Platinum-selling and award-winning rapper Yung Joc has inked a recording deal through his own imprint, Swagg Team Entertainment with Polo Grounds Music/RCA Music Group and a production deal with Battery/Jive Records for emerging acts through Swagg Team Entertainment.
"It is my pleasure and honor to announce my affiliation and new partnership with Polo Grounds Music/RCA Music Group and Battery/Jive Records," states Yung Joc. "Now I can actually work and not wonder if I'm going to be held back from building my own brand as well as the Swagg Team brand. I'm very excited to work with this team."
As an artist signed to Polo Grounds Music/RCA Music Group, Yung Joc is currently working on his new album tentatively titled Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, slated for a late 2011 release. One of the most sought after rappers for cameo appearances, Yung Joc has been featured on T-Pain's "Buy U A Drink," David Banner's "Get Like Me" which also featured Chris Brown, Bobby Valentino's "Beep" and Slim's "So Fly."
Proving his ability for finding talent, Yung Joc brought two high profile singles to Jive Records last year via his Swagg Team Entertainment label – the mega summer 2009 online, radio and video smash hit "Stanky Legg" by GS Boyz, and the hugely popular single "Lookin' Boy" by Hotstylz. With his new production deal in place, Yung Joc will continue to seek talent to cultivate under the Swagg Team Entertainment umbrella which consists of a recording studio and a fully staffed radio, marketing, A&R and video production departments.
"Joc is a triple threat. As an artist, executive and personality, he is now entering a higher phase of his career and I'm happy to play a part in it," affirms Bryan Leach, President, Polo Grounds Music. "I feel with Pitbull, Yo Gotti and now Yung Joc, Polo Grounds has an amazing front line of smart, talented, hungry artists that will continue to show why it's still all about making hit records and outworking everyone else."
Tom Corson, EVP, General Manager, RCA Music Group cites "The signing of Yung Joc as both an executive and entertainer is a testament to the great talent that he possesses. His addition to the Polo Grounds Music roster will further establish the label's strong foothold in urban music."
Yung Joc's 2006 debut album New Joc City entered at #1 on both the Billboard Top R&B/Hip Albums and Top Rap Albums charts and #3 on the Billboard 200 chart. New Joc City featured the multi-platinum selling, #1 Billboard Hot Rap Track "It's Going Down," which won a BET Award for Hip-Hop Track of the Year and garnered several nominations including the Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards (Best Rap Video) and more. Joc's second single "I Know U See It" peaked at #2 on Billboard's Hot Rap Track chart. Yung Joc's follow up album, 2007's Hustlenomic duplicated his 2006 chart-topping entries and featured the hit singles "Coffee Shop" and "Bottle Poppin'." In August 2009, Joc released Grind Flu, a free mixtape that featured Gucci Mane, Chris Brown, Bobby V, Nikki Minaj, Slim, Shawty Lo & DJ Khaled.


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Hi-Definition Screenings
I'm Not Running
by David Hare
Third Rail's Hi-Definition Screenings feature amazing productions from London's National Theatre, captured live onstage and presented locally in high-definition video. NT Live Punch Card holders may use their cards for any Third Rail Hi-Definition Screening.
Sun 5/5 at 4pm
- World Trade Center Theater -
25 SW Salmon St (2WTC), Portland, OR 97205
Runtime: 2 hours and 40 minutes, including an intermission.
I'm Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she's faced with an agonising decision.
What's involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?
Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as 'the premiere political dramatist writing in English'. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.
Show image photograph (Sian Brooke) by Felicity McCabe
Neil Armfield
Pauline Gibson
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Andrad Hart Arnold entered this incredible world in the very early morning of June 30 (after a long night of labor) delighting (daddy) Steve & I in the birth pool we shared. We simply can't stop enjoying him, daily entertaining our family with his charm. We are so blessed and complete now that he is here.
We all think he looks so much like his daddy. The older siblings are quite proud. We Praise God for him!


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Devout at a distance in contagion-hit Brunei
Muslim nation quickly dispensed with notion it had divine protection against Covid-19 and implemented a model pandemic response
by Nile Bowie April 3, 2020 April 8, 2020
A Muslim worshiper dons a face mask amid Covid-19 worries in Brunei. Image: Facebook
SINGAPORE – When Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah delivered an address at the opening of Brunei's annual legislative session on March 9, he expressed gratitude to "God" that his nation remained free of Covid-19 infections. At the time, the oil-rich Borneo sultanate was still one of the last countries in Southeast Asia without a confirmed case.
The monarch began an otherwise down-to-earth speech on the economic repercussions of the viral global pandemic for energy-dependent Brunei by ascribing the Islamic nation's virus-free status to divine "protection" gained through prayer.
"Brunei is constantly praying, in our mosques, houses and assemblies. With continued prayers, Brunei will continue to receive divine blessings and protection," said the sultan, one of the world's few remaining absolute rulers, in his speech officiating the Legislative Council (LegCo) sitting.
Hours after his speech, Brunei confirmed its first Covid-19 case.
Within days, there were dozens of new cases linked to Bruneians returning from a mass gathering of pious Muslims in Malaysia organized by the missionary Tablighi Jamaat movement in late February, Southeast Asia's largest coronavirus cluster to date with confirmed infections in multiple countries.
A fast uptick in cases sparked alarm and panic buying at grocery stores and led to Brunei prohibiting citizens and foreign residents from going abroad on March 15. The country then sealed itself off entirely, with all land, sea and air entry points closed on March 24.
At present, Brunei has 133 confirmed Covid-19 cases with one death recorded.
Workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant at Suri Seri Begawan Raja Pengiran Anak Damit Mosque to counter the Covid-19 coronavirus in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, March 17, 2020. Photo: AFP/Dean Kassim
But the situation was quickly brought under control. Brunei was among the first nations to introduce travel restrictions on affected countries and temperature screenings for inbound travellers. By early February, authorities began readying quarantine shelters capable of accommodating more than a thousand potential patients.
Observers say the wealthy sultanate's handling of the pandemic has been robust and transparent, despite the adoption of drastic and arguably draconian measures.
"Once the first cases were reported, Brunei quite impressively and professionally handled the situation, putting into action best practices likely inspired by neighboring Singapore," said Dominik Müller, a professor of cultural and social anthropology at Germany's Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg.
"They were swift and apparently very efficient in setting up new testing, treatment and contact-tracing structures, which is all the more remarkable as there's often a stereotype of policies and basically any other procedures in Brunei typically being rather slow," the academic told Asia Times.
Mosques, suraus and prayer halls across the country have also been shuttered and are likely to remain closed in the near-term.
Places of worship and prayer facilities were initially set to remain closed until at least April 6. But in a press briefing on April 2, Health Minister Mohammad Isham Jaafar said the government would only ease Covid-19 restrictions, including mosque closures, after 28 consecutive days with no new cases recorded.
"Unlike Singapore, Brunei was initially reluctant to close mosques and cancel Friday prayers," Müller said, though precautions such as closing mosques for disinfection and cleaning were taken. "But once the case numbers grew, the government eventually declared that Friday prayers at mosques were not religiously obligatory for the time being."
Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah salutes during National Day celebrations in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, February 24, 2018. Photo: Twitter
Brunei's ruler, in a televised speech addressing the Covid-19 situation on March 22, called on the public to remain calm and exercise responsibility to prevent wider spread of the pneumonia-like illness.
As believers, said the sultan, Bruneians are required to undertake prayer and devotional acts while at home rather than at mosques to curb the contagion's spread.
"This is where our culture is different, we know this pandemic does not exist by itself but comes from our creator. Nobody among us knows why it came," the 73-year-old monarch said. The country's Ministry of Religious Affairs has since reiterated calls for the public to undertake pious acts and religious deeds in order to obtain God's protection.
In 2019, Brunei courted global controversy after it adopted an Islamic sharia penal code allowing for amputation, whipping or stoning to death for violations. But when the monarch vowed to ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture and not enforce the death penalty under the new religious laws, outside pressure eased.
As the country copes with the scaling back of communal religious activity in the midst of the pandemic, Müller notes that the basis for forgoing religious gatherings is itself derivative of sharia principles.
"Their rationale was clearly that the protection of life and health is a 'higher goal' of the sharia – maqasid al-syariah – and thus overrides personal sharia duties, such as attending Friday prayers, in an emergency situation like the current public health crisis," the scholar said.
Spiritual measures aside, Brunei has expedited the opening of a new national virology laboratory to conduct molecular tests for Covid-19, which the sultan has said will increase testing capacity tenfold. Since the outbreak began, Singapore has helped supply Brunei with coronavirus test kits.
A man wearing a face mask amid concerns over the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus walks at the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, March 16, 2020. Photo: AFP/Dean Kassim
All Bruneians returning to the country are required to take a coronavirus swab test and undergo mandatory isolation at a quarantine facility. To ensure compliance with virus-curbing rules, penalties for violators have been ratcheted up. Offenders face fines of B$10,000 (US$6,988) or six months in prison.
"Since the pandemic, life has definitely changed in many aspects, especially in terms of freedom of movement," said Bruneian academic Mu'izz Abdul Khalid, a PhD candidate in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. "The need for social distancing has acted as a catalyst for Brunei to start using online services."
Brunei's government has advised the public to use its online services portal for tasks like applying for business licenses and paying road taxes rather than visiting service counters; it also set up a drive-through system for pension collections.
All public and private school students are currently taking classes online in accordance with social distancing.
"Initially after the announcement of 'Patient Zero', the public mood definitely became more manic and fearful of the virus," Mu'izz told Asia Times. "However, things have become much calmer now due to the actions and the lengths taken by the Bruneian government to show that it is here to protect the citizens of Brunei."
Economic challenges facing the country have been compounded by the public health crisis. Brunei recently unveiled stimulus measures worth B$450 million ($314 million) to help its relatively small private sector weather the pandemic storm.
Measures include loan payment deferments, wage subsidies, social security contributions, and sponsored training programs for graduates, employees and businesses.
Analysts say that while the negative economic shocks associated with Covid-19 will hit Brunei's economy, the larger threat to the third-largest oil producer in Southeast Asia is the ongoing oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. Oil and gas revenues account for upwards of 80% of total government earnings.
Energy exports have long financed generous welfare policies, including zero taxes, subsidized housing and free healthcare and education. The government has in recent years sought to scale back welfare spending and reorient its economy toward private sector entrepreneurship and Islamic finance, goalposts now toppled by contagion headwinds.
Brunei Muslims pray in a file photo. Photo: Facebook
"As long as global markets remain awash with Russian and Saudi oil, Brunei should expect large revenue deficits and rampant debt-financing of social programs and subsidies to keep the economy afloat amid Covid-19-related shutdowns," said Liam Hunt, a market analyst at SophisticatedInvestor.com.
Brunei's government projects a budget shortfall for two consecutive fiscal years, with a deficit of B$1.46 billion ($1 billion) expected in 2020. That figure could widen on the back of a prolonged national health emergency, tepid global demand for hydrocarbons and a sustained drop in crude prices at $20 or less per barrel.
"The stability of Brunei's social and political system depends quite fundamentally on its oil and gas-funded economic foundations," said Müller. "The aim for economic diversification and reduction of dependency from oil and gas will now become even harder to achieve – and the dilemma may be deepened by the decreasing oil revenues due to falling prices."
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People often ask, "How did Square Pegs start?" Square Pegs started in my heart over 20 years ago. I was teaching a summer riding program in Sacramento at a privileged Montessori school. It was the first riding program of my own, I was all of 22 years old. One of the parents asked if her teen-aged daughter could help me for the summer. The girl had been in trouble with the law and her mom wanted to keep her busy. She was a tough kid with a great heart. She was kind to the animals and considerate of the kids. We worked hard side by side and became close that summer.
One morning, I found the girl clinging desperately to the neck of Lad, my giant skittish Thoroughbred schoolmaster. She was sobbing her teenaged heart out. Lad bore her tears patiently and never moved a muscle. I realized that this horse was a better listener and a better friend than anyone else in this troubled girl's life – including me. He didn't offer advice, he never told her that everything would be okay. He was simply "there" for her in the truest sense.It struck me that morning that the most important thing I had cultivated all summer long was not that I had built a successful riding program but I had created the space for the bond a struggling young woman had developed with a tall, slim ex-racehorse.
I knew this was something special.
It was about the horses first and riding second?
We offered a program to troubled teens or kids that couldn't afford riding or to kids that nobody wanted to teach?
Or to people who needed to take things more slowly: To savor each accomplishment and overcome fear or anxiety?
What if learning has little to do with what the teacher is saying but everything to do with what the student is working to understand?
What if I'm learning more from the students and the horses than they are from me? Is that okay?
What if the kids learn something even more important from helping other students?
What if we could create a safe place for animals and an emotionally safe space for learning?
All this time, I continued working with racehorses. From them I learned that obedience is different from respect. Obedience is demanded. Respect is earned. If you misunderstand this critical difference when working with a racehorse, it can get you killed.
I also learned you might be able to shape an animal's behavior, but you can never change who that animal really is. Some horses have the personalities of champions. They run even if they are injured. And some have a personality that might land them a trip on the slaughter truck.
I knew I had to do something about that too.
Fast forward a few years and in walks the love of my life Darius Christopher Dunlap; bringing with him his giant smile and insatiable curiosity. He listened while I ranted about what kids might really need to be successful human beings. He understood that both horses and kids deserved second and third chances and sometimes more, to show how amazing they are.We agreed that being different was what made you special – not weird or strange.
Darius and I talked and talked and pretty soon, he'd talked me into marrying him and I had talked him into starting this crazy idea of Square Peg. We didn't know anything about non profits, but we knew we had to start not just a school, but a movement. We knew we would build the entire program and horse rescue around the notion that EVERYone Fits. The next thing I know, Darius listed his house on the market, took a hiatus from hi-tech and signed on to be the original Executive Director of Square Pegs. He devoted the equity on his home and over two years of his professional life to building the infrastructure of the organization. Now that he is back in the tech world, he is still the one who, when I'm dead on my feet, picks me up gently and hands me a glass of wine and sits me at the table to a fantastic meal.
Which brings us to today – What have we created?
We created a friendly space that is physically challenging but emotionally safe. A space where the student learns at his own pace and marks achievement because she is encouraged to. Where helping out, in whatever way you can, is being part of a community of caring.
A space where the care of the animals reminds us that all life has value and deserves respect and another chance.
Because these are the real lessons and this is the movement we set out to create.
We've created the magic community that we had envisioned and now we have to sustain and grow it.The need for good homes for horses continues to escalate as the economy continues to struggle. The need for special services for kids keeps increasing as school and family budgets constrict.
And yet we are still here – because of you.
It's how we're changing the world. One horse (or maybe a little goat) and one student at a time. Each time we do that, we change the way a child sees herself and her place in the world. Look around the ranch (or the site) and you will see many animals that had nowhere else to go. Square Pegs gave them another chance at life. In return, they teach our students to turn "I wish" into "I can." I call that a heck of a bargain. Don't you?
Please help us in supporting our work. Help us by volunteering to clean a stall, to fundraise, by chairing or hosting an event, planting the garden or by helping us run our office or sponsoring a student or horse.
But what it really takes is your financial support. Feed, rent, insurance, electricity, vet and farrier bills cost real money and we can't continue without your support.
Believe me, we know these times are tough, but we have generated a lot of momentum and touched a lot of lives since 2004 . Join us in making a positive difference and continuing to change the world one child and one horse at a time.


Located on a winding private road, this original 1896 West Chop waterfront home was completely renovated to exacting standards in 1992. With 8 bedrooms and 6 and a half bathrooms, and a classical layout with formal and informal areas in which to relax and pass the time, this home encompasses all that this desirable location provides for multi-generational family gatherings and summer memories at West Chop.
A stately front entrance leads to the formal living room with adjoining separate sitting room, with fireplace, that opens to the expansive water facing porch providing active views of the Vineyard Sound and additional entertaining space to while away a lazy summer afternoon. The home offers an exceptional combination of elegant charm and modern amenities including the large gourmet kitchen breakfast room, with Wolf and Sub Zero appliances, bespoke cabinetry and a butler's pantry that leads through to the formal dining room.
The staircase leads to a large master suite with full bath, office and balcony overlooking the water. Three further bedrooms and 2 additional bathrooms occupy the remainder of the second floor with 4 further bedrooms and 3 baths on the third floor. The huge walk out basement was created during the renovation, and could be finished to create living space for wine cellar, family room or gym. Air Conditioning has been installed throughout for 2019.
Walk from the house through established perennial gardens to the beautiful sandy beach for easy swimming, tide rides to the pier and docks and enjoyment of the water.
This is a rare opportunity to buy in the heart of the West Chop community. Contact us for more information about this special North Shore private setting with opportunities for beaches, tennis, golf, and more.
Located on a winding private road, this original 1896 West Chop waterfront home was completely renovated to exacting standards in 1992. With 8 bedrooms and 6 and a half bathrooms, and a classical layout with formal and informal areas in which to relax and pass the time, this home encompasses all that this desirable location provides for multi-generational family gatherings and summer memories at West Chop. A stately front entrance leads to the formal living room with adjoining separate sitting room, with fireplace, that opens to the expansive water facing porch providing active views of the Vineyard Sound and additional entertaining space to while away a lazy summer afternoon. The home offers an exceptional combination of elegant charm and modern amenities including the large gourmet kitchen breakfast room, with Wolf and Sub Zero appliances, bespoke cabinetry and a butler's pantry that leads through to the formal dining room. The staircase leads to a large master suite with full bath, office and balcony overlooking the water. Three further bedrooms and 2 additional bathrooms occupy the remainder of the second floor with 4 further bedrooms and 3 baths on the third floor. The huge walk out basement was created during the renovation, and could be finished to create living space for wine cellar, family room or gym. Air Conditioning has been installed throughout for 2019. Walk from the house through established perennial gardens to the beautiful sandy beach for easy swimming, tide rides to the pier and docks and enjoyment of the water. This is a rare opportunity to buy in the heart of the West Chop community. Contact us for more information about this special North Shore private setting with opportunities for beaches, tennis, golf, and more.


Plans to improve travel times and connectivity in north-east Calderdale have taken a step forward after initial funding was approved by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
At the full Combined Authority meeting on Thursday 5 April, funding of £400,000 was approved to progress a detailed plan that will transform the transport network around Hipperholme, Shelf and Northowram.
A number of junctions in this area suffer from significant congestion at peak times particularly on the busy A58 and A6036 roads. The area also lacks direct access to the rail network and bus services can experience delays due to local congestion. Facilities for cycling and walking also need to be enhanced.
Current improvement schemes in Calderdale focus around the south-east of the borough reducing journey times between Halifax and Huddersfield and between Brighouse and Bradford/Huddersfield. For Calderdale to achieve its full economic potential there is also a recognised need to improve connectivity from the north-east of the borough towards Leeds and Bradford.
Detailed plans that look at how all modes of transport can contribute to improving connectivity will now be prepared. A full business case is expected to be presented to the Combined Authority in 2019.
"Thanks to this funding we now have a huge opportunity to improve transport links in north-east Calderdale.
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Sun Bingo, a popular UK online bingo room, is in the process of migrating its existing players to the Playtech gaming platform. This comes after a highly competitive bid for the patronage of Sun Bingo players by top online providers, Gamesys and Playtech. The deal was confirmed by News UK – the owners of Fabulous Bingo and Sun Bingo gaming products – in late 2015, but only goes into effect next month.
Playtech will take over as the key software gaming supplier for Sun Bingo from Gamesys. As a result, Sun Bingo mobile players and PC-based players will enjoy the full benefits of the Virtue Fusion gaming platform. In the interim, the existing player base at Sun Bingo will be migrated from the Gamesys platform to the Playtech platform until the latter officially takes over in August 2016.
Sun Bingo is a leading UK-based online bingo room that is part and parcel of the News UK brand. The company launched back in 2005 and has enjoyed significant success in the years since. At the time that it was launched, the gaming platform was provided by Tombola for a period of 4 years until Gamesys took over in 2008. The latter company is licensed and regulated by the Gibraltar gaming authority under Entertaining Play. This is the selfsame operator that is used for the popular bingo site, Heard Radio and the casino and bingo operations of Caesars online.
Back in 2015, Gamesys sold off its business to consumer brands in a deal which saw Intertain Group acquire the full product range. Now, Gamesys operates as a business to business gaming provider. Sun Bingo is now powered by Playtech and it features a wide range of player-friendly chat rooms, gaming options, innovative technology and a wide range of bingo side games.
Additionally, players at Sun Bingo get to enjoy substantial jackpots and an expansive range of bonuses and promotional offers. The deal is a significant milestone for the regulated gaming industry in the United Kingdom which remains the #1 online bingo enclave in the world.
Prior to Playtech clinching the deal with Sun Bingo, Playtech was dealt a major setback when it tried to gain a foothold in the UK spread betting and contracts for difference market in a takeover bid of Plus500. That £460 million takeover bid was a failure for Playtech, but the Sun Newspaper bingo deal has been valued at hundreds of millions of pounds as well.
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Skyline College Drug Brochure Tables
Calixto Reyes, Opinions Editor|November 25, 2019
Skyline College students and faculty gather around a set of tables at the Fireside Dining Room. Each table prepared with its own large cardboard layout of a specific drug and much information about it.
Behind those tables, the students explain their research on the drugs they are presenting and hand out small brochures with more details.
"These are my students in introduction to psychobiology and all semester long we kind of look things that affect our brain," Jennifer Merrill-Sinarle, the psychology professor at Skyline College and coordinator of the event said. Professor Merrill-Sinarle also went on to explain her psychobiology class.
"One of the things we looked at all semester is food. Like how do the foods we eat affect our neurotransmitters, are they good for us are they not good for us? Something else we've taken a look at are drugs, and especially the drugs that are commonly used by college students, how are they affecting your brain."
Professor Merrill-Sinarle also stated everything at the event was "student made". When arriving to the event you got a document similar to a "passport" and you had to go to every table and receive a stamp.
Once full, this "passport" can give extra credit to students in psychology class, one of the reasons why there were many students attending this event in the middle of the day.
"It was pretty cool, it was pretty interactive, you know people are seeing other students, so it makes it more fun," said student and psychology major, Patrick Ignau, who attended the event as a student of Professor Merrill-Sinarle's psychology class for social psychology. He also said he believed it was important for other students to know about these drugs.
Two students of her Introduction to Psychology class were making their way out of the event, Skai Cachaperl and Maggie Deguzman, both of whom are Skyline College students. Although they are not psychology majors, their reason for being at the event was to receive extra credit for their Introduction to Psychology class.
"For Marijuana, I was kind of surprised that it is addictive, I didn't know that. A lot of people were saying that it wasn't," Cachaperl said, when asked what their biggest takeaway from the event.
The alcohol table operated by Skyline College students Katie Schafer and Shayla Sandoval, had a poster board filled with facts about the drug, as well as myths that were debunked. They also had brochures set on the table that gave more information to people curious enough to pick them up. Both students are currently taking Professor Merrill-Sinarle's Introduction to Psychobiology course and used this opportunity as a class assignment.
Schafer and Sandoval gave a brief presentation on the drug they chose.
"I feel like alcohol, especially around college students affects them a lot more. It's a more frequently used drug, " said Sandoval during the presentation. "And also there's a lot of things about alcohol that a lot of people don't even know, like how it affects men and women differently."
"I feel like it is more about personal choice and your morals, and people should be safe if they do drink alcohol," Schafer said when asked about alcohol and its widespread social acceptance compared to other drugs that were being shown.
"Also don't ever feel peer pressured if you don't want to do it," Schafer continued to give advice. Both Schafer and Sandoval agreed that it is not acceptable to drink and drive.
"There are a lot of deaths associated with alcohol and people have died and have killed others," Sandoval added. Both are topics which they hope students would take away from their presentation and brochures.
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It is important for a small business owner to know their numbers. This means being able to recall financial numbers that are crucial to the operation. Sales, amount of cash in the bank, labor costs, current accounts receivable aging, and average client ticket amount are all examples of financial measures that could be important for a business owner to know and quickly recall. These measures could be different depending on the business and industry.


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Click here to listen to TIM CURRY read Dickens' _A Christmas Carol, Being A Ghost Story of Christmas._ It sounds exactly as it should.
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Curing Severe Asthma
As the number one respiratory hospital in the country, people living with severe asthma and physicians nationwide have come to rely on National Jewish Health to treat the most difficult asthma cases. The mission of the Cohen Family Asthma Institute at National Jewish Health is to treat and find a cure for patients with all types of severe asthma.
Asthma Clinical Care
Asthma Research
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Why National Jewish Health?
National Jewish Health pioneered asthma research and care since it first emerged as a public health threat in the 1950s. In 1960, our scientists developed the first clinically useful method of diagnosing asthma.
Our researchers discovered the IgE molecule, which is responsible for allergic reactions, a breakthrough that is the basis for many new treatments for asthma and allergies. We also helped to discover a drug targeting IgE that nearly eliminates seasonal increases in asthma attacks.
Many of the medications used today to treat asthma and allergies, including Advair®, Claritin®, Omalizumab (Xolair®), and newer biologics such as mepolizumab (Nucala), reslizumab (Cinqair) and dupilumab (Dupixent) were introduced to the marketplace as a direct result of clinical trial work done at National Jewish Health.
Since its inception in 2016, the National Jewish Health Cohen Family Asthma Institute has furthered the collaborations among the many divisions and departments of National Jewish Health making strides toward curing severe asthma. The Asthma Institute allows for one central location for the research and clinical trials work happening around National Jewish Health to be reported and tracked. We continue our work to improve asthma care, research and education. Our ultimate goal is to address the unmet needs of the millions of Americans who do not have their asthma under control.
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New Diepsloot SME incubation hub a model for public, private partnerships
Published by Lebohang Thulo at 1st Sep 2014
Public, private partnerships are key to ensuring economic growth and decreasing unemployment levels.
This was the message at the Riversands SMME Incubation Hub roof wetting ceremony, held on Friday.
The event was attended by the Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Small Business Development, Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, City of Johannesburg Mayor, Parks Tau, and MEC Lebogang Maile.
The R300 million facility is a result of a 2012 partnership between the Jobs Fund and Century Property Development. The 50/50 joint venture is dedicated to the development of small and micro enterprises.
Minister Lindiwe Zulu delivering her speech, with MEC
Lebogang Maile, Minister Ebrahim Patel, City of Johannesburg Mayor,
Parks Tau and Gauteng Premier David Makhura.
Once completed the incubation hub, which is within walking distance to Diepsloot, will house up to 160 SMEs. The facility will also form part of a light industrial park which will be a source of small business suppliers.
"We are convinced that this project may be replicated in other parts of the country to stimulate the economy with the public and private sectors working hand in hand"
It's hoped that the community of Dieploot will benefit the most from the development. The township, whose dominant economic sectors are trade, manufacturing and business services, is also set to benefit from the 1 000 permanent jobs that will be created through the development primarily from the area.
Public, private partnership
Johannesburg mayor, Parks Tau in his address, said investing in and supporting SMEs was a way to confront some of South Africa's biggest challenges such as inequality and high poverty and high levels.
"We are placing our faith on SMEs" he said.
His sentiments were echoed by Premier Makhura who said the development represented the beginning of how private business and government should be doing business.
"The future is bright for township enterprises and cooperatives"
Minister of Small Business Development, Lindiwe Zulu said such combined efforts were necessary if SMEs were to sustain themselves. The minister also praised the efforts of the private sector, saying it was up to government to support such initiatives particularly in training and incubation.
"We need to have proper coordinated plans across all spheres of government", she said.
Mark Corbett, CEO of Century Property Development, said the development sought to transform the socio-economic fabric of the marginalised community.
"We are convinced that this project may be replicated in other parts of the country to stimulate the economy with the public and private sectors working hand in hand", he said.
Stimulating the township economy
Expectations are that the Riversands project will also go some ways in bringing the township economy into the mainstream, with Premier Makhura saying it was critical to include the township economy into the mainstream if the country was to achieve socio-economic transformation.
The Premier quoted recent research by the World Bank 'Economics of South African townships : Special focus on Diepsloot' that showed that the Diepsloot economy was valued at R1.8 billion but that most of that wealth was being spent outside the area to the surrounding suburbs of Sandton and Fourways.
Despite the challenges, such initiatives offered hope, he said.
"The future is bright for township enterprises and cooperatives" he said.
The Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel highlighted that the success of the economy lies in the productive sector and said that the incubator was an opportunity to bring more South Africans into the economy.
Minister Patel also stated that South Africa had to shift from a nation of borrowers and consumers to that of producers.
The next phase
The first batch of entrepreneurs is currently being assessed for inclusion in the pre-incubation programme; more than 150 applications have been received.
Once completed, the hub facility will house 450-seat auditorium, lecture halls, training rooms and a restaurant. There is also an open air auditorium which will host various music festivals and will accommodate up to 10 000 people, along with an agricultural training element to the Hub.
Lebohang Thulo
Lebohang Thulo is the editor of SME South Africa. She enjoys keeping up with the country's exciting and fast developing entrepreneurship ecosystem. You can find her at @lelele3
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Good Word for the Cat
The comparisons which are sometimes drawn between the merits of the cat and the dog, as if we could only bestow a limited friendship on one or the other of them, are (to me) very odious; especially as the contrast seems usually designed to depreciate the merits of the less favoured cat. But why can we not appreciate both? Or, if we must feel a partiality for either, can we not see that it is but a personal, individual preference, and not an absolute one? On this understanding, I would say a good word for the much maligned, ill-used cat.
How well we know all the stock phrases by which the cat is disparaged! The cat, forsooth, love places and not people. The cat cares only for her own comfort, and is not sufficiently grateful for kindness bestowed on her, whereas the dog is man's faithful friend and follower. The real difference, I take it, between cat and dog is this: The dog has become a wholly artificial and civilized animal, having been for centuries bred to man's order, and formed to meet his wants. He is a visible embodiment of gratitude and friendship, a flattering, tail-wagging testimony to the exceeding goodness and nobility of the human race. The cat, on the other hand, is less plastic and compliant, there being a feral element in her nature which has not lent itself so readily to the shaping hand of man. She is more obstinate, more independent, more self-centred. But that the cat does offer her friendship to those who possess the key of sympathy, who shall doubt? Even to propound such a question is laughable to any one who has ever really known a cat. Indeed, as Pierre Loti says, in his wonderful "Book of Pity and of Death," there is a "supreme confidence," in the way in which a cat will entrust her life and welfare to the human companion whom she loves.
The question, therefore, of preference for cat or dog simply resolves itself into this: Which sort of friendship do you prefer — the faithful, grateful, obsequious attachment of the dog, or the less accessible, less demonstrative, but not less genuine affection of the cat? Where both are true and valuable, it is no more than a matter of individual taste and choice. For my own part, I like the aloofness, the fastidious waywardness of the cat; and I think that the friendship which needs some effort for the making of it is, perhaps, better worth having than that which is offered almost ready made.
As to the statement, sometimes made by dog lovers, that the cat, being by nature a wilder animal, does not stand in such need of human protection against cruelty, it seems too absurd to call for serious refutation. I remember a countryman remarking to me, "They say a cat's not an animal, but vermin"; and I believe this view to a great extent underlies the common and widespread ill-treatment of cats. The real truth is more nearly expressed in the words of De Quincey, that "The groans and screams of this poor persecuted race, if gathered into some great echoing hall of horrors, would appeal to the heart of the stoniest of our race."
The Animals' Friend, Pre-1897
Reprinted in the Humane Education Leaflets No. 8 Cats;
Reprinted as The Cat with minor changes: The Animals' Friend Annual, 1909, p. 179
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Why You Shouldn't Skip Athens on Your Trip To Greece
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Candice Walsh
DURING MY THREE MONTHS in Greece, I returned to Athens time and time again. I am not a big city girl, but there's something about Europe's oldest city that hooked me like a fish. It's real. It's gritty. It's honest. It's no Eiffel Tower beaming its romanticisms across a Paris landscape, muting poverty and pollution. In Athens, what you see is what you get.
Most of the time, every traveler I met was spending a brief night or two in Athens before moving on to the islands. I love the Greek Islands, but comparing Athens to the islands is like comparing apples to oranges, or cats to penguins. It just doesn't make sense.
I spent many evenings at AthenStyle, a wonderful hostel with a rooftop bar overlooking the Acropolis. I befriended the two workers there, Anna and Steve, and stuck to them like glue. For Easter we had a lamb roast and a party, and I confessed my unwavering fascination with the birthplace of democracy.
"I'm going to miss this place too," Steve said. "I can't count how many times I've seen a bum shitting in the alley on my way to work."
Realness.
There are at least a dozen different ways to view the Acropolis.
On my first day in Athens, I hired a private guide through Athens Insiders. Essentially I was paying someone to be my friend. They ended up showing me a few spots I would never have discovered.
It actually took me a few tries to visit the Acropolis. On the first day, my guide took me to Pnyx Hill, where the democratic assembly took place, and where I had an uninterrupted view of the Parthenon. A similar view is available at Philopappos Hill. The road between these viewpoints is paved in stone and ancient pottery, and you're not likely to find big crowds.
Just the same, it's worth it to battle the crowds at the Acropolis and to see the Parthenon up close. It's the most important structure from the ancient world, after all.
The locals take their free spaces seriously.
Being the birthplace of democracy and all, Athenians are not afraid to fight for their rights. One of those ongoing battles is for green space within the city. One of the best spots is Navarinou Park, a former car park turned into a neighborhood garden where locals come to socialize and relax. Sometimes it's used for political and cultural protests, but they're always peaceful. You'll see all odds and sods of characters in this park.
The same goes for Nosotros, a free social space in Exarcheia where the youth come to discuss politics or to participate in seminars on literature, theater, painting, music, dance, and more. You can take free Greek lessons here, and during the summer there's a cinema on the rooftop terrace. When I was here, a rock show was setting up. Admission? Free.
You need to embrace Exarcheia and all its weirdness.
The Exarcheia district is my absolute favorite in Athens. We didn't get off to a good start, though. My friend Matt and I were exploring one evening when a bus pulled up and dozens of police started filing off, looking like they were prepped for warfare. I texted my Athenian friend, Theo, in a panic.
WHAT IS HAPPENING DOWN HERE?! Police everywhere.
Police? They're always there. Relax.
It's just one of those places that come across as intimidating at first glance: a graffiti-ridden neighborhood chock full of punk-ish looking students, cafes, and street buskers. Matt and I eventually settled down at a hookah bar and smoked shisha well into the evening. Our server was a Syrian immigrant who made fun of us for how we prepared the shisha. The table next to us was filled with Greeks sipping frappes, while a few loners scattered here and there read books in the waning light. Sometimes the younger folks gather in Exarcheia Square and drink and swap stories.
If you want a quieter spot, go to Floral Café on the square. It's equal parts bar and study space, with some fine, cheap food.
There are incredible pockets of beauty everywhere.
It took me a long time to work up the nerve to hike Mount Lycabettus, the 745ft mountain in the middle of the city. But it gives up some special panoramic views of Athens, and is home to the teeny-tiny St. George chapel. You can hike from Aristippou Street in trendy Kolonaki, or be lazy and take the funicular to the top instead.
There's also the Anafiotika neighborhood, which is about as close to the Greek Islands as you can get, with traditional whitewashed homes and blue doors, stone staircases winding between alleyways, cats sunning themselves on rooftops, and colorful clotheslines strung between windows. It's a quick walk from the Acropolis.
You can eat everything and not feel guilty about it.
An unusual side effect of Greece's recent economic troubles is that many people are finding themselves turning to traditional careers in farming and food production. Lucky us! Eating out in Athens is best done with friends. Share some mezethes, small plates of traditional food, and pour some tsipouro (pomance brandy). It's about to get real.
Kafenio on Loukianou 26 was my favorite little Athenian restaurant, with its wood-burning stones and chilled-out atmosphere. Try the meatballs, or the fried feta drizzled with honey and sesame seeds. Or maybe fried calamari, and fava with bread.
Even more budget friendly is Yperokeanio on Perikleous 46, a tiny café in an alleyway that turns into a local food hotspot in the evenings. The food here is so fresh the daily menu is handwritten on a notepad. Grab some marinated gavros, small fried fish you can pop into your mouth like French fries. My all-time favorite is Bouyiourdi: feta, various other cheeses, tomatoes, peppers, olive oil, and herbs all baked in tinfoil. Just lay off the raki. Trust me on this one.
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Here are five important factors that will help you not only develop a social media presence but hopefully will open up new opportunities for your business.
With social networks becoming more and more ingrained in everyday business communication and gaining widespread acceptance as a marketing channel, your company needs to know how to connect with your consumer base.
So, do you have a plan around social media?
With dozens of social networks that each offer unique benefits, the natural inclination is to jump on every platform, but unless you have multiple social media managers, the most effective way to communicate is to prioritize and create a business plan around social. With a strategy, you can target your time and effort to not only show up to the social party, but build real relationships with your connections.
There is a difference between using social media, utilizing it correctly, and leveraging it for the needs and goals of your business. Studies indicate that 33% of consumers use social networks as a way they discover new brands, products or services, and if you're not doing social media the right way, it's really easy for a consumer to be put off and move on.
Perhaps your business has a Facebook page, but it isn't engaging with your fans. There's the corporate Twitter account, but it's produced only 14 tweets in the last year. And does it make sense for your small business to be invested in Pinterest if the account has been dormant? Businesses jumping in without a plan happens more often than not because it's simple to register with an email, choose a handle, and go through the motions.
Successful social media players have more than just a presence. They've not only developed a strong social media plan, but they also allot real resources to engage and grow their user base on each network.
With Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, SlideShare, Pinterest, YouTube, Tumblr, and more, how do you choose which networks to plan around? It's a common dilemma that faces thousands of business owners everyday.
In order to achieve success, you first need to define what success will look like on social media.
Take a critical look at how you use social media now. Has it been working for you? Are you able to see any growth as a result? Do you know how to measure that growth?
Now, ask yourself what it is that you want to accomplish. Common social media goals can be enhancing customer awareness, promoting staff accomplishments, and sharing information about your company. Whatever your end goals may be, try to break them down into easily definable and measurable objectives. Be specific when you do this, so that you'll be able to see definitively what is moving you towards completing these objectives.
As you get more of a feel for what social marketing can achieve, and what you need it to do for you, you'll be able to refine your goals and make them more realistic. Also, this is a great time to review your overall marketing plan as you look for ways to increase your social media presence.
Who is reaching out to you on social and is already, organically engaging with your brand? How can you nurture and grow that community in an authentic way that also supports your team's overall marketing efforts?
What other methods could you use to connect with your audience, and how could you link your efforts to make them more effective? Define these personas and remember that they will determine your success or failure, so make sure that you know who they are, and how to best connect with them.
The Internet is a dynamic and evolving creature, which means that the content that you create for your social media has to be dynamic as well.
A common pitfall among many organizations is not having enough fresh and interesting content for social media. Strive for content that is relevant, current, and genuinely applicable to your audience today.
Plan ahead and dedicate resources for your social media efforts. It's critical to have a content calendar to organize when you're going to generate content and manage when the content will be pushed out.
Will you have employees who will write it, or do you plan to use freelancers? Decide who will be creating the assignments and monitoring the quality of the work, and ensure that your social media plan not only allows for regular updates and posts, but speaks the language of that particular social network.
Focus on specific social media networks that will most help you attract and engage your audience.
This goes hand in hand with factor #2 above—the community you will be nurturing. How does your company want to connect with current and prospective customers. Is your brand voice personal or professional? Do you have resources for a two-way conversation, or will your strategy focus on broadcasting?
The demographics of your base are also important here. How old are they? What is their gender? Further defining your audience will greatly help you choose the social network that works best for your audience.
The open-forum format of social media means your company will benefit from direct communication with your customers. In all interactions with customers on social, authenticity and transparency is key.
Allow customers to use social media to share their feedback—show appreciation for positive feedback with positive responses, and address negative feedback head-on. Don't make the mistake of deleting negative posts. Instead, show your customers that they've been heard, apologize and accept responsibility, and when possible, use feedback to improve how you do business.
Make sure that whomever is in charge of social media knows how to respond, and is working closely with your internal PR team to manage these inevitable situations.
As internet advertising continues to grow—up to all 25% of the entire advertising market by 2015—it's safe to say that social media will continue to grow dramatically.
With a social media plan, you can take that first huge step into proper use of social media. Social media marketing can not only help your business grow stronger, but when utilized correctly on the most relevant network, it will bring you closer to the the most important connections in the world of business—your customers, fans, and followers.
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Advent, from the Latin word adventus meaning arrival, is the 4-week period prior to Christmas. It is a time to ponder the great sacrifice that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, made for us by coming to earth as an infant. He lived a perfect life, died a sacrificial death, and rose from the dead for us. He saved us from our sins and eternal damnation because of his great love, adopting each person individually into his family through baptism and faith in him.
An advent wreath can be a teaching tool and a reminder for Christians of the true meaning of Christmas.
The Advent wreath symbolizes the passage of the four weeks of Advent. It is typically a circular candle holder that holds five candles. During the season of Advent, one candle on the wreath is lit each Sunday until all of the candles, including the fifth candle, are lit on Christmas Day. Each candle customarily represents an aspect of the spiritual preparation for the celebration of the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Most Advent wreaths use three colors of candles – purple, pink, and white. However, some may use blue in place of the purple. The Bible readings below can be read as each candle is lit.
We can have hope because God is faithful and will keep the promises made to us. Our hope comes from God!
God kept his promise of a Savior who would be born in Bethlehem. Preparation means to "get ready". Help us to be ready to welcome you, O God!
The shepherds received a message of joy!
God sent his only Son to earth to save us, because he loves us!
The white candle reminds us that Jesus is the spotless lamb of God, sent to wash away our sins. His birth was for his death, his death was for our birth!
Living Hope Church uses an Advent wreath as part of our Advent and Christmas worship services. Join us as we prepare our hearts with hope, joy, and love as we eagerly look forward to Christmas, the celebration of the birth our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


Why is this 10-year milestone important to you, and what do you hope to communicate with your loyal audience through it?
It's a massive accomplishment for me to have performed and organised my annual concerts for the past 10 years. I look back to when I started in the intimate setting of St James Music room and would never have imagined to be performing at St George Square with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and Ira Losco as my special guest 10 years later. There is so much work and preparation to organise such an event but it is always so rewarding and such a humble moment for me. I have worked on a very special programme with a repertoire that ranges from the classical era to current pop chart tunes which will definitely please everyone attending.
Ahead of this concert, you've also collaborated with Ira Losco for a cover of the beloved Maltese song 'Xemx'. What led you to this idea, and was it like to collaborate with Ira?
Xemx was one of my Mum's favourite songs and so I felt it was very apt to dedicate this song to her. Ira is a true professional and one of the most humble artists I have ever had the honour to work with and so it was a beautiful journey collaborating and recording the single. We are also super excited to be performing Xemx for the first time during my upcoming concert. All proceeds from Xemx will go to the Marcy Foundation, which I have recently launched.
Could you speak a bit about the Marcy Foundation, and the work that it engages in?
The Foundation was founded in memory of my late mother, Marcelline, known by everyone as Marcy. My mother never judged anyone, instead she went out of her way to help anyone who needed help. For this reason, I have decided to carry on her way of being by setting up a foundation that creates awareness about subjects that are stigmatised.
The Marcy Foundation will focus on five main pillars, which are: Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Child Abuse, Drug Abuse and HIV. My family and people very close to me have had experiences in all these areas and therefore these causes are very much at heart.
All these subjects are considered taboo and not freely spoken about – on the other hand, my mum would sit down and sip her coffee and talk about anything with anyone with no shame or judgement.
Who was she to judge? Who is anyone to judge? We all have our baggage to carry, and those with the heavier baggage should feel comfortable to speak openly about their problems in order to seek comfort and help which they deserve.
The Foundation is created on the values of honesty, kindness and open-mindedness, as after all, that was my mum – an honest, kind and open-minded person.
We are aware that there are many campaigns, foundations, organisations, which are already working hard at helping these victims and raising awareness in relation to these issues. The Marcy Foundation is not a competitor with these agencies – it aims to create awareness not by offering services which are already well provided for by other service providers, but it aims to spread the message, to spread the information in order to raise awareness about these issues and make it "okay not to be okay".
Only when a multitude of persons speak up will society realise that everyone is affected in some way or another by these issues and therefore will be less concerned with judging others and rather focus on how we can prevent or at least lessen the instances of these events happening.


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AB De Villiers Names Pakistani Fast Bowler Among The Best He Ever Faced
The Pakistani quickies have been praised all over the world for their multi-talents with the ball.
By Arsalan Khattak On Jan 15, 2020
If there is one thing Pakistani cricketers are really good at, that's fast bowling. From Fazal Mahmood, Sarfraz Nawaz to Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, Pakistan has always produced top-notch fast bowlers.
The Pakistani quickies have been praised all over the world for their multi-talents with the ball. Now, former South African great, AB de Villiers, has named Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif among one of the best bowlers he has faced in his career.
"Some seam bowlers, Mohammad Asif from Pakistan, he's very similar to Hazlewood once again, and Hazlewood also makes in the list and Pat Cummins as well," said De Villiers during an interview with cricket.com.au.
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According to Mr. 360°, the five best fast bowlers he faced during his playing days include Mohammad Asif, Shane Warne, Stuart Broad, Josh Hazelwood, and Pat Cummins.
The 35-years old isn't the only South African who had troubles facing Asif. Last year, Hashim Amla had also named Mohammad Asif the best fast bowler he ever faced.
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How the humble limpet helped humans develop, survive and thrive
Louise Firth, Associate Professor in Marine Ecology, University of Plymouth
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The humble limpet generally doesn't attract much attention. Most of us remember them from childhood as tenacious little creatures clinging to rocks, impossible to prise off. But this familiar, cone-shaped animal has played an important part in the development of humans across the globe.
As my recent research underscored, limpets have long been important to humans as food, cultural symbols, offerings in religious and spiritual rituals, and even currency.
From ancient middens to modern cuisine
Unlike mussels and oysters, limpets are now widely seen as a distinctly unfashionable and underused shellfish, despite containing essential vitamins and minerals.
But limpets were harvested for food for hundreds of thousands of years by ancestors of modern humans including Neanderthals, our closest ancient relatives. And around 100,000 years ago, limpets constituted an important part of the diet of Middle Stone Age people.
In fact, it is generally understood that a switch to a seafood diet – fish and shellfish are rich in omega fatty acids which are essential for brain health and vitality – led to the evolution of the large, complex brain of Homo sapiens (modern humans).
Indeed, when modern humans first began to migrate, they often followed coastal routes, so they easily could access a year-round source of nutritious food – including limpets.
Archaeological investigations into prehistoric middens (rubbish heaps) has revealed that not only were limpets eaten all over the world, they were often the dominant shellfish in people's diets. They were known to have been eaten by ancient civilisations, including the Greeks and Romans, and the early Vikings.
More recently, highly profitable commercial operations in Hawaii, California, Mexico, Chile and the Azores have collapsed due to over-exploitation. But some species of limpet are now highly-prized and considered delicacies in places like Madeira, the Azores and Hawaii. Known as opihi in Hawaii, the limpet is called the "fish of death" because many people lose their lives harvesting them from rocky locations exposed to pounding waves.
Sustaining in times of starvation
Limpets have long been associated with poverty and starvation, and are often referred to as "famine food" or "poor food". In Scotland, limpets are symbolic of the Highland Clearances (1750-1860) when tenant crofters were evicted from their homes by estate landowners to make way for sheep. Most were driven to hunger and destitution.
This symbolism is epitomised by author Neil Gunn who makes myriad references to eating limpets in his books, which describe the harsh lives of rural communities in the northeast of Scotland in the early part of the 20th century.
In Ireland, too, there are many stories about people surviving off seaweed, limpets and other common shellfish during the many famines that hit the country in the 1800s. Before the 19th century, it was mainly the poor that gathered shellfish from the shore. Such fare was referred to as cnuasach mara (sea pickings).
Many people in Ireland still associate limpets with destitution and starvation, often referring to them as bia bocht – "poor food" or "famine food". This is perhaps best captured by the old Irish saying: Bia rí isea dúilicíní ach bia tuathaigh isea báirnigh, which translates as "mussels are the food of kings, limpets are the food of peasants".
A famine-hit family collecting limpets and seaweed on Inishbofin Island, Donegal, in the 19th century. Illustrated London News/Alamy, Author provided
Cultural traditions
The importance of limpets as food was even recognised by the famous Greek playwright Aristophanes. His play Assemblywomen on gender equality includes one of the longest words ever (182 Latin characters), which describes a dish that includes limpets by stringing together its ingredients. And here it is:
Lepadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokata-kechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraio-baphetraganopterygon.
Limpets were – and are – also popular as bait for catching fish and crustaceans. In Scotland, it could be argued that an entire culture and language has developed around the use of limpets for this purpose, a tradition that is reflected in literature and song.
In the past, limpet shells have been used for a wide variety of uses, including tools, currency, offerings, traditional medicine, jewellery and artworks. The "sailor's valentine", which originated in Barbados in the 1830s, is a form of shell craft, a type of souvenir or sentimental gift made from small seashells, with limpets forming a prominent feature.
In Hawaii, limpet shells were placed on shrines, and certain families revered them as their ancestral spirits or "aumakua". In the east of Scotland, it is thought that limpets were part of the ritual of pagan human sacrifice. For Christians, there is also a strong tradition of eating limpets on Good Friday, particularly around the UK, Ireland and the Azores; the steadfast shellfish is an analogy for the way Christians should cling to God – the way a limpet holds tightly to the rocks.
Its symbolism may be mighty, but the humble limpet has been unjustly underestimated. This marine relative of the familiar terrestrial snail helped humans evolve and provided much needed nutrition and physical and cultural nourishment along the way. It was always so much more than the popular notion of famine food and memories of rock pooling adventures. The limpet deserves some proper recognition at last.
Louise Firth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Computer Art Thesis
A critical examination of 'computer art' – Nick Lambert
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4. The Development of Computer Art
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For over thirty years, the SIGGRAPH conference has provided a venue for the latest advances in computer graphics hardware and software. Digital artists also exhibit their work and the subject is occasionally discussed in the forums and panels running throughout the event. At SIGGRAPH'89, a panel of artists and critics considered the question: "Computer Art – An Oxymoron?" which was intended to bring members of the art establishment into contact with computer artists and discover their views on the new artform.
The fact that it was subtitled "Views from the Mainstream" highlighted this intention, and the speakers came from the Insitute of Contemporary Art, the National Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, amongst others. Dorothy Spencer, chairing the discussion, began by pointing out the mainstream art world's reluctance to acknowledge the computer. She asked: "Like photography, is Computer Art going to take three-quarters of a century before it's accepted into the mainstream?"[1]
Henry Rand of the National Museum of American responded by considering the time lag of integrating new technologies into art. Taking as his example the Parthenon, which was modelled after the wooden temples that preceded it; and the way that etching had to develop a vocabulary of line suitable to the technique, he made it clear that the process was by no means swift. Another factor he mentioned was the quality of artists. He thought that Computer Art would succeed when it produced "the towering figure of an artist who […] can move the spirit of the audience. That is to say, a Beethoven of the computer."[2]
According to Rand, Computer Art might gain recognition through the efforts of a master who makes this medium his metier, and gives the wider public a reason to look at this otherwise fragmentary area. Of course, this is disingenuous towards the pioneers, making it seem that they alone are responsible for wider disinterest in Computer Art. However, Computer Art is also stigmatised because of its mechanistic associations, a situation which even a master of Computer Art would find hard to challenge.
A common experience for computer artists is to be sidelined on account of their chosen medium. This suspicion of the computer is, sadly, widespread and long-lived. Writing in PAGE, Paul Brown noted how it had affected Computer Art pioneer Manfred Mohr:
[…] Mohr […] told us he was no longer going to mention the computer in connection with his work. His reasons were straightforward enough and will not surprise artists working in the medium: all too often people think that the art is created by the machine and this predisposes them to view the work [unfavourably][3]
Similarly, Roman Verostko, another pioneer, complained to me that his work was regularly sidelined on account of its computer-based origins. The rejection of Computer Art results in a classic chicken-and-egg situation, exacerbated by the tendency (exemplified by the non-technical members of the SIGGRAPH panel) to see "Computer Art" as an identifiable group, not a collection of different practices. Martin Kemp believes this reaction must stem in part from the assumption that the computer does all the "work", in terms of rendering and effects. With Photorealists like Estes and Morley, the intriguing quality was that their "photographic" work had been executed by hand. The opposite, however, is true of computers:
The down-side of this […] is that people assume that wonderful effects in Computer Art are somehow to be credited to the machine – as if it makes everything easy.[4]
Because the computer augments the artist's range of possible techniques and realisations, it is therefore assumed to be easier and more tractable than traditional media. Skill is associated with hand-craft, and machines are supposed to grant anyone the power to become an "artist". Yet this demonstrates the lack of appreciation of artistic technique on the computer, and the ways in which it can be manifested.
It's difficult to see how this can be broken down without a much wider and deeper understanding outside a few specialist circles of the levels of skill needed to produce the kinds of things you do.[5]
In her comments on the SIGGRAPH panel session, the critic Delle Maxwell seemingly regarded "Computer Art" in the same terms as the panel: as a wholly new field of art whose existence will be validated by acceptance in the mainstream art world. However, she realised that this weight of expectation inevitably places the coming of "Computer Art" in the indefinite future.
The panel's loose consensus seemed to be that theoretically, [Computer Art] could exist at some point, but in practice, now, there weren't very many examples of interesting work to be found. The lack of involvement with idea and content was cited. [...][6]
This suggests that perhaps the organisers of the SIGGRAPH panel session were overly optimistic when they thought that the artistic mainstream could be reconciled with the demi-monde of Computer Art simply by inviting representatives from major art institutions to the world's largest computer graphics conference. Perhaps they could have found better bridge-builders between the two worlds from other museums or galleries. Certainly, there was a sense that artists and curators were talking past each other.
Maxwell uncovers a current of suspicion in the SIGGRAPH discussion about the validity of computer-based work. A key factor in this problematic acceptance is the gap between the computer's radical possibilities and its general lack of recognition in the art world. Maxwell identified the buzzwords used by the promoters of Computer Art:
"Radically different", "revolutionary potential", "unique requirements", "transformation of space and time", and "novel medium" are the types of descriptions found in articles on Computer Art. Are they just the hyperbole of the marketplace? [7]
All those overused phrases are redolent of the expectations surrounding this new artform which is always just over the horizon. In 1976, Robert Mallary attempted the sometimes weak manifestations of contemporary Computer Art with reference to its experimental value:
Computer Art has yet to make much of an impact but it will [although] the current level of performance [c. 1976] is simply not that impressive. At this point I am charitable in judging both my own work and that of others (the question I throw back is: "What good is a baby?")[8]
Likewise, H W Franke saw "Computer Art" as the art of tomorrow, thirty years ago in 1971, and there it has remained. It is this gap between expectation and reality to which Maxwell draws the reader's attention, and she suggests that Computer Art can only succeed when it is evaluated:
using standards as high as those by which the rest of the arts are judged […]
When the question How did you do it? is not the only appropriate question to ask […] When Computer Art stops imitating other art styles, and artists show a greater commitment to learning the language and concepts of computing. [9]
At first, these points seem to be a robust response to Computer Art hyperbole, yet they are also problematic. For instance, what are the high standards by which Maxwell believes "the rest of the arts" are judged? Not only does this presuppose a set of widely understood guidelines for judging these arts, but it makes it sound as though these rules can be applied across the board, and not only to visual art but also music and literature. Again, knowledge of the "concepts of computing" is no longer absolutely essential to producing Computer artwork.
Maxwell's desire to submit Computer Art to aesthetic tests developed for traditional media, in order to gain wider acceptance, makes for some unlikely scenarios. Should the merits of each work of Computer Art be assessed according to the criteria of the corresponding non-digital artform? Two-dimensional imaging might be assessed alongside photographs and prints; three-dimensional images beside sculpture; and animation by reference to film. Such testing seems absurd and indeed it is, even if we allow for the possibility that each different type of Computer Art had an aesthetic that developed from the corresponding analogue medium. Perhaps Maxwell was calling for a raising of standards in the Computer Art community rather than an application of anachronistic rules to the new art form, but it appears from her reasoning that you cannot have one without the other.
Since each work of Computer Art can be compared to other examples in a similar vein, these broadly-defined classes of "Computer Art" might develop their own standards, regardless of the prevailing fashions of the mainstream art world (though these already permeate Computer Art to a degree). Only when these have developed should these works present themselves as a fully-fledged artform. Yet the danger with this, as Maxwell notes, is the creation of a ghetto, which she compares with the relation of science fiction to literary fiction. The "lower" literary form, spurned by the high-brow critics, has developed a parallel world of institutions, conferences, awards and reviews. Of this, Maxwell writes:
Out of this frustration, separate institutions and means of sharing information are developed. Consequently, people in their own in-groups tend to evaluate and promote one another's work. Criticism is sometimes more of a public-relations affair than an objective evaluation.
Maxwell makes the Computer Art world seem extremely incestuous, with little outside criticism beyond the wholly negative input of the art world, and much mutual praise from the computer artists within their own circle. In this respect, she compares it to science-fiction books and their relation to literary circles. In the case of sci-fi, however there are a number of authors who have crossed from "low-brow" sci-fi to "high-brow" literature: J.G. Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick. Of course, this is due to the experimental nature of their later books; in general, they built their reputations in the area of Sci-Fi.
Once again, what appeared to be a strong argument is less than convincing because the science-fiction analogy breaks down, as do most analogies when misapplied to digital media. All those overplayed comparisons to Gutenberg and photography obscure the reality of computers in the arts, and one cannot help but think that Maxwell is responding to these clichés (as is made obvious by her introduction) than to actual problems or challenges stemming from Computer Art itself.
The critic Lev Manovich calls the computer world and the contemporary art world "Turing-land" and "Duchamp-land" respectively, after "Disneyland". Manovich believes the convergence of computers and art will not occur in any meaningful form because of attitudes in what he terms "Duchamp-land" and "Turing-land". Contemporary art is portrayed as being [predictably!] about "the evocation of a multitude of cultural codes", and being "ironic, self-referential and often literally destructive" towards its material and technology." [10]
Meanwhile, the more thoughtful researchers of "Turing-land" are considered to prefer "simple" (or non-ironic) art and take their technology far too seriously. Manovich seemingly comes out in favour of "Duchamp-land" all the time, as though it represents the dominant strain of art rather than just one possibility.[11] Although he notes possible connections between the computer artists and 1960s Art and Technology movements, he evidently values post-modern irreverence over serious exploration, without pausing to consider how the former often paves the way for the latter. On the other hand, the promotion of uninspired pattern-making as "Computer Art" shows the drawbacks of researchers assuming the mantle of artists too quickly.
[1] "Computer Art – An Oxymoron? Views from the Mainstream" Dorothy Spencer chair, SIGGRAPH 89 Panel Proceedings (New York 1989)
[2] "Computer Art – An Oxymoron?" ibid
[3] PAGE Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society No.40, 1978 (?), Paul Brown pp1-2.
[4] Correspondence with Catherine McIntyre?
[5] Email to Catherine Macintyre, November 2001
[6] Maxwell, Delle "The Emperor's New Art", from Kerlow, Isaac Victor ed. Computers in Art and Design (New York, 1991), p95
[8] Robert Mallary, interviewed by Ruth Leavitt in Artist and Computer, 1976, p8
[9] Maxwell, Delle "The Emperor's New Art", from Kerlow, Isaac Victor ed. Computers in Art and Design (New York, 1991), p105
[10] "The Death of Computer Art" by Lev Manovich, "Web Schmeb" – find ref.
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