special ramen bowl that gained a lot of buzz on Instagram, and its success was part of the impetus for Chef Bill thinking about dishing out his ramen bowls on a more regular basis.
With the opening of Injoi Korean Kitchen at Zeppelin Station already under his belt, when the opportunity arose for Chef Bill to take over the adjacent "No Vacancy" stall (which is dedicated to rotating food concepts in every few months), he thought it might be the perfect breeding ground for his idea for a ramen restaurant.
Please note: Financial compensation was not received for this post. I was invited by the PR firm working with Gaijin to come in for a meal on the house. Opinions expressed here are my own.
Although it is difficult to evoke a particular vibe when you're just one of many stalls in a food hall environment, Gaijin tries to evoke the spirit of Japan as much as it can with a mini sand raking/rock garden, bamboo placemats, and charming collection of bonsai trees located on the counter near the cash register.
Patrons order at the till and are then given a buzzer that rings when their order is ready to pick up, after which they are free to find an open table in the communal seating area on the ground floor.
Please note – Gaijin used to be located right next to Injoi but has now relocated to the other side of the food stalls, opposite the retail shops.
During my visit, I and my fellow blogger friend Michelle Jackson of Michelle Is Money Hungry and Square State, were treated to a tour of the Gaijin kitchen.
Afterward, we sampled a number of dishes from Chef Bill's stalls, including a plate of grilled Shishito Peppers (can't go wrong with these!) and chicken thigh skewers (tender and great for sharing) from Gaijin, and some spicy wings from Inoji (liked these a lot).
On a total side note – on a separate occasion when I ordered more food from Injoi, my husband became absolutely obsessed with the scallion kimchi Fried Rice. If you like your fried rice on the salty and savory side like my husband, you'll want to check it out! The other great thing is it is vegetarian-friendly (it does contain eggs though)!
But the main event was obviously the ramen. We tried out two ramens on the menu – the Chicken Tonkotsu ramen and the Miso ramen.
I first started with the Tonkotsu ramen ($14) which features slices of braised pork belly. The broth was not a classic creamy, deep tonkotsu, a bit on the lighter side, which allows for the flavor of the pork pieces to be more clearly tasted.
Although its description didn't immediately capture my attention, the Miso ramen ($14) version pleasantly caught me by surprise. I felt it had a much deeper, striking flavor, aided by the pieces of tasty ground chicken featured in the bowl, and supported by some charred garlic oil, which gave the whole dish a memorable kick. Definitely my favorite of the two.
All-in-all Gaijin is a welcomed new entry into the Denver ramen scene. My preference is for the Miso ramen featuring the yummy little chicken pieces due to its more complex flavor and that little bit of additional heat. I very much like that there is a now a Japanese-inspired option at Zeppelin Station and think that Gaijin's ramen is a satisfying option for those in the area looking to get a quick hit of noodles.
Service is speedy and stress-free and the casual environment of the food hall makes it a great place to eat and meet up with friends.
Why would I eat at a Japanese restaurant when Gaijin means non-Japanese?
That would be similar to eating at a Mexican restaurant named Gringo Tortilla.
True, Dave. I assume it's supposed to be ironic in its name. Just because you're not from there, doesn't mean you can't make good food. It's also chef Bill's take on Japanese cuisine – not necessarily traditional.


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Home » Music » Ricky Martin Says His Album Pausa 'Became My Medicine' for 2020: 'I Was Really Anxious'
Ricky Martin Says His Album Pausa 'Became My Medicine' for 2020: 'I Was Really Anxious'
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A worldwide pause. Pausa. That's what happened when the coronavirus pandemic hit earlier this year.
At the time, Ricky Martin was gearing up for a world tour alongside Enrique Iglesias and the release of a full-length album titled Movimiento. Instead, he was forced to hunker down in L.A. with his husband Jwan Yosef and their four kids, where he worked on Movimiento's replacement: Pausa.
"When everything started, I said, 'Wait, what am I going to do with all this energy?'" the 49-year-old tells PEOPLE from his home in Puerto Rico about the six-track record he released in late May. "It's funny because most of the lyrics were already written. They were exactly what people needed to hear when we started this lockdown."
"We haven't seen the PTSD. We haven't seen the trauma that this is causing," he adds of the coronavirus. "I just want to give the audience Pausa, which is relaxing and peaceful."
The album opens with track "Simple" — a song alongside the legendary Sting singing in Spanish. The lyrics and light tropical sounds inspire a much-needed calmness at the start of quarantine.
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"Siempre habrá una luz que llene mi voluntad, un paso cada vez más cerca de la verdad," sings Martin, before being joined by The Police frontman. "Un bálsamo que alivie el peso de la humanidad. Simple."
(In English: "There'll always be a light that fills my win, a step closer to the truth. A balsam that eases the weight of humanity. Simple.")
The track is a reminder of gratitude and faith — and projected sense of hope for a better future. (What better feeling for the start for the ongoing uncertainty?)
Like its opener, the album — which prefaces a yet-to-be-released part two aptly titled Play — features laidback and calm lyrics that Martin admits that he even needed during this time.
"This album really became my medicine at a certain moment because, to be honest, I was really anxious," he says candidly. "The uncertainty of not knowing what was going to happen, having to cancel a tour. People were telling me, 'Ricky, you're never going to be able to go back on stage.' These are the things that were throwing at us."
"I believe that this album, Pausa, became my balance," he adds.
Martin enlisted Carla Morrison's soothing voice on "Recuerdo," Puerto Rican compatriots Pedro Capó on reggaetón-driven "Cae de Una" and Residente and Bad Bunny on 2019's "Cántalo." (The trio performed the song at the 2019 Latin Grammys.) He also featured Spanish singer Diego El Cigala on flamenco-inspired "Quiéreme" — all collaborations that "mean so much" to him.
The only track without a collaborator was the optimism-filled "Tiburones," which he performed — backed by a virtual children's choir — at last month's Latin Grammys, where Pausa took home the award for best pop vocal album. (The album was also up for album of the year.)
Now, Martin is gearing up for the 2021 Grammy Awards where his work is nominated in the best Latin pop/urban album category — the same category he won in 2016 following the release of A Quien Quiera Escuchar, his last album.
Martin admits that receiving nominations is always feels good, but this time, it's different.
"This feels a little bit more special because it's a special year and where I'm at, it just felt differently and I'm very happy," he says. "I love music and I am codependent enough to say that I do need the reaction of not only the audience but in my case, the industry."
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Goldoom is a game about one room filled with ancient traps - and the most valuable of treasures, of course!
Can you survive 5 rounds in the Tomb of Midas?
- A greed mechanic : Will you take your treasures and leave, or risk your life to get 'em all?
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Well done, but it is too hard.
i Like the art, and works well. Good Job!
Ahah ! I loved the experience !
The game design hasn't anything original, but the staging is brilliant and the music so epic !
Interesting classic gameplay. Not as hard as someone says. Wanted to see more rooms!
This is quite fun! I love the music!
This is a good game. Visuals are nice.
But there is a problem that no one seemed to notice yet: you can't die in this game, lol.
Also, you have some tiny graphical bugs: 1) the altar appears above projectiles and player, and 2) player sprite is displaced by a sub-pixel offsets, which makes it blurry.
I enjoyed it. It's a bit annoying how the window seems to stick to the bottom of the screen, though.
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Well done, but it's very hard!
Can't last for more than like 1 min.


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Rental Properties Shortage in Ireland
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Posted in Keane Thompson, Property News, Residential On 23 August 2017
Irish rents have risen to a record high once again this year due to a shortage of rental properties, according to a new report released by Daft.ie. Their quarterly rental report states that rents jumped to a record high for the fifth quarter in a row between April and June of this year.
Nationwide rents have jumped 11.8% in the first six months of the year. The average rental asking price in Ireland is now at €1,159 per month. The average rental price in Dublin meanwhile is now a worrying €1,707 per month. A major shortage of rental properties is behind the crazy numbers, according to the report.
There were just 2,930 properties available to rent across Ireland on 1 August, the lowest number ever recorded. It is the first time, in fact, since such records began in 2006, that fewer than 3,000 homes were available to rent across the country.
In Dublin there were just 1,100 homes available to rent, compared with 2,000 on the same date in 2014. Meanwhile, rents in Dublin jumped by 12.3% in the first six months of the year. They now stand 18% higher than the previous peak seen in 2008 – equivalent to an additional €260 being paid on average per month per property.
Rental Properties Average Price
Dublin – €1,707, up 12.3%
Cork – €1,122, up 6.8%
Galway – €1,026, up 10.0%
Limerick – €919, up 10.8%
Waterford – €772, up 8.4%
Rest of the country – €824, up 11.9%
Cork city rents rose by 6.8% in the year to June, which is in fact the slowest rate of increase seen there since 2014.
In Galway the numbers being charged are 10% higher than this time last year. That means 11 straight quarters, or just under three years, of double-digit increases in the city.
Limerick city's rents rose 10.8% in the last 12 months, while in Waterford the increase was 8.4%.
Meanwhile, outside the cities, rents have risen by 11.9% across the country.
Focus Ireland, the homeless organisation, have alerted the Irish Government that there is currently 3,000 homeless children in Ireland and that they are becoming the 'invisible victims' of the housing crisis.
"As September approaches up to 1,800 children are preparing to return to primary or secondary school and many are from families forced into homelessness by the rental crisis," Roughan MacNamara (Focus Ireland Advocacy Manager).
"This situation is really impacting on them as children and on their education. It is fundamentally wrong that this is being allowed to happen."
Average asking prices and year-on-year change Source: Daft.ie
MacNamara has said that action on vacant properties (such as a tax, or compulsory purchase orders) are key to solving the situation, one that seems to grow ever more dire with each passing month.
"The review of Rebuilding Ireland (former Housing Minister Simon Coveney's plan to rejuvenate the sector, launched last year) must take steps to urgently increase access to housing by encouraging those with empty properties to make them available," he said.
This must be a carrot and stick approach such as introducing more incentives for people to rent out empty houses alongside a tax on empty properties in this time of crisis.
Shortage of Student accommodation
Each year, typically the months of July and August are two of the busiest for the rental market, with students preparing to return to college as they scramble to secure accommodation for the coming academic year. That is a situation that has not materialised in 2017.
"In the last two years… there has been no summer rush of properties to rent," said Trinity College Dublin economist, and author of the report, Ronan Lyons.
"In a market with such chronically deficient supply, it is therefore unsurprising to see rents reach a new high."
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