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Episode 68 – What's Your Marvel Fantasy?
The Mixed Marvel Arts Podcast travels to Walt Disney World; the land of fantasy, imagination and dreams! At least Brian does, Shaun simply returns to college. Brian recounts his recent trip to the Magic Kingdom, particularly the New Fantasyland area of the park, and Shaun shares his vision of how to run Marvel comics. The duo tally the September Fantasy Comic…
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Fantasy Comic League: July 2016
Tony Stark steamrolled the Fantasy Comic League in the month of June, but in July, Carol Danvers, his Civil War II adversary, scored her personal best and led the individual hero points for the first time. Apart from Captain Marvel's 30-point tally, Shaun's Civil War gamble did not quite pay off, despite two of his characters, Hawkeye…
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Episode 64 – The Benefits of Drafting Men
The Mixed Marvel Arts Podcast welcomes two new guest hosts to the podcast! When Shaun is unable to join the monthly recording, Brian looks to the remaining Fantasy Comic League members for help. Matt and Jorge heed the MMA call and join Brian to discuss how their fantasy teams benefited from Spider-Man and Iron Man, respectively. Brian…
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Fantasy Comic League: June 2016
Iron Man continued to sore in the Fantasy Comic League and scored the most individual hero points for the second month in a row. Thanks to the events of Civil War II, and a five-week month, Tony tallied a record-breaking 44 points – the most points scored by one character in a single month. Unfortunately,…
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Episode 55 – Make Captain America Great Again
The Mixed Marvel Arts Podcast debates the all-new, all-divisive Captain America. Sam Wilson takes a strikingly partisan stance in his most recent comic series which puts him at odds with his predecessor, Steve Rogers, and at least one member of the podcast. Despite his lack of enthusiasm for the character, Brian glides to a Fantasy Comic League victory on…
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Fantasy Comic League: October 2015
A new season of the Fantasy Comic League begins. This round introduces a fourth participant, @dirtylash, and closely reflects Marvel's All-New, All-Different marketing campaign. Squirrel Girl heads up the new additions to the league and her 11 points help Brian secure a first place finish. Spider-Man, and his 16 points in six appearances, proves why he…
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The Mixed Marvel Arts Podcast chills on its couch and enjoys the return of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Brian and Shaun welcome the return of fall television, including Rick and Morty, South Park and Gotham. A new season of the Fantasy Comic League kicks off with a new, fourth participant and the duo unveil the starting teams.…
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Ten Years Without Steve Jobs
Has it really been a decade? 5 October 2021 marked ten years since the untimely death of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs (see "Steve Jobs Dead at 56," 5 October 2011, and "Mourning Steve Jobs," 10 October 2011). On that day, Apple commemorated the anniversary with a tribute on its homepage that featured a brief video about his life. The tribute page was ephemeral, but Apple has now shared the video on its YouTube channel.
Former Apple design guru Jony Ive, a close friend and collaborator of Jobs, penned his own tribute for the Wall Street Journal, offering a rare glimpse into Jobs's thought process:
Steve was preoccupied with the nature and quality of his own thinking. He expected so much of himself and worked hard to think with a rare vitality, elegance and discipline. His rigor and tenacity set a dizzyingly high bar. When he could not think satisfactorily he would complain in the same way I would complain about my knees.
As thoughts grew into ideas, however tentative, however fragile, he recognized that this was hallowed ground. He had such a deep understanding and reverence for the creative process. He understood creating should be afforded rare respect—not only when the ideas were good or the circumstances convenient.
Ideas are fragile. If they were resolved, they would not be ideas, they would be products. It takes determined effort not to be consumed by the problems of a new idea. Problems are easy to articulate and understand, and they take the oxygen. Steve focused on the actual ideas, however partial and unlikely.
Apple CEO Tim Cook kept his remembrances more private, sharing an internal memo with Apple employees:
Steve was so many things: brilliant, funny, and wise, a husband, a father, a friend, and, of course, a visionary. He challenged us to see the world not for what it was, but for what it could be. And he helped so many people, myself included, see the same potential in ourselves. Not a day goes by that I don't think about him.
Jobs was a rare figure, and while he was a famously imperfect human being, few people have equaled his technological impact on the modern world. Over the course of his career, Jobs touched every major milestone in personal computing: video games, home computing, graphical interfaces, local networking, digital music, smartphones, tablets, and more. Jobs himself invented very little, but his taste, insight, wisdom, and refusal to settle for anything but the best work left an indelible dent in the universe.
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Tommy Weir
I still remember the day. My wife had stayed up and heard the news when it broke and I was asleep. The next morning when I awoke and started to rise to make coffee she put her hand on my chest, stopping me, and said "I'm really sorry, Steve Jobs passed away last night, I heard on Twitter."
It landed on me, surprising me as it did, I went up to the kitchen and searched online reading news pieces, then turned to Twit Live, the stream from Leo Laporte. It was probably midnight in California, I don't know which host was on but someone was taking calls and folks were calling in with their stories.
This guy, a regular guy who had a computer repair business, said that how he had grown up and where he had grown up, meant working in the plant or not working and that Apple had given him the opportunity to define his own work and it be interesting and rewarding, that he had raised his family with the income from his business starting from his first Mac back in the day. The gratitude was palpable, I still recall his blunt honesty about how he felt.
This very moving video is now available at Tim Cook's Twitter page:
@tim_cook
"People with passion can change the world for the better.— SJ. Hard to believe it's been 10 years. Celebrating you today and always. https://t.co/x2IUnlO7ta"
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David Weintraub
Just to be a contrarian here…
There's no doubt that Jobs was a visionary. However, I do wonder if Jobs may have died just in time to best preserve his legacy.
Apple was stalling in 2010. Android was out, and Samsung became a better selling phone. Meanwhile, Jobs was doubling down on skeuomorphic design while the overall design of the iPhone was getting discombobulated. It seemed that the reel to reel look of the podcast app was more important than how usable it was.
Once Jobs was gone, the iPhone interface was reworked. Skeuomorphic design was eliminated. Control over the OS was loosened. Design elements from Android were borrowed. The iPhone grew in size. Multiple models were introduced. There are now eight different models you can buy. How much of this would Steve approve?
There are times when visionaries get in the way of their company. Ford almost went bankrupt because Henry Ford refused to replace the Model-T. Edison was pushed out of control of Edison Electric because he wouldn't consider AC power, Edison Phonograph couldn't compete against Victrola. Edison Moving Pictures lost out to Hollywood.
Jobs' vision was needed to create the iPhone and iPad, and they grew beyond his vision.
david19:
How much of this would Steve approve?
I wish less of it would have been approved, actually.
I miss Steve's focus as well as his willingness and ability to get involved in the actual product. Show me another Fortune 50 CEO that does that and does it as well as Steve did.
Josh Centers
I've had similar thoughts. He was looking into things like touch screens, voice control, and all-in-one computers in the early '80s. The iPad was the culmination of his vision. His work on this earth may simply have been done.
A keyboard and trackball free iPhone debuted in 2007, and it was a totally, completely, 100% touchscreen, revolutionary interface design that was completely unique among mobile phones. From that moment in time, Steve Jobs really did change the world of telecommunications. And Steve worked in tandem with Jony Ives on iPhone and Mac interface design. To date, the interface that Jobs and Ives developed is still the industry standard starting point for mobile phones. And although I was carrying on like a banshee here on Tidbits Talk that Jobs would probably destroy Apple if he enters an already super saturated market, the minute I saw iPone's revolution design and interface, I was totally floored. And I did very willingly eat crow about iPhone and its somewhat skeuomorphic interface. And in tandem, there was the introduction of the App Store. And not long after, iPhones with Retina Displays and and for the time, really good cameras. The somewhat skeuomorphic made it easy for new users to quickly locate and and access whatever stuff they wanted to.
The somewhat skeuomorphic design of the original Mac interface was truly revolutionary as well. At a time when personal computers were becoming standard on desktops, being ably to quickly locate and access applications, documents and projects was a tremendous selling point in a DOS driven world. Yes, the stupid leather and bookcase design were examples of bad skeuomorphic design and deservedly were the subject of ridicule, they did not linger for long.
And don't forget how somewhat skeuomorphic design made 1984 not be like 1984.
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Tim Cook. And although I do not like anything about Facebook and/or Mark Zuckerberg, he does meet that standard. Sunder Pichai of Alphabet is another good example. Though Jeff Bezos did recently back away from Amazon, he's earned a place on this list.
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I must respectfully disagree. Tim Cook is a process genius and a bean counter. He is not a product guy. Steve Jobs presented new products himself. Cook never does. Tim Cook was taught by steve the importance of reading customer e-mails.
Sundar Pinchi cannot be reached by customers. He moved an excellent product support organization from the US firing great product support engineers and replacing them with low paid poorly educated typical Calll Center drones.
I still use Google Fi but dumped Google Voice due to lack of any meaningful support. And i used YouTube since there is no viable alternative.
Bezos was a genius and very involved in product until he got super rich and faced a midlife crisis, cheated on his wife, then divorced her and traded up to a new, younger and more attractive partner.
Of the three you mention, only Bezos was, like Jobs, the founder of his company. Only Bezos can be said to have changed the world in a revolution of new retail paradigms.
Bezos was wise to step away from Amazon and retire to the board. Amazon is another virtual monopoly without viable competition and Bezos was probably bored with it.
All these companies are money machines and the management teams are all top notch. I am a stockholder in all three and as a stockholder I am very pleased with their financial performance.
But to compare Cook and Pinchi to Jobs? Not even close.
I agree that the design was revolutionary. Unlike most people, I know the Mac interface wasn't anything like the Xerox Parc interface.
However, it was Jon Rubinstein who was head of design and software at Apple. He headed software and design. When Jobs died, he was replaced by Jonathan Ive who brought a new flat design astatic to the Mac and iPhone. Ive unified the iOS interface. It had actual layers. Sheets always went over the background.
When the Mac first came out, there was a disk that came with it to train users to click, double click and pull down menus. The iconography was important because it was never seen before.
The world is a bit different now. Touch interfaces are well known. Even babies know how to touch and swipe. All desktop computers have mice, menus, and icons. Buttons don't need to be three dimensional for me to know their buttons. Calendars don't need to look like the one I have on my desk. Contacts doesn't need to look like a spiral notebook.
I too would like a little more design control. The touch interface is getting overloaded. I'd like to see the iPad switch from a touch centric interface to a more Mac like interface when a keyboard and pointing device is added. Why not have a menubar and keyboard shortcuts? I feel that computer desktop interfaces are a bit too overloaded.
What's the desktop for? It's either packed with crap or barren like a desert. Should we use tags rather than folders as an organizing principle? A decade ago, it was a stupid question. Now people know what tags are.
fogcitynative:
I must respectfully disagree. Tim Cook is a process genius and a bean counter.
Just one counter example…Steve Jobs was never involved with the development of Apple Watch at all, and Steve had no involvement in Watch apps, services or any of the many health oriented scientific partnerships Watch is involved in, including Fitness+. Tim Cook Was not only successful in creating Watch, he changed the world with the many features and services Watch offers.
Observer – 11 May 18
Steve Jobs Had No Idea Apple Would Make a Health Device Called Apple Watch
"We didn't talk about watches… I don't remember him wearing one either," Apple's design chief said of Steve Jobs.
Air Pods are another. And don't forget Apple Pay, Apple credit card, Wallet and its new financial services stuff. There's Apple News and News+. Though I'm personally not a gamer or a fan of Apple TV or TV+ and Arcade, these are totally Tim's innovations. He also has kept expanding Music's offerings, including services that benefit artists and producers.
Though not in so many words, Tim more or less told Intel to perform obscene acts upon themselves and their crummy chips. He was responsible for developing Apple's own chips which are currently smoking the competition in terms of speed, battery power and longevity. He also accelerated Apple's hardware and software development cycles. Though he worked closely with Steve on the development of iPhone, after Steve's death he developed Face ID and other stuff, and also kept iPhone cameras ahead of the competition. He also developed the Mac Pro and Pro Display. He expanded the iPad line and developed iPhone SE.
In addition to turning Apple into the world's first trillion $ company, and in to the world's first two trillion $ company, he's kept Apple's stock price and market capitalization soaring. He did all this and more while keeping Steve Job's vision for easy and delightful, highly outstanding, high quality products and services alive and thriving.
Tim was also the first Fortune 500 CEO to publicly admit to being gay, and he's very vocal about equal opportunity for all.
No other personal memories of Steve out there?
He replied to one of my emails. I had that. He spent it pointing out the error of my ways of course but I'll not forget the shock of getting it.
One takeaway from Steve's presentation style I took on was his overall approach to launching anything new.
tell them briefly what they're going to hear about.
then tell them in detail what you're here to talk about.
then tell them what they just heard, in summary.
People hear it three times, in outline, in detail and in summary.
An old, common and effective speaking strategy:
Tell 'Em What You're Going To Tell 'Em; Next, Tell 'Em; Next, Tell 'Em What You Told 'Em – Quote Investigator
Michael Paine
The original iPhone launch took 80 minutes but was mesmerising with so many revolutionary features. Steve took the audience along with each reveal - brilliant!
There are many copies online. This one is OK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg
juandesant
I like this take from Dr. Drang's, which was made after Steve Jobs death, but reposted on Twitter on this 10th anniversary: Jobs was simply Right about the role of computing in human lives…
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Right - All this
Another great post
My favorite Steve Jobs moment is when he's talking about how beautiful the new Mac iBook is, then picks up the iBook to show the audience the screen, and the audience suddenly realizing there's no cord for the Internet on it. It was the introduction of WiFi.
Steve even took a hoop and passed it around the MacBook as if he's doing a magic trick. You can see him grinning from ear to ear. He loved doing that and the audience's reaction.
At that point in time, you knew everything was going to be okay at Apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTNWZF2m3o
The 13:46 minute mark.
Sorry to tell you but Tim Cook is not a product guy. He is an outstanding administrator and bean counter and delivers the profits quarter after quarter…
But if Tim Cook were a product guy he would have fired Craig Federighi, a nice guy and a great presenter, who has yet to lead Apple software to a single best in class Application.
Nobody beats Apple's OS. Based on Mach and enhanced by Steve Jobs at Next, it is as Jobs would say, insanely great.
But name an app, any app, developed by Apple under Tim Cook and Craig Federighi that might be considered best in class. I can't think of a single one.
The space between insanely great and bad is called mediocre. Apple makes mediocre application software.
Tim Cook killed the Touchbar because Apple's Touchbar Management software was useless. Look at Better Touch Tool running Aqua Touch to see the possibilities.
The Finder. Hasn't been updated since it was released in 1984. Look at Cocoatech's PathFinder 10 to see the possibilities Tim And Craig are blind to them.
How about cut/copy/paste in Clipboard management. Same concept since 1984. See the Paste app for a truly modern clipboard manager.
Default Folder X lets you set up a default location for every app that save files.
So sorry Tim Cook is an outstanding CEO but neither a visionary nor a genius.
Sundar Punchi doesn't ever listen to customers. I had to give up the free Google Voice to buy a better and better supported product.
Punchi fired a great US support team and moved all support to India, where the cultural differences prevent effective communication. Penny wise but pound foolish.
But there is still a lot of brilliance and innovation at Google and they're not afflicted with the "not invented here" syndrome that shackles Apple.
So in conclusion there was only one Steve Jobs, and he did in fact change the world. Steve refused to do any market research because he said "people don't know what they want until I show it to them!".
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Apple's business model is NOT AT ALL focused on software sales. The only reason Apple developed Final Cut Pro is that Adobe and Avid had stated they would stop developing their apps for Macs. And Apple gives away its productivity suite, Photos, etc. in order to sell more hardware, to get users to pay to subscribe to iCloud, and keep them locked in to the Apple ecosystem.
I agree with you about Mac OS. And Cook has done a superior job with upgrading Mac and iOS software on a regular basis. And he developed and upgrades Watch and other wearables, which significantly outsell Macs:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/28/apple-wearables-home-and-accessories-segment-now-bigger-than-mac.html
News. Watch OS and Watch Apps, including the as yet unparalleled Health app. Game Center. Fitness+. Apple Pay. Car Keys. Wallet, Passbook and all the in app stuff it does, including credit cards and transportation passes. Apple watch's growing number of health and fitness apps, including Sleep. And there's also Games and Apple's financial services. And there's App Tracking Transparency.
He quickly admitted defeat about the Touchbar. And the Touchbar was a Jony Ives initiative, along with the solid gold Watch bands. It's rumored that these disasters were a motivating factor in Ives' exit.
https://www.cnet.com/special-reports/jony-ive-talks-about-putting-the-apple-touch-on-the-macbook-pro/
Try using the interface of Windows or Android desktops and see which you like better.
I have no problem with Mac Clipboard management, and no interest in Default Folder X.
I have no interest in an Apple watch. All the software you mention is for the watch. Not familiar with any of it.
I am not a gamer either. Although I subscribe to the package that provides everything.
As a stockholder I am glad watch, arcade and health are successful, but I am the wrong demographic for those products.
Apple TV+ created the great series The Morning Show. I am a huge fan but TV programming isn't application software.
I.prefer the interface on Spotify to Apple music.
I like News+ In concept but again the interface is difficult to navigate.
Sorry I don't care who invented or promoted it, but the Touchbar is great with the right software. Have you yourself personally ever evaluated Better Touch Tool?
Apple has stuck by Siri for years yet has never made it actually work when compared to Google's voice recognition software. But you don't see Apple killing Siri the way they killed Touchbar after only a few years
Do you use any third party apps with your Mac? Or are you a 100% company guy using only apps that come from the App Store? Clearly if you are using Apple's watch, everything on it comes from the app Store.
I could not go back to just using Apple's Finder. Again, have you ever actually used Pathfinder?.
And how can you be happy with Apple's clipboard management?. To my knowledge Apple has no clipboard management software. Have you ever used any third party clipboard management?
How do you handle folders on your Mac for saving files? Do you just use Apple's Pictures, Documents, Movies, and Downloads and navigate to them from the sidebar in Finder?
I agree totally that Apple is better than Windoze and Android. In truth Apple has no real competition. They are a virtual monopoly. Sure they have competition and users have choices, it is just all the choices are inferior.
I think a breather might be good…
Apple, to my eyes, set things in motion regarding applications. Aperture was best in class for years, led the way for integrated photography management and editing. As time went on the integration between Lightroom and other Adobe products took over, not to mention truly pro apps like Capture One.
The apps Marilyn identified are on the watch and phone, and that's the direction of the company if not the industry as a whole, here again Apple are setting things in motion. The focus on health and wellness stemming from computers that are on our bodies, they're actively exploring what the parameters are. I have no doubt software companies will surpass them eventually on these platforms, but for now, they are the leaders.
I think with Apple it's always best to see where they are pointing, their version of 'let's go over here'. As things progress, the vibrant software ecosystem will take over and expand what's possible. There's nothing bad about any of it.
silbey
You did ask for an app example, "any app," originally. So it's shifting the goal posts a bit to eliminate something because you specifically have no interest in it.
Likewise rejecting out of hand any third party Mac OS software because you are unfamiliar with It.
Maybe I'd love an Apple watch although I do prefer my Swiss made Rado. To me at my age with declining vision, I can't see myaelf reading e-mail on a tiny watch when I need glasses to read an iPhone 12 Pro Max
Possibly, but that doesn't change the goalpost moving part.
Apple Watch can read text in Mail, Messages, etc. You can also dictate a typed response, or send messages as audio. And you can switch to your iPhone at any time.
Because you don't like something doesn't mean it is useless to the rest of the world. And I don't have an Apple Watch either. I have small wrists and it looks stupid on me.
Could not agree more.
I will try to learn about the watch if you will try to learn about Better Touch Tool and Aqua Touch. Maybe we will both be impressed?
On the larger question, I think Steve Jobs' genius was a combination of his aesthetic sense, his instinct for making things work, and his sheer courage (cancelling the iPod Mini when it was the best-selling iPod to replace it with the nano is just remarkable). They weren't always in balance (the Cube) but when they were, he was unmatched.
Cook is a genius as well, but I think that his is more focused on the production and delivery side of things. He's got the courage (going all in on Apple Silicon is one big example; leveraging Apple's money to stay front of the line at TSMC is another). That's not a small thing – when you're building billions of dollars worth of goods, it's one of the most important things.
Jony Ive was supposed to be the aesthetic side, and I think Cook let him run with it for many years until the drawbacks started to become overwhelming. The new MBPs show that clear shift back towards the practical side of things and it's not shocking that they look most like a SJ era Titanium PB.
(And yes, I've used Better Touch Tool, Pathfinder, and Aqua Touch, and found none of them were vast improvements over the original).
silbey:
Is that because the software is really hard to customize and program or because you see no instance in which you would use a Touchbar?
I love when editing photos and painting masks, the brush size sometimes appears in the touch bar. But not every time and I have no clue how to use all the controls present in the app to make that control always appear.


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Liner Notes: Waypoints →
Also published last week, I was honoured to be asked to write an introductory essay for the Contemporary Music Centre's new compilation release of recent works by Irish composers, New Music: New Ireland 4. The CMC is an extraordinary organisation, as good a promoter of contemporary music as you could hope for.
Living through a global pandemic— particularly the beginning stages—may have given us more cause to focus on the places where we were than we have had for some long time. A world that has become increasingly globally connected across the past century became suddenly isolated, and we were forced, one way or another, to become intimately familiar with the spaces around us. The shadow of Covid hangs over so much—even this release; a number of works here were written during periods of lockdown.
I listened to the album a number of times while writing this, and it's an impressive collection, both in the quality of the music and in its scope. Here's a direct link to the album's Bandcamp page, where it can be yours for as little as €0!
Review: Tracing a Life's Path →
A new review published in the Journal of Music last week, of Johnny Óg Connolly's beautiful and heartfelt tribute to his late father, An Cosán Draíochta, named after an Irish phrase meaning "the magical path." It originally referred to the path connecting the island of Connolly Sr's birth, Inis Bearacháin, to Conamara on the west coast of Ireland. The path could be walked at low tide, but the phrase quietly takes on a number of meanings
This is a work both mournful and cathartic. The idea of a magical path informs so much of the journey of the performance. Several times, Connolly returns to a slow tune named after Inis Bearacháin, and each time the music finds a unique path to escape to a brighter tune. This has often been my experience of concerts of traditional music, especially more formal ones like this; darker moods are met with sincerity and understanding, but are never made to seem permanent. You mourn, and then you live.
Posted on November 1, 2022 Author Brendan Finan
Sandman: True Stories
This post contains spoilers for later issues of The Sandman, the comic book and audio play series, as well as (if future seasons get greenlit) the Netflix TV adaptation.
Dream of the Endless is, ostensibly, the main character of the Sandman series of comics. He and his siblings—Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium—are each both overseers and personifications of an aspect of humanity.
You can argue that Sandman isn't about Dream or the Endless; rather that it's about stories and storytelling, and that Dream is its most important character. Dream's story is the main narrative, but it's not the only one, and at times it's set aside for other stories where he appears only briefly, in cameo if at all. As the series evolved, storytelling itself became a central theme. And in Volume 8, Worlds' End, it also becomes a structural device, with Gaiman consciously acknowledging the Canterbury Tales.
In Worlds' End, we hear a story from a character called Mistress Veltis. She describes an event from her youth, getting lost in the catacombs beneath her city, which led to her right hand becoming supernaturally withered. Veltis was a teacher in the necropolis Litharge, a vast city dedicated to the dead, and to performing all manner of funerary rites.
Veltis is telling this story to her apprentices, Hermas and Klaproth, but by the time we hear it she is long dead. Hermas, now an old man, is relating the larger story of his apprenticeship under Mistress Veltis, and stories she told her apprentices, and how they came to attend her body once she died. He's telling this story to his own assistants, Scroyle and Mig (who have also told a story each), as well as Petrefax, a novice attending the funeral, gathered around a campfire.
And Petrefax is telling this all as part of his own story, at the inn called the Worlds' End. He's relating the story of his apprenticeship under Klaproth, where he was sent to attend a mountaintop "air burial". His audience is the guests at the Worlds' End, who are sheltering from a storm, and his is only the latest of many stories.
The framing story of Worlds' End is told by Brant Tucker, who crashed his co-driver's car in the storm during a business trip to Chicago, made his way to the inn for shelter and recovery, and listened to the stories there. But we discover at the end of the book that he's—in that other great English-language storytelling tradition—telling this tale to a bartender.
That's four levels of nested story—Veltis's, Hermas's, Petrefax's, Tucker's—all of which are part of the larger Sandman story that Gaiman is telling. And I suppose—with Gaiman as the fifth—there's a sixth level in that I'm telling it to you. Nesting stories in this way lets us look outward from the story we're reading to the story we're living, and to the idea that some day this might be part of another tale we're telling.
Around the campfire, after he's spoken of Mistress Veltis and her withered hand, Hermas invites Petrefax to tell a story, but the young man declines: "I have no stories to tell. I have done nothing. I have met no strangers, visited no foreign lands, witnessed no miracles;I have no tales." Later, of course, this admission becomes part of Petrefax's story. There's an injunction here to live, and in living to gather stories. (Much like the moral imperative of the harpies in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: "Tell them stories. … They need the truth. That's what nourishes them. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well.")
But it's deeper than that: Petrefax sees his life as that of a normal young man, yet to us, not citizens of Litharge or of any necropolis, Petrefax's life is far form ordinary:
I know cosmetics and taxidermy, and masonry, and all the funerary arts…
I can build a catafalque or make a paper wreath or boil a skull as well as any prentice in the necropolis."
Gaiman shows us the mundane in the fantastical, and in doing so invites us to see the reverse. I think that's central to Gaiman's view of fantasy. It's always grounded. The Endless are as old as time, but they bicker and fight as much as any family. People see wonders but never speak of them.
Death, Dream's sister, meets everyone with the same respect and interest and love. The most touching moment in the series—adapted perfectly in the TV version—sees her taking an ageing violinist. It's such a beautiful portrait of this character who we only meet for two pages. In this tiny space we understand him almost as well as anyone else we meet in the story.
The story of the Sandman features monsters, gods, ghosts, and demons, and always we see their humanity and their flaws. But when we meet people we see every one as unique. Gaiman puts all these beings on the same level to reinforce an important truth: There is no such thing as an ordinary life.
Review: The Road to Riverdance →
Next is my review of Bill Whelan's memoir, The Road to Riverdance. I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan of Whelan, but I can't deny the craft of his work, nor his sense of business:
It's unclear from the book whether he knows it, but the text demonstrates Whelan's skill for recognising opportunity, for knowing when to say yes; in short, for being an artist in business. It's a skill he recognises in others too, acknowledging Kate Bush's musicianship ('She took our master piper, Liam O'Flynn, on a kaleidoscopic journey through the tune, adding a curl here, lengthening a phrase there, until they had crafted a superb performance') as much as her business acumen ('… she deftly navigated the notoriously choppy waters surrounding the James Joyce estate' in securing rights to use words for her song 'The Sensual World').
The memoir is, well, a fairly typical memoir, but it's interesting to see just how many prominent musicians' orbits Whelan has floated through in his career.
Review: Who'd Ever Think It Would Come To This? →
Posting a couple of links to some of my recent writing in the Journal of Music. First up, a review of "Who'd Ever Think It Would Come To This?"—an ambitious new cantata by harpist and composer Anne-Marie O'Farrell, with a libretto by war correspondent Ed Vulliamy drawn from real accounts of the Irish Civil War:
O'Farrell writes skilfully for the whole ensemble. Flourishes in percussion that enhance or unsettle a still chord; a ghostly tin whistle or uilleann pipe passage floating up from the centre of the orchestra. (It is a credit to the composer – and to the performer Mark Redmond – that these instruments, which often rub somewhat uncomfortably against the orchestra at large, felt utterly integrated.) The influence of film composers could be felt at times – bright brass chords in the vein of John Williams, or a motoric, almost jaunty passage for strings that evoked Bernard Herrmann. That latter passage is given a grim irony as the chorus sang of a brutal assault, 'Tied him to the tail end of a motor car, / And pulled him behind for 3 miles.'
This was a very interesting work, and one that's sat with me for some time now. You can still, as of my writing this, listen online.
Posted on September 19, 2022 Author Brendan Finan
Review: Drawing from the Well →
Last Sunday I was lucky enough to attend, for the Journal of Music, the Irish Traditional Music Archive's gala concert for their Drawing from the Well series at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. It served as a stark reminder that I should a) spend more time engaging with traditional music, and b) learn to speak my native language better.
But the concert was terrific. The word "gala" comes from a French word for rejoicing, and this was a true celebration of Irish music, past and present.
If the night had a theme, the theme was conversation. Talk and story are almost as important to the tradition as anything else, but there was never a sense that the audience was there (as Schoenberg put it) for purely acoustical reasons. The audience was as exuberant as the performers.
But the conversations were musical too. Alone on stage at the start of the gala, Aoife Ní Bhriain played the beginning of the sarabande from Bach's D minor violin partita, which after a couple of minutes morphed into the fiddler Tommie Potts' version of the reel 'My Love is in America'. Ní Bhriain managed the stylistic changes so smoothly it was like watching a lenticular image change with slight movements; as though at any time each of the pair of tunes was there, one visible, the other hidden.
Posted on August 10, 2022 Author Brendan Finan
On Fossil Fuels and Arts Sponsorships →
Speaking of climate change, Toner Quinn recently wrote about how fossil fuel companies use arts organisation sponsorships they use to greenwash their reputations.
The fact that [Galway International Arts Festival] was at the same time presenting art works that highlight the peril of climate change only compounds the irony.
When I asked the festival about these issues, it said that 'The festival is on a journey towards a more sustainable future and is making step changes to reduce its impact on the environment.' It outlined many of the admirable steps it is taking: sourcing 50% of its total energy requirements from renewable resources and reducing current waste production by 55% by 2025; using reusable cups in bars; promoting behaviour among staff, volunteers, artists and audiences that will reduce their impact on the environment; and working with supply chains to help deliver more sustainable options. But all of this is dwarfed when they take on a fossil fuel company as a sponsor.
"Sure, we're providing cheap advertising to fossil fuel companies, but have you seen our reusable cups?"
Fossil fuel sponsorship in the arts has long been contentious, but we're past the point where it should even be on the table for debate. The harm that these companies do is immense, and no organisation—particularly any with impulses towards social justice—should be doing business with them. Recent years have seen major British arts bodies pull away from sponsorship deals, as reported by Francesca Willow on Ethical Unicorn in November:
Organisations such as the Tate, Edinburgh Fringe, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre and the Van Gogh Museum have all ended major fossil fuel sponsorships in recent years. Just last week, at COP26, BP or Not BP? joined forces with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir to challenge BP's partnership with the Scottish ballet (yes, the dancer pictured above is me). Less than two hours later, the Scottish Ballet announced they were reviewing all partnerships.
It's clear that these companies are nearing their end, despite desperate attempts to greenwash and aggressively lobby their way into continued relevance. They have no place within the arts and culture sector, and soon they will have no place among wider society either. It's time institutions like the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the Scottish Ballet got on board.
I see no reason why Ireland—or anywhere—should be different.
Weather Forecasters Report Unprecedented Trolling →
From the BBC, in the truest "Not the Onion" headline I've seen in a long time.
Most of the abuse seems to have been prompted as links were made between the heatwave and climate change.
The UK saw record high temperatures on 19 July, with 40C exceeded for the first time. Dozens of locations saw temperatures above the previous UK record of 38.7C and 15 fire services declared a state of emergency because of a surge in blazes.
The Met Office estimated the heatwave had been made 10 times more likely because of climate change.
Posted on July 15, 2022 Author Brendan Finan
Review: Chimp →
I picked the wrong time to announce my return to blogging, as July is set to be my busiest month. Still, there's more to come as I get a few projects moving and/or finished.
That said, I wanted to flag my latest review in yesterday's edition of the Journal of Music, since it's really just me finding as many ways as I can to say "listen to this album."
[The third and ninth tracks] act as a portal into and out from the middle section of the album, a sequence of five songs that function almost as a nested EP. According to Dramm, the seed of the idea was a doctor's waiting room. 'There is a TV in the corner showing a National Geographicepisode about monkeys. During the middle section, we go inside the TVand hang out with them.' There's a self-contained flow to this central selection, as the songs bring us to a psychedelic space of metaphor and liminal connection.
Posted on June 1, 2018 Author Brendan Finan
Review: Emanating Sparks →
My latest review for the Journal of Music was for a concert I particularly enjoyed: a performance arranged by Louth Contemporary Music Society of music by Karen Tanaka, Tristan Murail, and John Luther Adams, performed by Taka Kigawa and Russell Greenberg:
Kigawa's playing was impressive – it had to be – but as extraordinary as it was to watch his fingers dance across the rapid, complex passages, the delicacy of his playing was even more striking. In quiet moments, he summoned the merest ghosts of notes, tiny pinpricks just a half-step above silence.
Liner Notes: Waypoints
Review: Tracing a Life's Path
Review: The Road to Riverdance
Review: Who'd Ever Think It Would Come To This?


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Little Lambsy Deadsy: A Troll Story
February 23, 2017 · by SFine	· in Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Fantasy/SciFi, Short Fiction.	·
I like the horror genre because it tends to reflect what people are really deep down scared of in that particular place and time.
In the 50s, the fear of Communism and the unknowable other was reflected in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (they look just like us ...but they don't mow their lawns!)
In the 60s our fear of nuclear radiation was reflected in a series of ordinary-critters-rendered-murderously-huge movies like Night of the Lepus where ginormous irradiated rabbits threaten to rise up to nibble us all to death (which is probably not what Jesus meant by "and the meek shall inherit the earth").
In the 70s we had a slew of serial killers (the Freddy, Michael and Jason franchises) to show us the dangers of teenage sexuality; when the fear of teen sex disappeared with the proliferation of diaper changing stations in high school bathrooms , horror franchises kept pace and went meta, with Jason and Freddy eventually fighting one another, how great is that? I love the horror genre because it just keeps giving back.
Based on the recent elections (Lock her up!), and two of the horror movies that got the most attention this year (The VVitch and The Autopsy of Jane Doe) the culture is currently really, really afraid of powerful women.
And trolls. Suddenly trolls are in the zeitgeist again! Which makes For Whom The Bell Trolls (an anthology of 25 tales of trolls,) very timely indeed. Filled with every type of troll imaginable, from the Milo-on-the-Internet type to the under-the-bridge-chomping-animals-between-gnashing-teeth type, and everything in between, there is something for everyone – and at just 4 cents a story (all proceeds going to charity) it's trolling you can feel good about.
Little Lambsy Deadsy
There once was a girl who lived in a stone house, at the top of a long hill, on the edge of a small village. The name of the village was Bridgeville, because of the bridge that crossed the swift-running stream. The hill was called Sheep Hill, because of the sheep that always dotted the hillside, grazing and generally going about their sheepy business.
The girl was an ordinary girl in most ways: she had two elbows, two knees, and two eyebrows. She had light brown hair and medium brown eyes, and four freckles across her nose. Even her name was ordinary — not Bluebonnet or Carysalis (which were the names of some of the other village girls) but simply…
In fact, the only thing out of the ordinary about Emily was her left leg. It was shorter than her right leg, and the foot was turned toward the inside, as if it was always thinking about walking sideways. It was an ordinary foot in every other way, just a little unruly.
To Emily's family — her father, her mother, and her tiny baby brother — it was perfectly ordinary for Emily to have an unruly foot. After all, they had never known Emily's foot to be any other way, and it did not stop Emily from doing many of the things a girl with two ruly feet could do. She could work the treadle of her mother's weaving loom, and rock her baby brother in his basket on the floor.
She could also get about quite nicely. For short distances, Emily walked with a crutch her father had carved. For longer distances — like to the nearby villages' market days — Emily's father would pull her in a little wooden wagon with cunning wooden wheels.
But most of the time, Emily found it quickest to scoot around on the seat of her pants. By using her hands and the heels of her feet, she could get from here to there very quickly. (Quicker, I wot, than you or I on the seats of our pants.)
Emily liked best to scoot to the barn, where her father had placed a long and sturdy wooden plank (sanded smooth to prevent splinters) that reached from the dirt floor all the way up to the hayloft. From that lofty height, Emily could see a distance of more than five sheplenks.
She could see the great boulders that speckled Sheep Hill, where the Old Ones said the faeries hid. (Emily scooted among the boulders often, playing Peek and Boo with her brother, but had never once seen a faerie, though she hoped to one day.) She could see the distant sheep grazing on the long green grass, looking like fluffy clouds fallen all the way to earth. She could see
Simple Shep and his trusty sheep dog, Zippy, watching over the flock.
She especially liked to watch the baby lambs frolicking in the tall green grass, making a baa-baa sound — much like her baby brother, whom she loved very much. She could see the village, and the good people of Bridgeville looking small in the distance, crossing the bridge to and fro, going about their busy day.
Emily could almost see underneath the bridge, where it was dark with many shadows. She sometimes watched Simple Shep dangle his legs off the bridge as he fished for trout in the stream below. On a hot day, under the bridge would be a good place to get out of the sun, she thought — or a hiding place.
Find out what happens next.
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Home » Fashion » Prince Harry says he DOES want to go to King Charles' coronation but insists 'the ball is in their court' in new trailer | The Sun
Prince Harry says he DOES want to go to King Charles' coronation but insists 'the ball is in their court' in new trailer | The Sun
PRINCE Harry has revealed he does want to go to King Charles' coronation – but insisted "the ball is in their court" in a new clip for his upcoming tell-all interview.
The Duke of Sussex admitted "there's a lot that can happen between now and then" but added "I really hope that they're willing to sit down and talk about it" in a new trailer released for the ITV interview.
His claims come as the Royal Family brace for more bombshells from Harry and Meghan with the duke giving two new interviews that will be aired on Sunday before his explosive biography Spare is released on Tuesday.
Bombshell claims from his book have already been released this morning by the Guardian, including that William "attacked" him in a row over Meghan Markle.
But in the new trailer released this morning, Harry hinted he still wants to reconcile with his family – and even wants to attend his father's coronation as King in May.
He told Tom Bradby: "There's a lot that can happen between now and then.
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"But, the door is always open. The ball is in their court.
"There's a lot to be discussed and I really hope that they're willing to sit down and talk about it."
Harry was then asked if he still believes in the monarchy – to which he replied "yes".
But when asked if he thought he would play a part in its future he answered: "I don't know."
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The full 90-minute interview, filmed in California, will air on Sunday – two days before Spare is released.
It comes after Harry accused Prince William of "knocking him to the floor" during an argument about Meghan Markle.
Harry alleges William "grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor" in an extract of the book reported by the Guardian.
The duke claims he was left with a visible injury to his back following the argument in 2019 at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where he was living at the time.
The explosive revelations in Harry's book include:
Prince Harry claimed his brother William 'attacked' him in a row over Meghan Markle
Harry called his therapist instead of Meghan after the confrontation with his brother
Charles pleaded with Harry and William not to 'make his final years a misery'
The Duke of Sussex revealed the nicknames he uses with William
Meanwhile, seven times Harry was welcomed by the Royals have been revealed
Harry claimed William and Kate Middleton encouraged him to wear the infamous Nazi uniform
Harry says William was already "piping hot" when he arrived wanting to talk about their deteriorating relationship.
According to Harry, it turned into a shouting match as William complained about his wife Meghan, calling her "rude" and "abrasive".
William insisted he was trying to help.
The Duke of Sussex responded: "Are you serious? Help me? Sorry – is that what you call this? Helping me?"
Harry claims he then poured William a glass of water and said: "Willy, I can't speak to you when you're like this."
He then says his brother called him "another name" and then "came at me".
Harry claims: "It all happened so fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.
"I landed on the dog's bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out."
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He says William told him to hit him back but he refused, and so his brother left "looking regretful, and apologised".
The extract of Harry's book has been published by the Guardian. It is unclear how they obtained an early copy.
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This week at Walton Hospital in Chesterfield, Cavendish Hospital in Buxton and Newholme Hospital in Bakewell, we've been looking at wildlife – and talking about some of the stars of BBC's Springwatch such as barn owl chicks, and feisty fish Spineless Si the stickleback. We read some classic wildlife poems, such as Come In by Robert Frost, The Unknown Bird by Edward Thomas, and The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes, lovely thoughtful poems about our relationship with nature.
As we're in Derbyshire, with lots of countryside and wild places, the patients and staff have a close relationship with wildlife. Outside the wards, swallows swooped and sparrows chirped as we talked. The world outside is a constant source of inspiration and solace to us, sometimes making us laugh or gasp with exasperation, but always fascinating.
All watch out for the cat.
Rabbits bob their tails running.
At dusk, moths show beautiful colours.
The elm, the acer, and the holly.
Are a harvest for us too!
Chasing and barking but never catching them.
Getting so full they can't fly away.
The tadpoles hatched in the pond.
There were rats in our school.
Kids used to feed them.
Through the science lab, carrying a banana!
So I'm not scared of anything like that.
He was lying in the grass, quiet and watching.
And all followed; a burial procession.
Even the mice finding scraps on the floor.
And Winchester; watching chicks peep over the parapet.
And I couldn't see a thing on TV!
We also enjoyed making some brilliant wildlife collages, using pictures cut out from the wonderful RSPB magazine.


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import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import bg.tusofia.diploma.entities.User;

@Component
public class UserDaoImpl implements UserDao{

	@Autowired
	private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

	@Override
	public User getUser(String username, String password) {
		Criteria criteria = sessionFactory.openSession().createCriteria(User.class)
							.add(Restrictions.eq("name", username))
							.add(Restrictions.eq("password", password));

		Object result = criteria.uniqueResult();
		User user = null;
		if (result != null) {
	        user = (User) result;
	    }

		return user;
	}

	@Override
	public User getUserById(Integer id) {
		Criteria criteria = sessionFactory.openSession().createCriteria(User.class)
				.add(Restrictions.eq("userId", id));

		Object result = criteria.uniqueResult();
		User user = null;
		if (result != null) {
			user = (User) result;
		}

		return user;
	}

	@Override
	public void updateUser(User user) {
		Session s = sessionFactory.openSession();
		String hql = "update User set hasAssigment = :hasAssigment where userId = :id";
		s.createQuery(hql).setParameter("hasAssigment", user.getHasAssigment()).setParameter("id", user.getUserId().intValue()).executeUpdate();
	}

}


One Bold Idea tells stories of pivotal moments in California history that have shaped the world, spanning topics from the arts, health, agriculture and technology. This series is produced in celebration of the University of California's 150th anniversary. For more stories, visit 150.universityofcalifornia.edu.
In December 1984, a handful of University of California, Berkeley students walked off campus and sat down in front of the entrance to UC's administrative offices. Outraged by the violence of the South African government during the country's fight to end racial segregation, the students demanded that UC pull out billions of dollars in investments in companies doing business with South Africa. This seemingly small gesture of solidarity led to a national movement with far-reaching impacts. This episode is just one chapter in a long history of student protests on UC campuses. Special thanks to Jim Hurwitz for sharing audio from his video of the anti-Apartheid movement for a Cal on Video project.


As a blogger, I have been fortunate to attend a few press trips. These trips have been for all types of brands, and while every experience was different and unique, I've never experienced brand events like those thrown by Kia Motors America. I recently arrived home from San Diego where Kia held one of their biggest Brand Immersion events, including their Eco-Dynamics line of cars. That being said, the experience helped me answer questions from other influencers like, "How is a Kia event different from other brands?" So, I began trying to put my thoughts into words and those words on this page. It's hard because I always love to connect with the talented people that each and every brand brings together but simply said, a Kia event isn't friends getting together, it's FAMILY getting together. That statement is leading off my tips on How to Host a Successful Brand Trip.
When your influencers arrive, they should feel at home. Creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed and loved right away is a must. Tips from the #TheNewKia event is to give your guests an all-access backstage pass in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. We don't only want to see the faces of the PR team, either. Sure, we love talking to them every day, but how cool is it to have all the key executives and product managers on hand to answer any questions the influencers have?! It makes us feel more like a family unit and connected with the brand because we then meet and spend time with the people who influence brand decisions at the top level.
L-R: Jay Joyer – Zeno Group for Kia Motors America aka Slayer of Boredom. / James Hope – National Manager, Product Communications at Kia Motors America. / Shamit Choksey, Zeno Group for Kia Motors America. / Joshua Hicks – Zeno Group for Kia Motors America.
Center: James Bell – Director of Corporate Communications at Kia Motors America.
Right: James Hope – National Manager, Product Communications at Kia Motors America.
Wherever you go, the location should help tell the brand story. A city with a history your brand can connect to, and a hotel that has a history or meaning. Be sure wherever it is, it can help tell your client or brand's story. Maybe it's a trip to the place that inspired your client's latest collection or where your client's business or brand was originally founded.
Kia chose San Diego because it's one of the most vibrant, hip, diverse and downright fun cities on the continent. Plus, it has a rich history to boot. And let's be real, what better venue than the Hard Rock San Diego to host a rockin' VIP experience.
On a personal level, can I please beg you to stop saying "breakfast is provided" when we show up and it's a table full of pastries? Nothing upsets me more than seeing that first thing in the morning. Give your influencers some real food to get them through the day you have planned. And variety is a must. I'm 99% sure you'll have someone on the trip with an allergy, food sensitivity, or dietary needs, so please make sure you are able to meet those needs.
Let's face it, you're bringing influencers to learn about your brand, but it doesn't have to be boring. A cool environment with slides, videos, and ending with a Q&A helps influencers get the most out of what you're giving to us. If you are bringing influencers on-site giving them an insider tour is always welcomed and appreciated.
We are there to work but who doesn't like to have a little fun? Plus, it helps lighten the mood around the joint. Pedicabs to dinner? Heck yes! A Hospitality Suite to relax in between events with a game room? You bet! How about throwing an out-of-control live band Rock Out Karaoke ending celebration for your influencers to thank them for joining you that week? An astounding yes. Okay, so maybe you don't have the budget to go all out like this but do something to thank you influencers for their time. We are leaving our families and even jobs to give you our full attention, so it's nice to know we're appreciated.
Whatever direction you choose, have your brand and influencers in mind during the entire process. Have fun and enjoy yourself too. It's a time to meet people from all walks of life that come together to highlight your message. Passion for your brand is contagious, especially in a social environment, so start planning your next event and start building a greater presence!
*Photos provided by Cielo Roth Photography. Used with permission.


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A month after TN plastic ban, small hotels and streetside shacks still confused
While some blame the government for its lack of clarity, an official from Tamil Nadu's Pollution Control Board tell us that the government is constantly involved in creating awareness regarding the ban.
news Plastic Ban Saturday, February 02, 2019 - 17:57
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Guna, who likes to add the prefix 'Kodambakkam' to his name, has been running a roadside eatery for over 22 years in the Kodambakkam's Mahalingapuram area. His compact stall made of stainless steel pulls in a steady crowd from as early as 7 am every morning. He offers steaming hot idlies and omelettes, crispy vadai, poori and dosa with sambar, chutney and potato curry sides. Customers crowd around his stall, some with plates and others choosing to pack their morning tiffin to go.
He has lined his plates with round-cut banana leaves instead of the butter sheets used earlier, and uses shiny plastic pouches and non-woven bags as alternatives for plastic packets and plastic bags. While Guna supports the plastic ban, he says that he has stocked these items for want of better alternatives. "The pouches that I'm using now might have plastic in them but this is being used by everyone now. I think these are capable of being recycled," he tells TNM.
This lack of clarity on the state plastic ban is the case with most roadside food stalls and small hotels in Tamil Nadu.
Lack of clarity
The Government order on the ban offers little help in drawing the line between allowed plastics and banned items. The Government order lists plastic sheets used for food wrapping, spreading on dining tables, plastic plates, plastic coated tea cups and plastic tumblers, water pouches and packets, plastic straw, plastic carry bag and plastic flags irrespective of thickness as banned items.
While the order banned all single use plastics (irrespective of micron size), later the Government exempted certain items from the banned list.
Plastic bags manufactured for exports, plastic bags which constitute or form an integral part of packaging in which goods are sealed prior to use at manufacturing/processing units, plastic bags and sheets used in forestry and horticulture nurseries, milk and milk products, oil, medicine and medical equipment, carry bags made from compostable plastics bearing the labeled "Compostable" and conforming to the Indian Standard IS or ISO 17088:2008 can be used.
And here it is that the effectiveness of the ban falters. Though there are a few who try to practise a plastic-free lifestyle, there are those who find loopholes to work around the ban.
While high-end cafes, restaurants and hotels have switched to alternatives like cloth bags, aluminium foil sheets, and plat fibre boxes, it is quite evident that small hotels and roadside joints are grappling to find similar alternatives while maintaining affordable costs. They've replaced the usual plastic bags with non woven bags and plastic covers with "ISO" labels on them. The plastic pouches for sambar are now replaced with shiny pouches, which some hoteliers are claiming to be aluminium foil covers.
While some blame the government for the confusion, an official from Tamil Nadu's Pollution Control Board notes that the government is constantly involved in creating awareness regarding the ban. "Yet there are a few who try to find easier routes and continue using plastics. We try as much as we can to conduct frequent raids and inform them on what's allowed and what's not. It might take some time to see a change in attitude among people as well," he says.
Finding alternatives
While Guna has tried to switch to alternatives, he encourages his customers to bring their own vessels to carry liquid food items like sambar and chutney. "Some of them bring but some don't. In such cases we use the packets and the bags. Most often people bring their own bags now," he adds.
How is he managing the change in prices? "Plantain leaves that we purchased for Rs 400 have now becomes Rs 700 to Rs 800. I've now raised the price of all my tiffin items by one rupee but more price change will not be welcomed by my customers. We'll have to bear the losses," he says.
While speaking, a customer walks up to Guna's stall and hands him steel tiffin boxes to pack his breakfast. J Manikandan a resident of Viswanathapuram says that he usually has a pair of steel boxes in his vehicle boot for such purposes. "The plastic ban has to be encouraged. As much as I can, I travel with my own vessels to buy parcel food in hope that more people follow suit," he says.
A few meters away from Guna's stall, Raja, who has been running a fast food joint along with his brother, has also been using the shiny plastic covers, non woven bags and sheets with a shiny coating on one side to pack their meals. "Rates of packing material have definitely increased, doubled actually, but it is too early for us to increase prices with our customers. For now we are charging usual rates, no extra for packing," says Raja.
Muthu, manager of Sree Balaji Bhavan, a hotel in Chennai's Pondy Bazaar takes us to the hotel's packing area. It is rush hour lunch time and employees from online delivery services make a beeline to the parcel counter. Here, the use of plastics is quite evident, displaying a variety of plastic trays, small boxes and plastic covers.
"These plastic items are allowed, they do not fall under the ban. However, we reduce Rs 10 from the bill if customers bring their own vessels to pack food. We've listed quantity amount so we don't end up packing too much or too little," says Muthu.
He also shows us a milky white plastic bag that weights less then a feather, words like "compostable", "CIPET Certified", "CPCB Certified" printed in green, bold letters.
"We've now placed an order for these plastic bags. There's a great demand and so we're yet to get. See, these bags are allowed. It has IS/ISO certification," he says.
How has the ban fared so far?
The plastic ban came into effect on New Year's Day in Tamil Nadu. The government listed a total of 14 plastic items that are to be banned in the state and this includes plastic cutlery like plates, spoons, straws, and cups, plastic sheets, plastic coated bags, plastic bags and the likes.
Yet, the use of plastics in packing industry is quite undeniable, more so when it comes to packing food. An official from Chennai Corporation notes that since the ban, officials have seized close to 70 tonnes of banned plastic across 15 zones in city, from markets, hotels, retail shops, malls and roadside shops. In a month, this number stands at 87.34 tonnes of banned plastic items.
According to a report in Times of India, on January 30 officials seized over 1,000 kilograms of banned plastic items like plastic trays, cups, bags, tumblers, rolls and straws from Saravana Bhavan Vadapalani branch in Chennai. Sources say that the corporation is yet to decide what to do with seized items as they are not being dumped in yards.


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Entrance to the house is on the first floor which leads down to the day and garden area. On the first floor we find a private garage with parking area, 2 bedrooms that share a bathroom and the master bedroom with a dressing room, bathroom and jacuzzi. The 3 bedrooms have a shared terrace with sea views.
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Forty-four percent (44%) say the president is doing a good or excellent job on national security issues while 39% give him such positive marks on the economy. See other measures of the president's performance at Obama By the Numbers. Thirty-four percent (34%) say the president is doing a good job handling the Gulf oil spill while 33% give him poor grades on that topic.
While most of us knew Obama was just another corrupt politician, it is high time the rest of the electorate wakes up and smells the coffee. The question remains what exactly set Obama's numbers on a downward trajectory once again. Ed Morrissey points out the poll doesn't suggest the public is quite ready to declare the Gulf oil spill Obama's Katrina, at least not yet anyway. Though Obama may get a bump after he finally holds another presser Thursday hoping to contain the damage on the Gulf, the bump isn't likely to last. His base is not with him on the decision to continue to allow more drilling and the disaster in the Gulf has no apparent end in sight.
Recent predictions that the economy may hit yet another downturn spell disaster for this President. The internals for this Rasmussen poll show a mere 26% trust Obama on an economic crisis while 27% trust Congress to handle an economic crisis. Another economic crisis will leave Obama and his Democratic Congress with few alternatives for intervention after their stimulus proved such a failure. The combination of the Gulf oil spill along with projected downturns for the economy may leave Obama hoping for approvals Bush experienced post-Katrina.
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Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses - but it's really a school for spies. Cammie Morgan is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways (three of which involve a piece of uncooked spaghetti). But the one thing the Gallagher Academy hasn't prepared her for is what to do when she falls for an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.
Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, and track him through a mall without his ever being the wiser, but can Cammie have a normal relationship with a boy who can never know the truth about her?
Carter really digs deep and expresses the life of not just a teenage spy, but also a teenage girl. Amazing 5/5.
In the human world, far from Equestria, there are some very familiar girls. Meet Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and all their freinds as you've never seen them before! The Equestria Girls are off on their summer holidays to Camp Everfree, but the camp is in danger of closing down! Can Fluttershy and her friends pony up and throw a fundraising show in time to save their summer? And what is the mysterious legend of Everfree?
Explore the magic of friendship in a whole new world!Twilight Sparkle is delighted to be invited to a sleepover with Rairity and all her friends. But the Shadowbolts - Sunny Flare, Sour Sweet and Sugarcoat - are deteremined to sabotage Twilight's friendship with the girls. Will the sleepover surprise be a dream ... or a nightmare?
It's time for the Friendship Games! The students at Canterlot Highhave to face Crystal Prep Academy in a contest to decide which school id the best. The Crystal Prep students are super smart and athletic, but they don't have the pony powers of Sunset Shimmer and her friends! Is the magical power of friendship enough for them to win?
Sunset Shimmer has changed a lot since she came from Equestria to Canterlot High. But when it comes to friendship, she still has a lot to learn. When she starts to study the magic of friendship, she ends up causing problems for all her friends! Can Twilight Sparkle and the others teach her what friendship is all about?


Work in your community! Community service benefits everyone involved--especially the person doing the service. Volunteer to work in your local library, or as an ESL teaching assistant, or with a youth group, with a health center, counseling services, or through your place of worship. Try to find opportunities to work with the Hispanic community in your area, and use your Spanish whenever you possibly can. This will allow you not only to practice your Spanish, but also to meet people and learn about their various cultures.


First of all, if you're not following Chrissy Teigen on Snapchat, you're really missing out.
In addition to adorable photos of her baby, Luna, and adorable photos of John Legend, Chrissy Teigen's Snapchat will also bring you things like insight into the world of celebrity selfies.
On Tuesday, Chrissy posted a video on Snapchat showing the differences in her selfie before and after using a makeup app.
I'm not sure why, but she laughed while demonstrating how the app works. Personally, I can hardly see any changes in the photo, so maybe that's why she was laughing.
But after looking closely, you can see the changes the app made to her selfie.
...and here it is after the app is applied.
It took me a while to spot them, but there ARE differences here.
The app seems to have added some nice lighting and glowing effects, making Chrissy's already beautiful face look almost supernaturally beautiful.
Personally, I'd like to put in a request that Chrissy not go any further and get even more beautiful because I don't think my self-esteem could take that.


The Spirit Collection in London's Natural History Museum is home to over 20 million dead animal specimens, collected from around the world. They are preserved and kept for research and educational purposes. Lizzie Daly met up with Ollie Crimmen, Senior Curator of Fish to find out a little more.
Additional footage of the museum: © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London . All rights reserved.
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Various furniture for the baby you showed here is very interesting. I am happy to see it. You have to add my insight to choose furniture and equipment for baby. However, how much are the price of each of all? Thank you.


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About 12 results.
Fast One Cargo LLC
E-09, Al Mullah Warehouse, Al Qusais, P.O. Box 92169, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Fast One is a leading Cargo Handling & Freight Forwarding Company in Dubai, UAE. With over 100,000 satisfied clients across Ethiopia and Gulf Region.
Empost Al Qusais
5 St 61, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Emirates Post Group manages the long-term and medium-term planning of its postal operational division and subsidiaries, which consist of Wall Street Exchan
LBC Express
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Philippines, USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, Guam, Saipan, UAE, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
LBC does more than move boxes, money and parcels. It moves the spaces that keep a country moving. LBC. We like to move it.
Marcopolo Freight Services LLC
M03, Al Wasl Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, 127911 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Marcopolo Freight Services LLC., a global player in the freight & logistics industry is one of the fastest growing Shipping Agent & International Freight.
FedEx World Service Center
Tower B, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Sudafi Cargo LLC
Deira, alkhubaisi, 79 A street Dubai United Arab Emirates , United Arab Emirates
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TFM Express
Sheikh Rashid Rd, 00971 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
TFM Express Shipping Services is strongly involved in different Shipping and International freight forwarding by Air, Sea and Multi-modal Transportation.
DHL Sharjah Airport Free Zone Service Point and Service Center
Sharjah Airport Free Zone, Building 3, Office 3, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
DHL is the global market leader in the logistics industry. DHL commits its expertise in international parcel, express, air and ocean freight, road and rail transportation, contract logistics and …
DHL BURJUMAN CENTRE SERVICEPOINT
Khalid Bin Al Waleed Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Melbourne Cargo and Clearing
Al Mina Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DHL Ras Al Khaimah Service Point
OPP MANAR RAS AL KHAIMAH, Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
DHL Al Ain Al Falah St Service Point and Service Center
Building No. 26, Shop No.5 , Al Ain., Al Ain, United Arab Emirates